Sin City

Unreliable wi-fi makes me cry I'll try to tag stuff. Shit I like: Shin Megami Tensei, Wakfu, Rune Factory, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, Dungeon Meshi, and cute animals

[winterswake]

The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro

[liberalsarecool]

This is pure GOP evil. The GOP message is, ‘we will kill you’.

Get these Republicans to The Hague.

[writhe]

i have a hill to die on real quick

[writhe]

phrases like “you don’t owe anyone anything” and “relationships aren’t transactional” have the power to be used in ways that are very backwards and harmful

for example, no you don’t owe anyone anything in that if some creep is trying to get with you, you can block him without feeling bad. you don’t owe kindness to people who are transphobic or racist or bigoted.

but, you can’t use this as an excuse to fuck over people who have helped you. “you don’t owe anyone anything” isn’t an excuse to allow yourself to forget compassion and basic empathy, it isn’t an excuse for you to be an asshole just because you find it easier to be one

relationships aren’t transactional in that if your partner does something nice for you, you are indebted to them. they do these things because they love you; it is their choice to express love through these gestures

but they are transactional in that you both actively need to be putting time and care into the relationship. ignoring the dynamic of one person caring too much (and putting in excessive (emotional an literal) work and labor) while the other does nothing isn’t healthy. one person can’t solely take and the other person can’t solely give- that’s dangerous, and you can’t put the bandaid of “this isn’t transactional” over a relationship that is draining you in all capacities

i’m tired of seeing these things being misconstrued and used as an excuse to hurt people, while framing it as a way of taking care of yourself

[ch4rmsing]

My cat discovered bubbles last night; she really likes them.

[avannak]

y’all gotta watch this

[din-skywalker]

she talk to the bubbles

[cherubs-deactivated20180718]

unfriendly reminder

if the lyric ‘i have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve / i have a history of taking off my shirt’ was written by like fucking fall out boy or halsey or basically anyone besides the barenaked ladies you’d see it in the description of every blog with a black and red coloured theme

[operahousebookworm]

Other Barenaked Ladies lyrics of note:

“It’s time to kick off your shoes, learn how to choose sadness“

“We were waiting for our lives to start their endings”

“The only thing that counts is that I won’t sleep”

“You’re lucky enough to be one of the few to find somebody who can tolerate you“

“If you think growing up is tough, then you’re just not grown up enough”

“When you die they make a list of every love you never kissed, of each regret and every mistake, every choice you failed to make”

Heavy af lyrics set to perky music is kind of my aesthetic. (See also: The Eels)

[fumblebeefae]

Biologists Respond to ‘Science Denialism’ Regarding Outdoor Cat Control

A new open access study by leading scientists rebuts unfounded criticisms and reaffirms the need for effective outdoor cat control.

According to researchers, coordinated critics have mounted a “misinformation campaign designed to purposefully fabricate doubt regarding the harmful impacts of outdoor cats and stymie policies that would remove outdoor cats from the landscape.”

The conflict stems from a groundbreaking study published in 2013 by scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That study evaluated the combined impact of the tens of millions of outdoor cats in the United States. The authors found that roaming outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year and are the leading source of direct, human-caused mortality to birds in the country. Similar results have since been confirmed in Canada and Australia.

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To those of you still in denial about how bad outdoor cats are to wildlife not just in your own countries but globally here’s the cold hard scientific facts stating that you are apart of a movement of uneducated critics spreading misinformation. 

Here’s the link to the open-source scientific artificial as well:

Responding to misinformation and criticisms regarding United States cat predation estimates (2018). Loss S, Will T, Longcore T, Marra P. Biological Invasions; 20(12): 3385-2296

[gaynfl-moved]

pick your fighter

the ‘$1000 to go to Hawaii’ bride, the ‘I bought a $99 polygraph on amazon’ lady, or the ‘why was $200 so huge’ birthday girl

[marisatomay]

a lot of people seem to be confused and think the hawaii bride and the polygraph lady are the same but they’re actually 2 separate people so here’s all 3 in one go

the “$1500 to go to hawaii” bride

Ms Polygraph Test

$200 birthday

bask in the unfiltered nonsense of it all

[fyeahobsidian]

Don't Expect The Outer Worlds To Be As Gigantic As Fallout: New Vegas

The Outer Worlds, the next game from the developers at Obsidian, might be the game I’m most excited for in 2019. Helmed by the original creators of Fallout, it appears poised to be the New Vegas successor that everyone has wanted for years. Just don’t expect it to be quite as vast.

“Just calibrate your expectations properly. The Outer Worlds, which has been in development since late 2016, is published by Private Division, a label of Take-Two Interactive (parent company of 2K and Rockstar) designed to make “AA” games.

They’re not indie, but they’re not big-budget “AAA” RPGs like The Witcher 3 or Fallout New Vegas, either. So don’t expect The Outer Worlds to be quite as vast, with a massive open world in which you can get lost for hundreds of hours. This will be a very different experience.”

[mistresstrevelyan]

TBH I WELCOME this news. Bc in truth even TW3′s much worshipped vastness was 80% pretty flora/fauna filled with ? that yielded trash mobs with trash loot. (Nvm the “treasures” all over Skellige) Give me a compact, story driven RPG. Leave open world to TES6.

[gattsuboo]

my life expectancy increases when i see happy, healthy betta fish.

[hermaea-mora]

OP living til 100 now

[gattsuboo]

i’ve never felt more ALIVE

[assamensis]

Sorry, OP, you can’t die

[gattsuboo]

The sight of this handsome boy wiggling towards me has made me IMMORTAL

[gharibajameel]

i cant believe big boss canonically wears 6 inch wedges and is still fucking shorter than kaz

[gharibajameel]

friendly reminder that big boss is like 5'7

[socialistexan]

Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”

Americans:

[afloweroutofstone]

Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE LUDLOW MASSACRE, WHY WASN’T I TAUGHT THIS IN CLASS

[esoteric-merit]

The long answer short is that everyone who knew how to organize was killed, the rest were silenced, and the bootlickers’ voices were amplified.

[downwithneocolonialism]

[downwithneocolonialism]

[abolishtocreate]

The USA are a hellscape

[nb-tomfool]

this whole fucking post reads like satire but its not

[wolfgangreborn]

big yikes

[petermorwood]

I thought this was something from “The Onion”.

Nope.   :-[

Depressing.

[thecacklingcreep]

Like if it wasn’t obvious that dumbasses like jacksepticeye, jontron, markiplier and pewdiepie all exist within the same circle of people and have a distinct interest in keeping each other at the top before, it should be now. And they’re all shit, each one of them. I don’t know if jack or mark said nasty shit like jon or felix did but the fact that they STILL support them, that they STILL actively shill for them shows that they are at least ok with supporting white nationalists if it means staying popular. I havent watched mark or jack in a while, but my young [below 15 yr old] brother does and it makes me so fucking mad that these dumb, uncaring fucks are willingly funneling kids towards racists like jon and felix for big bucks.

[thecacklingcreep]

And of course of COURSE the people constantly defending these people are either literal children who have been TRAINED via this “bro army” nonsense to consider “liking pewdiepie” a personality trait and are woefully ignorant to the bigger picture because THEY ARE CHILDREN, or dumb whites or affluent types who consider consistently bigoted behavior a passable, easily forgivable thing that those darn minorities just won’t let up on.

So my advice is, if you’re a kid, know that this man is a 

jew-hating

racist

and he is buddy buddy with known alt righters like Ben Shapiro

Jontron is a straight up avowed white supremacist btw

He does not deserve praise or fame, only scorn and removal. And if you’re an adult fan of his defending his shit, go fuck yourself. Now.

[thecacklingcreep]

I get it, I used to be super into mark and jack and all of these folks but you HAVE to not let your rose-tinted glasses get in the way of the truth. Felix and Jon are racists and nasty, Mark and Jack actively profit from supporting them and their actions. I don’t care if they don’t actively say this shit, this is what they mean. Take it or leave it.

[chapelcore-remade-deactivated20]

op you’re right and i would die for you

[lizalot]

broke: The Great British Bake Off has no conflict

woke: while The Great British Bake Off is refreshingly devoid of the usual man vs. man conflict, it is filled with conflict of other varieties, notably man vs. self (the contestants vs. their knowledge of baking) and man vs. nature (the contestants vs. the time limit)

[no-i-am-not-the-lochness-monster]

Man vs. the forces of evil (the contestants vs. Paul Hollywood)

[jussstahoe-deactivated20191230]

[blackqueerblog]

When is this country going to have a real revolution? I dont want to sound like an anarchist but come on, we all know the problems and our government isn’t addressing it.

[mst3kkeith]

It’s funny how some people don’t realize like. When I was in elementary school every year we had “intruder” drills. They were always kinda spooky but I never thought anything of it when I was a kid. The teacher would turn the light off and lock the room doors and we’d all have to quietly hide under desks until the intercom announced it was over. Sometimes there’d be someone walking around and trying the doors to the classrooms to make sure they were locked. Never seemed strange to me as a kid, but talking with my canadian spouse they look mortified

[heronfem]

It’s wild how much of life in the US revolves around the unending threat of murder and violence. And by wild I mean a nightmare.