Curious Nonsense

I like to like things. Liking things makes for a pleasanter life.

[popsicleinferno]

let’s get on mama’s last nerve

[letsblogwithmama]

official mama post

[creatureprofessor]

i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession

[bitextualdisaster]

Went to a museum exhibit once that had this little guy

10/10, give me tiny replicas of animal statues that I am encouraged to pat as part every exhibit ever please

[sugar-petals]

i love how this screenwriter explains how to fix those bad, superfluously written scripts haunting media these days using “pirates of the caribbean” and its timelessness. key takeaways:

no moment should be wasted! (”script economy”)

trust the audience, they can piece it together

suspense is fine! waiting is important! let hints marinate, and don’t give it all away with exposition.

@screenwriterhusband on instagram

[drawnsnake]

POV you are Jack Sparrow

[veryfastnighuncatchable]

Nobody is doing it like pirates of the caribbean was doing it. The first movie spends 20 minutes introducing us to every main character, their thoughts on piracy, and how nuanced and fraught the subject is in port royal, and then proceeds to introduce the most pirate pirate to ever pirate

[kakastravakaianapoda]

shout out to potc character Bootstrap Bill Turner because if he did not have the galaxy brain idea to hide a cursed piece of gold from a bloodthirsty, vicious, immortal pirate crew by sending it to his defenseless child, non of the movies would have taken place the way they did.

Literally father of all time no further notes no further comments

[writerxwren]

Literally how this scene went 😭

[soundoftheirwings]

What vexes all men?

The sea?

Sums?

The dichotomy of good and evil?

Remaining time: 2 days 9 hours

[hayeseveryone]

Ah shit dude, this is fucked.

I'm talking to this guy in a prison cell, but the camera keeps framing me behind the bars and him without them, to show that he has all the power in this situation.

This is so messed up man, I thought I was the one with the upper hand here.

[lilyblisslys]

if I ever tell you “lmk what you think if you read/play/watch it!” I am firmly inviting you to send me a play by play minute by minute cataloguing of your thoughts about The Thing

[politijohn]

Source

This should never have been a thing

[janusfnc14]

WHAT. Wgat the FUCK

[dataandphilosophy]

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

[myfootyrthroat]

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

[bbcwhereareyou]

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

[silverstudios]

So- I was at work and had lullaby of the manifold in my head and realized- we have adis light, right? And assuming that Hunra wants that back??? And how ot reacts to that song?

I thinks we're gonna hear that mafia boss singing while hunting our operator for sport and having to hide between boxes or something.

[theterribletenno]

That's so hot

[janusfnc14]

An Ominous Reprise of that song whilst Hunra hunts us would be sososo cool

[thevictoriousone]

If I had a nickel for every game this year that takes a precious and beautiful song of love and care and then reframes it into something sinister and terrifying to taunt me

I’d have two nickels

[fiddlepickdouglas]

Why don't they make stained glass fish tanks? Give those fish Catholic guilt

[orcboxer]

fascinated by the implication that it's the stained glass that gives catholics the guilt

[luthqrs]

I FOUND THE. FISH CAN’T SIN POST.

[the-august-one]

I had to do it.

[fiddlepickdouglas]

I've been put in the tank 😔

[thistle-onions]

[narcissistcookbook]

these hips don't lie, and those hips don't tell the truth. how do you navigate out of this labyrinth

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

[chemsexholmes]

Unfortunately you will talk like a tumblr user for your entire life. Sorry.

[scribblyspaceskeleton]

[warriorsmurf]

Unfortunately your kids might also talk like Tumblr users. My daughter said "Get cherished, idiot" to her cat yesterday.