this gif is like... almost biblical. as if hes experiencing a pharaohs curse...
wtf were you gonna say
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this gif is like... almost biblical. as if hes experiencing a pharaohs curse...
wtf were you gonna say
Please respect my privacy
my deepest apologies
I forgive you
Anyway me when I suck that pharaoh good and hard through his scaramphigousus
Imagine I was calm and normal about things
^ guy drowning in blood
Soulmates Dialogue Prompts!!
â "I've been looking for you in every room I've ever walked into."
â "The universe decided this. I just showed up."
â "You feel like something I've always known and just found."
â "I don't believe in fate. Then explain you. Explain all of this."
â "We keep finding each other across every version of every life. I stopped being surprised."
â "You're my person. I knew it before I knew your name."
â "The bond doesn't care about timing or circumstance. Apparently."
â "I fought it. I want you to know I really genuinely fought it."
â "Every story ends with you. I've checked."
â "I was whole before you. Now I don't know what that felt like."
â "You make me feel like I was always supposed to arrive here."
â "Soulmates aren't always soft. Sometimes they're the thing that breaks you open."
â "I found you in the worst possible moment. The universe has no sense of timing."
â "I would find you in every life. That's not romantic. That's just fact."
â "You complete something I didn't know was unfinished."
literally nothing and i genuinely mean absolutely nothing in this world quite encompasses corporate detachment from the consumer quite like peggle_2_ode_to_joy.gif
upon its release to the xbox live arcade in 2009, peggle was THE top selling game for two solid weeks. within a month, more than 100,000 players were on the leaderboards. before it got to live arcade, it had been downloaded 50 million times.
and when it released for ios? holy fuck were they DROWNING in money. when they took a weekend to put the game on sale for a dollar, down from five, a couple months after release, they made as much in that one weekend as they did since its release. it was among the top paid apps for weeks.
with critics, peggle was among some of the top downloadable, mobile, and general best games of all time at the time of its release in 2007 and onwards, and it only shot up in popularity as they made it more accessible to more people. and this was in a time before candy crush.
the thing about simple addictive puzzle games is that they make you feel competent, confident, smart, and cool for being good at them. not everybody can learn how to aim in a shooter or the best strategy in an rpg. but anybodys grandmother or baby brother can play a simple puzzle game, and the nature of these games and the way they make you feel only makes you want to play more and more.
however very very fucking few people who play simple puzzle games that you can master on the toilet would be going to E3 in the early 2010s. remember in 2012 when every ~hardcore gamer~ would screech about âfake gamersâ who only play candy crush? thats what peggle was. it was THE crack mobile game from the pre-candycrush era.
no one who was excited about peggle was going to E3. the hundreds of thousands of people who played peggle were not the type of people who would consider going to (or even giving a shit about) E3.
but it sold like hot cakes, and candy crush was churning out content like a madman, and EA owned popcap now, so because the game sold amazingly, and because they wanted to keep cashing in on it, and because corporate drones who controlled the scripts didnt comprehend that their consumerbase isnt one homogeneous mass, they decided to announce peggle 2 at E3 2013.
but not just âoh by the way peggle 2â, no. peggle sold like skyrim, it sold like black ops, clearly they should be saving the best for last, they should announce it like it was the craziest most incredible announcement of the night!
thus:
but in all honesty it doesnt quite have the same impact without hearing ode to joy overtop of the deafening silence of the crowd. so heres a link too. timeless.
sorry iâm reblogging this again but this just makes me so fucking angry. this reminds me of those dudes running game of thrones who had virtually no experience and were allowed to just. treat a multimillion dollar franchise as their little fuck-around-and-learn-about-tv sandbox. why are white men with no credentials allowed to get away with this over and over again while the rest of us have to fight tooth and nail for literal crumbs. i fucking hate the entertainment industry
tfw you realize you put more thought into your self indulgent fanfic in middle school than someone in charge of a multimillion dollar franchise that employs thousands of people and is watched by millions.
been sort of obsessively combing through articles and websites and resources about top surgery and recovery more and more as I gear up to My Big Day and while I hate to report I may have gotten through most of the scientifically rigorous and reputable sites I am at least, now, stumbling over some of the funnier AI generated slop images i've ever seen in my quest for Patient Information
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no offense, but what was the point of that cool older lady character in Spirited Away
except, you know, to make me question my sexuality at 12 during midnight rewatches as I looked at her weirdly pretty mouth and had Questions
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me, falling in love with every woman I see whose purpose is to eat and be pretty:
#her and Ursula from Kikiâs Delivery Service#the archetype is âlesbian who accidentally adopted this childâ
I mean, Iâm pretty sure Lin is supposed to represent what Chihiroâs future might be like if she accepted her role in the bath house and didnât try to maintain her own identity and values. Sheâs not a bad person, but sheâs hedonistic to exactly the extent that the bath house culture allows her to be as an employee and has no ambition beyond the system of favors, bribes, and petty intimidation between low-level workers. Sheâs traded her individuality and opportunity to better herself for the security of predictable exploitation and she doesnât seem to regret it.
I donât think itâs a coincidence that Lin is the only other major character who looks human throughout the movie - Iâm not certain she started out human, but I suspect she may have, and may have fully traded away her humanity. I do think itâs significant that she, unlike Chihiro and Haku, doesnât reclaim her name at the end of the story.
She doesnât want her independence or identity back. Her purpose is to eat and look pretty.
Alternate interpretation: I always thought Lin meant to be a comforting presence.
Sheâs the first bathhouse worker who is kind to Chihiro, helping her get her clothes and navigate her first work assignment and sneak food. One of the core themes of Spirited Away is finding your footing in a new and terrifying place, and Lin and Haku are key allies in Chihiroâs struggle to gain the skills and self-assurance she needs in order to thrive.
Linâs human appearance helps us and Chihiro feel more sympathetic towards her . Her familiarity with the system of favors and bribes makes her appealing as a role model who can demystify Chihiroâs new environment for her. Unlike the more inhuman occupants of the bathhouse, Lin looks like someone Chihiro could become in the future, and thatâs a good thing! Sheâs living proof that the bathhouse is not such a monstrous and scary place. Because Lin treats the bathhouse like home, Chihiro begins to see it as a home, too.
And once Chihiro starts to think of the bathhouse as her territory, she realizes that she has agency in this place as well. She uses its rules to her own advantage to free Haku and herself.
And that is the point of Chihiroâs journey in Spirited Away: itâs a metaphor for starting over in a new place and overcoming fear of the unfamiliar. After all, the frame story is Chihiroâs family moving to a new city. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro is despondent, unhappy to be leaving her old friends behind. By the end, after making it through the spirit world, sheâs taking a much more active role in helping her parents settle into their new home.
TLDR: Lin is there to be Chihiroâs friend.
These theories coexist really well, I think. Lin has accepted her place within this system, and thatâs given her the confidence and experience to be a mentor for Chihiro. Because she knows the system, she can make things a little better for Chihiro.
Because Chihiro has a mentor and friend, she learns how to survive and even do well in the Bathhouse. Itâs because of Lin that Chihiro is able to not accept her place within this system and instead fight back, and in the end to make things a little better for everyone.
Thereâs something there about community, and easing the path for those who come after you. Lin doesnât regret her choices because they were the best choices she could make, and thatâs okay. Itâs not a tragedy. She got as far as she could get, and because she did, sheâs there to help Chihiro get farther.Â
And isnât that what weâre all here for, in the end? To go as far as we can, and then give a hand up to those coming after us? Itâs never a tragedy when children can go farther than their mentors ever could. Thatâs a triumph.
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man, I could really go for some blorbos in a situation right now
"you couldnt make seinfeld today" you couldve made seinfeld in 45 B.C.
kramer: *barges in* *crowd cheering* jerry! caesar just made himself dictator perpetuo!
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in case anyone is missing the sheer beauty of this french pun, in english it says "ominous" but broken up like a separated head and body - but in french "o minous" means "oh kitties"
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