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I don’t even like Hilda that much. I just love this piece of art.

The colors, the poses, the composition. The fact all of the girls are on-model for their show’s style and yet still fit perfectly in the same scene. It’s masterful.

Top to bottom and left to right:

Why can't one of them internet sleuths who find the origins of obscure memes try to find the artist?

If we can find the Backrooms we can find this.

Combine!!

Combined my two favorite scientist characters 💕💜

Brave boy

Some Lord of the Rings stationary for SDCC! Featuring cozy Hobbit Hole sticky notes and some Fellowship washi tape 🌱🏔️☁️

the exciting conclusion!!!

Just a quick Zuko fan art!

reblog if you made it this far somehow

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

If one grain of rice represents $200,00, which is the median net worth of an American (and more than half of Americans have less than half one grain of rice for this analogy), compare to the visual of Elon Musks combined net worth of $400 BILLION DOLLARS:

Can we please be serious and focus on the billionaires who are dismantling our country and selling it for parts?

the art of sequential photography, an entire anecdote in two frames

Whenever my aunt springs her insane superstitious/religious cures on me I specifically remember when I was 17 and she got me exorcised. The priest was like "I don't think she's possessed" and she insisted "well there's something wrong with her, she's always [symptoms of depression] so..."

And the guy said some verses and touched my head and stuff then said I should drink only holy water for an entire week. Which wasn't hard to do, but my fav part of this whole experience was me saying I want to eat instant noodles and my aunt going "I'll make them for you. With the holy water he gave us." And then I had holy instant noodles

Local goat discovers joy of painting

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

They do actually!

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

I don't know how people came to think that "the banality of evil" means "evil people are people too".

That's also true but it's not what the banality of evil means.

The term was coined by Hannah Arendt in her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the "final solution" in the Holocaust.

It describes the way in which the Nazis at large and Eichmann in particular have turned the horrendous act of mass murder into just another job, disconnecting themselves morally and emotionally from their actions.

Before the death camps and gas chambers, Nazi soldiers simply shot Jews into mass graves by the hundreds of thousands. It was a lot cheaper and faster, but it caused great psychological distress for the murderers who pulled the trigger.

The leadership's solution was a massively upscaled version of the "gas vans" they used to mass murder hundreds of thousands of Germans with disabilities and mental health issues.

Shooting bound civilians in point blank range over and over is something you can't just pretend you're not doing or is no big deal. But if you're just the guy who sorts people into groups. Or just the guy that funnels them into a room. Or just the guy who opens a cannister on the roof. It's much easier to distance yourself from what you know is happening.

The same principle applies to much lesser evils, like soldiers operating drones from a distance, or insurance workers denying coverage for life-saving treatment.

@briwhosaysni well put!

And you're absolutely right that the Trump Regime wanting deportations to be "Amazon Prime for human beings" is a horrifying current example of this.

the long awaited sequel

(Note: the difference between guilt and shame is that ‘guilt’ focuses on specific acts or behaviors, while ‘shame’ involves the overall sense of self.)

You left out every single positive emotion, OP (unless this poll is specifically about negative emotions, in which case nvm).

I generally find characters experiencing positive emotions more compelling than negative emotions. Especially confidence and excitement.

And just because the emotions are positive, doesn't mean it has to be a good thing (and vice versa). A character being cocky or drunk with power isn't good, but it is compelling.