The Entomophobic Janitor

I don't get paid enough for this crap || the late night ramblings of someone who listens to podcasts

[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[ninetimesone]

a moment that is always in my mind

[sitronsangbody]

Half the backlash to fat lib content essentially boils down to "I can't believe you're FORCING me to not be mean to you"

[sitronsangbody]

Thin people are absolutely relentless with this. "But I have to TELL them!" "I can't just not SAY something!" "We can't just PRETEND it's fine to be fat!"

They really seem to think the main reason people are fat is because we're simply drowning in approval and no one has been brave enough to inform us that it's better to not be fat, actually

[specialagentartemis]

I genuinely think it's related to what I observe about singleness, virginity, and ace/aro topics: people's entire worldviews are threatened by fat liberation. And having your worldview challenged is scary... especially because so many people have put so, so much personal effort into Not Being Fat, so much self-hate into gaining weight, so much self-denial of food they like and forcing themselves into activities they hate, to avoid being fat.

And fat liberation says "It's okay to be fat!" and fat people say "I'm happy being fat and I don't try to become skinny!"

And it scares people that that is an option. It scares people to think that they have sunk so much time, so much effort, so much misery into avoiding being fat. And this person in front of them is just... not even trying. Rejecting the game. Saying You Don't Have To Do That.

If they accept that they didn't have to do that... then they made themselves so unhappy, for so long, for no reason.

They want their effort, their unhappiness, to have been worth it. To have meant something.

So they have to believe that being fat is wrong, bad, gross, a moral failing, and the only reason anyone would be happy that way is if they just don't know better. Because the other option is to realize and admit that they suffered unnecessarily for years and it meant nothing at all.

[raspberrydrewthese]

tastes like [STATIC]

[frostygalaxies]

I’m sorry I can’t not hurt him—

Insta | Amino

[taz-ids]

[ID] A full color drawing of Taako, shown from the waist up with a horrified look on his face, his hands covering his mouth and tears in his eyes. Taako is an elf with tan skin and long blond hair, wearing a blue collared shirt and a dark blue wizard hat with star constellations on it. He has moon charm necklaces and earrings on, with a silver bracer on his wrist. The background is a dark purple and behind him it reads ‘And, as his body falls, further and further down, you realize you don’t know who that is, and as you fall to…’ it continues, the words fading out and getting more obscured as it goes on. [end ID]

[tpwrtrmnky]

hot statistics tip: if two traits, A and B, are uncorrelated, then you're going to be able to find a bunch of individuals who have A and B at the same time anyway purely by random chance. If you then ignore every case of "A but not B" and "B but not A", the magic of confirmation bias will make you think they are correlated anyway.

[tpwrtrmnky]

even hotter statistics tip: if there's a third variable C and you don't account for it in the analysis of A and B at all, there's a chance you get the wrong relationship between A and B entirely. We call this "oh fuck oh no oh shit they don't teach multivariate statistics to a lot of people who really need to know about it oh fuck"

[tpwrtrmnky]

absolutely scalding statistics tip: your choice of variables might not reflect the actual structure of the data you're looking at, and instead may very well be a source of bias that you'll need to deal with. we call this "help we're never going to get people who bounced off math in high school to even start thinking about coordinate transformations oh no this is hell"

[tpwrtrmnky]

nuclear statistics tip: raw stats with no investigation into the underlying mechanisms causing them will always result in problems with interpretation. there is no way around this. "correlation is not causation" tells half a story and the other half is that finding causation is a grueling task that you can't do with statistics alone. sometimes statistics are rendered completely useless because you Simply Know How Stuff Works. sometimes you need the statistics because the process is inherently somewhat stochastic. all knowledge is imperfect and yet those most mobilized by this idea are also the ones whose knowledge is the closest to wrong.

[mellowmaidenhairs]

i’ll blow myself up just to hold u again

[raspberrydrewthese]

precious febubarry memories

Original pic:

[theinkventurezone]

Griffin: Human man is having a— it sounds like a heated argument—

Travis: With the voidfish?

Griffin: —with Johann. With Johann actually.

Taako: Huh.

Griffin: The uh, this guy is saying,

Human Man (Lucas): We don’t know anything about this, we don’t know anything about this creature and we’re putting all of our faith into it?!

[daily-lup]

[image description: a high angle digital colored drawing of lup taaco from the adventure zone. she is a dark complexioned woman with shoulder length curly blonde hair. she is wearing a brown vest, brown trousers, brown boots and a red robe, held to her neck by a pin in the shape of a sun. above her head, she holds the light of creation, a small glowing white bead, between the index and the thumb of her left arm. from the light shoot out bolts of white lightning that go in all directions.]

[artlesscomedic]

look at all these birds

i mean cats

[minfonica]

seven!

[olliedollie1204]

[id: a stylized line up of the seven birds from TAZ Balance. each of them are bright red silhouettes against a black background.

from left to right is Davenport, a very short and skinny man with pointy ears standing at attention; Magnus, a large broad man with his arms appearing to be crossed; Taako, a spindly elf with long ears and nose wearing a wizard hat and leaning on the umbrastaff for support; Merle, a short fat dwarf with one hand seemingly on the back of his head; Lup, an elf similar to Taako with short hair and wearing what seems to be a long robe, with one hand on her hip and the other casting a small flame; Lucretia, a tll skinny woman whose appears to be wrapping her arms around herself; and Barry, a broad man whose fists are clenched by his sides. 

above each of them, in white, is a silhouette of their grand relic: the Oculus, the Temporal Chalice, the Philosopher’s Stone, the Gaia Sash, the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet, the Bulwark Staff, and the Animus Bell. end id]

[ruffboi-mags]

I love how I see this as “a post you might like!” and without even processing the relics I was like “oh look, it’s the IPRE crew!” based solely on the silhouettes. A+ shapes OP.

[parker-matsu]

moooore recent taz b doodles

[theadventurezoneoftruth]

this is one of my favorite TAZ moments of all time btw.

[drontes]

Last year, I spent so much time looking at other people's art and being genuinely amazed, not at just what they make, but at what they're willing to share. This year, I'm going to try to follow their lead by not just making more art, but by experimenting as well. So here's a study I did, combining the flat arts style of mid century animation and the birds of Arizona

[zai-doodles]

goddess of fate

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a drawing of Istus against a dark purple background. She’s a dark-skinned goddess with long, voluminous white hair tinged with pink. She’s wearing a gold headband, matching choker and rings, and has three white dots painted under each eye and down her chin, and a gold line painted in the center of her bottom lip. She’s knitting a large sheath of rainbow-colored fabric. Her eyes are closed and she looks serene. “You’re going to be amazing,” is written across the image.]

[anistarrose]

Johann: Whenever the Voidfish blocks information that it’s consumed, that's what—that's what causes those lights inside of it. It's like a little alarm, if you will, showing the people out there trying to think of the things that the Voidfish blocked. So that's all… that's, like, [Boyland's] 400 kids, and wives and husbands and stuff. That's, uh… God, that's rough. Taako: Yeah, but they don't know, right? I mean, they— it's not— it's only rough from sort of, like, a, um… ethical perspective. Magnus: Yeah. Taako: 'Cause practically speaking— Merle: They've already forgotten him. [...] Johann: Really if you think about it, his family has it easy, 'cause the rest of us have to go one knowing what a great dude we lost. [sobbing] Merle: Yeah, yeah. Taako: As I've always said in every situation, I'm the one hurt most by this.

all of this conversation is directly front of lucretia