Oh Look, a Thing I Like

There is no rhyme or reason to what I post. I don't tag reliably. I've been here for over a decade, heaven help me. Good luck.

[inziladun]

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[morthmarn]

The pleating at center back!????? The liripipe!!??? Sir!? (claps)

[elliespectacular]

something stupid this way sucks

[timaltman]

do you think the dc universe has a news site like the onion that’s just like…

“meddling parents still alive, preventing bruce wayne from adopting yet anther orphan”

[yesokayiknow]

“new study shows that 87% of all americans class superman as american citizen despite being born on a different planet, but only 49% avoided eye contact when asked about why martian manhunter doesn’t count”

“area woman thanking her lucky stars that batman and superman fell out on the same day she was due to go to boss’ niece’s bat mitzvah”

“arkham guard astonished by trip to iron heights, only now learning what locks are for”

“area man pretty sure he should be making more than $60k a year if his boss has 10 billion dollars to waste on robotic exosuit”

“breaking news: lex luthor sues superman for loss of earnings, claims that continually losing fights to him is negatively affecting his work ethic”

[littlemissonewhoisall]

“Hub City mayor declares state of unemergency after two hours without a violent crime”

“grown man who dresses in halloween costume every night thinks clown his biggest problem”

“disappointed child realizes Booster Gold at birthday party the real one, not just a guy in a costume”

“drunk Aquaman rampages through ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ ride”

[wombatking]

“new Teen Titan not attached to any Justice League member wonders why they’ve been issued a uniform with a red shirt”

“Earth totally not a tax haven, say Green Lantern Corps as they assign eighth lantern to same planet”

“’no one knows how to stop him’ says armed police officer as non-powered clown-themed supervillain begins 82nd massacre this year”

[greenreticule]

Halfway through these I forgot that these were supposed to be Onion headlines and not actual headlines for the DC universe.

[dogpuppy]

[doveywovy]

steve rogers after waking up in 2012 DOES keep making art BUT. he obsessively draws nothing but icy waters. choppy waves freezing over. a top-down view, a straight-on-view and of course, beneath-the-waves-looking-up view. nothing but that over and over and over and over. no visible land no people no animals nothing but waves nothing but ice over and over and over

somebody comes to visit and they see his spare room and its 45 paintings and all of them are just That & they're like. so. whats that about. and he just shrugs and goes "its a hobby!"

[doveywovy]

when bucky comes back he likes sleeping in the icy waters of death room. he finds it soothing.

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[indigobuntings]

I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again

[indigobuntings]

OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.

[krchov]

(by @galwednesday)

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[janedrewfinally]

How do you have thyme for all of this?

[isa-ah]

it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

[fakecrfan]

There are few delights in the world like having a friend start to read Jane Eyre for the first time and then as they are commenting on it you slowly realize that they don't know. They don't know Rochester's deal.

This is like the literary equivalent of meeting someone who doesn't know Darth Vader is Luke's father.

So they go "I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this relationship! Yeah he's older and there is a class/power difference but he clearly respects her as a person and it's so refreshing!" and you just cackle, cackle, cackle behind your screen until the inevitable day you get this message.

Everyone congratulate my friend @anonymoustypewriter, they just found out one of literature's biggest 100+ year old shock twists authentically without anyone spoiling it for them.

[seolihexagon]

"ooh i wonder what happens in the locked tomb" i say before i read the locked tomb

"ooh i wonder what happens in the locked tomb" i say after having read the locked tomb

[were--ralph]

someone make this into a bumper sticker

[savvytwinkle]

This is absolutely not staying in the tags

[were--ralph]

@geothefafa we desperately need an update with a picture of Garcia

[geothefafa]

he had to grab a picture of her

i hope this helps

[commiehilfiger]

it's actually dr pepper rodriguez and she's an official dr now bc she got her phd!

[geothefafa]

THATS HER!! I'm dying laughing that we completely forgot her lore and just made an oc based on this dr pepper can promotion. I'm glad she really did it though! We may have been facing the wrong way but we were rooting for her the whole time ❤️

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Padilla-Rodríguez, Ivón | History | University of Illinois Chicago

Padilla-Rodríguez, Ivón | History | University of Illinois Chicago

Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez is an assistant professor in the Department of History, specializing in the socio-legal history of child migration to the United States. The daughter of formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants, her research in and outside of academia is rooted in her longstanding commitments to immigrant communities.

She is currently working on a book project, which is based on her quadruple prize-winning doctoral dissertation, that exposes the long history of child migrants’ cruel reception in the U.S., as well as the resistance and organizing by migrants, their children, and local advocates.

She fuckin’ aced it, guys.

[vetchtibbles]

it’s really easy to become obsessed with a shakespeare play you just have to watch one version of it and then read the play and then go mad trying to watch every possible version of it you can find and then study several centuries worth of performance history and controversy

[tatters-the-bat]

Reports say Windows 15 will be "a transparent pane of glass" that will be installed into frames on a wall; Lead developer comments, "finally, we got it right. Somehow we kept making operating systems instead and it was getting really frustrating."

[gobusto]

saw someone mix up "abysmal" and "abyssal" today, so as a reminder:

her skills are abysmal = she is unskilled

her skills are abyssal = her abilities draw upon the forbidden power of the dark void

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[philosopherking1887]

These sound like the lyrics of a Gilbert and Sullivan song.

[loontattoo]

see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup