Emotionally Distant™

they/it; queer & biracial. Half-assed IT professional & whole assed Archaeologist Undergrad

[nootienoots]

August Lily 🥀

[prinnay]

sketch

[hussyknee]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Remaining time: 5 days 5 hours

Rebagel for science pls.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“its supposed to show interplay between characters” um they can do that in church 🤨

[shieldfoss]

sincerely though

[misomythus]

This equally applies to action scenes, violent scenes, scenes with crying and shouted arguments, etc. Like sex scenes, all of these are often overused because they have a heightened visceral effect whether or not the movie needs them. The best movies are the ones where every scene is there for a reason.

[misomythus]

I keep seeing this post get reblogged and the satire falls flatter every time. Seriously, what is supposed to be so ridiculous and mockable about the idea that sex scenes (along with all the other scenes) should have some kind of artistic meaning or purpose? Are people bizarrely disputing the observation that superfluous, meaningless scenes of cheap titillation do frequently occur in media, or is it that you don't think any movie should have ambitions beyond cheap titillation in the first place?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the joke wasn't "all sex scenes are justified”, it was "if you dismiss one category of scene as inherently gratuitous because it can be sensorially engaging, that logic applies just as easily to countless other kinds of scenes and becomes absurd and useless as a critique”. obviously every scene— not just sex scenes!—should justify its place in a film. but i also think more scenes justify their existence than they're often given credit for because of the kneejerk reaction to sexuality that i am satirizing in the original post

[nickythehickey]

there are a few people actually whose blogs just look like this to me and i hope they know i still love them

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife]

I do not promote weight loss mentalities because I believe that if weight loss is going to occur in a healthy way, it's going to occur as a side effect of adopting appropriate fitness habits

Not as the goal, because adopting fitness habits does not always result in weight loss.

And it's the habits, like building muscle, improving flexibility & mobility, increasing nutrient intake & hydration, and getting quality rest & sleep that actually matter.

If you're successfully doing those things your health is quantitatively improving, no matter what your weight is doing. But if the metric your most concerned with is just loosing weight, you may actually be getting less healthy not more.

Because weight loss can occur for many reasons, and most of them are not healthy.

[creatingblackcharacters]

I would like to offer some book recommendations:

Zeinab Badawi - An African History of Africa

John Parker - Great Kingdoms of Africa

Kellie Carter Jackson - We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Dipo Faloyin - Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

DK Definitive Visual Histories - Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent

Susan Williams - White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

Cheikh Anta Diop - Precolonial Black Africa

Walter Rodney - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Ivan Van Sertima - They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Journal of African Civilizations)

Thank you for the resources!! I think a lot of people could use these, especially the ones looking for influence and culture pre-colonization.

[rainbowroadmkwii]

Charles River - The Gullah: The History and Legacy of the African American Ethnic Group in the American Southeast

Tameka Ellington - Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair

Charles River - The Creoles: The History and Legacy of Some of the Americas’ Most Unique Ethnic Groups

Ida B. Wells-Barnett - The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics & Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Bryant Terry - Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora

Binyavanga Wainaina - How to Write About Africa: Collected Works

Oscar Reiss - Blacks in Colonial America

Phoebe Ann Pollitt - African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965

Michael Newton - The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi: A History

Yvonne D. Sims - Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture

Novotny Lawrence - Beyond Blaxploitation (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies)

Josiah Howard - Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide

Paul Ortiz - Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920

Tom Burgis - The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

[stonerthings]

Pass the blunt to your followers

[klapollo]

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

[klapollo]

Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[zebablah-deactivated20160105]

television history

[virginmarx]

i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years

[real-faker]

there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny

[traycakes]

“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.

[cinemaocd]

So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.

and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”

[asymbina]

it’s the overlapping music cues that kill me

[kittenboom]

^^^^^ these people get it

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[zebablah-deactivated20160105]

television history

[virginmarx]

i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years

[real-faker]

there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny

[traycakes]

“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.

[cinemaocd]

So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.

and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”

[asymbina]

it’s the overlapping music cues that kill me

[kittenboom]

^^^^^ these people get it

[dailycatsblog]

[pearlo]

there’s very few things that drive me up the wall in fandom as much as this weird new assumption that fandom is primarily a space for younger people that older folks are only accepted into in a trial basis if they promise to centralize and accommodate younger fans, and further, anything else is creepy and predatory. IT’S OKAY FOR ADULTS TO PRODUCE CONTENT FOR OTHER ADULTS.

[deputychairman]

if I have to read “women in their 30s” used as an insult one more time I swear I’ll - step away from that user and just hang out with the other grownups who consistently create good content because I’m also an adult and too busy comparing car insurance to fight with teenagers on the internet, but goddAMMIT I’ll be annoyed

[teaboot]

I’ve been in this hole since yall lil shits were three apples tall and I’ll die in this hole too

[uroko]

伏見/梅雨の濠川 Fushimi/The River in Rainy Season

[sardonyxlestrange]

Some last minute birthday pictures. I’m soo not used to being in front of a legitimate camera lol, I’ve gotten used to phone cameras.

I hope the nervous awkwardness isn’t apparent in my face😬

[nootienoots]

I love talking walks places and seeing what I can see...

(That plant buttonbush)