Concerned citizen

[kuropin]

I have no mouth but i must bicker (continuing from the previous drawings)

[wern]

my family used to have this sort of abstract watercolour painting up in our dining room, it was there as early as i can remember, and i always hated it. one day when i was like ten my mom came up to me, and i guess handed me something but i dont remember what, and she was like “can you put this on the shelf, by the bird painting?”

and i was like “..the what?”

and she was like “the painting of the bird on the branch. can you put it there” and she pointed to the abstract painting

and i was like “how is that a bird”

and she said “well what do you think it is?”

and was like “it’s a beached whale with a giant eye, blowing blood out of its blow hole onto the legs of a guy who’s running away”

..and i guess my mom thought that was like funny or weird or something so she told my dad about it, and he immediately said “oh, you mean the reindeer painting?”

since you guys wanted to see it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your parents are wrong that’s a whale

[cynicaesura]

okay so this painting is “Reindeer Nights” by Peter Kitchell and it’s one of a set of four paintings that go together so I thought maybe seeing the whole thing would help but

it doesn’t

[ritavonbees]

now it’s.a fucking stingray

[archatlas]

Really Big Coin Skrekkøgle

This is our Really Big Coin. It is big because it makes other things look small when photographed next to it. Actually, it is a 20:1 replica of the EUR 50-cent, you see it being milled out here. We needed to do quite a bit of sanding, lacquering and smudging to obtain the desired look and some climbing to get into required shooting position (you need to get up real high to take good pictures). The result is a short series of photographs, attempting to visually scale down real-sized objects.

Images and text via

[aberrantkenosis]

what the fuck

[wittyusernameonline-deactivated]

[nyancrimew]

wow my tweet on my dash

[justsomeectoplasm]

The context:

[gooobifer]

kitty kins fucking obliterated in the comments section of a knitting video

[space-feminist]

"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

[gatherround]

how i hope this conversation goes from there is like:

"actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010 and the original song was written in 2006"

"so she knew about the wall 10 years before Trump proposed it be built?"

"well, let's talk about that...

...but that wasn't when the wall was first built...

...this shift in the '90s marked the start of an enforcement philosophy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which basically says that if crossing is made more deadly, fewer people will cross (fact check: it just means that more people die on the journey). From the start, the purpose of the wall was not to physically to stop people from crossing -- it was to make it more deadly to do so.

...and we can also look at the song metaphorically and expansively, as a reference to the policing of migration, to company towns, to gated communities, and the physical and metaphorical walls that throughout history have kept people in and out and defined who does and don't belong.

Sources: 1 & 2 / 3 / 4"

"...how did you just say a hyperlink?"

"why worry about that when you can use this show as an entry-point into a deeper understanding of capitalism's investment in coercive control over human migration, and its long history in the United States?"

"so the song only seems prophetic because the long history of policing and militarizing the border has been ignored, and treated as an outsider position by Trump rather than the continuation of bi-partisan policy dating back decades? and it can be seen to reflect larger patterns of capital controlling people's movement in order to extract land, labor, wealth, and ultimately life from them?"

"and the song slaps"

"....and the song slaps"

[the-seelie-court-official]

thank you so much for this well-researched response tho because, as a texan, the very concept that trump invented the idea of the border wall made me kinda. reboot. not mad at op! just surprised at the difference in our life experiences

[mysharona1987]

[okiitos]

Rescue professional here:

If you need rescuing or help, DON’T FUCKING MOVE. You are so much easier to find when you stay put.

[thegreenpea]

Credits: @foxes-in-love

Your most important survival skill is asking for help

[existential-dread-in-the-am]

Goddamn preach this

[rogue-cyberman]

"Your most important survival skill is asking for help." THIS, it makes me so damn pissed off when parents try and normalize that asking for help is a taboo thing!

[isthescavengervideocute]

This feels important to reblog

[homunculus-argument]

I am sooo tempted to get Warhammer books as french translations, read them as my way to start re-learning french with a translator at one hand and a dictionary at the other, and develop zero grasp between what vocabulary is regular french and what is Warhammer, and if I ever encounter a native speaker I give them psychic damage.

[thelordanubis]

“Tourist talks in passable French but sounds like a Space Marine” would probably be a new one for Parisians

[homunculus-argument]

Would it be better or worse than orks? Or better yet, necrons?

[xaira-gabvi]

I mean that's basically how I learned English so I'd say it's fair game

[homunculus-argument]

I am motivated to learn french for the same reason I learned english: they won't learn my language to understand me, and I'm chewing a hole through the language barrier to bite them.

Also it also just occurred to me that I can change the language on the online magic the gathering app to french. Time to relive how it felt like to play english games as a child with no idea what any of the text says.

[homunculus-argument]

Modify this dick you losers. I'm coming for your ass.

[beastofthebog]

High moment of my French career came when I was in France and realized I knew how to say things like “airstrike” and “platoon” but not “can I sit here” on the train. Highly recommend language learning through sci fi media it’s very entertaining.

[homunculus-argument]

I love when people make do with whatever random vocabulary they have. I once was in a pub in spain and was asked if I have a girlfriend. I had neither the desire nor the words to explain that I'm gay, so I raised the pint I was holding and said "I do not need women. This beer is my wife."

[homunculus-argument]

Another interesting observation from playing magic in french: the cards address the player as "vous". I cannot explain in english why that kind of polite word choice is interesting. But I can in finnish.

Mtg:n kortit teitittelee pelaajaa.

[wheelie-sick]

hello my wonderful incoming disabled college students I have message for you:

you have hopefully gotten your college acceptance letters and have decided where you're going next semester. if you have an accommodation that you absolutely must have by the beginning of classes it is time to schedule an appointment with the department that manages your accommodations now.

at the beginning of the fall semester there is a rush to get accommodations that can push appointments back for weeks. if, say, you can't understand your lectures without an interpreter you need to make sure that accommodation is planned out by day one.

be prepared with the documentation for your disability at your appointment. it will save you time and additional appointments.

Email template:

Hello,

I am an incoming freshman at (college) who needs to set up accommodations for the fall semester. I have (disabilities) and I need (accommodations) before the start of the semester in order to access my classes. I was hoping to set up a meeting to discuss getting these accommodations.

Thank you,

(Name)

send this ^ to the department at the college you plan to attend that manages accommodations. their email should be able to be found on their webpage. if you have an email with your college set up (you should) then use that email to send this message. they might not respond to other email addresses.

[wheelie-sick]

It is running very close to the start of the semester for many colleges! If you have not done this already then start this process now before you are stuck going the first month without your needed accommodations

Some lovely folks also pointed out that some colleges and universities require accommodations to be renewed for every semester so if that describes your college then I would also recommend setting up a meeting for your accommodations specialist sooner rather than later.

[upandoutcomic]

Wait wait don't help me I'll figure it out eventually, just gimme more time to study

[beemovieerotica]

despite being beemovieerotica i have not seen you write or talk about writing bee movie erotica

for the last time i'm never going to write bee movie erotica

[beemovieerotica]

wait what the fuck i write so much davy jones yaoi. did we body swap

[pointless-achievements]

Achievement Unlocked:

Erotic Serendipity

This is like a tanner named Smith meeting a smith named Tanner. But for obscure porn niches.

[average-transfem-robotgirl]

>When I'm a [BAD GIRL], they put me in the [ROOMBA] maid chassis. [>_<]

>In other [NEWS], uhmm, [SWEEP SWEEP]ing your dishes. [^_^]

[bunjywunjy]

[asteronomical]

gracerocky wherein grace accidentally performs an eridian mating ritual by giving rocky a friendship bracelet... rocky puts it on quietly but internally hes SCREAMING. "grace not know meaning, grace not know meaning, rocky no think about mating with grace no no no bad bad bad—"

[digitalmyyth]

Sorry I drew this instead of just drawing Grace in a dress. I think trying to understand how weird humans are about clothing would b really annoying

[likelightinglass]

Hey I was so inspired by this I wrote a fic :) Let me know if youre okay if I link this post in the work

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89295531

[wavezies]

(rocky voice) human atmosphere too cold even through xenonite insulated suit! let rocky in grace skin! does grace want rocky to almost freeze to death again, question