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Two-year-old just realized that gay marriage exists via How to Train Your Dragon.

Context: she always gets SUPER excited the first time Stoic (Hiccup's actual dad) comes on screen. "THAT HICCUP'S DAD!" (Dads and moms are very close to a two-year-old's heart and must be identified across all media).

After careful analysis (watching the first movie approximately 1,000,000 times), she was staring intently at the screen watching Hiccup interact with the blacksmith, a Very Intense Frown on her face. Finally, she turned to me.

Baby: Hiccup has two dads?

Me, inserting mental calculus meme in my own head as I realize that writing those two as married would fundamentally change nothing in their first movie dynamic and the blacksmith does indeed fill the narrative function of Second Parent: ...Yes baby, some people have two dads.

Baby turning back to screen, her frowny face clearing: HICCUP HAS TWO DADS!

hurricanenoelle

ayellowbirds

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

tharook

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

homunculus-argument

I don't know if it has a name in english, but in finnish there's the term "luunappi", where you hold your index- or middle-finger behind your thumb and push forward, to give it momentum so once it escapes from behind your thumb, it snaps at whatever is right in front of it - usually someone's forehead. I guess a good-enough english translation for that would be "boneflick", since you're only snapping someone with your finger bones. More unpleasant than painful, and leaves no marks nor physical damage. In hindsight mom doing that to us when we were kids was probably not ok just because it was normal in the 90s.

Anyway me and my boyfriend have gotten more into Warhammer this year, and the term "luunappietäisyys" has become a normal term in the household, and I believe it applies to other crafts as well. The idea of "bone-flick distance" is that any mistakes in your work don't count if the only way for someone to see them is to stand within your arm's length to study the piece - close enough for you to flick them if they point any of them out.

bauliya

i think villains in general provide better, more epic romances because they're allowed to go to extremes. they're allowed to put their love over the greater good. they're allowed to be selfish. the best a hero can offer you is number two, because their duty comes first. villains, though. villains will burn down the world for a last kiss goodbye.

cake-writes

divinesong

Yea, sure. Until YOU or people you love are among the victims for someone else’s love and the villains won’t care. Would also like to point out that some villians(Kuvira, for example) have been willing to sacrifice/throw away love interests for their own goals.

bauliya

idk about you but existing in the real world gives me and my loved ones immunity from the actions of fictional villains. hope you manage to get your family out of star wars.

brightlotusmoon

byjove

pictures of snakes that have just swallowed an egg never stop being hilarious and delightful

broken-horn-of-equius

Me: where'd my egg go?

Snake: i dunno

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

ask-the-oz

>:3 ACH!!!

>:3 UNHAND ME, MARINEBEAST!! I AM NO SEA LION! I DISSOLVE IN WATER!! >:'3 AM I JUST A FASCINATOR TO YOU??

thedancingwalrus-blog

You are so much more than just a fascinator!

You are also..... a ball :D

huyandere

daughters of amazon lily

crippled-peeper

“You think every citizen should have access to free and accessible healthcare?”

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

I love immigration

crippled-peeper

This one made the fascists and the racists really really mad. I get hate mail daily for this post

Imagine getting mad because someone else’s child’s chemotherapy doesn’t cost them 100,000$ .

rosie-tyler

insp.

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

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

#Mwahahaha #this is a totally proportional response to watching Gundam Wing

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)