[lakemojave]

They. They forgor

[lakemojave]

[hotsoupeymiku]

[grimmtidings]

They were opened in AUGUST 2001. Oh my god. That's both hilarious and tragic.

[predstrogen]

this is a fucking futurama bit

[samglyph]

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama // Wisdom to Heal the Earth by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[starryeyedsilverpen]

im gonna cry

[sixth-light]

Do you know what an iced chocolate is?

Yes and I’ve had one

Yes but I’ve never had one

No but I have a confident guess (in tags please)

No and I have no idea

Clicky button

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

A friend was describing introducing cafe workers in the UK to the concept of the iced chocolate and then I found out Wikipedia doesn’t know what they are and then I thought: is this another lemon lime and bitters situation? So…Tumblr poll time!

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

And that they're somehow better than everyone else for being aware of the scam.

[frottinq]

Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

[mimi-maru]

[luna-azzurra]

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

[queerasaurus-rexx]

So, uh

Sam Neill passed away.

A lot of people know him as Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park, but Sam Neill has an incredible catalogue of film and television, stretching back to 1975 on the big screen, but he cut his teeth in university productions of Shakespearean dramas.

All this to say, Sam Neill never let himself get pigeonholed as an actor. He was an incredibly versatile actor with a plethora of roles and genres to his name.

And that's not even touching upon his interests outside of acting. He was a passionate vintner (of the Two Paddocks winery) and an outspoken environmentalist who frequently spoke out against political policy that negatively affected indigenous peoples in Australia and New Zealand.

Jurassic Park is an incredible film, and I know many people have fond memories of the original trilogy.

But Sam Neill was more than just Dr. Grant. And I think that should be remembered too.

[neo-soulless]

[bdalak]

the more i talk w/ leftist friends the more i start to realize that they think culture is only defined by food or "traditional" (i.e. "ethnic") garb and nothing else

mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being

[pigeonsplease]

When I visited Chicago, the very first thing to weird me out from the airport was… how almost everywhere had revolving doors.

I’m Australian. Sure, we do have those doors, but the vast majority of places in Sydney are automatic sliding doors or old-fashioned manual push/pulls because we don’t need to block out the cold and wind the same way here.

So every day I experienced a culture clash with something as basic as what doors were normal for me.

Americans who say they don’t have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isn’t just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, it’s constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because that’s just “normal” to your daily life. No one has no culture just because they’re not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.

[the-library-alcove]

Yes, I have these saved for exactly this reason.

[curuniel]

The world would benefit from more people being exposed to the concept of ethnocentrism: the way that we (human beings in general) view things through our own cultural lens as the default, such that the way our culture does things seems obvious, natural and sensible, and any different way of doing things may seem not only foreign but wrong or irrational.

No one is immune to this! And because we often aren't aware that our default is culturally constructed, it's easy to feel like other people must know the obvious default that everyone knows, they're just doing it wrong, rather than recognising that you have different assumptions.

[the-rabbit-that-hunts-tigers]

So fucking embarassed and nervous at my larp game last night. I'm so easily flustered, and I feel like I'm gonna mess everything up, and then I remind myself: We're playing pretend. We're just playing pretend. If I play pretend in a way that people don't wanna play pretend or doesn't match with things they pretended before, they'll just tell me. We're playing dolls and we're playing as the dolls and thats it and it's fun. It's so much fun, y'all.

[i-suggest-larp]

We're just playing pretend!!

[wisecrackingeric-2]

MĀNAWATIA A MATARIKI AND HAPPY NEW YEAR E HOA!!!!!!! 💫⭐️✨🌟🌟✨💫⭐️💫✨✨

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love it when they make games to upset Brennan specifically

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This man has typecast himself into a role so specific that he can't do normal Game Changer eps any more. Any Game Changer ep he's in has to torture him personally or it's a waste of perfectly good Brennan. Pray for him.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Dance fucker dance

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#the moment from that first screenshot is when i checked the time and went#''we are 3.5 minutes into this episode and brennan is already trying to kill sam with his mind''#dropout

I also love it on Game Changer where he gets momentarily furious at another player and avoids starting shit with them by just taking a lil walk around the set to calm down. He got so upset.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#game changer is a show about brennan lee mulligan and sam reich trying to kill each other in progressively more unhinged ways

And Breaking News is a game about Grant O'Brien and Sam Reich trying to kill each other in progressively more unhinged ways. Sam is picking so many battles.

[jan-pipijan]

dropout is a studio of people all in spy vs spy level shenanigans with everyone else at all times for our entertainment

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You can tell that they used to be youtubers. It's in the bones of the company.

[theabigailthorn]

I know I'm several years behind on this but I am just now watching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and let me just say AAAA, AAAAA, AAAAAAAA sjhfagsfjhagdajshh AAAAAA YESSSSSS

[theabigailthorn]

Double Trouble using Adora's voice to call Catra "kitten" specifically to get a rise out of her holy shiiiiittt

[theabigailthorn]

Horde Prime talking to Catra like "hmmmm, elevated heart rate, dilated pupils? gay homosexual detected"

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Woah, nice find, little buddy. But what now?

Haussperling 🐥 (house sparrow) im Oberen Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Mitte.

[staticbluue]

“People should pass a test before being allowed to have kids.” “Isn’t it scary how white people have this inborn capacity for evil?” “I’ll never pass because males and females have different skull shapes.” “Autistic people have a stronger sense of justice than anyone else.” “I don’t want AMABs in my space because they’re dangerous.” “You shouldn’t have access to hormones if you dress like THAT.” “Anyone who does something that awful isn’t human.” “Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is eugenics. This is phrenology. THIS IS NAZI SHIT, YOU ARE A LEFTIST BUYING INTO NAZI SHIT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO NAZI SHIT.

[skies-diary]

I've seen a lot of people in the comments saying people needing to pass a test to have kids is a good idea, but I don't think they understand what that means. The US government used to take Indigenous children from their parents for reasons as asinine as grandparents living in the home (called "overcrowded environment") or using only their native language at home instead of English (because it "failed to prepare" children for a world where English is the dominant langauge).

Children placed in residental schools were abused, murdered, and sold into arranged marriages with white men. More recently, children "adopted" out into white households are often also subjected to the same, as well as forcibly converted to Christianity.

The most effective way to protect children in the country is to give them rights to ensure their safety, autonomy and dignity. Eugenics and laws to control reproduction will not do that. Crafting legislation with the help of child wellness experts is a better choice.

[skies-diary]

I should add - the US government STILL disproportionately targets Indigenous families for child welfare checks. ICWA is supposed to protect against this but is unevenly enforced, and there's even talk of overturning it. Protect ICWA and Indigenous children.

[curuniel]

If someone has to pass a test, someone has to design the test. If it's a law, then the government does, and it can change with the government. You can't assume that good intentions will prevail when it comes to vulnerable population groups, you have to protect them.

[loth-caatgirl]

[reconditarmonia]

IT'S TRUE and it makes it really easy to explain the humors (and other Shakespearean passages having to do with personality being determined by bodily composition) to students!!

[curuniel]

The theory of humours is ridiculously persistent. Something about it just makes more inherent sense to humans than germ theory does, and we keep coming back to it. Broadly equivalent ways of thinking about health have emerged in a bunch of places all over the world in history, but new ones also seem to emerge out of wellness fads every few years. You listen to something and it's like wait you're just balancing humours again!