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[zagreus]

Visit Original Link

[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?

[eternal-fractal]

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.

[morallygay]

Everytime this comes on my dash there’s different additions always as wild as the last ones

[figdays]

Fuck Pigeons by Felicia Chiao

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 

[seiya234]

i need this with the burning of a million suns

[catchymemes]

[cristinablackthornkingson]

Me who takes everything littearly 😂😂

[quakerjoe]

[dduane]

THIS.

[oohh-heyyy]

I stand by this message whole heartedly but also I thought this said “I can’t eat applesauce” and I was so fucking confused.

[nerdgul]

Were it not for ops comment i would not have known that says applause. I was ready to take this post at face value reading that shit as applesauce because thats just what you do on this bitch if a site

[sweetoothgirl]

Extra Thick and Fluffy Japanese Style Pancakes

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thewellofastarael]

Fun fact: the reason wearing seatbelts became common in the US was because kids were trained to in school, and would constantly bug their parents to wear their own seatbelts. In my mom’s words, everyone was shamed by little children into behaving safely.

[psychotictea]

This is how I got my mom to quit smoking,,, by annoying the everloving shit oughta her at age 7

[seigephoenix]

My 8 year old looked at a man in the airport (when I had to fly her to her Dad’s for the summer) and the sass came out in 3 ways.

First: She would constantly ask why someone wasn’t wearing a mask, loudly. “It’s not like it’s hard.”

Second: Standing in line to get food she noticed ome guy behind us wasn’t adhering to the 6 feet guidelines. She turned to him. “Six feet please.” He was so surprised he stepped back automatically. But then glared at me as I shrugged. “Rules are rules dude. She did say please.”

Third: A woman sneezed on the other side of the terminal waiting area. She was joined by a couple other kids for this one. “If you cough or sneeze, use your elbow please.” Honestly half of us were trembling to keep in the laughter and the others were just shocked to hear kids speak up like that.

[captain-snark]

hearing a five year old yell across the yard that the neighbors were having a party and “its illegal!” is hysterical. 

[zip-a-dee-lady]

Water from Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean. Scooped out of the ride in summer of 2010. The bottle was all the way full, and it now almost halfway gone. As of today, it still smells.

For yohoyohoadisneylifeforme

[zip-a-dee-lady]

My Pirates water is almost completely gone, down to about ¼ of the bottle :/

[moontouched-moogle]

stop drinking the pirate water

[zip-a-dee-lady]

Sorry it’s good and it heals me

[zip-a-dee-lady]

I hate this post so goddamn much. I cannot believe how many of you think I actually drank the water. I hope when it all evaporates away that this post goes with it.

[zip-a-dee-lady]

Guess what assholes

[karlmarxbongrip]

2020 really taking everything from us huh 😔

[zip-a-dee-lady]

I am sad (happy) to report: my water has officially 100% dried up. Which means it’s time for this post to die along with it.

[melthehoneybee]

Imagine saying the water dried up as if you didn’t drink it

[zip-a-dee-lady]

About 10 years too late with this info

[melthehoneybee]

I bet you wished you knew that so you could really age that water before drinking it

[krfbooks]

I’ve been told by dozens of agents that there isn’t a market for my #ownvoices series about a group of queer kids surviving the apocalypse.

please reblog this if you’d be interested in an LBGT+ sci-fi YA book, I want to prove a point

[phrogribbit]

why is this a question!? of course

[bellygangstaboo]

[msladyjay]

GO 👏 THE 👏 FUCK 👏 OFF. Also, the American educational system is trash. I applaud this child’s parents for giving her a voice and standing up against bias authority.

[fridakahloblvd]

(Can someone caption this?)

[nico-incognito]

Classroom full of mostly black and brown students:

Black student: [unintelligible—and then]  …and then throwing everything away beneath it because it doesn’t pertain to you. I’m sorry —

White teacher: —you know what, I’m sorry -I’m sorry…

Black student: —No, no, no…I let you talk -I let you talk, you’re gonna let me talk.

[Other students gasps]

White student: Go ahead. Finish.

Black student: I’m sorry that this is the way that it is. You’re right, it is fucked up. But white people control everything…and that’s not fair. And when anybody, any other minority tries to say anything about it or change it, we’re complaining or we’re ungrateful or all this other stuff because we still have this or that. But then you say something about ‘Oh, I don’t want—there’s too many Latinos and there’s too many—’

White teacher: I didn’t say that—

[Various students disagree]

White teacher: I said I want to control the border!

Black student: You said you don’t want this to turn into a Latin country because there’ll be too many 

White teacher: I did not say that.

[Various students disagree]

Student 2: You said you want to preserve the American culture.

Black student: There is no American culture. American culture is EVERYTHING.

[Various students agree]

Random: Mayonnaise!

[Students laugh]

Black student: And because you are white and so closed-minded, you refuse to accept that, you refuse to accept—

White teacher: Don’t tell me I’m closed-minded—

Black student: Everything you’ve said to me is closed-minded.

White teacher: Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean I’m closed-minded.

Black student: You don’t need to agree—I -I’ve had conversations with people that don’t agree with me, but if they at least listen and try to accept—you’re not accepting the truth.

White teacher: Why do I have to accept what you think is right?

Black student: You need to accept the truth! Not what I think is right, what is actually happening right—

White teacher: Well, let me tell you what I think. You said white people have been in control of everything….who is the president of the United States right now?!

Students: A black man!

*Various sounds of incredulity*

Black student: WITH A WHITE CONGRESS! WITH A WHITE SENATE! WITH WHITE EVERYTHING ELSE! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING!

Random: GO OFF 

Other Random: GO OFF–

*The class is in an uproar*

Random student: YOU ARE SO PRIVILEGED THAT YOU JUST DON’T SEE IT!

White teacher: Do we have to yell?!

Black student: Yes, because I’m mad.

[suitepetite]

Reblogging for the captioning. Thanks!

[imthebadguythatsfine]

Yes QUEEN oh my god she’s such a role model

[advanced-procrastination]

“Yes, because I’m mad.”

This needs to honestly become a motto at this point. “Is this thing I can’t ignore really necessary?” Yes, because I’m mad.

[butch-of-the-blades]

I hope she’s living her best life❤️

[night-dragon937]

THIS.

[imyoursaphiczizinow]

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[frozen-flowerz]

Dark academia is just "be gay, do crime" but in latin

[partywithponies]

I have never seen ANYTHING this needlessly extra ever in my life. Why is he like this.

[summercrane-deactivated20201109]

Visit Original Link

[maplebungus-deactivated20221118]

this post has been a wild ride for me

[awrldalone]

some things we should start romanticising

bike rides, especially when listening to music. the wind in your hair, the songs in your ears, every sound being quiet and living in your own bubble of lyrics. (edit: in some countries this is illegal and it can be dangerous - i had not thought of that and i apologise)

sitting in a bus. you’re going back home, maybe you’re reading a book or just looking outside of the foggy glass.

making tea. warming up the water, bringing it to a simmer and closing the gas, pouring it into a ceramic mug, the perfume of tea leaves: it’s a ritual.

buying a new book. walking in a book store, reading the first page of a book that sounds interesting, choosing a book because of its cover, never having heard of that book.

reading the last page of a book. that one doctor who episode where the doctor says he rips the last page of each book he reads, reading the last line and feeling like all the air in your lungs is gone.

that one specific moment when you are coming back from a party and you’re walking the few last steps before getting home. 

writing your name on a new notebook. scribbling messy letters or trying hard to make it look pretty.

tying shoe laces. where are you even going?

picking a flower. getting off the road and into a patch of grass just to pick a yellow wild flower, pressing it in a book, or putting it in a glass of water.

finally getting to bed. the cold bedsheets, closing your burning eyes, the small sounds of the city.

-c. 23.07.20 6.15pm

[pochowek]

i love that one old timey 1910s trans dude who has a tiny wikipedia page for himself that he earned entirely due to him starting fights in bars and being the city’s hottest casanova

[pochowek]

i mightve remembered it wrong but it still feels like half of this page is “I’m A Man For Fucks Sake” and the other half is “That Motherfucker Is In Jail Again And Also Bit A Cop”

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

oh my GOD this is the best list

“ “[DEADNAME] Again" “ 

Like this glorious jerk got arrested so many times that was literally ALL THEY HAD TO WRITE IN THE PAPER

[television-for-dinner]

He was a vagrant street kid and Seattle girls were all over this guy, to the point where it caused a moral panic. There’s a famous anecdote about a women proclaiming her love in Denny Park and then trying to shoot herself, but most of these reports were falsely worded in a way that suggest his female admirers were “upset about being deceived” when really they were upset that he was wooing other women, or trying to get his attention by being as extra as possible.

What you also should know is that back in the day “seduction” was a literal crime that could put you in prison (unless you married the woman you seduced) but since he wasn’t cis they couldn’t really CHARGE HIM with anything. Legend.

[dog-of-ulthar]

I especially like “Seattle Woman Appears in Men’s Clothes Because She Says Her Features Make it Possible.”  I can’t imagine anything but someone going “Hey!  You can’t dress like that!” and him responding “Oh yes I can.  You see, I look very good.”

[theladytrickster]

I want a TV show about him

[a-spoon-is-born]

occupations held by Harry Allen include: ranch hand, bronco buster, longshoreman, boxing second, and hotel clerk

[xiaq]

This man is the real MVP.

I follow him on Twitter. He’s made 3 other “batches” of these photos:

[el-shab-hussein]

The first batch kept getting recognized because the post got popular so he made more. Stay safe ladies!

[katsukizu]

King shit

[midnight-spectrum-again]

[isopodbug]

This is actually insanely useful tho

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

sometimes it’s just really fucked up to be lgbt+ it’s fucked up that my identity is a “conversation” it’s fucked up that my identity is an “opinion” it’s fucked up that im told to accept people for having their own opinion even if their opinion is directly against my personhood it’s fucked up that in order to keep some friends and family i have to allow them to be “neutral” “iffy” or just straight up in my face homophobic about my identity it’s fucked up that when i call them out on it im told that im not being accepting of their opinions as if we’re on equal footing and I’m being the asshole it’s just all so fucking fucked up sometimes