Winter and Beyond

Used to be just a Frozen blog. Now it's Frozen, Good Omens, Disney, Star Wars, and random things that catch my fancy.

[mandatoryrollercoaster]

Future Imperfect

[its-not-a-pen]

i present tonight’s foodcrime: Oops I Fucked Up And Now The Sunk Cost Fallacy Has Sunk In aka Garlic Aioli Lemon Cake aka Hear Me Out

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kalesrebellion]

So funny story actually. One of my friends was hooking up with this girl, they were friends with benefits. She needed a date for some work party so he agreed to go with her. Turns out her dad owns like 3 dental practices and she worked as the business manager for one of them.

Anyway my friend had some not so nice teeth and during dinner the father of his fwb was like “you work where you work, you sleep with him and his teeth look like that? Get him an appointment.”and then bounced. So his fwb made him an appointment at the practice she managed and my friend ended up needing like 3k worth of dental work and his friend with benefits just gave it to him for free.

So that is the story of how my friend not only got sex, but dental out of the friends with benefits deal.

[helloitsbees]

[cursedpossums]

unrestrained summer fun

[cursedpossums]

every year around late may, without fail, this post starts getting notes again . and my little wet raw chicken breast of a brain gets puzzled. because i forget that summer is , in fact. a yearly event

[colourlifesmile]

~ you're more than enough. you're everything ~

[rainyydoves]

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

[rainyydoves]

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

[bigbigtruck]

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old

[porterr-robinson]

[vladthelordofdoomandpancakes]

Translation: “I am fucking tired of the soviet car industry” *the standard effect of touching a soviet car* *laughs in russian*

[davidxn]

I can’t get over the sheer poetry of how the car falls apart - the perfect chain reaction escalating as it travels round.

[formulatrash]

This is the single funniest video on the Internet

[auberylis]

No, it’s even funnier!

He goes “вы заебали на советский автопром”, which is roughly “i’m fucking tired of you (getting) at the soviet car industry”. So he actually says “yall fucking wrong about soviet cars being bolt buckets!” and hits the car as proof of its durability and then it falls apart.

His intonatin gives off a slight hint that he 100% knows what’s gonna happen and is being sarcastic. So very likely he’s not even annoyed, he knows what’s about to follow, laugs about it, and then does it.

Which is even funnier!

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[copperbadge]

So the Shedd Aquarium here in Chicago just took a delivery of four beluga whales rescued from a shuttered zoo in Ontario. The trade in "show" marine mammals is pretty barbaric generally and hopefully is on the way out but in the meantime we have to look after the ones that are already here, and there are many charming aspects to this story. These include:

One: the four Belugas we just got were chosen to travel together because of their deep bond, like Hobbits in Lord of the Rings or something

Two: "I believe I Can Fly" playing gently in the background

[thiswilldragon]

I misread this as Senedd Aquarium and for a moment lived in a world where Chicago has an underwater government.

[copperbadge]

If we were ruled by the Welsh I would absolutely welcome my cymru goruchel. It would be more rational for Poland to take over our government but I can't help but yearn for the hand of Wales in our legislature.

[its-emimi]

Happy Pride month! 🌈

[aquato-blog]

getting a note on a super old post

[estel-and-agape]

[possibly-emu]

reblog to slap op with some paper in the wind

[sparrowlucero]

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"

[wordcubed]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"lupita nyong'o can't be helen of troy because helen was greek and there weren't black people in ancient greece"

DO YOU THINK THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE BOATS. THIS ENTIRE MOVIE IS ABOUT ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AND HIS BOAT

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

do you think these people can read

[bloodraven55]

once you recognise the ubiquitous and inevitable fandom life cycle it becomes much easier to free yourself from it and just keep enjoying things in a more healthy way while still thinking critically about them

[thereisselfpreservation]

I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.

[thereisselfpreservation]

For reference (heh)

At a glance, file name checks out. But!! Do not open a .vbs file!!!

[swan2swan]

Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?

[luimnigh]

[ladydevoir]

[vaspider]

So you're saying that Eagles fans/Philly folx are spiritually English football fans?

That tracks. Love that for us.

[gremlinwithakeyboard]

Dang didn't know Millwall had an American twin

[vaspider]

Fun story: in the movie Silver Linings Playbook, Robert DeNiro's character has been lifetime-banned from Eagles Stadium for getting in Too Many Fights with other fans.

This, of course, implies that there are a certain number of fights which it is permissible to get into with other fans.

There also was a jail and courtroom in Veterans Stadium, because they needed one.

When I say that Philly is the trash city of my heart, I truly mean every word.

[silentauroriamthereal]

[the-real-seebs]

the average rap battle has nothing on people who are still deeply in love after twenty years