[tallspookylady]

teamwork makes the dream work

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"Mario Mario" is an anachronism. He and his brother were only ever referred to by mononyms in their lifetime, like most residents of the Mushroom Kingdom at the time - multi-part names were typically reserved for members of the Toadstool dynasty, and even these were more like titles or Roman cognomina than what we would call a surname today. His putative ennoblement as founder of the "House of Mario" came centuries later as the collapsing feudal order sought additional sources of legitimacy

[prokopetz]

#mushroom kingdom folklore says that he sleeps beneath a warp pipe to arise in the time of the kingdom's greatest need #he's definitely shown up a few times but it's hard to tell if he has risen from the dead or is just in the middle of some time travel shit #historians hate him.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

While the historical evidence for Mario having a younger brother is quite concrete, the name of said brother is less certain. "Luigi" is generally held to originate with a separate figure from a series of chthonic myths, who originally served as a sort of psychopomp charged with capturing spirits that escaped the underworld. The strongest case for a contemporary figure named Luigi comes from the Waffle Kingdom sagas; however, this Luigi's brother is a gladiator named Gonzales.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

now I know that there's no way for me to respond to this without a bunch of fans of the modern adaptations ruining my inbox for the next week, but there's no evidence of Waluigi - or indeed Luigi - in any of the contemporary versions of the Mario-Wario sagas. The name "Wario" itself is a later invention, held to be a pun on warui that likely emerged after the adoption of Japanese scripts in the Koopa States.

The conflict between Mario and his "boyhood rival" was one over political influence on his home island and Mario's long absences - in particular his trip to Sarasaland. While later Sarasan sources would heavily reference Mario's brother, he is absent from both the preceding narrative and the unrest in Mario's homeland. The historical consensus is that the Sarasaland journey was one of Mario's earliest wanderings, with his brother attempting to manage affairs in his absence and proving unfit. The invention of a separate "Wario" character and its development into an explicit coup d'etat were later poetic creations, as is distancing of the "Wario" figure from the later depictions of Mario's brother as the more cowardly and reserved "Luigi".

(As an aside: "Mario Land" is a mistranslation. The original Mushroomer and Sarasan chronicles are better translated as "the land of Mario", without connotations of ownership. The modern scholastic consensus is that it refers to Yoshi's Island, where Mario and his brother spent their youth and later established a small manor, not, as commonly depicted, a "Mario Castle". The emphasis on Mario as king of "Mario Land" was a mostly successful political maneuver by the Yoshis to retain coequal status with the Mushroom Kingdom heartlands in the face of 18th-century expansionist pan-Mushroomism.)

The later emergence of "Waluigi" is an ironic recombination of two figures from the same historical source, and may have originated as a farce parodying the Mario stories. (The name "Waluigi" is also conflated with the early Norman figure Varr Yngwi, who is generally credited with the invention of tennis.)

[bisezual]

Balance the 4 humors!!

Blood

Yellow Bile

Phlegm

Black Bile

Voting ended onApr 11, 2023

[bisezual]

We did it!! Your patient is healthy!!!!

[cerastes]

First Warioware minigame in Tumblr.

[targetedknowledge]

[frankiesbullshit]

someone tell OP i did it, i spent about 3 hours on it

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[kikmessenger]

skips a stone over a few posts

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

[squeakitties]

still thinking about the apparent 2006-2007 epidemic of rabid swarms of wii remotes descending on helpless televisions like locusts

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

wii sports was invented by nefarious television manufacturers to break people's televisions

[puppygirllaika]

What a very funny joke that definitely did not happen because Nintendo definitely did not buy up almost a third of the shares of the top five TV manufacturers in the time between the announcement and release of the Wii, shares which definitely didn't skyrocket in value over the next two years due to an increase in flatscreen sales, nearly half of which independent analysts attributed to people replacing damaged TVs with newer, more expensive models from electronics stores that relied on high-pressure sales tactics to upsell people and get them to buy more expensive models on credit which they couldn't actually afford.

[puppygirllaika]

[virtualgirladvance]

laika did you make this? because its pissing me off so much that i really hope you didnt

anyway ill play it but damn wtf

[puppygirllaika]

Yes, I made it, and I made it because i am color blind and these color based games piss me off a little so I'm having some fun at the expense of everyone who gets to see the whole rainbow. ^_^

[virtualgirladvance]

oh i never thought of that nvm i love it thank you i have new vectors of bullshit to consider

[themainspoon]

BTW, this pisses you off because of the Stroop effect.

[puppygirllaika]

[sapphic-design-is-my-passion]

Princess who stamps her cane when she says "hmph!"

[kitkenk]

i am 5 kilobytes old #age compression

[wintymute]

This is me if you even care you need to do conservation efforts

[mornington-the-crescent]

Not often I see one that's new to me, hopefully new to you as well.

Moishe is putting together a luncheon party for a large number of acquaintances and friends, and so decides to go to a rather posh caterer to order some food. He is met by a smartly-dressed salesperson, who says, "Can I help you, Sir?"

"Certainly," says Moishe. "I'm putting together a little party for some friends, and I have a few things that I would like. For starters, we're going to need about five pounds of lox."

The salesperson raises an eyebrow. "Surely you mean, 'smoked salmon', sir?"

Moishe shrugs. "All right, all right. Smoked salmon. We're also going to need about six dozen blintzes."

The salesperson scoffs. "'Blintzes'? You mean 'crepes', I'm sure."

Moishe rolls his eyes. "Okay, have it your way. Crepes. I'm also going to need about two quarts of liverwurst."

"No, no," says the salesman. "You mean, 'pâté'."

"Fine! Pâté! Whatever!" Moishe throws up his hands. "Five pounds of smoked salmon, six dozen crepes, and two quarts of pâté. I need it delivered to this address at around one o'clock on Saturday."

The salesman gives Moishe a deeply offended look. "What, you expect me to schlep on shabbos?!"

[beardedmrbean]

Glad I remembered to check and see if you'd looked in your inbox yet, I should have been prepared for the punchline on yours, but I was not.

[hemipenal-system]

nonhuman species that is actually way more sexually dimorphic than humans, but in ways that humans can't really see, so they sound kind of strange to you when they talk about their dysphoria because it's things about them you didn't even know about

[hemipenal-system]

“hey, girl, how’s it going?”

“ehh. i’m dysphoric and bummed about it.”

“aww, noo, what’s the worst?”

“my stripes are just irritating me. they don’t really look right.”

“your STRIPES???”

“yeah, they’re colors humans can’t see without an infrared camera. they don’t look girlish enough. that sounds dumb doesn’t it?”

“nah, i get it. i’m insecure about my shoulder width. we’ve all got something.”

“mhm, like, my secondary eyes aren’t as big as i wish they were, and hrt doesn’t fix that, yknow?”

“you have a second pair of eyes????”

“why do you think i’m always wearing sunglasses? it freaks humans the hell out. you probably don’t even know i have two hearts and three stomachs, huh? i don’t talk about my anatomy a whole lot and i know humans don’t notice things but we’ve had sex enough times i really would have expected you to ask about the prehensile toes thing”

“YOU HAVE WHAT”

“ok girl come on no human can hold your hand with their feet like that. you had to have known. speaking of, i’m also sort of dysphoric about my dewclaws actually. sorry”

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

Have you seen bro'Town (2004-2009)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Remaining time: 4 days 4 hours

[cuckoftheday]

You should transition to female right now.

[cuckoftheday]

[dreamcastmod]

me:*fills a water gun with printer ink* me:i dont even need a wii u to have fun

[valkvriesuitremade-blog]

if you bought a 16ml cartridge of ink at $18, and a 2500ml nerf super soaker barrage at $15.99, it would cost about $2,828.49 to fill it with ink once

[wichatime]

[sigmaleph]

i like to imagine how people in the post-material-scarcity future would romanticise the current time period.

having a job gave people a sense of community and purpose lacking in our modern age where nobody is forcing you to get out of bed on threat of starvation. actually the average office worker in the early 21st century was so much wealthier than a UBI-having-modern if you forget to count paying rent and also make some very bad purchasing power conversions. if you look at contemporary records (sitcom where the main characters are only at work when it's plot relevant) it is obvious that employment was never really a major obstacle to having an active social life or pursuing your own passions.