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listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today… i’m so very sorry

If this post gets 100 notes I’ll recreate the entire song through memes

OK so I’ll do my best to get this done soonish–it may be a week or two, but I’m doing it

chidi-anaqonye-deactivated20181

My masterpiece… is complete.

op did not put in this much work for 160 notes

kimreesesdaughter

There’s NOTHING wrong with still living with your parent(s). Whether you’re in school, dropped out or graduated. Please take your time, especially if you’re not being pressured to move out. This is your time to really build a solid plan, save money and be sure you won’t have to return once you’re ready to move out. Do not let anyone pressure you because you’re in your 20s and still at home. It’s no joke out here. Believe me. Take your time baby.

mindlace23

But make sure you keep the power to the freezer on, or they’ll start to stink.

miguelmarquezoutside

nevver

Still standing

ougiebougie

@killzombieseatbacon he got scared!!

killzombieseatbacon

Hahahha 😂

coffeeandspentbrass-deactivated

Awww, hahahahaha.

the-vegan-muser

i’m super arachnophobic, but this is pretty cute, ngl

painted-bees

The mealworm represent my responsibilities, the spider is me.

speciesofleastconcern

oh noooooooooo

maxofs2d

digital-lich

sorry this tweet is just Very Good and im glad

the-promise-has-been-made

this whole discussion about a Mulan life-action baffles me. Like… I love the fun with Mushu and all but? Why do we need a Disney remake of the movie when there is

a pretty much epic

beautiful

actually Chinese version

with great characters

and Mulan’s more accurate story

readily available???

Since 2009??

madamdoesnothing

Well I know what I am watching now

renefer

UPDATE: I just watched this and I have so many emotions. Seriously, check this out

neoyi

OOH! On my list!

katsplanet

i didnt know this existed!!! ok

scarabsi

I’ve failed all my followers for not letting them know about this immediately. I’m sorry you guys missed out.

cosmic-noir

I NEED IT

life-b4-death

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v19697192DZSkejpc

Here is a link to watch it free online with English subtitles.

Just as a warning, it is a little violent, some horses are killed during the battles, and there is a scene where Wentai cuts open his wrist. It is a very good movie, I just finished watching it and would recommend everyone watch it.

an-angry-wolf

Please try to support this appropriately rather than watching online.

ipreferlush

👆

Captain America, drawn in PS.

[Caption: A realistic digital painting of Colin Kaepernick. Colin is kneeling, gazing upward. He’s wearing red striped football pants and a bright blue football jersey with full padding. The jersey is plain except for white stripes on the sleeves and a five-pointed Captain America star on the chest. His black hair is pulled into braids and he has religious tattoos on his bare arms. A soft purple light shines from above. The background is deep red.]

I’m watching The Sword in the Stone for the first time in decades and I’ve gotten to the part where Merlin is trying to get Arthur to lose his virginity to a squirrel.

Y’know, if Merlin turned that squirrel into a human it would save Camelot a significant amount of problems down the road.

“Squirrels mate for life Arthur, so the chances of her fucking your best friend and inadvertently causing a schism that leads to the downfall of an entire utopian kingdom are completely nil!”

Ok hopefully this is the last time I add onto this but Arthur marrying the squirrel would stop both of the events that destroyed Camelot - namely the aforementioned falling out with Lancelot AND the birth of Mordred. Being with him since youth, Squirrel would keep Arthur from being seduced by his half-sister Morgause (or Morgan Le Fay in the versions of the myth that cut Morgause out) when he was young and foolish, as he’d already be in a committed relationship and thus wouldn’t be able to be tricked into starting one with said half-sister. No incest means no Mordred. Then, as mentioned above, Squirrel would be a faithful wife, which means Guenevere would be single, which means Lancelot and Guenevere could pork each other without causing a huge row that ends with Lancelot killing dozens of his fellow knights of the round and inspiring several others to turn against Arthur out of loyalty to him.

Camelot would have been saved if Arthur just. Fucked. That. Squirrel.

duskargentum

You say all that but all I hear is “here is how Merlin trying to convince Arthur to become a furry could have saved the world”

Look this was a journey for me ok?

It started as “I can’t believe Disney made a movie where Merlin tries to get a squirrel to take Arthur’s virginity” and slowly became “I can’t believe Disney’s weird bestiality subplot actually solves the two biggest problems that cause Camelot’s downfall.”

Because as baffling as the squirrel fucking plotline is just on its own, the fact that it’d actually be solution to the eventual problems Arthur faces - whether anyone at Disney was actually thinking about that or not (and I’m guessing not) - is even more so. It is bizarre and unsettling to me that squirrel fucking could have saved Camelot, and that’s, uh, the point of this I guess.

literatedead

So, pointless fun fact. Around 2008, someone on 4chan actually made a ‘humanized’ version of the squirrel called ‘Hazel’ (i.e. one who had been changed to a human to be with Arthur). For a little while, there were a number of artists making pieces about her, and stories written suggesting alternate histories.

I know it’s a minor point, but I still love the notion that people are still finding ways to rewrite the story so Arthur can f*@# the squirrel.

Whole gallery of pics here, because some of this artwork gets downright amazing…

strixmoonwing

I REMEMBER THESE!!!!

mousathe14

Fascinating

bugcthulhu

@tyrantisterror your legacy endures

To an ever widening group of people, I am “that guy who ranted about Arthur fucking a squirrel.”

Of all my legacies, this is certainly one of them.

spankzilla85

I think I’ve posted about this before buuuuuuut fuck it? This makes me deliriously happy and sad. The resolution of Arthur becoming human and having to try to explain himself to a sobbing squirrel is one of my strongest childhood memories about having to deal with heartbreak and I’m literally fucking tearing up right now GOD DAMN YOU TYRANTIS.

jiveswede

Somehow the weirdest part of this is that it crossed my dash through @itswalky rather than @heroofthreefaces.

heroofthreefaces

Not necessarily, because it’s about a squirrel who’s a transformer.

beben-eleben

nevver

Perspective, Kevin Wisbith

Don't you think it's a little pathetic that all you draw is fanart? Aren't you like 45 or something? All you have to show for all your years of work is a bunch of drawings of Castiel. It's fucking sad dude. You're going to wake up one day and regret that you didn't draw anything of your own that's actually original.

Good thing it’s my life and not yours then, huh?

Gosh, you don’t even have to worry about what bills I pay. All you see is my hobby. Isn’t that nice of me?

You know what. No. I have more to say.

This pisses me off. The implication that 45 is too old for a woman to have fun is fucking bullshit.

JJ fucking Abrams is 50, and he’s a fanboy. He’s making AUs, and he’s doing the exact same thing as any fangirl is doing only with a much bigger budget. There are plenty of dudes just like him, too. Comic book artists, writers, directors—all men, all older than me, (I’m 35 by the way, not 45) who are no different. The only difference is that their work is called work and not “being a fangirl.” Their work is respected. Even though fangirl is exactly what they are.

So fuck your jealousy, fuck your misogyny, and most of all fuck you for presuming to know a goddamn thing about my life and what kind of hard work I’ve had to do—not just to draw this well (read: better than you) but to allow myself to be happy about it when the whole entire world has decided I’m not allowed to be. Fuck you for every girl you ever made feel foolish or pathetic for not sacrificing every bit of herself to you.

winjennster

THIS

toastiel

You can’t hear it, but I’m clapping for you right now. This. All of this. It’s absolutely perfect. Go you. Fuck them.

msarahv

Plus, dude, the Renaissance Era is full-on people being forbidden to draw/sculpt/write anything else than Greek and Roman Mythology(/fairy tales) Fanart (or Christian stuff). At the end of it there were debate over debate about “The Ancient and the Modern” as in : the Ancient had come up with the only possible creative stuff, now poor ol’ us cannot do anything better and don’t you dare be original. Tell any French person that Jean de la Fontaine was pathetic because he wrote fanpoems of Aesop and they’ll laugh in your face. The man managed to full on criticize the King who created Absolute Monarchy through poems that are still learned by every person in the country nowadays. Or say that about Michelangelo or Botticelli. Most of these artists had fun and many loved Greek Mythology. The idea that everything “has” to be original stems more from a reaction to that time period than to an objective Reality.

Yes but EVERYONE YOU MENTIONED IS A MAN.

Michelangelo, Fontaine, Botticelli. Da Vinci, whoever else. Painters, sculptors, writers.

Whenever people use the argument “Renaissance art is just fanart of the Bible or Greek myth” or whatever else, they’re forgetting that all of that stuff was made by men. The reason it’s legitimate and the reason we hang it in museums and remember it isn’t because it’s fanart of the Bible—it’s because men did it.

The second men don’t do it, it stops being legitimate. Of course Renaissance art is fanart. OF COURSE IT IS.

I know fangirls who could out-scholar a room full of Shakespeare professors. I know fangirls who are the greatest writers, the greatest artists, the greatest talents you’ve ever seen. The most passionate, brilliant ladies speaking more passionately and giving more of their time to the things they love than any man. But because they’re fangirls—the operative word being girls—everyone is waiting around for them to grow up and stop this foolishness.

And what a huge loss. What a huge fucking loss.

pan-t-aloons

The absolute best part is that, even if you caved into their stupid demands, they’d still complain, “Why aren’t you doing fan art any more? no one wants to see your original characters!” and other bullshit.

There’s no appeasing these fucking fools who sit and try to dictate how you should live your life, because it’s not that they are upset you are doing something, they are upset you are a WOMAN doing something.

You are 100% right, the reason that when I was in grade school classes talked about art and poems and stuff of people from long ago is because they were made by men and they are considered valid. The reason that women throughout time have sat down and used a pseudonym on their work is so that people would think they were men, so that their work would be taken seriously.

It’s all a stupid world, a world built by old white men who are afraid of people doing what they want, doing what they like, having fun, because they don’t understand it, because they are sexist or homophobic or whatever, they are afraid; They have power as long as you bend to their will and don’t do what you want, don’t enjoy your life, so screw them, scare them, do what you want and have fun doing it!

^^^^ SCARE THEM

lasafara

The thing is, this extends to the TYPE of art women create too. Ever wonder why your grandma could spend hours on an embroidery piece, and then if you try to sell it, the best you can get is less than $5? It’s not because of the craftsmanship or originality of the piece, or because it’s “easy to reproduce”, it’s because we don’t respect art that is traditionally created by women. Ever wonder why the go-to activity for medieval women was embroidery, but we rarely see it saved and displayed in museums today? Because it wasn’t valued. My mother hand-quilted all her life, and once created gorgeous quilts and matching window dressings that she designed herself. When we sold that house, we were trying to move ASAP and running out of time. So when our one prospective buyer demanded four bedrooms worth of window dressings for an extra hundred dollars, my mom reluctantly agreed. After we left and the new home owners moved in, they were FURIOUS because they thought they were buying four window dressings and FOUR HAND-MADE QUILTS, for $100. You have to go to special museums to see historic quilts and embroidery, and they’re not common, because they’re not saved. When I made embroidery of my own design and tried to sell it, people told me I was over pricing it, and that a fair price for something that took me a couple of hours to design and DAYS to complete was around $5. Because “a machine could do that”. I watched my mom argue with people over whether a handmade quilt should cost more than something from a department store.

I stopped doing embroidery for anyone but myself. I don’t quilt unless it’s a gift, or for me.

We know that that painting or print we buy from a dealer is worth the extra money we spend, because someone put time and effort and creativity into it. Men have long established that painting and prints are art. But we look at something traditionally feminine, and ignore the time and effort and creativity put into it, because “a machine could do it.” It’s just another way to downplay and degrade women’s work.

winjennster

This post got better and better.

TEA FUCKING EVERYWHERE

batik96

I quilt. And there is no way I will ever actually sell one for what it’s worth. I made one for my mom that is nowhere near flawless, but it has about $500 worth of supplies and 5 years of my (admittedly off-and-on) work in it. It includes family photos. (I spent ages begging them from family members, choosing just the right ones, editing them, printing them on fabric.) My brother asked me to make one like it for his mother-in-law, whom I barely know. “I appreciate your asking, but you can’t afford it.” I could do it for my mom because it was a gift for my mom. A labor of love. All of my quilts are, including the current one, which is just for me. I have had one of my quilts appraised, not because I was worried about its value – I knew how much I had invested in it – but because I knew having a dollar amount on it from a certified quilt appraiser would make my family members see it differently. When I gave it to my oldest child as a high school graduation present, I also offered up the appraisal paperwork – valuing it at $4,250. It’s on my teenager’s bed, where it is used and loved, as I want it to be. But it also is treated with care. It has never been thrown on the floor and is always folded neatly and moved out of the way of anything that could spill on it. (Aside from our house and cars, it is the most valuable thing in my house, including the same teenager’s custom computer.) Seeing that appraisal amount is the first time in 25 years that my husband has been truly impressed with my quilting. He’s always been polite about it. (”That’s very nice; thank you” is a direct quote and the sum total of his reaction to the quilt I gave him for Valentine’s Day a few years ago.) But his general theory is “why go to all that trouble when you can buy one at Walmart for $20?” Ummm … I thought long and hard about what this person I love loves, created a pattern, looked everywhere until I found just the right fabric – or found the right fabric and then worked until I created a pattern that suited it – and spent hours/days/weeks/months of my spare time making it – not to mention the money spent on supplies. There is no other quilt on earth quite like that quilt. There’s no way a mass-produced store-bought quilt can meet that standard.

lasafara

My dad literally once asked my mom of her quilting “why do you cut it all up just to sew it back together again?”

She turned to him and said “why do you saw apart all that wood just to put it together again?”

I don’t think he got it, but he never asked such a stupid question again.

hannibalacious-blog1

I’m a artist and writer of original material, and use Fanart to keep sharp. And you don’t owe ANY NORMIE an explanation why you do what you do, or like what you like!

(A “Normie” is anyone who isn’t Fannish. We used to call ‘em “Pizza Delivery People” back in the Day!)