[feminismandmedia]

[diamndogs-deactivated20240402]

cloudy with a chance of meatballs was extremely advanced but the world wasn’t ready for it

[diamndogs-deactivated20240402]

it’s an extremely funny kids movie, the animation is incredible, it’s an interesting concept, the main character is an absolute icon, and those are things that i could go on about for a while but like… two things i wanna point out….

the whole movie is a metaphor for the consequences of screwing around with the planet and abusing its resources while wasting them. mayor shelbourne is literally a representation of corporate greed and self interest at the cost of both humanity and the earth. he says “bigger is better” and turns the town into a theme park attraction so he can make money and become famous, all at the cost of his people, who’ve been brainwashed into thinking that all the stuff that happens is positive and don’t think twice.

also, the female love interest, sam is fantastic. she’s an incredibly intelligent woman who was forced to dumb herself down because she wasn’t accepted as who she really was. she starts off the movie overriding herself whenever she says something knowledgeable and refuses to wear her glasses because she’s been told it makes her ugly (when she does wear what she wants, a coworker ridicules her on live tv and refuses to let her speak). she ends the movie by doing what she loves and her “princess transformation” is putting her glasses back on and putting her hair up how she actually likes it. she looks unconventional and she’s never put down by her companions about it.

also this guy looks like jake paul and it’s hilarious 

[emmacharlottewatson]

Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie by Harry Eelman for The New York Times

[arahir]

use comic sans to write

i hate this so much but this knowledge is too powerful to keep from you all.

last night @phaltu discovered that setting your font to comic sans in google docs improves writing speed and creativity by an insane amount. “no” i said and “die” but then i tried it and god. i wish it wasn’t this way. i wish it wasn’t true. i wish i could protect you all from this but it’s real. 

something about this font is so disarming. something about this font lets you look past the shape of the words and into their soul. i’ve never written so much as i did last night, on my phone, at 2am, in comic sans.

if you have writer’s block. if you lack inspiration. if you need this. don’t be afraid to use it. sometimes the things we find most horrifying are also the things we need the most. trust me. let comic sans into your life.

[arahir]

it’s true

[scottishcookie]

you know whats really good? 

when black cats are drawn like this

thats really good thanks for coming to my ted talk

[godisablckwoman-deactivated2019]

Keira Knightley when she’s offered projects that take place in modern day society

[theheartisalonelyhunter]

[troubleincorporated]

if you say the phrase “you can’t be mad at me i have the right to free speech” three times in a mirror justin mcelroy appears and vaporizes you instantly

[madqueensarah]

If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.

Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.

I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.

I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”

I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[hermiione]

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

[death-420]

tumblr mobile is a joke some1 add a pic im on mobile

[silascaptor-deactivated20210107]

I can’t help u m8 I am also on mobile

[death-420]

s-someone please add pics we’re on mobile

[hotvampireadjacent]

i’d love to help but i’m also on mobile sorry

[immentallydeficient-deactivated]

[egberts]

how in the fuck do i wrap this

[egberts]

do you think he’ll be able to tell what it is?

[striders]

idk i think the dinosaur paper kinda gives it away :/

[memewhore]

[zookeeperproblems]

Zoo job descriptions be like...

Looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! We need someone with…

The expertise of a curator

The experience of a manager

The knowledge of a scientific researcher

The flexible schedule of a recent college grad

Must have all of the above, plus:

The salary expectations of an intern

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

This is, unfortunately, pretty darn true. Like any non-profit field, the zoo world isn’t great about compensating employees appropriately for their time / labor / and expertise, but what’s I find truly frustrating about it is that rather than acknowledging that fact, most zoo folk end up talking about forced austerity like it’s an indicator of moral purity. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say, literally, that ‘you don’t work in a zoo for the money! that’s what second jobs are for.’ Wanting to be paid a living wage to work full-time in a keeper position at a zoo is something that’s considered almost inappropriate by the general industry - to the point that bringing it up is sometimes considered an indicator that you’re ‘not dedicated enough’ to the field. 

[briannacherrygarcia]

Thor grabs his depression hoodie and goes to the other Disney Princesses for company. They’ll hook him up with starbucks and listen to him vent.

[usbdongle-deactivated20200531]

italians invented pizza but the citizens of the US of A perfected it. ruined it. emboldened it. it’s iconic now. i cant tell you how many european tourists beg me to point them to a restaurant that doesn’t serve pizza. they’ve been on the road 10 days and had pizza 12 times. it’s nigh inescapable. a radical specter haunting the wallets and stomachs of the united states. a cheesemaggedon. a saucepocalypse. surrender to the tides of stuffed crust and you may yet survive

[swarnpert]

i didnot know what prose was until i read this post

[kaleidoscopekiller]