Chickenlegs

[surqrised]

“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”

— Rainbow Rowell

[myarmsaretoolong]

[staff]

Happy International Asexuality Day, Tumblr!

[cat-memes-only]

[cat-memes-only]

Reblog when you find the 6th cat

[ukdb]

The Jerx Revealed — The Jerx

Today marks the five year anniversary of this site’s existence, as you can no doubt tell from all the fanfare across the world of magic.

O.M.G.

So how many of you knew that Derren has been writing this blog about magic for FIVE years??!! He has been hiding his identity since the beginning! I’m in shock right now.

Watch the video inside!!!

Keep reading

[chickenlegs11]

Great discovery!

[thelovewittch]

How could you ever be broken?

[memescomedy]

[old-type-40]

Seth Meyers: “I don’t like any of this. That was amazing!”

A lot of the tricks Derren’s been performing on TV and Youtube to promote his Broadway run have been stuff he’s been doing for awhile. This trick he did on Late Night was completely new as far as I know. And it was very impressive.

[oceanmonsters]

[chickenlegs11]

They do this on Masterchef Australia.

[memescomedy]

[old-type-40]

Given that Derren Brown is doing a show on Broadway for the first time, it looks like he’s shooting promo videos in which he demonstrates the kind of stuff he does with the cast members from other shows. And first up is the cast of Hamilton. And I think this is the first time in a long time he’s demonstrated the stuff he does with a group of people standing around who are unfamiliar with him.

He quickly hypnotizes the guy who plays George Washington.

I loved how many of them were standing there initially with arms crossed like “Okay, let’s see what this illusionist guy is going to do.” But then when Derren quickly puts their cast mate under, hands start going to mouth.

And after Derren brings his subject back out of hypnosis, gives him the suggestion his hand feels dead, and breaks out a medical needle the phones start coming out.

And then when the needle is put in…

Here’s a link to the video though beware if you have any sort of needle phobia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XHmIGWXhD8

It’s funny thinking back to when Derren was still relatively unknown in the UK and he shot stuff in the streets with groups standing around, people didn’t have smart phones. So I find it amusing the kind of reaction he elicited in this situation.

[ukdb]

More here:

http://cloutcom.co.uk/picture-gallery/gallery/derren-brown-showman/

[devoursjohnlock]

Desert Island Discs - Derren Brown, illusionist - BBC Sounds

Derren Brown, illusionist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

Derren Brown chooses the eight tracks, book and luxury he want to take with him if cast away to a desert island.

[ukdb]

[zakmarcin]

women’s march 2019

[catchymemes]

“My mom painted this and said no one would like it. It’s her 2nd painting.”

“I painted somebody’s mom”

“Took a while and not perfect, but i painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom”

“I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom who painted an egret”

“I painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the mom who painted a bird”

“When it sinks in that I stayed up most of the night to paint a meme for internet points…”

[yetimati]

…And nobody thought to post other “branchs” of this chain? Yes, it’s ‘branchS’, plural, because apparently we also have these:

Bit wonky, but I painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan.

Bit shitty, but I painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/color_on_a_page who painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted someone’s mom who painted a swan

Oh well, here’s yet another layer

Another branch, starting from the girl with the white background:

Took an hour or so but I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

I didn’t like how reddit treated the iPad guy so I painted the guy that painted the girl that who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom on my iPad.

Continue from OP’s branch:

I haven’t painted in two years and I’m glad for the inspiration!!

A painting of the guy who hasn’t painted in years painting the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the other girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

Same ‘level’ as the one above:

Usually lurking but not today…plaid was a great challenge!

Continue! With a cat!

We painted the guy that painted the other guy who hadn’t painted in 2 years who painted the other guy who painted the girl that painted the guy who painted the girl that painted the guy that painted some guy’s mother who painted a swan whilst making them all an NPC in the process

Honorary mentioned:

Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep!!!

And finally, The Great Family Tree (some branch is not in the picture, pls click the link below for the full list:

This seems necessary…

https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/

[sevi007]

Since telling my Mum that I considered myself ace, I already noticed that she was a bit… too interested, if you want to say it like that. Asking for “signs”, or how being ace feels like… I tried to answer her to the best of my ability, giving her links to websites that would explain better as I ever could.

Today she said, very quietly, “Do you think I could be ace, too?”

And I said very carefully “If you think it suits you, I don’t see why not”

And my Mum, my strong, self-confident Mum, who never once  has ever felt uncomfortable in her own skin as far as I know, beamed in relief. Relief. 

 Because she never knew. Because getting married young and bearing children for her husband (meaning sex) was expected of her. Because everyone gave her the feeling as if something would be wrong or broken about her if she didn’t want, didn’t do that.

Because her whole life long, she thought there was something wrong with her.

I’m honestly torn between feeling happy and relieved for her, and angry that humanity has such trouble with showing some understanding to those who don’t fit in the boxes society has designed for all of us.

[sevi007]

Update: My Mum was getting ready for bed when I noticed her humming loudly around her toothbrush and I asked her what the good mood was about.

  She beamed around a mouth-full of toothpaste and said, very proudly and deliberately, “I think I like that, being ace.”

And continued on with her brushing, humming a bit louder.

  (Or in other words, I’m more than a little bit teary eyed.)

[firebirdscratches]

I had almost the exact same conversation with my Mom. We were talking about the LGBT acronym and explained that it’s LGBTQ and that some people add the PIA at the end as well. And she asked me “What’s the a?” So when I explained it she said immediately “Me. That’s like me.” This is why I get so mad at people who think this is all just trendy bs, people just don’t have the vocabulary or permission to describe their lived experience.

[queerzebra]

This is the most wholesome thing I’ve ever read, bless this post 🙌🏼