I’m Just Here For The Cute Animals

This blog has no theme, it’s just full of random things I like. Sometimes I’ll reblog something from a thing that’s like 8 years old because I’ll be thinking about it and then go “wait a second is there a fandom for that thing?”

[wellshitcaitlin]

@inneskeeper this seems relevant to your interests

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! SHE DOIBLES DOWN!

It is actually rare that I get shown stuff that could ACTUALLY be the spawning point of a new and proper named heresy within Holy Roman Catholicism.

“Jesus actually survived the crucifixion” is legitimately one of the most terrifyingly viable heretical traditions you could start. It fulfills the exact ramifications for a popular and overwhelming heresy: It supports and glorifies Christ’s strength (so powerful he could not die in a meaningful way), encouraging different theological philosophies and understandings of the source material, and is COMPLETELY RUINOUS about the WHOLE POINT of Jesus as the Lamb of God. He is destined to die to take on the sins of all humanity forever so we can br forgiven. The death and the resurrection of Christ after his journey into Hell for three days is cosmologically as important as the Trinity. It is one of the pivotal foundations of the entirety of the religion.

If Jesus didn’t die, he didn’t die for us. That changes a LOT of things. But it is at its root a heresy which is not anti-Christian and is instead just a completely irreconcilable veneration.

I love this woman. I need to encourage her to be like this.

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

tOxIcItY iS a ChArAcTeR tYpE this is fucking amazing

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

Okay it’s been several hours and I’m still not even slightly over this.

Like, Jesus said “I am the resurrection and the life, except the resurrection bit is metaphorical, because I’m too swole to actually die.”

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, but not really, for he made his only begotten son super fucking butch. Like, obviously way too butch to actually succumb to a little crucifying.”

“Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. The centurion said to him, ‘Jesus is too shredded to kill, he’s like the Terminator, nothing can take him out.’ Pilate sent Joseph away with nothing, for Jesus was indestructible.”

“The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified but absolutely did not die. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was just taking a little nap. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He never died, you all really jumped the gun this time.’”

“The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, but it would take an atomic bomb to kill him, he’ll be fine.”

[espanolbot2]

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, for he shall be positively jacked, and for his swollage will enable him to bung the biggest rock he could lay his turkey-sized hands upon those that displease him. Amen.

[fade-steppin]

anyone want to start a new branch of christianity with me? i’m calling it Unkillable Jesus

[tanukiham]

turns out they very much did not kill jesus

[internerdionality]

How dare you leave “ma’am? MORMONS don’t even do that” in the tags

[mauvegardens]

Popular(?) Opinion

The Jason, Danny, Alexis and Tracy scenes were hilarious and I need more of them.

Danny saying he's down to help Tracy hide a body?

Tracy saying Scout is a Quartermaine because she's allowed it to skip a generation?

Alexis and Tracy being a solid NO on Carly raising Danny?

Yes please! More of this!!

[millerkoth]

Stormlight Archive characters hear The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Dalinar: If they're not at war, then they don't really need to maintain stability as badly. I will make Omelas let the kid out of the misery room, but I am not the Blackthorn anymore so I will use Diplomacy to make them realize I'm right and they're wrong.

Jasnah: I don't care if they're at peace, at war, or actively on fire. I am ordering Omelas to let that kid out of the misery room and hiring assassins to kill anyone who tries to stop me.

Kaladin: I will personally rescue the kid from the torture room because what kind of monster would ever force dear sweet innocent Tien I mean some random child to suffer like that?

Shallan: I will infiltrate the upper echelons of Omelas, learn the guards' schedules, and then make everyone think there's still a kid in the misery room while I smuggle him out.

Taravangian: Heavy is the head that bears the crown, for I must cram like thirty more kids into the misery room to make thirty times more people happy.

Navani: I will decipher the mechanism by which the kid's misery is converted to everyone else's happiness and then replicate it with artificial misery so that the kid can go free.

Wit: I'm amazed that you all managed to miss the point of my story in your own special ways.

[razorbadger]

"average fantasy protagonist owns 5 swords" factoid actually just statistical error. average fantasy protagonist owns 1 sword. Adolin Kholin, who owns dozens of swords & was gifted 47 more on his wedding day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[scorpiomoon-444]

how big is the AVATAR fandom? reblog if you belong

how many of us are there before/after avatar fire and ash?

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[np-444]

The real horseshoe theory.

[attorneytrash]

to this day possibly one of my best ideas. someone get me a pitch meeting with the hallmark channel

[frownyalfred]

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

[panakina]

As someone who spent over a decade catering luxury events, let me add some back of house info:

These events are almost always open bar. They're not trying to make their money back on alcohol. They want you to drink and eat and donate generously.

If there are cocktails, there will be at most two on offer, pre-made in large tubs. You cannot order a different version, it is what it is.

There are two types of events: cocktail style or seated. The first includes roaming hors d'oeuvres or a fancy buffet with tiny plates called a grazing station. For a long night, the roaming food will get a little bigger throughout the evening and have a 'main' at some point based around a protein.

A seated event will usually be more structured and may include multiple courses. Silver service is not in vogue anymore. You are likely to get either alternating meals brought to you like at a wedding, or served banquet style. A good caterer can get a plate to everyone in a 300 person event in about three minutes.

Drunk people are the same no matter how expensive their suits. They still laugh too loud, spill their drinks and slip on the dance floor. They are usually less embarrassed about doing coke in the bathrooms.

A full scale event that starts at 6pm will have staff arriving at noon to begin setup. Earlier if there's a light show or pyrotechnics. Typically venues don't just have 30 tables and three hundred chairs lying around, let alone table cloths, chair covers, etc. It's all rented and brought in on the day. Bands and DJs will be running audio tests in the background throughout.

Most heritage buildings that host these things, like museums and manor houses, aren't really designed for them. They might put down mats so you're not walking in stilettos over two hundred year old wooden floors, the kitchens are weirdly far away, and there are not enough taps. There is never anywhere for staff to sit, so if you open the wrong door you might find half a dozen waiters sitting on upturned milk crates in a room full of million dollar paintings, eating the left over bread.

Really old buildings don't have enough bathrooms, which means the staff will be sharing with the guests.

Clean up starts the second the event ends, if not sooner. Unattended glasses will start to disappear first, then table decorations. When the timer ticks over, the lights come back on and exhausted staff strip the tables, pack up dirty glasses and unopened wine bottles and have to Tetris it all into the back of a van. The venue is booked for that day only, so everything has to be gone before anyone can go home. A large event that finishes at midnight might take until 3am to be cleared away.

These are very long and physically demanding nights for anyone working them. The staff all get to know each other, and will absolutely notice someone trying to sneak in wearing a borrowed uniform. They are not being paid enough to care.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

[stavarosthearcane]

Good Job.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this post gets me every time 

It’s from two days ago fam how many times could there have been

[heroofthreefaces]

do you think no one else has time travel

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Happy one month anniversary to this post that has not allowed me a single day of fucking peace since I made it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#surprise reblog!! 

STOP IT’S BEEN MONTHS. MONTHS!

YOU CAN STOP.

[roach-works]

wow if only you had a time machine

[wafflebloggies]

[voxeldeath-deactivated20220518]

[kaban-bang]

[wildhumanhasappeared]

the what

[thunderwhenhepurrs]

*coughs* Friendly doll person here.

So Mattel came out with different Barbie body types a couple years ago, right? There’s your normal body, but there’s also Curvy, Petite, and Tall now.

Around the same time, they came out with the Made to Move body, which has a ton more articulation than your normal Barbie.

Customizers love the Made to Move body, because hey, a lot more fun positions to put a doll in for photographing. But now Mattel has started making the Made to Move dolls with the additional body types from above. We’ve gotten a Curvy Made to Move doll so far, afaik.

This Queen Elizabeth doll, though? Is the first time there’s been a Petite Made to Move body released by Mattel. So customizers were buying it up not out of any care about Queen Elizabeth — but they were buying it to pop her head right off and use the new body for other dolls!

[general-cerberus]

The thing i like the most about tumblr is learning tiny details about communities i would otherwise not even be aware of. thank you for this info

[princepeterwolf]

The Original Meeting for The Prince and Snow White, from the original 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs comic strip, released weekly, beginning December 14, a week before the film’s premiere.

[shelephant]

Look, everyone! He has a name.

[superwolfiestar]

Well it about time that we know what his fucking name was.

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

you: prince charming

me, an intellectual: PRINCE BUCKET HEAD

[artgirllullaby]

this is somehow cuter

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

i feel like we could be making a bigger deal of this actually

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#turns out when you actually stick to your big world changing plan and don't cave to lobbyists the plan really works

Paris has also been kicking ass at this:

Carte de qualité d'air en direct de Paris

[english-history-trip]

[whirling-ghost]

[ID: a series of tweets from Merriam-Webster

-cease and desist

-null and void

-aid and abet

-free and clear

-ways and means

Why is law stuff like this always two words?

These are called 'legal doublets' and we can once again blame the Normans. /

Post 1066, the language of nobility was French, and the language of the working class was English.

Since both English and French speakers needed to understand legal matters, a word from each language was often used to aid understanding: /

'breaking and entering'

breaking = English

entering = French

'will and testament'

will = English

testament = French /

Legal doublets later were formed using only one language but kept the legal-sounding two-word convention:

'cease and desist'

cease = French

desist = French

'to have and to hold'

to have = English

to hold = English /

This is also one of the reasons we have both 'attorney' and 'lawyer' to mean the same thing.

attorney = French

lawyer = English

We hope you didn't find this thread arbitrary and capricious. /end ID]

[fiftysevenacademics]

Today I was listening to Jane Goodall being interviewed and she said something I knew about but had forgotten. The whole reason she went off to Africa to study chimps in the wild was because she was madly in love with Tarzan. Huge fangirl!

"He married the wrong Jane!" she laughed.

But she was so caught up in the romance of it all that she literally went off to live with chimps at a time when field studies of wild animals simply did not exist, and women were not taken very seriously as scientists. And basically invented a whole approach to studying wild animals that is standard today, changed everything we know about chimps, and became one of nature's biggest champions.

Because she loved real animals and one fictional man.

[fiftysevenacademics]

RIP to one of my heroes.

Jane Goodall 1934-2025

[bombsights]

america’s favourite orange, furry sweetheart | ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

[doingdathockey]

[hauntedlyfes]

eff it. gritty appreciation spam.

[islesaviours]

@ruffboijuliaburnsides

[ordinarytalk]

IT'S SEPTEMBER 24TH HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRITTY

[redstonedust]

i know it pisses some people off but i find it fun that most websites use the US flag for english and the brazillian flag for portuguese. kind of awesome. sorry england and portugal you colonized too hard so you dont get to own your language anymore. you gave it up to the americas. sucks to suck. go brazil.

[teathattast]