I Think I Dreamed You Once

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[fernacular]

Y’know, I really enjoy the concept of Clark Kent.

Like, minus the whole superman aspect.

because, like, okay I can buy that maybe he can disguise himself well enough to hide the fact that he’s superman, but i doubt any amount of slouching and glasses wearing can truly disguise that he’s a very tall EXTREMELY muscular man with a jawline that can cut glass.

So basically this newspaper office has this guy who looks like a weightlifter/supermodel just hanging around but he wears glasses and acts like a huge nerd and everyone just goes with it???

Like “Oh yeah, that’s Clark. No no he works here. Oh no don’t bother being intimidated by him, talk to him for five minutes and he’ll devolve into a lecture on proper tractor maintenance. We like Clark.”

 I wonder if the ladies in the office ever drag him with them to bars so they don’t have to worry about creeps trying to harass them like “back off creeps our friend here is 6′4″ and grew up chucking hay bales”  And then it’s funny because (as far as they know) Clark is like, the meekest lil nerd around. (He don’t look it though!!!!)

It’s just incredible to me that Clark Kent can pull off being a quiet harmless dork while still looking like, well, superman. 

[cuttydarke]

Do you think he occasionally turns up to the office Halloween party wearing a really shitty Batman costume?

[ma-at-thought]

Well, I do now.

[mytamakomysookee]

I will tell you where I thought I (Luke Skywalker) came in (while reading the script for the first time)

[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

Historical footage of the last T-Rex serving his country in WWl.

[atlas-the-toad-deactivated20180]

But isn’t that a Jeep? And the T-Rex is holding a…Browning M2? Which wasn’t used until 1933…

 So I think this footage is actually of WW2.

[darth-revan-dark-lord]

I’m living for this historical accuracy

[hansbekhart]

Historical accuracy is so important you guys

[copperbadge]

I agree that it’s WWII, because aside from the Browning and the Jeep, that’s much too small to be one of the last true T-Rexes, which were definitively wiped out in the battle of the Somme. 

It’s probably a Nanuqsaurus Hoglundi – they’re similar but smaller so it’s easy to make the mistake. N. Hoglundi, known to soldiers as Hogs, were used for light artillery up through 1954, when PETA (Paleontologists for the Ethical Treatment of Anachronisms, no relation) got on the military’s case about it. The last Hog to serve in the military died in the Brookfield Zoo in something like 1979, I think? 

[triflesandparsnips]

I’m just waiting for the reintroduction of the native wild species

[spacetwinks]

[mymodernmet]

[do-you-have-a-flag]

technology related sensory memories from my childhood

sliding the metal cover on floppy disks

the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes

ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 

rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo

[mm-imagerie]

The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint

Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked

The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass

The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover

The sound effects in kidpix

Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands

[makeitagoodoneeh]

Manually rewinding cassette tapes by spinning them around my fingers

Playing with the rubber casing of the buttons on a Walkman–pulling them away, rotating them, slipping them from side to side on the stiff posts of the buttons

The audio and visual static at the end of a videotape

The satisfying thwap-thwap-thwap as you page through a well-filled CD sleeve book

How weird and small and light the first cordless phone felt

[scatterbrainedhypatia]

The godawful buzzing sound followed up by a friendly beep whenever our first computer started up. The satisfying clicking sound of some of the old keyboards on school computers. Wrapping the phone cord neatly around my fingers when talking with friends. The calming background noise in Myst, and the sometimes beautiful, sometimes eerie music that played whenever you entered buildings. The ringtone on my dad’s first cellphone (a tinny rendition of toccata and fugue in D minor).

[skeez-queen13]

Carefully untangling the tape ribbon from a car’s busted cassette player 

Inserting a pencil through one of the holes in the middle of a cassette to help wind the tape back in

The ‘blip-blip’ pixelly sounds that all of the really early computer games had

[homojabi]

Something that Gold Star Lesbians™ really fucked up and made that much harder for questioning girls is this idea that lesbians cannot and do not find men attractive in anyway. I get questions all the time asking “can I still be a lesbian if I find men aesthetically pleasing?” “I feel like a fake lesbian because I find guys hot sometimes.” Finding someone hot is not the same thing as attraction, and even if it was, you are not obligated to act on an attraction that you don’t want to experience anymore. I totally find men attractive all the time but that doesn’t mean I want to date them or be with them, it just means that I can appreciate an attractive person. Finding men hot, sexy, attractive, whatever! doesn’t make someone a fake lesbian and we need to stop pretending like it does.

[nowyoukno]

[fangirling-so-hard-rn]

Crows are scary They

use tools

Can be taught to speak (like parrots)

Have huge brains for birds

like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee

They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things

they are scary smart at solving puzzles

some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies

they can remember faces

SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.

They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Guys I’m really scared of crows now. (q) 

[doctormemelordmd]

Yeah but have you seen this 

[stultiloquentia]

A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.

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Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill

[reallymisscoffee]

I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.

Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.

That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him. 

Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree. 

That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.

Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.

[ruggie-bucchis]

that last reply made me wanna cry. that’s so beautiful.

[avianawareness]

Don’t forget the Russian Crow SLEDDING DOWN A ROOF not once, but twice. 

[odpixel]

this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad. 

i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.

a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.

i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.

[breadandflowers]

Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.

[relsretiredblog-deactivated2018]

i dont have enough money to upgrade my phone to something that pokemon go will even attempt to run on so in the meantime im living vicariously through everyones stories which have been anywhere between adorable, hilarious, and terrifying

so far ive heard of

a guy discovering the town hes lived in for 10 years and getting enthralled by local history he keeps learning about on park plaques

finding magikarp in your shower

someone got arrested for walking around a graveyard at 3 am looking??? for??? pokemon??? hol y shit? or something like that??? 

the police station memo in australia politely and cutely asking “budding pokemon trainers” not to actually come in to the police station for the sandshrew sneaking around in there, and that they can catch it by being close to the building, and to “look both ways before crossing the street”

speaking of which, some person who had pokego for only 15 minutes and successfully crossed a 4 lane intersection for a pokemon

someone went out to catch pokemon and found an actual baby bird and is now attempting to take care of it and research the proper ways of caring and aiding a small bird in recovery

[turtlemma-deactivated20191218]

also

and

[resquiciostransformadores]

[alextheeclectic-deactivated2017]

LMAO

[strugglingtobeheard]

the ref was like break that gay shit up (but why? lol)

[allisoninportland-deactivated20]

The WNBA is so gay and I love it.

[imthehomoyourmomwarnedyouabout]

Omg I love this

[bronzedglitterjunkie-deactivate]

I think he thought they would fight. Look at his face! He wasn’t expecting a kiss.

[fridek-blog]

That looked like he laughed after he got there. Like WOAH HEY…ohh ahaha.. Alright you kids.

[southernbitchface]

My heart can’t handle this much gay but i need more

[bando--grand-scamyon]

I AGREE. MORE PLEASE LOL

[spiritual-heaux]

There’s a lady in the back who’s face went from “oh no to OH NO” lmao

[starlightandtears]

When will my WNBA wife come scoop me up?

[micdotcom]

This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

[fortinbrasftw]

The 78-year-old Jaffer says she and the other actresses did their own stunts. ‘And I got feeling from a lot of the crew members that they didn’t think it was right women of my age to be doing that sort of thing. You know, sometimes they’d come up and say, oh, he shouldn’t ask you to do that. And I would say why? And they’d say, well, because you’re an older woman. I did it, and I have to say, I enjoyed every minute of it.’ Jaffer says it was a box office risk for Miller to cast older women to play such ferocious characters. But she says she jumped at the opportunity. ‘The roles that one is offered at this age, quite frankly, you’re either in a nursing home, you’re in a hospital bed dying, you’re suffering from dementia, or in fact, in two cases, I was offered two characters who’d actually died and come back to life,’ she says. ‘So when this role came along, I thought well, I won’t get another chance like this before I die, and that’s why I took it. It was absolutely wonderful. Wonderful role.’ George Miller says in this hero myth, women of all ages were an organic element. He plans to bring them back in more Mad Max sequels.

The Women Pull No Punches In Fiery, Feminist ‘Mad Max’ by NPR (via fortinbrasftw)

In the theatre after the movie ended, I turned to my friend and said, I AM SO GLAD THE WARRIOR WOMEN WERE CAST LOOKING LIKE THEY HAD LIVED A COUPLE DECADES IN THE DESERT.  It was so thrilling to see older women mentoring the younger ones while being fucking GRADE A BADASSES.

The women in Mad Max weren’t a vanity exercise.  It wasn’t, women can share the screen only if they’re pretty and cater to the male view.  So much flew in the face of “conventional beauty.”  Charlize had a shaved head and a missing arm.  The majority of the warrior women were 60 & 70+ and looked it.  They were given the sort of mult-faceted, deep beauty that shines through a brilliant characterization that usually only men get.

Mad Max is easily one of my favourite movies ever.  George Miller is the kind of “feminist director” that all these other so-called women-positive directors should look toward as being a role model.  He didn’t constantly talk about being a feminist so people would bow and kiss his feet for being so progressive, he just made a movie where women were given significant roles, were given the same care and importance as male characters and weren’t fetishized.  And to make sure, he REACHED OUT TO WOMEN AND FEMINISTS TO MAKE SURE HE WAS DOING IT RIGHT.  What a fucking BAMF.

(via sevensneakyfoxes)

[alicesaurusfragilis-blog]

this next trick is a little something i like to call “bulking out my bibliography with articles I barely looked at”

[ardatli]

“Works Sighted”

[setheverman]

american things that are surely fictional:

donald trump

blue raspberry

wearing shoes indoors

texas?????

[songllama]

Actually, I can vouch for Texas, my brother lives there.

[setheverman]

your brother

[ncc-1337-deactivated20170924]

Hopefully Sulu being gay will mean that Lucasfilms will feel like they have to one up Star Trek and add more gay characters. A chain reaction of making every character LGBT+ just because of rivalry.  

[captaincrusher]

This is the space race we want.

[triplesixmafia]