Peppertree & Chase

[kunga-khandro-deactivated202503]

charlotte <3

[anisongoftheday]

The Vision of Escaflowne Opening

No Need for Promises by Maaya Sakamoto

[t-u-i-t-c]

Kimi to Yukite Saku: Shinsengumi Seishunroku (2024) │ 01x03

"It really is you..."

[peppertreechase]

#why cant we get good japanese dramas on viki

[hedgehog-moss]

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”

That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”

oh, that hurt

I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots

the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life

on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious

I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was

The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”

God.

for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again

it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

[vrabia]

[rainbowravioli]

Sorry to say, but they do the exact same thing for humans too.

[rainbowravioli]

It’s amazing how people in the notes and comments are absolutely FURIOUS at me for the included Frozen comparison. Special shout out to everyone trying to prove that real people look like this.

[penismadnessgirl]

Not to mention that when people edit these characters to have better facial proportions, the originals look like bizarre fish people.

[simonalkenmayer]

How humans draw themselves is always fascinating to me

[rose-in-the-cosmos]

op why are you speaking like you aren’t human i’m scared

[simonalkenmayer]

Eh…perhaps read my blog description.

[61below]

[rottingfacade]

[helloitsbees]

this post has EVERYTHING

[moth-doe]

I think I know the reason for why people prefer “unrealistic” animation.

For some reason, humans really don’t like things that look like humans but aren’t quite human. Hence why a lot of people are uncomfortable with movies with animation like Monster House and The Polar Express. It looks too realistic to us and sets us off.

Scientists call this the “Uncanny Valley” effect and its thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival.

The funny part is. No other animals that we know of experience the uncanny valley effect. Only humans. Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival?

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

Oh hell yeah this is what I’m here for

[niuniente]

Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival? 

@hitodama89

[athelind]

Okay, I’ve seen this thread a dozen times before, but not with this addendum.

[vrabia]

i made the original post in the throes of unmedicated depression because that’s where my sense of humor was at the time. i don’t check my activity page. seeing it barge onto my dash months later with +250k notes and this exchange attached to it like a bunch of rattling tin cans attached to the tail of a rabid dog running loose is fucking WILD

[cluster-fandom]

So sometime after whenever humans developed the uncanny valley effect, did we just hunt this mysterious predator to extinction? Or did it die out on it’s own? Or did it evolve as well into something… else? Could it still be living on Earth today?

[aberrantemotion]

Idk why dont we ask the “people eating cryptid” who claims to be from a species that’s easy to hide and apparently passes as human who’s like, 3 reblogs above this?

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

[fuckingconversations]

Hey fun fact;

Back when Homo sapiens weren’t the end-all of hominids, we also had some other two legged “humanish” cousins like the Neanderthals, Denisovians, and more!

There were nine different species of “humans”

By 10,000 years ago, they were all gone. The disappearance of these other species resembles a mass extinction. But there’s no obvious environmental catastrophe – volcanic eruptions, climate change, asteroid impact – driving it.

Instead, the extinctions’ timing suggests they were caused by the spread of a new species, evolving 260,000-350,000 years ago in Southern Africa: Homo sapiens.

Neanderthal skeletons show patterns of trauma consistent with warfare.

Like language or tool use, a capacity for and tendency to engage in genocide is arguably an intrinsic, instinctive part of human nature.

Optimists have painted early hunter-gatherers as peaceful, noble savages, and have argued that our culture, not our nature, creates violence. But field studies, historical accounts, and archaeology all show that war in primitive cultures was intense, pervasive and lethal.

Basically: the reason we as Homo Sapians find other human-ish figures unsettling and have an instinctual fear/aggression response called “The Uncanny Valley” is because we literally TOOK OVER THE WORLD by hunting down and killing every other hominid on the planet.

Dunno if the “9 species of hominid genocide” was a result of uncanny valley or the cause of it, but it’s a pretty sure bet to guess they’re linked.

Read more about it here :)

[isaacsapphire]

This is a wonderful post.

[official-lucifers-child]

i love seeing this after also having fully read and comprehended the rabies post

[rosy2k]

Cawaii!（カワイイ!）

[peppertreechase]

non-no Japanese fashion magazine 4/20/2001 featuring 浜崎あゆみ [Hamasaki Ayumi] on the cover, Miami casual street fashion, the cutest hairstyles (that i tried to do in high school!) and 木村 拓哉 [Takuya Kimura] looking great in a hair removal ad. 💕

[jdramasource]

You don’t understand what I’m saying, right? We can’t talk to each other anymore.

Silent (2022) dir. Kazama Hiroki.

[shallanswit]

have you seen this? i knew it but like its good that its official.

how would you sort them? id sort the same way but also adolin as slytherin and renarin as ravenclaw

[jupitersflower-deactivated20200]

“queer” is such a useless term. if i tell someone im bisexual, they know i am attracted to men and women. if a man tells me he is gay, i know he is a man exclusively attracted to other men. if someone tells me they are queer, it tells me nothing about them. it doesnt tell me who they attracted to. it tells me nothing about that person.

[internettwink]

It tells me they’re trying to be a extra lil bitch and that I shouldn’t be friends with them

[terflies]

No, you probably shouldn’t, for their sake.

[star-fall-system]

yall realise thats exactly the point, right

queer covers everyone who is noncis or nonstraight

it covers the identities you want to erase or disallow from the community

it doesn’t immediately tell you private information about someone’s sexuality or gender that you aren’t entitled to

and the person in question may not even know themselves, but queer is what they know they can always use if they’re not sure except they know theyre definitely not cis/straight

you hate it because it’s too inclusive and too broad. It’s supposed to be inclusive and broad. If someone tells you they’re queer then all you need to know is that they are in some way not cis or straight and other than that it aint your business. If being told someone’s identity is none of your business pisses you off, thats a you problem

[wilwheaton]

Wil, I'm a white guy, you're a white guy, how do we help people understand not all white guys are dirtbags? How do we stop other white guys from being such dirtbags? Where can we make a space to educate our fellow white guys about how they are hurting others and themselves by being such dirtbags?

Step one: listen to women, especially women of color.

Step two: listen to non-white people when they tell us how white people screw up.

Step three: act on the things we learn when we listen.

Step four: NEVER NEVER NEVER just go along with some white person who is being a shitty garbage human because you don’t want to rock the boat. Call that shit out, and make sure they know that you won’t just stand there silently while they are racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist, etc. 

Step five: I’m serious about step four. These fuckholes feel empowered and protected by the silent and implied consent of other white people. Do not ever give them comfort or the feeling that they have a safe space to be racist, etc.

Step six: yeah yeah yeah free speech. That’s not the same as speech without consequences.

Step seven: Seriously, step four. You have to speak up, because when you don’t, you’re putting the burden of standing up to horrible white people on the very people they hurt and oppress. 

I’d love to hear from anyone else, especially nonwhite people, who have other things to teach me and my fellow white people.

[politicalprof]

Ta-Nehisi Coates being smart.

[wilwheaton]

White people: please pay attention to this and understand it.

[dickensign]

[daughterofscotland]

See the source for the whole comic, it’s brilliant.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

and then men wonder why their partners are stressed and grouchy and “no fun” any more.

[pinkpurplebluexxx-deactivated20]

@ the #DiagnoseTrump people, you are being disgusting. You say you hate him because he’s a bigot but then you act like in order for him to have such gross opinions he must be mentally ill, or that diagnosing him with mental illness/a personality disorder will somehow make him unfit for his position. 

What is it saying that after all the things Trump has said and done you think diagnosing him with mental illness will be enough to oust him? Why would anyone even support that? I hate what Trump stands for, but in supporting this #DiagnoseTrump mess you are essentially saying that bad people must be mentally ill (rather than just racist/sexist/bigoted) and that you think a mental health diagnosis should be used as a weapon to invalidate and bring down people instead of help them. 

And even if Donald Trump did get diagnosed with every mental illness under the sun, why would that be relevant? Do you think it would be right that he be pressured to stand down BECAUSE of that? What wider message do you think that is spreading? I’ll tell you what message that would spread: a message that mental illness makes a person’s political views/voice invalid, which is toxic and wrong. 

Please share this if you think you’re progressive because honestly the amount of so called ‘progressive’ people online that think this sort of attack on Trump (or ANY person) is okay is shocking and disheartening. 

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

[girldwarf]

YAAAAEEESSSSSSS

[worldoflis]

You know what I like, and feel is so important? That he doesn’t say “Men thinks those are THEIR positions”. He says “We think those are OUR positions.”

As a male feminist, he still doesn’t exclude himself from the group of men.

[ruckawriter-deactivated20200128]

Damn.

Well said.

[shisasan]

To release your anxiety and depression, repeat:

I am not my thoughts. My thoughts do not define who I am. I am the awareness beneath those thoughts and I just simply react to the emotional display. I am observing some low energy thoughts right now for my highest good. I will sit back and just let my thoughts pass over me.

[karadin]

[esendoran]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

[wilwheaton]

Yeah, you can disagree with the facts, and the 3 in 4 Americans who didn’t vote for you can remind you that you’re full of shit, you fucking dickwagon.