Princess George Grants You An Audience

Been places, done things. Interests include snippets of pop culture (Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, Schitt’s Creek, the films and music of my misspent youth), feminism, politics, design, science, and other things that catch my eye. I might be older than your mom. I should get back into yoga.

[halfagony-halfhope]

(insp.)

[cinemapix]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 7.05

[marzipanandminutiae]

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

[marzipanandminutiae]

But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently

Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”

[rosslynpaladin]

“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”

They died, Ashleigh. 

[explorerrowan]

This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.

At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.

We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.

[twodotsknowwhy]

This is one of my favorite anecdotes to show how clever rewording of statistics can make them say the opposite of what they mean:

Every time a state makes riding a motorcycle without a helmet illegal, the number of ER patients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents skyrockets. Every single time.

When you phrase it just right, it makes it sound like it’s more dangerous to ride a motorcycle with a helmet than without one. Of course, the reality is that before those laws, those patients were going to the morgue, not the ER.

[the-director]

That also reminds me of a story from world war 1 where the soldiers started to take their helmets off because more soldiers would come back injured while wearing a helmet. That’s because if they didn’t have a helmet they died.

[mysharona1987]

[shedposting]

the most brutal fucking scene in television history

[celceta]

Ripley’s I guess I believe it

[celceta]

Ripley’s I Mean, Whatever You Say

[missbananafish]

Ripley’s Sure.

[prolifeproliberty]

Ripley’s I’ll Believe Just About Anything at This Point.

[princessgeorge]

Ripley’s Well Trump Is President So...

[valtsv]

fantasy fiction: *has dragons*

me: 👀

the dragons: *are just giant fire-breathing lizards with no more intelligence than any other animal and are eventually killed by the heroes, who are praised for defeating a great evil*

me, closing the book and throwing it across the room: this sucks. where are the dragon riders you idiot. where's the bond between dragon and human that makes us all yearn for a special connection we can never have. fuck you.

[princessgeorge]

This is the problem I have with having started out with Anne McCaffrey...

[dankmemeuniversity]

[sharingsharoncarter]

Ranking of Jane Austen's men.

1. Captain Wentworth

2. Mr Knightley

3. Mr. Darcy.

4. Everyone else.

6. Edmund Bertram

I will be taking no further comment at this time.

[xxchumanixx]

Hilarious🥀👐

[lokiwholockfactory]

This is so my favorite Thor movie

[blanska]

that “oh shit” line is my absolute favorite moment in the history of Thor movies

[supacutiepie]

Why does this fucking movie read like a god damn crack video but ITS ALL CANON AND REAL WTF MR WAITITI

[billycraplan]

I’m thankful for all the different ways I can eat potatoes

[upschittcreek]

[hedaslayer]

“There is this taboo of the rule of silence in cinema, which you are helping to put an end to, and there is what is at the heart of your story, the taboo of ‘paedophilia’, which we prefer to call ‘paedo-criminality’. It has an echo because what has troubled and divided the cinema industry at the beginning of the MeToo movement in France is the case of the filmmaker Roman Polanski.”

Adèle Haenel on Roman Polanski and society’s systemic violence towards women.

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

you ever sit on a bus and suddenly get filled with an enormous tenderness towards everyone else on it

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

we are all just animals turning our heads towards each other and looking away when the other person catches our eye. sniffing the air when someone gets off the bus and leaves the scent of perfume behind. doing silly faces and making the baby who’s being held by her tired mother smile. smiling at the girl who’s got her hair cut short like yours, then you both looking back at your phones again, then randomly remembering her eyebrow piercing again in three years when you’re sitting on a different bus in a different city. we’re all planning on what kind of dinner we’re going to make once we get home and thinking of our dogs and looking at each others clothes and wondering what kind of lives the people around us live and then we thank the driver and get off the bus and never see each other again. but this is somehow a very sweet thought to me at the moment

[kafk-a]

Mary Oliver

[ewaneneollav]

Finally listened to all music! My favorite song was an untitled file called “ssssddsdrt66677888.ogg” that I found on a flash drive that I found in a landfill in Tunisia

[fuchinobe]

In case anyone is actually into this there are 3 volumes of these:

[en-seta]

Ok so at first I was like “oh haha funny meme” then I was actually impressed by this cellphone music thing??

I looked it up and just listening to the first volume I am blown away like transcended a new level of music creators/Saharan culture blown away guys pLEASe listen to this itissogood

[demonfox38]

[Bandcamp link here!]

[princessgeorge]

I’ve listened to the first volume and it’s so great.

[bakwaaas]

I love how irrelevant tumblr is. like no celebrities on here, no colleagues or family on here, no one’s famous off tumblr or making money, tbh no ones even updating the site like is there even any staff? who knows? it’s bliss