Jules of Nature
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
RMH
Monterey Bay Aquarium
art blog(derogatory)
styofa doing anything
NASA
Cosmic Funnies
One Nice Bug Per Day
Three Goblin Art
trying on a metaphor
cherry valley forever
pixel skylines
almost home
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
occasionally subtle
we're not kids anymore.
if i look back, i am lost
hello vonnie
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@breathedeep-withpurpose
teen wolf didn't make stiles a werewolf because they knew he would be finding increasingly absurd ways around all the absurd Werewolf Rules. some bad guy tries to trap him in a circle of mountain ash and he reveals he's been carrying one of these bad boys in his backpack for months
"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
must a fictional relationship be “healthy” or “functional”? is it not enough to simply watch two made up people destroy each other, hand in unlovable hand???
hey what the fuck is wrong with you people
idk, what is wrong with me? i’m in a healthy and stable relationship with a great partner, i’ve had lots of therapy that has helped me establish strong boundaries and recognize red flags, and i have an active social life and fulfilling career. could it be that i just… like to read books and watch movies and tv shows about dysfunctional people??? you tell me, tumblr user girlcreator!
You’re a bourgeois degenerate who wants to see shitty despicable & violent relationships for your disgusting sense of entertainment— and you should feel fucking ashamed of yourself.
I agree with @girlcreator but I definitely know there’s something wrong with you. People like you are a huge red flag to me. Bad vibes, for sure.
can you weirdos just smoke some fucking weed
shakespeare frantically rewriting macbeth’s marriage to be healthy and adjusted becuase no one will ever want to watch the original
reblog if you’re a bourgeois degenerate who wants to see shitty despicable and violent relationships for your disgusting sense of entertainment (and you should feel fucking ashamed of yourself)
one life trope I'm obsessed with is people who have gay aunts or uncles in long-term relationships who were introduced to them as kids as like, "Uncle Jack and his friend Mike" and the kid literally never questioned this close friendship or it's importance (seen in the fact that Jack's friend came to every gathering and lived with him) but also never realized they were gay bc they're kids and don't sexualize everything and the relationship was so normalized but never spoken about, and then they have some realization when they're by all measures MUCH TOO OLD to not yet have realized that Jack and Mike are gay af and they spend the rest of their lives telling their friends about how they never realized—despite COUNTLESS things that make no sense otherwise—until they were 19 that Uncle Jack’s “friend” was actually his “”””” friend “””””. I have been told this story at least five times by different people. I'm all for gay marriage and queer visibility and love, but it makes me the teeniest bit sad that clueless teenagers will no longer have the experience of realizing much too late that Jack and Mike are boning
Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it
video killed the radio star
What was your obscure chatroom/forum that you used before social media? Don’t say Gaia Online or Club Penguin. I’m talking obscure.
First ever recorded snowball fight (1897)
Happy Holidays And Merry Christmas To All!
Colorized!
Guy On Bicycle gets so smeared he leaves his hat behind to escape!
All Victorian ADULTS. Awesome.
I love this so much. Someone slowed it down so it's not the old-fashioned herky-jerky of old films, now someone colorized it…the past feels like the present because, well, people. Lookit them having fun! *beams at everyone*
Hocus Pocus (1993) dir. Kenny Ortega
does not sit well with me to know that i’ve hurt people in my past. like that just… makes me so uncomfortable all the time. i feel guilty a lot over it and it is weighing extra heavy this weekend, for some reason.
"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
really didn’t think 2023 would go the way it has been. like, back in school, wedding is in september, talking about getting a dog in the fall. things feel good. definitely still struggling a lot but really just in, like, such a beautiful place in comparison to where i was two years ago.
One fallacy, I think, of anti piracy arguments is that a lot of them seem to assume that if I'm unable to pirate something I'm going to pay for it instead rather than going "oh! that's a terrible shame" and then quickly forgetting about it
"If you were not pirating [media] you'd be paying for it and therefore piracy is evil 😡" actually if I were not pirating that media I would be thinking about something else. I have made the decision to not spend any money on this and even god himself could not shake it
the research on this was already done decades ago and then quickly squashed because the record labels did not like the finding that people who pirated music were spending way more money on actually buying music legally than people who did not pirate music. it turns out people who care enough to pirate media are generally big fans of that media and willing to spend money on it if they have the money to spend
According to research, those who download 'free' music are also the industry's largest audience for digital sales
article is from 2009 so we have known this for a LONG time.
The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15. Researchers found that those who downloaded "free" music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry's largest audience for digital sales. Wisely, the study did not rely on music pirates' honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase.
As someone who is WAY too into movies and has a reasonable amount of disposable income... I never stopped pirating because some movies I want to watch are simply NOT AVAILABLE TO BUY OR RENT. There is nobody to exchange dollars to in order to put it in my hand, it's just stopped being distributed. No streaming service picked it up. Piracy is the only thing keeping it alive and in circulation.
The various studies have found ONE area where piracy actually affects sales: The first few weeks that a movie is in the theaters. If it's widely available digitally, that notably cuts into box-office sales.
...Later, it doesn't matter.
Music piracy is strongly tied to bigger purchases.
Ebook piracy is so tiny there are no studies about its economic effects. There's ranting about how many unauthorized downloads there are, and publishers who refuse to renew contracts based on finding pirate ebooks available - but nothing about how ebook piracy actually cuts into ebook profits in the industry as a whole.
There's claims that the industry loses over $300 million/year due to piracy. This claim is shared everywhere - based on a 2017 report by digimarc, which includes no source data - and it assumes that every unauthorized download is a missing full-price sale instead of "if I can't read that one, I'll read something else." (And that's aside from the bundle downloads where someone was only interested in one title and will never look at the others again.)
The piracy will continue at least until publishers sort out how to allow used ebooks. Which they could do - DRM could let you transfer ownership of an ebook from your device to someone else's - but they don't want to; many publishers opt out of Kindle's "two week lending, no more than twice" program, much less letting people actually give their books away.
...Nobody became an avid reader by reading full-price books of which they were the original owner. They borrowed books. They were given books other people had already read. They found abandoned books and read those.
Imagine someone saying "Oh I have these books on my shelf in case I want to re-read them, but I would never let anyone else read them." Imagine if someone bought a book or two a week, and then threw them in the shredder when they were done reading them.
Book culture is a sharing culture. And publishers have been trying to stop that for over a century, and they want ebooks to be their perfect "one purchase = one reader" system.
If they want to reduce ebook piracy, they need to figure out how to let teens give each other the book they're finished reading. How to let teachers buy a few copies a year to give out to students who seem interested. How to put a stack of ebooks on the office "Share Books" digital shelf for anyone to pick up.
Because right now, the story is "you can't even leave your ebooks to your heirs in your will." And it doesn't matter what kind of sophistry they use to justify this claim... the end result is going to be, "well, then people are going to share books without their permission." Just like they've always done.
imagine simping for capitalism this badly
A Christmas Carol never even says that Scrooge gives up anything at all, or even somehow stops being super-rich. He just stops being a dick about it and starts using his wealth to help people. Scrooge isn’t even written as an indictment of rich people, since plenty others appear in the story and are presented as perfectly nice people. Scrooge is a miser. He doesn’t even use his money to help himself, which is called out as the reason he dies within the year. Learning to care for himself is just as much part of the Ghosts’ lessons as learning to care for other people.
how dare Charles Dickens, a man once sent to work in a factory at age 12 while his father was in debtors’ prison, inflict such Wokery upon us as “caring about the poor”
my wedding dress is the prettiest thing in the world i can’t wait to wear it in 7 months 😭😭😭
Waking up each morning to block bots the way a farmer checks to make sure no foxes got in the henhouse
the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.
superhero franchises are OUT. gay little anti-elite detective franchises are IN
