Nicks Knacks

Art blog of me. Actor, artist, school bus driver. Expect theatre, drawings, parenting stuff, and general geekery

[gnarlyghost]

Trans Neon Orange

[nicksknacks]

Love the LEGO Ice Planet vibes this gives and the LEGO Blacktron-ness of https://www.tumblr.com/gnarlyghost/763324415501107200/trans-neon-green?source=share

[kwyw]

Oh, she was thisclose to calling him something very impolite. 😂

[sam-keeper]

So can we talk about the absolutely stunning duplicity going on here?

[lettucekitty]

…that’s cheating!

[arokanjitatsumi-deactivated2014]

HOLY SHIT

[fandomsandfeminism]

That is some DELIBERATELY EVIL data representation. Where is the super villain that designed this fucking graph?

[bogleech]

“Okay murders spiked by like well over 1000% but if we turn the graph THIS way, it’s like they went DOWN! HOORAYYYY!!!”

[tempest-caller]

For anyone confused: the red represents the murder rate. Look at the numbers at the y axis. The graph is upside down because, normally, a graph starts at 0 and then goes up, but this one ends at 0.

[laura491]

As we put it in German: never trust statistics you haven’t manipulated yourself

[antique-scarecrow]

this is fucking disgusting

[mckitterick]

There, I fixed it.

[oh-snap-pro-choice]

Holy fuck this is utterly vile.

This is why I believe everyone should have a stats class in highschool. People can moan about math all the way want but things like this affect not only your life but society itself. Being able to read graphs properly, understand statistics… It frees you from so much.

[moringmark]

[moringmark]

[doggirlpaws]

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

[rowark]

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

[lizluvscupcakes]

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

[the-haiku-bot]

Reblog to hit a

transphobe with a separate

seat for one person

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[lizluvscupcakes]

[nicksknacks]

A list of 7 things I have in common with the character of Uncle Iroh from Avatar: the Last Airbender

1. A lover of tea

2. Always ready to cheer you up with a bad joke or a good hug

3. Occasionally succumbs to random acts of dramatic flair

4. Cheerful and easygoing, but willing and able to fight for the ones he loves and the things he believes in

5. Trying his best to guide and care for a hot headed teenager with anger issues who lashes out at their frustrations and winds up hurting the people that care about them, but isn't ever going to give up on the kid

6. Seems like a jolly and affable, if occasionally grumpy, person on the outside, but is actually a deeply sad and slightly broken man that just desperately wants his world, his life, and the ones he loves to be whole and at peace but can't seem to get things to go right for very long before they go disastrously wrong once again, yet isn't going to give up trying his damnedest to make it all work and tries very hard to hide his pain from the world

7. Has a notable beard

[captorations]

pratchett will write an entire book about the grim reaper pretending to be santa claus while the grim reaper’s granddaughter goes about hunting down the dumbass who decided to kill santa, and then right when you think you’re done and the oddly pointed shenanigans are winding down he hits you with “humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape,” and knocks you into next wednesday

[catflowerqueen]

#YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT ARENT TRUE#HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME#god those words are engraved on my heart#gnu terry pratchett

[mxflint-original]

“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”

[drgaellon]

GNU TERRY PRATCHETT

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

Gnu Terry Pratchett

[nicksknacks]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[closet-keys]

why none of them got into The Good Place

[exigencelost]

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

[egyptiann]

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

[thedreadvampy]

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

[the-random-fandom-phantom]

[filthyprotozoan]

“sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up” yea it was fucked up that was the entire point they made in the show. thats why they spent multiple seasons fighting to change the system of the Good Place vs. the Bad Place.

[nicksknacks]

Jason's sin was being a Floridian

[4gifs]

[setscarylazerstomaximumcaptain-]

The guy in the sleeping bag wiggling around

I’m weeping

[yourstoryisnoteverover-deactiva]

The two people in the front wearing one shirt.

[lightsareout]

Are we really not going to talk about the guy in the back who is attached to another guy’s back while spinning?

[witchsyren]

WHAT ABOUT THE GUY THAT FALLS OUT OF THE WINDOW

[thedoctor-and-his-trolls]

WHY IS IT BACK

[organicorc]

no you guys don’t understand, not only is this the first harlem shake out there… these guys aren’t normal military. This is “Telemarkbataljonen”. They’re pretty much the Norwegian equivalent of the fucking black ops. My brother knows a guy in this battalion, and when asked what they do there, he looked my brother dead in the eye and said “That is strictly confidential”. These guys are hard as shit, which makes this even more hilarious

[theapatheticstag]

Don’t bring this meme back

[ichiwashername-o]

BRING THIS MEME BACK.

[nicksknacks]

Musings on Time

Time is a treadmill. You run on it, legs pumping to keep up with its pace. If you stop or slow, you get dragged back. You lose ground as the constantly rolling track keeps running. The speed can vary but never fully stops. But, try as you might, sprint as fast as you can, you can never outrun it. All you can do is struggle to keep up. Ever moving, inexorably towards a destination you will never reach. Eventually, you'll have to stop, but Time won't.

Time marches on.

Time is a mirage. An illusory oasis in a desert, surrounded by dunes and beset by sandstorms; all the things you have to do. Your job, the chores, obligations, the tiny grains of silica that fill the hourglass of your life, slipping through the pinch between the bulbs. You see the mirage of Time and it is Free. Free time you can call your own. Time you can have away from the abrasive desert of everyday. Time to breath, to relax, have a swim, or a drink under the shade of a palm tree. You wade through the desert towards the promise of Time, only to find more sand.

Time is an illusion

[drakdrawings]

About DRAGONS in my world.

Dragons are reptilian, fire breathing creatures that come in different shapes and sizes. They are all inherently magical and intelligent, but animalistic and dangerous.

Dragons are greedy and known for keeping hoards of treasure. Most commonly this is minerals and metals or some form of currency, but some will gather other items, or even people, if they see any worth in them.

Most dragons are omnivores and carnivores. Very few are herbivores.

They are spread out all over the world. Different species living in every type of habitat, in every type of climate. Most commonly in forests, mountains, caves and deserts. They always make their nests far away from people, in secluded areas.

There’s seven types of dragons:

Dragon, Wyvern, Amphithere, Wyrm, Lindwurm, Lung dragon, and Drake. 

These are all considered dragons, just different types. There are many species of dragon that can be sorted into the different types. Most common ones are red, green, blue, yellow, black, and white. Rarer ones are bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. (Bigger pic)

For example: Norael is a species of Blue Mountain Drake, which is a type of Drake. There are also a couple of sub-types, listed here below. Sub-types are unique types of dragons, usually mixed in with some other creature or the result of a mutation.

[nicksknacks]

Over the last month or so, I've had more than one friend ask me, "How do you stay so calm?" or has commented on how easy-going I am. I feel like most people think I'm like that; relaxed, unphased, chill.

Good.

That's what I want to project because if the screaming inside my head leaked out, the decibels would deafen. Life, for almost everyone, is hard at times, but the last year and a half for me and mine has been a seemingly ceaseless marathon of bullshit. There's an unending number of things to do, take care of, and think about. I'm like a duck on the water; steady and smooth, but under the surface, I'm not only paddling furiously but also knitting a sweater, playing Texas hold 'em, and painting a mural. With webbed feet, mind you, and frequently doing it poorly. Existing is exhausting, but it beats the alternative, so I Just. Keep. Going. I'm gonna keep going until I've run out of go. And then I'll keep going still because the show must go on and this is my part. I can't break character.

[mcnostril]

Knightly greble and squire.

[nicksknacks]

I wish the squire had a pair of coconut halves to clop together

[nicksknacks]

I'm always some form of weary, whether it be physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, etc, or some combination thereof. Lately, it's everything

[newwavedeathrat]

I CANT GET OVER THE LECTURES MY HISTORY PROFESSOR RECORDED FOR US, HIS DAUGHTER KEEPS WALKING IN ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY & ADORABLE???

[newwavedeathrat]

him: so, every president since FDR has done this, but-

her: walks in with a barbie doll

him: oh, hi, what's up?

her: fairy barbie is flying in

him: oh, okay - i'm doing a lecture right now though, so could fairy barbie fly-

her: show them fairy barbie

him: sighs.

him: okay, everyone, this is fairy barbie,

[newwavedeathrat]

reblog if you appreciate fairy barbie 👊😔

[newwavedeathrat]

update:

[theconcealedweapon]

[flightyquinn]

Some other bangers;

"Jack of all trades, master of none" ... "but ofttimes better than a master of one."

"Blood is thicker than water." "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb."

"Money is the root of all evil." "The love of money is the root of all evil."

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

there's also "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" which conservatives are oh so fond of saying

bootstraps are, well, straps on your boots. you cannot physically pull yourself up by them, and that's what the original phrase meant. "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps" is meant to be an impossible task

[adorkastock]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

The second part really matters.