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this is the glossary of english-language idioms derived from baseball and if you're american, even if you have never interacted with the sport in your entire life, you're gonna be blown away by how many regular everyday phrases we say that actually come from BASEBALL.
everything is about baseball except for sex, which is baseball
leverage is great because it makes real commentary on actual problems and the people behind the scenes do seem to genuinely care about those problems but also it's a show where they faked an alien abduction and one of the main characters sent another character plot-relevant petplay magazines. it's a show where one of the lines from the original finale still haunts me with how true it ultimately is--"justice or order. one day, you are going to have to make that choice"--and it's a show where there's an office parody episode that involves the same character who said that insisting in a straight-to-camera interview that he "loves foreplay." they solved the DB cooper case one time. it rules
This photo is how it feels when you are about to talk about your hyperfixation to friends/family
excerpt from “The Book of Delights” by Ross Gay (transcript under the cut)
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Sea turtle launches attacks on a scuba diver cleaning his tank only to be foiled time and time again.
not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker
While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.
Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.
Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.
The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.
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*giant wind gust outside*
Me: “Don’t say it.”
My Brain:
Can I watch a great film knowing the actresses in it were terrorized and mistreated the entire time? Can I watch a football game knowing that the players are getting brain injuries right before my eyes? Can I listen to my favorite albums anymore knowing that the singers were all beating their wives in between studio sessions? Can I eat at the new fancy taco place knowing when the building that used to be there got bulldozed eight families got kicked out of their homes so they could be replaced with condos and a chain restaurant? Can I wear the affordable clothes I bought downtown that were probably assembled in a sweatshop with child labor? Can I eat quinoa? Can I eat this burger? Can I drink this bottled water? Can I buy a car and drive to work because I’m sick of taking an hour each way on the subway? Whose bones do I stand on? Whose bones am I standing on right now?
On one hand, it’s a privilege to be able to choose to acknowledge these horrors or not–we’re going to acknowledge that privilege. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because it’s a desert and there’s only salt water all around, but we’re contributing to pollution and all of these things…
And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of “activist guilt.” I couldn’t remember the exact words, but, it was the first time I’d heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders.
We do what we can. It’s so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we can’t do it perfectly. It doesn’t benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. I’d just joined tumblr back then (haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than I’d ever been before (I was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me.
As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil.
I usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use those…), it’s exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, it’s what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isn’t going to change the whole system from the ground-up.
… it went on about how “money talks” and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach.
Of course, I’d still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and I’ll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now it’s not as black and white or easy as I thought it was.
This is the same reason that moral purity “you can’t enjoy [x] because it’s Problematic ™” is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. There’s something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies we’ve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don’t beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.
No one can. You’ll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you’ll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.
Have a related article with self-care tips for activists.
Purity is one of the worst, most harmful myths humans ever invented.
Rebloging for this amazing reply telling us how to actually handle this, because yeah, sometimes I’ll simply shut down trying to find something that doesn’t cause harm to anyone
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
Something I realized recently:
You have a finite supply of time and energy. You could spend every last bit of that making sure you never consume anything even remotely unethical. At the end of the day, the only thing that has changed is that you feel better about yourself.
Alternatively, you could say “fuck it”, consume what is easily available, and spend all of that energy instead working to actively change the systems that only make unethical consumption an option in the first place.
Don’t be “pure” or “perfect”, be effective
If you atomize your actual influence by trying to achieve purity you are going to fail as it always has.
Coyote fact ? Coyote facts ? A crumb ? Plwease ? Coyote ?
coyotes are naturally social animals, but their pack structure is a LOT looser than wolf packs are and so it's not at all unusual to see a coyote living and hunting alone!
but what IS unusual is that these lone coyotes will sometimes partner up with other animals for hunts who are... definitely not coyotes.
not even canines, in fact!
yeah that's right, sometimes a coyote will straight up find a fucking american badger and decide, HEYYO, it's the Burt to my Ernie! the Frog to my Toad! the Jelly to my crunchy-style Peanut Butter! let's go kill something together, new best friend.
and then they do.
the way it works is that the odd couple will find a group of burrowing prey animals, like ground squirrels or prairie dogs, and start digging them out of their holes.
the prey is confounded- if they break out of their holes and flee, the coyote will use its superior speed to run them down, but if they stay put, the badger is just going to pry them up out of the damp earth and eat them anyway!
WHAT'S A POOR GROUND SQUIRREL TO DO.
nothing. they just get eaten. badger/coyote duos are FAR more effective hunters than either animal could hope to be on its own.
They really should teach people how to cook in school.
This was physically painful to watch.
So anyway, uh…. ✨H E R✨
being queer and seeing historical queer love is like a punch to the gut in a good way every time
crying and sobbing crying and sobbing etc
some more vintage photographs that make me weep and wail, now including trans people!
Given the way in-show fandom related things can be dealt with horribly I was genuinely choked up with how Leverage worked with it. Shows usually paint fans as pathetic, entitled, lunatic losers, think Comic Book Guy from Simpsons, or Mofftiss' outright mockery of Reichenbach Survival theorists in Empty Hearse. It's a huge fuck you to the people who keep shows on the air, and films in the box office.
Maybe it's because the producers and writers are massive nerds themselves, cramming as many Doctor Who or Star Trek references into an episode as they can, but the Leverage crew never went that route. Eliot makes fun of Hardison for liking so many nerdy things, but it's no different from how he makes fun of him for making bad beer or coming up with horrible menu options. And he engages with him over it. Hell, Eliot and Parker learned Klingon for their geek husband.
The Card Game Job, though? Damn, it really hit hard. I've been so used to shows flipping off fans that I was not expecting that ending. The climax was literally a creator being put in his place by a fan, talking about fandom as being a place of belonging for people who are neurodivergent, or queer, or otherwise looking for a community. It was never 'We're weird because we like this nerdy thing so much' it was 'We like this nerdy thing because we're weird and it speaks to us.'
I just got really choked up about a GNC lesbian kid talking about fandom being a welcoming space, okay?
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My mom has been thinking of moving sometime in the future, and she sent me a listing on zillow to look at, right?
And I’m like, “Oh cute, it even has a little in-law suite, that’s nice,” BUT THEN I KEPT SCROLLING AND
Um
UMM
EXCUSE ME???
oh, i am finally old enough to know why my parents took so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go only to sit down for another round of coffee. what would i tell myself, at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too. take in the extra hour with your friend and her family. when you get home, write down every moment in your diary. one day you will be older and you will be waving goodbye to your best friend, and you will turn the key to start your beat up little car engine, and you will look back over your shoulder. her hair will be blowing in the wind and she will be beautiful and you will be, for a moment, struck by all of it. what you will feel is so wide and nameless that it will engulf you. and you will think of being 14 and kicking her under the table in math every time you wanted to whisper something behind the teacher’s back. you will think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand whenever you wished, but you didn’t. and you will think about all of the people you could have lingered with. and you will wish, more than you have ever felt a wish, that the universe just gave you that - more time to linger. more time to say - i love you. i know i need to leave, but i don’t want to leave you. and when i go, i am leaving a piece of my heart that lingers too.
one more round of coffee. the days are so short, and you are so lovely.
“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” (mikko harvey)
the GRINCH X TONY THE TIGER Fanfic is live on ao3! hope this causes you all tremendous distress 😘
monthly subscribers can skip ahead to the next chapter
actual real things about this fic:
the Grinch is nonbinary & uses they/them pronouns
the Grinch is autistic
it takes place in the Jim Carrey movie universe, so the Grinch has two lesbian moms
(side note, in the movie it was implied the grinch was conceived at a swinger’s holiday party, but we don’t have to talk about that)
tony was a professional athlete who had a lucrative career appearing on cereal boxes
tony the tiger is divorced w/ kids
the Grinch is in therapy
I am sending this to all my friends gaud.
there are over 300 comments on the fic so far, and i’m reading all of them, and i have to say my favorite comments on the ones where people are sharing this with family and friends. sometimes out of spite, sometimes earnestly.
thank you for spreading me around like the invasive fungus i so truly am
I submitted it to my english teacher (our assignment was to find a well written work to share on the internet)
…I am absolutely frothing at the mouth to know your teacher’s response please
this is it
this was beyond my wildest dreams actually much thanks
UPDATE:
i am having the BEST month
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better:
i am now feral. i have gone feral. i am leaning a little pile of stick again a tree, soon i will nap beneath them, they will collapse on me during the next rainstorm
@gaynerd-simulator WHAT GRADE DID U GET????
