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The Doctor having a chat with a talking frog that was actually a conscious universe was Peak⢠Doctor Who.
If humans ever do become galaxy explorers I hope the universe turns out to be half as weird as Doctor Who.
The Doctor having a chat with a talking frog that was actually a conscious universe was Peak⢠Doctor Who.
Hey look! Some of the cards we paint are actually cards that see play, and not just janky oddness! I feel downright Spike-y after making this postâŚ
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hot take: welcome to the black parade is the spiritual successor to bohemian rhapsody
Agreed, itâs as close as any modern song can be.
The fiercest warrior baby in all of Wakanda [x]
how to compliment someone without seeming like a fucking creep. an easy how to guide:
a) compliment them on something that they can change. donât say ânice tits janiceâ, say something like âyour shoes are radâ or âyour hair looks greatâ.
b) donât be a fucking creep. if itâd weird you out if it was said to you, then itâs likely too creepy to say to someone else.
EASY.
also this pic is super strawmanny and gross. it is not hard to not be a creep.
My most favorite compliment Iâve ever gotten I got from a man who was a complete stranger who drove up next to me while I was walking home at 9pm in the night:
I guess he saw me speed walk, overtake, then completely outpace some really tall business man in front of me (who had also increased his speed to overtake me back but failed).
Anyway this complete stranger doing the exact stereotype of what a man shouldnât ever do drove up next to me, rolled down the window and said:
âThat is the fastest damn walking Iâve ever seen. Maâam, youâŚhave the soulâŚof a bicycle.â
Then rolled up his window and drove away.
He didnât creepily drive behind me, he drove regular speed and came to a rolling stop. He didnât roll down his window all the way or stick his head out, he said his piece quickly and with a great amount of awe and respect, then he didnât act like he needed a response from me or expect anything from the compliment. And then he left as quickly as he came. The compliment was so good and politely delivered that Iâve thought about it with amusement for over a year.
It is NOT HARD to not be threatening to women. Those who canât manage it are sus as hell.
That is one hell of a compliment.
Because thatâs the way the story of the gay guy and the straight girl is always told, isnât it? He broke her heart. Poor her. But you were just being who you are.
Iâm not sure if many watched this show back in the aughts, or are watching its reboot, but this scene was a terrific moment. A perfect moment not just for a show about the LGBTQIA demographic, but about how often its portrayed in media that the straight person in a gay coming-out story is the victim.How in a lot of these kinds of stories, itâs the straight person that comes at the gay person as hurt, as how theyâre betrayed, as how theyâre damaged and their reputation matters in the narrative. This episode, and this scene in particular destroys all of that and focuses on that person realizing that, yes, your life is changing as a result of your partnerâs decision to come out and your relationship sexually and lovingly is over, you likely do NOT comprehend all that your friend has been, and is still dealing with on the other side. No queer/trans/bi/etc person should ever have to apologize solely for hurting someone because of their sexual orientation. This scene hit me so goddamn hard this week, and trying to explain this feeling to friends this past weekend had me ultimately crying and sobbing to help them understand that coming out and coming to terms with what your life may now hold is one of the most difficult things they will do. Even if you have no interest in Will and Grace and never watch another moment or episode, please understand just how important what is being said here is for millions of people.
Transcript:
Will: We donât have to talk about it.
Grace: No, we do. I have to. You were tortured. And I never even thought about that. When I got to the part where you write: âGrace, I donât want to be gay. I just wish I was normal.â âŚOh my god, Will. That broke my heart.
And then the part where you said that you were thinking about hurting yourself? I mean, is that true? (Pause) Sweetie?
Will: It was a long time ago.
Grace: Okay, look. This might be 30 years too late. But I just got smart in the last hour. (Audience laughs) Youâre right, I didnât think about your pain. I only thought about mine, because thatâs the way the story of the gay guy and the straight girl is always told. Isnât it?
He broke her heart. Poor her. But you were just being who you are, and you were scared to death that the world was gonna find out and hate you for it.
Will: WowâŚ.You did get smart. (Audience laughs)
Grace: And you were right, it is why I never say âIâm sorry.â And I have been playing the victim. So⌠I am going to say it now. (Pause)
Grace (emotionally): âŚDoesnât it feel good? (Audience laughs)
Will: Still havenât said it. (Audience laughs)
Grace: I didnât? Oh! I am sorry. I am sorry for not being there with you. I am sorry, Will. I am sorry for not being there when you needed me most. And I am so, so sorry that I never said this to you before now.
The fact that you are a gay man did not ruin my life. It made it so much better.
Will: Mine too.
(They hug and Audience applauses)
I havenât even read any communist stuff my ideology is âshare and be niceâ like the first two rules of a kindergarten
When you get out of kindergarten you might learn that stealing isnât sharing.
Literally who is talking about stealing get outta here you absolutely giant jester
Do you know what redistribution means?
You sit back in your dark leather chair and run your fingers through your greying hair. Youâve just set up your preparations for owning some random kid on the internet and now all you have to do is wait for the fish to get the bait. You chuckle and close your eyes.
The door to your office opens up, letting in a flood of bright light from the world outside your cave, and a messenger stands squarely in the middle of the door frame.
âTelegram for giant jester!â
You walk over, take your telegram, and read.
âREAD FIRST SENTENCE AGAIN STOPâ
You smile confusedly and think it might be a mistaken delivery. You throw the telegram into the bin beside the door. The deliverer still stands like a gatekeeper, blocking the exit.
âAnother telegram for giant jester!â
You think this is all very strange. People usually donât send two in a row, and now this messenger wonât leave you alone. You are beginning to sweat lightly in your cheap cotton suit. You open this new telegram and read it.
âREDISTRIBUTION INVOLVES TAKING MONEY FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVENâT WORKED FOR IT YOU THINK JEFF BEZOS MOVES EVERY PACKAGE HIMSELF THE BASTARD SITS THERE AND MAKES THE SALARIES OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN A MINUTE ALL BECAUSE HE EXPLOITS THE TIME AND ENERGY OF HIS WORKERS HOW IS THAT NOT STEALING WHY ARENT THE WORKERS GETTING PAID FOR THE EFFORTS THEY GIVE IN FULLâ
You have no idea how the sender got all this text on one telegram sheet. Youâre feeling queasy from this anomaly. The text is clearly too much for the sheet but it hovers delicately off the edge anyway. Youre unable to process the contents of the message due to a dark, evil sickness in your stomach. The sentry stands tall and firm at the doorway.
âOne last telegram for G. Jester!â
Your shaking legs buckle and you fall to the oak floor and slowly rest yourself on your side. You pray to all the gods you know (and a few you donât) that everything will be okay. You donât understand what is happening. The messenger turns to you and begins to speak the telegram:
âNo one was talking about stealing or redistribution anyway. You believed you were reading between the lines when in actuality you read past it, drifting off into space instead of staying with earthly affairs. And now you lay on the ground and beg with tears and snot soaking into the floor beams that we may spare you. Pathetic, isnât it? You swung at a dummy and still managed to miss. Where is your sense of self respect? Of keeping your mouth shut when you need to? Did you lose it somewhere? Did you never have it in the first place? Why did you comment on this post in such a way as to assume the intent of its author when you clearly know so, so little about the world, about people, about yourself. We will leave you for now to contemplate on this.â
Your face sits in a puddle of bodily fluids as you watch the messenger dissipate slowly, burning up in holy and righteous fire. You donât know what you have been visited by. But you feel that you should listen. Your world turns black. You dream of impossible architecture, horrible creatures, and inhuman languages.
âYou look great hunâ
Im watching the parade and Julia is on the Sesame Street float and they actually outfitted her muppet with noise reduction headphones đđđđđ
i cry
I love her!!!
This whole fucking time I thought the mall near my apartment was going to be holding a Grinch vs. Santa wrestling match but now Iâm pretty sure it was just a creative way to announce theyâre going to have both Santa and the Grinch available for your kid to take pictures with
THEY CALLED IT A WRESTLING MATCH WHY WOULD I NOT TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD
WAIT the associated Insta handle says more about wrestling please god let there actually be a wrestling match please
THERE IS WRESTLING I REPEAT THERE IS IN FACT WRESTLING
Like the thing about Loki in Norse mythology is thereâs like 8000 myths about Loki just being chaotically mischievous and the other gods are like lol oh that scamp, no matter how disastrous his schemes are, their reaction is still pretty much always âhaha oh thatâs just Loki.â
EXCEPT for basicallyâŚ.one myth. Where Lokiâs instrumental in the death of Baldur and the gods are all WHOA TOO FUCKING FAR DUDE and send him to Hel to be tormented for all eternity, leading to his ultimate escape/release in Ragnarok to end all things and lead the army of the damned and his monstrous children to pretty muchâŚeat all the gods, destroy Asgard, and burn the World Tree all to the ground so it can all start over.
Hereâs the thing though. Norse mythology spanned centuries. The tales of Loki as the mischievous trickster god were told for centuries.
However, for most of that time, the myths were told as part of oral traditions passed down generation to generation, until they were finally compiled in manuscript form in the 13th century, roughly. This is when pretty much all the sagas, as Norse myth compilations were called, are considered to have been written down for the first time, and so they included thousands of stories that had been told over hundreds of years.
They were also regional, though there was a lot of overlap, given that the Vikings traveled widely and regularly across the various parts of Scandinavia. Still, different parts of Scandinavia had their own sagas. Norway had different sagas than Denmark who had different sagas than Iceland, etc. Even though all of them featured primarily the same figures, they each had their own unique stories featuring the gods. However, very rarely did they have radically different takes on those gods.
Now whatâs significant about the fact that pretty much every saga we have, where these myths were all finally written down and preserved, is from the 13th centuryâŚ.
Is that pretty much all of Scandinavia had converted to Christianity by the early 12th century, with active worship of the Norse gods being scattered and mostly underground from that point on.
Why is this significant?
Because it means every Norse myth we have a written recording of was not written by people who still actively worshiped those gods. Nor were they intended to be read as such at the time.Â
They were written down by Christian scholars who wrote them AS stories. They were intended as collections of their regionsâ cultural histories, but not by or for people who still actively believed in these stories or the figures they featured. They werenât likeâŚ.TRYING to be super accurate, is the thing. The scholars who wrote these sagas were writing down the stories that had been passed down for generations, but through the lens of people who saw them as stories their ancestors once believed, not ones that pertained to their own current worldview.
And they were writing these sagas for an audience of people who similarly believed as they believed.
Which means that inevitably, some things got âadjustedâ to fit the current world view, the zeitgeist of the scholars writing down the stories and that of the people who would read or have the stories read to them from thereon. Because again, they werenât aiming for being 100% faithful to the tales as theyâd been told to them. They were just treating them as stories. And what do you do when the story youâre writing down has elements that donât make that much sense to you because they were born of and aimed a worldview that doesnât match yours?
Well, if youâre the Christian scholars writing the Norse sagas, you âtweakâ those elements until they make a story that fits your worldview.
So remember how I said the various sagas were regional and had a lot of overlap but some stories were distinct to some regions and didnât show up elsewhere?
Yeah, Ragnarok is one of those.
Thousands of sagas encompassing centuries of Norse mythology and oral traditions were written down all over the various regions of Scandinavia in the 13th century.
Ragnarok only showed up in one.
The most famous, granted, but still. Everything weâre told in Norse myths about the death of Baldur and Lokiâs role in it, leading to his punishment and torment in Hel and his ultimate release and bringing forth the armies of Hel to slay the gods and end the world?
Comes from the Prose Edda and the later Poetic Edda, from Iceland.
Which had primarily converted to Christianity as far back as 1000.
Now, the Vikings? Were actually surprisingly not a big doom and gloom people. Pretty much every assumption of them as such comes from how synonymous we regard Ragnarok with their culture.
It is after all, the ultimate Judgment Day myth, isnât it? Right up there with Christianityâs Book of Revelations. An apocalyptic end of the world scenario, a war between heaven and hell, where everything is destroyed so that the world can basically start fresh with a clean slate. Nothing old âdeservesâ to survive, pretty much the only way for a world free of sin and evil to arise is from the ashes of the old, after everything has been cleansed with fire.
Now contrast this âmythâ with pretty much every other Norse myth thatâs survived. Larger than life tales of grand adventures, noble quests, gods walking among mortals in disguise and heroes fighting giants and stealing from dragons.
Where the closest thing the Norse pantheon has to a devil figure is Loki, the god of mischiefâŚ.not even evil, but MISCHIEF, because a far more accurate representation of the Vikingsâ world view is that sometimes shit happens, because Loki the god of chaos likes to make a mess of things. And what do you do when that happens? If youâre the Vikings, you basically just shrug, go âwell, thatâs Lokiâ for you, and drink some more mead.
Loki isnât vilified in a single myth until Ragnarok, because the Vikings didnât hate him. And they certainly didnât fear him. They LAUGHED at him. In nine out of ten myths, Loki ends up the subject of ridicule himself, as he has the tables turned on him or outsmarts himself
Until Ragnarok.
Which, granted, could very well be another Norse myth that was passed down generation to generation in Iceland, land of frequent volcanic eruptions and likely inspiration for Musplheim, the land of the fire giants.
BUT. Which could equally likely, and far more plausibly given the overall context of Norse mythology, simply be a story the scholar who wrote the Prose Edda made up to âfinish offâ his saga of the world according to the Vikings, from beginning to end.
An ending his Christian audience of the times would understand and identify with a lot better than they would understand the concept of a devil-figure that existed to be LAUGHED at, to show how little the Vikings feared some mythical figure with the power to lie and deceive themâŚ.the complete opposite of the way Christians feared Satan.
Basically putâŚ.Ragnarok, for all that we think of it as the ultimate Norse mythâŚ.DOES NOT MAKE SENSE in the context of almost EVERY single other Norse myth AND in the context of how Norse society viewed the world and their place in it, or their gods and their relationship with them.
Same with Lokiâs depiction in Ragnarok.
What both Ragnarok and Lokiâs role in Ragnarok DO make sense in the context of, however, is in a bastardization of Christianityâs own doomsday tales of a Judgment Day, stylized to fit the trappings of Norse mythology and feature their gods instead of Christian figures.
With Loki recast in the role of the Devil, as he was the closest fit they could find to that.
And with Baldur, god of light (a Norse god who is at best a footnote in Norse myths other than Ragnarok, and certainly was never the major pantheon figure heâs assumed to be), recast in the role of the Christ figure. Whose death starts the ball rolling for Judgment Day and who is destined to return for it, to triumph over Loki/Satan and preside over the new, purified world once itâs reborn from the ashes of the old one.
Anyway, tl;dr, donât believe the hype, Ragnarokâs probably not even an actual Norse myth but the invention of Christian writers who were like lol this would make for a great Book of Revelations fanfic AU, and Loki was almost certainly never regarded by actual Vikings as some evil, malicious world-destroyer who would lead armies of the dead at Armageddon whoops I mean Ragnarok.
tl;dr of the tl;dr Lokiâs not actually evil and more on how Christians bastardize things.
Still a good story though.
*someone posts selfie* wow theyâre kinda attractiâ
*remembers teenagers are on this site*
*checks opâs bio, theyâre a minor*
what a sweet kidâŚa cute bean⌠you deserve only good thingsâŚbe happy and safe little muffin⌠I wonder if I could pull off that eyelinerâŚ
hey gaudy? youâre a cool adult.
#and this is why the âbut they looked 18/21â excuse is such utter bullcrap#you check#you ALWAYS check#and you NEVER get to use a young personâs appearance to justify your own inappropriate behavior
reblogging again for the tags because this holds so much value to me as a minor and i think itâs really important that yâall understand this.
#adults have a responsiblity to keep kids safe  #no matter how old they are
When I was sixteen, my family visited Hawaii, and I had a cute new swimsuit. I was a pretty busty teen, with the vocabulary of an AP English student, and while I was out swimming, a couple of college guys started flirting with me. Nothing gross, just pleasantly casual hey-you-look-great-how-are-you-enjoying-the-beach stuff.
After a minute or two of this, one of them asked if I was there with friends, and I said no, I was with my family. âWow, you still travel with your family?â one exclaimed. âThatâs coolâŚâ
âWell, I am sixteen,â sez me.
Reader, they blanched. They flustered, they apologized, they assured me that theyâd thought I was also in college, they wished me a good vacation and they bounced. All within about a minute of realizing theyâd been chatting up a minor.
I was mildly mortified at the time, but now? I look back and think, Ah, what good men. What good young men.
See, finding out someone is a minor should be the biggest fucking boner-killer in the entire world. And if it isnât, then you should STILL not act on it and should get the fuck out even faster. ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Time for Dragonâs vet checkup. Heâs annoyed that there are other dogs around and he canât run up to all of them and say hi. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqr3x-un6p7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bjtxocumvqhi
Feeling like Ponyboy in this here Dunkinâ Donuts bathroom. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqr2pXrHTal/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uqmjw4q3qulb