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Locked out of account / moving!

due to tumblr’s fuckery the other day I can no longer access this account unfortunately (..cept due to the app bc am still logged in there; this damn website can’t even fuck me over self-consistently smh…) so perforce i am MOVING

@thepurposeofplaying >>>>> @enfant–terrible

….so if u enjoy my content follow me over there? c:

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do you ever see someone doing better than you and you immediately lose that 2% of self esteem you had left because me too 

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WATCH: This massive Mola Mola fish was captured on video by Portuguese diver Miguel Pereira near Santa Maria Island in Azores, Portugal.

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him big

[iwillmindfuckyou]

the internet is getting too smart

IT CAN TRANSLATE ILLITERATE COMMENTS TO READ AS PROPER ENGLISH

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OK you know when you hold a cup on your face without your hands… like you suck all the air out of the cup… i don’t know what it’s called

but it’s like That it’s really good

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[coolthingoftheday]

Adorable Japanese hamster bread. 

(Source)

[soundssimpleright]

Are you fucking kidding me.

[jenjenrose-irl]

there’s no way in hell I could take a bite out of these

[radicalduck]

It has a butthole

[blurryhaveitjoeway]

I’d take these to the petstore and just start eating them in front of children

[virgno]

And here you see in order a Gryffindor Hufflepuff Ravenclaw And Slytherin

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She kissed me back ?

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this made me so happy

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Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

[mediumsizetex]

Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

[silkktheshocka]

This is so fucked up.

[prokopetz]

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

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[yongmuney]

this is an appreciation post for anyone who has ever tolerated me

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me

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[culturenlifestyle]

Pet Fox Becomes Best Friends with Dog

Internet famous pet fox Juniper has a dog best friend, named Moose. An Australian Shephard mix, both Juniper and Moose eat and sleep together. Juniper’s Instagram account documents his daily journals, shenanigans and bond between his teddy bear AKA Moose.

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[nellygwyn]

Look at this brilliant photo of me with my first “boyfriend,” Cameron….look at my moody little face.

[nellygwyn]

Throwback Tuesday to the time I was being disappointed by a man at age 4