You Can't Take Me Anywhere

I post whatever I like. May consist of, but not limited to: Disney, fabulous queens, animation, gifs, film/tv discussions, a few in-depth thoughts, and whatever I find humorous.

[musicalpencil]

Late on my end, but noticed this on my Disney calendar. In many more ways than one on a personal level, this was the end of many eras.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

[thecottageinthedark]

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

fuck OFF

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

[tokensouthernbelle]

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

[stillwaterseas]

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

FUCK OFF

[coelasquid]

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

[proserpine-in-phases]

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

[justabrowncoatedwench]

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

[wolverinequeen]

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

[petermorwood]

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

[dduane]

So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

[bookoisseur]

This post…it just really went places on me.

[thirddeadlysin]

i feel like we didn’t spend long enough on the tuna

[a-book-of-creatures]

There’s a reason why “monster boar” crops up more than once in Greek myth.

Sometimes you need a whole team of heroes to take one down.

[keshetchai]

New fun possible justification for why Judaism prohibits eating pork: the best way to minimize death by boar hunting is to never hunt boar!

[musicalpencil]

Thank you, of all the things and places, the fish fact commercials for Finding Nemo for first enlightening me about pigs being a rough animal.

If anyone remembers back when Finding Nemo was about to be released, Disney had some commercials that listed fun facts about certain sea life creatures being represented in Finding Nemo alongside trailer footage of the film's character versioni. (Ex. Shark facts with Bruce footage, and turtle facts with Crush footage) For the Bruce ad, the first shark fact they mentioned was that more people each year are injured by dogs, pigs, and deer than by sharks. Since pigs were specifically mentioned I figured they must be able to do some known damage.

[sailorsenshigifs]

[musicalpencil]

Sailor Galaxia be all, "Galactic Empire who?"

[sailorsenshigifs]

[adulthoodisokay]

happy new year, y’all

[adulthoodisokay]

shoutout to everyone who’s also dealing with the longest year of a week this week

[yanortaboi]

have you been waiting several years for me to post the reindeer saga, because *i* have

full disclosure, i memorized everyone's number after many times counting on my fingers and going "santa, dasher, dancer..."

[yanortaboi]

[yanortaboi]

have you been waiting several years for me to post the reindeer saga, because *i* have

full disclosure, i memorized everyone's number after many times counting on my fingers and going "santa, dasher, dancer..."

[leverage-ot3]

notable moments from The Office Job

leverage 4.12

eliot stealing hardison’s Trademark Orange Soda™

Hardison: You know that was mine

Eliot: Oh I thought you got it for me

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SOPHIE HAS A DAILY JOURNAL FOR CHECKING OFF HOW MANY TIMES NATE IS ‘INATTENTIVE’ OR GIVES ‘PUT DOWNS’

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“high five for morale!”

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Keep reading

[leverage-ot3]

even MORE notable moments from The Office Job

Keep reading

[musicalpencil]

Are we not going to include Hardison peaking through the blinds when Eliot's describing the sandwich?

[nessa007]

#halle bailey will be an oscar winner one day Variety's Actors on Actors (2023) The Little Mermaid (2023) Dir. Rob Marshall

[hydenine]

Also forgot to upload this here. Quick sketch of Shego wearing a dress, just for fun. (The original was apparently very yellow??? I fixed it though.)

Photoshop CC

[bestoftweets]

[outofheresorry-deactivated20250]

Nah yo. It's time to move out of that town.

[musicalpencil]

The second Mystery Machine had to get monster truck wheels. Think about why.

[captaindanvers89]

Kamala writes fanfic part 5:

Kate: So I was thinking for my next chapter for Hawkeye saves NYC, I could insert a few black widows to make it read better but—

Kamala: You write fanfic too?

Kate: Yeah, since I was 12. Wait, are you CaptainKhan09?

Kamala: Yeah and you’re LadyHawk01?

Kate: Yep! By the way, love your take on the skrulls and how Captain Marvel saves the galaxy

Cassie: You two write fanfic about your mentors?

Kate: You don’t?

Cassie: My dad does it, he once wrote how he was there during the invasion of New York and how he helped the Avengers. It was pretty cool

Kamala: No way! I read that!

Kate: Me too!

Meanwhile…

Carol: Is that supposed to be flattering?

Yelena: Relax Danvers, let them have their fun

Scott: Yeah, so I was thinking for my next fanfic about how I defeated Thanos, do you think it would be cool if I made him explode from the inside?

Yelena: Yes, I would like to read that

Carol: I…that sounds really cool, how did you come up with that?

Fury: Not you too Carol

[musicalpencil]

And then there's Coulson...

[ouatsqincorrect]

I've been thinking about people who criticize movies for inaccuracies, and I was wondering who does that in Storybrooke? Who watches movies about themselves and complains that it was all wrong?

Probably all of them tbh. But—

Regina: Hates the way the Snow White movie depicts the Evil Queen being all obsessed with vanity. Refuses to watch it for that very reason

David: Wishes his character had a bigger role

Snow: Actually kind of likes the Snow White movie but does think they go overkill with how obsessed she is with birds (Regina assured her that, no, the movie got that pretty much on point)

Zelena: Hates Wizard of Oz, but loves Wicked

Belle: Doesn’t really mind Beauty and the Beast

Rumple: Has only seen the version of himself in that one Shrek movie and is absolutely appalled. (David and Henry made him watch the movie with them—he was not pleased)

[lennythereviewer]

Trying to jump into Kingdom Hearts 3 like

[peebls]

@kh-heritage-posts

[kh-heritage-posts]

Heritage Post

10/05/2018

[musicalpencil]

Is this not how it actually went?

[unexplained-events]

Just wondering why you hate Israel so much. Do you not think Israel has the right to exist?

You’re wondering why I hate a settler-colonial state that is ethnically cleansing a group of people through violence and a racist legal system? Would you like me to apologize for not being ethically/morally bankrupt? Would you like to ask me why I’m against war crimes and human right violations too?

"Does Israel have the right to exist?” is an intentionally vague and tricky question. The full question is:

“Does Israel have the right to exist at the cost of Palestinian lives” and the answer is NO

Israel does not have the right to ethnic cleansing, settler-colonial displacement, discriminatory legislation, human rights violations, and war crimes.

[themilfking]

Israelis love speaking in broad abstract platitudes. It's because they know that if they have to characterize their positions, most sane people will see right through how evil they are.

So next time an Israeli says to you "so you don't think Israel has the right to exist or defend itself??" Ask them questions. Have them characterize their stance.

Ask them why they think they have a right to build an open air prison, bomb hospitals, bomb refugee camps, kill children, steal homes, imprison Palestinians without trial, starve civilians, killJournalists.

Israel doesn't have any of these rights and we need to start pushing back on this bullshit zionist propaganda. Israel has no right to exist at the cost of all of this.

Fuck Israel. Fuck Zionists. Fuck anyone who supports these monsters.

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

do you wonder why the hunger games prequel is doing better than the marvels?

no I don't wonder why the ballad of songbirds and snakes is doing better than the marvels. its got a white boy villain (coriolanus snow) as the protagonist and a dark skinned black woman (dr volumnia gaul) as one of the antagonists. also rachel zegler's character (lucy gray baird) literally falls for the white boy villain and ends up dying because of him.

compare that with the marvels where you've got a team made of 3 superheroines one's Black, one's Desi and they literally save several planets (arguably reality as we know it). of course white ppl are gonna focus on the white boy villain movie.

mod ali

[musicalpencil]

People keep going about how they want a villain evil for the sake of evil, which sure nothing wrong with that, but when that villain is male (and particularly white, let's not lie to each other) they will bend over like a contortionist to make why they aren't.

[oblivionscience]

Isa: What's a little attempted murder between friends?