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[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

Cackling.

In case the original goes away:

Text version:

Washington State Department of Natural resources tweets:

(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)

Please.

Folks, seriously.

PLEASE.

Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.

Fire danger is abnormally high this holiday weekend.

URGING you to consider firework alternatives:

- screaming “bang! boom!” at the sky

- dropping a stack of large books on the floor

- wrapping a toga around a candle

- play America the Beautiful while combining Coke and Mentos

[itsjordannh]

Follow up:

[tanadrin]

scrubbed the bathroom floor this morning. this sense of virtue and industry will last me easily into next week.

[koukorndog-deactivated20260108]

some of you would thrive in a monastery

[dragonflavoredcake]

Etho: Oh, Bdubs did the dishes! Ren: How do you know I didn't do them? Etho: Because once when all the knives were dirty, I watched you cut a bagel with your keys.

[airlocksandaviariesarchive]

2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST 

[ckret2]

#you put the sad guy in #you take the sad guy out #you put the sad guy in and you shake him all about

[narwhalsarefalling]

[jurgenronaaz]

Wasn’t this episode banned in the UK for that specific reason?

[numberlover1729]

yes

[madain-sari]

like to charge reblog to cast

[martinkhall]

One more year.

[frustratedasatruar]

Election results are looking promising.

[badsciencejokes]

Dude has a death wish

[vergess]

Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.

Truly the family that just keeps giving.

[haropla]

I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.

It was taken by a biologist that studies birds so it seems like he knows what he’s doing. For the most part. Here’s his caption:

[krystal-prisms]

You all know that he 100% licked his fingers after handling that bird

[totally-original-artist]

[openworldadventurer]

[adurot]

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[assdare]

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

HAPPY ONE MILLION NOTES OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[stupidiocy-somewhere-else]

[cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215]

we really need to re-introduce the term “publicity stunt” back into our vocabulary. too many people are getting continually duped by blatant marketing ploys bc fundamentally they don’t see celebrities as….greedy millionaires cashing in on media trends to make money

[cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215]

hmmm i see what u mean, but entertain this idea with me….the misuse of the term ‘publicity stunt’ could potentially put an end to tiktok’s popularity because the kids on that app would start to see themselves as ‘posers’ the way teens did in the ‘00s

[vampyrfagg]

NO UR ACTUALLY COMPLETELY AND OBJECTIVELY CORRECT MB

[cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215]

[headspace-hotel]

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

[headspace-hotel]

We talk a lot about how in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Pevensie children live full adult lives as kings and queens of narnia before stumbling out of the wardrobe by accident and being children again after like 15+ years. But I’ve never seen the same level of analysis devoted to how in Prince Caspian they return to Narnia and discover that over 1,000 years have passed in Narnia since their last visit.

Imagine undergoing the grief of losing an entire life you lived in another world, being forced back into the body of a child and to grow up all over again without the ability to even talk about what happened in the decades you lost. Every person you knew and loved, vanished, leaving no indication they were ever real and no guide for how to move on.

But returning to that world where you were a King or Queen and discovering that centuries have passed without you and that the people you lost are not only dead, but mostly aren’t even remembered? That’s almost worse.

[headspace-hotel]

That series is really something for “worldbuilding threads picked up and never touched again” too like

in the silver chair it’s confirmed that deep underneath the earth in narnia there’s a molten, fiery abyss world called Bism that is apparently populated and also apparently gemstones are living creatures that live there, and what we understand as diamonds, emeralds, rubies etc. are just the discarded husks of once living creatures

Jadis is actually not originally from Narnia, but accidentally gets sent there at its creation (making her one of the oldest beings in narnia) and she annihilated all life in her world of origin. she also very much does go to literal actual London and terrorize people. she is like 7 feet tall and can tear iron with her bare hands like it’s taffy.

Jadis makes it “Always winter and never Christmas”…what the FUCK is her beef with Father Christmas. I know it’s supposed to be like a metaphor or some shit but I’m imagining what exactly the fuck must have happened between them for jadis to specifically want to prevent him from coming to narnia to the extent that her powerful seasonal-change-stopping magic also includes a “fuck that guy in particular” clause.

like think about it, Jesus is not a thing in narnia, he’s just aslan. and aslan did not get born. ergo, the origin of such a concept as Christmas is the entity Father Christmas. Christmas is not a religious holiday to Narnians it has no symbolic meaning it is just specifically the time of year when Father Christmas fucks around across the landscape giving children gifts, such as very deadly real weapons. There’s no reason for him to do this. It’s just what he does. And Jadis fucking hates it.

another thing from the magicians nephew that is never brought up again is that Polly and Digory don’t go directly to Narnia, they end up in this intermediate place between the worlds that’s like a forest full of pools leading to other worlds, potentially infinite other worlds, and they end up in Narnia pretty much at random.

I think it’s also confirmed that Archenlanders were originally from Earth, and are the descendants of a small group of people who traveled to Narnia by accident and got stuck. One wonders why Aslan didn’t whisk them back out. Or why being too old wasn’t a problem for them.

I think this is early installment weirdness but there are Roman gods in narnia. ?????

stars are sentient???

narnia is flat. this is not actually an unresolved thread but I don’t think it’s common knowledge even though in one of the books they literally sail to the edge of the world. caspian specifically thinks it’s super cool that the earth is round

[athoughtfox]

I LOVE the whole concept of Bism. Like Lewis really just said oh yeah there’s a whole world under Narnia where people live and jewels are alive too actually you wear dead ones in your jewellery and then no one ever spoke about it again, not even the fandom

[agapantoblu]

All this site ever talks about are Italian Grandmas, where’s the appreciation for my Italian Found Grandpas?

[agapantoblu]

I got two neighbours in their 70s and 80s respectively and they’ve both taken a wild interest in my orchard because they both used to plant stuff and now they’re living vicariously through mine, checking on progress, helping out, trying to teach me stuff except most of the time they have wildly different opinions on how to spot bastard branches on tomato plants and I’m living for the drama

[agapantoblu]

We were plowing the field today when one of them asked me why I didn’t have a boyfriend when I’m already 25 and I went “Men are trouble”, you know, like a lesbian, and he just stopped for a second, thought then dipped his hat. “Now, that is true” where else would I get this?

[agapantoblu]

Update, Found Grandpas now planning my future marriage like an heist.

“You like fieldwork, you need to marry the son of a landowner. Lots of land, lots of cultivation. Done! You’re set for life!”

“But he must be dumb.”

“Oh yeah, dumb like a wood plank. So dumb you can do whatever you want.”

“And get the land.”

“And get the land!”

[agapantoblu]

You know what? Bisexual farmer marries landowner himbo is the happy ending I deserve

[oodles-of-boodle]

Amazing!!

I have an older Italian couple for neighbours as well, and they are a delight! The husband is built like a linebacker and just so, so gentle and so sweet. The wife is tiny, dyes her hair fiery red, and has a matching personality. One of their sons breeds reptiles. When I came out as trans they were more supportive than my bio family, and gave me a good luck gift before my top surgery.

One time, not long after moving here, I got locked out of my house. I was just going to wait in the carport for my partner to get home but my bladder had other ideas. I’d only been to their place once but we were friendly with each other so I dragged myself over there and red-faced asked to use their facilities. They did, of course, then they did me one better! They helped me get the window AC out of my basement window, then the husband straight up lowered his tiny wife through the tiny window without the slightest hint of effort 😂

They now have a spare key to our house and have decided I’m their third son. I am 10000% on board with that decision

[sioltach]

[catididnt]

Transcript:

“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.

This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.

What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.

[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]

According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.

It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.

This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”

[starlightfae]

I don’t understand why these can’t BOTH be true?

(putting aside that Maslow definitely should have credited the Blackfoot Tipi with the original idea and inspiration, because he 100% should have and I agree wholeheartedly that it’s messed up he didn’t)

But as my therapist explained it, the bottom of the pyramid is the foundation. without food, water, rest, and shelter, you can't work on the things higher up on the pyramid. So if the top of Maslow's pyramid is the bottom of the Blackfoot Tipi, it's easy to interpret them to mean different things. Maslow's pyramid is about an individual's needs, whereas the Blackfoot Tipi sounds more like it's about a community's needs. This explains perfectly why self-actualization is at the top of one and the bottom of the other.

Of course, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is not a theory without its faults. For one, access to your basic needs in a capitalist hellscape like the U.S. isn't always that simple, and that's why we need to take care of each other. For another, things higher up on the pyramid can affect the lower levels. For instance, having no friends (or other close relationships) can severely impact your feelings of safety.

It just doesn't make much sense to me to treat these ideas as a "one or the other" when they can actually work very well in tandem.

[tallahasseemp3]

i don’t think humans are inherently bad i just don’t. once i posted about how i can’t ever get poached eggs right and someone took time out of their day to send me tips on how to make them. they used their finite time on this planet to teach me how to poach an egg with no motivation other than helping a stranger have a better breakfast and if that isn’t proof humanity is worth saving i don’t know what is

[ftonews]

Just an amazing Wonder Woman cosplay by @deepica

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[manypersons]

[entropybegets]

so this just happened

[captainjonnitkessler]

He’s got a menorah mug too! 

[wetwareproblem]

Hey goyische artists who just need to put that Jewish or Jew-coded character in their Xmas art! This is how you do it. He’s not just in the Xmas shot, he’s actively participating - look at his hat! - but the art recognizes and honours his Judaism.

[everythingfox]

little fluff

(via)

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Ironic that Bilbo is so annoyed with the Sackville-Bagginses for stealing from him and trying to evict him from his house, when his whole adventure involves stealing from someone and evicting them from their house.  

[avengerwho-deactivated20190925]

To be fair, he was essentially helping someone else get rid of their own Sackville-Bagginses

[brawltogethernow]

This is an absolutely world-rocking take on narrative parallels in The Hobbit. Like why yes those were equally petty property disputes, and your point?

[pulmonary-poultry]

Thorin: “The dragon Smaug is terrible beast who has invaded our home and taken the heirlooms of our people as his loot.”

Bilbo: *remembering the last time Lobelia Sackville-Baggins was in his house* “I know the type.”

[kyraneko]

“Smaug is basically an unusually large Sackville-Baggins” is not the take I expected from the Tolkien fandom today, but it absolutely fits.

(I am also sad that even if Bilbo had called Smaug a Sackville-Baggins to his face, Smaug would lack the background information to know just how he was being insulted.)

[singelisilverslippers]

Bilbo, facing down Morgoth Bauglir at the Dagor Dagorath: “You broke into the House of Fëanor and stole his gems, which he and his sons cared about very much. I would expect such behaviour from a Sackville Baggins, not one of the Powers of Arda.”

[61below]

Thorin, holding Bilbo by the neck over the ramparts: You are being such a Sackville-Baggins right now

Bilbo, more upset now than about being held over the ramparts: Y— YOU TAKE THAT BACK!