*:･ﾟ✧ yippee! *:･ﾟ✧

[greelin]

black mold and lead can’t affect me because i’m pure of heart

[rosewitchhh-deactivated20211123]

DISCUSS

[thefishingrod]

1866

[emilytakesphoto]

i feel like "essential oils" have like misled people due to ambiguity in the language. like its essential in that its meant to have the essence of the plant, not essential in the sense of being necessary or essential in the sense of being important.

like if they were popularly called "volatile oils", an honestly more accurate name, i bet they wouldnt be used in so much pseudoscience nonsense and advertising nonsense.

[hail-the-villainess]

There are many fun reasons to have a character avoid using guns, but I think "this otherwise-awesome fighter is a really terrible shot" is an underappreciated one. Yes, they're available in my setting and would work against my enemies. No, I don't have a moral code against them or a power that makes them redundant. I just can't aim for shit!

[hail-the-villainess]

In general IMO the more badass and hypercompetent a character is, the more they're enriched by having one skill they're just absolutely hopeless at. Terrible shot, terrible liar, terrible dancer, no poker face, no sense of direction, can't drive, can't swim, can't cook, can't read, always broke, always late, always falls for a certain trick...

[jewelcoatfish]

yuna loves taking shane grocery shopping while david and ilya do puzzles. it’s their activity, their favourite thing to do together. ever since he was little, shane and yuna would go on little adventures that is running errands, and he can vent to her about his day and school and hockey, and when shane’s all grown up yuna starts gossiping with him about her work or their annoying distant relative too. it’s their mother son bonding time, and now that ilya’s in the picture, shane and yuna gets to talk about their partners on these trips.

“your dad really likes this brand of pasta lately, he says it brings out the sauce.”

“ilya loves cookies and cream, i’ll get some to put in the freezer for when he comes over.”

“now, does ilya like cans or glass bottles of coke more?” “bottles, he thinks cans are ugly.”

“does dad still take fish oil?” “three a day, speaking of, we’re running low.”

yuna really really loves sharing things with her son like this, she feels they’re connected by their love for the family. shane loves these adventures because they are the tradition since he was five and was asked which toothbrush he liked better

[despazito]

challenging all white women to put in even half the effort they spend on fearmongering to other white women about parking lot abductions to instead support MMIWG initiatives if they want to actually make a difference in protecting women

[mexicast]

Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls - Assembly of First Nations

The AFN's Seeking have yet to see real, on-the-ground changes to end violence against First Nations women, girls, and gender-diverse people.

[jisuto]

[larkandkatydid]

New local scandal is an old woman who will walk down to her mailbox in her robe, then, when no cars are driving by, lay down next to her mailbox as if she’s fallen or been hit by a car. Tourists will stop, help her up, and walk her to her house. Then, after they leave, she’ll repeat this until she’s bored with it.

Her neighbors have called the cops a bunch but have been told that it’s not illegal to fake being an old lady in peril so soft-hearted tourists or newcomers are nice to you. One of the neighbors sometimes yells “oh, get up, Lois!” at her. But overall local sentiment is that this is at least somewhat enviable levels of not giving a fuck.

[trans-masked]

Telling passing trans men to their faces that they look like they would hate crime you is so weird because like… obviously they don’t or you wouldn’t say that to him? I would never go up to a homophobic cis guy and tell him he looks like he would beat the shit out of me if I kissed his daughter. The joke that trans men who pass are threatening is so insidious because if you actually thought he was a threat you wouldn’t be able to talk to him like that, so it’s really just a not-so-subtle way of saying “the way you look makes me uncomfortable, you don’t belong here”

[ivy-michaels]

Functionally, there's very little difference between watching a movie on poob and watching a movie on basic cable. Yet, for some reason, the advertisements on poob offend me far more

[troglobite]

ad breaks on poob always interrupt important scenes or make really jarring cuts.

when it's on cable, they've timed the commercial breaks in a way that generally isn't as disruptive. someone took the time to "reformat" the movie for tv.

ads on poob always KNOW that they're on poob and want me to interact with them or click them. the number of QR codes or ads-in-separate-ad-framing/window are infuriating and jarring.

cable commercials are just stupid little skits i can mute to go use the bathroom.

ads on poob are less than 2 minutes--not enough time to do anything, but enough time to piss me off.

cable commercials are 2-5 minutes, which is enough time to go do something/bathroom or snack break, or talk to whoever you're watching with.

ads on poob are the same 3-4 commercials over and over and over and over again, often cutting to them immediately with no warning, and poob struggles to like, catch up to the fact that it's having to show a different progress bar, or a different timer.

cable commercials, esp during primetime, generally cycle through like 10-15 minimum, so you can go an ad break or two without seeing the same commercial. and they usually only pop up during quiet moments, at regular intervals, so you can see them coming--and there isn't a weird lag/loading time.

in both cases i am being accosted by advertisements and treated like a consumer to manipulate and exploit. the volume changes on cable and poob, the brightness level is eye-searing in both cases.

but poob doesn't respect that i'm here for the MOVIE. cable, thanks to preexisting, decades-old norms around broadcast television, still kind of does. kind of. it's easier to ignore those commercials than the ones on poob.

basically i think poob follows ad norms established on the internet--pop-ups, invasive flashing bullshit, creating lag, taking up time and attention--and cable follows established cable norms of, "time for a few minutes of ads that are just stupid little skits instead of spam machines, and then back to your otherwise uninterrupted movie."

[ivy-michaels]

Yeah honestly that all tracks.

[ivy-michaels]

#you are doing some goncharov shit to me

I mean i know what you're saying, but there's about a dozen free ad-supported streaming services and i respect none of them to use any of their names. Meanwhile, Poob has fully entered the tumblr lexicon as a shorthand for stupidly-named tech products, especially streaming services.

[ivy-michaels]

#we arent doing goncharov shit to you we're doing glup shitto shit to you

[mucho-smasho]

we are going to see this. on our tv screens. holy fuck.

[mucho-smasho]

this scene is literally just

[captain-price-returns]

oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

[hotvampireadjacent]

[thewellofastarael]

"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels. Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so. Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing. Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."

Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)

[chevalierrev]

Rusame + some doodles bc I'm bored

Alfred stop being so freakay Bru,,

Okay I admit, I like doodling, hmph!

[verminfang]

Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay

[womanaction]

one of the best sentences I've read on Wikipedia

[odinsblog]

So many of these are really good

[wolfcat-hybrid]

FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS; Sniper in Brooklyn (Published 1981)

I was positive that was a fake story but. Looks like there was just straight up a sniper in Brooklyn for a few months

[elfyourmother]

you were positive it was fake bc you’re not from here