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PRINCESS MONONOKE 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki

#princess mononoke

gazeldhazel

trans women have the prettiest voices in the whole world

gazeldhazel

if you, as a trans women, are putting some exception to yourself that lets you justify not having a pretty voice, ask yourself; does this post say that trans women who voice train have the prettiest voice? trans women who don't voice train? trans women with husky voices? trans women with any kind of adjective or training or any limiter like that? no, no I wrote "trans women". and no other limiter. if you are a trans woman, you have one of the prettiest voices in the world. genuinely. I promise you. and even if you don't believe, i do. I've never been proven wrong. so please don't discount yourself. because you, specifically, dear reader, have the prettiest voice in the world.

jar-of-beetles

its still technically may 31st here but who cares

#hollow knight #silksong #shakra #hornet

triptrippy

he Cant

heinkelfingerguns

#i think this is literally the first piece of fma content i ever came in contact with#i remember seeing this like 2 years before i even watched the show#the humor transcends needing context#fma

#gdfbngjsdfbn #full metal alchemist

silavut

Not sure if this one's been done yet, but after doing a bit of digging, I found an original, full-size version of Angus Mcbride's art of Saruman and his orb, aka "Pondering My Orb" meme. (Yes, this is actually Saruman.) Unfortunately, I could not find the original title, if there ever was one.

After comparing a couple others, this was the best version I could find in high quality.

Now you, too, can ponder Saruman's orb in full, high-quality wizardry.

Enjoy!

its-jooby

Happy Mother's Day

#hollow knight #silksong #lace

transheadcrab

why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

khamingbird-blog

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

transheadcrab

the what

transheadcrab

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

punkrorschach

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

transheadcrab

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

bomberqueen17

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

antiocheanism

happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders

massachusetts-official

Official Post of Massachusetts

#one day i hope that i too can #have a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb my eyebrows

playthings2007

Completely lost all concepts of joke comprehension for a moment because my instinct was to register this as a new type of kitchencel

assaultmystic-archive

the self is a guy you made up to get mad at

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

harbinger-of-silly

All gays will go to hellsite

king-of-oreo

What if in hellsite but not gay

NO!

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Closest match: Psylliodes chrysocephala genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle

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graveexcitement

kebbopulos

spaghettihell

gondorrevealparty

They need to eat less because they're so small and weak. Why are they so small and weak? Because they eat less. Let's base our entire society on this distinction.