TheLegendaryGoblin

english major macklemore: i read your granddad’s prose

therapist macklemore: i hear your granddad’s woes

coffee enthusiast macklemore: i drink your granddad’s joes

body mod shop owner macklemore: i pierce your granddad’s nose

pizza chef macklemore: i knead your granddad’s doughs

television network executive macklemore: i make your granddad’s shows

wildlife rehabilitator macklemore: i feed your granddad’s crows

blanket maker macklemore: i knit your granddad’s throws

sir mackle the more, knight of the great kingdom of seattle: i slay your granddad’s foes

rapper macklemore: i spit your granddad’s flows

we were sitting across from each other in the living room reblogging back and forth like it was a life-or-death yu-gi-oh duel

sugarsaltreading

earlier this week Twitter user ppuccin0 tweeted about a fashion article that advised against tops with large floral patterns, saying the wearer was in danger of looking like a "ロマンティックおばさん," or a "romantic auntie." the tweet went viral with many agreeing that a "romantic auntie" sounded like a very nice thing to aspire to be, and some even posted illustrations or photos tagged with the trend

illustration by Toyota Yuu (author of Cherry Magic)

illustration by 141shkw/Sora Midori (author of Beautiful Curse)

photos by Takinami Yukari (author of Motokare Mania and Watashi-tachi wa Mutsuu Ren'ai ga Shitai or "We Want A Painless Romance")

illustration by m:m (mangaka of Matataki no End Roll)

illustration by ooinuai (mangaka of Onikui Kitan)

illustration by ma2 (mangaka of The Reason We Fall In Love)

BONUS:

sugarsaltreading

Twitter user WomeGa55 drew some art of “Romance Auntie x Combat Auntie”

bigbigbigtruck

IT GOT BETTER

mysteryteacup

The RomCom Aunties!

awfulpunk

this is insanely racist and I haven't even seen much about this online yet

checkyourasianbias

after Bad Bunny won they added a Latin song category and after Rosé got three nominations the grammys added a k-pop/c-pop/j-pop category they have always been afraid of well-performing artists of color challenging white artists in mainstream categories

thelegendarygoblin

THE RACISM IS AUDACIOUS TONIGHT

rotacios-kapa

filmphotofranz

lakemojave

I failed to notice the original tweet below and i just assumed this post was just about the artistic process in general, not nsfw art specifically, and just accepted that yeah sometimes you gotta rub that thang till the job is done

bloodraven55

never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

chasetriesagain

"You're smoking too much weed," says the guy who got addicted to manosphere podcasts on his orb and started a fascist militia with a side hobby of deliberate environmental destruction. Started cutting down trees to own the woke elves.

byjove

Elliot Page does not play Achilles in The Odyssey like transphobes were preemptively angry about but Homer just told me he updated the Iliad and Achilles is canonically transgender now and not just subtextually transgender like in the first draft.

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

bicokun

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.

explorerrowan

It does, however, give some fun new context to C-3P0's line in Empire Strikes Back: "I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect."

L3 was probably blasting the robot Internationale at him.

beardedmrbean

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

cookingwithroxy

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

hunter-rodrigez

Like... come on man, 310 pages isn't even what I would've considered a particularly long book as a kid.

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

bicokun

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.

explorerrowan

It does, however, give some fun new context to C-3P0's line in Empire Strikes Back: "I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect."

L3 was probably blasting the robot Internationale at him.

I finally got around to reading Not Easily Conquered and I'm just about as okay as you'd expect after that

this is one of the fics they're talking about when people say stucky fandom in 2014 was writing beautiful poetry and academic papers in their fanfictions

I am being so, so real with y'all right now

The artistic ecosystem of Bucky Fanfiction is an intricate, fascinating, gorgeous landscape of entwined artistic works that deserves analysis and recognition

Cringe culture, intellectual property law, and the self-destruction of the franchise it was based upon have conspired to isolate and devalue this art-ecosystem, and this makes me want to throw myself in the ocean

Yes, it's a gay love epic for the ages, on par with kirk and spock, or gilgamesh and enkidu, but it's also just fascinating how so many writers took compelling pieces and bits from the source material and formed an interconnected labyrinth of stories, all in conversation with one another and forming new nodes of compelling concepts that were then picked up by further stories

most contemporary storytelling considers "originality" as an inherently good quality. Creators are encouraged to conceal their influences as much as possible, so it should be difficult to trace directly where ideas descended from. It's not spoken out loud but once you see it, you can't stop realizing how weird it is.

An artistic ecosystem that rejects that premise can do some BONKERS stuff.

It's intoxicating to see stories interacting on an ecosystem level so closely, exchanging and circulating ideas, refining and clarifying

And with early Stucky fandom, it's driven by this frenetic sense of passion. I don't think everyone believed that the ship would become canon, but in a way that's hard to describe, you can tell they believed it was real.

There is no self-consciousness. It is blisteringly sincere art

I feel like this kind of Storycosystem can't emerge with a franchise that actually understands what it's doing, or reckons with its own implications, or is actually uncomplicatedly good, because then, the NECESSITY of telling the story wouldn't be burning a hole in our heads.

no-sharks-on-the-sun

gay--dog

video game with a flaccid -> boner meter in the ui but the whole game it never changes at all and nothing makes the boner meter go up so youre jusg aware of the protags flaccid penis the whole time for no good reason

on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time

Morticia: “So what is it you do for a living my dear?”

Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Morticia: “fascinating”

Gomez: *leaping out from behind a pillar which is encrusted with ominous looking runes* en garde!

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Gomez: *nearly in tears* oh he’s screaming nonsensically, what spirit! what reslove!