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Finally somebody else saw it too

radical-eirini-deactivated20210

not sure why people find this weird, both are made for the human sitting in them to be able to do so relatively comfortably for long hours. It just happens to be that ergonomics don't really change *that* much over the course of growing up.

kosmonin

Sorry its actually because gamers are little babies :/

return-of-the-french

Wrong that's bc we're all born as gamers but most are changed by society 😔😔😔

the2headedcalf-archive

i love letterboxd because there are so many lists that cater to very specific, yet somehow universal moods. here are my favorites:

120 lesbian films to watch before saying all lesbian cinema is the same

the absolute beauty in everyday’s mundanity

add spice to your romance

autumnal harvest - movies that give you that warm feeling of fall and its surroundings

befriending the lyrical loneliness…

candy cinema

chaos, loneliness, madness, and desapair in the apathetic world of capitalism

crises of childhood

distinctive films that fill the void when you’re lonely or completely destroy you when you’re happy

film recs: female character studies

films that are kind

girlhood

horror as a vehicle

melancholy as a breathtaking aesthetic emotion

movies where female friendships are the scariest concept on earth

“nothing happens” yeah but the vibes

quiet little female character studies

quietly brilliant

snuggly wuggly flicks for anxiety driven chicks

soft horror

two lost souls find comfort

what we talk about when we talk about love

expertpedestrian

tory power stance is still the funniest thing to come out of uk party politics in a long time

expertpedestrian

strangehorse

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

bemusedlybespectacled

nerdynbhuman

I feel like I need to talk about the random shit I know about this pose. As they paid a guy a lot of money to come up with a pose that’d make the important tories look POWERFUL and IMPOSING. And they guy came up with this, but it was only meant for photos of the torso up and none of them realised.

spank-the-villain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_power_stance

funny, funny article. “ The stance is believed to be intended to be a display of power and confidence. “

wondersmith-and-sons

how could you leave out the best part of that wiki entry

a-little-alien-called-bread

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

David Cameron literally did it in person at some soldiers once

procrastinosaurus-rex-deactivat

Okay, but @bemusedlybespectacled, have you seen the rest of that scene?

pokemontrainerwaluigi

So they slightly updated the wikipage…

doubleca5t

#Ah yes the UKs greatest cultural export….. The pussy out stance

Ahahahahah!

ok i am EXTREMELY impressed by the venn diagram

general-multi-fandom-chaos

i can't believe a bunch of grown men named Josh showed up to some random park with the intention of fighting each other and then let some four year old named Josh win. there's so much hope for our society.

blackpyrefly

today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

uzmashroom

Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats.

furrama

My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.

I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.

honey-fire

My dad was eating pistachios so I reached my hand out and he just started peeling them and giving them to me. Then suddenly went "I really hope you find someone who loves you a lot" and I went "enough to peel my pistachios for me?" And he laughed and said "yeah exactly" before carrying on giving me more

peopleareaproblem

The Raincoat

by Ada Limón

When the doctor suggested surgery

and a brace for all my youngest years,

my parents scrambled to take me

to massage therapy, deep tissue work,

osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine

unspooled a bit, I could breathe again,

and move more in a body unclouded

by pain. My mom would tell me to sing

songs to her the whole forty-five minute

drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-

five minutes back from physical therapy.

She’d say, even my voice sounded unfettered

by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang,

because I thought she liked it. I never

asked her what she gave up to drive me,

or how her day was before this chore. Today,

at her age, I was driving myself home from yet

another spine appointment, singing along

to some maudlin but solid song on the radio,

and I saw a mom take her raincoat off

and give it to her young daughter when

a storm took over the afternoon. My god,

I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her

raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel

that I never got wet.

jocknaruto-deactivated20210419

i know anti asian discrimination is on the rise and it’s been in the back of my mind ever since my dad warned me about going out on my own bc he knew some friends of his had got beaten up and so i try to be careful.

but now these shootings in atlanta make it so very real and in my face. i live pretty close there and it’s like my aunt who’s a nail tech goes there pretty often for supplies. idk i just need everyone to be aware of how bad this is getting.

lately i just see ppl completely brushing aside anti asian racism. you have no idea how many comments i’ve seen saying that asian ppl are basically white... it’s laughable bc we have never been treated as such. especially for me being a tan SE asian. it’s like ppl forget about SE and south asians who are very much being targeted as well. i don’t even know where i’m going w this! it’s just frustrating. idk do what you can maybe donate or smth especially since you guys heavily consume asian media like show up for us too not just for our culture

https://stopaapihate.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate

toastbutteregg

is this still relatable

oasischilde

Gail Albert Halaban: Paris Views, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery.

lavellanlove

So is it just me, or does every new owner of Tumblr getting announced feel like we’re getting a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?

shitslytherinssay

WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY AND ACCURATE

badassdemonsword

local-deadpoet-deactivated20260

i would love to carpe diem but i also have anxiety

billclintonwrotebackhewrotethej

vbartilucci

OK, just stop.

I’ll lay odds that a fair number of the people who decided to mock and pillory her “you can only have 30 books” idea (myself included) had no idea who she was, what nationality she was, or even what she looked like. Her name isn’t particularly obviously Asian, and it’s not like the various articles of comment specified her ethnicity in the headline, which let’s be honest, is all any of us read before w started crafting our comedy.

All I knew was there was another tidiness guru trying to tell us to simplify.

And Henry David Thoreau notwithstanding, the whole modern minimalist movement is aimed at the wealthy. They’re the ones who make claims like “You don’t need to have all these plates, just keep a few, and if you’re having a big party, buy more”. It all centers on the idea of you’re rich enough not to have to hang on to all this stuff till you need it, you can just buy more.

Well,no, sorry, that ain’t the case. And so us poor and middle class people hang on to that half a bottle of antibiotics we didn’t finish, cause they cost money, and maybe the next time we get sick we can take those and save the cost of going to the doctor.

And we keep all those books and DVDs because, again, they cost money, and maybe we won’t watch that movie again for a couple years, but we don’t have the money (or the interest to spend the money we have) to throw it out and buy it again when we want to have it, just so we can have room on our shelves for one more Longaberger basket filled with potpourri.

So put your faux offense away, stop trying to get us to apologize for things that weren’t even under consideration, and let us have our rage about one more person who telling us to get rid of our stuff.

She’s not out Mom, and neither are you.

thisloveforyourmom

You just admitted that you have no idea what her philosphy is.

First of all, she never said “you can only have 30 books.” She said that if having BOOKSHELVES UPON BOOKSHELVES of books sparks joy, leave it be. HER PERSONAL bookshelf has 30 books.

Secondly, Marie Kondo’s advice has NEVER been about getting rid of plates and dvds for the sake of having less. Plates have use. They spark joy by being there when you need them. A DVD or a book sparks joy for a poor person because it’s there, and you don’t have to spend any more money than you already did for a little R&R. Antibiotics, under her philosphy, would spark joy for you the same way as plates: by being there when you need them (even though your stance on antibiotics is medically unsafe and dangerous for both you and those you meet AT BEST).

You obviously don’t know shit about Marie Kondo because if you did, you would know that she literally isn’t anything you described. Her method is tailored to the person she’s helping. If you can find any reason an object is useful to you, including “it makes me feel secure to know its there” or “i cant afford another one so i need this one” you keep it. The fact that you hate her so much is a product of you buying into the media shitstorm that has surrounded her and distorted her message.

Kondo isn’t trying to tell poor people to eat off of one fucking plate and own one plant and thats it. She’s helping hoarders and people who feel guilty about getting rid of things. She’s helping people get rid of gifts they never used, shirts they never wore, and above all she is helping people who WANT to declutter. For fuck’s sake, she’s not holding a gun to your head and telling you to keep a single spaghetti noodle in your pantry.

All you’re “raging” at is a woman who genuinely wants people to feel less overwhelmed in their life and to develop healthy levels of attachment and inattachment. If you don’t feel overwhelmed or want to declutter, she’s not asking you to. The media is twisting her words so heavily as an act of racism, and decrying her cultural reasons behind her philsophy as “asian woo woo”. By mindlessly buying into her recharacterization as a stupid western minimalist, you’re buying into everything else as well.

She’s not your Mom? Then ignore her. She has 0 relevance to you. Stop contributing to the mob hatred of a woman who’s done literally nothing to deserve it besides say “Hey, if you want me to help you, I will.”

phoenixiancrystallist

So, in conclusion

fandomsandfeminism

It is so fascinating how people who have CLEARLY never read Kondo’s book or seen even a single episode of her show think they know enough about her to 1. Hate her 2. Give some kind of commentary on what she does.

Marie Kondo is straight up not a minimalist. She doesn’t focus on getting rid of stuff. She doesn’t focus on having particular numbers of books or plates.

She has a background as a Shinto shrine maiden, and her approach to objects is heavily informed by the animism of that background. She believes that any object you own should be cared for and respected. It should have a use, even if that use is just making you happy, and in return YOU treat it with care by having a place for it.

That’s it. She NEVER tells anyone how much or little they should keep, and she NEVER shames anyone for keeping a lot. She helps people look at the mountains of clutter and gives them the tools to make choices on whether or not those things are useful.

There’s one episode of her show with a husband who collects sneakers. Has collected sneakers since he was a little kid. He has literally HUNDREDS of pairs of them, some of them literally falling apart in their boxes and never worn. In the end, I think that guy still kept about 80 pairs. Got rid of a lot, yes, but 80 pairs. And Marie was happy for him, because he sat down and decided which ones he really wanted to keep and care for.

One episode is about a couple who’s kids are all in college. The husband has thousands of baseball cards. He collected them with their kids. They are on old, yellowing boxes, stacked to the ceiling in a side room. In the end? I think he kept ALL of them, but he got some nicer boxes for them to keep them from being damaged and found a better way to display them. They all sparked joy for him, so he found a way to care for them better. And Marie told him that she was happy and proud of him for that.

It’s not about what you get rid of. It’s about what objects you want in your life and treating them as such.

People need to not read 1 or 2 fucking headlines and just decide that they think they know all about this woman and her career. It’s not funny. It’s disrespectful.

littlewitchlingrowan

Also, I would like to point out that Marie has (iirc) a 0% return rate. Meaning none of her clients rehire her because they fell off the wagon and started collecting junk again. This is because she specifically tailors her approach to each client. This means that following the method she creates for them is easier because it’s not a “one size fits all” approach. She considers each clients needs and abilities and personal situations before applying her philosophy in a way that accommodates them.

For example, one woman was a widow and was having a hard time letting go of her husband’s things. So Marie switched up her whole method and did it out of order so this woman had more time to address other parts of her house before having to, first thing, go through her husband’s things to donate or throw away that obviously had deep emotional meaning to her. She knew this would be an emotional process for this women and decided to leave the harder part for last, even though it’s usually first in her methodology, because Marie understood going through other things would help this woman get comfortable with the philosophy and how to follow it in a way that worked for her so when she finally had to face her husband’s things, it would be a little easier because she already had experience in following Marie’s approach.

Does that sound like another “rich trendy minimalist” to you? Or someone who genuinely wants to help people and has the skills necessary to teach them how organize their lives in a manageable, easily followed way that doesn’t stress them out or force them to make rash decisions about their property. Tbh if you still think it’s the former then I’m sorry to break it to you but you’re just a flat out racist. 🙃

lykanyouko

We love Marie Kondo in this house sir

official-lucifers-child

this bitch really thought they were onto something, when they fill on admitted that they knew absolutely nothing about marie kondo huh. thought they could form a whole fucking opinion on her when they didn’t know jackshit about here. wow. wish i had that much arrogance (jk)

charlesoberonn

Apparently the current proposed name of the hypothetical ninth planet is Persephone which is such a good name I’m mad I didn’t think of it.

charlesoberonn

Allow me to explain why it’s such a great name:

It pays homage to Pluto, previously known as the ninth planet, since Persephone was Pluto/Hades’s wife in Greek Mythology

It helps make up for the gender inequality in the names of planets, since Venus is the only other planet named after a woman

If it exists, it’d be the coldest planet in the Solar System, and in Greek Mythology, it was Persephone’s time spent in the underworld that caused winter