This is The Stuff i Like

This is basically me finding stuff i like

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[whitepeopletwitter]

Is it the freedom

[aralintheobsessive]

It's the venting. In the USA, dryers have massive exhaust vents to the outside of the room/building that take the hot wet away and leave hot dry behind. In many other countries, dryers do not generally have external exhaust vents, and simply fill the room they are in with the hot wet, which may or may not be enough to actually remove the hot wet from the clothing depending on how well ventilated the room itself is.

[whetstonefires]

for this reason 1) you generally can't leave the dryer open in winter without causing a draft and 2) sometimes when you're walking around outside in the US the world will suddenly smell of clean laundry because you're near someone's house and their dryer is running

[zaprowsdower27]

And 3) Eventually your drier stops drying things so well and you have to hire somebody to bring a ladder up to the vent (either high up an exterior wall or on the literal roof) and clear out the accumulated lint and cruft blocking it

[ayellowbirds]

You ought to do this regularly even if the dryer efficiency remains the same, because dryer lint is fantastically competent at burning your damn house down if you let it catch fire.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm in Australia (no exhaust vents), and I've found that if your dryer starts making hot wet laundry, you first clean out the lint trap that you already know about and clean every time, and then you go looking for the second secret lint trap that nobody told you about and clean out the year's worth of lint in there that you were blissfully unaware of. The dryer will now mostly dry your laundry again, and give you either hot dry laundry or hot just-very-slightly-damp laundry.

[bladesofaura13]

This reminds me of the story about the couple who kept cleaning two different dryer vents and were confused why their so never cleaned the lint

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That post was what first prompted me to go looking for a possible second lint trap

[em-dash-enthusiast]

I'm genuinely appalled that dryers outside the US are not vented to the outside world. That much moisture just...builds up in your house/apartment every time you use your dryer?? Does that not lend itself to mold growth over time?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Mine recondenses the water into a little tub that I empty into a sink after use. I could also get a plumber in to vent the water directly into the greywater but I prefer being able to have the dryer in a part of the room with no direct water system access.

[em-dash-enthusiast]

That makes much more sense tbh. I was envisioning a steam room and the associated drywall moisture damage every time you do laundry, like "at that point I would just opt for a clothesline" lol.

(Which we do still use in the US, despite the popular conception that we all have dryers. Not as common as it once was, but I've lived several places where we used a clothesline bc we had a washer but no dryer.)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In Australia most people use clotheslines all the time, and even those of us who have dryers tend to only use them when the weather is too wet to make line drying practical. Electricity is expensive and sunlight is free. Can't speak for people living in city apartments and suchlike though.

[bucketofdeltav]

I grew up in Aotearoa and formerly lived in the US and now live in the UK and yes every dryer I have ever seen is absolutely vented to the outdoors???

What are the Australians doing?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Line drying, mostly.

[if-only-we-could-read-it]

I’m in the uk and every dryer ive seen has either had a removable condenser or has been piped into the wall/grey water like derin said. Most people over here use a clothes line or horse.

[chibisquirt]

I'm sorry, a clothes line or a WHAT?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

A clothes horse

They come in many shapes, most of them designed to fold away easily when you're not drying or airing anything.

[digitalmagpie]

In the USA, we call those (clothes/laundry) drying racks. There's a bit of variation depending on the brand advertising, but I've never seen them called a clothes horse.

I've only ever heard/seen "clotheshorse" used to refer to a particularly fashionable/fashion-oriented person, typically one with an extensive wardrobe.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They call people that because they are likening the people to the drying racks, acting like their purpose is to hang and display an absurd number of clothes on their bodies.

[wingedcatgirl]

Why is that first drying rack labeled "costs from 3p an hour to run"?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My guess is that it might be from an ad comparing a clotheshorse setup to a dryer or something, and the 3p refers to the running cost of a space heater. You need a room to be a reasonable temperature to air dry clothes, so if you live somewhere particularly cold then you need to heat the room.

[autie-j]

Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely

[larken-the-skies]

It’s like they expect us to just forget their original marketing schemes in favor of more and more money grabs.

[lagtrainzzz]

image description: A tweet by Netflix: Love is sharing a password.

[the-haiku-bot]

image description:

A tweet by Netflix: Love is

sharing a password.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[jordanbolton]

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

[politijohn]

Source

[crazedporcupine]

A reminder that a universal basic income actually drastically improves the lives of everyone involved

[fedexrojas9173]

''Doesn't know what it's like to receive love''

[virtualgirladvance]

Sweetie are you okay? You rebloged doesn't know what it's like to receive love 14 times today

[0dd3ss3y]

May Parker said that with great power comes great responsibility.

May Parker also said that your greatest responsibility is remembering that you’re not alone, that the people who love you love you because you are you. That you need to remember to let people in, let people help you, even when it’s the hardest possible thing in the world.

Because with great power comes great responsibility.

[lixomania]

[meawsupport]

this is so late renaissance early mannerism. the controversial male nudity? the lighting and value on the figure of emphasis?? him bathed in light and placed ABOVE while the police are clad in dark and BELOW?? Uh HES HITTING THE CONTRAPPOSTO??

[emmarose17]

On one hand: this imagery touches on themes of freedom vs oppression and how in shedding the various layers of shame placed upon us by the regime we can transcend to a higher place above the forces that seek to hold us to unjust societal standards.

On the other hand: cheeks out at the Krispy Kreme.

[kontrapoetik]

see when people try and nitpick me because i call my dog "my dog" when it's technically "the family dog".......well first of all i still call my brother "my brother" and not "the family boy". although maybe that should change. second of all sorry i'm still thinking about the family boy. btw i fell asleep while making this post last night and i think you can tell

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Very tenuous link to one of my favourite tweets

[wordwood-worms]

what absolutely makes the end of brand new day for me, with ned remembering and recognizing peter, is that … it’s so in character. like jean says it earlier, mj would be sick at the idea of a perfect fairytale kiss waking the princess up ooh so cute BLEGH!! she would hate that. ned, on the other hand? ned would LOVE the idea that they broke the spell and got his memories back by doing their super special best friend handshake, ned would love the whole fairytale magical remembering thing, he would just be all over that.

[some-fiction]

Reactions to Frank in Brand New Day

A lot of my friends watched the new Spiderman film and while most of them had fun, their reactions to the Punisher in it were curiously very different.

One thought he was fun. An idiotic side character that almost stole the show.

Others were disappointed to see him watered down and ridiculed.

Some felt it was iffy how him being a murderer was brushed over for jokes.

One was relieved that he wasn't validated in his methods, because Peter's world isn't that bleak.

I kind of see where all of them are coming from and it's interesting that you can come out of this with very different thoughts, depending on what you did and what you didn't know about the character.

[starlightshadowsworld]

“MJ found a new boyfriend but Ned never found another best friend” …I hate this fucking fandom man. Ned was making his lil vlogs cause he felt somehow someway he needed to share his memories and life with someone out there 😭

He put in all this time and effort into finding Spiderman when really deep down he was just trying to find Peter. He didn’t know they were one and the same he just wanted his best friend back and did so in the only way he knew how.

[iamaine]

my most Millennial trait is that i want big screen to think properly. to compose my thoughts. app exists for your thing but no website? bad bad bad not good for think, need big screen for think. i wrote this post on the small screen btw

[robotslenderman]

I read somewhere that one thing that really pisses off companies about Millennials is that we won't make big purchases on our phones, we always feel compelled to get out a laptop or hop on a desktop for it

[jazzysprinklez]

that scene where frank and Peter were just laughing together in the hospital room😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭that scene where Ned and Peter were talking together and finishing each other sentences and MJ drew them and drew Peter as Peter instead of spiderman😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭that scene where Ned and Peter did their handshake😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 oh my gosh my heart😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[eightfifteen]

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

[plutojester]

[doingthewritethings]

my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time

[dizzyghoast]

i think the joker should start talking like this for real. no other character should do this only the joker. i want batman to have to deal with this

[treasure-mimic]

Here's my most immediate takeaway from Brand New Day:

I really like the line "I'm sorry about your sister." "I'm sorry about your aunt."

It is, on its face, a very shallow platitude. Something you say to someone who's going through it. MJ comments earlier on that Peter has a tendency to say sorry when he's feeling guilty and not follow through on fixing the situation. Certainly, following the very emotionally descriptive talk from May, the parallel lines were intended as an intentional undercut in the dialogue's style.

I think it is the way for two characters who have come to the end of their interconnected journey and now understand one another as well as they possibly could to communicate without needing to communicate. Both are dealing with a grief that they've found impossible to shape into words, both understands the other is going through the same, so they lean on these conventional societal signifiers. Sorry about your sister. Sorry about your aunt. And they get it.

Not even to say the signifier is being used her to express the idea. It's being used to express understanding that the idea is inexpressible.