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A Unicorn!
hey @distracting-shiny these tags are so good I want to thank you for them and also add on to it:
I AM HYPERVENTILATING???!!?!?!????!!!!!!!!! This is warming my heart, and i'm framing the doodle and am going to invite Meg and everyone here to a tea party. The theme is Will Marigolds Also Deter Unicorns and Does Paprika Actually Work To Repel Rabbits Or Is My Mom Making Stuff Up Again.
dandelions deserve more respect than they get
you say “weeds” I say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences”
The dandelions aren’t gonna fuck you bro
they have and they will
Image description:
Cartoon of two smiling little brown dogs wearing red ribbons running across a tan field, each carrying a sign post to hold up a sign above and between them with the following text:
I HOPE YOU GET GOOD NEWS ON SOMETHING YOU’VE BEEN WANTING. YOU DESERVE IT
orc mating season has begun
the half-elven halfling's village:
this is a shadow of Sky Tower, the tallest building in the city of Wrocław (Poland), regarded as the city's penis.
it does indeed look like one. it is also so tall and in such a flat area that you can easily see it from kilometers away. and at all times the penis shadow is cast upon the oblivious sheeple.
this too is yuri
If Pikachu were real, it would not be a very pleasant animal. An enormous mouse that shocks you like an electric eel. I would run from these beasts
Kirk was a real one for this
Translators: Apoptosis & HouseofGlass
hi everyone. i have some really scary news. my grandmother, who i'm incredibly close to, got diagnosed with lung cancer very recently today. in the time since then, my family has been scrambling to find solutions and treatment options for her. we still need to decide what exactly our course of action is, but in the meantime if you could give us some financial support, i would really appreciate it. I made a big post up on my toyhouse detailing the situation further, and in that post I linked ways you can help us out. even if you can't help out financially i ask that you spread this post around as much as possible. we really need all the support we can get right now. this is all incredibly hard for us to go through, and I have hope that she's going to be okay and pull through this. thank you.
the girls...
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I think you might have your left and right mixed up, my friend
Great post everyone. Hit the showers.
Cutie-pie of the sea (x)
Taking myself on a silly little walk for my silly little mental health
walk-topus
The important thing is that Marcille did not learn to blaspheme against the natural order to save her girlfriend. She just happened to have studied the art of spitting in God's eye for wholly unrelated reasons, and when the opportunity by chance arose to employ that skill in service of girlfriend-saving, she was ready.
Saw your post from the author who was happy people were using Libby. I'm torn as I understand the author is happy to get the license renewed, but libraries only get 26 loans on a digital license vs 60-80 loans on a physical copy. I love the convenience of digital books, but if taking out the physical copy is better for the library I'm willing to make the trip. Just looking for thoughts from others about it.
It depends on the license agreement the library has and its different for every one. Some renew annually, others renew by X amount of rentals. The library does what is best for them, and the more people use their services the more they can usually argue for more funding.
This is not universal, of course, but most of the librarians I know are ecstatic when people use their services.
Library worker here! PLEASE take advantage of Libby. We have these digital services because people use them. They're critical accessibility aids for many people and mean the library is an option for people who otherwise can't get to a physical location regularly.
Use Libby, visit your library if possible, vote in local elections and attend town council meetings - all of these make material differences to libraries by providing them with increased funding. Never feel guilty for accessing our online services. You're helping your library and so, so, so many people in you community when you use our resources, no matter if they're physical or digital
Quoting myself from another post:
Please, PLEASE use Libby. OverDrive. Hoopla. CloudLibrary. Kanopy. Flipster. Freegal. Transparent Language. Mango. Jstor. Your library would not offer it if they could not afford it, and we afford things by reporting the number of people who use that service, so if you don't use the service we can't afford it. It's a cycle. Keep it going, keep using it, and we'll keep providing because we'll be able to justify the cost to the bean counters in government.
