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[docorwho]

M E R R Y  C H R I S T M A S 

[azriona]

It’s not Christmas unless this giftset has appeared on your dash at least five times.

[syrenpan]

It’s back 💕

[lizawithazed]

it’s not christmas without wilf on your dash 

[talaline]

Annual Wilf reblog.

[bobertlutece]

this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it 

[lizatonix]

There are so many things that are TOP quality about this. The business with the mic rope. The bounding across the stage like an excited puppy or a newsie. The Voice™️ that is so synonymous with John, you know, the voice of a guy who sells ice cream at the soda fountain in the 50’s. The analogy itself.

It’s all so beautiful, such peak humor and content.

[mulaneysbutt]

Emmy Award Winning™️

[pharaohamunsadji]

I FOUND IT AGAIN.

[pomrania]

Here’s the “horse loose in a hospital” bit. Good news, it has closed captioning.

[theawesomeraccoon]

“I DONT REMEMBER THAT IN HAMILTON.” OMG

[impossiblerebelblaze]

God I’ve heard so much about this guy and this is my first time actually watching one of his bits. He’s as funny as y’all make him out to be tbh

[fangirlhaley]

This is my favorite video ever

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

I’m going to be talking about this for the rest of my life. Because this? This is one of the defining pieces of culture from a time when life went from bad to worse. Everyone knows this sketch. Almost word for word. This four minute bit is carrying us through these times, and is probably the only piece of media to come directly from politics that is genuinely joyful.

You simply cannot talk about this era without mentioning the horse loose in a hospital. It defines the entire experience, and does it hilariously.

[angiethewitch]

I fucking adore this man

[getchapapes]

i love john edmund mulaney with my whole entire heart, and you may quote me on that

[your-tires-are-too-cold]

i just realized that this is going to be something that people look at in like 50-100 years when talking about this era of american politics and people are going to be interpreting it and its probably going to be on someones fucking dbq like no no one outside of this time period will every ever be able to grasp just how accurately this describes Everything

[enbies-and-felonies]

THAT’S WHERE IT COMES FROM

“that’s what I thought youd say you dumb fucking horse”

[neongreentoxicity]

HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL

[caffeinated-nightowl]

OHHH SO THAT’S WHAT THAT WAS ABOUTTTT

[math-is-magic]

Reblogging this in honor of the horse being sent to the hospital.

[dads-back-from-the-store]

if you even fucking look at the hospital I will stomp you to death with my hooves

[just-a-donut-who-reads]

You know what I want you to do it. I DARE you to do it goddammit so I can stomp you with my hooves. Go on.

[randomthingsthatilike1]

[glumshoe]

Phaedra was spayed yesterday and they did not give me a cone for her so now I have to manually prevent her from licking the incision.

[glumshoe]

the clinic literally said that cones aren’t necessary except for large male dogs that have just been neutered... I swear she’s going to reopen her sutures before I can get to the vet to ask for a cone

[dukebee]

is your vet...sexist...towards dogs????

[glumshoe]

Not my vet—the spay and neuter clinic. Turns out low-cost animal surgery is a fucking sham and I should have found nearly $400 for the vet’s procedure.

[glumshoe]

ALSO she was sick this week, so I took her in and she tested positive for giardia... again... this is a bad week for Phaedra and also my wallet.

[robotsandfrippary]

giardia is the worst!  Bacon had it twice and the second time all his fur fell out on his body in the middle of winter. :/

[glumshoe]

Oh Jesus... I think it’s kind of inevitable that Phaedra will just. Constantly have it, for as long as we’re living in the woods—I stop her drinking from puddles and water bodies whenever I can, but I can’t catch her every time she licks grass or leaves. She had it when I first brought her home. It may be that it only causes symptoms when she’s otherwise stressed or sick and her immune system is weakened. It’s just ever-present in the environment these days. :(

[sodiumpenta]

She's little right? You can wrap a scarf around her collar a bunch of times to make like a thick little neck brace that might be enough to prevent her from turning her head and licking? Or a baby onesie sometimes works if you have one around.

[tonystarkstan]

GEORGIA VOTERS, LISTEN TO ME.

Over 1,500 ballots in GA have been rejected and we are SO CLOSE to turning the state blue—every vote counts. If you did a mail-in or absentee ballot, go check that it was counted. If it’s been rejected, you can call the GA Voter Protection Hotline at 1-888-730-5816.

Right now, every single vote counts. Check on your ballot and make sure it was accepted.

[bakuyonce]

🚨ATTN NEVADA VOTERS🚨

THE FOLLOWING LINKS ARE TO CHECK YOUR MAIL IN BALLOT:

TO CHECK ONLINE:

https://nevada.ballottrax.net/voter/

BallotTrax

COUNTY CLERK NUMBERS TO CHECK AND CALL FOR MAIL IN BALLOT STATUS:

https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/elections/voters/county-clerk-contact-information

[doublehex]

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[stormwaterwitch]

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

[blurds]

Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

[some-triangles]

This post seems to be making the rounds again so here it is on the word blog

[odonata523]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[mirthfulrealist]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[scent-ofbooks-deactivated202201]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[datsderbunnyblog]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[quadriviummuse]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[bellybuttonblue-deactivated2021]

[sentientcitizen]

Here’s the opposite story, though. With apologies because I don’t have the book in front of me, so I may get some details wrong, but I read this “Irena’s Children“ by Tilar J. Mazzeo.

Irena lived in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, and dedicated her life to rescuing Jewish children from the Ghetto, and her story is complicated in a lot of ways but - well, this story isn’t actually about Irena, per se.

It’s about a bus driver.

It’s about a day when she’s traveling across town by bus with a very young Jewish child, and partway to their destination the child looks up and asks a question - in Yiddish. and the whole bus goes quiet, because everyone knows what that means. And Irena thinks, okay, we’re going to die here today.

And she’s running through her options - all of them bad - and suddenly the bus stops, and the bus driver announces that there’s been a mechanical failure and the bus needs to return to the depot immediately. Everyone off, please.

And she stands and goes to get off the bus and the driver says - not you two. Sit down. So she sits down as everyone else leaves, because, well, what else is she going to do? the options are all still bad, at this point.

and when the bus is empty the bus driver says,

“Where do you need to go?”

And then he drives them as close to their destination as he can, and lets them off, and drives away. And Irena lives, and the kid lives, and they never cross paths again.

So a janitor got three people killed, and a bus driver saved two lives - not to mention all the other lives indirectly saved because Irena was able to continue her work.

I think about that almost every day now, to be honest.

We can’t all be Irena. I couldn’t be Irena. She was in a unique place with very specific skills and connections that let her do what she did. I am just one mentally ill librarian. I can’t be her. But - I can be the bus driver. Or I could be the janitor. Because it doesn’t matter what your job is. It doesn’t matter who you are. In a world like this, every single one of us has the opportunity to do massive harm or massive good. We can save lives or end them.

And that’s scary. but it’s also very comforting? at least for me. Because at the end of the day it means this: no matter of how small and helpless and unimportant you feel, you’re never powerless in the face of great evil.

You can choose to be the bus driver.

[jenjen4280]

I don’t usually repost things like this, but sentientcitizen’s message is a powerful one.

[punkconcert]

John Mulaney, a true ADHD icon

[somewhat-honest-abe]

I love how he gave this bit at an autism benefit because it is also a heavy Autism Mood™

[gh0sthoodie]

This is the most relatable thing I’ve ever seen.

[vulpeculavolans]

TRANSCRIPT:

JOHN MULANEY: I normally don’t notice people. I zone out constantly. Have you ever zoned out for a few minutes? I’ve been zoned out since 2014.

AUDEINCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I just - all day long, I wander into traffic walking like Charlie Chaplin, listening to a podcast while thinking about a different podcast. 

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I can zone out anywhere - I was at the doctor’s office, he was reading me the results of a blood test, it was important I listened, and I zoned out! I was like, “nah, I’m gonna stare at the wall and think my thoughts”.

AUDIENCE MEMBER WHOOPS

MULANEY: I was like, “huh. None of the Beatles had moustaches… but then one day, all of them had moustaches.”

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: “That’s weird, I can’t think of a time a group has done that”. Some people in my life don’t want me to zone out as much - they want me to focus, and they want me to be in the moment, and they want me to do this by meditating. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried meditating, but I’ve been trying it. This is how you meditate, okay? You sit on the floor with your back perfectly straight, which I hate more than ISIS -

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I don’t like sitting up straight! Alright?! It’s never gonna happen! If meditating was sitting hunched over on the toilet with your elbow on your knee while kind of looking at your phone, I’d be the Dalai Lama.  

AUDIENCE LAUGHS/APPLAUDS

MULANEY: I don’t like sitting up straight. So you sit up straight, and you breathe, and this helps you stay in the moment. Don’t bother! The moment is mediocre at best!

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I mean, it’s fine. Let’s all try right now - let’s all be in the moment, in silence, right now. [A HALF-SECOND PAUSE] Sucked, right? Not fun at all! 

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: That was boring! You gotta zone out! You have an imagination! You have a movie theatre in your brain that plays fake arguments that you win.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS/APPLAUDS

MULANEY: Have you ever just been sitting there thinking about something for twenty, twenty-five minutes, and all of a sudden you’re like “oh my god, I’m driving!” and you remember? You’re like -

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: “I’m going seventy-five miles an hour! I have been for a while! I could’ve changed so many lives!” Sometimes, my wife - I have this wife - she’ll be like, “are you watching the road?” and I’m always like, “I am looking through the windshield.”

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: “And I’m not gonna hit anyone, but no. I’m thinking about the Beatles.”

[whatsitnot]

Hey @vulpeculavolans added a transcript to this AND THAT IS SO AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[worstseawitch]

“I’m gonna stare at the wall and think my thoughts.” Is my true ADHD/Autism experience lmaoooo

[y-that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick]

Did I reblog this yet? Who knows? But it has been done as of now.

[tedllasso]

#WEARAMASK

[sehyn]

my mom says she’s not a hugger. but when i put my arms around her on a gloomy day or after bad news she’s the last to let go. my dad says he doesn’t want gifts on his birthday, but i see the way his face light up when i get him a card with a nice message and a box full of chocolate anyway. he’s just a kid inside, still. it makes him giddy. my brother never says i love you. but when i tell him “i just need to finish the dishes before i vacuum!” he wordlessly goes to vacuum the entire house before i can, and if he sees me struggle with a wrapper or a jar or a bottle he mutters ‘c’mere’ and opens it for me without even sparing me a glance. the thing is, people love you quietly, and you love them quietly, and the air is buzzing with tiny but grand gestures & once you look for them, you find them everywhere. i think that’s really beautiful.

[ninzied]

family.

THE OLD GUARD (2020)

[sodiumpenta]

This is the gif set that made me watch 😂

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[snakesayer]

OH MY GOD

By @fake.disney.facts on tiktok

[nobie]

BRUH IM CACKLING why is this so damn accurate

[theclonewarsbrokeme]

WAIT- He really do be right 

[grantairezee]

[nuka-rockit]

[sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051]

To the south lay the Brown Desert Men, with their Curved Swords and their Turbans, they are a barbaric race, highly civilized except for how they worship the Devil, and this definitely is a people group I made up and not thinly veiled Crusader era Islamophobia recycled for modern audiences

[sodiumpenta]

K so I know this is a serious post and I totally agree with what y'all are saying.

But I've had a DAY and I read "Western Fantasy" and my mind went to magic adventures but with cowboys for a full 20 seconds before I worked it out.

[babyanimalgifs]

Steve Irwin and his son Robert 

(via)

[mercurycat27]

I’m gonna be real for a sec, I thought both pics were of Steve and that op was implying Robert was a shapeshifter who loves changing into various wild animals for his dad to pose with

Then I looked again. The fact that I almost reblogged under that first impression really says something about me, probably how tired I am rn