The Biggest Yikes

at this point ive given to much to this hellsite to leave                 Grace  19 she/they

[scramratz]

[melynnwaters]

parable behavior

[itslookingback]

evil infodumping where you just tell lies

[thethingy]

older brother

[whentvsfly]

Let's make a color together!

Red

Green

Blue

Voting ended onFeb 8, 2023

Once the results are done, I'll multiply 255 to the decimal version of the percentage, and see what color we make!!

[whentvsfly]

Here's the result!! A nice lookin color, good work everyone!

[pococurantina]

i believe we've reached a consensus

[cadaverkeys]

One of my favourite post formats is when someone with a similar URL to op torments them like they are failed clones of each other and it completely changes the tone of the original post.

[huffylemon]

[spindash]

CAME OUT OF MY DADS PRINTER AT WORK TODAY..........

[cupsofjade-deactivated20250509]

the catgirls never let you down

[ktsphere]

The responses to this tweet have killed me dead

[ampervadasz]

First snow

[embraceyourdestiny]

[great-tweets]

[source]

[girl-sim-deactivated20230806-de]

FREE HIM

[girl-sim-deactivated20230806-de]

HE CAME BACK

[scumbagsblog]

Everything about this is so fucking funny. The song. The chubby dances. The way he just gets fucking KIDNAPPED. The presentation of the guy in the white shirt in the picture when he returns. This is my favorite post.

[marsupials-of-mars]

If you look closely, she’s got the heart tail so. Girlboss.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

“It’s deflating, it’ll scare the kids!!”

*violently tackles and abducts her*

[fiddler-sticks]

OMG @cutiegeek DO NOT HIDE THAT IN THE TAGS

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Disconnected Thoughts on Art Reproduction:

Hokusai’s Great Wave fascinates me because, unlike almost every other artwork in that bracket of fame, it was never a bespoke piece that was only later reproduced. It was a commercial print right from the start, and while versions of it can be identified as belonging to different print runs, there is no meaningful ‘original’ aside from the long-since-discarded printing plates.

Even better, this state has been imposed on artworks that were once unique. In 2021, the art collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol sketch at auction for $20,000, made 999 meticulous forgeries of it, shuffled them to destroy any record of which was the original, and sold each piece for $250 as Possibly Real Copy of ‘Fairies’ by Andy Warhol, by MSCHF.

As with many smartass art collectives, MSCHF’s projects range from eye-rolling to kinda clever to brilliant, but I think this is their magnum opus. It has exactly the kind of unwieldy literal title I adore. The original work has been arguably destroyed, but in a way that Warhol would adore. It’s the most pointed way to ask art buyers, do you care about the actual artistry of the work or just the bragging rights of owning the original?

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Artistic domains where reproduction is trivial are often prone to the Superstar Problem: Why would I listen to the world’s 50th-best cellist when I can stream all the Yo-Yo Ma I want just as easily? NFTs were pitched as a solution to this, marking the original or master copy of a natively-digital work to let it retain value. But even if the crypto market didn’t have its own 2008 every few weeks, I don’t want fine-art auction houses to be the future of digital art, especially when there are already plenty of existing ways to mitigate the problem. A fursona, a tabletop-game character, a niche Blorbo, etc. are all bespoke value-adds that enable a much greater range of artists to get commissions. But these require a culture of art fans who don’t care about flipping it at Christie’s, often overlapping with fannish cultures where plenty of artists operate at all experience levels.

I don’t have any tidy conclusions for this, but I just want to say that an earlier version of this process - “paint me a biblical scene, and put me in it to flex my wealth and piety” - culminated in one of the funniest artworks I’ve ever seen, Francisco de Zurbarán’s Christ Crucified (With Donor):

[reconditarmonia]

An interesting addition to this discussion is that Tumblr or another scrolling newsfeed-based site is absolutely the funniest way to encounter this painting for the first time. I was not prepared. Thank you, OP.

[shredsandpatches]

YEAH, I was like “well, I don’t see what’s so funny about–THERE it is.” Actual lol.

[t4timekeeper]

we put your girl of color in the fandom and they made her a big buff amazon mommy with a hair trigger temper. yeah she only exists to attend to the emotional needs of and/or step on a dainty white lady character now. sorry.

[t4timekeeper]

we put your girl of color in the fandom and they made her a completely oblivious ditzy moron who relies on her white partner to do everything up to tying her shoes and performing basic addition. sorry.

[t4timekeeper]

we put your girl of color in the fandom and they made her a bitchy “mean lesbian” so she doesn’t interfere with her love interest’s popular white guy x white guy ship. maybe if you’re real lucky she’ll cheerlead for them whilst tucked away in the background or something. yeah she doesn’t really exist outside of that. sorry.

[t4timekeeper]

we put your girl of color in the fandom and they made her the übersensible Sole Brain Cell Mom Friend. yeah she only exists to scoff at the antics of all these quirky white boys and attempt to herd them like cats now. pack their lunches and make sure they get to bed on time and maternally mother motherly down the stairs and all that. sorry.

[t4timekeeper]

we put your girl of color in the fandom and despite being a main character i guess they just kind of pretend she doesn’t exist? maybe she’ll be mentioned in passing once or twice. sorry.

[vaspider]

I’m watching Jurassic Park and dreaming of a remake where the dinosaurs all have feathers.

[teaboot]

NO BUT THE BOOK EXPLAINS WHY NONE OF THE DINOSAURS ARE ACTUALLY PROPER DINOSAURS BUT NOBODY READ IT

[teaboot]

Okay okay okay so the book explains that the whole park was a terrible idea basically from the start. The genetic engineer (or like the rich nut in charge) once made a super tiny elephant as a pet and it was awful. Just an ill-tempered bald corgi of an animal. Just bad.

Now, the dinosaurs in the park aren’t exactly ‘clones’ of the DNA in the mosquito- in fact, the DNA in the mosquito isn’t really a big player. The book says that the dinosaurs aren’t really DINOSAURS as they existed, but essentially homemade animals built from scratch to Look and Act the way we think a dinosaur Should. Like glorified toys. They could have just as easily made one eyes one horned flying purple people eaters, and it wouldn’t have mattered.

Which is actually quite clever, seeing as it sort of bakes in an excuse for any factual inaccuracies in the movies, no matter how up-to-date the critters are at the time of production.

They don’t look the way dinosaurs ACTUALLY DID because their designs are BASED ON INCOMPLETE DATA, not solid and complete genetic samples taken from real life.

[injuries-in-dust]

They had one line in Jurassic World to explain all that: 

Henry Wu : “Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn’t ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.”

Took four movies, but they explained it.   

[humanfist]

Frog DNA was mentioned in the first movie, it just took beating people over the head with it.

[vaspider]

Fluffy T-Rexes Eating Capitalists.

That’s all I want.

[fandomsandfeminism]

My favorite Jurrasic Park theory is that none of the creatures have any real dino dna at all. That the whole “mosquito in amber” story is a lie to make it believable; those animals are just chimeras of frogs and iguanas and emus and crocs and whatever the fuck to make them look “right.” Total fabrications.

After all, why invite an archeologist to the park and not, say, a zoo manager?

Because the archeologists arent there to evaluate safety at all. They are there to see if these chimeras can fool even an expert.

[locuas642]

meanwhile, the blood-sucking lawyer who had oh so devious intentions such as “investigate the safety of the park after several reports of missing or dead workers.“ only bothered to hire… an expert in chaos theory who can help asses how safe the park is and who (in the book) accurately predicts how the park would fail massively…

…

man, those theories about Hammond being actually the bad guy of the whole franchise might actually be right…

[fandomsandfeminism]

Oh, Hammond is 100% the bad guy. Like. You perfect that level of genetics technology and your instinct is to paton the hell out of it and try to find a way to make as much money as possible out of it?

“Capitalism corrupts scientific advancement to dangerous extremes” is a pretty solid interpretation of the film.

[katjohnadams]

I mean, that’s not even interpretation. That was very explicitly textual.

“I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it.”

[fandomsandfeminism]

Malcolm really has his finger on the issue that whole movie.

[sexdrugstrek]

Also they’re not archeologists. They’re paleontologists.

[fandomsandfeminism]

You are 100% correct. I realized my mistake after this got a bunch of reblogs. Lolol.

[sailor-arashi]

Sorry to burst bubbles, but we know what the T-Rex’s skin looked like, because it’s been fossilized as impressions, and it did not have feathers. It was a naked scaly beast.

[vaspider]

👍🏻

[jocula-trixie]

advanced tip: while driving, you can use your turn signal to warn other drivers that you intend to turn.

[sic-semper-hominibus]

the most "fucking, fair enough i guess" response ive ever gotten to something i said was in the ER

me: hi, i need a rabies shot triage nurse: oh? why's that? me: i got bitten by a bat triage nurse: what were you doing that you got bitten by a bat at 3 in the morning? me: removing a bat from my bedroom

[sic-semper-hominibus]

im given to understand that it generally takes a lot to leave ER staff speechless, but it sure was a good 5 seconds before she thought of anything to say to that

[regging]

being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse

[freakinflipflop]

Being a stem major who's friends with humanities majors is ALSO funny bc you ask what's goin on with them and they're like "oh yeah my day's pretty good! I only have to read 50 pages for this one class today and half a book for another one. It's much better than last week where I read three books and wrote a 10 page paper about their overlapping motifs for one class while also researching a niche period of time that our library doesn't have any resources on. How's it been for you?" and you're like "oh I have a lil packet of fun math puzzles due tomorrow." and they look at you like you're carrying the weight of the universe on your back

[hearty-an0n]

if i was orpheus i just wouldn't have turned around lol

[hearty-an0n]

just went and got eurydice. this is so easy

[hearty-an0n]

um. awfully quiet in this tunnel.

[hearty-an0n]

[contrarequialla]

who is going to play all the hollywood monster men everyone wants to fuck when doug jones finally returns to his people

[contrarequialla]

he knows