Neptune

In dog years I'm dead.

[inferior]

Iceland By Stefania Orizio

[cactusberries]

[anarchist-caravan]

[sairenji]

[goldjetski-deactivated20210820]

[loadbearingsonicjpg-deactivated]

Why dont you go watch a studio ghibli movie and think about the power of love and kindness and maybe you'll calm down

[coloursteelsexappeal]

[waysideshrine-deactivated202107]

baron, come here to me, my son. i have been defeated. we have been defeated. my sweet child, swallow this pill with daddy. it'll be over soon. i love you. i love this nation. god bless these great united states. good byebye.

[miamitu-illust]

oof indeed,, The gaang plays Among Us!

[welele]

¿Yakuza o cuál es este?

[cheshirelibrary]

Sometimes classics can be improved upon.

The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries : an alternate ending for Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree by Topher Payne 💯🌳❤️

https://www.topherpayne.com/giving-tree?

[pigcatapult]

I’d always hated The Giving Tree as a kid, but I never realized how much I needed this alternate ending until just now.

[log4]

I’m sorry this version is bad and you’re all being very childish about analysing it. Shel Silverstein’s children stories are not happy. They aren’t meant to be happy. Not only does this version completely butcher the tone, it erases what makes Silverstein’s stories stand out to children. At the end of The Giving Tree there is no happy ending. There’s no legacy. There’s no happily ever after. There is a sad, tired old man sitting on a tree stump. The story flatly interjects “And the tree was happy.” at every juncture. The point of The Giving Tree is that at the end none of it mattered. The boy denied the tree asking him to do the thing that made him happy as a child. He does this a few times, in favor of money, and a family. The tree gives him a means to these things, but they ultimately don’t make him happy. The boy returns sad the third time. He wishes to escape. He takes the part of the trunk with the heart he carved for him and his lover but leaves the heart he carved of him and the tree. The final time he is only tired. He’s not happy. He can’t even do the things that did make him happy. There’s just an old, tired man, and a tree stump. It’s sad. It hurts a bit, for a lot of reasons.

Shel Silverstein’s books have been banned on libraries for “promoting” the disrespect of authority, suicide, disobeying parents, death, violence, etc. And yet children love to read these stories. Because they fascinate kids. Just because a story did not make you feel good does not mean it needs to be rewritten. Just because the impact it had wasn’t a pleasant experience doesn’t lessen the significance of the story. This rewritten version completely undoes what makes Silverstein’s stories special and fascinating to children. It turns them into an average, almost fairy tale like story of a life, money, a family, descendants. It turns a melancholy finality into an overdone happily ever after. This rewritten version is indistinguishable from hundreds of other children’s stories. Silverstein himself commented that children are told stories about happiness that make them question where this “happiness” is and why they don’t have it. I would urge any adult to evaluate why this story makes you so much more uncomfortable now. Why does it hurt more? Why does it make you want to rewrite it? Erase it? Please confront the way the original story makes you feel rather than take refuge in a frankly poor rewrite. Stories exist to make you feel something. Don’t ignore that.

[angry-anarcho-punk]

Ah yes. The good old ‘reverse uno card’.

[tamiyne]

satan mourns

(a wip i will never finish bc i am lazy good night)

[puttingherinhistory]

“The average prison sentence of men who kill their women partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to 15 years. This is despite the fact that 86% of female offenders kill in self-defense, while males are most likely to kill out of possessiveness (82%), abuse (75%) and during arguments (63%). Women are eight times more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner.”

— Fact Sheet on Battered Women in Prison (no stats given for GQ and trans* people). (via sonnywortzik)

[argumate]

"why would urban supercities depopulate?" plague, obviously

something to look forward to in 2020

[argumate]

oh for fuck’s sake

[kanda-franca]

OP first posted this in 2018 for context. what an on point prediction

[kazucrash-deactivated20191209]

[meatthawsmoth]

Today’s Google doodle is dedicated to Israel Kamakawiwoʻole on what would have been his 63rd birthday. Most people only know him from his rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and are unaware that the majority of his songs were sung in Hawaiian and were highly political. He resented Hawaii’s status as a tourist colony and the treatment of native Hawaiians as second class citizens, often stating the case for Hawaiian sovereignty and independence directly in his lyrics.