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24 year old enby

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

podcasts could have been so good but they decided to make the main genres True Crime and Men Talking. shut up shut up the public yearns for audio dramas

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i do appreciate how tumblr LOVES podcasts that aren't what most people think of when they think "podcast." you people love strange and terrible things happening to queer & confused characters, and i respect that

[blackfox4]

Wukong, what have you done this time!

[boonalina]

The fact that the Wukong actor is genuinely running SO fast is so freaking funny to me. (Also wow, all the character's cosplay is really good!)

[wearesorcerer]

@we-are-monk @theoutcastrogue

[passacagliaofficial]

INVETNING

[cipheramnesia]

"what's it make?"

"FIRE"

[cipheramnesia]

My fire machine is making so much fire it caught on fire! Quick, get the fire extinguisher! It uses fire to extinguish things!

[cipheramnesia]

There's just more fire!

[mysharona1987]

[amuseoffyre]

[mywingsareonwheels]

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Image 1: a screenshot from Twitter.

“xxenna66 (paid account), 23rd April: Show me a Shakespeare play that had lewdness or sexual behaviour. I’ll wait.

ItsMattJordan, 24th April: You should spend this month’s eight bucks on a fucking book”

Image 2: a photo of a hardback copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.]

[alexseanchai]

that's unfair, it's not the Complete Works if it doesn't have all the sonnets, and some of the sonnets are sex-joke-free

[librarianmouse]

You know the term "bowdlerize"? as in "to remove material that is considered improper or offensive from a text or account"?

You want to know where that came from?

(Folger PR2752 1818c copy 1 vol.1 Sh.Col.)

Meet Thomas Bowdler. (Well, really, it was his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler who did the actual editorial work. Thomas just got his name on the publication.) The text they edited so as not to offend delicate sensibilities? Yup. Mr Shakespeare's.

[[Image id: title page opening of "The Family Shakspeare, in ten volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The lefthand page shows a (very poor) portrait of Shakespeare.]]

[fallingtowers]

it's because you're always on that damn gaslamp fantasy

[fallingtowers]

oh the story is set in a city whose economy is built around whaling? should we throw a party? should we invite daud?

[suppermariobroth]

The engine of Super Mario Galaxy 2 has a very inventive way of handling climbing poles. In the footage, the hitboxes of objects have been turned visible and appear as blue fields.

Instead of having a single long hitbox covering the entirety of the pole, the pole only has a single Mario-sized hitbox that slides up and down the pole in response to Mario's movement, ready to "catch" him if he comes close. The rest of the pole is always intangible so Mario could technically pass through it, except that the hitbox always catches him before he can touch it.

This allows the developers to reuse the same small hitbox for all poles regardless of their length, instead of making separate long ones for each of them.

Source: SuperHackio

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[stream]

Larry, if we make an effort today, we might be able to save August. Jaws (1975) | dir. Steven Spielberg

[0sbrain]

Tumblr added a bunch of tracking shit to share urls, so now ill teach you how to get rid of them

if you copy a url by sharing on the website, the link will look like this

getting rid of tracking in these is easy, just delete everything after the question mark and you are golden

in the case for the app, its slightly more complicated

first you have to delete at. that appears before tumblr(.)com the other tracking shit on this one has a lot more info, so please, clean app urls. after the first set of numbers, there's a / you have to delete everything after it

a clean Tumblr url should look like this

blog safely

[big-papa-huge-time]

Removing this garbage makes posts embed on discord btw

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

[kowabungadoodles]

[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)

[thetursithan]

[jaaaaaade-jones]

Okay that’s skillz

[porcupine-girl]

Training herding dogs side of tumblr, please explain

[mythopoeticlicense]

It's called shedding. Sometimes you need to single out some animals from others in the herd for some reason, this lets you do it in a field relatively quickly and with less stress for the animals compare to other methods (like running them all through a chute or a race).

It's a higher level sheepdog skill, they usually do it in trials too.

There's a cool video on it here

[drtanner]

Dogs with jobs are always superb but I'm especially delighted to see that the Mission Impossible theme still has its uses. 💜

[captainjonnitkessler]

Today at work a couple of apprentices were rotating rows of solar panels and unwittingly turned one row directly into a couple of metal posts that had been driven into the ground, shattering two panels.

And on the one hand I feel really bad for them, because they were clearly really upset and they kept apologizing even though it wasn't really their fault. (Who the fuck puts metal posts underneath a rotating solar panel?!)

On the other hand, I kind of can't stop laughing. They were so distraught! God, what must have gone through their minds when they heard the first crunch. This is SUCH a classic apprentice scenario, everyone in the trades has been there. Congrats on your rite of passage kiddos, you're gonna be telling this story to your apprentices one day

[captainjonnitkessler]

POV: You're about to have a really unfortunate conversation with your foreman

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Adult Calvin is a tattoo artist named Panthera who is the bassist in a terrible metal band called Captain Napalm and Hobbes helps do faer E injections

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame

[parawyrm]

[sea--burn]

[needtotalkilllisten]

[thestuffedalligator]

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

[dementian]

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

[impossiblepackage]

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.