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there’s a very specific aesthetic i’m going for on this blog and it’s called cool things i like

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

cryingdancer

allyourlife

my fav calvin n hobbes joke and no one ever puts it anywhere

miyuliart

Gripping a sword overview

thestuffedalligator

I like how this is both art reference and a guide to more efficiently smite your enemies

t-auto

Tumblr is nothing if not practical

#idk why but #i feel this may be useful some day

maxknightley

the sad thing about the episode where squidward teaches an art class is that spongebob receives greater recognition despite having no creative vision. his work is technically impressive, but his otherwise powerful imagination fails him, and thus he churns out derivative slop. the thomas kincaid of the sea.

maxknightley

perhaps it is inevitable that a young man who views minimum wage toil as A Calling would, without even realizing it, fall prey to reactionary narratives of what makes art "great." spongebob would be the perfect fascist subject - but a fascist state, ironically, could never accept him, since he is effeminate and physically weak

ajthebumblebee

pollicinor

Il troll di Photoshop

derinthescarletpescatarian

Imagine being this good at photoshop and using it for evil.

naomster

He isn’t evil, he’s just working on genie logic….you need to be REALLY specific

biitchb0y

i finally found this shit i never want to lose it again

autisticangus

loveridden1999

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

loveridden1999

remember remember

eyestrain-addict

jvlianbashir

my new favorite hobby is looking at fucked up easter lamb cakes.

#i thought these were dogs

crematedequally

There's NO ethically way to eat a cute inocent dog! YOU DON'T HAVE A HEART!

I know that animal rights is an important and sensitive issue for many people, so while I appreciate your concern for animal safety I would like you to understand that I do very much care about ethical food options. I was a guest in another country, and the food I was asked to prepare was from a variety of animal sources. I would not have felt comfortable eating an animal that I knew wasn't raised to have the best life it could have had, and I'd like to make it clear that as I said in the notes of that poll, dogs were not raised or kept as pets in that country. They were seen the same way Americans might see squirrels or deer, and were usually considered pest animals. Raising them for meat gave them a much safer and longer life than letting them get sick or run as strays on the street where they often die very young or are hit by cars.

I am an anthropologist- and as an anthropologist I know that different cultures get their food from sources that socially my culture may have been taught to see as taboo. This is true of my culture as well- Americans eat things many other countries think are gross or bad or strange or just plain wrong. Dogs are cute- but we see them as cute because we come from cultures that raise dogs as pets. I know farmers who raise chickens as pets, and eat chicken. A dog is an animal, just like a cow or a frog or a person, and before we developed the technology we have now things ate us for food too. Human beings are animals too, and a part of the food web- and when I was living 4 hours out in the middle of the desert where there were no roads for miles, I ate what food there was to eat.

I am not saying that YOU have to eat things that you feel are unethical to eat. If you feel it is wrong to eat certain kinds of animals, that's your prerogative and you are free to abstain from whatever you'd like. But please do not come into my messages and call me heartless for engaging with cultural food in a place where I was a guest.