hey there

Twenty-something student from Norway named Sophie.

[redgoldsparks]

My latest comic for The Nib was written by my friend Mike Thompson- it’s his first published comics work! 

The Nib has been a steady source of income and a huge support to me and many other indie cartoonists for years. They publish amazing work, but will be cut loose by their financial backer in July. You can read the official post about it from editor Matt Bors here.  They are still running their kickstarter-funded print magazine, but have to put digital publishing on hiatus until they figure out their next steps. If you’ve been thinking about supporting their membership program, now would be a good time. They have levels from $2 to $40 per month. I really don’t want this to be my last Nib piece! 

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[renouncingtoska]

You can’t tiptoe toward justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in.

Daniel Jose Older from The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (via eternaltoska)

[hydro-homies]

😑

[sonhodehibisco]

A red-shanked douc that eats flowers all day.

[khiroshige-deactivated20221210]

These ig girls could never…

[tastefullyoffensive]

“Crab’s Lost Love” (comic by Gunshow)

[d-o-llf-a-ce]

This fucking comic. I. This fuckign. This comic make me have emotiosn over a crab. I am almost in tears  because of this ufkcing crab. what te fuck what the hell is going

[lovlae]

u know when u drink really cold or hot drinks and u can feel it going down into ur stomach and u feel like one of those skeleton pirates in pirates of the caribbean when they’re drinking the beer

[fashionweeksfaves]

Armani Privé Fall 2018 Couture 

[teaboot]

just once in my life i wanna get up in the morning without going through the full seven stages of grief first

[purrrcrastination]

being an art major talking to your friends in different majors like

[fluffygif]

Today is master-class: how to paint a cat

[anxietyproblem]

If you can relate to any of these posts, follow us @anxietyproblem​

[andhumanslovedstories]

Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection 

[beauty-in-healing-deactivated20]

this is the funniest thing i have ever read

[fuckingcatalinawinemixer]

The Man

The Myth

The Legend

[humoristics]

Trends that made a comeback

[just-evo-now]

Fun LotR facts

Approximately 5000 terminally ill orcs volunteered to die in fight scenes. This is what real bravery looks like people!

Viggo Mortensen was so dedicated to his role that he had Peter Jackson write down all of his lives in advance so he could MEMORIZE THEM

Shrinking technology hadn’t been perfected in the early 2000s, so every cast member who wasn’t a hobbit (including the horses!) had to take experimental growth hormones in order to reach the right apparent size.

Shrinking technology has since gotten most of them back to normal, but Ian McKellen stubbornly refuses, saying he likes his ‘big stompy stompers and flappy flappers’

The Entish Actors Guild is run by the deeply conservative Church of Orome, which forbids entwives from acting. Peter Jackson came up with the story about all the entwives leaving to explain the lack of women. (In fact, *every* Ent in the cast is happily married)

There were contractual difficulties with the Eagles (the birds, not the band. Peter Jackson had nothing but praise for the band) throughout shooting.

This is why they show up so rarely, and in fact most of Frodo and Sam’s journey was written in two days by a manic Peter Jackson after the Eagles refused to film the original ‘just fly them straight to Mount Doom’ script

The surprise on Pippin’s face when the Eagles show up after Mount Doom erupts is genuine. No one knew they were going to show up that day, and it was assumed that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin would just die in the eruption after filming their tearful goodbye.

[just-evo-now]

Hugo Weaving plays the ~7000 year old Elrond, despite being only 2000 years old himself

Peter Jackson has a cameo in *every* scene. Usually he just took his clothes off and played one of the animals in the background, but he also played several boulders hurled by catapults, Saruman’s beard, and the smoke ship Gandalf blows in the first movie.

They wanted to have a real dragon show up at Bilbo’s party, but it was otter mating season and Bendyflip Crimblejimblejammer was unavailable for filming

Aragorn’s entire speech at the Black Gates was ad-libbed. He felt that the original line (‘Let’s wrassle!’) was too serious, and some humor was needed to counterbalance the scene.

Lurz was actually several large Italian sausages on a scarecrow.

No one in the cast or crew could tell Merry and Pippin apart, and they used this to switch roles more than once. Watch again and see if you can tell who’s playing who in each scene!

[existentialterror]

Amazing! Every detail I learn just makes me appreciate this fantastic movie series even more.

[croww-lee]

@transfaery

[helz-belz]

Man, B99 did Holt so right. He’s not just gay as lip service, he’s visibly gay. We see acknowledgement and dealing with homophobia and racism, and his success despite it. We see him advocating and supporting other queer black officers. We meet his husband, not just as a “here he is” but as an actual relationship. Kevin isn’t just a carbon copy of Raymond nor is he a comical opposite. They are similiar enough that you understand how they fell in love, but they are unique personalities. They have troubles and arguments, but stay together and support each other. Honestly they are one of the best on screen couples I’ve seen period, let alone a gay one. He’s also a stoic character who remains stoic while still warming up and having humour and connection with others, without changing his personality to make it easier for the writers. He’s an enjoyable character, and respectfully treated, and I love him and the writers and the actor.

[the-malevolent-platypus]