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(Icon via supersxlver) Twitter, Instagram: @oddevan; dA: madcrasher. Still learning to put away childish things and be like a child while possessing a desire nothing in this world can satisfy.

[evilnicegirl]

maybe there never were any twin towers. like did u ever see them?

[nypaingers]

So I know all you kids are joking around but no, you’re not allowed to make jokes about this. No.

[evilnicegirl]

[trash-panda-gorl]

Can’t just leave this in the tags, @the-starboy-symbiont

[ludicrouscheeseburger]

All of the above, plus:

For years after 9/11 we were constantly told “NEVER FORGET” and the idea was basically “keep feeling sad and afraid and especially ANGRY forever; don’t let time dull your emotional response like it’s naturally supposed to; continue to justify the injustices by feeling this way all the time.” And the 3000 deaths were constantly pointed to as this huge deal that justified any lengths to go to.

And then Covid hit. And there were several points during the height of the pandemic (because fun fact, according to the actual definitions of a pandemic, *it’s not technically over yet!* ) where we were having a 9/11’s worth of deaths every week or so. And suddenly 3000 deaths were not a big deal at all. Instead of being enough reason to go to war far away and strip us at home of many rights too, they weren’t even enough justification to make people wear a damn piece of fabric over their face.

3000 people died once and now the government can legally wiretap anyone without a warrant, and hold people at Gitmo under suspicion of terrorism (no need for due process)… 3000 people dying every week but we should all still be going out to brunch and concerts and who cares about the disabled and immunocompromised?

Something in me broke. Make all the 9/11 jokes you want.

[only-tiktoks]

[britney-j-christ]

[softservecanine]

You’re completely correct. Out of my way, able-bodied losers. Fuck you.

[lucidlymelanated]

Your 30s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[aetherograph]

Your 40s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[loisfreakinglane]

#as long as you're alive it's literally never too late

[paperairplanemob]

Something I wrote recently:

For reference, the lyrics being mentioned (not printed to avoid copyright infringement):

Time won’t leave me as I am / But time won’t take the boy out of this man.

You can’t get back the years that have gone by. But you still have the years you have left.

Go and make your life one you want to live in. It’s not too late. Don’t let anyone tell you that stupid shit.

[foolfortune]

[inotrope]

This one gets me every time. It's scrabbling out a small, hard existence for yourself, and it's fine. You have your safe little hole and a few coins (treasure!) you scrounged, and life is good, it has to be, because that's all you've ever known.

Then you're tricked and trapped and taken away from your whole life, you can't know where. It can't be anywhere good.

Only, when the cage door opens and you dare to poke your snout out, you see a world beyond anything you could imagine. So vast, so green! Have you ever felt the breeze before, instead of stale indoors air? And creatures like you, when you did not even have a concept of how lonely you were until you saw them! You didn't know you could get so large; you didn't know you could want to, when the thought of outgrowing your hole was terrifying.

Oh, to be plucked from a world so unsuited to us by a higher power and settled into one where we can thrive.

(Yes, of course, we have to make our own better world and find our fellow dragons. But the little dragon being taken to a home it didn't have the experience to desire strikes right to my heart.)

[paperairplanemob]

Maybe not a “higher power” per se, but sometimes we need intervention. Sometimes we can be doing the best we can—and might even be happy!—with the circumstances we’re in. We might even know that something better is out there, but it does us no good to dream about it because how would it even work?

Until someone comes along and takes us there.

Maybe it’s seeing a friend make it. Maybe it’s getting help. Whatever it is, it’s enough to get us to the place. We still have to walk, we still have to figure out what our new lives look like, but we can do that because, for the first time…

We’re there.

[firecurls-27]

Au where everything’s the same except the guy’s wear clothes.

Ok so a couple things/headcanons-

I didn’t add Charmy, Starline, or Clutch bc I just imagine their pants just their leg color. :|

I didn’t do big because I think all he’d wear is just shorts. So…shorts.

Rough & Tumble’s outfits change depending on who they work for. They get different uniforms. But I just drew default clothes.

Rough & Tumble’s clothes are inspired by their beta designs. (Tumble stole a biker jacket and secretly wants to be a motorcyclist. Rough wants him to get one so he can sit in the sidecar.)

Same thing goes for Silver where his clothes change depending on the state of his future.

Knuckles’ has a change of clothes when he’s on his island that’s more traditional, but he wears normal clothes when he’s off the island.

Kit’s raincoat has a hood that he rarely uses.

They’re not as visible, but Espio’s belt has samurai sword holders.

Tails’ overalls pockets are constantly filled with tools, nuts, bolts, and mints.

Shadow’s legs are shaded weird because I attempted latex shading…

Metal Sonic gets nothing. He’s a robot.

[guerrillatech]

[aflo]

posting this on twitter will get you put into witness protection

[truestoriesaboutme]

The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.

[terminallyonlinecat-deactivated]

The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

Copyright governs who has the "right" to produce and distribute "copies" of books/music/movies/creative works. This is where fair use doctrine applies, because most creative works are referential by nature.

Weird Al is allowed to parody everything because he's operating under copyright law, not trademark law.

Trademark governs who can "trade" under what "mark" i.e. the brand identity of a company. Companies don't own their trademarked word forever, but they maintain the exclusive right to sell things under that brand in their specific market sector. Patagonia doesn't own the name of a geographical region, they just own the right to be the only company using that name to sell clothing and outdoor gear.

A drag queen name can be a parody of a clothing and outdoor gear company.

A company's trademarked logo can be used in parody creative works, with more leeway if it's not for commercial purposes. Trademark parody is allowed! Patagonia has been aware of and allowed Pattie Gonia's trademark parody for years.

Trademarks are specific to market sector. Actress Chase Infiniti could start a makeup line named after herself and her trademark would not infringe on the Infiniti car brand because they are different markets and there is no risk of confusion. Pattie Gonia could probably trademark her name to sell frozen veggie burgers and Patagonia would not care.

Drag queen Jan Sport did a collab with JanSport bags. What Jan Sport almost certainly did not do is independently apply to register "Jan Sport" as a trademark in order to sell bags on her own, because that would infringe on JanSport's own trademark in the bag market sector.

What Pattie Gonia is not allowed to do -- the thing that Pattie Gonia actually did do and is being sued for -- is apply to register "Pattie Gonia" as a trademark to sell clothing, because apparently Pattie is in talks with North Face and HydroFlask to sell "Pattie Gonia"-branded gear. These companies probably won't finalize anything unless Pattie shows that she actually owns the trademark. Unfortunately, "Patagonia" is already a registered trademark in the clothing market sector, and these two names are too similar to exist in the same sector (see: "likelihood of confusion" legal standard).

Your drag queen name can parody a clothing company. You can parody the trademarked logo of a clothing company. But you cannot use the same name to then go on to also become a clothing company.

In order to maintain their own trademark, Patagonia must sue for trademark infringement. If they don't sue, and Pattie Gonia gets her own trademark, Pattie could sue Patagonia for infringement on her trademark. You can see why Patagonia won't be dropping this suit no matter how much you harass them.

Yes, Pattie's legal fees to fight this will cost more than the $1 she's being sued for. Pattie could also not fight this, withdraw her trademark application, not spend any money, and carry on being an environmental activist drag queen named Pattie Gonia. She would probably be better off making nice with Patagonia in the hopes of a Jan Sport-esque deal where Pattie designs an exclusive fabric and Patagonia maintains the trademark, but apparently Pattie's legal team has been sassing off to Patagonia in their communications for years, has applied for a trademark they should 100% know they'll never get, and has now decided to play the victim on social media just in time for Pride month, so I don't know how likely that is. I guess we'll see!

[sexshopshenanigans]

This is mostly correct, but I’d like to offer a small correction. The product deal with Hydroflask and North Face apparently occurred in 2022, and HydroFlask got Patagonia involved to make sure everything was in the clear. It seems like Patagonia was very agreeable about everything at the time, and only asked that Pattie Gonia and her partners avoid using the Patagonia logo and font or similar images, and to avoid putting the words “Pattie Gonia” on any products. This is the email exchange from 2022, from the recent Patagonia trademark complaint, including Pattie Gonia apparently agreeing to the limitations.

The new conflict is from Pattie Gonia using the Patagonia imagery and the Pattie Gonia name on her own merchandise. This is the email Patagonia sent, with the images they feel conflict with the 2022 agreement.

Pattie responded to that by disagreeing that she had broken any agreement, and also obliquely threatening to expose Patagonia for making tactical gear for the US military?

It’s possible that Patagonia understood the terms from 2022 to be a good-faith ongoing agreement about keeping the brands separate, and Pattie interpreted it as an agreement limited to the now-ended North Face and Hydroflask collaboration. It’s also possible that Pattie Gonia didn’t believe she was actually agreeing to anything at all, since her responses were very neutral, though positive in tone, up until 2025. The email chain does, however, show what I think is a very clear effort on Patagonia’s part to protect their trademark while also showing support and goodwill towards Pattie in her use of the Pattie Gonia stage persona.

[scarlet-rosepetals]

Reblogging this because I think it provides an interesting explanation of the legal side of this whole mess, but to be clear the Only Correct Reaction here is to understand that copyright and trademark are Fucking Stupid, not to get out your torches and pitchforks to defend teh poor innocent cowpowation from a scawy yucky-wucky dwag queen.

Pattie selling shit with her stage name on it Really Obviously isn’t going to have any negative effect on the continued lining of Patagonia CEO pockets, as if that even fucking matters, and no amount of waxing poetic about “well they have to 🥺🥺🥺” is going to make me say anything other than “fucking stupid if true then”.

Y’all gotta stop jumping to defend corpos just because blah blah trademarks blah blah copyrights. As the famous post implies y’all are not temporarily embarrassed vivzipops.

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

You will struggle to defend Pattie Gonia with the argument that "trademarks are fucking stupid" when this all started because Pattie applied for a trademark of her own.

In terms of whose pockets are being lined:

Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.

The unusual move comes at a moment of growing scrutiny for billionaires and corporations, whose rhetoric about making the world a better place is often overshadowed by their contributions to the very problems they claim to want to solve.

At the same time, Mr. Chouinard’s relinquishment of the family fortune is in keeping with his longstanding disregard for business norms, and his lifelong love for the environment.

(NYT Gift Link)

Since 2022, 100% of Patagonia's profits have gone to climate and environmental causes. They have completely restructured the ownership of the company so that this will continue in perpetuity.

I like Pattie Gonia and I admire her environmental activism, but Patagonia's $100 million toward climate causes every year forever has orders of magnitude more impact. I support Patagonia maintaining its trademark however necessary to continue this work, and it is actually deeply distasteful to me that Pattie is willing to spin this routine trademark suit as "a corporation trying to erase an activist" when there is very obviously no path to legal victory and the only possible outcome is reputational damage to the only major corporation literally ever that has been singularly, intentionally, innovatively, and against all odds structured to give a fuck. Patagonia is a unicorn among corporations and we are starting a smear campaign against it for what. Selling slightly different t-shirts? Crab bucket ass activism.

[thepioden]

@friendlyneighborhoodmadscientist

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[jv]

I hope the cowboy also mentions burgers at some point.

(also, you don't have to put coins in your shopping carts in other supermarkets??)

[paperairplanemob]

No, we expect people to return the carts to their place out of the goodness of their hearts.

It works about as well as you expect.

There are cart returns throughout the parking lot, and I’d say about 80% of people return them there or back to the store. This still requires an employee to go and fetch the carts every so often (sometimes with a motorized cart pusher so that they can get the whole group), and that last 20% is also just scattered around the lot waiting for someone to fetch it and taking up parking spaces in the meantime.

(Side note: Lidl has also shown up in my town. They do the American-style cart returns, but (at least at first) I saw the part on the cart where they clearly decided not to do the quarter deposit.)

Aldi and Lidl also charge for bags. That was weird at first, but it’s becoming more common.

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[spicedtealeaves]

A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Jasmine Brimsmayd

Actor and Writer

There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made

[cerastes]

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

[cerastes]

This sux00rz…

[chandra-telescope]

hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

[chandra-telescope]

favourite additions

[chandra-telescope]

[tenaciouswritingdragon]

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

[wonderwyrm]

[eregyrn-falls]

It may not be apparent to everyone how to easily find out who wrote the poem in the tags, so: @mumblesplash

(an instant-classic example of a Tumblr thread where so many people add value!)

[paperairplanemob]

Also hi, despite my best efforts, my timelines in other apps have gotten doomscroll-y. It might be mercury Gatorade or whatever the fudge, or maybe even seeing the subtext about callout drama happening is hitting me in an especially weird place because I’ve been working on a social media site for over five years now and while I’ve had misgivings here and there I’ve never thought about abandoning the whole thing before now and…

The OSHA Compliance Officer In My Head: But boss, the fascism!

Yeah, that too.

Anyway, hi Tumblr. I knew you’d be here for me.

[paperairplanemob]

In more positive news, I finally made a website for the short stories I’ve been writing every month!

Stories from Nowhere and its surrounding universes

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[notasapleasure]

this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

[paperairplanemob]

Live in the southern USA, can confirm. Granted, it changes the air in the car from “Satan’s Lunchbox” to “as bad as it is outside,” but that’s still better.

[paperairplanemob]

Also hi, despite my best efforts, my timelines in other apps have gotten doomscroll-y. It might be mercury Gatorade or whatever the fudge, or maybe even seeing the subtext about callout drama happening is hitting me in an especially weird place because I’ve been working on a social media site for over five years now and while I’ve had misgivings here and there I’ve never thought about abandoning the whole thing before now and…

The OSHA Compliance Officer In My Head: But boss, the fascism!

Yeah, that too.

Anyway, hi Tumblr. I knew you’d be here for me.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Tried to reblog this post:

but Tumblr refused to let me for some reason.

Anyway, I’ll just show you what I tried to write here:

[thatoddboy]

Also, this is not a hypothetical.

This is a real scenario that is happening now

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Which is why people whose brains literally cannot let them lie need a way to hack the meat computer to keep people alive

[paperairplanemob]

Also this helps square the circle of “what would Jesus do in this situation?” Because he sure as hel—HECK wouldn’t sell someone out to the fascists.

You know, for those of us weak-minded simpletons that use things like the idea of God to help accept things we literally cannot control.

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

[08pmdverse]

pmd hero and partner dynamic idea: they're both from the mainline games world but one was the human trainer and the other was their ace pokemon...

The hero(the human) doesn't remember anything while their ace remembers everything. They're both now unevolved pokemon. The ace is still very loyal to their hero and tries to act as their shield bc they see them as more vulnerable now...

[08pmdverse]

okay.