It's Random Rambling Time!

Stray thoughts about life, danmei, D&D, Stray Kids, and whatever else has caught my fancy. Lots of hyperbole for the sake of humor. If you want serious discussions with literal meanings and hard facts, please try a different blog.

[effortlessly-unhinged]

Some time ago, I made this post of a silly idea that came to me while reading a poorly written fanfiction where my flu-addled brain started imagining everyone as vegetables. The idea wouldn't leave me, I had to draw it.

Yes, their clothes are a mix of TU, the donghua and other media bc I did this from memory and for giggles so I went with the details I associated the most with each character. No, I don't know how two leafy vegetables produced a pepper.

[effortlessly-unhinged]

Don't mind me, I'm just screaming into the void before I combust in anxiety.

At eork, I've been assigned two new classes because the former teacher in charge of that subject quit before he could be fired (he...was not cut out for the job) which is fine EXCEPT...

at the end of the semester, students of that class are supposed to present a short film made by themselves, in an event for friends and family that has awards and all that jazz. Since my school is kinda small, it's usually a small, more symbolic affair.

Not to my predecessor, he had the habit of shooting way too high and then not delivering. I've just been told today that he contacted friends an acquaintances to come and be the judge panel. Professional filmmakers and videographers from NY, Delhi, and Ontario will be coming to our small low-budget event in our small Mexican town, so now the event needs to be elevated to their level. The main issues:

- Both classes will need to cooperate so we can make one big event, but the groups have petty beef woth each other

- The money for this will have to come from the students' pockets because the school admins are cheapskates that once wanted to charge students an electricity fee because they dared to have their own small coffee machine in the classroom (???) so there's no way they're shelling out money for this

- However, they're pretty much demanding we deliver a nice event to promote the school.

- these two groups are infamous for being lazy, conflictive, and looking for any excuse to skip class or leave early

- I have zero experience, contacts, notoriety or credentials that could help me. No friends in adequate places or anything

-I also have never organized any event

I feel like I'm drowning. If this goes wrong in any aspect, my professional reputation will suffer, I might get fired and struggle finding work in my field, I don't know what to do, I don't feel ready, I want to cry, quit, dig myself into a hole and dieeeee

On top of that, my partner just quit his job, so I can't afford to be fired rn.

uuuuugggghhhhhh

[angelbabygremlin]

RIP Han Jisung’s Ponytail gone but never forgotten

@pineapple-burgah @itsseohannbin

[aropride]

12 years old: i was so cringe when i was nine, i'm super mature now though

15 years old: i was so cringe when i was twelve, i'm super mature now though. i'm a totally different person. i'm basically an adult

18 years old: i was so. (trying to be nicer to myself) fifteen. when i was fifteen. i wasn't an adult even a little back then. i'm an adult now though of course

21 years old: i was so newborn fawn taking its first steps when i was 18. i wasn't an adult at 18 i'm barely even an adult now tbh

23 years old: i was so. hey wait the others have all gone up in increments of three why'd it change

23 years old: because i'm still 23 so i can't speak to that experience yet

23 years old: do you think anything will magically change in the next few months to the point where you can't possibly imagine how you'll feel at 24

23 years old: i mean you never know. anything can happen. they're letting people born in 2002 turn 24, for instance

the mold spores in my house speaking to me telepathically: yeah that's perfect now hit post

[effortlessly-unhinged]

Me at 29: Actually I'm just a baby, I know nothing and I wish someone would bring me cookies and a blankie and let me nap for 3 hours, or to be able to go back to 12 when no one expected me to solve their crap.

Me at 30: being able to embrace my own cringe and make my own choices is pretty cool, tho.

Me at 33: whoever let me make my own choices should be jailed, the best years of my life are gone and the wisdom of old age hasn't reached me yet, what a stupid age I am... oh, look! Domo-kun is back in style, hell yeah!

[reghalia]

Chastity memorial arches are an absolutely wild concept.

And again I know its historical but the deep seeded misogyny and it being enforced by other women in this is making me want to scream.

[xishimonz]

Misogyny, that it is.

But also I have to argue that it had it's own benefits for those women. In a society where there's nothing a woman can do for herself other than marriage, this was an option.

It probably got twisted by time and people as they forced others into chastity, but if a woman chose to be chaste all her life and could benefit her family in the process as well, why not? It could also, arguably, be used as an excuse to avoid marriage for some who do not wish to marry.

Culturally speaking, and probably because i'm no western, there's plenty of things that seem horrible but are actually originally intended as a form of support for specific people. Try comparing it to being a nun; terrible if forces, but a choice of freedom for others.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I've been meaning to look up more historical context, but I think it looks so horrible to outsiders because when it's included in dramas, it's usually being abused and used to suppress women, not as an options they would freely choose themselves.

I'm trying to think up a Western example, but I even just the concept of marriage I guess. The ideal is that the husband protects and provides for his wife while she does her duties, but of course that often got twisted badly. Stories tend to be about those bad marriages, rather than the ones that upheld the ideal.

[effortlessly-unhinged]

Even in modern times, considering things like the 4B movement and the amount of women who are choosing to stay single given *gestures vaguely at everything*, it gives a more relatable perspective on how and why women of the past would also seek a life of chastity as a genuinely desirable choice.

[alnitaks]

starry.eyed.stitcher

[effortlessly-unhinged]

While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, I first read it as "Your air fryer looks like shit" and was confused as to why so many people seemed to be against the adult easy bake oven :(

[herenvibing]

a minor headcanon that I will die defending is that reigen initially assumed that mob’s supposed “psychic powers” were just how he rationalized his autism to himself. like here’s an obviously autistic kid, one reigen clocks immediately because he’s, well, reigen, and he’s talking about extra sensory perception and having powers he can’t control, powers that are scary. obviously, he assumes, this is something the kid picked up from his parents, a way for him to rationalize his alienation from other children— that no, you’re not “different”, you’re special (not even going into the parents who think their autistic children are like, aliens) and the other kids can see that you’re special and so they treat you like you’re weird and creepy and they don’t invite you to play and they whisper behind your back but it’s fine, because one day they’ll see how special you really are. and adult autistic reigen arataka, who was also probably-definitely bullied as a child, decides to nip that thought in the bud and gives the whole spiel, that no, “psychic powers” (autism) don’t make you special, and yes, they do make you different, and that’s fine because everyone’s different, and at the end of the day you have agency and you get to decide the kind of person you’ll be, so choose to be a kind one, and he sees this kid hanging off his every word as he tells him the kind of stuff he wishes someone had told him when he was so little and alone, and he mentally pats himself on the back and hypes himself up for another cigarette.

and then the kid makes a teacup float in front of him and he’s like oh. damn. can you kill ghosts

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[a-s-fischer]

If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

[kindigo]

Actually he wrote all the complaints himself with various sock puppet accounts to drum up sympathy subscribers to his Claytreon

[earhartsease]

it's all a huge misunderstanding, it's nothing to do with actual copper it's about him having a policeman fetish and our theory will be finally vindicated once someone unearths the missing tablet where he wrote "so sue me, I do like a man in cuneiform"

[elodieunderglass]

He wasn’t picky about them either - I heard he was into low-quality coppers

[effortlessly-unhinged]

By Ishtar, you people are dogs. I will reblog as usual

[purpleplusher]

if i have to choose one fave shot from the untamed (which is really hard because the entire show is a masterpiece), it would be this one

one shot shot that perfectly sums up the entire theme of the show. there's nothing perfectly black and white in this world. the whole yin yang concept. so well done!!

then you add the character backgrounds to it. lan wangji standing in a sheltered place and wei wuxian being out in the open. such a delicious work of cinematography

[matsbathtub]

First time sharing my art on here so I figured it had to be wangxian :p

This took an unholy amount of time because I'm still trying to figure out the transition to digital art but they're worth it

[triangleguy]

my bad. turns off my perpetual motion dog catapulting machine

[effortlessly-unhinged]

I love the naivete of DNI's bc they're entirely hinging on the belief that people can't just lie on the internet. I could be chopping puppy tails with one hand while interacting with this DNI with the other and nobody could tell.

[sugar-petals]

why do they look like a meme template

[effortlessly-unhinged]

Me and my husband: "We listen and we don't judge."

Me and my husband the second you start talking:

[luckyloser555]

AU where lwj isn't in denial

Template, I love these things

[lanwangjihouse]

[effortlessly-unhinged]

A parallel I really enjoy is how Wei Wuxian is always seeking to touch Lan Wangji for comfort and Lan Wangji keeps seeking to touch Wei Wuxian to protect him. And then the cameras cut and Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo are all "annoy, annoy, annoy!" and tease each other and horse around but they're STILL seeking to touch each other all the time. Like, bro, I get it when they're in character, but the world won't end if you two are more than five feet apart for longer than two minutes...

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[thekalpar]

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

[effortlessly-unhinged]

I feel seen! The gentrification of working class culture really bothers me. My most unfavorite instances of it are food. What the US has done to burritos is fucking criminal and should invoke divine punishment.

Burritos were originally born as THE struggle food in northern Mexico, they are supposed to be whatever leftovers you have, slathered on a flour tortilla and rolled up. Only that. They are supposed to be easy and quick to make, transport, sell, and eat. A staple of the people who work long hours under the sun and need something to eat with minimal effort, a staple of the spouses who need to get up at 5 a.m. and pack lunch for the entire family quickly and cheaply. The fillings are supposed to be 1. Easy to get, and 2. sorta mushy so they'll stay in place (and so you can make more with less).

THEY DON'T CONTAIN FUCKING RICE, THE BEANS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE WHOLE, AND THAT ORANGE CHEESE IS BULLSHIT, NO MEXICAN EATS THAT STUPID "BLEND" BECAUSE NONE OF THOSE CHEESES ARE A THING IN MEXICO! Then they started adding even more unnecessary bullshit, to the point it requires a Subway-like assembly line and called it a "wrap" to market it to the bougie whiteys who make faces at any dish they can't pronounce.

And it got so bad some Mexicans are now claiming burritos aren't even Mexican, that they're just made up. No, they DO exist here, in the North, they're just very different from the intestinal nightmare you see on TV