back from the dead

[sharknadowizard]

tfw u close all the tabs w/ academic articles ur referencing after finishing ur assignment. relief. i am safe from academia once more

[valleydean]

[ultimatemoviefanatic]

Spider-Man vs. Ant-Man in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War.

[xigrif]

People who say stuff like ‘cats are selfish and fake and only pretend to like you so you’ll feed them’ sound like they got friendzoned by a cat

[alienpapacy]

you’d think the world’s most powerful laser would be tenured

[andhumanslovedstories]

Ah, I see the breadsticks meme, having saturated the market, has passed out of phase one (“classic”) and is now into phase two (“self-referential,” where usage of the meme can only be understood with the original form functioning as referent). I can’t wait to see it reach phase three (“hybrid,” where it merges with another meme fatigued by phase two), phase four (“dada,” where the meme passes out of conventional usages of language), and phase five (“exhausted,” or the universal sensation of why the fuck is it still on my dash). Thus the meme reaches its hibernation stage to remain in stasis until extinction or ironic revival.

[tedathon]

At what stage do we usually see the Denny’s tumblr using it?

[andhumanslovedstories]

Denny’s is an early adopter of the corporatization of memes and is an atypical representative of that phenomenon. Typical corporate meme exploitation occurs any point after meme critical popularity–that is, the moment when a meme passes from niche to inescapable. The key feature of the corporate variant is that it tends to rapidly accelerate the meme lifecycle towards phase five because commodification of memes directly conflicts with their organic communal development. Denny’s, however, is generally an exception to this rule. This is because of three reasons. Firstly the initial novelty of their social media presence. This has become the second reason, their legacy. This is their identity on tumblr and they have become a meme unto themselves. And they’ve been able to do this because thirdly, their brand is highly compatible with memes. They’re a chain restaurant but not a behemoth like McDonald’s, they have a distinct character without being controversial, and their memes feel authentic because eating in a Denny’s at two in the morning is the physical manifestation of surreal meaninglessness of phase four.

[nerdiegirlie]

[ozgeburcaka]

Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals In Western Art History

this is perfect, just see the whole post.

[heathens-and-kings]

“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.

A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.

I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,

“I am the manager.”

[fuckingsushi]

[laughingsquid]

An Ancient Babylonian Customer Service Complaint Inscribed on a Clay Tablet Around 1750 BC

[quantumfuckery412-deactivated20]

"0/10 stars burn their village and scatter their people"

[delilahsdawson-deactivated20161]

so yelp started out weird

[quantumfuckery412-deactivated20]

customers have sucked for 3,000 years

[burntcopper]

I’m just very confused by all the people who rt’d this from me on twitter and added ‘for when you’re pissed off enough to carve it into stone’.  I… it’s clay? you used a stylus to press letter sounds into it, it’s no more work than writing with a pencil.

[theletteraesc]

While the angry customer would probably have gotten his scribe to do this, I am really amused by the image of a guy furiously stabbing his stylus into the clay and all his marks being angry and uneven.

[prokopetz]

The really fun part is that this isn’t the only complaint about this particular guy. Ea-nasir is well known to historians due to the dozens of surviving documents complaining about his shady business practices, spanning everything from household goods to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. He’s literally gone down in history for being such a colossal asshole.

[pizzarina-sbarro]

Every description for Jupiter Ascending reads like a Stefon sketch

[nevebianca]

[purtie]

hayao miyazaki is my favorite human being

[zoomerbro]

[rubyreed]

Current mood: Lieutenant Dan.

[initial-difficulties]

When holidays arrive, I magically transform into Lieutenant Dan.

[unchicoqueexplota]

[ninenine-brooklyn]

[tramampoline]

Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi – the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t - without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man. In a world where our identities are shaped by our warped relationships to brands and commerce we are all Waluigi.

I, We, Waluigi: a Post-Modern analysis of Waluigi by Franck Ribery (via tramampoline)

THIS IS RIDICULOUS

(via door-maker-guy)