The Mom Friend

Genderfluid (I generally use they/them), Asexual, Canadian, I want to write scripts for Tv and movies! Main blog is GillyTweed

[gillytweed]

Mx Tweeds Anime Review: Three Ep Watch Edition - I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too

Quick no spoiler review of the first three eps of the “I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too” anime: This one is 100% a hit or miss for people, in my opinion. You’ll either like it or dislike it right off the bat. I personally like it, mostly because it hones in on a very specific experience and explores a fantasy that a lot of lonely kids can relate to - aka having something miraculous happen and suddenly their life improves by leaps and bounds. Of course, what will make people dislike it is the depiction of the specific life experience, particularly how harsh and brutal it is, but if thought about can be seen as true to life in some cases. Also the main character is an anxiety mood.

[promethiae]

If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

this is a pathologic ass song 

[rosslynpaladin]

The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Just saying.

[fuckyeahnaturalphilosophy]

Sea shanties are a gateway drug to work/labour songs of all kinds, labour songs always end up including union songs, and that’s how you end up extremely hardcore for organised labour.

And if people want more information, this particular song is called “The Chemical Worker’s Song (Process Man)”, written by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea.

Sea shanties and labour songs are an active tradition! Are you pissed? Sing about it.

[trisshawkeye]

The Chemical Worker’s Song is iconic (and in fact a longtime staple of UK LARP filk!) but while Great Big Sea did a cover of it, it was in fact written by Ron Angel in the UK, in 1964. Originally called the ICI Song, it referred to the grim working conditions in an Imperial Chemical Industries factory in north-east England. 

[beowulf22121]

The lighting in this video takes it from great to awesome.

[sally-mun]

I have officially concluded that this woman is a siren. My evidence:

1) Outstanding vocal ability no mere mortal could hope to achieve 2) Haunting lyrics that speak to deep and depressing truths of the world 3) No way to prove she has legs 4) I feel so enchanted listening to her sing that I’d probably let her drown me

[spiritsonic]

Here’s a full version of The Chemical Worker’s Song, for anyone who’s curious

[gwywnnydd]

This whole song hits like a sledgehammer, but the stanza that sticks out to me lately is this one: 

There’s overtime and bonus opportunities galore The young men like their money and they all come back for more But soon you’re knockin’ on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay with flesh and blood

[gillytweed]

Mx Tweed’s Anime Review: By the Grace of the Gods

Due to an influx of health issues, I now have A Lot of time on my hands, (Like a fucking lot, dear lord) and thus, naturally, I’m binge watching anime. So, of course the natural progression of that is to review anime right? (Or it’s just me and my film degree having ass) 

I’ve been on an Isekai anime kick, cause who wouldn’t want to be yeeted into another world when our world is so sucky at that moment? The first one I’ve managed to finish (mostly because the first season has finished airing) is a cute anime called By the Grace of the Gods. 

By the Grace of the Gods advertises itself as a cute, light, low stakes slice of life Isekai anime and it lives up to that through all 12 episodes of the first season. If you’re looking for an anime that’s light, cute and doesn’t require a lot of brain power while still giving you that nice shot of serotonin we all desperately need, then I’d say give this anime a try.

Overall, I give it 5/5 Gilly’s. 

For a more in depth review with light spoilers, look below the cut.

Keep reading

[hypocriticalmotherhen]

“I keep laughing at this reaction pic and I can’t stop lmao send halp”

LMAO Hi Odd, how’s it going?

[trishmishtree]

congrats you small medical bean! Youll be saving lives and creating killer viruses in no time!

AHAHAHA THANK YOU! I’M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW OMG

[trishmishtree]

I just went digging through my tags and finally found the ask that started the "smol medical bean" thing

(I got into medical school on April 1st, 2016. And I finally graduated yesterday)

Also @hypocriticalmotherhen given the current state of the world, this ask didn't exactly age well 🤣🤣🤣

[hypocriticalmotherhen]

Idk I think it aged great :p

[botanyshitposts]

yesterday in economic botany we were learning about plant based oil compounds and stuff and my botany professor was talking about lynn seed oil, which in woodworking is rubbed on over furniture as a varnish. this oil has an exothermic chemical reaction with oxygen, meaning that the reaction creates heat. what often happens, apparently, is that woodworkers will finish rubbing on the oil with a rag and then will ball up the rag and throw it away, but because the reaction is taking place and the heat can’t escape (like it would on a piece of furniture where it can be cooled) it gets trapped in the rag, which gets hotter and hotter until it reaches the temperature where it bursts into flame. apparently many woodworking shops have been burned down by this. the proper way to dispose of rags with this oil is to hang them up on a clothesline, so again the reaction never gets enough heat to start a fire. im telling you this because im a writer and ive never heard of substance that will just…spontaneously combust conveniently like that so long as it’s in a confined space. my botany professor tried it in a trash can in his driveway and it did indeed burst into flame after 45 minutes, which is an exceptionally convenient time delay. im sorry im tying this so fast my laptop is on 2% battery and theres no outlet an

[bannock-and-biopolitics-deactiv]

A lot of adulthood is shouting “AUGH MY LAUNDRY” hours after you put it in the washer/dryer and running to go fetch it

[curlicuecal]

oh shit my laundry

[mishafletcher]

reblog to save someone’s laundry

[bae-in-maine]

Well if that ain’t the truth

[versrights-deactivated20180511]

would it be illegal if we started abbreviating classical literature as clit?

[waywardwondersmith]

@hypocriticalmotherhen

KASDJFLJKALSJHDFLKAJHSDLFKJHASLKDJFHASKJDFKJH THAT’S THE THING to this day I still don’t actually know for sure who was leaving the notes, I kinda forgot about the whole thing haha (though the person who took pity and told me it was all a prank was actually, believe it or not, Nicki)

[hypocriticalmotherhen]

I’m not surprised she was in on it. I’m surprised she had morals at that point tho all considering

[waywardwondersmith]

I mean… she was 12, the evil was still incubating

[hypocriticalmotherhen]

THE EVIL WAS STILL INCUBATING XD

[waywardwondersmith]

@hypocriticalmotherhen

KASDJFLJKALSJHDFLKAJHSDLFKJHASLKDJFHASKJDFKJH THAT’S THE THING to this day I still don’t actually know for sure who was leaving the notes, I kinda forgot about the whole thing haha (though the person who took pity and told me it was all a prank was actually, believe it or not, Nicki)

[hypocriticalmotherhen]

I’m not surprised she was in on it. I’m surprised she had morals at that point tho all considering

[cha-c-san]

Ok fine, here’s one thing to keep in mind when drawing armor. It should protect the character, not hurt them.

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[carmenifold]

[shadowdarkleonidascrusade]

I didn’t think this post could get any better

[babyanimalgifs]

[medievalthymes]

yeah hey @ Persephone can you pls stop messing with your boy toy and come back I need spring

[medievalthymes]

i love the tags on this because there’s only two responses:

1. “leave her alone, she waited all year to get dicked down”

2. “draG HER SIS. WE NEED TO ESCAPE THIS SNOWY HELL”

[theotherrulerofallpotatos]

Okay but it’s not Persephone doing this. Let’s all start putting the blame where it belongs. Demeter, your daughter is a grown woman. Get your shit together.

[creature-enjoyer29]

full offence but if your son lays awake at night wishing he was dead because you insist that he’s your daughter you have failed as a parent

[alvierdri]

Same goes if your daughter lays awake at night wishing she was dead because you insist she’s your son.

[julyalightt]

same as if your child lays awake at night wishing they were dead because you insist they’re your son or daughter.

[forty7hillsinmyhollywoodaccount]

I forgot about nonbinary people for a sec and thought the last one was about kidnapping

[awesome-picz]

[tenoko1]

Is this thumb sucking for cats?

[femcassidy]

hey fellas last night i took a medication which is more or less the anxiety equivalent of a horse tranquilizer & essentially enterred the fifth dimension of sleepwalking in which i awoke but enterred a dissociative fit so strong i was really confused why my loving girlfriend was not my good friend and fellow viking bjorn, who i had to bring some furs to. also i might’ve cried about this. don’t remember

[femcassidy]

was informed i left out the best part of this 3am experience which was the bit where i, in tears, gestured to our dog and shouted, “i don’t know what this is!”

[suckindeathsdick-deactivated201]

bruh you astral planed so hard you fell back into a past life