Definitely a Mammal

I have a spine and everything

[todays-xkcd]

When an Ur guy / sells Nanni things / but the copper’s bad, / He simply records his complaint for all time / “I got a bad deal / I’m maaaaad”

My Favorite Things [Explained]

[wizardnuke]

LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand

[wizardnuke]

I don't wanna see another story abt a teenage boy coming out to his parents and closed mouth kissing his boyfriend at prom where's my spy thriller action heist movie w a cast made entirely of dykes and femme gay men you know what I'm fucking talkinf about. I'm tired of The Queer Struggle I struggle every stupid day I know what that's all about and honestly none of the coming out stories are cathartic or whatever to me. I don't care. I wanna see a nonbinary person fight a dragon

[guzhufuren]

they don't even know about thai, japanese, taiwanese, chinese and south korean queer love tv industry thriving..

[guzhufuren]

they don't even know that in 2025 just one thai company will release tv shows on youtube for free where a depressed grocery store owner woman falls in love with her bubbly customer, where 6 women will be in a toxic love hexagon with each other, two gay vampires shows, a show where a cancelled male broadcast host gets back together with his journalist ex, where two men are investigating murders together while fighting sexual tension, where a bunch of high school boys are falling in love at first sight and nothing hurts, an enemies to lovers gay story about fashion majors, a dark horny love triangle between male coworkers, a messy show about a group of men sleeping with each other on a theatre play set, a convicted young man falling love with an amnesiac prince whom he found on a beach, a romantic comedy series about two brothers scamming two rich men into shotgun marrying them to get divorce benefits, horror gay romance where a young man loses memories of his suspicious criminologist ex, a story about two boyfriends who work as primary school teachers, an ensemble show that includes: a group of trans friends looking for love, high school enemies to lovers destined to be together and gang rivals falling for each other. then also cat cafe show where a man who can talk to cats has hots for the new cafe owner, a doctor and a man who can see the future having their love bloom while they are in hiding together, crack story about a guyfailure having a gig of searching for evidence that a flight attendant's captain boyfriend is cheating on him, show where a dramatic mafia heir raised on soap operas falls for the guy who gives him an earful about consent and manners, a magical fortune teller offering a failed athlete to be his assistant, a noble man romancing a translator commoner in 1920s Thailand, and a show where a pastor's young protege fights his feelings for the defiant new boy in their seminary. and only two of those 22 shows have the concept of homophobia exist in them

[jimmyfury]

please for the love of god give us names I only recognize a couple of the shows in the pictures and none of us can know the company unless you tell us please

[guzhufuren]

@jimmyfury absolutely

1-2 KinnPorsche (mafia boss/his bodyguard, evil mafia heir/his hostage)

3 Jack and Joker (mafia, heist and robberies)

4 Spare Me Your Mercy (a story about ethics of euthanasia, doctor/cop)

5-6 The Sign (two special unit officers who are reincarnated from a mythological thai bird deity and a snake dragon)

7 Petrichor (forensic doctor/cop)

8 Uranus2324 (astronaut and her girlfriend)

9 The Loyal Pin (a princess and a noble lady)

10 Mhom Ped Sawan (two concubines of an emperor)

11 Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko (office lesbians)

12 Old Fashion Cupcake (a 39 year old office worker and his 29 year old assistant going to dessert cafes)

13 Our Dining Table (food feelings show)

14 Anti Reset (android caretaker falls in love with a human)

15 Love Tractor (farmer boy/big city musician)

16 Word of Honor (ancient chinese fantasy assasins)

17 Couple of Mirrors (a socialite/an assassin)

18 Meet You At The Blossom (ancient chinese fantasy, rich brat falls for a crossdressing assassin who he thinks is a young lady)

19 Love for Love's Sake (a man gets thrown inside a video game to help his favourite character)

20 The Spirealm (a man accidentally signs up for a mystical real life vr horror game)

here is a bigger list of summaries, and where and how to watch, have fun if it works out

the company that will make the described earlier tv shows in 2025 is GMMTV and almost everything they make is free on youtube and has subtitles

[astriaels]

one piece art dump LETS GO

[teaboot]

Alright kids say it with me

My thoughts don’t make me a bad person

My feelings don’t make me a bad person

My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it

Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions

The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions

There’s no such thing as a thought crime

thank u

[teaboot]

You can have harmful beliefs and harmful impulses and harmful urges and not be evil. You can make yourself aware that these things are harmful and take steps to correct yourself and not be evil. You can walk around with the urge to kick puppies all goddamn day and as long as you are capable of redirecting that impulse to something benign then it doesn’t matter. I don’t know how else to say this

[sillyness-incarnate]

Yes, but you are missing the part, where this is okay for everybody, except for me.

[teaboot]

As someone who has struggled with that exact thought, I personally try to kick it back with “if it’s weird to think I’m specially and uniquely better than everyone else, it’s equally weird to think I’m specially and uniquely worse”

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think when studying a foreign language progress is really difficult to measure so if that’s frustrating for you, keeping track of things with concrete numbers might be more helpful.

Number of hours watching tv in the language or number of words read or number of flashcards drilled in a day are things you can track and do no matter your current success with them.

Saying “I want to understand a movie in Japanese” or “I want to move to Japan” is perhaps a good long term abstract goal but it’s not easily measurable day to day.

What you can do is say “I want to study two kanji every day” or “I want to watch YouTube videos in Japanese for ten hours every week”. Or “I want to read one book per month” or “I want to take two intensive lessons with a tutor every week”

That’s a more measurable goal. That’s something you can check off on a box and shows you the concrete steps you’re taking.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Early on you might also find that your daily or weekly goals are too much for you. That’s normal. Learning a language takes a lot of effort for your brain. Lower the bar a bit until you build up tolerance. The good thing about measuring concrete numbers related to your effort is that you can figure out your limits and also figure out when you’re ready to expand those limits.

It used to be that near the beginning even watching videos in Spanish for half an hour made me exhausted but now I binge podcasts for three hours or more without getting tired! Sometimes I just binge videos I like and realize a whole evening has gone by.

I can measure this in concrete terms because I keep track of my hours spent listening to Spanish.

Keep track of numbers. It gives you better information.

[ask-the-oz]

@wordsandrobots and his partner are watching Gundam Wing and i am being unfairly persecuted for unjust and cruelly terrible reasons such as my belief that Wing is good actually and makes sense if you REALLY look at it and also ignore the many things that do not make sense and are not good.

AND IS THIS A CRIME???

NAY, I SAY

and yet, ladies and gentleman of the jury, I have been subjected to such indignigites and offences AS:

Scruffing by the neck until sideways

the damages were severe.

AND:

UNAUTHORIZED LION COLORS

the changes have left me vulnerable to ducks, and VFX background removal.

BUT YOU WILL NOT SILENCE ME!!!! I SHALL NOT YIELD TO THIS VICIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST SMALL BONELESS FELINES!

WING IS GOOD! IT'S GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!

(i love u)

[wordsandrobots]

@thedancingwalrus-blog

For your immediate attention.

(Full disclosure, I am subjecting my partner to the English dub AKA how I first encountered Gundam Wing. This is likely compounding the *gestures* everything.)

[thedancingwalrus-blog]

Hmmmmmmm

HMMMMMMM

You know I think I'll be good.

@ask-the-oz

[creekfiend]

graphic that is relevant to the stuff I was talking about last night from primal trust. (this post is not a broad endorsement of the primal trust program which I have no experience with although I have heard good things about it secondhand)

[theotherwesley]

I love baby foxes. Nothing has ever had less of an idea.

buffering

[theotherwesley]

feather obtained, purpose unclear

leaf obtained, purpose unclear

ground:

unclear

sibling obtained, purpose: biting

[meepmoopmaap]

@theorphicforest ROARKE

[3000s]

i just realized the only 2 options arent "make someone angry" or "do what they want"

[3000s]

being in love is like you learn theres other reactions people have besides angry or not angry

[3000s]

love when its safe

[monkeyfaced-trickster]

When you've watched Lupin III as much as I have (particularly in Japanese), you've noticed Lupin using this particular phrase pretty often:

English subtitles tend to translate it as "thanks" or "keep up the good work", but the actual meaning in the context of how Lupin uses it is more nuanced than that.

In Japan, ご苦労 (ごくろう) is a common expression in the work environment. 苦労 roughly translates to "hardship", and the ご before it is an honorific prefix added to expressions to show respect to the person you're addressing.

Say you work somewhere in Japan, and you've assigned someone who works under you a task, and they're putting in the effort. When you want to express appreciation for their efforts, regardless of whether they succeeded or not, you say "ご苦労". If you want to be more polite about it, you can add the formal 様 (さま) to the end of it ("ご苦労様"). (There's also "お疲れ(様)", which has a similar meaning but is used towards one's colleague or superior; "ご苦労(様)" is exclusively used towards one's subordinate.)

When Lupin says "ごくろうさん", he usually addresses some police or security force that just failed to apprehend him despite their efforts. That may seem respectful on the surface, but you'll note that, instead of appending 様 to the end, Lupin uses さん, which is also a formal suffix but not quite as formal as 様. This makes the expression more flippant than polite, and can come off as sarcastic or belittling (plus him writing it in hiragana also adds a tinge of childishness to it). Considering Lupin's large ego backed by his great skills as a thief, it's clear that Lupin is deliberately using this expression as a subtle condescending insult.

The closest English interpretation of how Lupin uses ごくろうさん would be along the lines of "Awww, you tried! That's adorable! 😂".

[whatapictureisworth-press]

So it’s been awhile since I’ve bound anything, but when I read the Cursed Amulet Story by @sunderwight, I was like, I gotta make an actual, physical evil amulet now. Except the evil amulet is also going to be a book. And the book is like a diary by the guy trapped in the amulet.

The book is held in the brass frame (also made by yours truly) by friction; it pops out super easily so you can read it but it’s not going to fall out accidentally.

The typeset fit into exactly one piece of normal 8.5x11 printer paper, and if anyone else wants the file to make their own evil amulet, I’m happy to share.

[thedancingwalrus-blog]

@wordsandrobots

[sweetyart]

One of my favorite Lupin tropes is when these two brats say they won't help/save/protect Lupin, but if anyone, God forbid, coughs in his direction, they rush to tear the offender's face off. Jigen is especially guilty of this. He'd literally kill for him :D

[noodles-and-tea]

Okay been watching lupin a bit…

[inoue0408]

💚❤️🩷💙

[arttsuka]

I've been thinking about this clip a lot

[professorsparklepants]

Tarvek in a "bathe her and bring her to me" scenario but he starts criticizing the people who are dressing him up in the harem concubine outfit and when he's finally delivered he's raided their entire stash of costume jewelry

[itreallyatemyhand]

I hate that the "x reader" or "x Y/N" style of fanfic has become sooooo popular, partially because it's just not for me and partially because they clog general non-fic related tags and those authors seem allergic to the "read more" function on this website, but ALSO because I believe that you should have to go through the trouble of creating an absolutely batshit self-insert character, with a backstory that makes no sense and a name that doesn't really gel with the aesthetics of the universe. Legolas and Aragorn should be in a love triangle with Kylie, the angsty sixteen year old half-human half-elf and inexplicable tenth member of the Fellowship. Do the WORK. If everyone was doing "Y/N" nonsense back in the day, there would be no Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, or probably Bella Swan. These are important women. They deserve to be named, confusingly and with no regard for the fictional world they inhabit.