The Trash that Smiles Back

I'm just a weird person here to kill time. I reblog whatever catches my fancy, and may disappear for long periods of time without notice.

[beardedmrbean]

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[minnow-doodle-doo]

I feel like you guys here would appreciate my new gar obsession.

[the-haiku-bot]

I feel like you guys

here would appreciate my

new gar obsession.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Beavers are not natural animals, they were created by ancient undead to allow them to cross rivers.

[earhartsease]

voyage of the dammed

[frontmansdefender]

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[chinesewednesday]

[luidilovins]

my couchsona

[felifangs]

babe wake up the couch abstracted

[iww-gnv]

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[kipine]

Shiny Bulbasaur! 🍃 I finally got one as a starter in LeafGreen!

[kipine]

How it felt sharing this, haha!

[catgirltoes]

What the hell happened to the energy around gender neutral bathrooms. Remember when we were fighting for all bathrooms to be gender neutral. But now we can barely argue that people can use the gendered bathroom of their choice. Maybe there's some single stall bathroom tucked away in a basement somewhere.

[catdemonkaid]

Gender neutral bathrooms have such a huge curb cutter effect, too, and are not just great for trans/nb folx. (Which SHOULD be reason enough on its own but it's not, so.)

Family bathrooms so EITHER PARENT can use changing tables, or accompany their children of any gender to the bathroom.

Older children/adults with disabilities (developmental OR physical... or both) having access to public restrooms where a loved one/caregiver can accompany them without being harassed.

Just. Potential to design with greater accessibility in general for people with disabilities if we have more single stall restrooms.

Intersex fox who are afraid of being harassed/assaulted because they don't fit the singular societally imposed Platonic ideal of their (often arbitrarily and nonconsensually) assigned sex.

CIS folks who are afraid of being harassed/assaulted because they don't fit the singular societally imposed Platonic ideal of their gender/sex.

People who just want to avoid a bunch of potential creeps who apparently may be watching them enter/use public restrooms and are imagining what their genitals look like.

[bluerose5]

Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!

[thagomizersshow]

Come on down to the most endangered habitat on Earth

We've got Disgruntled Cat™

Glup Shitto

Actual gerbils

Craig the Bone-Eater

And whatever is going on here

The Steppe

We've got it all

[littoldumbace]

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[thedogeveryonehates]

[moniquill]

[theloverislost]

as we are rapidly approaching pride month, here’s an obligatory reminder!

AROMANTIC PEOPLE

ASEXUAL PEOPLE

AND AROACE PEOPLE

ALL BELONG IN THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

I WILL REMOVE EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY IF YOU SAY OTHERWISE

[ravioliet]

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense

[ekjohnston]

June is a trying time for pack of wolves inside me.