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So I’ve been ruining my kids lives by saying “weird flex but ok” to everything and when I do it they scream no and tell me they’re running away and I made this lovely photo lemme get it
Ok so I need some help coming up with the absolute worst “to flex on” live memes ever to pretend I’m an even more really lame parent. they don’t have to make sense but they need to be absolutely awful yet believable enough that it isn’t obvious I’m intentionally trying to be more lame
Here’s the ones I came up with so far
“You ever just eat a well balanced diet and exercise daily to flex on heart disease?”
“You ever just boil chilies to flex on your eyes?”
“You ever just be cool to flex on your kids?”
“You ever just use sanitizer to flex on 99.9% of all bacteria and viruses?”
“You ever just turn all the lights and up the heater to flex on Dad?”
Catholic edition:
“You ever just like receive the sacraments frequently to flex on Satan?”
“You ever just like love your Mom to flex on Protestants?”
So I executed the first one in the kitchen then I dabbed and my son didn’t say anything he just set down his pomegranate and walked out the front door with no shoes on and now he’s walking down the street
Ok so I walked down the block and I found him
Update
Your son is named Egg.
Every part of this is hilarious
Tumblr is gonna die without me knowing a single fucking thing about Homestuck and honestly I think that’s pretty sexy of me
i’m so tired of people justifying cultural appropriation by saying things like “Actual Chinese People ™ from mainland china don’t care that this non-chinese person is wearing a cheongsam!” and acting like this is evidence that cultural appropriation is just an issue made up by Oversensitive Special Snowflakes
like… ok… sure, of course mainland chinese people would care less about who wears cheongsam. but you’re kind of missing the whole point. most of the poc i’ve seen who are upset about cultural appropriation aren’t mainlanders. they’re fckn diaspora.
nobody in mainland china is going to judge you if you wear a cheongsam to a formal event. but let’s pretend you’re the asian chick in your mostly-white school in the US, and your mom pushes you to wear a cheongsam to prom. you’re probably going to get the “oh of course the asian girl wears her asian dress to prom” reaction from the people around you. so you fight your mom about the cheongsam, because you want to fit in with Everyone Else. you don’t want to be the Chinky Girl in the Chinky Dress.
your beautiful cheongsam sits in your closet, until one day, a stray clothes hanger snags on the lace overlay and shreds your dress and you throw it out.
and then a few years later, you see some white girl wearing the dress your mom wanted you to wear, but you were too ashamed to wear because you didn’t want to be a stereotype.
and that’s the frickin difference. mainlanders don’t experience the same things as people who are diaspora. they’re not gonna have the same perspective. there are no societal repercussions stopping them from expressing themselves culturally. their experiences ARE NOT THE SAME. stop using the opinions of people living in China to invalidate the experiences of Chinese Americans. thanks
hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free
if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people
So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?
And does that mean that corrective lenses should also be free, because people with good vision don’t need to pay to see clearly, and that devices to aid in mobility for people with limited mobility (from crutches to (practical) canes to wheelchairs to prosthetics) should also be free, because people who don’t have limited mobility don’t need to pay for them?
yes? why does everyone in the notes keep trying to come up with gotchas lmao everything to do with healthcare should be free
Then by that logic, healthy food and clean water should be free because without food and water we will die. Also, without water, hygiene will be minimal therefore increasing the chances of disease.
Yes. People should have access to a healthy happy life and the whole point of a society is to support eachother and work together. how brainwashed by capitalism are you to think food and water shouldn’t be free in an ideal world.
this post is such a wild ride every time. ‘so by this logic, people should have free access to the things they need to live and survive?????????’ like yes bitch, all of it !!!
ALLLLLLLL OF IIIIIIIT
My coworker sent me this insane Gwyneth Paltrow jewelry ad this morning and it FUCKING H A U N T S me. SPOILERS, but I have so many questions. Is the husband just in space or is he dead? I mean, he’s dead. If you took away that jaunty French music it would be obvious that he is definitely super dead. How many of those CASSETTES are there? Putting aside how spooky it is, just visually (Does Alice ever have people over? Do they just pretend to ignore that she has this CRAZY PERSON BOOKSHELF full of HAND-LABELED CASSETTE TAPES like some Martha’s-Vineyard Fox Mulder??), that must have taken literal days of his life. Locked in the bathroom for an entire week like “DON’T COME IN HERE, ALICE, I’M BUSY.” How long ago did he go to space if CASSETTE TAPES were considered an acceptable way to record audio when he went up? He has been in space for 20 years. He is dead. What is Alice’s life now? She just wanders around her giant, spotless 900 million dollar house, imprisoned by her own privilege and the ghost of her former life. Drawing the same three drawings over and over like the kid from “The Ring.” Drinking juice from a carafe with an EMPTY GLASS on the other side of the table, presumably so she can imagine her dead space husband is there. “Drink up, darling,” Alice says lovingly, reaching into the empty air to cup an imaginary bristled cheek. “You haven’t touched this delicious guava-lavender balancing tea I brewed for you, and you must get your vitamins before you go to space.” Also, she has a picture of HERSELF next to her picture OF HIM, instead of a picture OF THEM, together, which makes me wonder: is Gwyneth Paltrow’s character “Alice” at all?? Is this like that astronaut love triangle where the one astronaut attacked the other one???? Did Gwyneth murder Alice while her husband was in space, and now she pretends to live Alice’s life???? “Alice has been such a recluse since Roderick went to space in 1996,” Alice’s friends say, not realizing that Alice has been mummifying in the charming 18th century icebox in the servants’ kitchen since 1996 and Gwyneth is the new Alice. “We’re so happy together, aren’t we, Roderick,” Gwyneth croons to her tape player, wrapping her arms around her own torso, swaying dreamily before the full length mirror, wearing nothing but Alice’s special 20-year-old surprise necklace and a wig made of of Alice’s hair. I love this commercial so much.
Two and a half years have passed. We’ve had so much to worry about. We haven’t thought about “Good Morning Alice” since before Trump was elected.
We haven’t guarded against her return.
OK, I have now watched the latest installment of Gwyneth Paltrow’s epic horror series: “Who Gets Aunt Edna’s Necklace.” Right off the bat, you know that these women killed their aunt, zero doubt in my mind. Is one of these women Alice? Impossible to know! While the bewhiskered estate executor does call them “Annie” and “Grace,” they address each other only as Sister, a 100% normal thing that all siblings do. Perhaps, as they are both Sister, they are also Alice, a single entity inhabiting a multitude of physical forms. We learn that in the past, they were identical in face and dress, before the Janus-like bifurcation into two different varieties of Ladies Who Lunch.
Now, they are called to do battle for one of the ugliest necklaces I have ever seen–but my eyes are mortal; who knows what powers are hidden inside the rainbow Swarovski crystals? They stab at each other with swords, then must cook a meat stew to please their aunt’s hound. They chop at vegetables, but where is the meat? What is the meat? In one bowl is charred bones, in the other, a gelatinous primordial mud. Then, they must play a song on the piano, a song that should require only two hands, though they have four. As they play, their past twin selves orbit one another, reading, burning fireworks, standing on opposite ends of a bridge and passing a star to one another. A piano wire snaps, a discordant shattering of the moment. They laugh! How they laugh. What is funny? Why am I so afraid?
Then we come to it, their secret, final test:
Never forget each other.
Never forget each
Never forget
Never
Their brittle tinkling laughs ring forth again.
“You’ll always have your other half,” Aunt Edna intones from beyond the grave. Their hands overlap. The still photo of Aunt Edna winks.
this is genuinely a literal description of what happens in this advertisement, which professional marketers made, on purpose.
For everyone’s information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
Peaceful protest pointed at ad revenue, spiking activity elsewhere. Genius.
The Incredible Jessica James (2017) | dir. James C. Strouse
Okay but marta you can NOT make a gifset about bellamy/finn/raven and NOT tag it with a meta about how ravenbell are so fucking brave and the same. And how they both see finn as a coward (that he is), raven loved finn yes but she knew he also hesitated! Please give it to MEEEEEEE
Lol have you met me? I’m a huge coward, and as such, I often have quite a lot of trouble talking about bravery!
For me, that scene is about protectiveness first and foremost – about family and loyalty. Bellamy spent his entire life protecting Octavia with all he had. His sister, his responsibility. And in his head, Raven is Finn’s Octavia. If Octavia was shot, Bellamy wouldn’t just stick to the plan. He’d stop and review the plan to make sure Octavia survives. So the fact that Finn isn’t stopping to reevaluate everything is so completely removed from Bellamy’s life experience he can’t help his knee-jerk reaction to Finn’s behavior. Cowardice is an easy accusation in this case, because it doesn’t require going into persona stuff – doesn’t require talking about family, and how Raven should be Finn’s fucking sister. Having a sibling is so foreign to their culture that I doubt Bellamy even has the language to talk about it, despite having the experience of it. I think it’s much more about love than about courage. For Bellamy, it’s easy to understand what Raven does: building a capsule, coming down to the ground, those are things people do for family. Finn, on the other hand, seems like a freaking alien, and I often have an impression that Bellamy reacts to him so aggressively because he just can’t fucking wrap his head around how this guy functions.
And because I’m a terrible person, I’d like your headcanons for an AU scenario in which Bellamy, not Finn, is Raven’s neighbor on the Ark.
I always felt that bellamy could not get finn either and that’s why he never respected him for that matter.
Oh wow, raven having the shitty mother that she had would have had to grow up being very resourceful and independent. Some people in her section’s would take pity on Rosa’s kid (Raven’s mother) and give her food and/or old clothes. Raven would never ask though. Raven and Bellamy had always been neighbors but never really paid attention to one another; Bellamy was too busy growing up doing his best to keep his sister safe and hidden and that meant being quiet/low key. Raven was a genious and started selling her services ( fixing and/or building things and stuff) in exchange of whatever she needed that day, it was mostly food though. Raven and Bellamy officialy meet when raven is 12 and bell is 16. He came to her so she could repair an old hologram machine that showcased landscapes from the ground before everything turned to shit. He wanted to give it to O for her birthday ( she was turning 9 and kept asking questions about life outside the room……). Raven agreed but in return he’d have to pay her a favor that she’d collect when the time comes (she’d heard about him enrolling in the ark security guard and was sure that could come in handy in the future).
Turns out the future was a week later.
And then he starts noticing her, because Bellamy is nothing if not a huge mother hen. He catches himself keeping an eye on that neglected Reyes kid, and that ends up with him walking in on her as she furiously fixes some trinket while staring at some ridiculously difficult technical specifications on her tablet.
So he starts coming over to make sure she studies, because holy shit, getting into Zero G training at 13 could turn her life upside down. He tries to bring her food and clothes so she can study instead of working, and when he has nothing to spare, he reads her textbooks out loud to her so she can multitask and actually get some sleep at night.
At some point, she figures out he’s hiding something, and that it has to do with his home, but no matter how she tries, she can’t get any solid info out of him. Eventually, she lets it go.
She starts crushing on him when she’s 16 and he’s 20, but she does everything she can to make sure he never notices.
“Having a sibling is so foreign to their culture that I doubt Bellamy even has the language to talk about it, despite having the experience of it.“
Just pointing it out, because wow RUDE. Language as the thing inferior to the mental state and experiance, because even though they do have a word - SIBLINGS - and even though they do have a literature - AUGUSTUS AND OCATVIA - it’s do hard for Bellamy to describe what he feels because no one else on the Ark could ever relate to it.
And then he meets Raven and Finn and thinks that Finn should get it, the protectiveness and the love but it turns out he’s got it completely wrong - it’s Raven all along. It’s Raven who’s got the capacity for the love he feels too, even though she doesn’t understand the word SIBLING in the most sincere way either. It’s close enough, though.
And then they do desribe it. My responsibility, he is all I have, and they fucking understand and it’s SO BEAUTIFUL.
Augustus and Octavia are super important in this context, because they show exactly just how much language he doesn’t have. They were AWFUL siblings, let me tell you. Augustus easily used Octavia as a pawn in his political strategies, and he didn’t care what kind of crossfire he got her into. No one would compare himself and his sister to Augustus and Octavia if they had more options.
And yes, Raven is the first person he meets who GETS IT. And because of this connection, he’s also the only person to understand this part of her, too. How much it hurts that Finn betrays her. How much it hurts when he dies. Maybe this is why Wick doesn’t comprehend just how much losing Finn breaks Raven, and he demands intimacy so soon. I mean, how could he understand? No one has a brother.
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Lupita Nyong’o and Oscar Isaac
(…) looking at each other like they’re not sure what the waiting limit is on these things.
in our bedroom after the war by @shortitude / @tentaclabia
fake novel prompt: the log: the daily lives of the crew of the discovery
sister-grimmer said: Star Trek meets Parks and Rec! and greenkneehighs said: Star Trek TOS meets “Pride and Prejudice”
the discovery is a spaceship designed to explore the galaxy, make contact, and experience daring and exciting missions- for some of the crew. the rest of the crew is run by mo, the ship’s extremely dedicated (some would say overly so…) personnel manager who oversees day-to-day basics of the ship. she constantly butts heads with the ship’s captain, a dashing man named tip. (she once overheard him call her position “useless” and she’s never forgiven him.) mo’s crew consists of the less flashy members of the discovery, such as: malek, the ship’s cook who can make any meal and is terrified of guns, and rain, the ship’s historian who knows more about alien civilizations than she’s letting on. it’s filled with mishaps and adventure and friendship!
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