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UMMM, Hi

@oddfreakbandygirl

Demi-Girl (she/her/dude/bro)
Pansexual (send me pics of pans)
Music lover and Feminist
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No. You dont pay people to exist for the same reason you dont feed the bears.

It says facts on the book that means it’s a fact also this is literally the worst thing i’ve ever fucking read

I’ll pay a bear to eat you

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this is my new favourite gif

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i have never noticed before today that spidey wasn’t real

still laughing about it 3 hours later

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solsticeivy

We don’t just have a skeleton,” said one of the nodosaur researchers involved. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”

Known as a nodosaur, this 110 million-year-old, armored plant-eater is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found.

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sighinastorm

unfathomable

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bimbocracy

Men think it’s ruder for a woman to say “don’t interrupt me” than it is for them to interrupt her in the first place

id probably call that ruder. Jus cause I interrupt someone don’t mean I was mentally thinking bout cutting this annoying ass bitch off. it just so happened my g.

I know you would call that ruder. That’s what the post was about.

Me: men think this

A man: no, actually I think exactly what you said men think

Me: right.

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Anyone else constantly on edge because we are in the final stages of late capitalism and these next couple of decades are gonna be make or break for the western world, and this just happens to coincide with the part of my life where I’m supposed to make something of myself :/

You didn’t have to say it with words

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Anyway if you’re from the US and you ever wanted to know what tumblr feels like from a non-USAmerican perspective (please note that the rest of the world is not a monolith either and none of these apply without exception):

  • Everybody’s talking about brands and stores you’ve never seen in real life. You generally assume they exist, but they might as well be one giant prank the rest of the internet is in on.
  • You find a post that just sounds wrong. It makes no sense. It’s like OP lives in a weird alternate reality. 9/10 times, it’s just some USAmerican Thing.
  • You’re still not entirely sure how much an inch is. Or a foot. Or even how many of the former there are in the latter. You maybe know your height in feet and inches.
  • You have no idea how much a pound is. You’d also like to know how the fuck pound shortens to lbs.
  • What the fuck is “military time”
  • Somebody talks about some legal process or something similar. They don’t mention which country’s legal system this pertains to. You know anyway.
  • People talk about politics. None of it pertains to you. Many posts contain guilt tripping. “How can you not care about this?? Why won’t you reblog this?? People need to know this about x candidate for y position!” You’re busy trying to stay on top of the political landscape in your own country.
  • You pick up some random slang from the internet. Monkey see monkey do. You’re called racist. You didn’t know it was AAVE. You learnt it from black letters on white background, not from the mouths of people whose faces you could see. How would you have known? You try to unlearn it.
  • People tell you that you must publicly denounce Chick-fil-A or you’re homophobic. You don’t even know what a Chick-fil-A is.
  • People say you don’t know LGBTQ+ history. What they mean is you don’t know USAmerican LGBTQ+ history. Nobody cares about your country’s history.
  • You’re “called out” on using an “offensive” term. It’s (a direct translation of) a completely harmless word where you live.
  • People expect you to have an idea of how far apart 2 USAmerican states are. You barely know geography past your country’s immediate neighbors.
  • You randomly switch between British and American spellings. Nothing’s real and there are no rules.
  • People talk about multiple hour car rides and you get twitchy just thinking about it. You suddenly understand why USAmerican cars are so big.
  • Somebody talks about school shooting drills. You only ever had fire alarm drills.
  • You see a cool statistic. The study’s only about the US. It’s unfortunately of no use to you.
  • People misuse/misspell words and names from your native language. It’s tiring.
  • (You feel sorry for the French. Nobody should be allowed to mangle the word déjà vu like that.)
  • You’re still not over the fact that USAmerican school children are supposed to say that pledge thing every morning. You’re never getting over that.
  • You still don’t know why the men are fresh or what the fuck a sophomore is.
  • Who the fuck pays up first and then fills up gas??? That’s made up, right??
  • Everybody has a weird obsession with some comfort food you’d never even heard of before you signed up here.

Fellow non-USAmericans, please add anything else you can think of.

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weepylucifer
  • whatever the fuck ROTC kids are (it sounds evil)
  • spray cheese from a can??
  • school sports being taken Seriously?
  • motivational speakers being a real thing that exists
  • americans insisting that “everyone can pronounce van gogh!” and then saying it wrong every time
  • an issue occurs in another country and everyone goes “okay but. IN AMERICA,”
  • The weird obsession with how words are spelled to the point that they created national contests surrounding the concept. Meanwhile, you were convinced this was a fictional thing that only happened in movies.
  • You are forced to know and care about everything relating to the USA. Nobody knows the first thing about your countries issues nor do they care.
  • Everything must be measured and interpreted according to American standards. There is no need for context or nuance, just apply the way things work in America to every single country in the world. Instant profit. 
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@ the water that drips down my arms when i wash my face and makes a big ass mess: fuckin fight me

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beevean

reasons I’m still on this hellsite:

1) nowhere else I could find posts this specifically relatable

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pipistrellus

my favorite part in attack of the clones is when obi-wan just fucks off to play space nancy drew on Clone Rain Planet with the alarming giraffe-necked aliens and swans in like “HELLO IT’S ME, the jedi who definitely… … was here before and probably, uh, spoke to you, and stuff” and theyre like “ah you are here for the order” and hes like “beg pardon” and theyre like “the order of millions of identical human men?” and hes like “RIGHT YES. ABSOLUTELY I AM HERE FOR THE ORDER OF MILLIONS OF IDENTICAL HUMAN MEN”

and then later when he SNEAKS INTO A CORNER TO FUCKING… facetime yoda… like “ok so we have these millions of identical human men who were apparently suspiciously ordered for us by someone???” and yodas fucking response is just “when countless sapient lemons life gives you…….. send those lemons into intergalactic battle you must”

 and obi-wan’s like “shit man you’re so right" 

There literally isn’t a frame of this scene where Obi-Wan doesn’t look confused as hell

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this is in my history book about prohibition in the 1920s and i’m laughing so hard oh my gooooood

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ayellowbirds

i love how popular media makes speakeasies out to be incredibly secretive and impossible to find and this narc unjustly saddled with the best name ever found booze on arrival.

100 years later new orleans is still Like That

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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!

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