But Satisfaction Brought It Back

28, She/Her, Gay, There really is no rhyme or reason here :) 

[thesnicketfile]

Lemony Snicket's Advice on Writing a Nice Thank-You Note

1. Do not start with the thank you.

2. Start with any other sentence. If you first say, “Thank you for the nice sweater,” you can’t imagine what to write next. Say, “It was so wonderful to come home from school to find this nice sweater. Thank you for thinking of me on Arbor Day.”

3. Then you’re done.

I recommend learning how to write a very good thank-you note. A child who can write a nice thank-you note can turn into a cocaine dealer five years later and be remembered as the child who wrote nice thank-you notes.

[moriarty-sisters]

Torchwood aired in 2006 and yet no sign of a Wii. You mean to tell me Tosh and Ianto didn't play bowling? That Jack and Owen didn't play boxing? That they didn't do a round of baseball between missions?

They would have been all over Wii Sports

[rainbow-reilly]

I'm generally of the opinion that trying to resurrect prematurely cancelled shows is like necromancy—odds are they'll come back wrong.

Except for Galavant. Any Galavant revivial will be funnier the longer it stayed cancelled.

[boozegeoisie]

Tags pass peer review, etc, because they SO perfectly capture the spirit of the show.

[catchymemes]

[funnyshark]

[emil]

[lawfulswampy]

[company]

[leatherlesbianstuff-deactivated]

reminder to all lesbians that just because she is a lesbian and attracted to you does not mean she is the one. there are other lesbians out there. I promise. at least 5 of them

[leatherlesbianstuff-deactivated]

should I text her

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Every new thing she says convinces me she's a tumblr user

[the-frog-blog-deactivated202510]

Your 20s are for lusting after furniture you can’t afford actually

[idiot-riker]

thinking abt that episode of TOS where Sulu finds a gun on the ground and is like “sweet” and just takes it

[botticegli]

[trunksette]

what’s better is that this planet was supposed to manifest your greatest fantasy and while everyone else was imagining sex and power Sulu is just like 

[septicstank]

even better: this planet is actually supposed to manifest whatever you’re thinking about at that particular moment, meaning that sulu was just strolling around on vacation thinking about Gun

[plain-flavoured-english]

this is 150% consistent with That Episode where the ship flies through an insanity cloud that makes the crew have tearful meltdowns meanwhile Sulu is just runing shirtless through the hallways with a fencing foil

this man’s personality is 30% chilling with plants, 70% historical weapons and manic glee

[cooperblr]

@surfingpichu

[cosmeretrek]

Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

[sirfrogsworth]

Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.

[thefrogman]

Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.

But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.

This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.

Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.

[kylostantrums]

they did this in lord of the rings too!

[galaxywarp]

via @suppermariobroth :

“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”

[calebwittebane]

no idea where i was going with this but i abandoned it at the most disconcerting moment possible

[maryellencarter]

look actually calling things that aren't the brand name by the brand name is something corporations really hate. because if it becomes common enough they stop having the trademark to the brand name.

did you know trampoline used to be a brand name? true facts. the inventor wanted all the imitators to call theirs, like, "elastic platforms" or some shit (i don't remember the specific shit) so he could keep advertising The One and Only Genuine Trampoline (tm). and then we didn't. and now nobody remembers him or his trademark.

[paulgadzikowski]

aspirin used to be a trademark of Bayer

[bastionofbibliophiles]

Per Wikipedia: "Trademark erosion, or genericization, is a special case of antonomasia related to trademarks. It happens when a trademark becomes so common that it starts being used as a common name and the original company has failed to prevent such use. Once it has become an appellative, the word cannot be registered any more; this is why companies try hard not to let their trademark become too common, a phenomenon that could otherwise be considered a successful move since it would mean that the company gained an exceptional recognition."

Examples of genericized trademarks include:

Air fryer

Aspirin

Dry ice

Escalator

Flip phone

Heroin

Kerosene

Teleprompter

Examples of trademarks that are at risk of genericization (so you definitely shouldn't use these terms; you don't want to take them away from the poor corporations, do you?):

Adrenaline (owned by Pfizer)

Allen wrench (owned by Apex Tool Group)

Band-Aid (owned by Johnson & Johnson)

Bubble Wrap (owned by Sealed Air)

ChapStick (owned by Suave Brands Company)

Frisbee (owned by Wham-O)

Google (owned by Google)

Hula hoop (owned by Wham-O)

Jacuzzi (owned by Jacuzzi)

Jell-O (owned by Kraft Heinz)

Jet Ski (owned by Kawasaki)

Kleenex (owned by Kimberly-Clark)

Lava lamp (owned by Mathmos)

Ping Pong (owned by Parker Brothers)

Play-Doh [and "Play Dough" in the UK] (owned by Hasbro)

Plexiglas (owned by Altuglas International)

Popsicle (owned by Good Humor-Breyers)

Post-it note (owned by 3M)

Putt-Putt golf (owned by Putt-Putt Fun Center)

Q-tips (owned by Unilever)

Realtor (owned by National Association of Realtors)

Rollerblade (owned by Nordica)

Scotch tape (owned by 3M)

Sharpie (owned by Sanford L.P)

Styrofoam (owned by Dow Chemical Company)

Super Glue/Superglue (owned by Super Glue Corporation)

Tupperware (owned by Earl Tupper)

Velcro (owned by Velcro Companies)

[raychleadele]

Many of this list I was aware are trademarked names but some are wild. Allen wrench? Really? Fucking POPSICLE?? REALTOR????

[bunjywunjy]

can we. go back to the heroin thing

[cundtcake]

[chibisquirt]

58 seconds to demonstrate EXACTLY why professionalism requires manners.

[digitaldiscipline]

For those of you who do not speak Corporate, this is just:

“Fuck you.” “Fuck you, too.”

[azcrowleyfell]

Nah, there’s definitely some “are you fucking shitting me?” and “have you tried, perchance, using your eyeballs?” in there too.

[quasi-normalcy]

This is a wizard duel to me.

[spacelazarwolf]

reminder that visibly religious people belong at pride. that person wearing a hijab is not a threat to you. that person wearing tzitzit and a kippah is not a threat to you. someone simply wearing an item that is culturally or religiously important to them is not a threat to you. however, your aggression upon seeing a religious person at pride is a threat to them.

[filthyprotozoan]

we’re a social species. use your goddamn turn signal.