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the name's Chandler! i'm 23 and I studied math and classics at LSU; I work at the MoMath which means i make very little money trying to get kids to like math~ ^_^; (EDIT: SIKE!! I Quit) the only "theme" this blog can be said to have is miscellaneous/personal; I don't typically tag (or, well, post in the first place) anything nsfw; I have an open inbox! i wanna talk to you~~

[rintezukas]

gamecube was the best designed controller of all time exclusively for the button cluster that gave you easy thumb roll access to all buttons but also gave you the a button as a thumb rest (because it’s the one you press the most) and took into account the frequency with which each button gets pressed in its design rather than doing the stupid diamond design that gives no button priority and rests your thumb in the shitty blank space between buttons

[rintezukas]

The Diamond Button Layout Is The Bleeding Stump Where Form Cut Function’s Head Off

[zubbyzub]

[aceofstars]

I HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THIS FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT OH MY GODD

[naamahdarling]

Except I can never NOT parse the “hieroglyphs” on the far right as reading “I dig that ass.” Which still works, TBH.

[andhumanslovedstories]

The VVitch and Midsommar are both really interesting to me both as horror films and as the way that we read horror films, because the visuals of the ending make it easy to interpret them as films of bloody, violent female liberation, but it’s also very easy to view them as films where women subjected to physical and psychological violence get converted from one form of Oppressive Control to another. The trappings change but they are just as imprisoned. But watching the ending of both, I did still nevertheless have the feeling of “good for her” while simultaneously being like “I mean NOT GOOD GIRL, GET OUT.” 

Horror movies function as very weird parables where what’s metaphorically happening and what’s literally happening and what’s thematically underlying everything (i.e. systems of control) and what’s actually underlying everything (i.e. LOTTA BODIES) can create such dissonance, where done well there’s a horrifying blend of revulsion and attraction to the exact same things. A lot of works of fiction have a similar feeling (like reading about unhealthy romances where you’re like “this is bad but hot but wouldn’t it be nice if someone was that protective over me but also NO NO definitely not”) but horror allows us to indulge in that disgust and sense of wrongness so you get to wallow in ugliness and contradiction in a way that we don’t always feel free to do with other things we like but think we shouldn’t. 

[gatheringbones]

it’s funny, because I think I’d put the VVitch and Midsommar in the same supernatural seduction category, but the weird kind where the seduction relies on absolutely destroying these girls until there’s almost nothing left, and then scooping their remains up and putting a tinsel crown on top.

the seduction doesn’t work if these girls are whole and healthy; they have to be put through the meatgrinder first. The only reason we think they’re empowered by the end is because any access they once had to their own personal power has been ground out of them inch by inch until the thing setting its hooks in them has enough of them in there to really start yanking.

Both Dani and Thomasin are traumatized into states of total compliance, then offered things that seem like options, seem like real choices, but their ability to say no has been cut away from them, and there’s no such thing as an enthusiastic and consenting yes in those circumstances. (Thomasin still has her mother’s blood on her clothes when Black Phillip makes his offer; you think she wants butter and fine dresses?) Those films are the equivalent of burning buildings and they’re both launching themselves from the thirty-fifth floor. It’s weird being in the crowd of onlookers below overhearing how graceful they look.

[eliamatrell]

#they dont make choices! #they just dont die! #sometimes thats as good as it gets! (via @gatheringbones)

[memecucker]

Got a haircut

[catchymemes]

Credit: https://imgur.com/gallery/4LXnrWO

Original comic: https://www.buttersafe.com/2019/03/21/the-water-cycle/

[rook-the-catechumen]

This is what stepping on a landmine feels like

[uss-edsall]

US troops are increasingly falling to heatstroke during training as the military braces for rising temperatures

The military has a climate change problem.

[noroithecurse2005-deactivated20]

oops

[traptacular-deactivated20180125]

[tellyjpg]

u mean to tell me its not north east west south!?

[hoekagei]

Bitch I thought they called it news because it was that new NEW shit

[vulcankirkspock-deactivated2021]

The things you can still learn …

[amarlex]

you can google stuff like this. u can just google it. just look it up. please. im begging you

[skulkingwriter]

Anthony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare

Act 1 Scene 1

Attendant: Noteworthy Events, Weather And Sports, my Lord, from Rome!

[sonypraystation]

[tenderstems]

[teathattast]

[littlemissh0ney]

UNMUTE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

[madmadamemimble]

the lip syncing has me shook to absolute death

[midnight-revolucion]

You CAN’T WATCH ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER HALF!

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

[sam-porter-robinson]

Visit Original Link

Saw this picture posted by @dr–wizard and felt compelled to make an audio component

[gorps]

right_libertarianism.jpg

[gunsandfireandshit]

This post evokes the same feeling as watching someone who hid their zombie bite get turned.

[corvid-420]

Wait what was hidden lol

[jenamaroney]

[sonypraystation]

I got a whole baby in my jacket yeah

[despazito]

i was reading wikipedia about threats to gorilla conservation and i am deeply ashamed to admit that the mental image upon reading that a gorilla could step on a landmine made me laugh

[blackpyrefly]

this reads like a video game loading screen

[lesbiskammerat]

So Is china bad or good?

me asking a random tumblr idiot to summarise complex geopolitical situations in 4 letters or less

[corvid-420]

Toot or Boot: a 2,000 year-old civilization made up of 1.7 billion people and over a hundred ethnicities