There's always time for soup

25, He/They, Kommunistisk ubåtråner, back from a long journey, formerly moiraine-damodreds-kesiera.

[raptorific]

Not to make a Christmas Post but Santa did everything right re: the Rudolph situation and every time I see some edgelord slander talking about “the lesson of Rudolph is that your differences will be punished until the powers that be find them useful” I just assume that person is a little thick and misunderstood a song written to be so simple babies can understand it

[raptorific]

One of the most basic things they teach you in Teacher School is that if you know a kid is being bullied, bringing all the other kids together and scolding them for being mean and excluding That Kid is a great way to escalate it from “they don’t let this kid play with them” to “they are beating up this kid.” If you actually want to address the problem, the other kids can’t know they’re being told what to do. A good way to address it is to create a situation where the bullied kid gets to be the big cool hero in a way that benefits everybody, then put the bullied kid in that situation and let them save the day. Santa, in “Rudolph,” is essentially doing the same thing that any teacher does when they have a class jeopardy game with a pizza party riding on it, and give the last question to the weird kid who’s bullied for being super into anime, and that question happens to be about that kid’s favorite anime, and they get it right, and now EVERYBODY gets pizza, thanks to Anime Kid! Creating a situation, among a community of christmas-loving deer, where christmas can only happen because of the thing that’s special about Rudolph, was literally LITERALLY him intervening on Rudolph’s bullying. Do you think Santa, an immortal time-bending elf-saint who is sanctioned by god to monitor the children of the world and deliver them toys, is unable to navigate a foggy night? You really think his offering Rudolph, an untested rookie, the glamor post was an act of last resort? Do any of you know ANYTHING about Pedagogy or Classroom Management? These are deer. BABIES understand this song.

[pigcatapult]

I mean, I actually don’t know anything about classroom management. Thank you for explaining! I feel better about that song now.

[kilrosk]

[moofahdrome]

[valtsv]

haters mad because they paid $100k for a fast car while it cost me nothing but time and patience to tame and form a bond with an enormous winged beast that loves me

[valtsv]

haters seething because their girl would rather ride with me on dragonback with her arms wrapped around my waist than in the passenger seat of their lamborghini

[baradragon]

if i touched a bag of fentanyl i would jump with joy and childlike wonder

[bodysnatcher4ever]

do people know about the foundations of decay

[bodysnatcher4ever]

you MUST fix your heart and you MUST build an altar where it swells

[shirtsthatgohard]

[girlballs-archive]

the thing about AI art is there's a whole- wait. did you guys hear that

oh shit heimdall just sounded the gjallarhorn to signal the arrival of naglfari

[spacedoutsheepy]

an interesting part of migrating to tumblr and learning its culture is figuring out by clues how bloggers announce that they don't give a fuck about whatever issue of the week is happening and don't want to get wrapped up in the discourse. If that's indeed what this means idk

[rabbitindisguise]

that's very close, it mostly signals that the awareness of the discourse has reached critical mass on people's dashboards and folks are parodying the most common popular posts. Kind of like a clown routine making fun of other clowns when they're not looking, except everyone can see it and hits reblog anyways. There's a whole category of post that makes fun of the discourse of pet ownership that's like "lumberjack is an invasive species in hardware stores." Self aware humor is the vibe. Don't worry it's easy, just use form without the original context like

"learning about tumblr culture like" *spins roulette wheel* "running outside and touching grass all the time"

"actually that's not quite true because" *spins roulette wheel* "most tumblr users don't know what outside is nevermind how to touch things"

it's also a subtle jab at the original conversation being really dumb. It's not about not commenting or participating, it's PVP. You've just entered an attack zone, anyone can jump in on this conversation and own you or me or both of us at any time. It's great.

[girlballs-archive]

what are y'all talking about can we Please focus on the fact that the sons of Muspel literally just destroyed the Bifröst

[hauntedchronicler]

its really really fucked up that people in the global north think? assume? are told? that the ozone hole closed & went away forever & isnt a problem anymore

the ozone hole closes and opens every year and at no point has it stopped. 2020 was one of the worst years on record for both size and length of opening. there has been a trend downwards over the last decade, but the ozone hole absolutely didnt stop being a problem. aotearoa and australia have the world's worst rates of skin cancer. (australia's number is higher overall, but aotearoa is higher per capita.)

i dont really have any kind of moral to this post just please be aware that the ozone hole is very much still a problem and not something you can put in the 'solved' basket. it still massively affects the lives of people in the far south and the idea that it's permanently closed is false.

(please do not ask me any followup questions i am not some kind of scientician im just a guy who got sunburned through jeans one time on a long car trip)

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

Most-SHOCKING Moments on Worst Cooks in America | The Food Network

[saywann]

Ok

[legitimatelala]

Bad cooking shows bring me LIFE

[nell043]

The idea of crawfish in a mortar and pestle is so uniquely awful

[jackass-scientific]

the humble cuckoo bird... inventor of cuckoldry, mentally ill and a trained assassin from birth... she's everything

[biggaybunny]

Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.

[oliviawebsite]

this reply is killing me

[obstinatecondolement]

I might just be incredibly tired, but hot take: Michael Bublé's cover of Santa Baby "Santa Buddy" is the closest he has come to making an artistic statement. Like. He doesn't write his own solos: someone else writes them and he learns them off and as such he's widely disparaged by jazz musicians. But at least in Santa Buddy... he's saying something original. What he's saying is "I am absolutely Not fucking Santa" but it's something. It's a take on the work that is his own. And it makes me absolutely furious, which is An Emotional Response To Art. Which is more than I can say about any of the soulless saccharine pablum that usually drips from his grinning maw. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[obstinatecondolement]

Reblogging in honour of hearing Santa Buddy played in McDonald's the other day and once again becoming obsessed with the artistic choices of Mr. Michael Booby.

[axetofall]

I mean yeah I carry a sadness that exhausts my will to live like a leach on my heart but I’m basically fine

[catchymemes]

[orlyofhousesnark]

[leashamariel]

Do people know this is the husband of the prime minister of New Zealand

[creekfiend]

And who is the guy burying him in the sand

[solardrake]

don't cry. tesla stock down 60% okay?

[eveydeevey]

Perks of being without sin:

Free to cast stones just whenever

[noelle-ism]

Ties a string from a quarter to my finger and puts the quarter in a soda machine but I get sucked into the Vending Machine and discover a delightful world full of soda-mining dwarves and I never come out because I'm so happy now

[noelle-ism]

I'm married to a dwarf with a like green beard and his name is "Sucrose"

[noelle-ism]

I would but there's currently a war between the creamy soda dwarves (cream and root beer) and the citrus soda dwarves (sprite mtn dew and Sierra mist) and Sucrose is literally fighting for his life while I watch wistfully out my cave window, praying he'll come home and we can continue our quiet life together. So it'll take a few days.

[tumbwr]

ok! no rush take your time. i appreciate you

[orion-the-onion]

the initial post was posted 8 hours and 2 minutes ago, so yes, yes it can be young.

[noelle-ism]

Actually I lied about when this post was made and it was made 5 years ago