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this looked funnee so i tried it

[rilianedautriche]

[one-winged-archangel]

I missed my chance to reblog this in 2019, so I googled the next day Halloween would be a Thursday and Godbless if I’m still active on Tumblr in 2024

[ourple-and-green]

I scheduled this to post one year ago at exactly 10:55pm

[niconicorose]

Every day, great things are happening on Portland street signs

[charl0ttan]

these youtuber apologies keep getting less and less genuine but at least they addressed it ig🤷‍♀️

[legoyuri]

Can you back off? This happened a decade ago why cant you accept their mistakes and move on :/

[charl0ttan]

We Still Need To Hold Them Accountable .

[coolyo294]

i love the weird shit we do for sports 

[coolyo294]

[chillywillow1]

Bowser making his flags fully Italian proof

[ivy-saurs]

every time i see someone pay their bus fare with their apple watch i always think of this tweet

[tsunderemployee]

i know this is an ad for a video game but its making me laugh really hard. because theyre right

[men-iss-vess-ull-deactivated202]

when the ogre I hired to guard the castle complains that the longsword I gave him requires a level of control and finesse he isn't used to

[dorothylarouge]

[rabbiteclair]

The film is one of three live-action horror films featuring Popeye that were released in 2025

what a normal sentence

[the-dozing-cadent]

searching for this gave me three consecutive punches in the gut

[prokopetz]

I think the fundamental problem with all these low-effort horror movie adaptations of recently-public-domain cartoon characters is that they always make the titular character the monster. Like, nobody gives a shit about a film where Mickey Mouse is a zombie; they want to see Mickey Mouse fight the zombies!

[benssecondatyempt]

The fact that Popeye vs Chutulu hasn’t been a thing with the public domain horror stuff feels like leaving money on the table

[prokopetz]

Popeye punches Cthulhu and Cthulhu explodes into ludicrous Mortal Kombat style gibs like when they ran him over with a boat in the original novella.

(Also as in the novella, this isn't actually a career-ending injury for the big C, so things kind of escalate from there.)

[prokopetz]

Trailer for a sci-fi horror movie set in a derelict underwater research facility where the bassline's thumping orchestral bombast is almost but not quite successful at distracting from the fact that the film's title track appears to be a minor key arrangement of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine".

[prokopetz]

@yoshilisk replied:

a Creature lurks on the periphery, seemingly able to navigate the facility with supernatural speed and guile. it almost seems like it can be in multiple places at once. at the end it's revealed that there are actually four Creatures

The trailer actually subtly gives this away by rapidly cutting between four separate shots of different human characters fleeing from the (off-screen) Creature in four different locations, exactly synced to the part of the song where the lyrics go "And our friends are all aboard / Many more of them live next door".

[cryptotheism]

In the Eberron setting of D&D any individual can theoretically ascend into godhood if enough people believe them to be gods. Similarly in both Warhammer and Chainsaw Man, demons (and the Chaos Gods) exist as direct manifestations of humanities fears and their strength is proportional to that fear. As far as you are aware, are these ideas rooted in any real world theologies or did someone come up with it in fiction and other people have adapted on them?

The idea that "gods are whatever people agree gods are" is a big part of secular humanism. Both Warhammer and Discworld have that as a huge part of their worlds, because they were both written by secular humanists who knew about Chaos magic and shit. it was all the rage in the early 80s now it's in every sci fi fantasy property.

[prokopetz]

This is broadly true, but there's also a much more specific vector when it comes to tabletop RPGs in particular. A lot of folks who were in the the tabletop roleplaying biz at the time that the trope was popularised have cited Harlan Ellison's 1975 short short collection Deathbird Stories as a direct inspiration for how faith and gods work in their original settings, and Gygax et al. were almost certainly aware of it. It's not the ultimate source of the idea by any means, but it's arguably the single most influential proximate source through with the idea entered tabletop RPG culture, so it's definitely worth checking out if you're interested in tracing the trope's antecedents.

(Of course, it's not just RPGs where this specific work's influence is felt; it's anecdotally reported that Terry Pratchett cited Deathbird Stories as one of his inspirations for how the gods of Discworld work, as exemplified in his 1992 novel Small Gods, while Neil Gaiman – yes, I know, but Sandman and American Gods played an enormous role in popularising this particular trope outside of tabletop RPG circles, so it's relevant even if the author is a shit – cited both Deathbird Stories and Richard Garnett's 1888 collection The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales. The latter is an especially interesting case because it clearly represents a transitional state between the secular humanist idea of gods' power being directly proportionate to the strength of their worshippers' faith, and older notions of gods deriving physical sustenance from sacrifices made in their names.)

[familyparadox]

You can also go back to the Epic of Gilgamesh in which Utnapishtim describes the gods, having wiped out all life with a flood, crowding around his fire and they had no followers left. So I suppose the idea could have started then. Several thousand years ago.

[prokopetz]

You need to be careful there. While the idea of gods being weakened by humanity's failure to perform the appropriate observances is of course an ancient one, uncritically equating this with the idea of a god's strength being directly proportionate to the strength of its worshippers' belief will lead you to peculiar conclusions. These are two different notions. That's why my previous comments explicitly draw a line between "gods deriving physical sustenance from sacrifices made in their names" and "gods being directly powered by faith alone"; the latter is a very modern idea, and claimed examples of it in the ancient world are almost always modern misinterpretations.

[prokopetz]

Literally the only thing that would be necessary to update those 1990s animes about a couple of dumbfuck women going around causing problems on purpose for the modern era is not giving them token boyfriends to counter the yuri allegations. It's the only genre where the sole needed improvement is a subtraction.

[prokopetz]

"Okay, but sometimes the token male love interest's presence is material to the plot" I have a suggestion.

[mikkeneko]

After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.

[animatedamerican]

This is very wise and very well put.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Portals to Hell by hrmphfft

[marchqueen-deactivated20161002]

IT’S BACK

[lady-dirtbag]

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS AGAIN FOR MONTHS

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

[2ndratewig]

ITS BACK 

[trumpetnista]

This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.

[lyninabin]

it’s from 2013 with 2.4mil tags how the fuck have i not seen it before?!?!?

[captaincrusher]

Portals to hell? I haven’t heard that name in years

[energyprison]

people really think "i HATE this [genre/medium], so that should tell you how good this is when i say i liked it" is a good place to start their review from. like why would i listen to you. you hate the genre/medium. the one you like is probably not very good as an example of the genre or medium.

[energyprison]

it makes you sound like this

[animentality]