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Reminder: June 16th is Captain Picard Day.

[ID: screenshots from Star Trek TNG. Picard is talking to an admiral. They say, “"Captain Picard Day”?“ Behind Picard there is a banner up that says ‘Captain Picard Day’. He says, “Yes, it’s uh… It’s for the children. I’m a… I’m a role model.” He grins and half shrugs. The admiral says, “I’m sure you are.” The call disconnects. Picard looks at the screen with a grimace. / end ID]

datasoong47

Happy Picard Day!

muppethole-deactivated20240312

"capitalism breeds innovation" was only ever true in the mid-2000s when cell phones kept getting more and more fucked up

muppethole-deactivated20240312

^ healthy and diverse breeding practices

^ wild inbreeding in pursuit of uniformity and an arbitrary ideal of breed "purity" resulting in gross health complications

apricops

Stranger Things season 1: beneath the superficial image of “peace and prosperity” in 1980s small-town America, there was the painful legacy of countless atrocities committed by the American government in the name of ‘freedom.’

Stranger Things season 4: evil Russians (not Soviets) have sent our All-American Hero to the gulags which apparently still exist in the 1980s and it’s up to us to save him 🇺🇸🦅🫡

apricops

There’s probably a term that already exists for this but if there isn’t I’m gonna call it ‘Rambofication’ in honor of its probably most well known instance: Rambo First Blood was about a soldier, John Rambo (that’s his actual name I’m not doing a bit), returning home from the Vietnam war, so traumatized by war that he brought the war home with him to a small town, unable to adapt to life without strict military discipline and hierarchy. Subsequent Rambo movies were about how John Rambo was the only supersoldier tough enough and patriotic enough to kill faceless hordes of dastardly foreign commies.

Ergo, ‘Rambofication’ is the process of a series starting with a relatively nuanced or subversive narrative before its sequels become a shallow embrace of the very narrative it originally subverted. It happens surprisingly often!

iteration-dave

In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.

dragon-in-a-fez

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

scramratz

My least favorite new politically correct term is "unhoused." Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.

I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.

The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.

"Unhoused" is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn't properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.

You say "house", I think of a structure.

You say "home", I think of stability.

lalandofarson

sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

lunarriviera

to quote someone who was a genius on bluesky:

castielssuperhell

happy ides of march to julius caesar and jared padlecki only

faehalfwit

*dancing queen by ABBA plays in the distance while I bleed out on the bathroom floor from 17 stab wounds*

meloneons-deactivated20210423

i’m fucking REELING from this tag @poetromantics

beardedhollogrampizza

faehalfwit

ALMOST TIME FOR THIS POST

toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account

"do it scared" this "do it tired" that. well no one ever talks about the fucking insurmountable "do it with greasy hair"

stonelionhearts

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

ath3alin

so fucking humbling to be like “no I like that character a normal amount” and then you can literally feel your heart rate spike at a mention of them like a dog that just heard the word “treat”

kittensnax

nothing in tf2 can ever compare to overwatch sprays

nice-homestuck-reference-bro

how come the furry in the spray looks like OP’s icon

nice-homestuck-reference-bro

joey-wheeler-official

Staff approved version

kittensnax

nothing in overwatch can ever compare to TF2 sprays

ok-dingo

hey how come that furry in the diaper looks a lot like OP’s icon

ok-dingo

ttulipwritezz

Daryl doesn't think he's hot.

He never really found a reason to.

Between all the girls his brother brought home and his fathers constant barrage of insults. He finds it hard to believe that someone like him, a redneck with a loose accent, little-to-no dressing sense, living on the outskirts of the city would be considered someone...hot.

He didn't have a mother to call him handsome. No random aunt saying he was gonna 'break hearts one day'.

No girls fawning over him at the public school that he used to skip most days.

So when you sit on his lap, hands connected at the base of his neck, tickling him the littlest bit, and whisper in his ear "my pretty boy..."

He decides then and there that he is indeed not "hot".

He's pretty. Your pretty, pretty boy.

A/n: proud member of the daryl gets no bitches club. He's such a cutie i love him

Tysm for reading, as always, reblogs are the heart of tumblr, if you liked this drabble, a reblog would mean the world to me.

-tulip🌷

scarlet703

THIS IS SO SIGMA 😭🖤🖤🖤

elodieunderglass

Exciting and topical BirdNews(TM) for you: a European robin has somehow ended up in Montreal. Nobody knows how. This is apparently the first time we've had one visit Canada, hopefully it will be okay in our winter!

Canada's first European Robin has caused a stir after its discovery in Montreal. The bird was found close to the banks of the St Lawrence Ri

I love that people came running to Stare

loubatas

This is quite funny because right now in France we have a Belted Kingfisher, the very first time we've had this iconic North American species visit the country. No one really know how it got here either (got lost during migration? hitched a ride on a boat?). People are coming from all of western Europe to watch it

Maybe they just switched places with the robin

elodieunderglass

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