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Saw several people angrily responding to this one & all I can say is she’s 100% right

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

femboy-fever

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

wondermanaging

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

charlesoberonn

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

connard-cynique-deactivated2024

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

fuocogo

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

actuallyjuststealingmemes

This is just as wild with the context

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charlesoberonn

Some of my favorite moments in the series

esoteric-merit

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

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By Mark Russell and Steve Pugh!

For more context, I really enjoy this interview they did:

The creators of The Flintstones comic on bringing existential dread to Bedrock

asteroidtroglodyte

I have this book and every page hits like

Well. Like a boulder.

crtter

”How come you’ve never seen the Amazon rainforest if you’re from Brazil?” big country

crtter

Here, this should make it clearer:

crtter

Wait, hold on, I can illustrate it in a funnier way

crtter

There’s around one and a half Frances between me and the Amazon rainforest.

crtter

I had no idea “coach” could also mean “bus” until like, a second ago and I stared at your reply in disbelief for a good minute because I thought you were telling me to do the trip in a horse-drawn carriage. I was like “Coach?! Like Cinderella?! Where would I even get- that HAS to be slower than a car!”

batmanisagatewaydrug

unexpectedly sexy part of the Sinners credits. we LOVE a thoroughly sourced film.

batmanisagatewaydrug

I'm gonna be super real, gang, the repeated assumptions in the replies that all of these people are autistic is uuuuh. I mean it's extremely inappropriate, if nothing else. and I'm also deeply concerned by the degree to which "autism" gets conflated with "academic expertise" on this website.

batmanisagatewaydrug

okay. unexpected interpretation.

did not think I'd have to clarify this but the issue is not "some autistic people don't have degrees" it's "behaving as if every knowledgeable person must be autistic is asinine behavior."

batmanisagatewaydrug

☝️☝️☝️

mellosdrawings

Maybe -- just MAYBE -- don't spit on other characters and ships and works when the artist you congratulate and reblog from also draws those?

comedydoctor18

FANDOM ETIQUETTE NEEDS A RETURN SOOOO STRONGLY

galaxywarp

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

retropopcult

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

foone

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

silencedrowns

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

meeedeee

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

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The flight suit in question:

hppjmxrgosg

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

reggiemess

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

reggiemess

Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?

un-monstre

Bloopers are movie aftercare and it’s fucked up that we got rid of them

fruitless-vain

Gay Puppy Gay Puppy Gay Puppy

argumate

hell yeah! I never meet any hot chicks in ##USER_CITY##, it’s a total backwater!

adhoption

take me down to the ##USER_CITY## where the grass is ##COLOUR## and the girls are ##USER_PREFERENCE##

digitaldiscipline

sikolfeligrim

I adooore chimera designs sm dude,,

hungry-skeleton

I think the biggest thing mascot horror things need to get a grip on is the reasonable balance of cute/creepy. The mascot in question needs to be cute enough to realistically be for children but scary enough to actually make for effective horror. Most games always lean too far in either direction and idk maybe it's just me but immersion with these kinds of games are important for me to actually find enjoyment in them.

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