Light Guardians

[nogodsnokingsnomasters]

Kent State University

[tiredtransgal]

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[solarpunkcast]

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

[captain-rez]

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

[saurons-optometrist]

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

[bando--grand-scamyon]

What in the absolute fuck

[wuh2k]

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

[gehayi]

Sounds like somewhere between the 1980s and now, a lot of information was shoved down the memory hole. And it shouldn’t have been.

[captainamericaa]

BRO THIS IS NOT BASKETBALL

[kumagawa]

this is literally the 92 bulls

[captainamericaa]

MICHAEL JORDAN DID NOT HAVE DEATH RAYS COME OUTTA HIS HAND

[kumagawa]

it’s called a fade away jumper

[vintagegeekculture]

The single greatest and most fascinating “futurist” architecture movement in the world right now is happening in Bolivia, where national prosperity and a dedication to works for the poor and public housing led to an explosion of colorful styles inspired by Aymara Indian art. There should be more articles about this, the interiors are just as amazing. Incidentally, most of these buildings are not for the rich or in trendy neighborhoods, but are public housing. I’ve heard this style referred to as “Neo-Andean” but like most currently thriving styles it doesn’t have a universally agreed on name yet.

[garmmy]

judas 💀

[gaeilge-rules]

Found this far funnier than I should have

[siriusly-justreblogs]

someone please tell me if this is actually in accordance with how you spell irish stuff

[ailichi-deactivated20230730]

I appreciate your curiosity!! This is exactly how we’d Gaelicise English names.

The J in Jason becoming an S is based on the model of Seán being the Irish version of John, and of Séamus being the Irish version of James. Séason would be pronounced Shay-son.

T is pronounced very softly in Irish, and when it’s followed by an E, it becomes a CH sound. The EA diphtong in Tead is pronounced as ‘ah’. So Tead would be pronounced as Chad, exactly the same.

As above, the EA is pronounced ‘ah’ and the combination GH is silent in Irish, so Hearraigh would be pronounced as Harry is in English, despite the initially alarming length.

Darach is already an Irish name, meaning ‘like an oak,’ and it’s usually Anglicised as Dara or Darragh (pronounced identically to each other), so suggesting Dairech = Derek is just extra funny.

I don’t think I’ll actually be able to scrub Ailfiagh out of my mind. It sounds too Irish, to the point that it’s replaced Alfie as the default spelling for me.

In short, We Need to Talk about Caoimhín (Kwee-veen) is a genius.

[a-streamed-consciousness]

The Virgin latinize vs the tead gealicise

[morporkian-cryptid]

@whosayscrimedoesntpay

[prettypinkpansy]

rare vent art from a few months ago

[weaver-z]

Really hate to say this but reading Naruto did irreparable damage to some of y’all’s social and mental development

[weaver-z]

One time when I was 13 a Naruto weeb tried to ask me out at a summer camp by singing the Naruto theme with new lyrics related to how sexy I was and when I politely declined he ran outside and screamed so hard he shit himself

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

that was his jutsu

[this-is-psychosis]

Therapists aren’t people who you “pay to pretend to care about you”, therapists are people you pay to teach you how to care for yourself

[voce-morti]

Me: I am violently depressed.

Therapist: Oh! Sounds like you need to do YOGA! That will help!

Me: *signs up for yoga*

Me: *is violently depressed in Downward Dog*

[mx-mythical-deactivated20260319]

Me: I hate myself and only see my flaws

Therapist: ok lets refocus on things you like about yourself. This week i want you to try and journal about good things you’ve for yourself and others.

Me: *does the homework* yeah but i still hate myself but feel bad cause i shouldn’t

Therapist: feeling like you shouldn’t hate yourself is a step in the right direction. Mental health is complex and isn’t something that will ~magically~ improve. We have a lot of hard work head of us but I’ll be here to help you.

TL;DR stop perpetuating the idea that therapy is unhelpful because the results are not instantaneous.

[kcsplace]

FUCKING THIS.

As a psychologist the amount of bullshit on this site, the amount of fucking dangerous bullshit on this site about how therapy is neurotypical bullshit and isn’t worth it and how exercise is pointless and good diet is pointless and that therapy homework is pointless DRIVES ME UP THE FUCKING WALL

Exercise is fucking important. good diet is fucking important therapy is fucking important. WHY???

because pills alone don’t help. they improve the hormonal imbalance (as does exercise and good diet which ALSO are a form of very real self care as your physical being is sorta connected to your mental one but go fucking figure right?), but guess what? the suicidal thoughts, the thoughts of harm, the thoughts of hating yourself, they’re still there.  suicides actually increase when medicated.  why? because suddenly you have the energy to fulfill thoughts of harming yourself.  which is why you NEED therapy alongside pills.

it has taken you years, or decades to create your maladaptive thought processes and behaviours.  that shit doesn’t disappear overnight. core beliefs don’t change overnight. these are the very fucking core of your personhood, your being and personality. THAT TAKES TIME TO CHANGE

STOP ACTING LIKE THERAPY IS SHIT IF IT DOESNT WORK IN TWO SESSIONS

[potrix-the-queerschlaeger]

^This!!!!!

[aestheticallypleasingurmom]

The stigma that therapy isn’t worth it if you don’t feel better after the first couple sessions is such bullshit. It took me 8 months to tell my therapist anything personal but I kept going because I wanted to get better. I thought it was bs too when she kept telling me to think about other things and to distract myself when I have intrusive thoughts (not exact words whatsoever). Now it’s 2 and a half years later and I can successfully switch from thinking about all the ways I could kill myself to the song Slippery by Migos and immediately start laughing. You need to let it help you.

[umbrellanumber5-deactivated2021]

Fucking TEA RIGHT THERE

[prokopetz]

“I want games with worse graphics if it means less crunch time” is a fine sentiment, but, like, it’s still very much buying into a framing of what having good graphics means that’s been constructed to favour AAA studios at every level.

Straight up, the number of polygons a game engine can push tells us nothing in particular about whether it’s nice to look at. I’ve seen games with sixteen-colour pixel art and a native resolution of 320x240 that look amazing, and I’ve seen games with photorealistic 4K graphics that look like shit.

We’ve been suckered into accepting a notion of “good graphics” that’s defined purely in terms of how labour-intensive they are to produce. We’re like a bunch of 16th Century noblemen shovelling our faces full of whipped egg whites and pretending it doesn’t taste like eating a plate of cold air because hey, not just anybody can afford to hire some poor peasant to spend all day destroying their arms whipping egg whites by hand, and exclusivity is the measure of quality, right?

We can talk about how “good graphics” aren’t important all we want, but unless we challenge the idea that pouring hundreds of thousands of person-hours into shadow-mapping every individual hair on the protagonist’s horse’s nutsack is the definition of “good graphics”, we’re playing by the AAA studios’ rules.

Like, the AAA studios aren’t stupid – the reason they do ridiculous shit like that is precisely because it allows them to define what a quality product looks like in a way that only they have access to.

[prokopetz]

The critical thing we have to understand is that AAA graphics being grotesquely labour-intensive isn’t an incidental side-effect of chasing the spectre of photorealism.

Rather, the pursuit of photorealism is, itself, a mere byproduct of AAA studios working to ensure that the most desirable aesthetic is as labour-intensive as possible. This allows them to cordon off “good graphics” as something only they can produce, by virtue of being the only ones with access to the labour pool required to produce it.

Even if photorealistic graphics were somehow to become unfashionable tomorrow, AAA studios would simply find another way to erect a labour entry barrier. Crunch time isn’t going to go away that easily; the problem is systemic, not an unintended consequence of any particular set of aesthetic priorities.

[ithelpstodream]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thehoekage]

[airandangels]

it looks like his lecture series got more popular!

[justnick612-deactivated20210723]

Wholesome.

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

[jacksondiesattheend]

[damion5666]

YES ✊🏿

[historical-nonfiction]

Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.

[omegajako]

Etymology is ridiculous and terrifying sometimes

[garbage-empress]

Bugs Bunny is more powerful than God

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

He also solidified the idea of rabbits loving carrots when carrots actually carry very little nutritional value for rabbits. The funniest part of that is that the original joke was a reference to a Clark Gable film where Gable munches on a carrot, it was never meant to imply that rabbits love carrots. The Clark Gable reference would’ve been obvious to audiences in the 40s but it has been pretty much lost to time.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Bugs Bunny has too much power and should be feared.

[milfy-moved-deactivated20250902]

Idk who needs to hear this but some characters just hate eachother. No hidden love. Yeah sometimes people just do not like eachother.

[snug-the-joiner]

[angelicguy]

haters will see you parry an incoming attack and say you cant afford a sturdy shield

[rontology]

op i’ve been thinking about this post for 3 years and it’s gotten me through some tough times

[glumshoe]

why does every cartoon character wear these underwear:

[gravitygals]

why don't u

[glumshoe]

because if I wore these underwear the universe would conspire to constantly put me in situations where my pants would get pulled down or destroyed and it’s so hard to find good pants

[theevenprime]

I have a few pairs of these exact underwear, which I wore whenever possible as a camp counselor.

The reason was that, if you get pantsed, and you weren't in on the joke / it wasn't planned, that's a massive breakdown in respect and discipline, and you have to make an example of that kid (generally by wrestling them, and in serious cases, taking away candy privileges). But getting pranked is still a bad look, and makes it seem cool to rebel against your authority.

However, if you get pantsed, and you are in on the joke, everyone has a good laugh, including you, and no one was actually rebelling. It both makes you look like a cool authority figure and makes the person doing it look like they're the sort of person in cahoots with counselors. Then, if there's a behavioral issue, you can have that quiet conversation later, away from an audience.

And since those underwear are so culturally specific as punchlines in a pantsing gag that the only plausible reason to be wearing them is if you're in on a slapstick act, you can retroactively Shanghai any would-be prankster into looking like they did it with your consent and planning, which not only keeps you from indignity, it makes sure that they're rewarded by laughter and attention for looking like they're cooperating with the staff, encouraging that in the future and bringing them in from the outside of the social-reward structure you're trying to set up, where it's cool too be wacky but responsible.

That preparation effort paid off maybe four times across three years, but it was completely worth it.

The downside, of course, is that when one of your kids goes missing in a storm when it's hailing and pouring sheets of water, and you don't have many dry clothes left, you're reduced to running through the rain looking for them in your underwear, which are situationally inappropriate / jarringly comical to the full extent possible.

[totesmgoats01-published-author]

I have literally never put more than 3 seconds of thought into what pair of underwear I’m going to wear. Meanwhile tumblr user theevenprime is playing 6 dimensional chess with their undergarments.

I guess I gotta step my game up.