was explaining to my mom on the phone the concept of a cosmic horror and she hit me with the one hit k.o. of "oh you mean like horton hears a who?"

Explain???

me: yeah so basically a cosmic horror is the fear of a godlike being or entity so much bigger than yourself and your perception of the universe that your brain cant possibly comprehend it, often leading to some sort of madness in the stories because of this "break" in your perception of reality because this entity is so incomprehensible to your limited worldview. the concept is credited to h.p. lovecraft because of stuff like cthulu but the guy was also a massive-

my mom, interjecting: ah, so like horton hears a who. i get it.

#wait so like#does the LEGO movie count#they manage to escape into the human world and it’s all hazy because they don’t understand#and the people were controlling them the whole time

SURE SURE THE LEGO MOVIE IS A COSMIC HORROR WHY NOT

Karman Verdi, Untitled, 2020

LOUDER

I think the mentality of "why bother doing something if you're not good at it?" feeds directly into "if you're good at it why aren't you monetizing it?". At its core I really think its about commodifying every last shred of labor and experience.

THIS

why is this so fucking funny to me

love that these are both in a different language but i can still tell exactly what the joke is

What A Great Idea!

This billboard is made of 2,000 cheeseburgers that anyone can take for free.

This bag of chips has two perforations so you can open it more the further down you eat.

This pill bottle lid tells you when you last opened it.

This is a phone charging station where you can pedal to get power.

Trash bins in Copenhagen are angled so cyclists can toss their trash while biking.

This dressing room has labeled hooks to help you separate your clothes.

Choose a cup and let everyone know about your current status.

Doghouses near a supermarket in Copenhagen.

There’s a special place for your pet in this supermarket cart.

A cafe in Poland provides its guests with water for their pets. 

 These bananas are sorted by how ripe they are at the moment.

This pharmacy has a magnifying glass so people can read medicine labels more easily.

This pizza place has a display with all their pizza sizes and how large they are compared to each other.

reblog to have Big Dave bless your dash with user centered design

never forget the time my best friend mentioned that the green bay packers are the only team without an owner because they’re owned by the city of green bay, and i was like “oh yeah i knew that!” and then i, in the face of his entirely understandable surprise at my knowledge of this weirdly obscure football fact, had to explain that it’s because my brain still retains about 90% of the dialogue from the 2007 cult classic nickelodeon series danny phantom

Season 1 Episode 7, Bitter Reunions.

Approx. 6.5 Minutes in.

Release Date: May 7, 2004

(Sorry it’s weirdly cropped I did this on my phone and didn’t notice it looked strange until I was almost done)

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REAL

you only unlock this emotion by being terminally online for the last seven years

everyone i’ve encountered today has been like “you… seem different? lighter somehow?” and i’m like how do i explain how i and the many strangers who have been stranded on this fucked up desert island of a website for the last 8+ years reached a state of time-traveling collective catharsis last night without first having to summarize entire geologic eras of internet fandom culture

It’s impossible to describe the feeling of “this site actually felt united again instead of everyone being at each others’ throats” nostalgia mixed with “I could explain that one specific joke, but so much of the funny was being slapped out of nowhere with another 2012 reference rising up like an undead zombie that we thought we’d buried 6 feet underground after shanking it through the brain” mixed with “we’re all in the middle of some Very Stressful Things and have been internally screaming for the past several months, we Really Fucking Needed This and Destiel Took One For The Team”.

WHY WOULD YOU HIDE THIS IN THE TAGS

you’re laughing. the angel went to superhell for being gay so that georgia would go blue and you’re laughing

PLEASE UNMUTE THIS. PLEASE. 

You guys missed the best part

Y'all missed the best part: HER REACTION AFTER ALL THIS

They’re in CHURCH WITH THIS LMAO

THE MOM’S REACTION

if anyone cares, Putin is not officially stepping down. Only news source as far as I can tell that’s reporting that is the NY Post, which is basically a tabloid, and that report is based on a second hand source. Putin had said nothing, and no reputable news orgs have weighed in as of yet

@tragedycamp

[ID: hashtag that reads “he’s waiting for johnlock to become canon first”]