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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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JBB: An Artblog!
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Noelle said she really loves trans!bow headcanons but A) she'll not confirm it outside the show because she doesn't want to be another jk Rowling and B) she said if she was gonna make him trans from the beginning she would've cast a trans actor and bro????? That's some peak allyship I'd kill for her
happy fourth birthday, undertale!! i have so much love stored within me for this game (the good kind of love, of course) ❤️
Historic moment in videogames
Historic moment in videogames
Gansen-ji, Kyoto / Japan (by Patrick Vierthaler).
Ennafrey for @starrylia !
some guy: uhhh there’s a leaf in your water
person who’s about to invent tea: oh haven’t you heard?
I’M SCREAMING I DID NOT KNOW THIS
omg he literally looked at the leaves that fell into his water and went ‘hmmm…why not?’
Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold is literally just Dwarvish Take Me Home, Country Roads
This is the cast of the hit TV comedy Brooklyn Nine Nine:
It is a well-rounded cast. The characters are different people with different dreams and goals and personalities and priorities, and they work together.
These two are Amy Santiago and Rosa Diaz, two Latina women:
Although they are both Latina women, they are very different characters. Amy is a nerdy, easily-excited perfectionist and Rosa is a blunt, tough-as-nails badass.
If I were to ask “what’s your opinion of the Latina character on Brooklyn Nine Nine”, you would have to respond with “which one?”.
These two are Captain Raymond Holt and Terry Jeffords, two black men:
Although they are both black men, they are very different characters. Captain Holt is strict and humourless, Terry is a musclebound teddy bear.
If I were to ask “what’s your opinion of the black man on Brooklyn Nine Nine”, you would have to respond with “which one?”.
A lot of people don’t like “tokenism” in fiction. And, it’s true, if you’re adding in a black character just for the sake of representing all black people in your fiction, it can be an example of poor writing.
But, when you watch Brooklyn Nine Nine, none of the characters above feel like token characters.
Now, if I were to remove Amy Santiago from the show, many people might think of Rosa as the token Latina. And, as the only Latina, many people might think that she was there to represent all Latina women. They might say “Is that really what you think all Latina women are like? That they all wear leather jackets and grunt in monosyllables and beat people senseless? What a terrible stereotype!”
If I were to remove Captain Holt from the show, many people might think of Terry as the token black man. And, as the only black man, many people might think that he was there to represent all black men. They might say “Is that really what you think all black men are like? That they’re all vain, overmuscled behemoths, tamed into domesticity? What a terrible stereotype!”.
It is precisely because the show features multiple examples of each of these demographics that they escape stereotyping. If you see one Latina woman who exhibits aggressive traits, you might think that all Latina women have anger management problems. If you see two Latina women, though, and one is aggressive and the other isn’t, you would not reach that conclusion. It would be impossible for someone to watch an episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine and come away thinking “ah yes, now I know what all Latina women are like” or “ah yes, now I know what all black men are like”.
It is fine not to approve of tokenism in fiction. It’s fine! Including a character purely to check that character’s ethnicity or gender or disability or sexuality off of a checklist can be terrible writing. Token characters can perpetuate negative stereotypes, or even help to create new ones.
But, if you don’t like token characters, the answer isn’t less diversity.
It’s more.
what do you think of the bible as a literary text?
The Bible is difficult to talk about as a work, because it’s so vast and diverse, stitched together from poetry, philosophy, prophecy, mythology, allegory, history, genealogy, and biography. And when I think about the Bible as literature, I’m mostly referring to the King James Version (KJV), which is a beautiful and strange work compiled over seven years by forty-seven scholars and holy men, and probably the single most influential book in the English language.
(All we know of its creation is that there were endless disputes, “many a storm of gainsaying, or opposition”; imagine shouting and pounding on tables and clergymen in ruffs and gowns storming out.) A book written by committee should be terrible and compromised, but it isn’t—it’s full of drama and majesty: “In the beginning God created the Heaven, and the Earth. And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters…”
The translators avoided common idiom, because they knew it would quickly sound dated—the antiquated language is deliberate, as are the repetitions and heavy pauses. I love its strangeness: the odd punctuation, unexpected pronouns (“Our Father, which art in heaven”), the verbs that end in “-eth” (“in the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut downe, and withereth”), the archaisms (“yea, verily” went out of fashion fifty years before it was published; “you” was being used in the singular but the writers chose to use “thee/thou”), and gratuitous use of polysyllabic Latinate words (“iniquity”, “tribulation”, “countenance”).
Many of its idioms endure in the marrow of our common language: sour grapes and fight the good fight and through a glass darkly and how are the mighty fallen and no peace for the wicked and the salt of the earth and filthy lucre and vanity of vanities and vengeance is mine and a thief in the night. It makes uncanny ways in your mind like Shakespeare does—and, incidentally, much of it is iambic pentameter (“the flood was forty days upon the earth”). It baffles our concepts of origin and authorship; it has so many textures and voices. The Book of Job is beautiful, vast: “Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!” The Psalms speak simply, and unfold in incantatory rhythm, e.g. Psalm 139, best known as “for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”: “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me”. The Song of Solomon is joyful and wild and erotic—“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine”—and also very strange (“thy breasts are like two young roes that are twins”).
You hear its rhythms and arcs of language everywhere. It’s a glorious anomaly and literature is richer for it.
THIS is the definition of "just boys being boys"
Pierre Huyghe, Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt), 2012. Concrete, beehive and bees.
scout’s VA brings us that A+ phrasing as always
He’s bi 👏👏👏
You deadass??
cat sounds, rated
mrow?: inquisitive. timeless. succinct and to the point. 8/10
purr: is there anything better? 10/10
silent judgement: not a cat sound. does not count. 0/10
mow-wow-wow!: exuberant. joyful. a frank delight. you should be so lucky as to hear this cat sound on a regular basis. 9/10
AAAAAAAA: obnoxious. loud. why is my tiny bastard screaming? 3/10
rrrrrrrrrrrrr!: your cat is angry. this is a bad cat sound, but ultimately necessary so that you understand their displeasure. 5/10
mrrrp: cat activation noise. melodic. flawless vibrato. short and sweet. 9/10
the classic yodel: everyone loves a good yodel. shows off your cat’s vocal range. emotional. plaintive yet hopeful. showstopping. 8.5/10
the classic yodel after 1 AM: no!!!!!!!! -10000/10
in case you haven’t heard it today, or don’t fully realise it yet: i promise you that most people in this world are kind, loving and understanding. the people around you want you to succeed, they do not want you to fail. your friends don’t hate you, they love you, and they want to see you grow and prosper.
the world is not as bad as it seems. don’t forget that.
Sounds fake but ok
good news: it’s not fake. everything i said is true. being dismissive towards good things is a damaging mindset to have. you’ll feel a lot better if you have some trust and if you’re willing to consider optimistic viewpoints.
Is this what non depressed people feel like ? Damn. You’re so lucky
i’m extremely mentally ill and extremely depressed at that. deflecting good advice that encourages you to think positively about life by claiming that the person who said it is not depressed (when i very much am) is also a very damaging mindset to have.
OP is the opposite of the “Then Perish” meme. All of OP’s replies read as “Then Prosper”.
