Igola

[fandomjamz]

what do you mean they dropped a surprise animal crossing update out of nowhere after saying they wouldn't do anymore free updates. WHAT DO YOU MEAN they just casually dropped multiple crafting without even mentioning it. what do you mean we have creative mode AND have multiple save slots that we can decorate with friends now. and resetti has a new job where he literally helps reset and flatten your island. never kill yourself

[the-real-daddy-van-der-bellen]

I know that it is bad for our country if the xenophobic idiots in charge of their little Let's-Kiss-Rich-People's-Asses-Clubs can't get their shit together and form a government, because even though the government will be Bad As Fuck, another election would only make shit worse.

But checking the news and seeing that Openly Racist and Racists Lite still can't get along despite their shared values brings me a lot of joy. I am literally smiling at my phone, like:

[the-real-daddy-van-der-bellen]

ngl es ist schon beeindruckend, dass es die FPÖ schafft, die ÖVP als zumindest halbwegs vernünftig dastehen zu lassen

Like holy fuck????

In manchen Sachen ist die FPÖ ja sogar vernünftiger als die ÖVP (z.b. Klarnamen im Internet) und die ÖVP will Pro-Gaza-Demos verbieten??? uhm??????

aber lol, die Blauen wollen das DÖW abschaffen und sind gegen das von der ÖVP befürwortete Holocaust-Museum??? Aber natürlich darf man nicht sagen, dass in der Partei noch so einiges an nationalsozialistischem Gedankengut vorherrscht. Das wär ja gemein.

Kurz zusammengefasst:

[eikaronswelt]

Immerhin, 3 ganze Tage bis zur 1. Politkrise des Jahres

[cuil-meleth]

ich kanns nicht glauben, dass ich das sag: Karl Nehammer du kannst zum ersten Mal in deinem verfickten Leben Rückgrat zeigen und nein zur Koalition mit der FPÖ sagen, anders als deine Kollegin aus Niederösterreich. du beschissener polizeiverliebter Hurensohn

[cuil-meleth]

ÖSTERREICH DU BIST SO DUMM

[theghostofmusicman-deactivated2]

TUMBLR IS SO BORING WITH ALL YOU NERDS AT DASHCON

♥

((you all better come back with some amazing tales))

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 11th of july, 2014.

[adhdrhys]

[leolaroot]

please don't have sex in disabled bathrooms if you're abled. we need somewhere to have sex too

[missroserose]

[leolaroot]

lets all click on the source of the gif

[valtsv]

[werter-herr-goethe]

happy pride an die drei fragezeichen, die mir die ideale ship dynamic im zarten alter von sieben jahren vorgeführt haben. ohne eure polyam asses wäre mein leben so viel trauriger.

[animate-mush]

I think it's interesting how the two big holidays we celebrate today have completely exchanged places over their lifetimes.

When it started, Towel Day was very much a memorial. The date - May 25th - has no textual significance whatsoever. Rather, like the feast day of a Saint, it is the anniversary of Douglas Adams' death. The observance with the towels and all is/was a Fandom reference, but the purpose of the holiday was to honor the memory of a Great Man - and how more appropriately than with a bit of silliness? And in the, what is it, 20? more? years since his death, the memorial aspect has been eroded away, until it is now basically a celebration of the work more than the man, fun unalloyed by grief, a way to fly your geek colors. And perhaps that's what he would want in the end.

The Glorious 25th of May is exactly the opposite. It is - or was - purely a Fandom thing. It's a holiday in text, and we celebrate it alongside the characters because, well, Night Watch is a frickin amazing book and deserves to be celebrated. And there's admittedly always been a melancholic aspect, deriving from the text itself, but the date and the celebration were ultimately fictional. What I used to say is that I celebrated both, but I celebrated Towel Day harder because it commemorated something real.

And then Terry Pratchett died.

And this silly fandom thing we were already doing proved a ready made memorial to honor the memory of a Great Man. The fan art now us bursting with lilac covered fedoras. It now celebrates the man in addition to (perhaps even more than) the work.

I always wondered if Pratchett chose May 25th in honor of Adams. And I wonder what this day will look like in another 20 years, when the grief of this death has faded as well.

GNU Terry Pratchett. GNU Douglas Adams.

Happy Memorial Day.

[appalachianpirate]

One Piece is special because Oda will introduce Bozo McStupidface, former chief chucklehead of Weird Freak Island and make you cry uncontrollably over their tragic backstory of family, genocide, disease and proletariat struggle.

[catadromously]

please welcome: Brood X!

[catadromously]

bonus

[apollosdrunkenmixup]

tis the Glorious 25th of May, time for lilacs and hard boiled eggs.

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg

[dimity-lawn]

[vimesy-art]

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

[wormtoxin]

ok. Narrative obfuscation in House Of Leaves. It’s a relatively simple story about a man who moves into a house with his wife and kids, and the house is haunted. That’s it. The core themes are very transparent.

Except, that story is documented by a famous war documentarian, then published as a series of rare tapes, which are discoursed by film buffs, then interpreted from viewings and reading film critique by a blind old man, then his thoughts are transcribed into a manuscript by a series of young women, which is then compiled from scattered notes by the most mysoginistic, damaged, toxic pothead drop-out who won’t stop talking about his life, which is THEN edited and published by some vaguely nefarious agency who soberly refuse to provide any clarification or context.

It’s not simple, but there are so many different hands on the wheel with wildly differing opinions that you can’t discern the truth.

Johnny Truant is such a miserable hopeless fuck up. He has no sense of academic rigor or archival professionalism. Any interference he provides only muddies the waters and taints what would otherwise be a gripping piece of metaphysical film criticism. His neurotic rambling and personal anecdotes cloud an otherwise reasonable story.

If he wasn’t in it, if we could read Zampano’s manuscript directly, WE would be able to understand the truth. We would get it completely, and we wouldn’t have to encounter so much violence, so much miserable graphic detail. It would be a better story.

And fuck it, if we didn’t have to read all of Zampano’s tangents and analyses and interpretations, if we could just find a copy of the famous “five-and-a-half minute hallway” vhs, if we could SEE it, we’d understand. We wouldn’t need endless pontification of what Navidson and Karen’s marriage might entail, or recitations of what a director once said in a Rolling Stones article. We’d see the hallway itself, stretching out into what should be the backyard, and we’d get it. Hell, Zampano is blind in his old age. He can’t even watch the damn movie! But we could. We’d know instantly, the second we saw it. The impossibility of it, the gravity of it, the weight of that dark abyss.

And well, the VHS recording is a little dark, and the quality is poor, and maybe the white balance isn’t so perfect. And actually, VHs tapes could be manipulated. We can’t be sure that Navidson isn’t just using clever videography tricks to invent a hallway. If we were there, if we found the house (it’s in virginia, isn’t it? we even have the address). If we GO there, we could look down that hallway. And it’s dark, so if we just brought a flashlight, maybe took a few steps inside-

[valtsv]

"you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you" if you insist on treating me like a beast then you can't be shocked when i play the part

[valtsv]

"you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you" then you shouldn't have had a hand as warm, impersonal and unpredictable as the meals you saw fit you give me. how was i supposed to know the difference.