[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.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

[crabussy]

you know you’re fucked when you start to get the “they would not fucking say that” feeling about The Character’s canon dialogue. no hope at all

[lizluvscupcakes]

That is when you feel the MOST hope. Canon is no longer a shackle upon you. You’re free.

[serinemolecule]

A lot of people don't realize just how much space car infrastructure takes up. So I've decided to provide everyone a visual aid!

I've presented two maps at the exact same zoom level, as indicated by the big red arrow. They also each have a red area circled, of approximately the same area.

In the first image, I've circled one of eightish parking lots at a US mall. A normal amount of distance for even Americans who drive everywhere to walk through.

In the second image, I've circled:

a subway station

a park

like twenty apartment buildings

like twenty restaurants

three convenience stores (which, being Japanese, can also handle banking, copying/printing, and a variety of governmental paperwork)

one grocery store (another two right outside the circle)

seven medical clinics, two pharmacies

a fire station

a post office

two preschools and three cram schools

a Shintō shrine

a Buddhist temple

multiple parking lots

This wasn't even a particularly cherry-picked part of Tokyo! I just picked the area around my house.

In case anyone thinks by "a park" I'm talking about the green area not circled, I'm not, I'm talking at this area at the southeast end of the circle:

Here's another angle on the area I circled, with a lot of the things I mentioned in view.

The shrine, just because I have a soft spot for Tokyo neighborhood shrines:

Anyway, I suppose I'll end on what the mall parking lot looks like.

Remember, this is one of eightish parking lots at this mall.

[tinafeysucks-deactivated2015040]

[w-for-wumbo]

it’s time

[nyehs-deactivated20140525]

ITS NOT TIME ITS FUCKING MARCH I DONT WANT TO SEE THIS

[ewaneneollav]

it’s time

[slydilustrous]

237 more days till halloween! ITS LIKE NEXT MONTH GUYS

[hockeylvr42]

I have a feeling someone had this queued for an entire year just so they could post this in march

[edeneye30]

I T S T I M E

[scruffymcwhiskers-blog]

ITS TIME

[flynn-science]

IT’S MARCH YOU ANIMALS

[aesthetjic]

IT’S LITERALLY MARCH 8TH 2017 THE FUCK IS THIS DOING ON MY DASH

[ultxmately]

[je56-deactivated20180822]

ITS MARCH , 2018.

ITS TIME

[aquilacalvitium]

I swear tumblr has a thing about March. What’s going on? I thought I knew all of tumblr’s secrets.

Well I guess I haven’t even been here for a full year yet, so…

[aceofspades-lena]

it’s time.

[rainbowsylvie]

Time

[dark-eyed-harmothoe]

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY

[manlymothman]

happy halloween

magical girl shows really did snap when they assigned personality traits based off the members colors

[gayhex]

pink - commander and the leader. probably really nice and sweet

blue - probably very close to pink, is either 100 iq smarty pants but shy or very tough and cool

yellow/orange - very happy and positive. can vary from being newbie of the group to be older and mature, probably known as the beautiful one

purple - mysterious, usually starts off as a rival or joins the group later, but is definitely known to the members as another MG. Probably has a softer side they don’t show

[squeezemetillipop]

Don’t forget green - more mature and very reliable

[kuramamanamahamanamana]

Red - Mad

[metaphoricalicecream]

[maybemoonbeams]

okay but this implies the existence of a lost pink teletubby. a fallen leader too painful to talk about anymore

[starwarsepisodeiv]

tubby custard.

[maybemoonbeams]

[unicornmitteneater]

where….where are the notes……

[piesandswords]

in the tubby custard with the pink teletubby

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[whereserpentswalk]

Such an iconic post and only one note. U_U

[itsuwari-no-kibo-offical]

…the forbidden one.. it has no notes. Yet people can see it…

ITS A SET UP THE PINK TELLYTUBBY WAS TUR ED INTO TUBBY CU–MRRFMRRFMS MRRRRNS *gets driven away in a black van*

[prideknights]

Hey! I’m currently working on a series of embroidery patches, 16 designs in total. Here is the concept for the second bisexual patch!

What do you think of this concept? ⚔️🌈

Would buy, I’m bisexual

Not bi, but would definitely buy a Pride Knights patch with my flag

Would buy, I’m not bi (gift)

Cool, but I don’t buy patches

I don’t like it

Voting ended onFeb 20

[blancadiabla]

[runcibility]

If you’re having a bad day, just remember that someone somewhere is seeing Safety Tips From Anubis for the very first time.

[xx-am3thyst-4st3r-xx]

That person is me

[djadjamankh]

as an egyptologist, this fake egyptian bothered me so much. so i fixed it.

basic pronunciation followed by egyptological transcription in parentheses and translation in quotation marks.

frame 1: inek inpu (i̓nk i̓npw), “I am Anubis”

frame 2, poison: em wenem (m wnm), “do not eat”

frame 3, smoke detector: pa-yee pu em khenem khety (pꜣy pw m ḫnm ḥty), “this is for smelling smoke”

frame 4: ah-sh pa-yee tchen yot khena ta-yee tchen mawt (ꜥš pꜣy.ṯn i̓t ḥnꜥ tꜣy.ṯn mwt), “call your father and your mother”

frame 5: ankh wedja seneb (ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb), “live, prosper, and be healthy” ← like egyptian “farewell”

[memorydatas]

does anyone else remember when michaels (art supply company) accidentally made omegle again

[shadowthian]

when they What

[memorydatas]

michaels added a feature for a while in sept. 2020 where shoppers could ask questions that would be answered live by other shoppers anonymously. which led to some good michaels interactions.

[catboybiologist]

michael

[fiddlepickdouglas]

Why don't they make stained glass fish tanks? Give those fish Catholic guilt

[orcboxer]

fascinated by the implication that it's the stained glass that gives catholics the guilt

[luthqrs]

I FOUND THE. FISH CAN’T SIN POST.

[the-august-one]

I had to do it.

[fiddlepickdouglas]

I've been put in the tank 😔

[thistle-onions]

[prideknights]

Hey! I’m currently working on a series of embroidery patches, 16 designs in total. Here is the concept for the second bisexual patch!

What do you think of this concept? ⚔️🌈

Would buy, I’m bisexual

Not bi, but would definitely buy a Pride Knights patch with my flag

Would buy, I’m not bi (gift)

Cool, but I don’t buy patches

I don’t like it

Voting ended onFeb 20

[kazoosandfannypacks]

tumblr crashing their own website trying to give us a cute valentine's update is the equivalent of trying to bake a cake for your significant other and accidentally setting your kitchen on fire

[szyszkasosnowa]

Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????

[rosslynpaladin]

I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT

[oogie]

I have terrible news

[oogie]

I keep trying to post a picture of fig. A really bad one. But tumblr keeps giving me an error message. Maybe the world isnt ready

[oogie]

Im going to split it into 4ths and see if that works

[oogie]

FUCK YEAAAAAHHH

[thatdisasterauthor]

Don't ever let anyone tell you disability rep doesn't matter, because I just got a comment on one of my fics from a person whose husband has struggled with driving for fifteen years because he can only use his left foot to drive, and they had no idea left foot gas pedal modifiers are a thing until they read my fic that involved a character getting their leg amputated.

It was a tiny scene at the end of the fic, one I put in because I'd been researching left-foot driving adaptions for myself at the time due to some leg issues of my own. But it was something the commenter and their husband had never heard of before, so now the commenter is going to get him one as a surprise and for the first time in his life this guy is going to be able to drive comfortably.

It matters. Not just the big pieces of representation, but the little ones too.

(And yes, if you have issues with your right leg, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to modify your vehicle for left foot driving! You just need to be willing to drill into the floor of your vehicle, or have a mechanic do it. No electronic modifications or anything, it's purely mechanical. Just make sure you're getting a system from a good manufacturer that has done safety testing.)

[bedupolker]

I hate targeted ads but I also hate the untargeted gambling & ozempic ads (I dont like gambling and if I lost 10 pounds I'd die of malnutrition) maybe the truth lies somewhere inbetween... all ads are bad

[bedupolker]

The way people comment about adblock when this post was partially inspired by a bunch of weightloss ads I saw on a real physical subway station

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

Who's got the gif where a guy helpfully demonstrates how to install adblock on your local train station

@kropotkindersurprise maybe?

[kropotkindersurprise]

good guess!

(from this post)

[meili-k-r-deactivated20250421]

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[anarchistmemedistro]

but also all college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[softgrlfriend]

that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

[insertchaoticenbyname]

The earlier in the year you reblog this the better it gets