Just Stuff...

Things that are humorous, educational,and/or Weird. May post some of my art stuff on here occasionally.

[melgillman]

Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

[post-storm-rainbow-deactivated2]

I don’t understand this ending

[elodieunderglass]

The ending is designed to make sense if you experience a reveal, but the reveal is wordless. The king calls the ranger to “come kill the beast,” implying that he wants the ranger to kill the girl.

However, the ranger has the following information about the beast:

It has black claws.

It has a red coat.

It has 10-pointed yellow horns.

It hunts children for fun.

It jealously guards the resources of the forest.

It doesn’t look like an animal.

It is cruel.

It is bad.

The ranger looks at the king and notices that:

The king wears black gloves.

He wears a red cape.

He wears a gold crown with points.

Further, through the story we understand:¥

He has beaten up a fairly small child.

Her job description is to guard the resources on the king’s behalf.

The beast can take a unexpected form.

It is monstrous (beastly) to ask your employee to execute a child.

Her boss is the real bad guy!!

She replies “I will (kill the beast)” and fires the arrow. We don’t see who she is firing at, but it is implied that she has realized that the king is the beast.

The creator has framed the reveal so that the reader and the ranger come to the same conclusion at the same time. They have deliberately chosen to leave the ending ambiguous - they are not showing the result of the choice. This creates tension. It also means that readers who didn’t get the reveal might be confused and try again, experiencing understanding and satisfaction when they trip the mechanism. Readers like the feelings they get from activating a reveal. Creators like it when people pay attention (the closer the better) to their work.

The note of tension at the end is a deliberate choice. It’s common to seek & consume content as a stimulant. (Many people scroll social media in search of various forms of activation and stimulation. Tension is a good stimulant; finding it is rewarding, and the emotion itself can make people feel perked up.) This ending will be considered perfectly sufficient & enjoyable, and the comic will resonate with people.

[empiria-caterima-deactivated202]

So you are the bitch who said the end was ambiguous.

Get off your high horse or the arrow might be coming for you since it’s going upward

[elodieunderglass]

It’s a beautiful day in the forest and I am a horrible swan

[elodieunderglass]

Today my 5-year-old child wandered over, read and processed the entire comic over my husband’s shoulder, pegged the king as the beast, understood the implication of leaving the ending ambiguous, said, “haha! That’s a good way to do it,” and wandered off. Therefore proving, exactly two years later, that a reasonably well-raised child can process information better than some people on tumblr

[clinical-manners]

*places an orange just outside a fairy ring to see what comes out* science is more of an art than a science

[theunfairfolk]

*the orange grows legs and skitters away*

[clinical-manners]

Fascinating results *places a banana in the same spot*

[kingscrown666]

*clawed hand reaches out of the ether and drags it into the ring, leaving ragged claw marks in the soil as it disappears, back into the ether from whence it came*

[numberlover1729]

“let’s go to the extreme.” *places a pineapple in the same spot*

[yallidarityforever]

Real scientists would keep putting an orange in the same spot to make sure the results are consistent before moving on to other fruits or different spots.

[clinical-manners]

The only valid response to this post.

[elodieunderglass]

We’re working up the complexity levels of fruit until we feel there is enough evidence to support the judicious placement of a volunteer twink

[cannibal-cupcakes]

[elodieunderglass]

You sit down, we haven’t seen what’s happened to the pineapple

[lynati]

This is Tumblr; we’ve ALL seen what happened to the pineapple. O_O

[maximumsunshine]

We’d show you the post, but Tumblr sensored the entire thing including every single reblog. I mean i can sum it up by saying @were–ralph ’s warewolf boyfriend, but you really really had to be there to understand, and I’m just not sure it’s something those who get the joke can describe. That said, you’re probably better off not knowing if this didn’t jog some deeply hidden memory.

[were--ralph]

[queer-wrath]

I’m always pleased when were–ralph has been summoned and shows up accordingly 😌

[kathleendeplume]

I was expecting the final video to feature Rosamund Pike and her strangely hypnotising method of eating a pineapple with her bare hands.

(I can’t possibly be the only one)

[wymanthewalrus]

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

[restinan]

Likewise, a society does not need to be ethically pure for violent conquest and subjugation of that society to be ethically monstrous.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

Also, a person is not the society they come from, and the moral deserts of that society (or its military, or its ruling class) should not be confused for theirs. The average Aztec civilian may have been complicit in some loose way in their state's imperialism, as the average Japanese civilian was in their military's atrocities in China, as the average American was in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but no one with a scrap of moral sense would say that's enough to judge that each deserves to be murdered or enslaved. Moctezuma may have been a brutal imperialist cut from the same cloth as the conquistadors who killed him, but the same is not true of the hundreds of thousands of his subjects who died in the Spanish conquest.

[greatwyrmgold]

The uwu-washing is obviously a response to centuries of colonialist propaganda painting indigenous peoples as violent, bloodthirsty savages who needed to be exterminated, or at best to have their culture wiped from existence and replaced with a carbon copy of Christian values.

uwu-washing is preferable to justifications for genocide, but it's ultimately making the same mistake: Reducing entire societies to a caricature far too broad to encapsulate an individual, let alone a continent's worth of cultures.

[luckyyyyayyy]

Just ended Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated and let me tell you this two had me in a chokehold or whatever is said

[cloudabserk]

“fujoshis are harmful to gay men” not this gay man.

[cloudabserk]

on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.

[cloudabserk]

“shoutout to everybody from new jersey!” “even the new jersey serial killers…?”

[butchfagminotaur]

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[juststarsandthemoon]

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data

[lowpawly]

this is my impression of what it would look like if the toddlers at my job could make traumacore edits about me

[lowpawly]

alright by popular demand here is more toddler traumacore

[theycallmebrick]

*tsk* Gotta hate it when you chip a nail.

[windyvalleyzone]

Yall are cowards for deleting this caption.

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[thewuzzy]

i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

[brainrotdotorg]

ideal woman to me and i am not kidding

[poisonedcure]

SHE SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB

[lastoneout]

I don’t think the club could handle her

[belovedgamers]

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[noahwyles]

i, a rock collector, had to go to the ER yesterday because of a gallstone attack, here is how my father messaged me

thanks dad

[anremithrl]

That was the correct thing to say.

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[pride-knightess]

just remembered i have a degree in sound engineering and can voice act

[villainessbian]

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER

[stjohnstarling]

Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn

Teratophiliacs were once a niche group that bonded over their sexual attraction to monsters in obscure forums. Now—as online communities pro

Okay guys, we’ve got to wrap it up now with the monsterfucking and find something new to do. It’s getting write-ups in GQ, it’s so over.

[stjohnstarling]

Sometimes, in their obsession with monsters, humans end up finding other humans. In 2019, Cachét developed a crush on Salad Fingers, the main character in a British cult web cartoon. She drew porn of Salad Fingers and sent it to David Firth, the show’s creator. Firth loved it and followed her back. “He thought I was a guy because no girl would draw porn of Salad Fingers,” Cachét says.

They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.

Okay this does kind of rule though.

[funny-tik-toks]

[fierceawakening]

I love how hard Steve is laughing.

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Assigned Daquan at the Stand up comedy club

[gandalfsbignaturals]

oh my GOD what is her name i wanna watch more

[starmancyrus]

That is Christopher Caldwell aka Bob the Drag queen and he is iconic

[geocaprican]

I’ve seen this clip countless time (and still fucking funny 😂🤣) but I was today years old when I learned Bob’s government name, which honestly makes this joke even funnier

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm sorry Chris chose the name Bob and is complaining about Steve?

[segamascott]