I should probably put a title

I dont know what this blog is about anymore

[dependell]

I am always thinking about every line of dialogue in the first 50 seconds of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

[shining-supernova]

HELLO?

[beardedmrbean]

[necro-om-nom-nomicon]

Sacabambaspis.

[dollcoil]

okay! very cool!

[charl0ttan]

did anyone else know about this

[beardedmrbean]

This is legitimately one of my fav quotes from him

[queer-cosette]

'dating rules' are so fucking stupid btw. "don't talk too much about your hyperfixation on a first date, it'll scare them off!!" it'll only scare them off if they're a coward. Someone worthy of my affections will listen to me talk about my goal of visiting every whale exhibit with a life-sized effigy of a whale in it in the world for a solid half-hour and come away from that experience desiring me carnally.

[queer-cosette]

One time I went on a date with a guy who stared at me with raised eyebrows while I told him about my plan to go to ComicCon as Daphne Blake, and then he scoffed and said it was weird for me to be so into Scooby Doo at the age of 19. Last year I told my boyfriend (before he was my boyfriend) that next time I got ComicCon tickets I wanted to go as Rapunzel, and he gasped and said "NO WAY I WANTED TO GO AS FLYNN RIDER". So, like, not only is talking about your hyperfixations on an early date a good way to learn quickly if someone is going to treat your whole personality with respect or not, you might also find a kindred spirit.

[queer-cosette]

This doesn't just apply to dating btw. Any platonic acquaintance who acts like you're cringe for having a lot of enthusiasm about something is not someone you want in your life. The people who matter will do things that you want to do with you because they love you and like when you are happy. Case in point I could not have paid my high school official-best-friend to spend four and a half hours in London's Natural History Museum taking photos in the whale gallery but my adulthood best friend agreed in a heartbeat despite knowing the bare minimum about whales.

So yeah. Be openly enthusiastic about the things you love and the right people will love you for it.

[pavlovs-titties]

Hey, in the most respectful and platonic way possible? I desired you carnally off the first post alone, and that gave me seconds of you.

If someone does not love and respect both your proper and your freak? They were not meant for you.

No more 'being on our best behaviour' for first dates. Let them see your gremlin. Perceive their gremlin. Fall in ooky, whacky, gremlin love.

[queer-cosette]

MWAH kissing you in a nineteenth-century-author-writing-a-letter-to-a-close-friend-that's-now-heavily-debated-as-evidence-of-their-queerness-by-historians kinda way <3

YOU GET IT

[animatedamerican]

Many many years ago, when I was first starting to date, my mother (ז״ל) made what she really intended to be a helpful suggestion, along the lines of: "When you're first meeting someone you're interested in, maybe consider ... toning it down a little? Just at first, until you get to know each other?"

And I said "Mom, if he's not going to like the full weird me, I want to know that as soon as possible. What's the point of even starting to get close to someone who's going to be turned off as soon as I start acting like I really am? Isn't that just setting us both up to be disappointed?"

To her credit, once I put it that way, she reconsidered and agreed with me that it was a bad idea. It didn't occur to me until years later to wonder, and I wish I could have asked her, whether her mother gave her any similarly well-meant advice when she was first starting to date and how she felt about it at the time.

Anyway, when I met the guy who is now my husband of twenty-six years and counting, we spent the first several hours of our acquaintance mutually nerding out about comic books and cartoons (including, specifically, finding out that Disney's Gargoyles had been created by the same Greg Weisman who used to write for Captain Atom), and that worked out pretty well I think.

[weonsinnombre]

[adamsmasher]

What I love about this is seeing that he's clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that's why they've got knives on their feet, so it's running time. Run run run run.

So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you're trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that's pretty neat.

[jackironsides]

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)

[brightlotusmoon]

[honoriaw]

toe pick!

[lainahastoomuchsparetime]

"I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly"

As the joke above me insinuates, hockey skates don't have toe picks.

Toe picks are for jumps and spins, which you don't do in hockey lol. When you put hockey players in figure skates, they're constantly tripping over the toe picks (see, joke above).

Like the one player in this video saying, "I'm gonna toe pick on this one."

Now watch this one, watch the way they run. Hockey players kinda run on their toes on the ice to get speed.

See how much they use their toes?

It's honestly a little wild to see, it's completely different.

The one where the figure skaters learn hockey stuff is also hilarious

They become. So uncoordinated.

And in the fourth challenge, you can see they don't use their toes to build up speed the way the hockey players do

[digitaldiscipline]

The point everyone here keeps missing is that the guy clowning everyone in the original video is a quad hockey player (ie: on regular rollerskates like those, not rollerblades or ice).

This just How Quad Players Do. He's used to those moves, and casual skaters aren't.

Ice/roller hockey players push with the mid-foot, not their toes, because there's a lot more contact with the ice/floor (four wheels, rather than one).

If you look closely at the video again, just because they're taking quick little steps doesn't mean they're on their toes. The reason they're so fast is because they're nailing those tiny crossovers - as soon as they hit the straights, they're taking the S-shaped full strides that illustrate how the back-and-out push works.

Source: I've been an ice- and roller-hockey player for thirty-five years.

[the-haiku-bot]

Source: I’ve been an ice-

and roller-hockey player

for thirty-five years.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[jessicacapshaw]

working in retail

[laughingsquid]

Generous African Grey Parrot Shares Food Tokens With Another Parrot So They Can Both ‘Buy’ Walnut Treats

[brightlotusmoon]

“…Animals often share food, but these birds understand that metal rings can be exchanged for treats, and they share the rings with no promise of reward…This sophisticated behavior, which requires an understanding of both currency and the needs of others, has only been described in primates before…”

[the-pope-but-with-a-shotgun-dea]

Holy ahit

[infectedwithnyanites]

Cursed: you taught the birds about money

Blessed: they became communists

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[halorvic]

[e-rated-beardo]

Always reblog this queen of burns the dude didn't even realise happened

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[the-beholderrr]

👁️👁️

[copperbadge]

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

[frozenmetalfire]

In a weird twist of fate yesterday when I reblogged this I was interviewing for a job that would pay me $10k more. I just got the confirmation that I got the job.

[copperbadge]

Hey, that's awesome! Congratulations :D Glad my well-wishes may have done some good.

[punkrorschach]

the legally blonde mentality isnt just for law students. u can bring that attitude with you into every field of work. be the whimsical force of positive change. wear that neon outfit. snaps for us all.

[punkrorschach]

this post was inspired by my boss telling me she couldnt "take me seriously" in a pair of dinosaur print overalls. sorry i have two degrees and a dope wardrobe. you dont need to take me seriously but You Will Take Me.

[kynvillingur-deactivated2026021]

another iceland fact

tourists are posting pictures from several different places in the country and tagging them with the name "gjaldskylda". they seem to be under the impression that it's the toponym of the beautiful waterfall/lava field/mountain/etc. they're visiting.

gjaldskylda means "you have to pay to park here" and it's on an unreasonable amount of signs

[thehmn]

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

[objectlessondujour]

The psych nerds found out ages ago that punishments that make the child think for a few minutes (about one minute or year of age until they're tweens) is much more helpful to develope social intelligence and understanding than punishments which prevents thinking, like the ones that involve pain. In fact, corporal punishment encouraged lying, extreme reactions, violent outbursts, go figure, they don't trust you.

[bogleech]

This is all really fucking serious and important and I'm mainly reblogging for that, because this correct mentality needs to be spread around more, but I'm also reblogging because I absolutely lost it at the child who dreads having to wear the normal blue hat of shame.

[aptronyms]

I love calling stuff "the greatest thing since sliced bread" while replacing "greatest" with a different superlative that makes no sense to be used to refer to sliced bread. like, a really good joke? that's the funniest thing since sliced bread

[kelpforestdwellers]

remember: don't chase the pain. if you're lucky enough to have access to an adequate supply of painkillers, use them early. if your pain is episodic, not continuous, hit the pain as soon as you notice it and your chances of avoiding a bad episode improve.

if you wait around to see if it gets 'bad enough' for painkillers, you're more likely to end up in a lot of pain that's difficult to control.

the tricky part is, if you do it right, it feels like you did it wrong. because if you catch the pain early before it gets bad, it often feels like 'it never got that bad so maybe i didn't need the medication.'

but it didn't get that bad BECAUSE of the medication! you did it right. it's okay to use the tools at your disposal. fuck the stigma.