Thylacines, man. Thylacines.

lesbian butch frog, smoking a reed: "when i lost my tail you were barely a tadpole" me: "can you put that out on me"

[circusheart]

If I keep practicing I might even be a person soon

[supergameboytwo]

[supergameboytwo]

If you guys don't start behaving I'm going to turn off reblogs for this post. This post is about launching matchbox cars into your wall at high enough speeds to lodge them there. Nobody cares about how strong the walls in your house are, and I'm suddenly learning that a lot of people on this webbed site don't know what drywall is, but none of that matters.

The only thing that matters is shoot cars into your wall.

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[assortedinsanities]

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.

[about-faces]

[anarchistmemedistro]

*a breathtakingly powerful statement even today, three quarters of a century later

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[existennialmemes]

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

[randomalistic]

Your artstyle is like your gut microbiome in the way its everything you consume and like and it also has all your bacteria up in it. Thats probably how that works

[randomalistic]

SO TRUE

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[mark-gently]

"baby names" is a real misnomer because they're often permanent

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

cabbages and onions are fighting to the death behind the grocery every night unseen by anyone

[im-mender]

誰にも見られずキャベツとタマネギが毎晩八百屋の裏で死ぬまで戦ってる

[im-mender]

les choux et les onions se battent à la mort derrière l'épicerie chaque nuit invisibles à tous

[asterythm]

每天晚上卷心菜和洋葱藏在杂货店后边互相战斗至死

[spreadsopotism]

Kobis-kobis dan bawang-bawang mempertaruh nyawa bertarungan di hujung dalam kedai runcit setiap malam tanpa disedari sesiapa

[breathing-tutors]

setiap malam para kubis dan bawang bombay bertarung sampai mati di belakang toko kelontong tanpa ada yang melihat

[tetrafelino]

repolhos e cebolas estão travando lutas até a morte toda noite atrás do supermercado sem serem vistos por ninguém

[televisionenjoyer]

Los repollos y las cebollas se pelean a muerte atrás del almacén todas las noches cuando nadie mira

[sovereign-skyy]

de kolen en de uien vechten tot de dood achter de kruidenier, door ieder ongezien

[i-am-an-omniscient-snail]

tá cabáistí agus oinniúin ag troid go bás taobh thiar an siopa grósaera gach oíche nach bhfeictear ag duine ar bith

[geckyjuno]

зелето и лукът се бият до смърт зад магазина всяка вечер, беc никои дa види

[procyon-caffeinaeus]

lii shoo pi lii zaayooñ niinipoohnootinekew, namoo awiiyuk kii waapahten taanday aan aryayr lii magazaeñ di maanzhii.

[madeline-the-bisexual-samurai]

kili pi pali pi lukin jo pi telo en kili pi wawa sijelo lili li utala monsi pi esun lili. ala li sone e ni

[jacobhpb]

Brasikoj kaj cepoj batalas ĝismorte malantaŭ la legomvendejo ĉiunokte, nevidataj de iu ajn.

[cloudedcari]

mae bresych a winwns yn ymladd i’r farwolaeth tu ôl i’r groser pob nos heb gael eu gweld gan unrhywun

[fallingtowers]

kål och lök slåss till döden varje natt bakom mataffären när ingen tittar på

[sentimentalslut]

what people dont get about divorces is the Whole Thing About Dogs

[sentimentalslut]

i have written custody plans for labrador retrievers more complex than i have for children. i went to four years of undergrad, three years of law school, and sat for the bar exam to write up custody exchange provisions for dogs with hyphonated last names

[sentimentalslut]

my clients are paying $295 an hour for me to go to court and litigate who makes veterinary decisions for Chuckles the Goldfish and theres literally nothing i can do to stop them

[sentimentalslut]

framing these tags and hanging them up in my office to remind me that it can always be worse

[flerns]

slow and slutty wins the race

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[fagstaynight]

Guy who is roommates with among us: Hey man thanks for doing all your tasks

Among us: No problem

[tumblerculosis]

I’ve been obsessed with this tiktok for days now

[coffeedcait]

Person: "Hello sir." he pets the frog with one finger.

Person: "Have a good day. Actually wait a minute. You missed a bug, but I got you home boy. Hold on." he picks a bug up and throws it next to the frog.

Frog: turns around and eats the bug.

Person: "OHHHHH-" sings high pitched and angelic like he witnessed a miracle.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

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[karvina]

this girl was showing all the signs of being a secret mermaid so i pushed her into the pool and she turned into a forty foot long mosasaurus which is tbh way cooler

[karvina]

not really sure how to get her out though

[karvina]

for those of you asking why i pushed her into the pool in the first place: i work for a duplicitous small town aquarium and i'm trying to kidnap mermaids to jump through hoops and shit to entertain tourists and make money. fucking obviously. now that i know she's actually a mosasaurus though i Have fallen in pure-hearted love with her

[treasuredplanet]

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

[yandere-angela]

"why do so many mythological creatures eat children"

meta explanation: these are cautionary tales to make children behave

in-universe explanation: it's kinda like how just about every "herbivorous" animal will opportunistically eat baby birds cause they're just easy prey

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.