just a crack in the chassis.

"the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." — field marshal ferdinand foch Descriptions are relative. 30s.

[scoutology]

#crysobbing

[kuvaton]

[saint-batrick]

environmental storytelling.

[phallicthimble]

[labete-du-gevaudan]

Swedish Chef was on Masterchef Junior this week and he has human hands and it makes me really uncomfortable. 

[nihilistwife]

when the texture packs don’t all load together

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

The Swedish Chef has human hands in every video he’s in? 

That’s part of the joke. 

[takethistoyourstardust]

He had human hands on The Muppet Show.

[labete-du-gevaudan]

I was a Bear in the Big Blue house kid. I never watched the Muppets. A puppet with people hands is freaky to me. I just want my bear and his big blue house.

[apathetic-revenant]

can confirm, the Swedish Chef (almost) always has human hands. don’t know why. he’s an anomaly that way. 

fun additional bit of trivia: most Live-hand Muppets (that is, ones that have articulated glove hands instead of the hands being moved by rods) are performed with the primary puppeteer doing the head and the left hand while a secondary puppeteer, usually a less experienced one, performs the right hand, a task typically known as ‘right-handing’. (the puppeteers use their dominant hands for the head, so for most of them their remaining hand will be the left. I don’t know if they reverse the process and have people left-handing for left-handed puppeteers.) looks like this:

the Swedish Chef is one of the exceptions to that rule, though, because his skits required a lot more complicated hand movement that needed better coordination, so with him one person would work the head and one would do both hands; they also did that for things a character playing the piano. that added complexity might be why he doesn’t have glove hands, plus the fact that he already looks a lot more human than most Muppets anyway. but I don’t really know.

…that was…probably more information than you wanted. sorry. 

[labete-du-gevaudan]

I JUST LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT PUPPETS. Thank you.

[spiroandthelacktones]

Also fun fact when they put an older swedish chef puppet into the Jim Henson museum exhibit he didn’t have any hands cause he was a live hand puppet, so the museum called up Frank oz and had him actually make casts of his hands that they used to make display hands for it

[certified-muppet-posts]

certified muppets post

[fuckyeahsnackables]

Y'all are missing the best part. You know how the Swedish Chef is always throwing shit in the air and failing to catch things? That’s because Frank Oz started doing that to fuck with Jim (bc as noted above, a puppet with two practical hands is pretty unusual). And Jim would have to react or try to catch things that were raining down on his head from above. And from there it became A Thing, every bit as iconic as the Swedish Chef speaking gibberish.

[arkham]

"they should teach media literacy in schools" english class "they should teach students how to spot misinformation" it's english class "they should teach kids critical thinking" it's called english class

[m-aximumjoy]

wake up everybody new reaction image just dropped

[hotvampireadjacent]

The best part of this is Denji’s not being in kanji bc he’s illiterate

[computationalcalculator]

[grootficguy]

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

[grootficguy]

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

[cyancherub]

also, not to be a bitter hag on the dash, but what the fuck is THIS? “Menthol inspired” some bozo fed Menthol into an LLM to make a chat bot - are u fucking kidding me i don’t even support AI don’t use my shit like this

[zeninsama]

i’m not sure how one goes about getting a character ai bot removed but at the least please get the word out there that someone ripped @cyancherub and my fic for an ai chatbot without our consent (bc we would never consent to bullshit like this) AND IT MAKES ME REALLY DISAPPOINTED TO SEE OTHER WRITERS PROMOTING THIS KIND OF SHIT!!!

[petewentzisblack1312]

heres my challenge to everyone for next month, for black history month. any time you want to draw inspiration from art, like poetry, music etc, pick a black artist. web weave with langston hughes and james baldwin and jamaica kinkaid and hanif abdurraqib and derek walcott and set your edits to meghan thee stallion and beyoncé and eartha kitt and coltrane and invoke basquiat in your art and it can be fanworks or original stuff and importantly, it doesnt have to be about race. obviously be cognizant of the context of the art youre using because a lot of the artists i mention specifically create art about racism but like. take your white doomed yaoi ship and make a webweave to poem by langston hughes. set an edit to body by meghan thee stallion. engage with black art in all contexts.

[petewentzisblack1312]

you can reblog this. other people should also be exposed to this idea.

[ngc7009]

Man…

[birdturgular]

[anarchocuntboogaloo]

HE 👏 WENT 👏 LOOKING 👏 FOR 👏 TROUBLE 👏

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

The euros fail to consider the form: it’s not Johnny’s hubris that is the subject of the song. It’s the devil’s, who thinks his power is worth more than simple love for a craft

[aethersea]

neither americans nor the modern era have any sort of monopoly on one-upping the devil. one of the oldest european folk tales is The Smith and the Devil, in which a smith makes a deal with the devil for his soul and when the devil comes to collect, the smith tricks him into leaving him alone forever. tricking that bastard is an old and storied tradition.

[aethersea]

"average person who makes a deal with the devil is dragged to hell after 10 years" factoid actually just statistical error. average person who makes a deal with the devil uses their new hellish gifts to outwit the old bastard so they can keep both gifts and soul for the rest of their long and prosperous lives. faust, who bargained for knowledge of all things and then wasted his 10 years chasing a girl who wasn't all that into him, is an idiot and should not have become the cornerstone of modern understanding of the trope.

[feyosha]

[rowark]

The song isn't even about the Devil's hubris... he went to Georgia looking for a soul to steal, he was in a bind 'cause he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal...

The Devil's just trying to make his quota. He's got a job to do and he's doing it badly

The Devil wasn't even mad about it... he just bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat, and then he laid the golden fiddle down on the ground by Johnny's feet... he straight up concedes as soon as Johnny's done playing... he's not even a sore loser about it lol

Johnny just taunts him about it for no reason

[thogi]

And that part is what is very American

[rowark]

Damn you're right it is

[ryebreadgf]

[ryebreadgf]

that’s not even all of them.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

He was blessed with the gift of curiosity

[bewbin]

you were born in 2006? what are you? a Honda Civic?

[2006-honda-civic]

can i fucking help you?

[cipheramnesia]

I sure hope so, I need to get to 3rd and Broadway in fifteen minutes, step on it.

[mousidy]

my honest feelings on AI are that humans are amazing and I don't really give a shit what a computer has to say

[mousidy]

a human makes art? it's a reflection of their experience living on this earth, the same one I live on. it's an invitation to understand how other people think

a computer makes art? well, ok? I don't give a shit. you live in computer world. you're ones and zeroes. your art could be an interesting reflection of that experience, except it's actually just a slurry of what humans have made.

AI can splort out things that are cool or funny or interesting or even thought-provoking, sure. but I can't pretend I give much more of a shit than that because I know the artist and it has no beliefs or convictions or experiences. who gives a fuck

[mousidy]

I feel cheated when I learn that a video I watched or a piece I read was plagiarized. the "author" didn't necessarily believe any of what they said so much as they just stole someone else's words.

I feel infinitely more cheated when I find out something I experienced was AI generated. cool, so not only did the "author" not believe what they said or what their "art" represents, nobody does.

I'm not even trying to make a moral argument against AI or whatever I'm just trying to express how I feel. I do not care what the computer has to say. I care a negative amount. do not show me what the computer has to say and pretend it can matter as much as what humans have to say

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

[ooppo]

A PORN BOT UNFOLLOWED ME?

[ooppo]

not that i care

[ooppo]

[okkotsuwu]

My birthday is finally not at the bottom of the Japanese luck calendar… 2026 may just be my year hol up…

[okkotsuwu]

In case anyone wants to see their birthday

[medievaljournalist]

forgot to leave a note for my doordasher to bring a blunt weapon to get past the catacomb skeletons so congrats to whichever necromancer is about to get my banh mi i guess

[greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou]

you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid