momentary

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you

[mgsr]

cats will be like please i need you to watch me wiggle around on this carpet please hey look look please look at me i’m wiggling

[byjove]

could you imagine if it happened this pride month

[thestuffedalligator]

In my experience, horror fans are by and large lovely people with a very healthy relationship to their genre of choice, but sometimes they fuck up and say something that in their ears sounds very affirmative of the movie of discussion and to everyone else sounds like the most sinister shit.

[thestuffedalligator]

I mean the line that I think of first is “A kid dies in this movie.”

Which I suspect to horror fans is shorthand for “The director of this movie subverts horror tropes (wherein kids are usually immune to the monster/slasher/source of terror) to make something that is deliberately shocking. Seeing a child character die in this story is not a happy thing or a good thing, but for a horror story emphasizes that nobody is immune to the source of the terror, which makes the horror more serious and scarier.”

And to everybody else just sounds like “Oh this movie’s great! A kid dies in it!”

[archivalcamel]

[the-punforgiven]

I wish wizards were real so bad imagine coming out of a wal mart and seeing some guy with long robes and a big hat in the parking lot surrounded by wacky particle effects screaming some shit like "By the moon and the starlight, by the shield and the sword, I summon to me, my Honda Accord!" And then just getting into his car and driving off

[whetstonefires]

so there's basically two reasons he would need to do this and they're both funny

his magical honda unsummoned while he was in Walmart; this means it's not even a real car and could look like anything and he picked or was forced somehow to pick a Honda Accord

his normal honda was left someplace while he came to Walmart by other means, and he can teleport the car to him more easily than he can teleport himself places

[nucleariguana]

there's also the idea that he drove to walmart in his honda accord, and then when he got out he either forgot where he parked or wanted to skip like 20 seconds of walking so he just summons it right in front of the door

[petterwass]

To not have to find a parking space, most wizards keep their Honda Accords in a extradimensional oubliette when not driving. This also saves on garage space.

[christ-chan-official]

Clearly the wizard had to summon his Honda Accord because someone stole it while he was shopping. The carjacker is now tumbling violently down the freeway like a source engine ragdoll

[fivetrench]

OH MY GOD

[akallabeth-joie]

Time to Equip Our Barricade

Barrel of Powder

Bottle of Vitriol

Carnival Torches

Fire Pot "left over from the King's festival

Calvary Saber

Pistol (in holster)

Powder Horn

Saddler's Awl

National Guard Cartridge Box

Gun

PIke

Bullet mold (flatware and pewter to melt available in venue)

Remaining time: 2 days 9 hours

[dailycatsblog]

[akallabeth-joie]

Build a Barricade (5.1.5 Metaphors Edition)

A Heap of Ideas

A Heap of Woes

Liberty (the summit)

Fraternity (presumably in the middle)

Equality (the base)

Progress

Light

More light

No, really, so much light

A bridge through the darkness (despite all that light)

Dawn

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

[akallabeth-joie]

It's Almost June 5

Build A Book-Canon-Compliant Barricade:

Iron Bars (fresh off the wineshop windows)

Paving-Stones (fresh off the street)

Barrels of Lime (fresh from Anceau's cart)

Empty Casks (not-so-fresh out of Mme Hucheloop's cellar)

Blocks of Rough Stone (unknown origin, courtesy Feuilly)

Support Beams (fresh off the neighboring house)

Rubbish (served by Gibelotte)

Omnibus (horses and lady passengers not included)

A hod of plaster (at Gavroche's request)

A glass door (just trust Gavroche on this one)

Some rope (to make the flagpole stay up)

Tables (all but two from the wineshop)

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[uncahier]

Calvin really was the voice of his generation. His generation just doesn’t like to admit it.

[madfoolish]

[byjove]

Insisting James Talarico is transgender in hopes of invoking the feverish transphobic hysteria they have been cultivating for years (he is cisgender), tweeting about how he will sacrifice you to Moloch (he is a Presbyterian who went to seminary school), repeatedly stating he is a vegan (he is not) and doing the old classic of calling him a Communist (wish that was true), republicans are fucking terrified of James Talarico and it is so fucking funny. Ken Paxton is a worse candidate and a worse person by every conceivable metric, he’s repeatedly committed fraud, he’s been a terrible attorney general. They cannot find anything to level the playing field in terms of terrible career track record or personal moral failing so they’re just lying. Not even good lies. They’re just going for what they assume will make the Texas public hate him. Transgender, demon worshipper, barbecue hater, commie. It is scary that the truth means nothing, it is scary that transgender identity is continuously weaponized for political gain, it is scary that we are still in the Red Scare and 1980s Satanic Panic bullshit but oh my God is it hilarious to see them spinning their wheels this hard.

[everlovingt]

Are you in Texas? To clarifying, I’m wondering how seriously to take the possibility that the state can flip. Been optimistic and disappointed for a long time.

[byjove]

No, I’m not from Texas nor am I very optimistic the state will flip, even though Talarico is leading in the polls. But I still have that little butterfly of hope within me and watching republicans get progressively more upset and nonsensical feeds that.

[cardassiangoodreads]

As a former Austinite, the way that Republicans are deranged about the mere existence of vegans in their state and also assume it’s true of every Democrat, that we are all in on this vast anti-barbecue conspiracy, is truly something to behold

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[biglawbear]

I want to pull this one out of the tags specifically because I know from personal experience that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is just Like That

Like Federal government technology is often behind the times but the USPTO is uniquely underfunded understaffed and a shitty place to work from everything I've heard

Idk what to tell you

[wolfythewitch]

My piece for the Sing O Muse zine! Its coming out in July so keep an eye out for the tag :]

[ulises-aithon]

I adore the vividness and how colourful this piece is! Plus, the Homeric siren is such a nice touch for sure.

[bleekay]

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(