Chicago's Finest

40s Black male. Last of a dying breed. Summer born♋️ Cusp walker

[yorgen-sh]

[blignick]

[kzlatkova]

Anyone who's ever done anything creative needs to fucking see this.

[artcollectorninja]

[returnofdajazzz]

This bass line🤎

[spindalike]

[DUMPLINGS: STIMBOARD]

CREDIT:

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[drownedinlight]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: that hotline is forvo.com. It’s a pronunciation dictionary that allows you type in a word and see how it’s pronounced. They have multiple languages as well. Don’t see a word on there that you know how to pronounce? You can totally add it. Visit forvo. Help yourself.

[defectivegembrain]

that is much better than a hotline because you don’t have to actually talk to someone

[cosmonautroger]

Chaka Khan, 1976

[komakesthings]

Very excited to finally share some pictures of my Dread Pirate Frogerts build! I've been thinking about making this outfit for my Kermit for a while now, but the proper motivation to actually get this done was hearing that Cary Elwes was announced as a guest for my local comic convention! So with any luck Dread Pirate Frogerts will be getting to meet the real Westley very soon.

A shocking amount of work went into making this little outfit... I completely underestimated the amount of time I would need to put all this together. Though a good chunk of that was me getting way too wrapped up in perfectionism... ask me how many times I re-did the smocking on the sleeves (On second thought, don't, it's embarrassing). Here I thought I had been con-crunching with Piggy last year... technically, I only just finished Kermit today, and the convention starts Thursday. Lots of internal (and external) screaming was had with this build. I did film the majority of it, with plans to turn it into a full video and reel in the future... maybe once I've had a chance to recoup from aforementioned con-crunch.

[iblongtoher]

I remember this presented 2 years ago as a drawing. To see your work make it come to fruition, is a dream come true! This is amazing work and I hope we get to see it as a full length movie soon!

[mrsoulstice]

Hit us with that 🔄 uno

[scruffylookingpiratecaptain]

I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.

‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.

‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.

‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.

So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT

[hooray4skeleton]

[bottleofblackink]

This isn't just happening in visual media, but in books and fanfic as well. I got this review last week on one of my fics:

I went and looked (because I have been writing this one for a long time and I don't always remember what I put when) and the crossover they were looking for "starts" in the next freakin' chapter.

It's almost like I knew what I was doing and wanted a build up.

Since TV shows especially have stopped with the 24 episodes a season and we have no down time in between huge story arcs PLUS the instant gratification that is happening with short form media, people don't know how to handle not getting the information exactly when they want it. It is so frustrating.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

The only thing I will say -- because I absolutely agree with everything said here -- is that with as cancel happy as networks can be with shows that intend to have slow build myth arcs, I can certainly understand a certain degree of impatience.

But you've got to be able to feel things out and go along for the ride. Even if I myself sometimes feel shows and other media stretch their mysteries out too long.

But we're definitely into a culture that demands instant gratification.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[sugaldean]

I know it feels like a lot but I really believe we can do it 20k notes per day isn’t that hard to do?

[the-big-mood]

Hey, did you know archive.org has a bunch of free 90s shows you can stream?

The problem is finding them, since no one's organized them all in one place with covers and episode info. I'm trying to fix that with my new website.

It's in BETA right now, and all the content was just added today, so I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.

Let me know what you think and what kind of shows/movies you want to see!

http://90sKid.com

[the-big-mood]

We now have a Watch Party with chat feature now live HERE

You can create a live tv channel with our existing library. The channel is time syned so whoever is watching with you will share the moment!

It also works with youtube links and archive.org links.

Registered members get 24/7 channels that run even when you're offline. Guests can make temporary Watch parties that expire after 12 hours.

Leave shows/movies/content you want to see in the comments and post tags!

[robotslenderman]

I’m sorry my lovelies but the reason you hate yourself is because you treat you like shit. If you came up to me and then told me I was a fuck up who could never do anything right I'd fucking hate you too.

[robotslenderman]

if you didn't let me go to bed until after midnight because you'd rather watch Netflix than let me rest, and then got mad at me for not being productive the next day I'd be PISSED

[robotslenderman]

You keep calling me a fatass but you tell other overweight people they’re beautiful? Why do you keep shitting on MY weight, then?

Oh? It’s different if it’s me? Wow fuck you too

[robotslenderman]

Love is a verb! Self love isn’t a warm fuzzy feeling, it is compassion and action in support of yourself!

And yes, this includes having compassion for the bully in your head. Unfortunately that part is also you and deserves as much of your understanding as the rest of you.

[robotslenderman]

via @corazondebeskar

This is the real reason why you need to be kind to the bully in your brain too, because that motherfucker is really good at doing a switcheroo when you're not paying attention.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Self-Compassion!! Self-compassion is the term you need to find stuff to help you be kinder to yourself!

In short: Turn your compassion inwards. If your best friend comes to you and says, "Holy shit, I fucked up at work, and I think I'm gonna get fired," you don't go, "Well, that's because you're a stupid bitch who is barely employable as is. They were bound to catch on you're a fucking dumbass at some point."

What you say to your best friend is, "Hey, I'm sure it wasn't that big of a deal. Tell me what happened, and I'll tell you what I think might actually happen."

So, your friend says, "I sent an email to the boss's boss and called her by the wrong name."

And you say, "Okay, that's embarrassing, but I doubt you'll even get talked to about it. You can send an apology email if you want, but I'd be surprised if anyone says anything."

Or your friend says, "I finally got fed up with Dave and snapped and told him to shut the fuck up about his stupid podcast."

And you say, "That's not great. HR will probably talk to you, and they'll want it noted in your file, but that's not something someone gets fired for on the first warning. Ask them if it comes off your record after a certain time. I bet it does. And I bet this never happens again because you didn't mean to do it this time but now you're be really aware before you snap at someone.

You take that same kindness and concern and care and you give it to yourself. So, if you find yourself thinking, "God, why can't I get up in the morning? I'm a worthless sack of shit."

Stop and talk to yourself like you would your best friend (I found talking to myself in the third person helped. "Gayle, are you okay?" etc.): "Hey, you're tired because you didn't sleep well. That's why you didn't get up easily this morning. You go to bed after you say you will, and then you stay on your phone in bed. What can you do to make it easier to go to bed on time and put your phone down?"

It makes you kinder AND more solution-oriented towards your own issues, and that makes it easier to love yourself because you are actually loving yourself.

[mockva]

[irishangeleyes2nd]

I am always dancing at the grocery store 😂

This song was on point back in the day too!

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The reason anxious people can become super competent in sudden and stressful situations is because some of us have spent a lot of time going "OMG WHAT IF I GET HIT BY A CAR."

And then don't sleep for several hours because we're imagining all car accident related scenarios and what horrible things could happen to us.

So, when we see a terrible car accident and someone yelling for help, our anxiety brain goes "OMG I KNOW THIS ANSWER."

And then a person who has trouble falling asleep because they are imagining a fight with someone they haven't talked to for several years (yes, also based on me) becomes a local celebrity because some other nights, we looked up several different ways to provide improvised wound care, and the 1 in a million chance of needing that information paid off.

It's also a dick move from the universe because the last thing anyone with anxiety needs is a moment where the anxiety was useful.