Thought-Shavings

Bisexual, vegan, husband to the ever beautiful ThatVeganCosplayer & gigantic nerd. This tumblr is mostly reblogs but rarely one of my own projects will pop up as well.

[mahbonesmccoy]

Here's your dose of "The one with the Whales" ✨

Edited by yours truly.

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[uselessnocturnal]

[liberalsarecool]

So much judgment.

[marlinspirkhall]

A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

[taken-aurally]

It’s years before anyone explains it to him.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

[whetstonefires]

The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That's a word, it's his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they're putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.

It's fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.

Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.

[thesaltofcarthage]

Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).

And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.

The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down. 

Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city. 

And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families. 

There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride. 

[chemsexholmes]

people aren't willing to have open and honest discussions about sex horror sex bat sex horror sex vampire sex bat horror vampire sex. there's a stigma.

[morphimus]

stigma fangs in your neck LMAO

[seananmcguire]

Hi Seanan! I just ordered Every Heart A Doorway for my niece. She’s turning 14 this month and as something to put inside the cover (I’m the weird ancle that way), I’m wondering if you’d tell me: if you could go back to your 14-year-old self and tell her anything, what would it be?

"You will never get tired of your My Little Ponies. As you get older, you will only become more and more absolutely yourself, and you will get better and better at liking that person. You'll survive."

[youngalientype]

People will literally see a sage green building and be like "what if it was white" 🙄

[youngalientype]

People will literally see a unique little house and be like "what if it had beige vinyl siding" 🤢

[youngalientype]

People will literally see a gorgeous Victorian painted lady house and be like "what if we knock it down and make it a carwash" 🤮

[youngalientype]

People will literally decide to build a community center for their town and then be like "what if it looked like a prison" 👹

[youngalientype]

People will literally see a mom and pop store going out of business and be like "what if we had a 3rd Dunkin Donuts there" 💀

[youngalientype]

People will literally see a vacant lot and be like "what if we had 6th dollar store there" 🤑

[youngalientype]

People will literally see a 40 year old bowling alley and be like "what if it was storage units" 😵‍💫

[youngalientype]

[polskiebagno]

whoever came up with the idea of painting your nails was so fucking right.......

[polskiebagno]

kings. we owe them so much

[windupoperator]

women keep appropriating warrior male stuff like makeup and fucking ur homies

[1five1two]

Hippopotamus. Egyptian. 2040-1638 BC.

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Torino, Italy

Source unknown

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[meninfantasyart]

Timescape Illustration - Roland by Marton Adam Marton

[sandersgrey]

Unpopular opinion but literally not one person in the world should have their human rights violated

[sandersgrey]

If one person's rights can be waved away, so can yours

[cumaeansibyl]

yes, even those people.

[dappercyborg]

[chaotic-carnifex]

Fuck it, adding on: This is why it's frustrating to see criminal defense lawyers getting a bad rep.

The right to a fair trial is a human right. In practice, a fair trial necessitates a lawyer. This means that even if somebody committed the worst crimes you could possibly imagine, they still deserve a lawyer.

Somebody has to defend them as a matter of human rights. As one of my professors said, way back in my first semester at uni: "Everybody deserves to have somebody in their corner."

[assassinregrets]

nb the source of criminal defense attorneys getting a bad rep is always, always copaganda. same with the incredibly bullshit narrative of “if you didn’t do anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?” the purpose of both these terrible stupid pro-cop arguments are to deny you your legal rights. 

[iamchrissi]

Someone else said it very well here on this website:

A government whose people lose their rights once they become criminals has a very vested interest in making their critics criminals.

[doggirlpaws]

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

[rowark]

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

[lizluvscupcakes]

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

[onehandkilling]

Speaking of independently run websites, i think all horror fans should know about effedupmovies.com. they have almost every horror movie you can think of in director’s cuts with subtitles

[skullchicken]

Random socializing tip: Tell people when they’ve had a positive impact on your life!

e.g.: “Hey, remember when I asked you for advice on X? That was really helpful, I tried it and now (insert what has improved)”

“You kept gushing about (insert series/book/movie/recipe) and made it sound really appealing, so I checked it out and I really liked it!”

“Thank you for letting me vent recently, telling you what bothered me really helped me to work through it / helped me see it from another perspective / gave me the courage to address it with the person I was talking about.”

It helps people see their own strong points, it deepens your relationships, it makes the people in your life feel appreciated and special and it can give you warm fuzzy feelings!

Win/win all around!

[oak23]

I hope im not just a blog you follow but also the only person with 100% correct opinions about the little mermaid

[balljointsandlace]

Dish those opinions, let's hear it

[oak23]

My biggest issue is the absolute ice cold take of "Ariel gave up her life/voice for a boy" when the film repeatedly shows Ariel was preyed upon by Ursula. She was exploited and stalked by the literal antagonist of the film into making a really bad decision, especially when Ursula knew Ariel was at her most emotional and the least unable to reach out to her support network.

And the deal Ariel made was meant to be an impossible task that she was tricked into taking AND STILL Ariel was smart enough to almost achieve it if Ursula wasn't playing dirty and directly interfering in with it all.

Ariel was absolutely a victim of manipulation and circumstance, and people who use this as an irredeemable flaw in her character act like they got big brain energy when their brains are smooth as fuck.

[dollsahoy]

(not to mention she was 16)

[prismatic-bell]

Also?

URSULA is the one who says Ariel’s doing it all for the guy.

According to Ariel herself, what she wants is:

—to be where the people are

—to see dancing and walking

—to ask her questions about the human world and get answers

—to not live in the ocean

—to be part of the human world

—to explore the human world

WHERE DOES ERIC COME INTO ANY OF THIS?!

She wants to see a world she isn’t able to see! She wants to have adventures, not a boyfriend! What the hell!

[aqueerkettleofish]

I would argue that she was totally fine with the boyfriend, but Ursula was the one who forced it to be a priority.

AND ANOTHER THING

Her first impression of him is a dude who is both attractive, capable, and willing to jump back on to a burning ship to save his dog.

Later, dude climbs aboard a SHIPWRECK that's caught in a WHIRLPOOL so that he can RAM IT into a 150-foot-tall MAGIC SEA MONSTER in order to save her.

It's not like girl was settling.

[explorerrowan]

Ariel is a field anthropologist. That she happened to fall in love with a member of the culture she was studying isn't exactly a problem.

[wordswithkittywitch]

#Do people give Milo Thatch a hard time for giving up everything for a girl?#no because not enough people have watched Disney's Atlantis#but that's a secondary problem via @thebestworstidea​

Leaving gold in the tags agin, I see.