Weed ‘em And Reap

A sandwich of nature, dereliction, history, retrofuturism, fantasy, and other unfocused tumblrism

[lastoneout]

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

[shirtsthatgohard]

[fionn-o-nassus]

Not gonna lie this makes me a bit irritated. Here's the real version of this photo:

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

It wasn't a guy being cheeky about sex in an ambiguous, cute way. It was a man stating, in no uncertain terms, that a whole state of the United States considered him a criminal for being homosexual.

[anasabdin]

vigneto

[byjove]

ages 0-7: slowly gain sentience

ages 7-12: be an ‘old soul’

ages 12-16: allow the darkness to consume you

ages 16-19: be a kid for the first time ever

ages 19-30: develop dad lore

ages 30-35: court a beautiful lady

ages 35-40: get married, start a family

ages 40-55: promise to clean out the gutters and never do it again

ages 55-60: allow the darkness to consume you once more

ages 60-75: swinger cruises with your beautiful wife

ages 75-86: be an eccentric grandfather

age 86: mysteriously disappear

[renmorris]

there’s a really fun american culture meta narrative in casting kyle maclachlan in fallout it’s just so tasty and feels like a treat for me specifically

[renmorris]

media as we know it today would not exist without Twin Peaks, it sent shockwaves on a global scale through how we tell stories, in tv, video games, movies, literature. it is genuinely hard to even communicate just how deeply it is ingrained in everything you love made after 1990, even if you’ve never seen it.

Peaks deeply entwines its original narrative about the evils of heteropatriarchy, the perpetuation of incest and sexual violence with the evils of American imperialism: settlers expanding west, the ongoing genocide of indigenous Americans give birth to the country that births true primordial evil during the trinity test in 1945, an evil so great it contaminates history in every direction.

MacLachlan's character in Twin Peaks, Dale Cooper is gentle and charismatic, he very much represents this heroic ideal of nobility and open mindedness. he is the best guy a white guy could be. he’s also very flawed, he's haunted by his own sexual traumas and his inability to set the world right. he wants to fix the world but he’s…also a federal agent.

he is doomed from the start, cartoonishly doomed. trying to dismantle the house of the master with the master's tools. the most doomed a man can be. he’s actually literally the antichrist, but one without a malignant bone in his body. he dooms the world with the purest intentions.

xxx

now the vault is America, whiteness, the nuclear family, it’s everything that tp calls into question in its examination of the Palmer family. Lucy along with every other dweller is born to be a breeder, a tiny cog in a bigger machine set into motion hundreds of years ago.

Hank is the opposite of Dale Cooper. he’s absolutely loathsome in a way that’s familiar in it’s repulsiveness. he sees his family strictly as his possessions, discards his wife and leaves her to a fate worse than death for 'betraying' him. he’s the patriarch, the company man. even his affection for Howard's movies are a cracked lens to Dale’s affection for shows like Bonanza or Hawaiʻi Five-O, shows he imitated as a chronically ill housebound child who dreamed of being a hero.

and finally: I can’t fucking believe they gave the origins of the iconic thumbs up of their series to a guy named Cooper, that makes me bonkers insane. (for those who haven’t seen Peaks, Cooper is FAMOUS for giving his gay little thumbs up constantly)

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[bogkeep]

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile

[yenthecat]

The boys experience fresh catnip from the garden

[beardedmrbean]

Wonder how they feel about a hush falling over the crowd

[hobbular]

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

[nowlander]

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

“No man is an island” oh really? Really? What about him?:

[adamsmasher]

Torterra.....

[theaceoffours]

[powerburial]

[kat]

babylon 5 is always relevant because history repeats. or something.

[thefirststarr]

A beautiful green aurora slathers up the sky in this 2017 June snapshot from the International Space Station. Aurorae have the signature colors of excited molecules and atoms at the low densities that are found at extreme altitudes. Emission from atomic oxygen dominates this view. The glow is green at lower altitudes, but rarer reddish bands extend above the space station's horizon. The orbital scene was captured while passing over a point south and east of Australia, with stars above the horizon at the right belonging to the constellation Canis Major, Orion's big dog. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is the brightest star near the Earth.

Image Credit & Copyright: Jack Fischer, Expedition 52, NASA

[thexfiles]

[beardedmrbean]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Everyone: Pound cakes are very rich.

Me: Yeah I bet they're a bit more than a regular cake, probably basically the same thing though.

Pound cake recipe:

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This isn't a cake this is a giant cube of cookie

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i fucking love pound cake i will go FERAL for pound cake i dont think this recipe has enough butter

This cake is approximately 50% sugars and fats how much more butter do you want

[flavinbagel]

Much more butter and a bit more sugar, actually. You know traditionally, pound cake meant every ingredient was added by a pound, so really there should be 250g of sugar and 250g of melted butter, and hopefully the eggs come out to 250g as well. I'm guessing the full 455g of each ingredient is probably more than you need.

Of course, since this makes such a dense batter, you pretty much have to bake it as a bundt, but that's your classic Pound Cake right there.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That's fucking bonkers. Who invented this thing.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Cake seems to have cooked all the way through, which surprises me given how wet the batter is, but I'm scared to taste it. It smells like an imminent hospital visit.

[blackcountrygateau]

Wherefore fear the cake mix? Pound cake is just Victoria Sponge’s rectangular sister, it’s all good. Unless you use it to replace bread

[segamascott]

taylor swift invited a guy who owns and operates an ice detention center to her wedding swifties can pack it up forever now your bitch is awful