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[toastbutteregg]

[ultimateog100]

@odin-n-out WHEEEEEZE

[simpsons-latino]

[say-prettyy-pleasee]

This is Money Marge. Reblog for a miracle of finances to come to you

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[unpretty]

the older i get the weirder it is that not a single p.e. teacher in my entire school career was able to recognize the difference between “a child who doesn’t get enough exercise” and “a child with serious health problems impeding their ability to exercise in this particular way”

[unpretty]

you know what else is weird? we had to do that fitness test every year but like… we never actually… learned how to do the things they tested us on…

like, now that i am an adult i have learned how to build up my strength so i can do pushups, but that seems like something they could have taught us? in school? in the class where they tested our ability to pushups? they never taught us how to work our way up to actually doing a chin-up, or whatever. even if i had just been “out-of-shape” (as a CHILD), nothing they did would have solved that problem. i did not learn how to exercise in a functional way until i was out of school and teaching myself, so i’m not sure what those p.e. classes were even intended to accomplish, really.

[unpretty]

people are adding a lot of horror stories to this post that are really similar to mine (exercise-induced asthma, running the mile every friday, coughing nonstop for hours afterward and never actually getting any faster or building up any endurance, fainting at least once and not even getting sent to the nurse) but

to add something to the “really obvious shit any idiot could have told me” list

they taught us that the average walking speed should be 3mph, and i consistently tried on treadmills to walk at 3mph, and that always seemed really fucking fast to me and i never understood why

i’m 5′2″

i was in my twenties before i realized that i cannot go that fast because i have short fucking legs

why did grown-ass adults with eyes try to teach my short ass that i should be able to walk an easy mile in 20 minutes

[defydamage]

It’s like they say.

If you can’t do, teach.

If you can’t teach, be a gym teacher.

[vivid-escapist]

It never occurred to me until reading this notes the utter ridiculousness that PE teachers held all kids to the same benchmark standards for like number of pushups and sit ups, time of mile, etc. even though everyone is at a different level athletically and has different body types and heights

[scullytheannihilator]

Can we all agree that PE was a traumatic experience for non-athletic kids? It dented my self confidence for a decade and it probably played an integral role in my developing an eating disorder that nearly killed me two years in a row –too busy comparing myself to the CHILDREN who had been taught to be athletic to consider myself worthy of anything else than starving myself to death.

My mum had a similar experience in 8th grade when her PE teacher asked her to demonstrate how to do hurdles, then asked another athletic girl to demonstrate after her –only to say “see class: do it the way Tammy did it. NOT how Cheryl (my mum) did it.”

It wasn’t until I got a fiercely feminist fitness teacher in grade 10 did I realize I was actually capable of LEARNING this shit. Fuck elementary PE.

[killerchickadee]

I hated P.E. the entire time I was in school, and it didn’t occur to me until well into adulthood that if I’d have been taught properly or not pressured the way kids are pressured, I might have actually enjoyed sports. Cause like, I’d love to build muscles, or play volleyball, or tennis, or what fucking ever, but gym class ruined it for me.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Anyone looking to learn what PE class totally failed to teach, Anatrik’s videos on strength workouts are very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dF1DOWzf20&t=3s

He’s also worked with a friend to create this great strength routine:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine

What I love about Anatrik’s stuff is that all of his exercises not only describe proper technique very clearly, but come with suggested progressions – if you’re not strong enough for an exercise, there are several levels of easier exercises designed specifically to build up your strength over time until you can do it.

[friendraichu]

P.E. is one of the most traumatizing things from my entire history of schooling.

[porcupine-girl]

My husband and I have been talking about this. Like, if teachers of any other subject just told kids “Here, write an essay” or “Do multiplication” without going through it step by step and giving them opportunities to practice, etc, they’d be fired.

But run a mile? Just go fuckin’ do it, and if you can’t, fuck you. They could have taught me how to work up my stamina so I could run a mile, but no. They just tell you to do it, and if you can’t (or don’t want to because who wants to do something hard that they haven’t been taught to do), you lose. So I always thought “I can’t run.” It wasn’t until I was 25 and recovering from chemotherapy that it occurred to me that maybe if I did little bits at a time, someday I could work my way up to jogging a whole mile. And I did, with lungs more severely damaged from chemo than they ever were from asthma as a kid. I’ll never be a marathon runner, but I can jog a mile without collapsing.

PE classes could actually be really beneficial??? Like, in high school, due to a scheduling change, my jr year we were allowed to take any gym class as our required credit. Usually you had to take “PE 1″ or whatever first, and then only the athletes or people looking for easy As took anything else, but I got to skip PE 1 and take Aerobics & Weight Training.

And I fucking learned how to use all the machines in the weight room. Because if they just set us loose in there we all would have injured ourselves badly and they’d get sued. Do you know how useful that was? The aerobics part was just putting on exercise videos for us to follow, but tbh most aerobics videos explain shit better than any gym teacher. But I have spent my entire adult life being able to go into a gym and confidently use at least some of the weight machines without worrying I looked stupid or would hurt myself.

We could do that from the start. We could actually teach kids how to exercise and play sports instead of just shaming them if they can’t do it, and that might actually lead to kids being healthier and more athletic in the future. Why don’t we????

[wheeloffortune-design]

a specific moment just comes to mind- when we were playing baseball.

the teacher was hellbent on keeping us at the bat until we hit something. no, we couldn’t leave with some semblance of pride after three strikes, like, you know, professionals do. no, we had to try again, and again, and again, until we hit the ball. all while thirty other kids waited after the batter.

i think i must have tried 20 times until i managed to hit something (and badly). i could finally put an end to this humiliation. this experience stayed with me all my life.

and recently i discovered one of my eyes takes a second more to move. i can’t focus instantly. this is why i have never been able to catch or hit anything in my life. not that my PE teacher could have seen this, but maybe she could have spared me the humiliation. bitch. 

[scipunk63]

We had girls in my 7th grade PE class who would make fun of me on the exercise equipment (yes, we had actual exercise equipment) because of how skinny and “weak” looking I was. They were the same girls who REFUSED to work out because they didn’t “want big muscles, because they look weird”.

It took my big brother (a firefighter/EMT), who had to work out regularly, finally explaining to me how muscles and working out ACTUALLY worked for me to realize that we would never see any actual change working out in PE because we weren’t doing it properly as CHILDREN.

I had just thought that I was out of shape and would be weak forever.

[jabberwockypie]

You’d think that if a kid doesn’t like running around/active playing/etc or gets tired really easily or says that it hurts, the default really should be “Huh, maybe there’s a medical reason for that - someone should get that evaluated” rather than “They’re lazy”.

PE was probably going to be a circle of hell for me, regardless - I’m more than six feet tall and for a lot of my childhood I was growing so fast it hurt, and it fucked with my coordination. (Something I only understand in retrospect, because I’m not ACTUALLY clumsy when my body is like. Not constantly changing the shape it is.) And someone REALLY should have caught the asthma thing sooner and explained that exercise can trigger it. But it could have been made significantly LESS hellish.

Shitty gym teachers and pe classes just make people avoid exercising later in life, because it’s fucking traumatic.

[kaironlokethor]

I HATED gym class with a burning passion, and ended up taking PAL (physically active living, like a step down from PE) for my gym credit instead of PE. I wanted to do yoga with the nice health teacher, but it didn’t git in my schedule so I was stuck with the bro-y PAL teacher who coached half of the teams our school had

One time that sticks out to me really prominently was once day it was like day 1 of my period (worst day for me) and like, it was TERRIBLE. Cramps like crazy, nausea, dizziness, joint pain, the fucking works. 

I asked the teacher if I could sit out for a class and he asked me if it was really necessary (it’s not like we were really doing anything, he was just making us play dodgeball again woof) 

So I said in no uncertain terms “I feel sick, dizzy, i might call home soon” and he gave me THE LOOK. like he totally thought I was faking

So I fukkin out and said it was period cramps and he just rolled his eyes with this “WOMEN” kind of look on his face and reluctantly told me to go sit on the bleachers

I went home sick right after that class 

[nevver]

[sowhatifiliveinkyushu]

Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, near Ferryland Newfoundland, Canada by Jody Martin

[antique-scarecrow]

it…did not occur to me that icebergs just…pass by people’s houses

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Dm: (tifling) roll perception before you give the fairies alcohol.

Ranger: wait I want to roll as well

Tifling: I got a 5

Ranger: 19

DM: (ranger), you notice that the alcohol is actually vinager that (tifling) is too drunk to see properly.

Tifling: that’s what you think! I drink the whole cup in one go.

[gahdamnpunk]

Dunked on by a dictionary 😭😭

[ohcoolaslug]

This is how they brainwash ppl into thinking Black ppl are dangerous, just lies

[bonelessteeth]

but why…. on the subway….

[sourgrapelaffytaffy]

That part’s just New York

[midnight-spectrum-again]

Don’t know enough about New York to question it

[wannabeemoprincess]

Bro, christopher columbas was a colonizer piece of shit and all, but if youre not talking about the forced sterilization of indigenous women, the lack of access to clean drinking water on reserves, the missing indigenous women who go missing with no investigation, or any of the other multitudes of indigenous issues happening currently today, your bonus woke points for saying fuck christopher columbus arent worth shit tbh

[sexycontainmentprocedures]

Hope it's okay to add to this, I wanted to know more about these specific issues so here are some links for people:

on forced sterilization

on water crises

on missing persons (also here)

Wikipedia article outlining major issues

I think those are pretty US-centric, so here is Canadian info:

8 Key Issues for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

water crises (Canada-specific)

history and social info about their oppression

Lastly, I started wondering if Alaska has unique issues for its indigenous population, and it appears to:

info on Alaskan Natives' history

"10 things you should know" (including hardships they face)

[gnascher]

info on cops in Alaska

info on hawaiian sovereignty

[willabee]

she's trapped

[egberts]

a prison of her own making

[ascientistknits]

Nicole Cliffe has a whole twitter thread about funny/horrifying anaesthesia stories that you should read all of, but this is definitely my favourite  

[areslinkysart]

Judging from the way the stripes go, that scarf was knitted sideways. Meaning the person cast on 17 feet’s worth of stitches and knitted those 17 feet back & forth for three inches. I’m in awe.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The next Doctor’s costume looks great.

[radicalpolitics]

You forgot the best part

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I have my first class at 8am and I am sitting in the classroom already and "It wasn't me" is playing outloud on the radio and I am talking to my professor right now and wanna laugh so bad

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The radio: *Honey came in and she caught me red-handed creeping with the girl next door. Picture this we were both butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor.*

My 60 year prof: "I don't think it's gonna rain that much today after all."

Me:

[crookedbatathletezonk]

wait... the tag says not a dream...? EXUSE ME WHAT IS YOUR LIFE OP? IN WHAT UNIVERSE ARE YOU?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I live in the mythical Slavic Balkan crossover universe in Croatia

[reverseharem-deactivated2020021]

is it time for frank cho and milo manara to die or what

[kiefbowl]

That’s basically a naked woman I’m YELLING

[houroftheantichristwolf]

What a pervert. What the FUCK does he not know how clothes work? What the hypothetical fuck is she wearing then if we can see all that?

[auntiewanda]

It’s like how bath towels in comics miraculously wrap completely around breasts. Or how even when injured and dead on the ground women in comics have to be twisted into “sexy” poses. Or how women in comics walk like they’re in high heels even barefoot. 

It’s the only way men know how to draw women, because to them female characters are only there to be sexy. They only think of “women” as exploitative costumes and camera angles, high heels and titillation. Sex objects to ogle, plot objects to further male heroes’ narratives and drama, not heroes to cheer for. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

I’m sorry, I was labouring under the impression that this was the crowd that thought women should wear what they want..?

[auntiewanda]

And that applies to fictional women who are depicted by men how? You can’t apply agency in the plot to something metatextual when it comes to fictional characters. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

Come on, let’s not pretend this is a male exclusive thing.

[auntiewanda]

We’re going to have this argument are we? Not to mention you’re deviating from the original point that attributing agency to fictional characters’ clothing is asinine. 

What you have here are images of power, and do you really believe these characters are designed with titillating heterosexual women and bisexual and homosexual men in mind? Because I don’t think you do.

This is why the Hawkeye Initiative exists. Take common female poses in comics, put a man in the role, and see how “empowering” and “strong” it actually looks: 

Also: 

[feminism-is-radical-deactivated]

He got the painting for fighting against ‘censorship.’ Note that they handed him a gross design of a female being objectified, because at the end of the day, that is all they really want, to be allowed to objectify women. They don’t care about censorship in general it is about their ability to sexualise and degrade women without consequence.

[dyketales-deactivated20180601]

You can see her butthole for chrissakes

[pmastamonkmonk]

I think the best imagery I’ve seen to explain the difference between what men think male objectification is vs what women actually want to see is the Hugh Jackman magazine covers.

Hugh Jackman on a men’s magazine. He’s shirtless and buff and angry. He’s imposing and aggressive. This is a male power fantasy, it’s what men want to be and aspire to - intense masculinity.

Hugh Jackman on a women’s magazine.  He looks like a dad. He looks like he’s going to bake me a quiche and sit and watch Game of Thrones with me. He looks like he gives really good hugs.

Men think women want big hulking naked men in loin cloths which is why they always quote He-Man as male objectification - without realizing that He Man is naked and buff in a loin cloth because MEN WANT HIM TO BE. More women would be happy to see him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock.

Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE.

[aglassroseneverfades]

This is the first time I have EVER seen this false equivalence articulated so well. Thank you.

[mychemshame]

“I don’t want to die anymore all the time! It’s really interesting!” || Source

[mychemicalraymance]

[dostoyevsky-official]

in this country no one is above the law

[banshee-neet]

[guooey]

[justlookatthosesausages]

Please I’m begging you, please watch Klaus on Netflix, just for the sole animation and the tens of facial expressions per second that are all hand drawn

[argeriant18]

WAIT

HAND DRAWN

IT’S FREAKING HAND DRAWN

STORAGE BETTER MAKE SPACE I AM COMING FOR YOU

[looney-mooney]

HOLD UP I THOUGHT THIS MOVIE WAS STYLIZED CGI LIKE THE SPIDERVERSE MOVIE??? WTF HOW IN THE HELL IS ALL THAT HAND DRAWN YOU’RE SHITTING ME hold up lemme google this shit -

H. Holy fuck. These people are absolutely insane. How on earth did they even -

OH OF COURSE IT WAS HIM

[the-tumblest-jacob-deactivated2]

Y’all might find this interesting.

[adobsonartworks]

Hey, that’s my video! Yay! Anything I can do to help people appreciate this masterpiece of new technology and 2D art style! :)

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

Klaus is great! It’s funny and beautifully animated and has such a well-designed cast of characters. I highly recommend it to anybody looking for something to watch.

[katkrow-deactivated20211029]

Hey guys it gets even better!!

For a long time 2d animation hasnt been able to improve like how cgi always does, its one of the reasons that theres less of it now. One of the ways to improve 2d is too add shadow and depth but that requires drawing it on every frame and thats a shit ton of money amd time.

The team of Klaus set out to solve this problem. They made very cool programs that determine the idea of the form based on line art and one to add shadows where the amimators do a few hand done ones and the program dos the rest using those as a guide, only needing tweaks after.

Its a cost effective way to improve 2d animation and could possibly mean the return of it by usuing this technology.

[adobsonartworks]

I don’t think people understand how FAR 2D animation has come in recent years, because we never see it showcased in feature films anymore.

We have programs that can take vector AND raster lines, from two separate frames, and then auto in-between them.

We have programs that can simulate the look of additional hand drawn frames to make frame holds look more alive and authentic.

We have programs that simulate brush strokes and paint effects that can be manipulated and enhanced in real time.

We have programs that allow you to paint directly onto 3D objects, adjust them frame by frame, and simulate the look of 2D animation.

We’ve even got programs that can take an art style and apply it to an animation using algorithms and deep learning techniques.

Like… the tech is THERE. It EXISTS. All we need are companies to have faith in the products and people willing to tell good stories.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

[memewhore]

[hymnofvalefor]

[comrade-bastard-deactivated2024]

[cannibalcomputer]

[jackscarab]