What were they thinking

#hang on so Ryan Gosling..#gosling - gansl - gunsel - Ryan Twink?#I connected the dots 😎#this explains why he's 45 and still not Ryan Goose

mycupoverfloweth

thedman0310

Do they know?

sunshinetheinspiration

Context:

san-sebastienne

Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

fiercelydreamed

The diffusion of yiddish into American English and its media has some delightful and unintended results.

negativ00

great-and-small

stone-cold-groove

From the car files: photo detail from the 1982 Toyota Celica Supra sales brochure.

#vehicles #vintage #toyota celica

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Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

Based on the Major X #3 (2019) Rob Liefeld cover

(stolen from @bad-comic-art's post) 😁

This will be available when?

Soon..ish.. Maybe?

If I did make it available to buy, how much interest would there be?

Should I add this to my Etsy store?

Give it to me now!

Yes

You have an Etsy store?

Voting ended onApr 1, 2025

Ok, my follower has spoken. I'll add it to my Etsy store (that I actually have).

One minor problem.. I put the template somewhere safe so I wouldn't lose it. But now I don't remember where that was. I'm making a new one now.

I just finished building this one 😎

I'm so close to putting this on Etsy. Any day now. I can feel it

https://foamcraftarmory.etsy.com/listing/4469620337

It's on Etsy now 😎

Only one of them at the moment. I can't afford the foam I need to finish more of them (2026 is not going well)

hamenthotep

@why-i-love-comics @bad-comic-art

bad-comic-art

Who’s going to be the lucky person to own their very own Liefeld gun?

natalieironside

If nobody else has my back, I know the ghost girl who lives in every mirror has my back 👍

#I thought I was the only one

You see her too

formlab

MCC Smart Eco-Speedster Concept, 1993

bisexualr2d2

Perfect car for driving in this town

catboyluca

Okay you gotta see what it looks like from the outside too actually

bepisdrink

real-samus-aran

Some more pictures 😎

actually-ridley

It'll take more than your tiny gun to kill me, Samus

relevant-wikipedia-articles

👀👀

starlitmyre

whydidisavethistomyphone

librarychair

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

foone

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

a-teacup-of-golden-cracks

elalmadelmar

I totaled my first car. Like, the car itself just stopped where the windshield met the dashboard. Ahead of that point, there was no more car. It was gone.

Me? I had some really spectacular bruises and a lil friction burn on my nose from where Mr. Airbag and Ms. Glasses had a disagreement. That's it. That's it.

I was driving a little tiny coupe and went more or less head-on with a pickup truck. The entire engine and hood of my car was twisted rubble that was not connected to the rest of the car afterward. I sat down on the verge, about twenty or thirty feet from the accident, while I waited for the cops and EMTs to work their way through the traffic backup to get to us, and found that I was sitting beside one of the headlights of my car. The whole entire headlight, bulb and reflector and cover and frame and all.

All I had were bruises and that little friction burn. That's it.

Crumple zones save lives. So do seatbelts and airbags; half the bruising was the exact shape of my seatbelt in livid crimson and black on my torso. It was and remains the most insanely intense bruising I have ever experienced in my life. BUT IT WAS JUST BRUISING!! Unpleasant, sure, but eminently survivable and didn't even require much treatment beyond not wearing a bra for a few days. But all the force that created that spectacular bruising was force that wasn't flinging me through the windshield or impaling me on the steering column. My car crumpled and crushed and dissolved but it held me safe and secure and protected.

Crumple zones save lives. You do not want your car to look undamaged after the accident, because that means it made like a Newton's Cradle and passed every bit of the impact straight through to your soft and highly crushable body.

#That cyber truck is not ok #Just because it's mostly the same shape doesn't mean it didn't suffer any structural damage #The frame was already badly welded together now it's weakened and more likely to break

Landed in North Carolina. Lotta wood furniture so far

Lesbian AsAm meetup is going well. Everyone is very hot and frighteningly competent. Nobody suspects I am not one of them. I socialized for almost exactly an hour, used up my entire stock of memorized jokes and anecdotes designed to sound off the cuff, and immediately went to my assigned bedroom. We had Bojangles and something called Cheer Wine and it was really good 😭😭

You can see the stars so clearly at night, my dumb ass got excited by the view I turned my phone light at the sky to try and see them better.

It almost makes up for what a terrifying horror show the woods are in the dark. Bare trees and total silence, the only light from the phone, not really going very far.

Terrifying. But also perhaps... a little arousing?? Anything could be in these woods. Hunting me down. If you think about it.

Re: frightening competence of lesbians, I've been having my usual IBS problems and a small army of them came to my room with breakfast and OTCs and gatorade and one of them asked me quite bluntly to describe my bowel movements while I tried to say I'm fine, this happens, please let me phase through the bed and through the floor and into the earth where I can die.

I am very touched since I have met most of these people for the first time but I'm also like. Idk I'm not good at accepting help, not even from people who know me well, so being ambushed in bed by people who were determined to check on me (I'M AWARE THIS IS A DREAM SCENARIO FOR MANY OF YOU) made me really embarrassed haha