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[tygermama]

stuff I like

- when the person kidnapped by the villain is all ‘no one’s going to come for me’ and 

- someone does, but it’s the person they’d least expect

- EVERYONE COMES because wow, maybe I am depressed because I didn’t think I knew this many people, much less that they liked me

- no one comes and the villain gets pissed on their captive’s behalf and treats them better than their former associates did

- they rescue themselves and everyone’s so impressed but the person yells because I AM CAPABLE AND YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST NOTICED I’D BEEN KIDNAPPED

- they get rescued by a deus ex machina, preferably their dad/mom/grandma/old associate who is exponentially cooler than the heroes 

basically, I like it when people get rescued and get validation

[poroquagganbob]

Can I add: people getting rescued by their pets.

[corinnetags]

I also really love when a person gets kidnapped and is utterly unsfraid because they know that a specific person is coming for them and oh boy did that villain make a mistake kidnapping them.

[omnipotina]

Settle a bet.

Who wins in a fight?

Kronk

Gaston

Voting ended onSep 7, 2023

[beemojis]

soooo true bestie

[lierdumoa]

Gaston is governed by standard 1990s Disney villain rules. He has the same vulnerabilities as Frollo or Scar. Kronk, however, is governed by Looney Tunes protagonist rules. He has no vulnerabilities.

[genderkoolaid]

tumblr puritans have never spoken to a kinky person and you can tell this because they talk about ~scary~ kinks like a child who thinks their teacher sleeps at school. they have a 1700s "actors cannot be trusted for they engage in obscene behavior" mindset. yes lil buddy people can in fact roleplay situations and then exit that roleplay and have different thoughts and actions 🤗 adding sex to performance does not actually cast a magic spell that turns you into a monster incapable of morality <3

[ashgunnywolf]

Kink is just LARP that makes you cum.

...Hear me out.

If I say "Nooooo don't kill me!!!" while LARPing, my friend is still gonna whack me on the head with their foam battle axe bc that's what I want them to do. If I actually didn't want to get hit on the head, I'd say "WHOA WHOA WHOA TIME OUT TIME OUT" so they'd know I'm serious.

In the same way, if I say "Nooooo don't spank me!!!" and my partner still spanks me, THAT'S FINE. I want to get spanked, and I'm just playing along. It would only be a real problem if I were to say the agreed-upon safe word, the word that actually means no, and still get spanked.

See? LARP that makes you cum.

[genderkoolaid]

& to add on to that:

Your friend enjoying pretending to kill you in a safe and consensual enviroment where they know you are also having a good time does not mean they actually want to axe murder people.

And in the same way, your partner enjoying safely spanking you in a safe and consensual enviroment where they know you are also having a good time does not mean they actually want to beat you up

[theartofangirling]

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

[theartofangirling]

it’s that time of year again

[secretie]

Ink floofers 👀 Prints

[spelldealer]

THIS is the bear cave painting i was talking about, the line weight, the proportions, the fine details around the face, and the fact that this all had to be drawn from memory, idk man, it’s incredible to me. if i could meet one person from history it’d be the person that painted this bear 30,000 years ago

[turtlesandfrogs]

Just a reminder for those in urban areas, the soil isn't actually as toxic as we've been lead to belive:

Gardening in a polluted paradise: Is it safe?

Researchers have looked into how vegetables take up different soil contaminants. They also considered how different gardening practices coul

Read the article and read further, but a lot of food can be grown very safely in urban areas.

[practicalsolarpunk]

“Thorough washing is definitely the key," Hettiarachchi said. "Soap isn't even really necessary if you wash all of the visible soil off with water in your kitchen. The main point is to make sure you're not intentionally eating soil.”

The researchers didn't find a specific compost type reduced the contamination best. Instead, the data showed adding any compost can dilute the soil's concentration of contaminants.

A last suggestion from Hettiarachchi is to be sure the nutrient levels in the soil are appropriate. Research shows plants are less likely to take up contaminants when they have ideal nutrients.

The article is fascinating, and absolutely worth the read!!

[sunsbleeding]

[everythingfox]

Pet the baby

[annakiaora]

[otherearthsoutthere]

Ok. Wild. I’ve not seen such a good optical illusion before.

[karleyn]

I couldn't see it at first but after I looked at it a few moments later it suddenly happened. Turns out I tried to focus on circles that didn't exist and looked in the wrong place so I overlooked the actual circles.

This is wild. It's well hidden, hiding in plain sight

[biglawbear]

BITCH!!! I YELLED WHEN I SAW THEM

[wovi]

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

[wovi]

*

ada limón, lucky wreck

[margesimpsonannoyedgrunt]

i really wish five hours of sleep was sufficient because going to bed at 2 and waking up at 7 would be heaven but the body keeps score

[vulturevanity]

21st night of September Thursday

[bogleech]

They should make a restaurant chain that's just nice fresh bread. No sandwiches or bread bowls I mean the bread is the whole main thing. It should be a drive through and it should be as common as McDonald's. No matter where you live you should be able to just grab a big hot French baguette as easily as getting a coffee. If I want that I have to actually go inside a grocery store because America is just despicable.

[bogleech]

Everyone saying "so a bakery?" THIS IS NOT UNIVERSAL IN AMERICA. I have lived in entire towns where the only bakery is inside a grocery store, not a little place you can pop right into and certainly not a drive through?!?

[schizochroal]

I feel like it's important to note, even in cities where there are bakeries where you can buy bread (as opposed to most things called bakeries which seemingly mostly only sell pastries) that bread is absurdly expensive , like 7+ dollars a loaf because it's being treated as a speciality luxury product.

[bogleech]

Yeah this seems to continue blowing minds in the notes. Dedicated bakeries are not treated as a basic fundamental thing in this country. They are fancy special novelties. The nearest one to us is a half hour by car and the kind of place with $40 meals.

[birdlord5000]

next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

[birdlord5000]

"rowan if you hate james patterson how come you know about a book of his that's coming out seven months from now?"

I Must Keep The Scope Of My Sniper Rifle Trained On The Beast At All Times

[foxofninetales]

Okay, I feel the need to explain just why James Patterson is so hated by librarians.

See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.

It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.

It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.

No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)

And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.

And that is why we hate James Patterson.

[iheartallthethings]

I was wondering about this when i saw the first version of this post

[emo-cultist]

what's the most common unwarranted comment you hear about your career/future career?

something about how it doesn't pay well

something about how it requires a lot of training/school

something about automation or AI taking the field over

something about how it's a "popularity contest"

something about the field being overcrowded already

something about you "fitting a stereotype"

something about how you'd be so good at X and you should do that instead

something about that job requiring a lot of [trait] implying you don't have it

something about how they know someone with that job who hates it

something about you'll "never be home :(" or "never relax"

something about the job being really hard or easy

something else (feel free to share in the notes and rant if you want)

Voting ended onSep 25, 2023

Inspired by everyone I know seeming to have an opinion about my career choice

[bogleech]

There's discourse now over skibidi toilet because the creator aggressively dmca'd some monetized fan material and it sounds like he couldve been more patient but....I'm sorry to say I do think it's bad taste to make your own monetized fan material of an independent creation for money if you didn't ask first, yes "even" weird meme stuff. I know we're a website that holds fandom basically sacred and all but this isn't something that ever should've been casually normalized, if it's just one artist who's work you want to imitate you should ask and also be ready to take no for an answer