mindscalpel

"Bones by day and bulbs by night" was a slogan a good friend of mine thought up to describe me.

[yocalio]

“female-presenting nipples”

[shinhito]

I am D-E-DEAD.

[wonderstrevors]

Dickkory in Titans S01EP08 “Donna Troy”

[reystars]

I really want a movie where there’s this Dark Brooding Male Hero who’s like, a total badass, and during all the fight scenes he keeps getting flashbacks to happy images of his wife, and like his whole narrative is framed around his wife, and all the other heroes on his team know that he’s got this passion and vengeance and think it all has to do with his dead wife… but then near the end of the movie his wife shows up and he’s like “hey babe” they’re all shocked and they’re like, “Wait I thought all your power and passion came from avenging your dead wife?” and he’s like “no bro, I just really love my wife, she’s really cool, she’s what keeps me going” like… a reverse fridge

[correct-vampire-opinions]

Unfridge your wives 2017

[roundinviciouscircles]

Unfridge your wives 2018

[oliverqueenlance]

“This whole saving the world thing has kept me from seeing my wife for like, three days and I was really starting to miss her!”

[bendingsignpost]

It turns out he’s normally a ray of sunshine and is only Dark Brooding Male Hero mode when he misses her. 

[tamamita]

This Kirby will protect your posts from being flagged

[gingerlovesio]

I’m waiting for this to get flagged honestly

[tamamita]

Bold of you to assume Kirby will be flagged

[fluffballchikorita]

He looks like a boobie

[tamamita]

STOP SAYING THE NAUGHTY WORD

[yzghuldar]

Your powers cannot stop The Purge. Watch this:

Nipples.

[tamamita]

You fools have been trying your very best to make this post flagged, but you all underestimate Kirby

[catchymemes]

[toney-starks]

Do you like goldfish more than humans?

Bonus:

[beggars-opera]

Everyone reblog this as much as possible over the next two weeks for good luck

[disgustinganimals]

This is my son Max, resplendent in his fancy underwear.

let me be the first to say… it’s not the cost of the underwear so much as how well it’s tailored. :\ 

also, are you okay max? do you find the crotch area to be too loose? it’s a common problem since most tailors don’t want to cause any trouble when getting measurements in that region so unless you specifically give them permission to be more rigorous, this is what you often get. if you want i can have my guy reach out to you. he’s great with tiny thin legs with a surprising amount of vertical leap

[mockwa]

[super-metroid]

theres no way in hell you can guess how this video ends

[just-shower-thoughts]

If you have $1,000 in cash and spend 1 penny, that’s the equivalent of Jeff Bezos spending $1.5 million

[suchdreadfullittlethingsweare]

Good for him. Money doesn’t just fall from the sky. He had to do something to be that wealthy.

[garbage-empress]

like have parents who could give him $100,000 without breaking a sweat then working people literally to death?

[garbage-empress]

“He had to do something to be that wealthy.” should be a very ominous phrase not a positive one.

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

i like that this person says “he had to do something to be that wealthy”

like. they aren’t sure, they have absolutely no idea about how he acquired all of his wealth, they know nothing about the topic, and yet they will continue to firmly believe that mr. bezos would never do us wrong

[quasi-normalcy]

Al Capone was the first American to make $100 million, and he had to do “something” fof his money too.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Al Capone actually cared about poor people, though. He came from a family of immigrants and took care of his own, donating to charities and even running a soup kitchen (x, there are better sources but I’m lazy). Some people even characterized him as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

Let me be clear: I’m not saying Al Capone was a good guy. I’m saying he might’ve been a better guy than Jeff Bezos.

[agreyjaywooo]

And I’m saying that while Al Capone wasn’t a great guy, he was DEFINITELY A better guy than Jeff Bez-ass. This is on mobile, so I can’t do resources right now, I’ll add them later.

Capone, even though he didn’t fire the bullet, once paid for the hospital bills of a woman that had been caught in the crossfire of a scuffle. And while he was there, after paying her medical bills and giving her over $100 of flowers to cheer her up, he paid off all the bills of the children in the hospital. Which he did regularly. He sent flowers to the families of his dead enemies. HE IS THE REASON MILK HAS AN EXPIRATION DATE! His son (or nephew or something) died from complications from bad milk. And he got to work and made the milk and dairy industry hold to a much tighter standard, with included sell by dates and expiration dates. Not because it was family that got sick (or died), but because he found out that a lot of kids were getting sick off of bad milk products.

Capone was always a gentleman, he paid his workers well, treated his women good, and protected his own. If one of his workers got hurt or died, he would pay the bills and expenses, and help out their families.

He wasn’t a good guy, but the dude had a moral standard that Jeff Bez-ass doesn’t even pretend to have.

Oh, and Capone also heavily supported local shops, went to baseball games with his kids, funded his workers’ children to go to school, and was the kind of guy that wouldn’t sucker punch ya unless it was absolutely necessary.

How many rich assholes do we know of that does that kind of stuff?

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Mafia Tumblr I knew you were out there somewhere

[claryghost]

reblogging for the mafia side of tumblr

[firesighn]

Hey, uh, guys? I hate to be That Guy, but this is… a fairly common tactic. Want to know why he helped those people but could still be a brutal crime boss? Because by helping them out, he got a built in security system where he lived. If the cops came poking around the locals wouldn’t be helpful, because the crime boss helped them out when things were tough. Pablo Escobar, also known as the King of Cocaine, was considered a Robin Hood by many for building housing for the poor, schools, and all sorts of other helpful things. You know what happened when the authorities were trying to track him down and arrest him? The people he helped refused to cooperate. He even got elected to office. Terrible people can do good things and still be terrible.

[nonasuch]

This is absolutely true, re: both Escobar and Capone.

The thing is? Our modern-day robber barons aren’t even bothering to do that much.

So I can understand a bit of nostalgia for the gentlemanly gangsters. That doesn’t mean I don’t understand that they were bad people. It’s just that the current crop don’t even bother pretending to be gentlemanly. 

(Fave old-timey gangster story: at a meeting of crime bosses, the head of an Italian mafia family brags to Meyer Lansky that his son is following him into the business.

Meyer Lansky, actual cofounder of Murder Inc, responds with: “That’s nice. My son works for NASA.”)

[mindscalpel]

This sickness. I can’t outrun it. I can’t out-exercise it. It’ll eat me up. It’ll spit me out. It’ll do me in. 

[teathattast]

[princesstigerbelle]

He like it

[charlesstilezmysterydiners]

I’m crying

[kaijuno]

1-800-ARE-YOU-SLAPPIN

[ya-boi-encijan]

Someone reuploaded it to a porn site and I’m not kidding.

[surprisebitch]

goodbye

[disgustinganimals]

disgusting

[nouvellestudy]

Writing a job application in French!

Monsieur / Madame – dear sir / madam

Aux principaux concernes – to whom it may concern

Je souhaite poser ma candidature pour le poste de... – I would like to apply for the position of…

Je travaille actuellement pour… – I currently work for…

Je suis diplômé / diplômée en… – I am a graduate in…

Mes qualités principales sont… – my strengths are…

Mon domaine d'expertise est… – my area of expertise is…

Ma langue maternelle est… – My first language is…

Mais je parle aussi… – but I also speak…

J'ai une connaissance pratique de… – I have a working knowledge of…

Je suis un utilisateur confirmé de… – I am an experienced user of…

Je suis disponible pour un entretien le... – I am available for an interview on…

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur / Madame – Yours sincerely,

Capacité de communication – communication skills

Capacité de créativité – creative skills

Capacité d'encadrement – management skills

Capacité à résoudre les problemes – problem solving skills

Capacité à prendre la parole en public – public speaking skills

Compétences en organisation – organisational skills

Motivé / motivée - motivated

Travailleur / travailleuse – hardworking

Un CV – A CV

Une lettre de motivation – A cover letter

Une candidature à un emploi – A job application

[tariqk]

#hot_take

The Wakanda in Black Panther was always a sort of dream. A kind of thing where you wonder about what a place could be if it was never colonized, and playing with the idea of it colliding with the world that exists as it is today. That, in itself, brings up so many things, so many other ways of thinking, and it’s really something I want to see more of, because doing this shit, thinking beyond your cultural frames is hard work but worth doing and honestly so much fun.

Crazy Rich Asians is basically 1% fandom, same as any other 1% fandom, with people who do the same enraging shit, only it’s with yellow and lightskin brown people. I’ve seen this shit before, on the Discovery Channel and travel shows, where some half-Asian or Asian person travels the world like a gwailo looking for exotic locales or “reconnecting with [their] culture”. Why should I care?

Also, I grew up with these fuckers. Why would I want to watch something about the people I used to loathe?

[ishinomori-deactivated20220123]

honestly same. i was mildly intruiged in the project but then i saw the trailer. good to know no brown people live in singapore because it’s ‘asia’ right? it’s not like malay and indian people exist. they couldn’t even get a chinese singaporean guy for the role.

and frankly, that’s all fucking to the side compared to the clear propganda of propping singapore up as this ‘jewel of the east’ where people are still punished for drug poession with death, still punished for homosexuality with corporal punishment and imprisonment, with the most corrupt government in the world to the point where family memebers are given CEO positions and government positions. where every man at 18 is forcibly conscripted to serve in the army. where the same government has ruled for nearly 60 years because of said corruption.

so yes, fuck crazy rich asians. fuck the bullshit view it gives of not only singapore but asian people. you see any person ‘excited’ about this shit, 100% they’re some rich fuckwad whose folks have more money than sense or a westerner.

this shows you nothing about asia that the politicians in charge if it don’t want you to see. singapore is a racist, homophobic, oligarchy that caters only to the rich and vapid.

[xchru]

Good lord, this entire thread has me cringing. 

CRA is definitely not about an Asian, usually with mixed Caucasian ethnicity (yep I’ve seen those NatGeo shows too) rediscovering their heritage. It is, in the most literal sense, a rom-com. Is it groundbreaking? A little, I’m sure I don’t need to point out why, being that it’s a Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast being marketed on this scale. Is it revolutionary, with deep cultural and historical roots?Not at all! So why do I see so many people comparing it to Black Panther? 

OP, I can understand where you’re coming from, and I generally agree with you on your posts about politics and whatnot, having followed you for quite some years. But “Why would I want to watch something about the people I used to loathe?” Yikes. Maybe you were trying to be funny. If yes, then I apologize. 

Of course it’s shitty that they didn’t cast Malays or Indians. Of course it’s unrealistic in that it glosses over all the ugly parts of Singapore, that Malaysia has in triples lol. Of course this movie doesn’t include parts of corruption and corporal punishment! Guess what? It’s a rom-com.

I feel that we’re obsessed with nitpicking the oppressiveness that we as minorities often go through that we don’t recognize a win when we see one. When was the last time you saw a movie like this come out? If this movie is successful, don’t you think more will follow? That everyone will get their chance to be seen and represented? I’m Malaysian Indian. I would love nothing more than to see girls like me on screen, on my TV, hell, even on advertisements. Progress takes time. Black Panther was years in the making. 

If you’re using CRA as a jumping off post to talk about the corruption and pain in SG, that’s educational. That’s spreading awareness. But “so yes, fuck crazy rich asians” just because you can’t take some joy in a movie that’s rare and actually looks good - man, that’s just really sad. 

I genuinely mean no disrespect and if you have something to add, I would really like to hear your side of the story, too.

[tariqk]

But “Why would I want to watch something about the people I used to loathe?” Yikes. Maybe you were trying to be funny. If yes, then I apologize.

Here’s the weird thing. This particular line brought up some nasty-ass memories and quite a bit of a pain. Why would you think I was joking? Who do you think I was talking about?

I’ve generally made most of the arguments here, and I’ll reiterate: you think it matters if someone who fucks you over with racism and classism is surnamed Trump or Kuok? Or has the patronymic Razak or Krishnan?

Like I said, I grew up around some of these people. Some of them I’m still in touch with, and in some cases quite civil with. I’m related to some of them. But as a class? Fuck ‘em.

If you want to find joy in this movie, go ahead. But to make a comparison that this was a victory of representation the way Black Panther was? Don’t be insulting. It isn’t a step ahead — at best it’s just a reskin of the same kind of racist bullshit the people I grew up with still perpetuate, who can condone this kind of shit and yet think of themselves as “meritorious” and “progressive”, but will caper and prance in defense of enlightened Westerners and be their enablers.

You ought to know this, if you’ve been reading this damn blog for any period of time.

[jhameia]

As a win, CRA is fairly small, and it’s kind of weird and super sad that Asians looking to Hollywood for representation are making such a big deal about it. 

We can do better. We must demand better.

It’s a bit like… like watching women get excited over Sex and the City as a form of triumphal representation. I liked it, and I enjoyed the first movie, but I’m not going to pretend it took representation of women to some high level. 

So, go enjoy CRA, but don’t compare it to Black Panther. Don’t get weird about how people showed up for BP and thus have to show up for CRA. Surely this is not hard to do, surely it can’t be hard to understand that in no way is CRA comparable to BP. 

[mindscalpel]

Jhameia, you highlighted what I find discomforting about the entire debate and I love your closing comment. Your SATC analogy is absolutely on point. I was scolded and gaslit for criticising the framing of CRA = BP. I think it is a disservice to compare CRA to BP for many reasons and, perhaps, disrespectful.

And yes, we must demand better indeed.

[humorblr]

Zach Quinto Was Busted for His Fake Starbucks Name

[did-you-know]

In 1946, a South African child who dreamed of being a scientist wrote to Albert Einstein, and they became pen pals. A few letters later, she said she regretted being a girl, apologized for not telling him sooner, and hoped he wouldn’t think less of her. He quickly replied, ‘I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.’ Source Source 2 Source 3

[gallaghersam-deactivated2015050]

shakespeare’s character descriptions/stage directions/contexts are so vague it makes me so happy. wanna make Laertes hamlet’s ex boyfriend? doesn’t say HE’S NOT. wanna make juliet a trans girl? WHERE IN THE SCIRPT DOES IT SAY SHE ISN’T??? fucking put King Lear in SPACE set that shit on the enterprise THERE ARE NO RULES IN SHAKESPEARE 

[dzamie]

The best part is that pretty much all of the fights are “they fight” with no mention of whether it’s with swords or throwing knives or kung-fu or if they just do the slappy-hands thing at each other.

[ygrittebardots]

the only rule in shakespeare is that a bear must show up in the winter’s tale. could be a grizzly. polar. panda. hell, antigonus could’ve wandered into a gay club.

[durnesque-esque]

[notlostonanadventure]

This is the EXACT reason why shakespeare endures more than any other writer, btw

[paniniwitharugula]

it’s what he would have wanted

[plavoptice]

@jabletown bears for u