Friendly Neighborhood Trash Gremlin

"Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right.”

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[gallusrostromegalus]

seconding these tags by @ragsy: #if the social consciousness has decided that duckduckgo is the Only Othet Search Engine#might i suggest 'go duck yourself'

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

This is Ecosia erasure.

[lanotteviene]

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

[lanotteviene]

our sick deranged enemy polyester....

[threeture]

the demon lord, prince of lies, "Vegan Leather"...

[kommetz]

reading a textbook for class and i’m going insane. why is this just poetry. what. this is a STEM class what’s going on.

[kommetz]

HELLO????? HELLO?????

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Yeah, brilliant STEM scholars are like that. When you understand so much about the harmony and chaos of how the world works, both natural and manmade, the way you illustrate these incredible concepts also improves. It's like my high school art teacher said; the term STEAM is a little bit paradoxical, because art is a part of every single part of STEM; It always has been, always will be. It just took outsiders a while to realize it.

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[draconym]

The eye doctor is the most fun doctor you can go to. They never steal your blood. They never make you get naked and put on a paper dress. They're just like, "Can you see these letters? It's fine if you can't, we can fix that." And they don't even spell anything.

[draconym]

[orcboxer]

Every time I go they put me in a chair and they say look into this machine there's a hot air balloon or a farmhouse in there and I do and I'm like you're right I see it and they're like yeah keep admiring that hot air balloon or farmhouse and I do and I'm like this shit's quaint as fuck and then do you know what happens next they attack me they jumpscare me with air directly into my eyeballs and i fall out the chair and they say sorryyyy but they're NOT they wanted this to happen they KNEW about the jumpscare well now I'm wise to it now I know better when I go in and they say look at this bodacious hot air balloon I'm like NO WAY DUDE that balloon wishes me harm have at thee and I attack them and push them on the ground and spit on them

[russ3t]

(CW // decomposition)

Eridians don’t bury their dead because they don’t rot. Their dead fossilize and erode with time.

So imagine how horrible it would be for Rocky when some 40, 50 years have passed, and so has Grace. He went peacefully and in his sleep, his loved ones there to watch him go. They left his body there in his bed because although they understand decomposition, they don’t really know what it would look like for a fleshy being like Humans are. In the hours that pass, Grace has gone cold. His muscles have locked together, the softness Rocky used to tease him for is lost in rigor. He leaves for a while with family to make a death wreathe; a painstakingly woven crown of thread, wire, and jewelry to honor someone’s life.

When they come back to place it on Grace, they find that he is… different. His skin has started to slough and droop. He seems to almost be melting, or beginning to.

Because this is a simulated Earth and not real Earth, there wouldn’t be any of the same death-eating creatures to clear away Grace’s body unless they were to move his body out of the dome, let Erid’s creatures break him down. But that feels wrong. They could find a way to preserve him — they have read pf human practices of embalming and mummification. But that feels wrong too. Either he goes naturally, feeds into a different ecosystem than the one he was born from, or he is frozen forever and never laid to rest.

Nobody knows what to do.

(sincerely, a funeral service major lmao)

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Nah, there is no way Grace wouldn't have enthusiastically donated his body to science. His weird paraffin-wax or whatever perfused flesh sack body is definitely on display in some Mütter Museum-esque Earthling science center. Eridians come from far and wide to marvel and pay homage to him and marvel at his strange but resilient body systems.

[russ3t]

I did entertain this as well bc he would *so* have insisted to be donated for science, I saw someone make a comic of this too! I just also love angst lmao

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Ooh, do you have a link?

[russ3t]

(CW // decomposition)

Eridians don’t bury their dead because they don’t rot. Their dead fossilize and erode with time.

So imagine how horrible it would be for Rocky when some 40, 50 years have passed, and so has Grace. He went peacefully and in his sleep, his loved ones there to watch him go. They left his body there in his bed because although they understand decomposition, they don’t really know what it would look like for a fleshy being like Humans are. In the hours that pass, Grace has gone cold. His muscles have locked together, the softness Rocky used to tease him for is lost in rigor. He leaves for a while with family to make a death wreathe; a painstakingly woven crown of thread, wire, and jewelry to honor someone’s life.

When they come back to place it on Grace, they find that he is… different. His skin has started to slough and droop. He seems to almost be melting, or beginning to.

Because this is a simulated Earth and not real Earth, there wouldn’t be any of the same death-eating creatures to clear away Grace’s body unless they were to move his body out of the dome, let Erid’s creatures break him down. But that feels wrong. They could find a way to preserve him — they have read pf human practices of embalming and mummification. But that feels wrong too. Either he goes naturally, feeds into a different ecosystem than the one he was born from, or he is frozen forever and never laid to rest.

Nobody knows what to do.

(sincerely, a funeral service major lmao)

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Nah, there is no way Grace wouldn't have enthusiastically donated his body to science. His weird paraffin-wax or whatever perfused flesh sack body is definitely on display in some Mütter Museum-esque Earthling science center. Eridians come from far and wide to marvel and pay homage to him and marvel at his strange but resilient body systems.

[campyvillain]

whoever made the story for this game hated kids so much

[campyvillain]

would you believe me if i told you the story of this game put the possibility of death and dying and terminal illness in my head as a kid. i was 4. the dread i felt for this game cannot be replicated

[campyvillain]

i just barely remember what this game was about because i was 4 but basically you’re a dog and you live on an island and your dog family has a dog sister. or brother. i don’t remember. your dog sibling falls ill with a terminal illness or it is heavily implied that it will be fatal. there is a scene where the ill dog sibling tries to go to a party and they collapse and the audience is led to believe that they died. they do not die but are bedridden. your dog father tries to find a cure overseas but goes missing and is pretty much as close to “confirmed dead” as you can get in an e for everyone title. then you try to find a cure overseas and your boat gets separated and you get lost at sea. you do not die and end up on another island. a doctor is there. from that point i do not remember anything about the game other than giraffes try to attack you or something . i had to stop playing because this game made me So upset i was afraid to touch it. the game looks like this

[puffydove]

If you’d kept playing you would’ve been so much more traumatized than you already were, it does not get less intense. Allow me to tell you about some of the other fucked up plot points/subplots:

You don’t just get separated from your boat, no, it’s MUCH more upsetting than that. There’s a storm, and the captain says you won’t be able to make it to the island. The idea of returning home without a cure is so unbearable to you that you jump overboard and try to swim there. You almost drown, but a bird you nursed back to health earlier in the game alerts a resident of the island, who saves your life.

The town’s water supply gets poisoned at one point and everyone gets sick but you. You have to find a healer in the woods because even the town doctor can’t help

A nurse dog on the island is afraid of the color red and is mercilessly bullied by a group of dogs in her town. You have to help her get over this fear. It originated from a traumatic event in her childhood where she thought she killed her best friend.

The doctor who helps your sick sibling also has a traumatic past. His fiancé got terminally ill and because he argued with another doctor on the best treatment, she died. He visits her grave often.

The miracle cure (a flower) you’re searching for to save your sibling? When you find it, it’s wilted. If you can’t find a way to restore it, you know your sibling will almost certainly die.

Also the literal apocalypse has been building up for the entire duration of the story, and you have to literally travel to an alternate dimension to consult the queen of a mythical race on how to save the world

To get a magic stone that will help you save the world, you have to fight a giant dinosaur skeleton referred to as the “Ancient Monster” and it is heavily implied that it fought your father at some point, and may have even killed him. Yes this is still the same game

Yeah but that game was really something. There are pirates. There are poisonous snakes. All of the enemies have the ability to kill you. The soundtrack is phenomenal. You have a magical sidekick named Petasi. One of the game’s central themes is the importance of kindness. I tried to play it on my own once and got killed by a gorilla while trying to find grapes.

[puffydove]

Mobile wouldn’t let me add images to my original reblog so here:

Screenshots taken from this video

[dottsea]

azrael for @little-flame-prince !

[standandwatchshitburn]

why so silent good messieurs

[nsfwitchy2]

I’m SEVERELY disappointed this post didn’t include the eye witness statement of the mirror crash incident in question

[intellectualmerit]

the isolating exhaustion of looking for fluffy cutesy alien content in a world obsessed with sex.

like what if just snuggles between alien and human. What then. What if no sex. What if incredible levels of intimacy without clothes ever coming off or lower bodies being stimulated.

what about the insane potential tentacles have for fluff. Not smut. No sex. Just fluff. What about being weird creatures with another weird creature that just wants to hug. What then. I’m unappreciated in my time. Does anyone feel me. Anyone.

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[ecto-hazard]

idk why people find seafood more offensive compared to like livestock derived meats. like you always know what youre getting with seafood. every bite of fish is the exact same, its even texture, even everything. you bite into a steak and get tormented with the Cords and the Slime

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Fish bones and smell, I think. But honestly, extra calcium.

[vermivox]

“your friend is dead, and their corpse is inhabited by something only you can see for what it truly is" is already good horror. but "you begin to love the thing that wears their face"? the blasphemy of it. terror turning into desire. grief turning into longing. being enticed by what should repel you. it twists the knife deeper, because the horror is not based on deception anymore. the fear comes from recognizing the monster in its raw form and finding beauty there. you're not clinging to scraps of your friend, you're surrendering to something other, something wrong, and loving it. you're not holding onto a ghost of the past, it’s the monster itself that you choose

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Would you hate the hermit crab for sheltering in the dead snail's shell? Or the bluebird for raising her young in the cavity of a dead tree? Repurposing doesn't have to be an insult. Your friend left behind a vacancy when they moved on, and the other needed what was no longer in use. They haven't stolen anything, because the body no longer belonged to anyone. Instead, your friend's influence lives on in this new companionship.