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The Evidence:

The Magic School Bus can time travel

When asked, Ms. Frizzle denies that she “knows everything”

However, Ms. Frizzle always knows what her students are up to, knows the answer to every question they ask her, and never shows fear even when in extreme mortal peril, as if she’s experienced this all before

Although we know she was in a rock band called the Frizzlettes and was a Shakespearean actress, Ms. Frizzle’s childhood remains mysterious

Ms. Frizzle is EXACTLY the sort of person to travel back in time to teach herself, and is in fact the most likely fictional character to do so

Nobody is ever named “Valerie Frizzle” at birth

Ms. Frizzle dresses queerly and laughs at her own bad jokes

A lot of the series is about Arnold learning to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy - that phrase is more or less targeted at him as a student

Ms. Frizzle looks a lot like a grown-up Arnold

featherless-wings

Holy shit???????

sistertaxon

She literally has a giant storeroom full of barrels of pickles because she loves pickles so much what more evidence do you need

fledgling-witch

the-dark-aquarian

What relation do pickles have with the transgender community?

nentuaby

One of the medications used in hormone therapy for trans women (spironolactone, which counteracts testosterone) has the side effect of, putting it crudely, making you have to pee all the goddamn time. That causes dehydration and loss of electrolytes.

Pickles and pickle juice turn out to be a fairly convenient and flavorful way of satisfying an electrolyte craving. Those who’ve been on spiro a long time can develop a nigh-spiritual bond with ‘em.

memewhore

First cat video ever? 1899, colorized & speed corrected.

ttohrus

I am always blown away by this. Like. This little girl was alive and laughing and wearing her little hat and in the sunshine over 100 years ago. And her cat was eating little treats from her hands and having a fun little time over 100 years ago. Like. Their existence in history is recorded as so much more than the moody and serious black and white Victorian family portraits. AND WE GET TO SEE IT AND FEEL AS HAPPY AS THEY WERE! I have so many feelings!

katfactorial

IMPORTANT CAT VIDEO

dailyflicks

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.13 — “Blood Ties" (2001)

katfactorial

Why does he look like John Mulaney trying to be a vampire on SNL?

sometransgal

I feel like the fact that I'm well spoken hides the fact that I'm very much a yeehaw country gal.

sometransgal

The fact that the only thing keeping me from wearing a cowboy hat at all times is the fact that I can't afford a proper leather one is what this post is about by the by

katfactorial

I mean, you’re Canadian, none of this is unexpected. I feel the same way about Victorian gowns with mountains of petticoats and crinoline.

ea-paperbits

Women in STEM are just witches in white lab coats instead of black robes

the-haiku-bot

Women in STEM are

just witches in white lab coats

instead of black robes

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

katfactorial

Sometimes we’re both.

6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020

dark green is a nice color. underrated

hesitating

ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green

takenbythestarcatchers

This is literally my favorite color. 😩 Smaragd green is another dark shade of green that I’m absolutely obsessed with.

katfactorial

Looks almost arsenical. I adore it <3

illegal-nipple

katfactorial

I feel like this is the beginning to a ChubbyEmu video.

saccharinescorpion

Parasite and Girl

saccharinescorpion

it’s been one year since i’ve posted this and i still can’t believe the mind-bogglingly enormous response it has gotten… thank you all, i’m glad you liked my silly comic so much

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024

how do you pronounce "genre"?

GONE-ra

juh-NEER

JEN-er-UH

Voting ended onMar 3, 2023

the next question?

femgineerasolution

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katfactorial

Jhawn-ra.

touch-my-katamari

trans women cute reblog if you agree

husbandcinnamon

how long are radio stations gonna say “80s, 90s, and today!” We’ve entered the third decade of “today”

chasetriesagain

I work at an oldies station. Every six months we sit down look around the table and someone goes "Y'know, we could start adding '90s to the mix. It's within our format." We all nod and no one plays anything produced after 1989 because time stopped here sometime around 2003, and no one wants to be the one responsible for whatever consequences come from breaking that fragile illusion.

charlottemadison42

not to be boring, but I’m boring

There’s a reason for that, and it’s Napster and iTunes. People could suddenly buy and listen to whatever music they wanted to, whenever they wanted to. Starting around 2003, we were no longer all forced by media conglomerates to listen to the same few songs anymore, endlessly repeated on the radio till we were sick of them.

So our taste scattered, in a way that I find really beautiful. The long tail was born. The rise of the indie musician began. The 1,000 true fans theory (briefly) become a possibility, and record labels lost their chokehold grip on both artists and listeners. But! Also! Collective nostalgia also froze at that point. After 2003, we only culturally shared the experience of a song or two a year, and often we did that for a reason external to the song itself -- like a dance or a controversy or the rise of a new platform (“Gangnam Style,” “WAP,” “Old Town Road”). The songs that we have in common now, we no longer have in common because we are forced to listen to them four hundred times a month by record labels, radio stations, and MTV, but for other reasons. The advent of truly open personal choice in music was also the end of collective music culture. And that’s why time stopped in 2003.

just-shower-thoughts

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

unclebeanbag

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

ulysseus

Plants don’t wage war

unclebeanbag

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

kasaron

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else.

systlin

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

moirakatson

This post did not go where I expected it to.

deathbeforednf

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

norseminuteman

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed.

breadgunner-deactivated20181003

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

booksandwildthings

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

nevercure

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

nevercure

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

nevercure

Not to keep spamming this post but

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

kiwilemonteanonsense

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

vagaybond

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

crittizen

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

gamebird

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’

skelkankaos2

Okay. Reblog this and tag with a numerical response for how many of these artists you listen to. It’s stereotypical “tumblr user” music.

Lemon Demon

Tally Hall

Death Grips

Jack Stauber

Mr Bungle

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

Devo

Oingo Boingo

Aquabats

Weird Al

My Chemical Romance

100gecs

Talking Heads

They Might Be Giants

Mitski

Girl In Red

#At Least 6 or 7 #Idk how this is 'tumblr' music tho

vash-the-trans-catboy

How many blankets do u sleep with?

Voting ended onFeb 17, 2023

If u vote pls reblog :)

killmesl0wly-deactivated2023091

Don’t say you want a big titty goth gf if you can’t handle when she has dead, creepy art decor on the walls. And requests you to provide her with a vial of your blood.