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sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

#menstruation

npdclaraoswald

A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was

#tumblr

sir-kettle-of-countertop

Windcatcher

Decided to paint the object of my thesis, common kestrel

#common kestrel #bird #falcon #raptor #kestrel #Art #Getting some red spot of Jupiter vibes

cheaphalloweencostume

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

#tumblr #meme #I don't know that I ever saw the original

64mpg

i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though

#;A;#Same

memehq2099

#I thought that said the kids are right #And that's true too

ellaandtheocean

Humpback whales breaching: gorgeous, majestic, graceful, embodies all the strength and beauty of the ocean

Minke whales breaching: I will launch myself out of this ocean like a f***ing surface-to-air missile to seek and destroy my enemies

gallusrostromegalus

I remember an interview with a guy that did the camera work for nature documentaries and he said that baleen whales like these guys were the scariest things to shoot because “They’re the size of a train, they can suddenly appear out of nowhere in dark or murky water and they don’t make a goddamn sound. I was absolutely sure that one of them was going to hit me and well, ‘that’s all folks!’. Gave me a lot of perspective on how I handle myself when filming smaller animals now.”

a-book-of-creatures

Fin whales breaching: sea serpent

fleshdyke

levitating minke whale

plaguedocboi

Sperm whale breaching: wjaht the fuck

necronatron

I have a feeling I have already shared this, but please, take the contribution of the northern right whale dolphin.

The humble eyebrow

#whale #photography

estrogenesis-vaporeongelion

where to upgrade social battery. where to buy larger social battery. how to attach multiple social batteries. how to hang out with all your friends without getting tired. how to hang out with everyone you wanna hang out with without burning out. infinite social energy hack. nap tips

estrogenesis-vaporeongelion

social battery rapid charger. social battery usable while plugged in. how to love everyone you love

#So often the culprit is Lack of Sleep for me

ridleey

The future is not that scary.

#suzume

eyeofgender

I watched Suzume again yesterday. Such a wonderful movie. It does a lot of genius stuff with its storytelling, imagery, callbacks and motifs, etc. But one thing I want to talk about is how it handles its world-ending stakes plot.

A lot of stories have world-ending stakes. It's... pretty common. Ending the world is like, objectively Bad in nearly every way a story could spin it. But the thing is, the World is very large. Too large. Too large to really comprehend. It makes it hard for the protagonist to actually care, and even harder for the audience, since we don't actually live there, and we don't know anyone outside of what the movie shows us. Sure, saving the whole world is the Objectively The Right Thing To Do, but I feel like a protagonist's actual motive for doing so a lot of the time is 'I have friends and family that live there.' Same reason for the audience cares too.

So Suzume sets the stakes lower. The threat isn't the whole world, its just Japan. The characters (just one character I think actually, the cat) do say, a couple times, that "the Earth will crack," but it really seems like the threat is localized to Japan. And with the threat hitting close to home, it actually makes the stakes a bit easier to comprehend, makes them feel more real.

But even then, Japan is still very large and has a lot of people we don't know or care about in it. So the movie makes us care. Throughout her journey across Japan, Suzume meets and becomes friends with several people. These people give her food and a place to stay and help her along her journey out of kindness and human connection. Whenever she seals a door, she hears the echos of those who once visited these places, small everyday moments. All these people will likely die if she lets the worm fall, and she knows it. And for the audience, we can't reasonably be there for Suzume's entire journey and see everything she does, so we're given a special view. In the moments before the worm falls, the scene flashes around, showing people all going about their daily lives, talking and working and playing and all these small nothing moments. We can see the shadow of the worm over them and the golden strings pulling taught around them, but all these people can't, they're just going about their normal lives with no idea what's about to happen. And it just feels devestating.

Despite being smaller in scope than the usual world-ending plotline, the stakes feel so much higher, because the movie so effectively made us care.

#Suzume