we are bodies of water

they/them; 30s; US out of korea

[hilsonlover-57]

Fuck to the person who came up with this idea because that was diabolical and it felt personal.

[insomniac-arrest]

People assume that being a magical girl is all about sparkles and moon beams and romance, but the thing that the masses miss about the power fantasy behind magical girls is that almost every single protagonist is a HUGE jock

“All magical girls are clumsy and personality-less”

Actually, all magical girls are RIPPED, little girls dream of physically dunking on you while looking cute doing it, and we SUPPORT

[angstandhappiness]

Understandable

[thekalpar]

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[nattousan]

#ratatouille

[firawren]

Mr. Bennet: Sure, I haven't taken care of my daughters' financial security, but have I at least taken care of their education? No. But have I taken care of their emotional needs? Also no. But have I been a good protector and supervisor? I'm afraid not. However, have I been a good example for my children of being a kind and respectful spouse, parent, and all around human being? No again. But through it all, have I nailed being funny? Yes. And isn't that the most important role of a father after all?

[untitledcatgame]

my email finding you

[bugthingsdaily]

Today's bug thing is these worm keychains by Jiro Miura!

[s-lycopersicum]

[bob-artist]

Are you ready for laundry day?

[sevensmallsphinxes]

please look at our favorite gif on the internet

such a gentle cat. it loves its pelleds

[valtsv]

truly one of the most upsetting things to hear in pretty much any context is "i'm used to it"

[valtsv]

let's hear some flat affected cheers and listless applause from the anhedonic crowd

[homunculus-argument]

Herding sheep, looking after kids, and playing healer in videogames: every day you're surprised of the sheer innovative genius of how they'll find the most inconvenient goddamn places just outside your reach to get hurt or put themselves in lethal danger.

[drafty-castle]

Isn’t this sheep in real life?

[homunculus-argument]

Children in real life also.

[homunculus-argument]

It. It literally did. That was literally precisely the point.

I have no idea how the hell I could possibly express myself more clearly.

[flickering-leaves]

The humble Oxford comma

[homunculus-argument]

IT'S LITERALLY RIGHT THERE.

[mylordshesacactus]

#you can understand op by using your brain

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

When you post on tumblr: every day you're surprised by the sheer innovative genius of the ways they'll find to miss understand you

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[scottandhiskind]

You joke, but this is actually their long-term plan

[ralfmaximus]

Our business strategy is to build a bridge out of rainbows & sunshine then plan to walk on it to a pot of gold.

[traycakes]

I really, really cannot make it more clear that the LLM bubble is the result of a bunch of techno-cultists that took Roko's Bassilisk way too seriously and think they are building a machine god that will fix the entire world with eternal rewards for the techbros that built it and "I have no mouth but I must scream" style punishments for their rivals and opposition.

This is not about even somewhat rational people making decisions based on the capabilities and promises the technology actually has.

[sawasawako-archived]

characters who have an unwavering sense of duty my beloved

[sawasawako-archived]

stop stop it’s going to turn into a fatal flaw!

[hadesisqueer]

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

[hadesisqueer]

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

[joyflameball]

[zootycoon-archive]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[loseremo]

[syzygy-yzygy]

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?