Being Alive

23. Canada. Gay music student with a big boner for opera, art song, and choral music

[puppyboydavidbyrne]

[puppyboydavidbyrne]

[robotslenderman]

Source

[tributary]

teetotailer

[judygemstone]

first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store

[konoko]

[evaughn]

Talkkkk??

[epilepticsaints]

[filmnoirsbian]

I miss the comfortable, cluttered home interiors in movies like you could tell people lived there and even if things were tidied they weren't sanitized. Nowadays movie and tv home interiors look like they double as the set for a lysol commercial....like who lives here?? Mr. Clean??

[filmnoirsbian]

In scream (1996) it's really evident in every home scene that people live there. Things aren't overwhelmingly messy but there are the little messes here and there that build up over time as you rush through your day:

Even here at the desk you can see stacks of books and papers and a soda can, clear evidence of life:

Contrast this with scream 4 (2011), you get absolutely none of the same sense of home and daily life. Every room is styled like architectural digest is due to stop by any moment. The teenagers' bedrooms are carefully placed, with no individuality, and their cars look freshly washed in every scene. Even as syd fights for her life, her surroundings are spotless:

In fact, directly contrasted to the original scream, every kitchen in scream 4 (and there are many) is spotless, with nothing out of place, so much so that jill has to purposefully wreck a lot of kirby's house just to convince people there was a fight there (even though...there was).

This is the kitchen from scream:

And yeah, a lot of that can be blamed on the party, but there's stuff on the counters, and dishes in the sink, like you would find in any normal kitchen on any average day of the week.

Now look at this kitchen in scream 4, supposedly also a normal kitchen, also on an average day of the week:

You cannot convince me someone actually lives there.

[filmnoirsbian]

@set designers stop forgetting the clutter budget‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣

[dankmemeuniversity]

[phantomrose96]

Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.

[closet-keys]

real talk though, if you had a large number of people in your community who wanted a particular food item and couldn’t afford it (for instance if you’re in a food desert and need produce or if you’re a part of a large disabled and/or overworked community who all need prepared frozen food), you could pool funds and get an order from a supply store like this.

it requires organizing for finance management, ordering, transport, and distribution, but if you build a stable mutual aid network, it’s genuinely within the realm of possibility.

[anarchopuppy]

This idea is called a buyers club (or buying club, buying coop, etc) and it’s a great time-tested method of mutual aid. And there are guides and tools for starting your own at managemy.coop

[weaver-z]

The year is 2031. Riverdale is finally over. The new edgy reboot of a wholesome cartoon series is Charles, a gritty retelling of Charlie Brown. Charlie is played by a now-27-year-old Finn Wolfhard. Linus’ “blankie” is where he stashes his drugs. Sally has dissociative identity disorder and the writers’ only research was watching Split ten times while high. Lucy’s father is in the mafia. Snoopy dies in episode one. The showrunners only made one good decision, and it’s that Schroeder is gay now.

[jonayariley]

Coming soon to the CW.

[spydecai]

HOW did you get almost every plot point of Dog Sees God down to a point?? Is that the joke here?

[weaver-z]

I want you to know that I quite literally did not know about that play until people in the notes told me about it months ago. I made up the funniest “grimdark” twists I could think of and ended up predicting an existing piece of media with horrifying accuracy. I hate it here too

[bunjywunjy]

Planet earth is terrifying I hope I never see a volcano

hey, you should be glad these things are around, they’re a sign that Earth isn’t going to let cosmic radiation cook you alive anytime soon!

volcanoes erupt when plumes of liquid magma rise up through the more sluggish magma closer to Earth’s crust and melt their way up to the surface, like how the cheese bubbles up through your pot of unattended macaroni! (except WAY less delicious)

and this magma rises in the first place because it’s been superheated by Earth’s core, which is a constantly-rotating semifluid ball of supercompressed hellfire iron hotter than the surface of the sun!

the unimaginable pressure down there combined with the physical rotation turns Earth’s heart into a primitive dynamo engine that generates a powerful magnetic field, which acts like an enormous forcefield and prevents most of the cosmic radiation Earth encounters from ever reaching the surface!

which is good, because it would immediately blast the surface of the Earth clean of life if it ever did make landfall. 

so if you ever do encounter an erupting volcano, remember that all things are connected, and stop to give Mama Earth a pat of thanks for protecting you from the cosmic forces of the universe which would very much like to make you extremely dead!

and then run like hell.

[fishingboatproceeds]

As I near 200,000 followers here at fishingboatproceeds, I just wanted to say Cock is one of my favorite tastes. Not only that, but balls smell amazing. It makes me go a little crazy on it to be honest. Like, I cannot get it far enough down my throat to be satisfied. I’m only satisfied when I feel those intense, powerful, salty, hot pumps of cum down my throat. When I sit back on my heels, look up at you with cum all over my mouth and slobber running down my neck, hair all fucked up and wipe my mouth with the back of my arm and ask you if I did a good job and you cannot even speak because I’ve drained all of your energy out the tip of your dick….. That’s when I’m satisfied.

[arkham]

this how we lost post editing and it was still worth it

[tenderpoints-deactivated2021120]

some of my favorite video essays

lady bird, fences, and why you don't need to forgive your parents

racebaiting, queerbaiting, colorism, featurism, and performative diversity

girlhood disrupted : the pseudo-maturtiy of traumatized girls in film

let's talk about the japanese school girl

the coraline bug theory

breaking down true womanhood & black girlhood in media

bill cipher : one fatal mistake

the philosophy of mob psycho 1000

why only goblins matter

soul eater : beneath the surface

perfect blue : the fear of yourself

the villain of edith finch

art vs the artist

how regular show saved cartoon network

big plotholes in reality

detroit : become human retrospective

[professorsparklepants]

I've made this post like six times but it still fucks me up the China's mountains just look like that. Like I spent decades thinking it was stylistic but no, they just have different mountains over there.

[professorsparklepants]

For reference, here's what my local mountains look like:

Here's the general art style Chinese mountains are drawn in:

And here's how some of them actually look:

[dreamsequencer]

What the FUCK

[adelicateculturecell]

I’m specifically reblogging this here because I know there is a geological reason for this and I know at least one of you has to know it.

[tharkflark1]

thank you 

[normal-horoscopes]

[OPENS FRIDGE, REMOVES TUPPERWARE CONTAINER LABELLED "Pomegranates from land of dead do not eat"]

[normal-horoscopes]

[I REMOVE A SECOND CONTAINER LABELLED "Fairy apples do not eat (Autumn Court)]

[normal-horoscopes]

[I APPROACH THE BLENDER]

[voluptuously]

[unseelie]

[gallusrostromegalus]

Plant people see the “you wouldn’t download a fruit” and go “NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A FRUIT, I’D STEAL SIX MORE FRUITS AND GRAFT THEM TOGETHER INTO A MASSIVE FRANKENFRUIT AND WHEN THAT GOT BIG ENOUGH I’D MAKE ADDITIONAL COPIES AND FORCIBLY UPLOAD THEM TO PUBLIC PLACES TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAD ACESS TO THESE FRUITS FREE OF CHARGE FOREVER” and that’s why botany is great.

[weirdkatharine]

I’ve seen garden perennials with little tags on them saying that “unauthorized propagation” is not allowed by some kind of intellectual property law.  So plant downloading is actually a thing people are concerned about.  The thing is, many perennial plants should be divided every few years for their own health, and then hey, you now have two plants!

[gallusrostromegalus]

I *literally* got assaulted by the Proven Winners Illegal Plant Snitch at my old job at the greenhouse/nursery so not only is Plant Downloading something corporate whackadoodles are concerned about, it’s an extremely cool crime we all should go commit.  Just make sure to check what’s invasive in your area so you don’t go around causing an Ecological Issue, which is an extremely unsexy crime that I will personally come to your house and fill all your shoes with cooked, day-old spaghetti for.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[soidreamtiwasastarfleetcommander]

I read the thread and what isn’t clear from one tweet that this 9yr old was reffing an adult women’s league, not a children’s league. And that woman who argued with said child ref was a player not a mom.

[rehfan]

Even better.