[my-dailydreams]

[nae-nae-supreme]

Lowkey I bet it felt good as fuuuuuuck to be one of the coal miners that got to blow a pinkertons brains out from a high ridge with a bolt action rifle.

[meltygetswifi]

not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to

[helenvaughans]

[aggot]

reblogging hot cowboy pictures but frowning to show that i acknowledge the complicated and often oppressive but simultaneously diverse and multicultural aspects the profession historically entailed

[oatmealaddiction]

I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”

By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.

[griddlebutch]

The way that the alien in Nope's final form looks like an old studio camera. The way the opening credits take place inside its stomach, shown as an endless darkness framed by billowing sheets - the blanket-like hood of an old camera that the photographer hides under. The way Jupe calls the alien The Viewer. The way Jupe makes stuffed animals of what he imagines the aliens inside the "ship" to look like subconsciously reference the camera magazines on the set of Gordy's Home with the body of a monkey. The way that Jupe was only saved because the table cloth kept him from looking Gordy in the eyes. The way that OJ and Em signal "I see you" before the final showdown. The violence of attention. The all-seeing eye. The panopticon. The camera obscura. The dark chamber. The spectacle.

[theconcealedweapon]

My parents taught me that it's disrespectful for a child to speak to an adult a certain way.

If the goal was to teach me respect, they could have taught me that it's disrespectful for any person to speak to any person that way, explained why, and modeled the correct way to speak to people. I would have easily believed them with zero difficulty.

But what they wanted is power. Everything they said about "teaching me respect" was just a bullshit excuse.

[depsidase]

[greelin]

love adding -ed to the dumbest shit. love unnecessarily conjugating verbs. poppedcorn. oranged juice. that corn? popped. the juice? it’s been oranged

[greelin]

[wakes up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night] ………………….cheesed burger

[bobacupcake]

its a mystery

[gbcgraphics]

idk why people photoshopped the crying cat meme on this pic when the unedited version is so powerful

[imthebeast]

[notbecauseofvictories]

I really do think life is a series of watching other people walk through doors you can't follow them through. I've been thinking about it lately when it comes to marriage---my sister got married recently, and my brother before her, and while the occasions were joyful and I was happy for both of them, it was also like standing in mission control. Or maybe not even that, maybe the 'friends & family' section of the tarmac, several miles from the launch pad entirely. Waving as this intrepid astronaut (the one you would have sworn you knew as well as you know yourself, because you share so much and it lingers in your skin) climbed into a shuttle, jetted off into the darkness.

And then, the person who came back was....different. Not bad different! (Sometimes they come back better, this is also decidedly strange.) Just....different. They have gone somewhere you can't follow, seen and experienced things you will never be privy to. They will go back to that dark, unknown and unknowable country again, once the holiday or other familial obligation is over. And so you spend some time talking to them, nodding and smiling on autopilot while you quietly wonder, did they do that before, and I just didn't notice? Is that new? I don't remember that. I can't remember if---

It's a very strange experience, to be confronted with the fact that people exist outside of you, even those who share 99.99% of your DNA.

[notbecauseofvictories]

#I know the post is specific about siblings #but I'm experiencing this with my friends who have a kid now #like they are fundamentally different from me now #and it's ok #but it's also a little sad (@alan713ch)

I think this is very much the same emotion! This post is about my siblings, but I feel it with my friends who have had children recently too. Even my friends who chose to pursue graduate degrees---hell, even my parents, aunts and uncles, as they transition from work/raising their families to elder care and their own retirement. I think life is very much watching people walk through doors knowing you can't follow; acknowledging and grieving that distance, even as you send them cute videos and "thinking of you!" texts. Understanding that you're speaking to the black of space. Knowing that your dumb tiktok video might not distract from or make up for everything that's happening in your respective lives, but the choices are (a) no contact at all, (b) send the stupid video anyway.

"Bittersweet" is a good word, we should use that more.

[write-with-will]

Saying this right fucking now.

I don’t want to see ANY of you touching that fuckass new Harry Potter series.

That woman has set us back YEARS. YEARS. And whose money is she using to do it? People who continually support her and her sorry excuse for a book series.

If you simply must watch it? Pirate. It’s not hard.

Do not give her money. Do not give her a platform. Do not contribute. Please.

[nanaimothoughts]

Just wanna jump off of this post to remind y'all of three things.

Anti trans legislation was recently passed in the UK as a direct result of JK's funding

She has stated that she takes any interaction with the Harry Potter franchise as an endorsement of her views.

The only reason the new series exists is because JK threw a hissy fit over Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and I believe Rupert Grint all disavowed her transphobia, so she remade the series.

[cervine-arctophile]

my friend hates her mother's evil cat so much and wants him to die and im just now finding out his name is tubby pumpkin 😭 like bro why do u have beef with tubby pumpkin

[waestlandbaby]

When you accidentally say the q word (quest) and your knight starts gently clanking from their happy wiggles like now you've done it, you have to send them into the dragon's lair or their helmet ploom will droop and they'll start waxing sad poetic in the moonlight