welcome to the trash compactor

Grace, 28, she/her. May contain fantasy/sci-fi, history, art, and nonsense. "sometimes I do a thing and a good portion of the time I don't"

[pressure-machine]

TEN YEARS OF MAD MAX: FURY ROAD dir. George Miller, released 15th May 2015

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Every morning, I put on my thinking cap and my smartiepants. Unfortunately, there is no shirt that properly proclaims my intellectual abilities, so I have to go tits out

[night-the-starfish]

Hunter and prey, markers on paper.

[burymecherry]

shane hollander was a huge baby. literally he was the FATTEST chunkiest baby ever. he came out the womb just big as hell, like so big yuna needed a c-section. 90th percentile birth weight. there’s a picture in his baby book of the doctor holding swaddled baby shane like a prize fish and the first time ilya saw it he laughed until he cried.

[theerakits-archive]

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY — S.01 E.12

[yonglixx]

[billy-crudup]

Is your war finally over? GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023) dir. Takashi Yamazaki

[wanlittlehusk]

my friend rob when the drop in dance yourself clean hit on his wedding night

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by @niochemblyat

[miseria-fortes-viros]

listen, okay, i get what you’re saying but the hunger games are REALLY important for the country’s economy. they generate more revenue in just a few weeks than all of the districts do in like, six entire months. AND they’re an integral part of our culture. not just the capitol! the districts rely on the games too. we can’t just ABOLISH them. that’s CRAZY. but of course i support trans rights! they should have the right to put their names in and showcase their courage and bravery as their PREFERRED gender. but it’s funny you brought that up because i’m actually starting a petition to introduce a nonbinary category as well! tributes shouldn’t be required to align with arbitrary sex characteristics in order to compete. i mean, it’s 2316! i know the districts aren’t as advanced as we are here in the capitol, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be encouraging gender diversity. i’ll take the signatures to the city offices once i have enough. honestly, i have high hopes! the local lgbt community is sure to support it. plus, i mean, why would anyone be against it, really? just think! we could have THREE tributes from each district instead of just two. imagine the economical impact of twelve extra tributes every year! wouldn’t that be something! what do you think? will you sign?

[ily-a]

I like you. I like you, too. HEATED RIVALRY (2025-)

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Love love love that Grace is staring at the "who would I die for?" line on his whiteboard right before Rocky shows up in his xenonite container. Yes hello here is someone so important to you that you would sacrifice your life for him. He's in a hamster ball on your doorstep and he's about to run into your spaceship and insult your house and wreck your shit. You would die for him in every lifetime, and only because of that do you end up living.

[oldguardians]

learning to keep scrolling and to withhold your criticism for the right time and place are important skills. certainly ones I've had to work on. but what they don't tell you about is the danger of seeing a post that you Know is wrong, letting it pass by unremarked, and then thinking about the Wrong Post every few months for years on end

[oldguardians]

actually. I think this is the only way to exorcize that particular ghost.

okay. so. 5-10 years ago, I saw a post where someone was looking at a letter their great-grandmother wrote in German about a child that the great-grandmother could not keep. and the writer of the post said "it's so sad, she was referring to the child as 'it', probably trying to distance herself emotionally since she had to give the baby away"

then they posted a snippet showing that the great-grandmother was referring to the kid as "es". the poster was interpreting this as the great-grandmother referring to the child as "it".

but that is *loud incorrect buzzer* a result of bad translation and misunderstanding how the German language works!!

nouns in German can be feminine (die), masculine (der), or neutral (das). So "woman", for example, is a feminine noun ("die Frau"). when referring to "die Frau", then, the correct pronoun is "sie", since the noun is feminine.

child (das Kind), baby (das Baby), and girl (das Mädchen) are all neutral gendered nouns. The pronoun for "das" is "es". So when the great-grandmother was using "es" to refer to her child, she was literally just using the correct pronoun to correspond to the gender of the noun. not so much a sign of emotional distance as a sign of proper grammar.

this is the kind of mistake that machine translation can really feed. and why sometimes it's worth being pedantic on the internet sometimes, I guess, because otherwise other people's language mistakes will haunt your dreams

[oldguardians]

learning to keep scrolling and to withhold your criticism for the right time and place are important skills. certainly ones I've had to work on. but what they don't tell you about is the danger of seeing a post that you Know is wrong, letting it pass by unremarked, and then thinking about the Wrong Post every few months for years on end

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[hils79]

I am deleting this app off my phone

[ohmovie]

Do you want me to finish the story?

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

[shanefreak]

FLEABAG 2x04 // HEATED RIVALRY