That Friend You Know

it's just fucking weird and crass my dude

[richist-deactivated20150511]

I have bullshitted my way through almost two decades of life

[everydaylouie]

ghost choir 👻 🎵

[teacupfulofstarshine]

I DID NOT THINK ANYTHING COULD TOP GHOST DUET

I WAS WRONG

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE WRONG IN ALL MY LIFE

[johnnywhistler]

Happy Halloween the 1st!

[mootix123-deactivated20191109]

Visit Original Link

[chibi-pit-deactivated20171031]

I was expecting something demonic

Instead I got the most beautiful sound in the world

[distortiondevil]

Sounds like the 80’s ass soundtrack to some action movie.

[anime--irl]

anime_irl

[magicalsenpai]

Visit Original Link

[tinyglitch-deactivated20160926]

Pirates of the Caribbean/Skyrim Mashup by flipboit4midles.

(Bask in the awesomeness of this.)

Oh

My

God

[thegeekmaster]

HOLY SHIT

[middlenamemothman]

👣some cryptid banners i made for my room! they’re just felt and hot glue. rbs are appreciated, so please don’t re-post! 👣terfs dni, i’m a young trans artist

✨live, laugh, lurk!✨

[frogitivity]

Welcome to Build-a-Frog!

Click here to enter

[we-willbe-thin]

gUyS please click the link you won’t regret it

[enemiestoloversclub]

This is why I love Tumblr.

[amyc0splays-kia]

Me and ellie made the same frog :3

[kirythestitchwitch]

okay so, I have a Story about a customer we had tonight

so this guy in a fancy denim cowboy shirt (a jirt, if you will) came in during our dinner rush and ordered two burritos. the girl (T) doing the hot station (beans and rice and meat) was like "okie dokie, what do you want on them?"

this guy goes "I want Everything on the burritos, except the corn, jalapeños, and cheese."

T pauses to check

"You want Everything?"

"Yes, all the meats, and then all the vegetables."

"So you want... the steak, and the chicken, and the white meat chicken, and the ground beef, and the pulled pork, and the tofu?"

"What's tofu?"

"A soybean protein, comes in spongy blocks."

"You had me at protein, put it on!"

T turns to me. "Can we... can we do that?"

I slap on my manager tone of voice. "Sir, each extra scoop is going to be about $2.09-2.59 each, is that okay?"

he reassures us that is fine. I okay the Frankenburrito

T starts making his burritos. with each extra scoop the mound of food gets larger and larger. she is sweating bullets by the time she slides the first burrito to the cold table

so tonight was the first night J the new boy had been working cold. he has zero experience rolling burritos previous to the last two hours

he looks at this thing and goes "Do i.... have to?" o_o

absolutely not

I step up to the table and start piling on lettuce and cheese and pico de gallo and guac and onions and cucumbers and olives and cilantro

when I am done I look down at this thing, I look up at this man, and i sigh

Sir, I don't mean to question your life choices, but can I put this in a bowl? there is no way I can roll this.

"No it's fine," he insists. "Just use another tortilla to like, extend them out, and then roll it up."

....

Sir.

"You can do this, it'll be fine!"

so i get another 12" tortilla

like kinda overlap them?

and then sorta?? roll one into the other so it is a literal Tube of Meat

the ends did not fold in there was no Containing this thing

I grabbed another foil wrapper so I could roll this thing into two of them and kinda smash the ends in

I squinted at the customer

"It's great, it's fine!" he says, cheerfully

T hands me the Second Burrito

I do it ALL OVER AGAIN

and then take these two giant lumps to the cashier

the cashier, A, is looking over in horror

"[Kiry], how do I even ring those up???"

it's okay, I've got this

the man requests no chips, so I pack each burrito (which for some scale is about the size of a small puppy each) sideways in a paper bag and put them in a plastic bag for carry out

I ring him up, adding scoop after scoop

$47.20 y'all, for two burritos

A is about to die

"$47.20????"

"that is what you get when you get fuckin Noah's Ark over here!!" I say

I may have been having a stroke by that point

the man laughs and hands over his card np

"Are you okay?" he asks me

I am terrific

"Are you mad at me?"

Sir, this is the most delighted I have been in days. I am going to go on the internet and tell Everyone I Know this story

he is ecstatic. he takes his burritos, wishes us a great night, and leaves

I am unsure what kind of eldrich being is currently unhinging his jaw to devour these burritos since he was wearing a gaiter the whole time, but i wish him well

[thelma2017dirjoachimtrier-deact]

“For some time, Hollywood has marketed family entertainment according to a two-pronged strategy, with cute stuff and kinetic motion for the kids and sly pop-cultural references and tame double entendres for mom and dad. Miyazaki has no interest in such trickery, or in the alternative method, most successfully deployed in Pixar features like Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Inside/Out, of blending silliness with sentimentality.”

“Most films made for children are flashy adventure-comedies. Structurally and tonally, they feel almost exactly like blockbusters made for adults, scrubbed of any potentially offensive material. They aren’t so much made for children as they’re made to be not not for children. It’s perhaps telling that the genre is generally called “Family,” rather than “Children’s.” The films are designed to be pleasing to a broad, age-diverse audience, but they’re not necessarily specially made for young minds.”

“My Neighbor Totoro, on the other hand, is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure - in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.”

“Consider the sequence just before Mei first encounters Totoro. Satsuki has left for school, and Dad is working from home, so Mei dons a hat and a shoulder bag and tells her father that she’s “off to run some errands” - The film is hers for the next ten minutes, with very little dialogue. She’s seized by ideas, and then abandons them; her goals switch from moment to moment. First she wants to play “flower shop” with her dad, but then she becomes distracted by a pool full of tadpoles. Then, of course, she needs a bucket to catch tadpoles in - but the bucket has a hole in it. And on it goes, but we’re never bored, because Mei is never bored.”

“[…] You can only ride a ride so many times before the thrill wears off. But a child can never exhaust the possibilities of a park or a neighborhood or a forest, and Totoro exists in this mode. The film is made up of travel and transit and exploration, set against lush, evocative landscapes that seem to extend far beyond the frame. We enter the film driving along a dirt road past houses and rice paddies; we follow Mei as she clambers through a thicket and into the forest; we walk home from school with the girls, ducking into a shrine to take shelter from the rain; we run past endless green fields with Satsuki as she searches for Mei. The psychic center of Totoro’s world is an impossibly giant camphor tree covered in moss. The girls climb over it, bow to it as a forest-guardian, and at one point fly high above it, with the help of Totoro. Much like Totoro himself, the tree is enormous and initially intimidating, but ultimately a source of shelter and inspiration.”

“My Neighbor Totoro has a story, but it’s the kind of story that a child might make up, or that a parent might tell as a bedtime story, prodded along by the refrain, “And then what happened?” This kind of whimsicality is actually baked into Miyazaki’s process: he begins animating his films before they’re fully written. Totoro has chase scenes and fantastical creatures, but these are flights of fancy rooted in a familiar world. A big part of being a kid is watching and waiting, and Miyazaki understands this. When Mei catches a glimpse of a small Totoro running under her house, she crouches down and stares into the gap, waiting. Miyazaki holds on this image: we wait with her. Magical things happen, but most of life happens in between those things—and there is a kind of gentle magic, for a child, in seeing those in-betweens brought to life truthfully on screen.”

A.O. Scott and Lauren Wilford on “My Neighbor Totoro”, 2017.  

[tikkety-tok]

[fbi-2nd-most-unwanted]

No no no y’all don’t understand I just watched this dude’s video series on YouTube where he literally spent several months GATHERING BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE OF HIM JOINING AND THEN GETTING KICKED OUT OF SCIENTOLOGY. THIS DUDE WAS A PART OF SEA ORG

He literally went in with spy cam glasses and was recording audio on his phone. He went through hours and hours of quite literally brainwashing (a lot of which was recorded), to the point where he was so confused about an actual memory of him breaking his collarbone and going to the hospital that he had to get a buddy who was there to recount it to him after. He was invited to a party with some of the most powerful people in Scientology and got to see the leader of Scientology speak. They encouraged him to steal to get the money to buy their crap, it’s INSANE

[the-last-crusade]

You’re going to say all that but not give a link???

[tidepoolalgae]

Here’s the link to the whole series!!

[dancinbutterfly]

Yo, hes doing good work but keep an eye on him cuz he could go missing so keep an eye out on him. Stay safe bro.

[spiroandthelacktones]

Yeah Scientologists are vicious it’s important to expose them but also fuck I would not want to be the one they retaliate against I hope this guy is safe

[pururin]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[fifth-dimensional]

This is a one-shot called Stay Home by Yousuke Kaneda. Translated by Megane Scans, available on MangaDex.

[sapphicazzie]

daniel radcliffe calling out j.k. rowling on her bullshit is big dick energy

[wakingfromthewater]

One thing I have not seen mentioned in light of this statement, perhaps because it's just well known or perhaps because it's been forgotten, is that Radcliffe has dealt with this before. About 10 years ago his friendship with a trans musician named Our Lady J became known to the tabloids. They immediately published sensational articles calling her a transvestite and a drag queen (she was not), and speculating about the nature of their relationship. He responded to insinuating questions by simply being aggressively positive about what a great musician and good friend she was. They did at least one interview together for a queer magazine. This at a time when trans people were even more marginalized than now, and when he as an actor was finishing Harry Potter and under a lot of pressure to ~manage his image~ as he transitioned to an adult career.

TL;DR - Radcliffe has a record of not just saying nice things, but supporting trans people in his life.

[opalcrow]

[ursa-arrowbreaker]

I need this fucking shield

[fulminata2]

This is my friend Durin!

[callmebliss]

Reblog to honor Durin

[systlin]

What a BAMF sheild

[thatfriendyouknow]

REBLOGGING FOR A TRUE VIKING, DURIN!!!

[kaelio]

How did Dogma, a relatively low-budget film, manage to have the only good-looking angel wings? Like, even movies with tons of FX dollars tend to fuck them up and they look bad. These are very stylized, and you can tell they’re not real feathers, but they actually look… better than real feathers? They have a balance of curvature and sharp angles that just make for a great silhouette and they move wonderfully. I cannot figure this out!!

e: I looked on The Internet

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

I don’t know this show but that’s a fucking practical effect??! Better than most cg. Holy shit.

[daciafu]

Please go look up the Crooked Feather. They make practical wings! They are so cool. Someday…. Someday I will have a pair 😂

[mapsontheweb]

Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

[dare-to-dm]

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing.  He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.  

I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography.  I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.

[tinystark616-backup]

THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

[littlethingwithfeathers]

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

[peredurthefool-deactivated20200]

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end

[mapsrgreat]

Oh wow!

[chavisory]

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!

[jelloapocalypse]

[ceiye]

[lastoneout]

I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at

[emmavakarian-theirin]

the witcher but with britney spears music (heavily inspired by @paper-records)

[bettsfic]

[reallyhardy]

A strange new act has arrived at the fairground. Who is Grinpayne and how did he get his hideous smile? Helped by an old man, a lone wolf and a blind girl, his story must be told.

The epic tale of an abandoned child with a terrible secret. A disfigured youth who is desperate to hide and a sightless girl who longs to be discovered. Let the darkness seduce you — THE GRINNING MAN.