I Am A Lesbian, Like My Father Before Me

Bright-Eyed Sunshine, early-30s, she/her

[feathered-scritches]

preens you

[feathered-scritches]

reblog this post to preen prev

[captorations]

yugioh abridged is unironically a cultural artifact. it pretty much kicked off the whole abridging scene, yeah, and that's had crazy effects on related industries. but more importantly, it's just that. having been around for nearly two fucking decades and tending to reference then-recent memes, cultural events, and online norms means that you can use it to trace the evolution of, like, our entire fucking society over the past 18 years. it's living archaeology.

and yes that means early stuff is shitty! it was expected for comedies to casually mock gay people in 2006! hell, trans people weren't generally even acknowledged as existing, which led to running jokes about a notably feminine male character that would read as eye-searingly transphobic if made now. and it was transphobic then too, but it was more a reflection of the normalization of transphobia in comedy than an actively bigoted rhetorical choice. most of them could be easily reframed as the currently-acceptable "this character is an egg and somehow keeps failing to realize" gag with very minor adjustments. this is due to the complete lack of implied vitriol or value judgements beyond "haha that's funny."

the creator really didn't mean any harm, he just didn't understand that he was doing harm. and when he started to learn, he struggled with poe's law for a while. and then he sorted it out! and he did so at roughly the exact same pace the majority of the internet did.

and that's cool. that's expected. people learn, as individuals and in groups. and it's wild to be able to track that through a deeply unserious meme-filled parody series making fun of a shitty anime designed to sell trading cards

[captorations]

revisiting this after the creator cracked her egg to say 1. congrats to her and 2. this proves my point forever

[beemovieerotica]

one cool thing about having an autistic dad whose special interest is underwater spearfishing is that when he catches fish he'll just call up a nearby chinese restaurant like "hi. i caught a fish. can you cook it and i'll bring my family by?" and they're like "yeah sure come on over white boy" and the fish is delicious.

[beemovieerotica]

it's worth adding that my mom is chinese and she always gets embarrassed by this. like she doesn't want to come to the restaurant with us. she doesn't want to be seen with the white man she caught plus the fish that her white man caught. everyone who works at the restaurant thinks my dad is awesome and compliments him + her for choosing him and we all find this very fun except for her.

[brawltogethernow]

Twists can hit great, of course, but the thing about watching reading etc serialized stories that are both high quality and extremely predictably telegraphed is it's kind of the media equivalent of hungrily anticipating the cake you're going to have when you get home from work all day and then you finally get it and it's exactly as good as you imagined.

[foundfamilyarena]

FINALE

[First ID: The group Mystery Inc. from Scooby-Doo. They are all running in various postures, seeming mostly frightened. End ID.]

[Second ID: The logo of the group IPRE from The Adventure Zone. Their logo is a blue circle with a white border and big text in the middle reading IPRE. IPRE is surrounded by smaller rainbowy circles. The background of the image is red. End ID.]

[poll start] FIGHT!!!!

Mystery Inc.

IPRE

Remaining time: 6 days 17 hours

[yugirimistwalker]

ɪᴛ ʟᴏᴏᴋꜱ ꜰᴜɴɴʏ, ʀɪɢʜᴛ?

[wemon]

Aerith projecting her period cramps onto Sephiroth who is projecting them onto Cloud

[warmleveret-deactivated20170910]

as funny as “those are his hooves you bitch” I’m mad that it overshadows that lil wayne really did have socks on in a jacuzzi 

[nenchaenmoved-blog]

can y'all stop just throwing random words together and expecting us to understand it

[re-bee-key]

you had to be there

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Little freaks

[tobiasdrake]

A detail I find really interesting about Chell, GLaDOS, and Wheatley's first confrontation in Portal 2 is when Wheatley starts gloating about taking over the facility. "I did this! Tiny little Wheatley did this!"

And GLaDOS interjects like, "You didn't do this. She did all the work!"

I find that interjection fascinating because. Like.

GLaDOS doesn't actually know anything about what happened behind the scenes. She lost track of Chell and Wheatley after Wheatley opened up a wall panel and they bolted off together into the facility's inner workings. She doesn't see them again until Chell falls for her fake door trap, at which point GLaDOS is unpleasantly surprised to discover that Chell's disabled the turrets and neurotoxin in the meantime.

She has no evidentiary foundation to base that accusation on.

This is also before GLaDOS recognizes Wheatley as the Dumbass Core, so it's not based on an assessment of him.

The only explanation it leaves is that it's based on her assessment of Chell. Despite GLaDOS's enmity towards Chell, the one thing she rarely goes after Chell for is her intelligence.

When she does, it's an admission of her high standards for Chell; Like when the fake door trap works and GLaDOS concedes, "I didn't actually think that would work. I already built a much better, smarter trap up ahead for when this one fails." That's a backhanded insult. It's calling her dumb, but in a disappointed way rather than an affirming way.

Chell tests very well. Between the two games, GLaDOS has developed a strong understanding of Chell's aptitude for critical thinking and problem-solving in stressful situations.

And so she takes it on faith, just from what she knows of Chell, that Wheatley is stealing Chell's credit.

[voidpengin]

tags by @phidelta

[ace-trainer-alice]

there's a really fun balance when you know someone has a crush on you where you can tease them for having a crush on you without letting them know you know they have a crush on you. this only works because people who have crushes will analyze everything you say but not very well. anyway, i love playing with my food.

[ace-trainer-alice]

Gosh, that's so perfect. Your friend is actually the only one who is engaging with this post correctly. Supersedes my original intent, even. Sorry, I bow to her wisdom here. Tell your friend I hope she's having fun!

[strawberry-crocodile]

having just demolished a pomegranate let me say that there is a reason they've acquired such symbolic weight you have to COMMIT to eating one it's a delicate time consuming process getting the seeds out without the pith you will run your thumb over every centimeter of this fruit you will tear her open it's a careful act of precision you need enough force to break the shell apart but not enough to pop those scarlet gems and the JUICE? the TASTE? THE COLOR????? immaculate. top tier. if you hate on pomegranate imagery clearly you haven't had one recently.

[crabussy]

Why do kiwis have such massive fucking eggs “it’s because they are related to ostriches and-“ yeah ok but like why didn’t they evolve smaller eggs if I was in charge I would do that shit pronto. Thoughts?

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

(unfortunately, with the introduction of mammals to aotearoa, these adaptations are a little less useful...)

[nothingimportantanywhere]

Important addition: baby kiwi come out of the egg looking like they've come out of a shower with a hangover

[assortedinsanities]

They look like one of the downsides of emerging from an egg fully formed is how aware you are off just having come out on egg. First minute alive, already dealing with some fucking experience.

[7dmom]

Are you a person?

Im normal

[7dmom]

Normal happy

[nunown]

me: i dont like gangnam style

you: yeah me nei-

me: PSY-ch!

[nunown]

reblog if you gangnam smiled

[galileosballs]

The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were

[bumblebeebats]

"Potassium cyanide. Arsenic trioxide. Polonium 210. Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin," I say, smugly and with full confidence, before downing the glass of wine my political rival insisted on pouring for me. Seconds later, she watches with a smirk as I collapse writhing to the ground, in the knowledge that I never could hit that "R" in "pinot noir" quite right

[madebykyra]

Behold my Bee Dress, as photographed on my trip to Italy. It was a happy coincidence that my dress this year thematically aligned with my vacation plans!!!