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[banhmigoddess]

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

[rainrein]

love it when a location is evil. when a location fucking sucks. when intrinsically it is so bad and evil that it literally is in the air . this kinda works if its only something special can you imagine a parking lot being evil oooooh every time you park into me i subtly adjust my lines so that you're always slightly tilted

[plumknodel]

[howdoichangethis-deactivated202]

shut up im MLM fuck you

[slutty-satan]

IDC about your essential oils

[fortuneaday]

[alluringpetrichor]

✧ig @ rrebecahh✧

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[stuckinapril]

august is the month we gently steer ourselves back in the right direction as summer comes to a close

[stuckinapril]

Emphasis on gently!!!

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[antiqueanimals]

"Details of Collared Peccary"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[lightninggrave]

i really fuck with it when my oomfs start their posts in media res. they'll open it with a phrase like "it's just funny because..." and then i look at their blog to see what's funny and. nothing.

[aokozaki]

It's like how Beowulf opens with a call to attention.

[lightninggrave]

posting is exactly like beowulf

[dirtsnakes]

sometimes making tea is less about drinking it and more ab it keeping you company

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

[marsh-mallow-adopts]

WHAT?!

[triona-tribblescore]

I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3

[naamahdarling]

I use this and it’s fucken great. No bullshit. Really works. Sometimes the world is kind.

[indigosfindings]

so like, i had heard the thing about riverdale having a big 4-person polycule in the finale or whatever but i think i dismissed it as a joke and/or misrepresentation & just shoved it to the back of my mind but uhh yeah that happened for real. but theres something so funny about how it confirms that betty & veronica are like having sex with each other while pointedly (extremely pointedly in fact) avoiding saying ANYTHING about the archie/jughead situation. very loaded decision. theres something so obvious & cowardly about that (very funny cowardice from a show that has spent so long trying so hard to be Edgy)

[indigosfindings]

like i feel like this is a very Conscious decision you have to make & im extremely curious to know how they landed on it & who was pushing for it & who was opposed to it & so forth

[indigosfindings]

ok so even a cursory search confirms that im nowhere near the first person to observe this (no surprise! like i said, it's a glaring absence!) & in fact multiple people seem to be legitimately upset or disappointed about it.

there are two official statements on the matter:

first, in this variety interview sarah schechter (series producer & chair of the main production company) is quoted as saying: "i mean, that's, like, too hot for tv. i dont think there was a reason for it. i think there's a fantastic, fantastic amount of lgbtq representation on the show"

second: in this tvline article from about 2 months later, roberto aguirre-sacasa (showrunner of riverdale) is quoted as saying: "we hadnt even really laid even the barest seed of there being a romance between archie and jughead. not even a whisper of that... we hadn't really explored or even hinted at that, where we had with all the other couplings. (...) it was just like, 'is this a cheat if we do this?'"

so obviously irrespective of anything else a grain of salt is due, i dont think the veracity of statements made for press interviews is a given: the press interview is a specific context where speech has a specific purpose lol. schechter's answer in particular is a essentially a pr-inflected dismissal of the question (she also seems to be reading the topic as a matter of "whether or not there is queer representation in the show", which is pretty clearly beside the point).

aguirre-sacasa's statement is more interesting. like i said, it's literally not possible for the omission of jarchie (archhead?) from the finale to be literally anything other than a conscious decision, & aguirre-sacasa is directly acknowledging that here in unambiguous terms. more to the point though i find rationalizing the elision in terms of foreshadowing & setup kind of suspect for several reasons. most obviously: it is true that jarchie did not get as much foreshadowing as beronica (vetty?), but that's a somewhat moot point considering b/v only started getting substance within the final season. prior to that the only nugget was their kiss in the pilot episode (which was both diegetically & irl a non-romantic play for attention with no lasting significance), plus arguably the very brief moment in s6 where betty questions her sexuality. prior to s7 betty/veronica was no more substantiated than veronica/cheryl, or archie/kevin, neither of which featured in the final season. so if betty/veronica get to have a finale confirmation in The Quad Montage solely based on the amount of time season 7 spends teasing them, the question has to be: why not spend any time in season 7 teasing archie/jughead? if the quad was pre-planned then surely it wouldve been possible to do so (necessary, even, if we are to operate by aguirre-sacasa's avowed logic here)

ill grant that from season 3 onward, the production of the later episodes in each season overlapped with the airing of earlier ones, and as far as i can tell there's no publicly available documentation of when in that cycle scripts were being written: it's therefore impossible to rule out the possibility that the polycule idea truly only manifested late enough in s7's production for any jarchie foreshadowing to be genuinely out of the question. but even if that's true, i dont think it's half as weighty as aguirre-sacasa is construing it, because i dont accept the fundamental logic of his claims for two reasons

first: ok. archie/jughead hasnt been foreshadowed outside of one brief line in season 2 where the idea that they could someday kiss is playfully teased (which, again, is really not that much less than what betty/veronica had prior to season 7). but what *has* been foreshadowed (at length!) is the idea of archie being attracted to men. even if you disregard his entire thing with hiram in season 2, season 7 makes it explicit that archie is questioning his sexuality, depicts him getting turned on by gay porn & being perturbed when people around him invoke gayness as an insult, and teases the potential of something happening between archie & reggie. in light of that, and given the gestures the series has made toward the strength of archie & jughead's bond, i dont feel that there's insignificant support for giving the two of them an overt pairing in the finale: at maximum one or two explanatory lines would be required.

second: even supposing the last paragraph isnt good enough... when has riverdale ever cared about what has or has not been set up? a friend of mine has an adage that "each episode's writer isnt allowed to know about anything that happened more than one episode earlier". season 4 cliffhangs kevin running afoul of a dangerous underground ring of tickle fetish videographers (i swear to god i didnt make that up), & it's literally never acknowledged again. a few episodes before the finale we learn that ethel has entered a relationship entirely offscreen & is moving across the country with him. season 6 convolutes a reason why veronica & cheryl have to make out to save the world, complete with a brief-yet-grating debate about queerbaiting. the toni/jughead flirtation in season 2 deflates unceremoniously & at a lightning pace. fangs/kevin was teased before going unacknowledged for several episodes before the reveal that fangs/midge had been happening at length offscreen. most of kevin's relationships manifest out of thin air. bughead, one of riverdale's first major couples, was predicated on essentially nothing! saying that archie & jughead hooked up at some point during a 1-year timeskip would in fact be "cheating" less than several of the show's romances!

further to that: riverdale spent its entire run making plenty of decisions on the basis of shock factor or wow factor (including, let's be honest with ourselves, the polycule plot beat itself), & even (or especially?) in the absence of buildup, a jarchie confirmation in the series finale would more than qualify. imagine the screenrant headlines lol. in fact, aguirre-sacasa remarks, as quoted right after in the same article: "when I look back, wouldn't it have been great to just pop to kj and cole kissing? (...) i think everyone would've been up for it. i think cole and kj would've completely been up for it. who doesn't want to see that?"

so in light of everything, i just dont think 'we consciously chose to omit only one of the six possible pairings in a four-character polycule, fully aware that that omission would be glaringly obvious & unmistakably deliberate, because there wasnt sufficient buildup for that pairing' is particularly convincing as a recounting of a line of reasoning. obviously i cant prove that beyond doubt (& any speculation as to "an actual reason" would amount to theoretical guesswork), but my suspicion is that aguirre-sacasa's statement is either an optimized pr line or an effort to rationalize (willfully or unconsciously, ad hoc or premeditated) something that played out at least slightly differently

(before im somehow misconstrued: none of this is an effort to problematize failure to "canonize a ship" or whatever: this is an effort to make sense of what was clearly a conscious choice)

[decamarks]

AFTER NEARLY 19 YEARS OF THIS STUPID WEBSITE

[blowery]

also, on web, we just launched an advanced search dialog that should help folks use all the new operators we added.

[sybilius]

So true....

[t4tstarvingdog]

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

[entrailer]

sometimes you invent mind prisons for yourself for no good reason and youre like "i really like being in the mind prison" even though you dont actually like being in the mind prison

[immigrant]

bitches think they know what the post about whole time i was vagueposting my grandma

[palant1r]

the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

[palant1r]

[ms-demeanor]

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

@vividaway​ Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.

In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.

In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.

There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.

Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.

At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.

There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.

It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.

“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

And now, at long last, Fifteen Years:

[ms-demeanor]

The first time I reblogged this it was three years after large bastard's heart attack and quad bypass and one year after his transplant.

Now it has been five years since his transplant, and seven years since his bypass.

We went to see the eclipses and drove to see the aurora too.

[knitmeapony]

There's a lunar eclipse next week. Just in case you need one more beautiful moment of the universe.