Sewing beneath a ceiling of scissors

I like to pretend I'm funny but I'm really just good at following memes and linguistic trends. I also super occasionally talk about my mental health shit, yoga, and life in Dubai. Enjoy. You can find my art at www.inkonsaadi.tumblr.com You get 20 cool points for following.

[shampooligan]

you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

[flimflamflummox-deactivated2021]

Here’s my favorite lolcat:

Next stop: Noobshire

[switch-up-snowfox]

it’s often the cute meme’s that age well once you get past the “literally everywhere” phase.

[scaliefox]

I like this classic

[princesstigerbelle]

More classics

[hymnofvalefor]

I went through almost ten years of photos on my Facebook page go find this

[owl-librarian]

But WAIT! DO NOT FORGET. the granddaddy: 

[tzikeh]

HOLD UP THERE 

SKIPPY 

“I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER” GOT FAMOUS OFF THE BACKS OF THE PIONEERING LOLCATS

THIS WAS IN THE BEFORE-TIMES 

WHEN THEY WERE KNOWN AS 

CAT MACROS 

AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO MAKE ANY SENSE

AND NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL THROUGH A FUCKIN’ FEW MORE

[annagetsthefabulousbabes]

  https://youtu.be/UF2bVxFRKhA

THERE WAS A SONG.

[thebibliosphere]

“Jesus Christ it’s a lion get in the car!” still pops into my head on a regular basis. Same with “eh meh gherd” (“oh my god”).

Also long cat. I’m sad no one posted long cat.

[ethanrayne]

Also- I can’t find it right now, for some reason- but the “happycat has run out of happy” was referencing not just the format of “[thing]cat is [thing]” but specifically another meme with an identical cat smiling (“happycat is happy”). Possibly it’s the same cat.

[happiest-little-sourwolf]

I’m sorry but I HAD TO reblog this because so many crack me up. If I was on my laptop, I’d add more because I still have a fuckin’ file of this shit. The “omg it’s a lion” one is something I actually say sometimes when something is going down. I was surprised that “Godspeed, Moon Cat” wasn’t here, LOL!

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I’m not even sorry. This is like a fraction of what I have.

[ladycliostarr]

Not sure how old this one is, but here’s my contribution.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

I was on /b/ and the rest of 4chan when Caturday was a thing and I can reassure you that almost (almost) all of these were made after “I can haz.”

I was told about this neat, unique bulletin board system called 4chan in November of 2003, by a friend of mine who had just deployed. The site had literally just started a month prior. I lurked there for years, participated in Project Chanology (and actually made the English press kit that went out to a lot of media outlets), vaguely migrated to SomethingAwful at one point, saw Slenderman get created, and all that shit. In the midst of it was lolcats.

Cat macros became lolcats on 4chan and the other -chan websites. They’re all still the same thing. And I Can Haz was one of the first. The white Impact font on a black or dark background became “standard” at some point but TLDR: I Can Haz owes his existence and popularity to 1. Caturday as a concept, and 2. Someone seeing it and finding it fucking hilarious, and then buying a website just to show it off and going viral.

Ceiling cat, Longcat, Nyancat, Jesus Christ it’s a Lion, I'mma Chargin mah Lazerz, and all those - they all came after I Can Haz.

Show some goddamn memespect.

[afeelgoodblog]

Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

[pea-gravel]

It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.

So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.

[durnesque-esque]

Article here | Organization here

[harleyquinnstation]

Harley & Bruce in Dark Knights of Steel #1 and #2

[rose---child]

Oh my god she’s a court jester

[toskarin]

you know how there's all those ancient mythical steels that can't be reproduced in modern day because the techniques are completely lost

the internet equivalent of that is the y2k otaku wallpaper aesthetic. you can't make those anymore, only forgeries that mimic the originals

[trovia]

“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”

— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via mgrable)

[i-suggest-trainsxoxoxox]

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times. IQ tests measure how well someone takes IQ tests and that is it.

[unioncarbidesuperfan66]

anyway i said i would do this after the whole thing was said and done… when i was looking for advice i found like “paint your nails and listen to happy music” buzzfeed bullshit so

here is my short real life abortion and early pregnancy survival guide (pastebin)

other links:

How to Get A Safe Abortion, No Matter How Far Along You Are or How Much Money You Have

Check here to see if medicaid will cover your costs

Financial aid for abortions

prochoice.org has a list for each state of NAF funded clinics and free hotlines for information.

WomenOnWeb.org and WomenOnWaves.org will ship you an abortion pill if it is illegal to get an abortion in your country.

[ewaneneollav]

somebody once trolled me, successfully rickroll’d me

[inc4rn4t]

im not the sharpest n00b in the thread…

[petitescarlette]

I was typing kind of dumb WITH THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON ON.

[crearuru]

i bet u thought this post was finally dead

[adrithegreat]

well the memes start coming, and they dont stop coming

[ginandmisadventures]

grabbing all the breadsticks, I’ll leave the shop running

[skeletonwheel-deactivated201910]

didn’t make sense not to live for

gun

[phoenixflorid]

your left side’s beef but your pizza none

[lordsherlokimort]

So much to post so much to see so much John Cena on my live feed

[odditycollector]

very meme, such impress. how u learn these knows. so amaze. wow.

[autisticvimes-deactivated201612]

HEY NOW

[nickyofthestars]

YOU’RE A MEME STAR

Get the rarest. PEPE!

[one-in-lemillion]

HEY NOW

HERE COME DAT BOI

O shit. Waddup.

[riddle-me-bitch]

And that dress was white and gooold

[ericvilas]

Everybody craves those mineralllllls.

[letteredlettered]

[bakabun-deactivated20230829]

this is it. this is the best post on this hell site.

[stellarsappho]

I sang the whole thing

[smooththegoofyshark]

It’s the post

[insubstantialsherbert]

i thought this was just a myth

[binaryeclipse]

"Not all men—" you’re so right, Anakin Skywalker would never. He’d do so much worse.

[huffylemon]

[huffylemon]

an important addition

[william-snekspeare]

creacher

[semutamusic]

[skaldish]

Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances.

[skaldish]

I'm pretty quiet about the fact I'm a transman usually, but holy shit I need to tell you about the culture shock I'm going through because it's blindsiding me.

There's a huge sense of social isolation that comes with being perceived as male, because now people are subconsciously treating me as a potential predator. All strangers, no matter their gender, keep their guard up around me.

It made me realize that there is no inherent camaraderie in male socialization as there is in female socialization—unless, of course, it's in very specific environments. And the fact I don't amnbiently experience this mutual kinship in basic exchanges anymore is an insanely lonely feeling.

You know how badly this would have fucked my mind up if I had grown up with this?

[skaldish]

It is 4:30am and I'm mourning the loss of a privilege I didn't even know I had.

[skaldish]

Anyway, I'm going to figure out how to navigate this. Don't know how yet, but I'm gonna.

[skaldish]

Absolutely, because it's an extremely sticky issue.

Frankly, this is something I would've never understood without living the experience.

It's now blatantly clear to me that most cis men probably experience chronic emotional malnutrition. They're deprived of social connection just enough for it to seriously fuck with their psyches, but not enough for them to realize that it's happening and what's causing it.

It's like they're starving, but don't know this because they've always been served 3 meals...except those meals have never been big enough.

This deprivation comes from all sides of aisle, by the way.

In the case of women: When I'm out in public and interact with women, all of them come off as incredibly aloof, cold, and mirthless. I have never experienced this before even though I know exactly what this composure is—the armor that keeps away creepy-ass men.

As someone who used to wear it myself, I know this armor is 100% impersonal. Nobody likes wearing it, and I can say with absolute certainty that women would dump the armor in favor of unconditional companionship with men if doing this didn't run the risk of actual assault. (Trust me when I say women aren't just being needlessly guarded.)

But I only have a complete understanding of this context because I've experienced female socialization. If I hadn't, I would've thought this coldness was a conspiracy against me devised by roughly half of the human population. Even now, with all that I know about navigating the world as a woman, I'm failing to convince my monkey-brain that this armor isn't social rejection.

And as for male socialization? Again, it seems taboo for a man to be platonically intimate with men for reasons I have yet to fully understand, but I think it boils down to a) the fact society teaches boys that it's not okay to be soft with each other, and b) garden-variety homophobia. Our media only shows men being intimate with one another when they're teamed up against a dire situation, and I'd bet real money it's a huge reason why men gravitate toward activities that simulate being teamed up against an opposing force.

But men are not machines of war. Yes, testosterone absolutely gives you Dumb Bastard Brain, but that just makes you want to skateboard a wagon down a hill or duct-tape your friend to the wall, not kill someone.

The human species looks so much colder standing from this side.

I can see how men might convince themselves that their feelings of emotional desperation is personal weakness as opposed to a symptom they're all experiencing from White Imperialism. Because this human connection, this frith, is as essential for our wellbeing as water is.

So sick. How sick. I want to destroy this garbage.

[captainlordauditor]

#I think that’s why there’s that stereotype about men raised by or around women#because they actually know what it’s like to be around women who aren’t afraid and who value platonic intimacy#so they KNOW that it exists and they can get there#versus a ‘man’s man’ who doesn’t even realize it’s a concept#it’s a HUGE fucking problem

[bogleech]

Guys who get mad at discussion of "toxic masculinity" don't understand that this is what it means. Grown men are conditioned to feel weird if they're too personable or too easygoing or otherwise too human. Humans evolved to want to be kind and happy and open but a mix of paranoid religious and military culture is devoted to mercilessly crushing healthy emotion in half the population.

[imeverywoman420]

Things people who only like weird bad modern art say. This is about thomas kinkade btw. Modern art consoomer types HATE him with vitriol

These are his paintings. Absolutely beautiful and stunning. These people think its Low Brow.

Just bc u have a degree does not mean u know art… if all art school taught u was that a rothko is somehow more artistically valid than any of these beautiful paintings….. you would easily join scientology.

[unscheduled-excursion-0000000]

the idea being communicated is a love of nature and beauty in otherwise commonplace settings it’s not my fault you have a gaping void where your soul should be hope this helps

[visigoth3-thevisigothening]

Thomas Kinkaid is good you people are just miserable and in love with ugliness

[protovoid-deactivated20221031]

Eh, the postmodernists def go too far but he is the Lisa Frank of landscape paintings, not that you can’t like Lisa frank but something can be so imbued with “good” things that it becomes tacky and garish and loses value

[imeverywoman420]

Lisa frank is our generations picasso so

[normal-horoscopes]

What’s that quote? “Good art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” I feel like a Thomas Kinkade painting can only invoke revulsion in people who don’t have real problems.

[toughtink]

you are free to like this art, but the thing about kinkade paintings is they weren’t made by thomas kinkade. or…a lot of them weren’t. he famously turned his studio into a sort of art factory to churn out massive amounts of art all painted in his signature style. he’s been dead for years, but there’s still new thomas kinkade paintings coming out. they’re literally quantity over quality but without any evolution of style that would normally make quantity interesting.

another reason they’re sort of scorned by the art world? not only is every painting the same saccharine subject matter (which, fine, they like flowery cottages and mist, we get it), it’s the way they apply values, colors, and details. everything is given the same amount of attention which makes them busy and kind of difficult to look at while simultaneously having nothing of particular interest to tell you. let’s look at these 3 in grayscale.

the values are all sort of in the same area; his style doesn’t really utilize them to push things back or pull them forward except maybe a little bit in the 3rd image and only because he thought to add a line of mist between the trees and mountain. the creek, cottages, and chapel though?? feel like they’re on the same level of distance from the viewer instead of going gradually further back. where does that foreground tree end and that chapel begin??? the top right image’s cottage looks like a flat because there’s no shadow or highlight to distinguish the front face from the side. in the top left, that cottage in the background blends with the flower arch in the foreground because they have the same amount of rendering in the same values. the piece would be stronger if it created a hierarchy of what to look at, but that wouldn’t be in “the style” so it’s out of the question.

it’s fiiiiine. and that’s it.

ETA: interestingly, the qualities that make them sort of hard to look at as paintings ALSO make them wonderfully challenging as jigsaw puzzles since you’re never quite sure where a particular piece should go without looking really carefully. that might be why so many americans have mostly consumed his work in the form of puzzles.

[theslipperiestbutt]

These paintings make me feel uncomfortable. I think it has something to do with the fact that my eyes have nothing to focus on, they keep slipping away from the painting and it is uncomfortable to look at. I don’t like it. The desat ones are actually easier to look at.

That could be all that is off-putting, but other than that, i find it oddly repulsive. I find it interesting that some people feel soothed by these paintings but hey, whatever floats your boat. 

I find this painting by Eva Wolf very soothing though

[heartcountry]

How do you deal with grief? I just can't stop the overwhelming feeling of it.

i'm muslim so the islamic perspective comforts me a lot. the idea that the person isn't gone forever, that my prayers are reaching them, that the love i have for them meets them where my hands can't. i was chosen to love them. i was chosen to lose them because God knew i would still make something of their love. but muslim or not, the point remains true. the love you had and still have for them is making the world a softer place. every smile you give a stranger. every bird you feed on your morning walk. every hug you give to someone who's still living. this is your greatest evidence. yes, someone loved me once. yes, they walked with me here once and i look for their footsteps still. yes, i dream them back all the time. yes, they made the world bearable, and i will too. ill do for others what they did for me with all the love they left behind.

[cannibalchicken]

[atombombtom]

As I grow older I feel my capacity to understand that Miss Piggy is not a real person reached a peak in my adolescence and is now on a steady decline. I watched a Wendy Williams interview and there's this part that's like "can we get a ring cam!" and Miss Piggy shows her bling and I'm just like fuck she's so iconic. Miss Piggy who are you wearing? Miss Piggy have you ever considered running for office??

[atombombtom]

Like literally every time I see Miss Piggy there's a period where I need to readjust to the fact that it's not a person, and I feel that period is getting longer and longer with every instance

[atombombtom]

now all my Youtube recommendations are filled with Miss Piggy interviews. I’m not complaining. Miss Piggy what’s your secret to ageing so graciously

[bigscaryd]

It's not just the audience; professional journalists, hosts, and actors report it is legitimately difficult to not see the Muppet as a person, and it is, in fact, incredibly easy to interview or act with them once the performer gets properly set up.

[redwaltz]

Like that one time they couldn't figure out why Kermit's audio was so garbage... then realized they'd put the mic on him instead of the performer.

[theglasscat]

If you watch a lot of Muppet media you'll see that there is an overarching story to all Muppet projects. If the Muppets are not playing characters, like in Christmas Carol, Treasure Island, The Great Muppet Caper, and Muppets Take Manhattan, they are playing themselves. In Great Muppet Caper and Muppets Take Manhattan there are fourth wall moments when they mention their "real" lives. All other Muppet media is about a troupe of actors who meet on a road trip, start on a small vaudeville variety type show, and gradually make it big. This narrative carries into talk show interviews, news clips, and the 2010s Muppet revival. The narrative treats them as real people and they have the status of beloved aging celebrities.

[willowcrowned]

I know people like to say that the reason Pippin was overly familiar with Denethor was just because of a difference in dialect, but personally I like to think that when Pippin heard ‘Steward of Gondor’ he went, “oh, like the Thain of the Shire” and proceeded to talk to him the way he’d talk to the Thain—which is to say, politely, but like an equal

[drunkenkurage]

No but like this is really funny tho. The reason hobbits invented the office of the Thain in the first place is because the northern kingdoms (Arthedain in particular, being the one the Shire was a part of) fell. Before that, the hobbit’s leader was the fucking King. 

“Afterwards in the peace that followed the Shire-folk ruled themselves and prospered. They chose a Thain to take the place of the King, and were content; though for a long time many still looked for the return of the King. But at last that hope was forgotten, and remained only in the saying When the King comes back, used of some good that could not be achieved, or of some evil that could not be amended.“

By the time Pippin and the War of the Ring roll around, the Thain has become a hereditary title of the Tooks. As in the current one is literally Pippin’s dad. Look at him as just some back-country halfling all you want, but from Pippin’s perspective, he has the exact same social standing as Boromir and Faramir.

[willowcrowned]

thank you so much for this very detailed correction. I really appreciate it. anyways:

Pippin, slamming open the doors to Minas Tirith: what’s up pops!

[pirategf]

spn really said men on their knees with bloody faces looking up at someone

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

I’ve often wondered if Supernatural, especially the more bro-y early years, doesn’t constitute kind of a masculine equivalent to those old-school bodice-ripper novels, where the author obviously wasn’t able to and/or interested in deconstructing the virgin/whore stuff, but also wanted there to be lots of sexy bits.  So you’d have these elaborate rape-adjacent fantasy set-pieces that were like, okay, Our Heroine and obviously You, Dear Reader are very good girls, but just like…IF you had no choice but to have rough sex with a pirate king…well, hypothetically, that would be…what? How would that go?  Kind of exciting, maybe?  Kind of like being given access to a part of you that you can’t fully admit you’d like to access?

Supernatural was very obviously always (at least in part) about the traumas of masculinity, its violence, its ruptured relationships, fathers who couldn’t take good care of their sons, sons who couldn’t live up to their fathers, brothers who would die for each other but would die before they’d say that out loud, the thrill of power and freedom and also the horror of having no one to turn to for help.  And there was so much of that bodily vulnerability – having your body invaded and violated, being driven to your knees, being forced to the point of blood and tears, it always seemed to me like there was a little edge of that same kind of fascination – not literally about sex, but erotic in how tangled up it was with the idea of submission.

Our Heroes and obviously You, Dear Viewer are very strong men, but just like…IF you had no choice but to be exposed and dominated by powers stronger than you…hypothetically, that would be…what?  How would that go?  Kind of cathartic, maybe?  Kind of like being free of something you can’t fully admit is a burden?

[spaceshipoftheseus]

Check just how much the men in Supernatural CRY. Especially Dean, but not just him. It’s the fantasy of being tormented enough to be allowed to feel your own pain without being a pussy.

Obviously you, manly viewer, would never REALLY cry. But what if…you were literally dragged to Hell. What if your only family in the world was killed in front of you over and over. What if you just couldn’t keep stoic any longer and cried your goddamn eyes out for a whole lifetime of hurts and no one laughed…and you were still the manliest murderiest hero on TV but you got to cry and scream why at the universe…that would be…pretty great, right, kind of a relief? What a crazy unrealistic demonic adventure, huhn…

[kenloganroy]

Okay, let’s do this one last time, yeah? For real this time. This is it. My name is Miles Morales.

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (2018)