Moss Creature

Let's hold hands and forget where we're going

[wormsermonizer]

👦.

[wizzard890]

I'm watching Mad Men for the first time and it's unbelievable that this is not a reaction image used CONSTANTLY On Here.

[possiblylando]

Brooooooo hooooooly fuck she's bad also I think an Ananasi is what she is what a wild way to introduce a character lmao

[torchwixx]

been super busy behind the scenes but I managed to bump out a grimal redraw in anticipation of chapter 6 :> (soon!!) back to work I go!

[letters-to-nina]

Grimaline Smith my beloved

[memewhore]

[turnabout]

these two communicate on a level we cannot understand with current language.

[notaplaceofhonour]

the hard pill to swallow about “you can’t enjoy media made by [x bad person] anymore because they’re bad and you’re giving them money” is it’s never actually applied consistently, and it’s primarily driven by recency bias and selective outrage at only a small handful of pet villains

Take pretty much any project from anyone accused during the height of the #metoo movement who still continues to collect residuals, and it’s crickets from the same people who will tell you enjoying Good Omens or Harry Potter makes you a terrible selfish person who cares more about their nostalgia than victims.

If you applied this consistently, a considerable amount of pop culture would be off-limits. Including anything Harvey Weinstein or Brett Ratner or John Lasseter or John or Max Landis touched, etc. etc. etc.. That was, like, the whole reason #metoo hit so hard. It was a lot of very prominent very influential people across pretty much every industry.

The reality is there are very few things untouched by creepy or terrible people or that they won’t benefit from. The world is not a safer better place if you guilt people into believing relating to the story, characters, and themes in Coraline or Toy Story or X-Men or Scream or Princess Mononoke make you an immoral terrible person.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I also just have a fundamental problem with the idea of a moral system you can violate by simply seeing, reading, feeling, or thinking about art by the wrong person. It’s just thoughtcrimes with a vague gesture at the idea of material effects, regardless of how much those things actually connect.

And at the end of the day, what has this approach actually accomplished? Has it actually hurt the ostensible targets’ bottom line all that much, or has it had a much bigger impact on third-parties in the audience/fandom spaces than anyone actually involved in making the media?

So, yeah. From a consistency standpoint, from a conceptual standpoint, and from a effectivity standpoint, this approach just has a lot of issues and isn’t actually helping to prevent the harm it sets out to prevent. It’s just making people miserable for the sake of appearing to do the right thing.

[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[slutdge]

whenever i post stupid shit that gets a lot of notes on here that i regret i take comfort in knowing that theres no real repercussions from that because this website is going to be tanked and shutdown within, at the most, 3 years

[slutdge]

[dozydawn]

[two-goblins-in-a-trench-coat]

a CRITTER? Carrying a BERRY?? Across a BRAMBLE VINE?????

[prokopetz]

"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

[xeansicemane]

Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.

We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.

[vexwerewolf]

[missmacfire]

[hamkittens]

[fluffygif]

Ipnotico

[brunhiddensmusings]

the music is almost as good as that visual

[catawampuscreations-deactivated]

Turn the sound on! You will not be disappointed, people!

[darth-tella]

FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING GOOD, UNMUTE!!!!

[ihateuverymuch]

n years later this is still one of my favorite videos

[bee-in-your-binnet]

this toy fucking fascinated me as a kid. Do they still make stuff like that?

[homunculus-argument]

"But won't children be confused by all the LGBT-"

Yesterday I saw a mother with a baby carriage, being followed by a girl of about 4-6 years old on a bicycle. The kid started ringing her bike bell like RING RING RING RING RING RING RING, and the mother turned to look behind them to see whether they were being followed by a cyclist who desperately needs to pass them for the sake of everyone's safety.

And the little girl - who just rang the goddamn bell herself 5 seconds ago - also turned to look.

Kids are confused by everything at all times. They don't know jack shit. About anything.

[jumpingjacktrash]

i remember being like 8 or 9 and being told that my dad’s ex-wife was no longer diane and we were to address her as daniel now. my reaction: “ok.”

me and my brother later had a small discussion about whether that could happen randomly (conclusion: no, he probably had to file papers or something) and whether daniel should now be referred to as dad’s ex-husband (conclusion: yes but only to see the face he’ll make) but at no point did we find it like... alarming? the world is big and weird. we were used to it.

finding out a sorta-relative could just change genders off camera, as it were, was a whole lot less head-splodey than finding out there were no squirrels in australia!

[scattered-to-the-winds]

There’s no what

[ashfae]

"Won't they be confused by all the--" So what if they are? Life is often confusing. That's part of how we learn. Part of the job of an adult is to help confused kids learn and understand things. There's no obligation to protect the kids from the confusing things. Quite the reverse.

In my experience anyone using this BS excuse isn't worried about a child's potential confusion, but their own, which they don't want to admit to having.

[indieninja92]

theres no squirrels in australia???

[marleythegoldfish]

Aussie here, I DIDN'T KNOW SQUIRRELS WERE ACTUALLY REAL FOR THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS OF MY LIFE NO JOKE I THOUGHT THEY WERE A MYTHICAL ANIMAL LIKE UNICORNS

[alostpan]

WHAT??

[mariposakitten]

Also kids are far less likely to be confused by something the younger they learn about it. Kiddo had queer people in his life and casual references to queerness before he could even talk. It was never confusing for him. It was normal.

[galadriel1010]

Squirrels were an invasive species to Australia but they never managed to gain a foothold and were eradicated within a few years of their arrival.

[maimonideznuts]

I remember the Palm Squirrels in Perth... But I think they've been eradicated too.

Also my older sister thought Narwhals were mythical for an embarrassingly long time.

[sistersorrow]

Fantasy setting where gods draw power from worship and people slowly realise their world is basically being used as a worship battery to supply the power the gods need for another world they have which is the one they actually care about

[bee-in-your-binnet]

basically Order of the Stick

[sistersorrow]

I really need to catch up on that comic, but I lost my place like three years ago so I need to start over from page 1 to remember everything

[bee-in-your-binnet]

luckily for you updates happen at such a glacial pace that three years isn’t that much, it’s just that the archives are suuuuper deep, and let’s be honest the beginning is pretty rough

[sistersorrow]

Fantasy setting where gods draw power from worship and people slowly realise their world is basically being used as a worship battery to supply the power the gods need for another world they have which is the one they actually care about

[bee-in-your-binnet]

basically Order of the Stick

[degenezijde]

There's construction (well, mostly destruction) going on next door and I have turned into menwatchingworkers.jpg for highs like these.

[degenezijde]

Apparently I should've tagged this 'rapture' or something

[maimonideznuts]

If you ever think there's no good in the world, remember that if a mouse finds a friend unconscious then they'll perform a type of instinctual CPR, and it works.

Mouse-to-Mouse Resuscitation: Rodents Try to Revive Unconscious Buddies

Three studies show that a mouse will try to rouse an unconscious companion

[maimonideznuts]

Thank you @jewish-rock for the idea in the tags.