welcome to my swamp🐊

✨️mars✨️(she/they)✨️ Just another person rotting on this hellsite

[wajjs]

I'm gonna be candid for a moment. It is hard being online right now with the ongoing xenophobic campaign against my country, Argentina.

I've lost decades long online friendships over this, because these people preferred to align themselves with a trend than to think critically for a moment. Many others are going through the same thing. Many are reporting that they are being kicked out of discord groups for being from Argentina after they tried to talk to mods about xenophobic comments and things done to them in said groups.

Online, celebrities like Samuel L. Jackson, Halsey, Zara Larsson, further push the anti-Argentina propaganda. There are multiple articles by USA media supporting the xenophobia and instigating it further.

In real life places, there are now multiple reports of Argentine women commenting they're being harassed while walking out and about wearing an Argentina t-shirt. A woman was physically assaulted when an Egypt fan kicked her. There are people calling ICE on Argentina fans. Around New York shops are not letting in people wearing the Argentina t-shirt.

The real life effect of racist, xenophobic propaganda is this. People are getting hurt. On TikTok, Twitter and Instagram online activists are basically asking for people to hurt Argentina fans and tourists with the constant hate and misinformation they keep posting.

I don't have much else to say. Tumblr isn't safe either. If I try to bring up this topic, the knee-jerk reaction of many is to not believe this is what's happening. It sucks.

[wajjs]

The angry racist anons in my inbox proved me right. Tumblr isn't safe. Many preach something that they only apply for fellow "first world" countries, and are way too eager to jump at the chance of looking down on Latin America.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[shetheyslain]

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

[isuggestrevolution]

good suggestion

[wildflowerdraught]

In retrospect, it's hilarious that Stratt made everybody on the vat speak English in deference to Grace being monolingual

Because with how quickly Grace was able to pick up Eridian, even with literally NOTHING about it being familiar the way a human language would be, they probably could have chosen Mandarin as the universal language on Stratt's Vat and he would have just. Learned it.

[purplepints]

Oldest human footprint discovered, made 153,000 years ago in South Africa.

Oldest human footprint in North America, made 21,000 years ago in New Mexico, USA.

Oldest human footprint on the Moon, made July 20, 1969 on the Sea of Tranquility, Earth's moon.

[lookmhees]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014) dir. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi

[lookmhees]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014) dir. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi

[im-mender]

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

[im-mender]

also very true

[konamiela]

Lil Grogu ✨

[auntie-nettle]

[noodleddragon]

[1980sspaceman]

[favouritefrog]

[moran-with-a-g]

[vbartilucci]

I'm sure tumblr didn't invent humor accretion, but by Harry we perfected it.

[somecutething]

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

(via Ant.Giovanni)

[luidilovins]

I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Human: play?

Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

[mouthbrood]

ok computer show me men in pain

[noah-wyles]

[depsidase]

[kitty-c4t]

[budugu]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

Just came across a comment online criticizing The Mandalorian and Grogu for having Din be knocked out 3 times.

This reminded me of the common criticism of "The Mines of Mandalore" in season 3, with people complaining about Din being in peril twice and needing to be rescued by Bo (and Grogu).

And... Look, I ADORE Din and I consider him an excellent warrior... But come on now, dude was knocked out by Jawas in the second episode of the show, and would have been killed by a mudhorn had Grogu not intervened in the same episode. Din may be tenacious and skilled, but he's NOT invincible, and I like that the show (and the movie) frequently reminds us of this fact.