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Extremely excellent, very very very autistic quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan:
"Curiosity is love for the world, and when you love something, you want to get to know it more. So when you share facts about crows or pterodactyls or whatever, what you are expressing is gratitude for the ability to exist in and come to understand the beauty of the world around you."
"When you tell someone that you don't like all the crow facts, you're...
"You're actually saying that you hate me. I am my crow facts."
I love the incredibly fair and functional justice system in Ace Attorney
It was written as a parody of the fairly corrupt Japanese legal system, exaggerated for both humour and gameplay reasons, giving us such lovely gems as:
Guess who's about to get tased and robbed in the police precinct evidence room by a highly respected and successful prosecutor!
Guess who didn't make photocopies of the evidence that's about to get stolen!
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fox with the northern lights in Finland. 2026.
“In Finnish folklore, the northern lights are created when a mythical fox races across the Arctic tundra, its tail sweeping snow into the sky and setting it ablaze. Those glowing sparks, the story goes, become auroras — a legend reflected in the Finnish word revontulet, which literally translates to ‘fox fires.’”
Photo: Dennis Lehtonen
i deeply appreciate that the pitt writers have decided that robby's type is smart hot black women and nor do i want to get my hackles up preemptively but in the wake of them writing off heather collins and introducing a potential new love interest who specifically is portrayed by a light skinned actress i am truly like what is going on here; this is absolutely ZERO hate to this character who we literally haven't met yet nor to meta golding who is always spectacular when she shows up in things but as a black woman this does have me sideeying this choice
People who regret not having kids tend to extend themselves to help kids in need around them, the childless lady in the neighborhood who gives out good Halloween candy, your favorite uncle who takes you to do fun stuff. People who regret having kids, on the other hand? Absolute demons to everyone around them. Lol. The common refrain of “You’re going to end up lonely in a nursing home if you don’t have kids.” is extremely wrong if you’re a good person and I would say a large percentage of visit-less elderly people in nursing homes actually had children, they just treated them like shit.
it’s sooo crazy be because like…slow down you are doing fine….and vienna rly does wait for you btw
Vienna here refers to the song by Billy Joel. When he was young, his parents divorced and his father—originally from Germany—left him behind to grow up with his mother.
He eventually reunited with his father on his first European tour, in Vienna.
He was young and feeling desperate to achieve everything he wanted before he grew old, but then he started to notice that elderly people seemed to have more of a place in daily life in Austria than they do in America. He saw them out and about more, socializing, working, enjoying life.
He later said in an interview,
“I realized they [Europeans] don’t throw old people away like we tend to do here in the States. They allow for people who are aged to have a useful place in the scheme of things, and I thought, ‘ya know that’s a good metaphor for someone my age to consider.’ You don’t have to squeeze your whole life into your 20s and 30s trying to make it, trying to achieve that American dream, getting in the rat race, and killing yourself. You have a whole life to live. I kind of used ‘Vienna’ as a metaphor, there is a reason for being old, a purpose.”
It’s a song about relaxing about growing old and taking life as it comes. That some of the things you want can wait, and other things you want might never happen, and that’s all okay.
heres my challenge to everyone for next month, for black history month. any time you want to draw inspiration from art, like poetry, music etc, pick a black artist. web weave with langston hughes and james baldwin and jamaica kinkaid and hanif abdurraqib and derek walcott and set your edits to meghan thee stallion and beyoncé and eartha kitt and coltrane and invoke basquiat in your art and it can be fanworks or original stuff and importantly, it doesnt have to be about race. obviously be cognizant of the context of the art youre using because a lot of the artists i mention specifically create art about racism but like. take your white doomed yaoi ship and make a webweave to poem by langston hughes. set an edit to body by meghan thee stallion. engage with black art in all contexts.
you can reblog this. other people should also be exposed to this idea.
reallllly feel like some of you have to start understanding people are sometimes going to make mistakes and not understand something and not know things and it's going to slot them in a perfect place for you to scoff and call them problematic and evil and they're not even going to know why.
not everyone is chronically online, or online at all. don't act like everyone who's ever enjoyed harry potter is a cartoon villain, when most of them barely know who jkr is and definitely don't know what she's done, or know what the actual symptoms of schizophrenia are, or understand what a neopronoun is. like, yeah, okay, you can get frustrated when people don't listen or when they willfully ignore you, but don't pretend everyone on earth is supposed to know already. my life advice.
my friend is a cishet white guy who's entire knowledge of schizophrenia was "yeah that's the thing people have in horror movies that make them kill people." he didn't even know hallucinations were involved. after meeting me, he googled it. like, while we were hanging out, he pulled out his phone, took two minutes to read up on it, and went "oh, so it's like autism, but scarier for you." i told him about neopronouns, and therians, and objectum, and a bunch of other chronically online bullshit, and he nodded along. later he messaged me with a couple questions, which i explained, and he thought it was all very cool. he has a snapchat and an instagram, both of which are exclusively for hunting and fishing friends, he didn't even know why the r slur wasn't okay to say. im not saying you have to educate everyone you meet on the street, but for the love of god, you need to recognize when someone's actually trying to hurt you and when someone is just not really sure what's going on.
so many "period" films come out but they always gotta have A-list celebrities and it's like. idk if you want to make something super atmospheric and immersive its hard for me to believe in what youre showing me when you have like. tom holland. im not gonna be like oh thats a guy from ancient greece im gonna be like Thats Tom Holland
please read what i wrote not as an inquiry, but as incensed offense
please read what i wrote
not as an inquiry, but
as incensed offense
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I simply think you should not have to buy things you have already bought. I know that theoretically, "entropy exists"---sure. And yeah, yeah, "material objects degrade, especially through repeated use, so you might have to replace them from time to time." (Whatever you say, all right.) And I guess "it might be unfair to expect telecomm companies to maintain 7 year old software, they have to sunset the programs and reassign maintenance resources at some point"---I mean, yeah, fine. Fine! I guess, fine. Sure, fine.
I still don't want a new phone though.
I just took in my family's 1958 Singer sewing machine in for a tune up. They had it for a week, did about 12 different things they never fully explained to me, oiled it and lubed it and replaced some bits---and it works like it absolutely did not work beforehand. It doesn't want to eat my fingers anymore, just cheerfully sews straight lines when politely asked.
I know that a sewing machine is not a cell phone, but I feel like that set the standard here.
I simply think you should not have to buy things you have already bought. I know that theoretically, "entropy exists"---sure. And yeah, yeah, "material objects degrade, especially through repeated use, so you might have to replace them from time to time." (Whatever you say, all right.) And I guess "it might be unfair to expect telecomm companies to maintain 7 year old software, they have to sunset the programs and reassign maintenance resources at some point"---I mean, yeah, fine. Fine! I guess, fine. Sure, fine.
I still don't want a new phone though.
I just took in my family's 1958 Singer sewing machine in for a tune up. They had it for a week, did about 12 different things they never fully explained to me, oiled it and lubed it and replaced some bits---and it works like it absolutely did not work beforehand. It doesn't want to eat my fingers anymore, just cheerfully sews straight lines when politely asked.
I know that a sewing machine is not a cell phone, but I feel like that set the standard here.
