potato life perspective

ireny pigblorps | tumblr old | she/her | made in taiwan | emotionally compromised by a bunch of grown men kicking a ball around | i really like guinea pigs | icon credit: hisiheyah

[gothycollie]

A long time ago, in the Age of Physical, software would be stored on beautiful mirrored discs, and inside each disc a tiny wizard lived who would install the software for you.

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[guineapiggies]

Via 2_m_emma

[lokilow-keystabbing]

Thank you spain for defeating the evil, i will now go back hating you guys when the euro's come around

[minglana]

i do think this is kinda funny if im being honest

[catilinas]

showing my onion the roman baths

[raylangivins]

[ashoss]

“word hashtag my word #myword” has done irreversible damage to my vocabulary

[chancellor-ake]

I could never wear any of those dumb “I hope both teams have fun” shirts because no I hope my team wins by 30 and the other team explodes on the field

[probuccalfat]

venus planet of love was destroyed by global warming and me i feel also not so good

[muppetshow2026]

i genuinely feel like im being edged

[katmaibearfan]

OMG HI GRAZER

[katmaibearfan]

164 (back) clearly wants to court her SO BAD and she wants nothing to do with him. like bro, take a hint! if u don't ur gonna get urself smacked!!!

[katmaibearfan]

okay, bucky either took the hint or got distracted by food, but either way, 128 seems to have gotten away from him for now. i just love her highlighter ears!!

[oneheadtoanother]

[tachyon-log]

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

[fishmech]

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

[bunniope]

can we focus on the gnome for a second

[bunniope]

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

[ladyofspoons]

these are the people i have to share a highway with

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[humanfist]

I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit

[mevil]

[elishamanning]

lennart karl died for this

[emregis]

“That was Angourie. She drew a sad duck, a crying duck, and I asked her what it was, and she said, ‘It’s you.’”

— Ryan Gosling about the duck on his cast in The Nice Guys (2016) [X] (via gayiconwaluigi)