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My dad fell asleep watching some youtube video in the living room but his youtube is set to auto play and i just heard ‘Big foot mating call’ before the loudest guttural noise imaginable reverberated this whole house. And hes still asleep

nedsseveredhead

Step mom came out from her room and was like ‘Hey Jim? Why?’

nedsseveredhead

if this somehow makes it to a facebook meme page and my dad sees it i will literally never forgive any of you

eiichiyoshioka

金沢 Kanazawa

Instagram: @tsukinoto Twitter: @EiichiYoshioka

byjove

*Trying to make small talk at a bar.* Barnacles are more closely related to butterflies and crabs than they are clams and snails. Kinda fucked up, right? Yeah, they have antennae and everything. I always thought they were mollusks as a kid but they’re not. They’re weird little freaks. They’re arthropods and crustaceans at that. If you ever see barnacles growing on a lobster or a crab, it’s like their lame cousin is hitching a ride with them. I’m scared of barnacles in the cosmic horror way Sherlock Holmes pretended to be worried about bivalves in The Dying Detective. Are you more of a mollusk guy or a crustacean guy? I love them both, can’t pick a side. Do you like Sherlock Holmes?

#Ok I’m diagnosed with adhd so take this with a pinch of salt #but to me this would be the start of the best date I’d ever had

valtsv

"you need me boy, your free will is an illusion" is a line that objectively goes hard as hell out of context. it sounds like the kind of thing that you'd see as the title of some fanfic about those dudes from the hannibal tv show of maybe even the super naturals one having gay sex. if you told me it was a lyric from hozier's new single i'd probably believe you. it's so much better than that though. it's from a tiktok where a guy pretends to be a ps5

hellyesbro

Dude it does not go hard it sounds like something doofenshmirtz would say

#tbf ops version of hard as hell is a Hannibal slash fic

fuckyeahchinesefashion

amazing lion dance (traditonal chinese folk art 舞狮wushi) in guangxi province

abrahamshipwreck

Me: the technical and athletic prowess required for this is a sign of human endurance and dedication to art to create a fluid and lifelike dance of a culture that has existed for thousands of years

Also me: LOL silly muppet does a lil dance

animalcrossingmemes

babyprime

tbh when I see other lgbts in public like a gay couple or like a trans person with pride flag and pronoun pins i try and give them a Look like telepathically communicate like yes hello peers like when two bus drivers pass

but I know if they ever notice me I probably look like this

batsandboba

obsessed w the wording of this headline

batsandboba

insp

theanishimori

Source: [X]

TL;DR – Twitter thread by a library worker on a news article about a woman who pulled hundreds of books out of a library dumpster and donated them to an underserved school. THOSE BOOKS WERE THROWN OUT FOR A REASON. Like outdated science, racism, and misogyny. #ContextMatters

waterhobbit

People are extremely, unreasonably attached to Books As Objects. My store only recycles books that are damaged somehow, and we still get people trying to stop us and insisting that they’ll take them to The Library/Goodwill/some random school that most assuredly doesn’t want a box of moldy genre paperbacks or self help books from the early nineties that have their spines broken and have been written in extensively.

We have to explain at length that if we can’t sell something because of physical condition issues, no one else is going to want it, and with a good portion of these people you can tell that they think we’re lying. I don’t know what they think is in it for us to prevent perfectly good books from finding a home, but they’re convinced that there’s SOMETHING, because these are Books and therefore they must all be Good and worth saving.

I don’t actually have an answer for the burden people like this place on the organizations they think they’re helping, because in 17 years of working with books I haven’t managed to come up with a foolproof way of dissuading all of them from trying.

rotationalsymmetry

Little Free Libraries are lovely, but one of the main things they’ve done for me is help me understand that there are actually quite a lot of books that nobody wants.

There’s also…some food just needs to be thrown out. like, if a box of oranges is ¾ moldy and ¼ fine, probably it’s not worth it to anyone to sort through for the non-moldy ones. It’s worth saving some food that would be thrown out otherwise, a lot of actually good food gets thrown out, but not all food that gets thrown out can or should be salvaged.

queeranarchism

Truuuuueeee. And you know who is more likely to lack access to health care and more likely to have untreated medical conditions? People who can not afford to buy food and books.

Your moldy oranges are going to make them sick. So are your moldy books, by the way. Outdoor free libraries are the perfect place for mold. If you see this:

or this:

That book is gonna give someone who can’t afford health care pneumonia (or an eye infection if they touch this shit and then touch their eyes). Treat the mold if you know how to do it and then store it somewhere dry or THROW. IT. OUT.

#I work in a library #the rules for whether we can accept a donation are “as new condition” for fiction #and “as new and published in the last 2 years”#For non fiction #exceptions can be made for very rare or useful books but that’s unusual #People are always offended that we won’t take another beaten up copy of Enid blyton #but we have so many nice new books #including full sets of the classics #why would anyone pick up your trashed copy over the clean one?#it’s usually people who haven’t been to a library in years and haven’t bothered to look at what’s actually on the shelves #libraries are underfunded yes #but most of that gets manifested in the closing of vital services that they offer #we look after the books and they’re a relatively small part of the budget #compared to staffing and heating a building #not to mention the computers and it support #But books make great compost #and you can also use them to farm edible mushrooms #Giving poor people your cast offs and saying it’s better than nothing #is exceptionally myopic and self centred in a world where people are working hard #to make the good stuff available for everyone

lindleland

things i have learned since "live slug reaction" became tumblr's meme of the day

1. the slug is named Klaud

2. the slug appears in several scenes throughout the movie despite that i have no memory of ever seeing them before

3. the slug has the exact same amount of screentime as Rose

absolxguardian

You forgot the most important fact about Klaud

oceans-foundfamily

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i'm pleased to inform everyone that the slug is not homophobic because he has a boyfriend

apas-95

his reaction... was of pride

headspace-hotel

random bitter aspiring authors on "writing advice" blogs: Don't make your main characters super special mary sues. don't make them better than other people or more interesting. your main characters should be boring average guys with the personalities of wood pulp

the Epic of Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh was objectively the best man ever. He was the hottest, sexiest, most gorgeous hunk of pure manly awesomeness that ever lived and he used a sword that weighed 120 pounds.

headspace-hotel

The lesson here is that your main characters can be as special, overpowered, and unrealistically skilled at everything as you want, as long as this has the purpose of driving the plot via all the problems they cause (because they're an egotistical nightmare and a gigantic raging asshole).

headspace-hotel

The second lesson here is that no matter what randos on writing blogs say, people like stories where the characters are unique and iconic. Or at least they remember them.

(I have a theory that the stories that form long-lasting fandoms, and/or are recognized and referenced frequently in pop culture, are stories that have the same sort of "iconic" elements that are long-lasting in folklore and mythology. I think superheroes are particularly well suited to lasting centuries/millennia into the future because they're just so simple and memorable conceptually.)

tikkunolamorgtfo

Hi my name is Gilgamesh Hammurabi Ziusudra Euphrates Ishtar and I have the same heroic build as my lordly ancestors (that's how I got my name) with bulging muscles and chiselled features moulded by the goddess Aruru, and icy blue eyes like the limpid waters of the Great Flood, and a lot of people tell me I look King Enmebaragesi of Kish (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da Kur out of here!). I’m not related to Ishtar but I wish I was because she’s a major fucking hottie. I'm a demi-god but I'm not immortal. I possess extraordinary strength. I'm also a king and I rule a city called Urduk, where I force my subjects to erect lots of ziggurats (I'm known for my cruelty). I’m a Sumerian (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly animal skins. I love the forbidden Cedar Forest and I slay and skin all my beasts from there. For example today I was wearing a skin made from the Bull of Heaven with a matching sheep hide skirt, gold armlets, a carnelian headband, and black combat sandals. I was wearing black kohl eyeliner to ward off conjunctivitis. I was walking outside the twin peaks of Mount Mashu at the end of the earth. I came across a tunnel which no man before me had ever entered, which I was very happy about. Two guards that were giant scorpion monsters stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

luulapants

This is objectively genius writing but the size of the audience that can properly recognize its brilliance is so small

headspace-hotel

I'm just glad to be part of it

goethefaustworld

Man, I fucking hate this people. It's very apparent that you don't understand the fundamental difference between a text such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and my immortal, or anything they consume, really.

The Epic of Gilgamesh exists and was written down not because it's a good story, but because it's an important story. How else would the people know how the underworld is, or how the world was before the universal flood, or the path of the sun, or how this knowledge reached them in the first place?

Contrast that with, say, Die Hard; you aren't being educated watching it, it's not a history lesson, it's not a religiously important story, it's just a fun time.

headspace-hotel

Okay, so, I'd be more than happy to go into analyzing Gilgamesh on a deeper level than a fun shitpost that is for fun, but I can tell you right now that no, the Epic of Gilgamesh was not written down to inform people about the underworld or what things were like before the flood

We're talking about a hero that is part of a larger mythology and was surrounded by a robust, thriving oral tradition. People absolutely didn't need written records to "remember" basic things about their worldview.

Especially not about the underworld or the pre-flood world, because the epic barely describes those things. I don't think all versions even have the part with the path of the sun (this may be because our tablets are fragmented). The flood narrative is often commented upon even by scholars as awkwardly shoehorned into a storyline that isn't very relevant to it (i would argue that it is thematically relevant, because of the idea of the gods as supreme in their powers over human life, but that's neither here nor there). This is just not what the story is ABOUT.

Gilgamesh was, to some extent, a real historical figure, and the focus of the epic is on human mortality. Gilgamesh is immortal in human memory because his story was written down; it's a form of memorialization, just like steles commemorating great victories or the majestic walls of Uruk.