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I love Halloween, art, music, technology, life, love, nature, food, film, and all things that appear on my blog. I reblog a lot, but occasionally post my own content.

[emmacharlottewatson]

‘Stranger Things’ Cast + PHOTOSHOOTS

[genderphobia-deactivated2018101]

protect them at all cost

[wnq-writers]

And I know all too well how it feels to feel alone when surrounded by people, by your friends, your family; I know how it feels to feel trapped and unable to leave a prison of your own making that once seemed like paradise, but now stinks of decaying hopes and rotting dreams, and I would never wish that pain on anyone.

a-long-lost-world (via wnq-writers)

[rebootera]

[setheverman]

i love this so much

[grimbrother]

this the got damn crunchiest bass line ever and i will always reblog this video when i come across it.

[fyp-philosophy]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius  (via fyp-philosophy)

[thequotejournals]

Ignore people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.

Alex Elle (via thequotejournals)

[perryite]

Monster Factory + the McElroy brothers attempt to find human likenesses for their creations

[aeolian-mode]

I’m absolutely embarrassed that I never knew this before but…

The pen stand that most Wacom products come with?

It twists off and has a bunch of nibs in it. I’ve been buying extra nibs when they were in this stupid thing the whole time.

[jateshi]

Reblog to save a life.

[thedovahcat]

ARe YOU KIDDING

[viatorai]

I just checked and HOLY FUCK

[abd-illustrates]

Same goes for the tablets like Wacom Manga that come without stands– The extra nibs are hidden in a panel on the back that slides off!

[sugarragus-deactivated20170712]

HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL

[joshsundquist]

My conversations with children

[marauders4evr]

Okay as a fifth year education major in a wheelchair who is constantly around very curious kids and very paranoid parents, this is single-handedly the greatest video I have ever seen!

[daggers-drawn]

A gentle reminder that accepting disabled people doesn’t mean ignoring their disabilities.

[scloutier]

“That happens sometimes.”

[herrfivehead]

for about a month i couldn’t save files to my laptop so i used my mom’s desktop and every time i wouldn’t need a file anymore i would delete it immediately so she wouldn’t question my computer activity

well i must have forgotten to delete one because this morning she calls me over to her desktop to ask me about a lone image folder with nothing but this inside

[herrfivehead]

this post is over 3 years old and i think it’s high time you all know why i had this picture saved

[buzzfeed]

This Woman Helped A Little Boy Overcome His Fear Of Sleeping Alone By Painting An Awesome Galaxy In His Room

[pbotoshop-deactivated20220930]

art classrooms are the opposite of liminal space

[dundeelemonade]

explain

[pbotoshop-deactivated20220930]

it has something to do with the paint on the walls, the tables, the floor, the electrical outlets; the cans with their labels torn off sitting in the sink, full of paint-colored water; the pencil doodles on the tables that get erased and changed constantly; the way everything is arranged slightly differently every time you go in; the half-finished projects everywhere in sight, laying on drying racks, hanging on the wall, propped up on an easel. everything about it suggests continuous use even when it’s empty. it suggests continuity and returning and belonging

[dundeelemonade]

thats fucking beautiful what the hell

[seriousjones]

comedy side of tumblr: what’s the distinction, like, stylistically, between the “fuck your cartoon hotdog husband” kind of joke and the much-maligned *holds up spork* random kind of joke? i fucking love the fuck your cartoon hotdog husband kind of joke but i’m having a hard time thinking about it academically or whatever. i keep trying to articulate the Artistic Difference Between the Absurd and the Random in my brain but i’m afraid to reach a place of irreversible pretentiousness

[swampgallows]

for example ‘fuck your cartoon hotdog husband’ has an implied narrative, which allows greater accessibility to a plausibly rational but otherwise absurd scenario. *holds up spork*, waffles!!, etc. is a jarring exclamation meant to alienate the audience and provide the spork-holder an egocentric sense of otherness; the novelty is dependent on this exclusion and otherness rather than the ‘hot dog husband’ ’s almost desperate attempt at including the audience. i cant believe im about to bring up mark twain and delve into the place of the aforementioned irreversible pretentiousness, but in his essay ‘how to tell a story’ he writes: “The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it [“hot dog husband”]; but the teller of the comic story [*holds up spork*] tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh when he gets through. And sometimes, if he has had good success, he is so glad and happy that he will repeat the “nub” of it and glance around from face to face, collecting applause, and then repeat it again. It is a pathetic thing to see.“

[ultrafacts]

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[vancity604778kid]

ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie. 

[optimysticals]

So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?

[catsuitmonarchy]

Well I have a new hero.

[khoshekh-yourself-deactivated20]

Her whole wikipedia article is gold

“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”

“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”

“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”

“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”

“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”

[mewjounouchi]

I love this woman.

[distractedbyshinyobjects]

WOMEN WHO NEED FUCKEN MOVIES.

[themauveroom]

This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” 

She is my absolute favorite. 

[angelus80]

This is great! I’d love a film about her.

[hannibalvector]

1/20 bands worth listening to

Steam Powered Giraffe

[molegan-deactivated20180823]

[ohbaiguise]

#imagine your brothers death being burned into your side for the rest of your life #yeah id wear sweaters all the time too (x)

[wintersoldierfell]

Okay, but this movie wins the award for Best Use of Manpain, tho.

In any other movie, Raleigh would’ve spent 90 minutes being like MY PAIN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR STUPID WAR, and instead, he snaps back into action as soon as he meets Mako. That’s awesome. But what floors me is that he uses his own grief to help Mako survive hers. He knows how awful it is to lose your family. He knows what she’s going through. And instead of whining or thinking his pain makes him entitled to opt out of his responsibilities, he empathizes with Mako, supports her, and encourages her.

Raleigh’s greatest strength is his compassion. And that’s the kind of male hero I’d like to see on my screen, please.

Plus, like, a bazillion more movies about Mako Mori.

[jenniferrpovey]

I have a friend who thinks Pacific Rim is the best expression of true, non-toxic, GOOD masculinity in recent times.

[kateelliottsff]

All agreement.

[polytropic-liar]

Let’s talk about Stacker Pentecost in light of this, though. Because we learn, towards the end of the movie, that the day he met Mako is the day he lost his partner. He gets out of that jaeger after having piloted it alone, after having his body burned for hours by toxic radiation, after losing the person he was mentally linked to (family? partner? friend?) and what does he do? He adopts a young girl, and more than that, he promises her her right to revenge if that’s what she wants. Tries his best to keep her safe but gives her the tools and skills and support and eventually permission to fight. Respects her enough to rely on her. Gives her a home and family and meaningful, important vocation during the goddamn apocalypse. Let’s talk about the kind of masculinity that uplifts others that completely. That takes all kinds of pain and stands up in the face of it because of the people who need to see him still standing. That has purpose and drive and passion but above all understands other people and believes in them.

Stacker fucking Pentecost everybody.

[just-shower-thoughts]

In the days before recorded music, I wonder if nobles ever instructed their chamber musicians to play their latest favorite song like twenty times in a row.

[dreyas-beats]

Fun fact: Yes. Yes, they did.

Nobles were the only ones that really listened to music and to hear it you had to actually go to a concert. There wasn’t a such thing as background music yet, and whenever there was music people would listen intently. If a piece was particularly stirring, they would give a standing ovation and they would have to play the same piece over again. I suppose this would happen more than a few times so, maybe not twenty times in a row, but close. 

Honestly, what better thing did they have to do with their lives anyway?

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

What about a terrible song over and over but with another song played once in the middle

[datasoong47]

“Bard!  I wish thee to play ‘What is newe, O Pussy Catte’ twenty times!  But, hark!  After the seventh play, play ONE ‘It bee notte unusual’”

[weloveshortvideos]

[thelesseroftwo]

Is Russia even real

[numinous-queer]

I think it is necessary for me to transcribe what she’s saying because it is EXACTLY how I babytalk to my cat:

“Oh Stepa! So little – little Stepa! My little kiss, where’s my little kiss?? Where are my little fingers? Where are my little legs? Where are my little paws? Stepa!” *shakes his paw* “Say hello! Hello my little one! Hello!” *lies down on him* “Oh how nice, how warm. Good boy…”

[sciuridyke]

to be clear, this bear is named the russian equivalent of “steve”