SON: May I speak? MOTHER: You may not. SON: But I have just cause to do so. MOTHER: But you do not have the right. SON: I can tell you have vex coursing through your veins at this point in time, mother, but I want you to know that what I did was a lesson that needed to be taught. MOTHER: And pray tell, you forlorn fledgling, what lesson is learnt by breaking your brother’s tablet? SON: That the world is cruel, harsh, savage - MOTHER: Those adjectives are best suited for you, brood of mine. SON: Speak louder, mother, my ears are burning. MOTHER: Oh, continue your teachings, boy, I’m finding them most enthralling. SON: As I was saying before I was so abruptly heckled, the world is meant for teachings of desolation. Whether the lesson be taught by the almighty hand of fate, some supreme being, or by someone who didn’t want their essence taken by a camera. MOTHER: Ha! SON: The seminar that I indoctrinated was an important one, mother. MOTHER: Are you talking about ‘this’ picture? SON: How on earth did you get that? MOTHER: The cloud that me and your brother share knows all. It was saved onto our family Billo before you terminated the tablet… Oh, no, boy, this shall remain with this family forever as a constant reminder of your wrongdoings unto your brother. SON: I performed wrongdoings unto him?! … Inverse that statement, mother, then you have the truth in front of you! MOTHER: He wronged you? SON: HE LAUGHED AT MY DISTORTED IMAGE. MOTHER: Me and your father laughed heartily at it too, boy. SON: Father knows?! MOTHER: Father knows, yes … and he has already started the shipment of Christmas cards. SON: AHH! You’re showing the masses? MOTHER: Be grateful that I did not show them the annihilated tablet. Let that fall on the noble men and women who are trying to right the wrongs that you performed unto the tablet, your brother, and your kinsfolk. SON: If they restore it, I shall lay it to waste once again. MOTHER: Then the image shall be sent for birthdays. SON: AND AGAIN! MOTHER: THE JUBILEE! SON: AAND AGAIN!! MOTHER: AT THE RRRAPTURE! SON: There won’t be laughing amongst the assemblage, mother! MOTHER: Oh? SON: There will be charges brought amongst you for mistreating a minor! MOTHER: There shall be laughing, boy, and perhaps I should start now, don’t you agree? Ah-ha, yes, very good! SON: Discontinue! MOTHER: Yes, yes, very amusing, yes! SON: CONCLUDE THIS! MOTHER: Ha Ha! The mirth I am experiencing is considerable in size. SON: CEEEAAAASSSE!!!

SON: Stop laughing! MOTHER: Sorry, you are very bad for breaking you brother’s iPad. SON: But he made me look stupid. MOTHER: It does look a bit funny though. SON: MUUMM!

got taken to axe throwing tonight. i may not have impressed anyone with my technical axe throwing skills but my sheer brute animal strength is unparalleled

I was here, the sheer force was astounding

Reminds me of my brother.

Jurassic Park except they provide proper enrichment for the animals and they therefor don’t feel the need to hunt slow, small humans.

“We stuffed this pumpkin full of live goats for the T. rex watch him try to get them out with his little fingers.”

“Turns out the raptors are cage breakers, so we’ve gotten them a series of door handles to manipulate. Little guys just love it.”

"The Rexes are incredibly affectionate pack animals, so we were careful to breed multiples. Be sure to come during spring time to watch them go broody over anything even vaguely egg-shaped." "We put the Raptors through target training and now if they are bored, hungry, or just want a scratch under the chin they go to spot near the bars and ring a little bell for attention." "Imprinting after hatching was so common that we now have keepers under contract to care for the animals well into adulthood to prevent them from pining." "The Gallimimus turned out to be just giant Canada Geese, and so fear nothing. Their keeper regularly has to stop them from trying to attack fences, guests, feeding buckets, and the now traumatised pack of Ceratosaurs in the next paddock."

"We also fired Dr. Henry Wu."

I have questions for OP either about how big they think a pumpkin is or about how small they think goats are.

In a fictional genetic theme park, we play by Roger Rabbit rules. They’re however large they need to be to make my joke work.

I respect that. Question withdrawn.

Pumpkin size

Goat size

I feel like you could get at least 5 goats in there.

every few months i lose it thinking about the into the spiderverse peni parker concept art and what couldve been if theyd kept with alberto mielgos designs

who was responsible for seeing this

and choosing to instead go with fucking this

Somebody with at least half a brain. Like holy FUCK that first set is ugly as sin. What a way to ruin a character.

Also the second design was thematically interesting as it showcased a very aesthetically-different universe, not unlike the Noir or the Porker one.

Not only is ghe design unappealing, but also absolutely doesn’t match her original comic book.

Sure, she’s a bit cutesier in the movie, but not as big of a difference as what OP wanted.

You know, I don’t really think all of this really PROPERLY States what the problem with OP’s bullshit is. You want to know how Peni Parker looks?

THIS is Peni Parker from the comics.

The Spiderverse version actually BOTHERS to match the original, as opposed to ‘Let’s fuck with her to suit MY tastes’ of the concept art. Just because you like a thing does not make that thing good, or even something MOST people will like.

Concept art kind of looks like the girl from that murder time loop episode of Love Death and Robots.

Radical feminists: “I don’t want sex workers to be arrested! No way! I just want their CLIENTS arrested. I would never take away sex worker’s freedom like that but I think anyone who would buy a sex worker’s services should be punished.”

Radical feminists when they think no one else is listening: “because if we arrest their clients then that means the sex workers will make no money doing sex work. Without an income, they’ll run out their savings accounts paying their bills. That way they’ll either become homeless and starve to death because they can’t pay rent and buy food with no income, or they’ll be forced to quit doing sex work and do a job that I approve of. It will be a job they didn’t want to do but it will give them a lower income than sex work which will mean they have to work too many hours to be able to see their clients or produce content in exchange for any kind of personal gain at all. That will get rid of sex work!”

I mean, I'm pretty sure it's because they see sex work as inherently exploitative but would rather a sex worker not have to fear being arrested if exploitative because abusive or, you know, rape. I think that most radfems are still hoping long-term that most sex workers find work in other industries.

a uquiz just called me “200% straight” because i have good taste and didnt fucking understand anything on it. ok

PLEASE take this it’s fucking awful [quiz link]

oh man. judging by what you guys have said this is worse than i even fucking thought it was. im glad i got 200% straight actually… the emotional toll of being similar enough to this person for them to even call me bi would be awful

I don’t like this quiz

this is the second post I have seen today about this quiz / this specific question from the quiz

The quiz was apparently made by a K-Pop Stan so it makes sense the answers are atrocious.

Okay, I had a break from lesson-plan practice; let’s see… 

Well, the first question is ass: ‘Choose a queerbaited ship’ And the choices are ‘Klance’ (Really, bitch?), ‘Destiel’ (It was canon, just not in a way that any Supernatural fan was happy), ‘Catradora’ (It’s fucking canon, though???), and ‘Drarry’ (Which… What?)

But, hey… Asexual me apparently got 0% Straight. 

Also, the question about SPOP S5 threw me off a bit because I was like ‘Wait, what? When was this shit made?’

Something odd about the results. It said I was 200% straight but according to the breakdown of my results I'm only 15% 200% straight. 🤔

full offense but if you legit think it’s funny or correct to refer to people’s religious beliefs as fanfiction i’m just gonna start calling you stupid

Okay but sometimes people’s beliefs are fanfics, as in based on fiction made by fans of a certain religion. Neither Dante nor John Milton were adding to biblical canon when writing The Devine Comedy or Paradise Lost but plenty of people hold religious beliefs based around descriptions in those books. Why else would certain myths have umpteen different versions floating each tweaked slightly to reflect the beliefs of the one to tweak it?

OP: Hey don’t fucking do this! It’s so fucking shitty.

You unable to resists flashing your ass in public: But what if I made the same arguments other people doing this already make! Does that make me okay and not a weirdo who needs to spend more time in reality and not internet culture?

Dude, when part of a belief system, or mythology can be traced back to a single person who decided to take a God or deity and write them super ooc so a bunch of other people come by and say that's not how she'd act, let me fix it that's not just culture shift. That's Ovid thinking he's a stifled genius and so making a God normally seen as wise and collected a ooc hot head so everyone else feels the need to revise it.

Though his response is just to your taggs because you spent the reblog throwing a fit. Neither, btw, actually address The Devine Comedy or Paradise Lost, and I don't see how internet vs real life has any relevance. Do you not think people in real life have theological arguments or is the specific word fanfic what you take umbrage with?

full offense but if you legit think it’s funny or correct to refer to people’s religious beliefs as fanfiction i’m just gonna start calling you stupid

Okay but sometimes people's beliefs are fanfics, as in based on fiction made by fans of a certain religion. Neither Dante nor John Milton were adding to biblical canon when writing The Devine Comedy or Paradise Lost but plenty of people hold religious beliefs based around descriptions in those books. Why else would certain myths have umpteen different versions floating each tweaked slightly to reflect the beliefs of the one to tweak it?

him.

Just makes me think of the YouTube channel terrible writing advice.

G-d I wish I could be this self absorbed and i wish the only issues i had were being picked on for my hair color instead of like, idk, being called slurs and threatened w.  murder. 

- mod sunflower

I’m sending OP to the shadow realm

Op does now there bipoc with red hair and that having red hair ISN'T A FUCKING RACE. Gods try to imagine being so white you think your hair colour is oppressing you and that blackwashing is real.

"My representation is not based on my skin, it's based on my hair color."

You're putting inaccurate assumptions on me and not reading what I write. I have no issues with black characters being cast with red hair. Had I the means to do so at the time, I would have crossed Starfire off as it's close enough to where it wasn't like the others. I was on mobile when I made this post and didn't have a drawing feature for images at the time this post was made.

When they racewash a character, they almost always change the hair color, as well. In fact, Starfire is the only one I know of where they at least tried to keep it in touch with her original hair color. Out of the 20-25 examples shown above, only one tried to keep a semblance of the original hair color.

I have explained this time and time again but apparently you all just don't want to hear it. You can find my previous responses outlining my abuse and harassment for having red hair in the notes of this post.

Genuine question, but what do you call this? When Hollywood purposefully changes a character who was once a different race to being black? If they were turning black characters white, then you'd say it's whitewashing. So, logical conclusion is to call this "blackwashing." Race washing is a genuine problem in Hollywood for all races, but it's more notable for black and white folks.

Neither is okay. Stop accepting hand-me-down racewashed characters and demand your own unique characters. You're better than that and deserve better.

@poltergeist-the-anti

They blocked me so I couldn't reply back. But, how is changing someone's race not racewashing? Changing a character's race is the definition of racewashing. It's not determined by your hair color.

We need to understand that racewashing is a growing issue among Hollywood or nothing will get better for anyone. Redheads (who are typically white people) will still lose representation and black people will still be given second hand representation.

Op I don't know if you know this but, redheads aren't oppressed for being redheads. You cannot possibly think that changing a redhead character to a poc is anywhere near comparable to whitewashing, right? Not to mention that ginger poc exist, my sister is one.

The amount of a victim complex you must have to think "people bully me for my ginger hair" and literal racism are similar is ridiculous.

reading this whole thing is a trip, oh my god.

@rejectedproject

Fuck you

Fuck you

Fuck you

I am done being nice. Fuck every single one of you assholes for playing off my abuse because YOU don't understand or know what it was like. Gods forbid someone is hated for some other reason than their skin color.

I had people pull at my hair and spit at me. I begged my mom to let me cut it short once because I was tired of people trying to yank my hair as I walked by them. I was 9 years old.

I had people make sexual threats towards me because "redheads are always sluts."

People have called me all sorts of names over my hair. You have red hair? Congratulations! You weren't just a bitch, you were always a redheaded bitch. People made sure to know your hair as thrown front and center in the insults.

Treated differently and excluded from events. Certain people refused to even associate with me because they fully believed redheads are the devil.

Other redheads in my county felt it was better to dye their hair because of the abuse.

But, yeah. Fucking sure. It's all about me being called names, right? lmao you don't know shit what it was like growing up in my community. Stop putting your communities prejudice on my community. We're not from the same experiences.

And you have the fucking gall to tell me I am in the wrong for losing my representation. Because you don't fucking know what it's like to be hated for hair. And where the FUCK did I equate race to fucking hair. Stop putting words in my mouth. I have repeatedly stated if they kept the hair color the same, I wouldn't care as much. But they never bothered. Even with the shitty excuse of redhead minorities, none of them kept the red hair.

I want to be clear - the abuse was so bad kids dyed their hair not to be cool and trendy, but to escape the abuse we experienced. You think adults cared about us? No. They thought we were trash for genetics we could not control.

But, yes. Keep on telling Hollywood you don't deserve original representation. Enjoy little minority boys and girls having to learn the minority characters they know and love are actually white characters Hollywood racewashed because you all were too lazy to demand original representation.

I never made this about racism. You dumbasses saw someone upset at racewashing and went there. Fuck. You. And your racism. I deserve representation, too, and I shouldn't have to outline my representation again and again and again in order for you all to get it through your thick heads that this isn't right.

Think these people are too young to remember the "kick a ginger day" incidents?

I wrote and illustrated this story as a birthday present for my partner, I hope you enjoy it!

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I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.

That’s enough to keep me going.

@cryptonature​​ Man do I have good news for you!

Also! Bonus frog!

@amber-acrylic

#THIS IS THE CUTEST SHIT I CAN’T STAND HOW ADORABLE THIS IS #GROGU PLAYING IN THE SNOW AND MAKING A SNOW FLURRY FOR HIMSELF #ACCIDENTALLY BURYING HIMSELF IN #AND WHEN RESCUED? IS JUST LIKE THAT WAS AWESOME LET’S DO IT AGAIN!!!!!

OH MY GOODNESS!

STUDIO GHIBLI + FOOD

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So I watched Spirited Away as a kid and I always used to think Lin(second to last gif) was eating a pb&j uncrustable.

Incredible colorised footage from 1929 of construction workers on the Chrysler Building in New York.

I’m just impressed that it has audio

If you wanted solid, definitive proof that the past did, in fact, happen, here it is.

I’m surprised the structure was able to support the weight of every set of BRASS FUCKING BALLS on all of those construction workers. Pre-safety gear/OCEA was wilding man.

The Chrysler Building had zero fatalities during construction. But the osha violations hurt my soul

TERRIFYING

OSHA took this from us

Over the past few months I have asked a male architect for ideas & drafts for the renovation of the farmhouse, and at every turn I am stunned by his utter disregard for any cleaning-related concerns. For example, he is very into the idea of having in the living-room a big, non-openable window near the ceiling—which, granted, looks pretty, like having a piece of blue sky when you raise your eyes, but immediately I’m like, with a high ceiling, how will I clean this? You can’t open it so you have to clean both sides separately, and you can’t easily reach either side. I’ll need a tool with an absurdly long telescopic handle. He says, a stepladder. I’m like, but I’ll need to carry it by myself to the living-room and the front of the house every time. “So?” So a very tall stepladder is heavy? And it will be hard not to get dirty water dripping down the wall. He reacts like he can’t believe he is being asked to bring the concept of dirty soap water into his grand designs, like these are base, trifling considerations, when to me it’s a crucial factor in the decision to add this decorative window.

Similarly we both agree on leaving most of the wood beams exposed because they’re old and beautiful, but when I ask if we ought to insulate in such a way as to cover every other one, so the remaining ones are farther apart and it’s harder for spiders to use them as ready-made anchors for their webs, he just looks disgusted, like “I am talking about Architecture and you bring up spiderwebs.” At this point I start to entertain the idea that men make horrible architects. You design someone’s house to give them a nice, convenient space to live in, not to make their life more difficult. A man who has never used a sponge in his life should not be allowed to graduate from architect school and that’s the end of it.

Ways in which I fail at being a woman, again: I’d totally go for that window and I couldn’t give less shit about how an awesome architectural element like that would be ….difficult to clean. I’d drag that ladder to the room and outside the house each time I have to wash it. I’d vacuum the spider webs. I don’t care. Can’t see why OP thinks this is a gender issue, because to me this is an aesthetics vs pragmatics issue (and I’m absolutely Team Aesthetics).

I’d go even further and say it’s a matter of being an architect (aesthetics) vs. being an engineer (pragmatics).

From my experience, architects are concerned with the vision they have and often downplay or even ignore any downsides of the design (be it how it’s designed, what material should be used, the cost, etc.); engineers usually won’t downright tell that it’s a bad idea, but would make their client consider the flaws and suggest more practical solutions.

Example: One of my female cousins is an architect and convinced her parents to let her redesign the kitchen; they admit that the kitchen does look better, but also said that it’s a bitch to keep clean and is a little more cramped.

Maybe this just speaks to my laziness but if a window is that high and unopenable it's almost like cleaning a skylight and in my house we just...don't. Some spiderwebs on the ceiling? Yep, and we just don't care that much.