[asynca]

I’m reading a family lore book (on my family!) that contains a lot of information about my relatives up to my 4th great grandparents, and it’s like a fucking reality TV show. 

My 3rd great-grandfather married a woman that was FAR too good for him (causing problems in her family), and then proceeded to ‘behave poorly’ and get himself turfed out of home one night by his daughter and wife. 

The chronolographers are like ‘we never found out the exact reason’ but like. Guys. What are your thoughts on these comments?

“Patrick by all accounts had a lot of friends - all men. Of all his faults, Patrick was hardly ever seen even talking to a woman other than his wife.”

“We suspect Patrick may have been an alcoholic, as he spent most of the evening in the company of his many close friends at the local pub.” ”Rebecca thought they were a bad influence on him.”

“One night when Patrick came home from the pub, there was an awful row and he was ordered to leave the house.”

“Patrick moved in with two of his friends after being thrown out by his family. They were very polite gentleman. I thought it very proper that a household of bachelors should take in Patrick.”

“The household were thick as thieves and very close by all accounts. The other two men never married, which was a shame and a loss for all the single young women in Adelaide.”

“After Patrick’s death, as the family had disowned Patrick, only two of his children attended his burial. They were surprised to report two very well-dressed men who were strangers also attended. They had assumed the two were policemen, but the men wept as if they were Patrick’s family. Neither of them would make eye-contact with the children, and left in a terrible rush straight after the burial. Patrick’s children found that very rude and couldn’t understand why the men would behave so.”

 Okay so I’ve just discovered my 3rd great-grandfather was a poly gay man who got thrown out by his family and now I need to find his grave and pay homage to him as an Elder Gay Dooland. 

[bi-gfoot]

when people won’t even accept your existence let alone your sexuality

[hymnsofheresy]

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

[covington-shenanigans]

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

[hymnsofheresy]

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

[hachama]

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

[hymnsofheresy]

um woah

[cutecreative]

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

[fromchaostocosmos]

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

[fromchaostocosmos]

In Ladino

[toastynoneofyourbusiness]

The full version of hallelujah is on the shrek soundtrack and this was how I knew the lyrics

I don’t know how to feel about this

[wetwareproblem]

Isolated in a crappy area, viewed as a monster, used as a scapegoat for the ills of a badly-run kingdom, people routinely try to kill him, and he has the full version of Hallelujah on his soundtrack.

There are obvious implications here, but I’m really not sure how to feel about this.

[apatheticyeti]

Kate McKinnon included that last verse (I did my best/It wasn’t much) when she did the cold open on SNL the Saturday after the 2016 election. It never fails to bring me to tears.

https://youtu.be/BG-_ZDrypec

[apatheticyeti]

Ok. I have some things to say about Game of Thrones, and the running observation that it was too dark to see and very pixelated. Bear with me, as this will be a commentary on consumerism, capitalism, and technology - one of those fields being something I don’t know much about. And no, in NO WAY am I PROCRASTINATING working on my finals.

So. Shit was dark and pixelated, right? But the producers wanted to set a ‘mood’ and a ‘theme’ for the episode, which takes place at night and we are experiencing the battle as the fighters would have experienced it and yadda yadda yadda. But what if it’s something else?

Ive seen responses of ‘Well, get a better TV!’ and ‘My 65 inch 4K Samsung has no issues with the imagery!’ to complains of how dark and pixelated the episode was. I put forth this critical analysis: much like our phones and computers have intended planned obsolescence, our TV’s now have unintended planned obsolescence as well.

As TV’s get fancier and fancier, programs and shows and networks invest in the technology to film in those formats - 4K with 240rps. And for those TVs advanced enough to handle it, these shows look BRILLIANT. But for my 1080p 60rps tv, I get dark and pixelated and headaches trying to see what is happening.

So. What does this have to do with consumerism and capitalism? These newfangled fancy TV’s are supes expensive, and we are not only peer-pressured into buying them, because consumerism demands Keeping Up With The Joneses, we are FORCED to buy them as TV shows and movies rely more and more on the equipment required to produce extraordinary imagery for the new, fancy TV’s. And as the majority of families are living paycheck to paycheck, this requires using credit, which enforces the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck, which in turn reinforces people not having the extra emotional capacity to deal with larger issues in the world.

I’m not positive that TV manufacturers necessarily intended for this to happen - tube TV’s were the standard for decades. But then again, corded phones were also the standard for decades and now we KNOW that phone manufactures utilize planned obsolescence to drive up profits. I’m open to arguments in the comments.

Side note: yeah I’m totally procrastinating on finals. Don’t judge me.

[apatheticyeti]

YEEZUS CHRIST TUMBLR STOP POSTING ENDGAME SPOILERS

[rexuality]

sound design is my passion

[corpse-monsterfucker]

@armoredsoftie

[tinynebula]

this sounds like my nightmares

[noblewing-deactivated20200601]

@takashi0

[tradgothwillbyers]

Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace

[parttimepup]

Yes it’s called the mammalian diving response and it’s also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

It’s literally activated by putting water on the face.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768097/

[dogs4ge]

My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end

[unabashedlybi-deactivated201911]

[apatheticyeti]

I’ve always said that my soul is at peace in the water.

[ultrafacts]

In 2009, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania stated that Australian wallabies had been found creating crop circles in fields of opium poppies, which are grown legally for medicinal use, after consuming some of the opiate-laden poppies and running in circles

In case anyone is wondering, here is what said crop circles look like.

(Fact Source)

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[wemblingfool]

Of all potential Crop Circle explanations, I don’t thing *anyone* saw “stoned wallabies” as a candidate, let alone the likely suspect.

[essentiallymediocre]

Let’s just take a minute.

[audarcy]

gays and neurodivergent ppl are obsessed with cryptids, the fae, liminal spaces, etc because we often exist on the fringe of society and lack well-defined social identities, feeling such acute isolation from the “normal” world that we align ourselves more with things that are literally not of this world. in this essay i will

[alisonzai]

bee real, my senior thesis

[birlinterrupted]

I am abt to lose my fuckin mind because I happened upon this gender reveal party. and like it’s soo over the top expensive

And like I’m like. Oh great, a horse themed gender reveal party.

complete with like … just truly excessive foods and of course, themed cocktails

and this sign which like… the fragility of like *not* italicizing the word ‘colt’. Like imagine being this weird abt gender

with like, a bucket that eventually ‘revealed’ the gender

But like… the picture that really just completely undid me, for this party which surely was more money than many weddings -

it’s not a horse themed gender reveal party. It’s a gender reveal party FOR A HORSE. I can’t even like imagine the life that would lead to hosting a gender reveal party for a not-yet-born horse. Think abt getting an invitation to this. the cis are at it again.

[argumate]

wow okay whiplash, now I can’t decide whether it actually being about a horse makes it less weird or much more weird.

[skinks]

interested in, a big fan of, inexplicable imagery

[skinks]

see what I mean? it’s about the energies. the synapses going “huh!”

[apatheticyeti]

I know it’s a picture but I keep expecting something to creep in from any direction. This picture gives me the same sense of unease and dread that I have while walking in a dense forest at night.

[clintfbarton-deactivated2025012]

Jeremy Renner & Paul Rudd. Los Angeles, April 6th 2019

[dimespin]

“Why do you beat yourself up so much over little mistakes?”

[chronicdisaster-deactivated2017]

This is such a good illustration of emotional abuse

[artist-rayne]

Just a reblog to spread the most UN noticed abuse, be aware

[monochrome-flight-feathers]

and reminder for everyone to be patient with your loved ones who apologize constantly, or have a really emotional reaction to something that seems insignificant to you.

[apatheticyeti]

[tardis-impala]

[transhuman-priestess]

#probably the best explanation of a device in the tv history

This is literally my fourth or fifth time reblogging this.

It’s still hillarious.

[storyofanassbutt-blog]

One of my favorite lines

[artsortment]

I kinda feel like the writers wrote this line specifically to drive the kind of fans who want to figure out how sci-fi tech would theoretically work crazy. They’re like “nope! We’re not going to give you any techno babble to tear apart or investigate or mull over to tell us how we’re doing it wrong, or how it compares in effectiveness to similar tech in other franchises.”

[knitmeapony]

I also feel like this is one of those times when the TARDIS’s translation circuit just gave the fuck up. Like the ‘physics physics physics’ scene, where he is imparting secrets of the universe and the TARDIS is like THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR THIS IN ENGLISH DAMN IT DOCTOR OH HELL FUCK IT.

[casey-jane-lewis]

OH MY GODS she TOTALLY edits his speech. I be he actually swears a fuckton but the TARDIS is like THERE ARE CHILDREN

[lokiwholockfactory]

[rosepaige]

I’M LAUGHING FOR LIKE 5 DAYS OMFG STOP

[lokiwholockfactory]

omfg its back

[actual--cryptid]

Are you a Cryptid?

If you:

Love the outdoors

Hate being the center of attention

Go for the natural look

Your existance can’t be proven

Then you just might be

[apatheticyeti]

YESSSS I’m a cryptid

[nonamecody]