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Rick Rolled a entire stadium full of people, epic.

When youre a kid youre like wtf adults are making themselves sick with poisons and when youre an adult youre like i need more poisons ASAP

quinnception

blumineck

The Royal Armouries let me play about in their armour!

(This was a set from someone similar in size to me, but it wasn’t exactly correct in all dimensions. Real knights often wore armour that was made to measure, which would allow for a slightly better range of motion. However, for a video game or film character that has looted armour, then something that fits as well as this would be a best case scenario, so it still tells us a fair bit!)

rhube

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.

pipistrellus

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

rhube

20 years. I am not happy about this.

demonicsymphony

I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time

luminouspica

Happy 20 years to Lolrus and his bucket!

cheaphalloweencostume

if you dont have a fursona at this point youre just being unprofessional

whispersinthetide

The freaking jolt in my chest when I looked outside and realized I could see Artemis II reentering the atmosphere from my front yard

Welcome back Artemis II!

mostlyvalid

A proposal

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)

lazy-universes

WHOA WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THE POST THAT SPAWNED DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT

yourlocaltinsmith

Happy dead dove do not eat birthday!

queen-of-crows

Not trying to victim blame or anything but you’d think with all the times necromancers have tried/succeeded in raising undead armies the people of Tamriel would’ve stopped burying their dead fully armed and equipped for battle.

Like, I know your great grandpa’s sword was A Part Of Him and all but maybe you could bury SuperDeathblade somewhere not right next to SuperDeathbladeMan. Just in case.

karhs

oh, what, so he can get his ass kicked when he inevitably gets raised from the dead?? you want to make great grandpa into a loser? a chump?? if his corpse is going to be puppeteered into battle by a sick and twisted sorcerer then by the nine he is going to do it well

transformativeworks

Spotlight on Omegas at AO3

In a society that values alphas and betas, omegas can often be overlooked. This April 1st, we're placing omegas front and center at AO3. Check our latest news post for details: https://otw-news.org/7ehh7trb

maswartz

In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.

expederest

dionysusdraws

Nazir from Skyrim

killrockstar

ai is telling me they made abu dhabi up for garfield

labete-du-gevaudan

Swedish Chef was on Masterchef Junior this week and he has human hands and it makes me really uncomfortable.

nihilistwife

when the texture packs don’t all load together

czechs-and-holdings-deactivated

The Swedish Chef has human hands in every video he’s in?

That’s part of the joke.

takethistoyourstardust

He had human hands on The Muppet Show.

labete-du-gevaudan

I was a Bear in the Big Blue house kid. I never watched the Muppets. A puppet with people hands is freaky to me. I just want my bear and his big blue house.

apathetic-revenant

can confirm, the Swedish Chef (almost) always has human hands. don’t know why. he’s an anomaly that way.

fun additional bit of trivia: most Live-hand Muppets (that is, ones that have articulated glove hands instead of the hands being moved by rods) are performed with the primary puppeteer doing the head and the left hand while a secondary puppeteer, usually a less experienced one, performs the right hand, a task typically known as ‘right-handing’. (the puppeteers use their dominant hands for the head, so for most of them their remaining hand will be the left. I don’t know if they reverse the process and have people left-handing for left-handed puppeteers.) looks like this:

the Swedish Chef is one of the exceptions to that rule, though, because his skits required a lot more complicated hand movement that needed better coordination, so with him one person would work the head and one would do both hands; they also did that for things a character playing the piano. that added complexity might be why he doesn’t have glove hands, plus the fact that he already looks a lot more human than most Muppets anyway. but I don’t really know.

…that was…probably more information than you wanted. sorry.

labete-du-gevaudan

I JUST LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT PUPPETS. Thank you.

spiroandthelacktones

Also fun fact when they put an older swedish chef puppet into the Jim Henson museum exhibit he didn’t have any hands cause he was a live hand puppet, so the museum called up Frank oz and had him actually make casts of his hands that they used to make display hands for it

certified-muppet-posts

certified muppets post

fuckyeahsnackables

Y'all are missing the best part. You know how the Swedish Chef is always throwing shit in the air and failing to catch things? That’s because Frank Oz started doing that to fuck with Jim (bc as noted above, a puppet with two practical hands is pretty unusual). And Jim would have to react or try to catch things that were raining down on his head from above. And from there it became A Thing, every bit as iconic as the Swedish Chef speaking gibberish.