Fandom isn't cringe

when I try to show something to a friend related to an interest they like but I know nothing about, I feel like a relative giving them this

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

james tiberius “sorry for having great tits and correct opinions” kirk

(idea from @frogayyyy!)

I think we're too harsh on medieval painters because this is legitimately what some poodle mixes look like

like. these breeds didn't even EXIST yet back then. those painters were PROPHETS.

THAT ONE CANNOT BE REAL

If you're not listening to Re: Dracula, you're missing out! Here's a clip from one of my favorite moments :)

Transcript under the cut:

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

i like to think im funny

also happy 23rd anniversary yay

#high school musical 4 was really weird :/

#”we’re not all in this together… we never were.”

Hey Episode WHAT THE FUCK

Alternate universe Ratatouille

Ratacoochie

This post shot me in the chest twice

I’m so used to seeing the edited one with his dick I got mad it wasn’t there like

This post shot me in the chest thrice

you bottle Miette??

You crush Miette like the grape?

brick up mother in basement for ONE THOUSAND YEARS

for the love of god, mom-tresor!!!

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

my friends and I were just talking about shakespeare we’ve done and I suddenly remembered the time I was in a show and my costar was supposed to stab me to death but one night she forgot the knife somehow and I noticed right away and I assumed she would just pantomime a small blade that perhaps her hand could conceal because you know.

that would have been the reasonable choice. but instead she clearly panicked and then she decided sans weapon she would simply have to strangle me to death

so she starts strangling me, which, for the record, stage combat is a pretty precise art which leaves very little room for improv strangulation

but now she’s strangling me, and I’m being strangled, and this is a whole thing now because I’m thinking to myself, well, how long do you get strangled for?

I don’t want to undersell my strangling but I don’t want to be unrealistic.

So I think well, how long can I hold my breath? I consider actually holding my breath as a measure for how long this strangulation should go but the issue is she isn’t very good at fake strangling. And by that I mean, the acting is terrific, but there is a fair bit of real strangling happening. So I think, no, I’d better keep all the oxygen I’ve got.

Meanwhile she is really putting her heart and soul into this. She looks more feral than she ever has stabbing me.

I think, huh, maybe she should strangle me every night. Then I think, what a gay thought to have.

Then I think, well, I’ve been thinking about being strangled for some time now. It’s probably time for me to die.

But then I have a new problem, how do you stop being strangled?

For the record, I’ve been fighting desperately for my life this entire time, something we also haven’t rehearsed, which is why she’s pushing back a little too hard into the strangling.

Then I think, she is way too small to strangle me. The audience can probably see that. The stabbing really needs to do the heavy lifting here because this woman could not possibly actually strangle me.

Then I think, okay, I really need to die now. So I die. The lights eventually go down and I crawl off stage and the stage manager is waiting in the wing to kill us both because the strangling apparently looked extremely dangerous and scary.

True, but it would be unfair for her to kill me because you see, I’ve just been strangled to death

people are asking why I didn’t stop the scene. I plead “19 and stupid” your honor. now call our professional stage manager to the stand

i think i’m gonna be sick

"hey."

"yeah?"

"did you ever figure out why we were here?"

I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!

I added a little shadow thing

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

…OH.

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved