tried my best

Mean Girls (2004) House MD (2009)

the world isn’t so bad. it has you in it, after all.

thank you doraemon <333

Okay, so I know that we all love this because it's silly and cute, but this perfectly demonstrates how ritual practices successfully change over time! You have the initial ritual, i.e. ceremony with the cat which likely involves sacrifice either literally or metaphorically. Then, a circumstance arises that requires a change. That could be something like not having a cage and so needing to make it out of a new material, or here animal cruelty laws preventing you from using a real cat. So you have a substitute, in this case a doll cat which takes the place of the original living cat. And the ritual succeeds and has it's intended affect, showing that the divinity has accepted the bargain and responded as expected. This happened all the time with rituals in the past, which is part of why we find so much symbolic sacrifice of things like sculpted animals or paper money, etc. So while it looks initially a bit silly to us because of the modern stuffed animal, this is a wonderful example of a tradition of symbolic substitution which has occurred for thousands of years and is delightful to see in action.

Given that the ritual had such success and a massive rainstorm followed, it may be that this substitution becomes preferred over the original, being repeated and codified over time. If it is, I'd be interested in seeing if the Doraemon used is the same. Will the color be seen as important? The size? Even when we do these things a bit tongue in cheek, thinking that it's sort of silly, you tend to see that there is a belief in a "right way." Think of groundhog day. If someone used a chipmunk and said good enough, there's a bit of ingrained denial of that, that it's not really right, even if you don't consciously believe it matters. It's interesting to think about what will stick.

the circus was in town that day 🤡

happy lesbian visibility week to them

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listen this isn’t rat related but I’m going off the walls right now this is literally so fucking funny

orange bear puppet: i think tutter’s looking a little tired, don’t you?

tutter (mouse puppet): [panting and screaming]

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

And while we're talking about ai theft: turn. off. grammarly. Disable it. Delete it. Get that shit off of your computer ASAP.

I never realized how much of my shit is scanned by grammarly until today. It scans my emails, my text posts on this bewitched platform, my wips on google docs, my youtube comments--literally everything ive ever typed on my laptop is scanned by grammarly. And I've been allowing this to happen for years.

Turn. Off. Grammarly.

fuck w me

FUCK W ME

They're true to life

This is breaking containment into the TERF enclosures which I very much expected, but I will happily shout from the rooftops that furry porn artists are more productive and beneficial to society than JKR’s incessant whining on the elon musk dick riding app about how much she hates trans people

1439 votes but 288 reblogs because the TERFs are afraid of the truth so they're just linking it directly to each other lmao

enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

HELP

To this day, my favorite argument I ever had was with my Nascar-loving family about how a thin blue line flag on a Nascar is antithetical to the core tenets of Nascar. There is no organization more rooted in ACAB than Nascar. Literally, the only reason it exists was that a bunch of moonshining families had to build cars that could outrun the cops while on supply runs during the Prohibition Era. The goal was to make the car look like a regular vehicle so they could pick up supplies or drop off illegal alcohol without arousing suspicion. But if the cops were on you all you had to do was put the pedal to the metal and that little truck could outrun them with no problems. And of course, families would be in competition over who made the best alcohol, and whose car was fastest. So, they would have races on the weekends. When prohibition was lifted, the races continued. And that is why we have Nascar. It really frustrates me how people look at American car culture and scoff at it. Formula One racing is more exciting and more dynamic to watch, but the history of it is not as interesting: a bunch of rich assholes who made specialized cars for racing. And to this day, it is still a rich man's sport. Whereas Nascar was about a bunch of so-called hicks in the backwoods who used some basic hand tools and trial and error to make a junker into a racecar.

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werewolf kisses [sketch]

I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme