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“hallelujah” by leonard cohen being played as an easter and christmas song, “zombie” by the cranberries” being played as a halloween song, and “born in the U.S.A.” by bruce springsteen being played as a Fourth of July/generic us patriotism song have got to be a special trifecta of the most no-listening-comprehension musical moments that happen on seasonal playlists every single year
Venom
They go shopping later once the paralytics wear off. It just takes another 3 hours lol
When she was younger, Annie couldn't control the amount of venom she injected in her bites. Sometimes none came out, other times a ton of venom was injected. But no worries, the neurotoxin only paralyzes for 5 hours. Easy to survive :) Unless an outside force finishes the job lmao
I ended up getting a little lazy and rushing some parts but eh, it's fine. Something before I'm distracted by art fight.
Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower
that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.
I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah
but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually
yearly reminder, the Met Gala is a fundraiser that serves as the primary source of funding for the Met's Costume Institute. the money that invitees pay for tickets and almost all other proceeds from the gala is charity that goes towards a museum collection which otherwise likely wouldn't exist. please support public and private funding for information institutions
the costume institute is also the only part of the met that fully has to fund itself!!
the met is pay what you can for new york state citizens as well! and don't take my word for it, but i am pretty sure you can find FREE historical clothes patterns (sewing, knitting, whatever your heart desires) on their websites costume institute page! you can also find most of their exhibitions online! it's not the same as going in person, but the fact that they have it online is AMAZING!
the met gala is really just a modern take on patronage if you think about it. we should be happy that the rich are using their money to support the arts. this is what they should do!
anyways it is so fucking important that this stays! the history of fashion is so insanely important! clothes are political and always has been!
tapping the sign again! information might have changed since last year, not sure if the fully funding itself is accurate, but I assume so and in general the point still stands. also pretty sure the big red FREE used to have a link, idk where that went. i will try to find it and link it again.
there's OBVIOUSLY issues with the met gala, no fucking doubt! criticise it, i beg. but regarding it as "just a fashion show for rich people to show off their wealth. this is so hunger games." isn't it imo.
tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"
Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation
(Review 2)
this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime
JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I'm not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)
If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.
#some of us are born upton sinclair #and some of us have upton sinclair thrust upon us (via @peri-hellion)
5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles
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I appreciate this video a lot--people don't realize how important it is to start slow if you're trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
the chain of events in this minute and a half clip is so extremely delightful and funny
kermit and scooter riffing on how their physicality doesn't let them open the envelope to announce the winner. the audience immediately cracking up when it cuts to statler and waldorf because they know what the bit is gonna be. jim henson slipping into the kermit voice accidentally before bouncing back at record speed and riffing on it. richard hunt genuinely laughing at jim's joke but doing so in-character. prime muppets was something else man
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 14 is up for the Vox - Hazbin Hotel - fanfiction : )
Thank you @lunareader for beta reading and giving suggestions <3
And thank you all for all the support/comments/reviews/fanart <3
Please do let me know what ya felt about this chapter : ), it's one of the 'big' ones : O
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Thank you for telling me that; I genuinely couldn't find much information about the man himself, I did try, I swear.
So if anyone's lost, the count is now:
a mom in a mini-van who was driving her kids to school
a special ed teacher who was celebrating new years with his family
an ICU nurse who was trying to help a woman who'd been pepper sprayed.
And that's not to mention everyone who's been human trafficked by these Off-Brand Master Chiefs.
🗣🗣🗣 free youtube premiere of the national theatre the importance of being ernest announced!
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Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.
So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.
Not me, but @bitchesgetriches has a lot of great resources for many of these topics on their website.
That's us! Professional internet adults, specializing in financial stuff! We recommend starting with our Grand List of All Articles, or one of our Masterposts:
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Taxes
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Increase Your Income
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Retirement and How to Retire
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Credit and Credit Cards
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Investing for Beginners
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Living Independently for the First Time
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Repairing Our Busted-Ass World
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Getting a Job, Raise, or Promotion
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Saving Money and Being Frugal
Shell out the $50 for the America's Test Kitchen Complete Cookbook. I personally collect cookbooks, but as far as "needing" them goes, you can make the ATK your only one and still spend years without eating the same thing twice. (I do recommend their whole line, though. It's great.)
It's beginner-friendly, contains recipes for everything from biscuits to bibimbap, and (in my opinion) best of all, it doesn't just say "here's how we did the thing," it says "here's why we did the thing this way." My banana bread recipe is from ATK and I've literally had people tell me they hate banana bread but love mine. The secret? Microwaving the bananas. Yes, really. I took their method and applied it to hamantaschen filling and created a little bit of heaven.
It's $50 well-spent, although it's often on sale and cheaper (right now it's $30). And if you're so hard up you can't even get it on sale and have nobody you can ask for a birthday gift, you can often find old editions for a couple of bucks at library sales.
Also: Alton Brown and I are both begging you, do not get the gadgets and gizmos. You do not need them. That sandwich maker will get used once and gather dust. Garlic zooms are adorable but hard to clean. That "all the brownies will have crunchy edges" pan just burns stuff. If you want a waffle iron, get one that converts to a flat griddle. Gizmos are made to part you from your money, not to make your life easier. I own exactly two gizmos: a 1980s French fry cutter I inherited from my mom, and a mini waffle maker I bought before I learned this rule.
And finally:
--to take your French toast from good to "oh my GAWD," add a teaspoon of vanilla extract and a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to your batter.
--any recipe with chocolate, tomatoes, or red meat can be made better with a pinch of espresso powder.
--making bread is much easier than you think, but it is time-consuming.
--any food you buy on "manager special" must be edible by law, but you should eat or freeze it within 24 hours. They're selling it that cheap to try and make a profit.
--kosher meat is more expensive but tastes better and lasts longer.
--don't wash your chicken. It doesn't actually accomplish anything cooking won't, but comes with an added bonus of splashing chicken germs all over your sink and counter and potentially bruising or tearing the meat.
--Greek yogurt isn't usually worth it unless you need it for a no-substitutions recipe.
--to extend your meat and make your sloppy joes more nutritious, dice carrot, onion, and bell pepper and toss them in with your hamburger to cook. You can do up to a third of the mixture by weight and the effect on the taste is minimal, if noticeable at all. (By the way, this hack is Gordon Ramsay-approved. When his son was still a tiny thing Ramsay was struggling to get veggies into him and asked Twitter for suggestions. I provided this as the way I used to sneak veggies into the kids I babysat and he loved it.)
--black beans are a tasty and protein-packed substitute or extender for red meat.
--I strongly suggest learning to forage. I grew up eating mushrooms out of my grandma's yard (GET A MUSHROOMER TO GO WITH YOU IF YOU CHOOSE TO FORAGE MUSHROOMS--there are a ton of deadly lookalikes and guidebooks aren't always helpful), and now I pick my own amaranth right out of my backyard.
--learn what your "cooking staples" are based on what you cook, rather than "every cook should have these" lists. For example, a lot of people will keep spaghetti on hand for a quick meal. I hate spaghetti. You will never find it in my cabinets. But you know what you'll never find my kitchen bereft of? Onions. I will spend my last fifty cents to make sure I have an onion. Last year I ended up with about thirty pounds of onions, stored them in a cool dark cupboard, and it took me four months to use them all by myself BUT I USED THEM ALL. One person. Thirty pounds.
--butter is always on sale at Christmas. Stock up and freeze it. I only pay full price for butter because I have a Winco and their full price often beats Kroger sales.
--the Bitches will also tell you this, but it bears repeating: brand loyalty is almost always overrated. I'm a little bit of a brand snob about some things because I try to purchase kosher as often as possible and a lot of generics aren't kosher, but if there's a kosher generic version I'll get it.
--with that said: do a little research on your brands and always go brand-name with olive oil (I recommend Terra DeLyssa), honey (I recommend finding your local beekeeper, but if you're not near anybody, look up Gray Fox Farms from Washington and support an indigenous land rehabilitator), and maple syrup (Trader Joes store brand is actually real). These foods are commonly faked, which is to say they may have undeclared additives (for example, cutting olive oil with canola oil to bulk it out; adding corn syrup to honey for the same reason) or be a lower grade mislabeled as a higher grade to get a better price (for example, selling regular olive oil as extra-virgin). It's worth paying the extra to get the real versions of these items. If you eat a lot of seafood you should also get it from a local market, not a chain shop--it's common to label poorer-quality fish as high-demand fish to make a buck.
I hope this helps. ❤️
Buy pre-prepared ingredients and food if you need to. Get the pre-shaped hamburger patties or pre-chopped onions for making your supper. Buy pre-packaged salads that you just have to put dressing on. Get the pre-cut watermelon cubes. If you're trying to save money or eat healthier or w/e but you struggle to do that when you have to prep everything yourself, for whatever reason, just get pre-prepared.
Yes, it's technically more expensive, but if pre-chopped onions are the difference between making yourself chili that you can eat for lunch all week or not making chili at all, get the pre-chopped onions.
some important calvin and hobbes facts in case you haven't read the original comic strip in a long time or only absorbed stuff on it from memes and out of context bits on here:
Calvin's last name has never been given, and neither has any of his parent's names. This was actually why his uncle Max only showed up for a brief storyline; the creator of the comic, Bill Watterson, ultimately felt that while it was fine to have him as someone for his parents to talk to, it felt far too awkward to never have Max refer to them by name and he never made a return appearance.
The general tone of the comic is fairly light-hearted, with a big emphasis on goofy slapstick comedy contrasted by clever wordplay and often surprising adult-centered jokes that'll hit you like a slap. A big part of the comedy is, as Watterson put it (paraphrased) "It's really funny to me when people express deeply stupid ideas with really fancy terminology." One notable example you might have seen is that one bit where Calvin asks his mom for money to buy a Satan-worshiping rock album and his mom replies that there's nothing genuine about them and they're just putting on the attitude for shock value, and comisserates with Calvin as he deplores that mainstream nihilism can't be trusted. He concludes that childhood is disillusioning.
There is a LOT of criticism of the extreme materialism and selfish mentality of the late 80s, when the comic was initially written. This may go a long way to explain how its aged so well; much of what it criticizes resonates well with people today.
Bill Watterson views comic strips a legitimate form of artwork, and repeatedly fought to have more space to draw more beautiful and artistic backgrounds, which was a very hard fight and unpopular even with other comic strip artists. He eventually did win some compromises and a lot of Calvin And Hobbes' artwork shows it, with the use of space to indicate time as well as a sharp contrast between the often plain environments of mundane life contrasted by the wildly beautiful imagery of Calvin's imagination (which often sports realistic depictions in an art shift of sorts).
Hobbes is explicitly not an imaginary friend, by word of Watterson himself. We don't know WHAT he is exactly, and Hobbes is apparently unaware of the strange nature of his reality; people look at him and only see an ordinary stuffed tiger plushie, but he has a tangible effect on the world that would be physically impossible for Calvin to do on his own. He's apparently been around for a while, and was apparently around when Calvin was a young baby.
On that note; Hobbes has implicitly killed (notably treated as both a gag and also with the vibe of 'he's a tiger, duh') and while he doesn't do it again on-screen, he doesn't have any moral issues about it. Calvin claims that he's never had trouble bringing Hobbes to school because the last time he did, Hobbes killed and ate a bully named Tommy Chestnut and simply comments that it was gross and he needed a bath. Calvin's tried to repeat this again, but Hobbes was grossed out at the thought having to eat a kid raw and not being allowed to use an oven first, or complaining that children are too fattening.
Hobbes became gradually less human-like in body language and more like an actual cat in both body language and behavior; this was due to Watterson drawing more inspiration from his cat, who also inspired a lot of Hobbes' running gags, such as pouncing on Calvin when he got home. Several years into the syndication of the strip, Watterson's cat passed away, and he did a tribute to her with a comic strip of the two of them agreeing to try to dream together so they can keep playing when they have to sleep; Watterson's commentary (if I recall right), remarks on his cat: "We can see each other again in dreams."
We salute an absolute icon 🫡
"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys
I know this might be a bold take but maybe teaching everyone from a young age that ever making a mistake will be met with unimaginable pain and misery doesn't actually encourage learning or correct behavior. If anything it creates a sense of terror so powerful it completely suffocates curiosity and exploration, thus leading to people knowing absolutely nothing but whatever is brought directly to them, which is a big problem in a world where information is so tightly controlled that a very small number of very powerful people basically have complete power over what people see and hear on a day-to-day basis when not actively seeking new and rigorously verified information from diverse and trustworthy sources.
if any of this sounds like you, start by looking up the definition of words you've heard and are pretty sure you know what they mean, but haven't actually double-checked for yourself. Just like, whenever it occurs to you. Great first step
This post goes out to the "we need to bring back bullying" crowd. Just because you aren't hitting someone physically doesn't mean you aren't being punitive. Maybe it isn't actually healthy to believe it's necessary to harass and humiliate anyone who makes you upset or uncomfortable. That sounds like a you problem actually.
Anyways, breaking the cycle of abuse starts with you and how you treat yourself. You have to give yourself grace and room for error or you'll never be able to cultivate a healthier mindset than your trauma left you with. It's not easy, but you have to trust yourself that whatever seems kinder than however you usually treat yourself is probably a good enough start.
I was inspired by @t-hal-mothman! The theory of prototype Vox's design is his first body is amazing! I obsessed it! And of course, about the shark's tail!!
