idek

Chey, 34, they, aroaceagen, too invested in fictional characters

[valtsv]

whenever someone in a story tells a character they're training to fight to treat their weapon like an extension of themselves i always feel like more weight should be put on that statement. on the implication that in learning to wield a weapon you must become it. you must make it a part of you. you must walk down a path from which you will never be able to come back from.

[valtsv]

weapons should mold to their wielders like grafts. great warriors should appear fused to their blades, and unbalanced - amputated - without them. their hands should be unsteady without the grip and weight of a killing instrument. there should be more body horror in the choice to take up arms.

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

a plant's job is literally to just exist but the venus flytrap chose violence

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

what if i gently laid an uncooked steak on the soil for it to absorb

[iridescentjaq]

my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE

the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides

also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

that’s horrifying! thank you

[headspace-hotel]

I mean yeah? Bone meal and blood meal are common fertilizers for plants.

And plants' roots actively forage, seeking out the areas of the most nutrients as they grow, so it makes sense

"What are corpses on the ground but uncooked steaks for some tree" is my new favorite quote

[bludragongal]

I had a nightmare last night.

I was a reporter.

[upperstories]

This is absolutely amazing. I hope you hold onto this idea.

[flip-this-table]

OMG, YOU TURN THIS INTO A 500 PAGE NOVEL RIGHT NOW. I WOULD READ THE HELL OUT OF THIS.

[bludragongal]

If this gets 20,000 notes I’ll make a Part 2.

[bludragongal]

Welp.

[purr-in-ink]

[wizardarchetypes]

The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.

legendaryjay_ on TikTok

[furiousfinnstan]

@stvksn on ig

[krillbeans]

I hope your god has asked for your mercy. I hope youve refused to forgive him.

[qillermeme]

i love this more and more every time i see it.

[thiskindoflifeisalliknow]

I have so much love for this person. The amount of empathy it takes to have these considerations about a person you will never meet, the eloquence and conviction with which they speak, the contempt for landlords. Sometimes I see something someone writes or creates and I wish with everything in me that I could meet and talk to that person for hours about what caused them to be this kind of light in the universe. This is one of those times.

[drchucktingle]

THOUGHT EXPIRIMENT for creators considering ai art: when starting out, i had to make my own covers in specific way which now IMMEDIATELY evokes 'tingle' identity. would my books have taken off if covers were just ai art that 'looked better'? OF COURSE NOT buds wouldve scrolled on

SO MUCH of artistry (but also branding and self promotion) is creating a visual identity. dont make your identity 'generalized slop'

[queerkay]

My vibe about ships since forever tbh

[fella-lovin-fella]

"there are only two sexes, it's literally third grade biology!" and pronouns are taught in kindergarten and you dont seem to understand those either

[alexiaroselikethewine]

ok its literally this

[hoarderofliterature]

this is why, when someone tells me "there are only two sexes, it's basic biology!" my favorite response is to ask "what, you never made it to advanced biology?" like don't load the gun and then hand it to me lmao

[alexiaroselikethewine]

you. yes. you get it

[werewolfetone]

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

[werewolfetone]

"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

[3liza]

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

[3liza]

Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

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.

[strictlydeepmyth]

So weird. In my family, piracy is a right of passage. It is our god given right when we're doing our best to work hard each day and still not owing anything we purchase because everything is a subscription now. If the way I take back my purchasing power is unethical and unjust, my conscience will survive this burden.

[thesaltofcarthage]

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

[pdlcomics]

sunlight

[tyrantisterror]

The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he's a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can't make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that's all audiences want.

[bcomic-blog]

I feel like I watched a somewhat different movie...

[tyrantisterror]

[thesummoningdark]

I sit through so many meetings of well meaning academics pondering how to get more people from marginalised groups into PhD programs and I'm just. My sibling in academia, have you considered making doing a PhD suck less.

[thesummoningdark]

I've never known a PhD student who wasn't having a terrible time

[thesummoningdark]

To be completely fair to the academics, this is something of a "fish doesn't know what water is" situation, as being an academic also fucking sucks

[clockworkcrow]

this may be specific to psychology but i know a lot of phd students who didn’t have a terrible time! invariably they were white women without dependents married to men making over 100k a year. i’m not saying give every phd student a sugar daddy but it would have fixed at least 12 of my problems as a marginalized student. hell a stipend of 30k instead of 16k would have fixed like 8 of them.

[artronenergy]

the "you're so gay" line is good because it's important that rose ascends from casual homophobia to being in a polycule with the two queerest dudes on tv in 2005

[artronenergy]

This isn't really a joke by the way. Rose is homophobic. This isn't some poorly aged or careless aspect of the show, but deliberate and thematically integral to her character (and frankly, it's impossible to disentangle with Russell T. Davies' artistic goals as a writer who primarily dwells in queer drama) Look at how she initially reacts to finding out Jack is queer. She's put off and uncomfortable. The Doctor has to tell her to relax:

Rose is selfish and complacent and, yes, homophobic, all in very offhand, average ways for a normal 19 year old from 2005, and then she gets spirited away on an adventure with The Doctor, who refuses complacency, who stands up for people at risk to himself; someone who is, in both symbolic and very real ways, queer. Rose's character arc pivots around her changing into a person who, when sent home to let the Doctor die alone in the far future, realizes that she can no longer exist in that same quiet, selfish complacency that her mother and Mickey still do. She has been made fundamentally different by her travels, and a big part of this, of Rose learning to care, is her relationship to queerness. Being queer is framed as intrinsic to the Doctor and his more active, empathetic way of engaging with the world, which Rose learns to embody. She meets Jack in a story about a woman haunted by the ghost of her sexual shame (a teenage mother in the 1940s hiding the fact), a story that ultimately treats the embracing of sexuality as redemptive and healing. It ends with the Doctor, Jack, and Rose dancing together, something the story uses as shorthand for sex and sexual liberation, a suggestion that Rose is now actively engaging with queerness rather than rejecting it. She fundamentally grows as a person through the act of loving a very openly queer man. You can trace a line in her arc directly from "You're so gay!" and her discomfort with jack's sexuality to the way she exists within queer intimacy:

[oneirocartographer]

if tumblr explodes you can address a letter to my url and place it in any hollow log. to be clear i will not receive it. but it is an action you can take

[thewarmvoid]

“Thought that was a beautiful butch lesbian but it’s just a man” did you know these things aren’t mutually exclusive

[thewarmvoid]

anyways shout out to butch lesbians who are also men, if you have a million fans I am one of them, if you have one fan that fan is me, if you have no fans, I am no longer alive, if the world is against butch lesbians who are also men, I am against the world

[hanselreblogs]

[yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, November 19, 1920