Blues Drive Monster

Lotta reblogs, though I have an Actual Content tag for art commissions and other cool stuff. See also my Cute Animal blog.

[yourspecialeyes]

Reddit user has cracked the code on how to read fanfic and study at the same time

(image via twitter)

[televisionenjoyer]

original reddit post

[komorebigold]

See. You're fine. Though now you must answer the call when it comes. Don't worry about it.

[veetehmoff]

hey uh, whats the call?

[komorebigold]

I said don't worry about it.

[tannnnblogs]

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[tannnnblogs]

Exactly this day last year, I've uploaded this comic!

[s-aint-elmo]

pass it on!

(ID in alt text)

[niftytoast3110]

chubbytsumi,,,

izutsumi was like very underweight in the manga so i wanna believe that she started gaining weight bcos she finally ate properly bcos of senshi

also drawing her having a softer bodytype similar to me makes me feel nice :3 and i hope it makes others feel better too

[bl00dalchemist]

So i finished reading dungeon meshi

[mushroom-punk]

my favorite part was when he ate the dungeon

[yamujiburo]

Daddy Daughter Double Battle

They proceeded to get away with it and sweep the competition but then Ash felt bad and decided to give the prize money and title to the second place winners. They quickly ran away with no one knowing who they really were.

[All comics in order here]

[savaralyn2]

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Expressions People Use When They Lose a Game (Electronic Fun with Computer and Games #5, Mar. 1983)

[itscolossal]

By Engraving Found Plastic Waste, Duke Riley Links Extractive Practices Throughout Human History

[seduccionarte]

Cassandra Peterson, protagonista de la película de terror "Elvira, reina de las tinieblas", (Elvira: Mistress Of The Drak). 1988

[pesmenos]

why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons 

[postcardsfromtheoryland]

Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.

So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.

So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.

Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” - they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction - they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”

I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.

Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?

[weantuniverse]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so toxic the constant mixed messages i am receive in this relationship

[thedurvin]

There’s actually a stage drama about a post-apocalyptic society that initially treats half-remembered Simpsons bits as a source of comfort but then a century later has fused them together into a holy text that people get into arguments over the meanings of

Recreating The Simpsons in the post-apocalypse

Anne Washburn, the playwright behind Mr. Burns, explains herself: "It’s about the comfort of looking again."

[startledoctopus]

ugh i really want to see this play

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[perfectpickleskeletonslime]

His mother not giving a fuck and hitting him over and over

[feybeasts]

I’m still thinking about that “is OSHA regulations Cop Behavior” post. Like. You know who thinks regulations are for losers? People who build submersibles out of logitech gamepads and rejected carbon fibre. People who trust starlink as their only surface lifeline.

Do you wanna be like the fine film on the floor of the Atlantic that was once a billionaire? Is that the hill you’re really gonna die on?

We have an expression in my field- “Regulations Are Written In Blood”

People don’t have fucking safety standards as a power trip, we have them because somewhere in the past, NOT having those regulations killed or maimed someone.

A lot of laws out there are bullshit- safety regulations sure as fuck aren’t. I have the literal scars to prove it.

[dreamlostdevourer]

Please please please remember that bosses and CEOs hate safety regulations.

Doing things safely cuts into their profits and lets workers survive long enough to learn.

If you're ever irritated at how long it takes to be safe?

Remember your bosses hate it twice as much!

Then be even safer.

Safety regulations are there because businesses see workers as expendable.

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Safety regulations are there because businesses see workers as expendable.