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One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006
i haaate when ppl are talking abt mammal colouration and they bring up mandrills but not vervet monkeys.... fake fans
put some respect on his name
the fearsome cyclops
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
She played bass on 10,000 songs, including the most-played track of the twentieth century. She was paid $55 per session. Her name never appeared on the albums.
Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, 1964. A woman in a cardigan walks past the receptionist, a Fender Precision bass in her hand like a briefcase. She doesn’t sign autographs. She signs a timesheet.
Her name is Carol Kaye. In three hours, she will record what will become the most-played track of the twentieth century. She’ll pocket fifty-five dollars and head to another studio, on the other side of town, for the next session.
The record label will never put her name on the album.
Between 1957 and 1973, Carol Kaye took part in roughly 10,000 recording sessions. Not as the featured artist, not as a guest, but as a hired hand. She was part of an anonymous collective nicknamed The Wrecking Crew—elite studio musicians who actually played the instruments on your favorite records while the famous bands posed for promotional photos.
The work was relentless. Three albums before the day was over. Stale coffee in paper cups. No rehearsal. The charts arrived minutes before the tape rolled. If you couldn’t read a chart and nail the take in two tries, you didn’t get called for the next session.
Carol could do it on the first try.
She started playing guitar in grimy bars at fourteen because her family couldn’t pay the electric bill. Music wasn’t a romantic dream for her. It was survival. It was a job—factory work with better acoustics and lower pay.
But she was faster and sharper than almost everyone else. She corrected charts in pencil while the producer was still explaining what he wanted. In one session in 1968, she told a famous producer his arrangement sounded like a dying dog. She chose her own line. They kept her version.
That descending bass line that drives the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? Carol Kaye. The propulsive groove of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”? Carol Kaye. The acoustic-guitar intro to “La Bamba”? Carol Kaye. The iconic theme from Mission: Impossible? Carol Kaye.
She invented techniques on the spot, out of sheer necessity. When the bass sound was too muddy for AM radio, she stuck felt under the strings and used a hard pick instead of her fingers. The tone cut through the static like a blade. It became the sonic signature that defined 1960s pop.
Bassists spent years—decades—trying to crack the secret of the Beach Boys’ gear to get that sound. They were studying the wrong people. They should have been studying Carol.
She received no royalties. No residuals. No gold-record ceremony. No credit on the album sleeves. When “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hit number one, Carol was already back in a studio cutting a soap jingle.
The biggest bands mimed her bass lines on TV variety shows. New York marketing departments decided a mom in classic clothes didn’t fit the rebellious-youth image they were selling. So they simply left her name off the album credits.
For thirty years, almost no one cared. The truth only began to surface in the late 1990s, when music researchers found the same union contract numbers on thousands of hit records. The very documents meant to preserve studio musicians’ anonymity betrayed them.
Think about it. Every time you heard “Good Vibrations,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” the Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, or Sonny and Cher, you were hearing Carol Kaye. She composed the soundtrack of an entire generation’s youth.
And yet the records still say nothing. She’s now over eighty. She wrote instructional books. She trained countless bassists. She is finally starting to be recognized by music historians who uncovered the truth about The Wrecking Crew.
But she never got what she deserved: her name on those albums. Credit for the music that defined an era. Recognition that those bass lines everyone associates with the “Beach Boys” were, in fact, Carol Kaye’s.
Fifty-five dollars a session. Ten thousand sessions. The most-played track of the twentieth century.
And the world didn’t know her name.
She was admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 but refused, fuck yeah, Carol. Her official website is incredible.
Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man
reaching up to get it off of the fridge and the big tshirt im wearing as pyjamas rides up and the reader sees my panties
finding a new doctor. applying for jobs. searching for apartments. messaging used car dealers. getting your health insurance to do their job. getting a pharmacy to do their job. getting the dmv to accept the documents they told you to bring. just listing things they probably make you do in hell
Me, years ago: idk it just seems like every time I’ve heard a man say he was being abused by a woman it turns out he was actually abusing her. Is it wrong to just assume that’s the case anytime I hear a man say that since I’ve literally never seen it be actually true?
Commenters: omg that’s so fucked up. Maybe educate yourself on domestic abuse from experts before you go saying things like this??
Experts on domestic abuse: When a man says he is being abused by a woman, you should assume he is abusing the woman in question and wants your help to keep her in line. Abusive men often use this technique in professional settings such as therapy, and it’s important not to buy into it for even a second.
The domestic violence training I went to a few days ago was meant for an audience of EMTs and law enforcement, and the two detectives heading the presentation literally said this. They obviously acknowledge that male victims of female abusers do exist and do deserve help, but the odds of this scenario are slim. They've seen men bash themselves in the face to incriminate their female victim when the latter calls 911. They went over in aching detail how male abusers will buddy up to first responders and play the victim, because they know from experience that it often works. Often, these male abusers will beat their victims to the phone to call for help...for themselves and their self inflicted injuries which they blame on their wives or girlfriends.
They also love to hit and beat their victims until the victims finally retaliate with a small slap or push. Then, predictably, the abusers will tell anyone who'll listen that they are the abuse victim.
One of the presenters said he'd literally gotten camera footage of a male suspect acquainting his fist with his face while pretending to scream as his bruised and battered wife was on the phone with 911, and then, when the cops showed up, he came crying about how she'd beaten him. The idiot did it all in view of his ring camera.
They are very predictable. Unfortunately, there's a reason they're so confident in their tactics: those tactics work on law enforcement, which is permeated with misogyny.
And, doubly unfortunately, I could add all the disclaimers about how male victims truly do exist and deserve help, etc.,....and yet some people will still choose to read this as hatred towards them.
(btw, you know who's usually the perpetrator of DV on male victims? Other men.)
From The Female Man by Joanna Russ (1975).
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
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tagged by @lostgirlslikeus, @thegreatimpersonator, @diamondaphne, @cavarage, @henrywinteris, @nataliacore, @caribaheine, and @userlaylivia, thank you angels!! 😊🩷
Rules: make a poll with 10 of your favorite shows, they can be just 10 shows you loved watching or your top 10 tv shows of all time, and have your followers choose their favorite, then tag 10 people.
Top 10 Shows (in no particular order)
the good place
teen wolf
mr robot
supernatural
ted lasso
what we do in the shadows
the vampire diaries
dickinson
friends
brooklyn nine nine
i really wanted to add interview with the vampire but it could only be 10 😭
tagging (no pressure): @bruceewayne, @glenpowelljr, @eagans, @rozanovilyas, @quinnigallagherjones, @deerly-ruined, @929, @eohwyyn, @edithsawyers, @dyketrinitysantos, @dyeralice, @mikelogan, @its-rapturous, @haylewilliams, @bellark, @ohmoriartea, @trainingseasons, @hellshee, @threepio, @pennywises, @theresagray, @sirikenobilegends-2005.
Here are my faves!
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Firefly
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Supernatural
I Can Hear Your Voice
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Fruits Basket
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Death Note
Tagged by @ronandreams, thanks! :)
Tagging @arda-ancalima @paleo-violet @protectedbymedusa @my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates @mistyketchum9889 @laughytaffythegrape @tater-tots-last-of-the-romanovs @thelittlebirdandthemeandog
Faves
Shameless
Gentefied
On My Block
The Chi
Shtisel
Californication
Reservation Dogs
Breaking Bad
Interview with the Vampire
The Bear
Tagging @solitaire-06 @slyandthefamilybook @atwoodsfemalefantasy and anyone else who wants to participate <3
favorites
Gilmore Girls
30 Rock
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Parks and Recreation
Derry Girls
We Are Lady Parts
The Good Place
Ever After High (yes i'm an adult. sue me)
Schitts Creek
Broad City
@radicalgalaxxy @paleo-violet @virtualcremefem @kindradical @but-how-do-you-drive
also whenever i tag people tumblr insists half of my mutuals aren't real blogs, so if you're never tagged by me and we're mutuals, it's probably because my tumblr doesn't think you exist 😭
omg that last one was so hard lol you have great taste!
favourites
new girl
supernatural
parks and rec
schitt’s creek
haunting of hill house
yellowjackets
xena
veronica mars
bob’s burgers
happy endings
i would have put game of thrones but the last season still hurts too much 🙃
tagging a few gyns and anyone else who wants to do it! @flowerlygirls @nansheonearth @blackswallowtailbutterfly @federal-bureau-of-nerds @hellanahmean @bookwyrmbutch @drachenstochter @swag-smartwomenabolishgender
What's your favourite of my favourites?
Outlander
Derry Girls
Fullmetal Alchemist (the first one)
Yellowstone and its prequel series
Orphan Black
The Handmaid's Tale
Stranger Things
Unbelievable
The Great
Archive 81
@ anyone who wants to!
americans love doxxing their home states more than anything. we hear the name of our home state and everything goes black and we wake up 10 minutes later, having reblogged no fewer than 8 posts featuring the name of our home state
h/t to emilyscartoons
the thing about being a homeschool abolition hardliner is that people always want to come to you with some bullshit sob story about how you hate disabled people because they were bullied for being autistic and homeschooling was so amazing for them. and it's just like well unfortunately homeschooling is also a widespread tool of coercive control in child abuse used by christofascists to raise kids without the tools they need to function in the world so that they will always be afraid, dependent, and unable to think critically and discern right from wrong and truth from lies. so unfortunately i do think this is a situation where in order to prevent enormous harm to untold numbers of children those bullied kids who just don't wanna go to school are going to have to suck it up. (and in reality what i always propose is a more robust system of alternative/magnet public schooling set up for kids who are basically on grade level but who DO struggle to thrive in a mainstream setting, but nobody ever wants to hear that, they just want to guilt you for not thinking anyone who ever gets picked on should just get to stay home and play vidya and do all their lessons on zoom. and it's like honestly i don't think you're having this argument in good faith bc you are very much centering hypothetical discomfort you MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY have experienced over, again, widespread child abuse and neglect. so.)
so i watched the netflix documentary about piper rockelle yesterday and i would like to once again humbly suggest that homeschooling be permanently abolished and perhaps even criminalized
You learn that the homeschool lobby is literally the reason the USA is one of a single digit number of countries that never ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and you just aren’t the same since
do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time