Omg Omg Omg

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>be me

>fall in love with a $300 origami bird lamp on Amazon

>this origami bird lamp:

>refuse to pay $300 for a floor lamp

>seller looks sketchy anyway

>I can totally do origami 🤔

>wait this isn’t actually origami

>*deep dive into papercrafting*

>I can totally do papercrafting

>OOO A CHONKY BIRB

>bird is too small and computer paper is too opaque and I can see the printed numbers through the paper which looks messy

>scale up bird pattern

>print on vellum paper with lowered opacity

>can’t see the numbers at all now and that’s kind of important for assembly purposes

>assemble them blind! 😵‍💫

>perfect

>all I have to do is find a cheap floor lamp base and put these paper birds on it

>cheap lamp base with arms and sockets in the right configuration doesn’t exist

>wait a lamp base is just a pipe with wires running inside it

>”hey babe, could you make a floor lamp base out of copper pipe for less than $300?”

>”uhhhh yeah but it’s still not going to be cheap”

>”we’ll just get stuff from the plumbing section, it’ll be like $50 total. And they make DIY lamp wiring kits”

>turns out copper t-fittings do, in fact, cost $10 apiece and we need a lot more pieces than anticipated 😬

>too far in to back out now! 🙃

>they do not make lamp wiring kits for lamps that have three sockets in individual arms that combine to one wire and plug

>luckily, Husband knows how to solder!

>”I hate soldering so f*cking much 😑”

>”😬😬😬”

>it works!!

>”honey, I love you, but I am never making another floor lamp as long as I live”

>deal 😍

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

reflecting upon Ancient Fungal Forests

would you please share your reflections with us?

millions of years before trees were even a Thing, Prototaxites (a type of fungus) were the largest land-dwelling organism. so like, fungi if there was no plant or animal competition to bully it into submission. which is how you get this delightful nonsense:

ancient fungus said “is anyone gonna fill this empty ecological niche i just found” and didn’t wait for an answer. anyway my reflections have led me to conclude that I want fungus to be the dominant global species again, and I want it to Absorb Me.

*technically fungi not mushrooms, mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies of some fungi (so the apple compared to the apple tree). also now I am really goshdamn curious about how these fuckers reproduced. were they covered in shrooms the way trees are covered in leaves? did they just seasonally burst open with massive clouds of monster spores? I don’t fear the dinos but I am developing a primal terror of Tall Fungus

I’m gonna be honest I was watching the notes like a hawk and it took exactly 1 minute and 43 seconds for someone to reblog with a dick joke. I’m grateful to live in such a stable/predictable digital ecosystem, even if it happens to be the social media equivalent of a irradiated, mosquito infested swampland 💜

An irradiated, mosquito infested swampland WITH GIANT DICKSHROOM FORESTS 💜

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

I’m having some emotions about it!

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

“If I were a mystic, I guess Clarence and mine’s friendship would lead me to believe that we stood together in other older times…in other lives, along other rivers, in other ancient cities, in other fields, working side by side, with the sun setting, doing our modest version of God’s work.”

I knew none of this and now I’m crying happy tears.

My high school band director was the brother of Clarence Clemons and I never knew this 🥺🥺🥺

I just think it’s important that Tumblr knows a man is cosplaying as the Ever Given and is blocking doorways at Dragon Con 2021.

Here is a screenshot of the post he made that the DC Instagram page shared:

Sir, you are my hero.

SQUIZARD

@yeahitsak

I’ll take a Maxolotl to go, please.

Disney Facial Expressions

this person was animated by someone on too much caffeine with a huge love of lip sync, teeth, and a healthy disregard for how real peoples move because life is better exaggerated especially when you’re dropping facts

so what I’m saying is you’re all wrong this woman is a Don Bluth character

emily is also hard of hearing! she over-exaggerates everything from the way her mouth moves to her facial expressions because she herself had to learn to pick up these cues and lip-read from a young age.

she’s openly expressed that she knows people find this uncomfortable, but she doesn’t give two shits because honestly? who’s at the disadvantage? no one! not only do her tiktoks always have closed captions, but she exudes a very magnetic aura that makes anyone feel happy, and she’s a good laugh at that. she’s one of my favourite creators specifically because of her integrity and transparency - she’s unapologetic about who she is, what she likes and what she cares about.

re-reblogging because this is so interesting and to confirm that this is one of my favourite human beings to watch forever now <3

The Naughty Pelican Trying to Eat Capybaras Bathing in Hot Springs Recreated on a No-Bake Cheesecake

tgif stands for trans gender it’s friday

happy transgender it’s friday .

happy transgender it’s friday

happy transgender it's friday everybody

happy transgender it's friday

happy transgender it’s friday

9 loaves, the feline bakery! (click for hq)

I bet they have excellent biscuits!