"Just who do you think I am?"

"I'm an ordinary citizen! | I... am Swindler!"

[knivesrey]

ANYWAY, CONRGRATS TO THE REAL STAR OF THE SHOW! YUZURU HANYU FOR OFFICIALLY CERTIFYING THE 4A!

[littlepawz]

Natural phenomenon of diffraction of light transforms black hummingbird’s wings into tiny rainbows

~photo credit: Christian Spencer~

[energyprison]

Im sorry i know its bad to post screenshots of ads but unemployedprofessors.com is really getting me

[pengumipun]

Diabetes, Acryl & Powder. My fav trio from chained man

[byjove]

why did elementary and middle school teachers get so mad when you finished your work early and did silent reading? I was an A/B student and some of them would be so pissed when I finished my test within 15 minutes and whipped out my N. D. Wilson novel or whatever

[raisinbrant]

This!! What was I supposed to do, stare at the wall??

[byjove]

Everybody knows elementary and middle school students need to pretend to be slaving away at math problems for the full 8 hour school day to prepare them for the torture of adult employment.

[byjove]

Someone mentioned how they were having a hard time creating a world for their fantasy fiction geographically because they kept reinventing the island of Britain, which also happened to my good close enemy George R. R. Martin. I would like to suggest North Carolina. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous but North Carolina has an awesome geographic setup for a fantasy kingdom, I think. Inhospitable barrier islands, constantly shifting shoals in the sound, swamps with alligators, venomous snakes and carnivorous plants, lots of very flat and somewhat sparsely populated farmland, foothills, mines, mountains full of mysterious phenomenon that were originally very difficult to navigate and people still get lost in today. It kind of rocks.

[the-ice-queen-623]

AND VENUS FLYTRAPS ARE NATIVE TO THE CAROLINAS!

[byjove]

There are actually 36 carnivorous plant species native to North Carolina, roughly half of all carnivorous plant species in the United States are found in North Carolina! I added the carnivorous plant detail because that’s something I love about the state. We have so many fucking bugs that the plants keep evolving to eat them.

I love that giant man eating Venus flytraps are worldbuilding staples in untamed tropical fantasy settings but they’re actually native to a small region in the Carolinas.

[byjove]

And I agree with the notes, the Chesapeake Bay + Great Dismal Swamp (partially in NC anyway) and the South Carolina Lowcountry would be good geographic additions to this.

[fraternum-momentum]

ironic censorship

[sergal]

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

[sergal]

Oh My God Damn

[sergal]

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

[sergal]

Oh My God Damn

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[manuciruja]

[nudityandnerdery]

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[podcastwizard]

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.

[cometcrystal]

out of the backyard gang baljeet is one of the worst to make into a coffee table. ferb would also be pretty bad. phineas and isabella would be mid because they have those bigass heads but the skinny bodies. might be worse than baljeet and ferb if you're a person who cares about symmetry. buford would objectively make the best coffee table because his silhouette has the most evenly-spaced surface area. now if you wanna talk about pnf characters in general i think pet mode perry would be the best coffee table out of all of them

[symbolblue]

love this kinda post where you have to have seen a different specific post for it to make any sense at all

[tvguts]

every single time time i try to check facebook marketplace for furniture i get jumpscared by this (admittedly sick) custom baljeet coffee table

[jesterlesbian]

what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender

[8-evil-annoying-catboys]

i hate that filmmakers don’t like using internal monologues over the film bc it’s associated with films that are “corny” (honestly, usually just bc they’re chick flicks or kids’ movies, some films that make use of internal monologues are actually really good and use that particular narrative tool skilfully, and are dismissed bc people dislike/don’t take the target audience seriously—mean girls did this pretty well but since it’s a chick flick mean girls is AUTOMATICALLY corny)

but i especially hate that filmmakers don’t make use of internal monologues when adapting NOVELS into films. sorry but a ballad of songbirds and snakes should have had coriolanus’s internal monologue over the events happening, at least in the moments where knowing what he was thinking and how it differed from what he was saying are most important. honestly the original hunger games trilogy also should have had katniss narrating because so much of the books’ depth come not from the actual events or dialogue but from katniss’s thoughts.. but in tbosas the whole point of the book was the cognitive dissonance inherent to coriolanus’s self-perception and his actions and his worldview.

sometimes, a novel having an unreliable narrator is actually important to the themes (and characterisation of the narrator!!!! who is almost always considered the main character by virtue of being the one the audience follows!!!! so messing their characterisation up makes an adaptation inherently egregiously unfaithful!!!!!!!!) and you can’t just make a script that doesn’t have any narration, reliable or otherwise, and expect all the themes to carry over, and you ESPECIALLY can’t expect the narrator’s characterisation to carry over if you omit the VAST majority of what they tell the audience in the book just bc they don’t say it out loud!!

and like, i know, i know that you can’t just shove the entire narration of a book into a film unless you want it to be 10+ hours long and the blocking or editing to make it seem chopped up and have weird pacing, okay, i DO know this. BUT YOU COULD PRAPHRASE!! you could chop out everything that just directly describes all the action because that stuff is just happening onscreen and narrating it all would be redundant, but you could add a character’s thoughts a little bit. if the narrator in the book describes something as being done “suspiciously” you don’t have to have the whole narration but you SHOULD have the character who narrates the book thinking, with the same clarity as in the book so w/internal monologue, “huh, that was suspicious. why’d they do it like that” IF the fact the narrator is suspicious of that action is important to the plot, themes, or the narrator’s character.

biting and clawing and ripping and tearing and screaming and crying and throwing up

[skygenders]

There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.

[skygenders]

The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.

[skygenders]

Seattle Children’s says Laurelhurst noise concerns burdens lifesaving care for children

The hospital says some limits on helipad access add pressure when children need lifesaving care.

Apparently this has been going on for decades and is only getting traction because a pilot complained on Twitter.