Madpie's Lair

This is a blog about everything and nothing. I pick up little posts I like and add them to my collection.

[demilypyro]

gameoverse seems fun enough. but the cynical feminist in me can't help herself. all the male characters are like, cartoon blobs, which is contrasted strongly by the two major female characters in this pilot, both of whom are hour-glass shaped humanoid women who spend most of their screentime in swimsuits. and like that's not an outright dealbreaker but i *am* staring into the camera with my eyebrows raised.

[demilypyro]

idk i'm getting really tired of this "connecticut clark and malfina" type shit where male characters get to be Silly Abstract Little Guys but women have to be women shaped. it's this male-as-default thing that i hate where you don't need to add anything to a character design to imply male-ness but the woman better have wide hips and booba or else yknow like idk it's not outright Offensive but it is tiring

[another-cliche-title]

how it feels seeing a woman depicted in any media

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[targetedknowledge]

[n1k01015]

As someone who uses they them pronouns and is gender fluid, this is fucking funny

[did-you-know]

The oldest living tree ever found was a pine named “Prometheus.” It had been alive since before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Some guy cut it down in 1964. Source

[aclockworknick]

he was actually a forestry graduate student who was doing research on bristlecone pines (Pinus langaevea) and got his increment borer stuck in the tree. this tool costs almost $800, so he asked the forest service if he could cut down the tree to recover the tool. after cutting it down, it became apparent that the tree was actually the oldest living organism. ever. (around 8,000 years old). so, not just some asshole. the guy feels extremely guilty and has even broken down in tears during an interview about the accident

[wellshitcaitlin]

OH MY GOD SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”

And he just takes off running. Literally. Turns around and runs across the salt flats away from the interview and I feel so bad for him but I can’t help but start crying I’m laughing so hard about it imagine a guy high tailing it across salt flats away from a dude with a recorder

[thoughtsofadame]

its so different to know it was an accident and that NO ONE was aware until after. its not like this was one ignorant guy cutting down a fucking relic.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I have terrible news about literally all human infrastructure

[theconcealedweapon]

[liberalsarecool]

Billionaires lie. All the time.

[dogpuppy]

[noelle-ism]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

[noelle-ism]

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

[theconcealedweapon]

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[theconcealedweapon]

[cozycrimesimulator]

Every time I hear someone go, “they can just quit” I wanna mug them and explain, “you don’t actually have to give me your wallet; you can just get stabbed.”

[faelynnupward]

"You can just quit" they say as they point to the thousand other industries that pay as much as Amazon or less.

"You can get a better job with a degree" they say as they mock any unskilled labor as easy and worth less.

"You shouldn't have taken out huge loans if you weren't guaranteed a job" they say as you struggle to pay off the degree they also said you should get.

"You should go into the trades" they say as trade school starts to get just as absurdly expensive as university tuition.

It is almost like, no matter why you're complaining about wages, job availability, the cost of tuition, the cost of living or anything else... they'll just move the goalposts so that it is always your fault and not their ultra rich overlords.

[frocio]

i love it when italians argue about italian. like we don’t even know how our language really works we just roll with it

[frocio]

[iphisesque]

Italian is 107 different provincial languages stuck together with spit and half a prayer

[frogcoded]

My bf lives in another region and we are constantly arguing about regional variations of words and we both live in the fucking north of Italy

[putaemo-cional]

one time i saw a map of italy but instead of cities and roads etc it was just covered w different ways you can say the word vagina. it was covered

[frocio]

oh I can think of at least seven ways to say the word vagina right off the top of my head rn. I can’t imagine what I could do if I tried harder

[criptochecca]

Fjgkahfmangksoajufnajejgnanfjakirjvjjs

[fishbizkit]

this is the Italian Vagina Map, reblog to… I’m not sure actually. Can’t hurt though. 

[cannot-think-of-a-cute-name]

reblog to Italian season your pussy

[byjove]

The “cis is a slur” shit is so funny because you know the people who say that are using transphobic slurs in every other sentence and assuming that cis is derogatory because all of the terms they use for trans people are so the terms transgender people use to refer to their identity must be demeaning too. It’s not but if they do invent a slur against cisgender people, I will be using it. Fuck off, default settings.

[important-cat-pics]

[sm64mario]

can we'a skip the impeachment and just shoot him in the head

[sm64mario]

AND NOT MISS

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[spookygoo]

If you are left with no other option than resorting to violence to protect yourself, know that you did not choose violence. They chose violence.

[anexperimentallife]

[spookygoo]

Going off of this I think it's incredibly important for some people to hear that if you became more empathetic and kind because of your trauma and bad experiences in life, it was because you are a good person deep down and you should always try to remember that.

[magimadpie]

It is not just about already being a good person, it is about CHOOSING to be one, every day anew. You always have a choice, even when you th7nk you don't. Maybe that choice is not something you actively think about, but you are still making it. Suffering doesn't give you a moral high ground, but it tends to change your perspective. Whether that change ends up being good or bad is in your hands.