tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse
imagine youre a fat horse and your new neighbour is a personal trainer
horse that reads Marcus Aurelius
I was wrong. they didnt rock lee him. this horse is literally Gai. and i wish he was my dad
this has been…a hell of the month for The Bird. outside of trying to care for the 10000 cats dumped at my house, i was put out of work for two weeks due to contract negotiations, and i live paycheck to paycheck…and then my car broke down, making me unable to drive for DoorDash or other services, which is my side income (and how i was planning to make enough for my bills!). so, once again, i’m opening myself to as many commissions as possible!
bird commissions are a fun way to get a post about a bird you love, or have one made for a loved one - posts like this one or this one. the site i use, KOFI, has a minimum tip of $3 - that’s enough to get you a bird! just check my blog with the search tool first to make sure i haven’t already made a post about the bird you’re interested in, and then submit the bird you’d like me to post about with your tip (or other animal, bird related subject, whatever) and i’ll get to work! I’m taking art commissions too if that’s more your speed - take a look here.
there’s no pressure to do this - i greatly enjoy posting birds, and the blog will always remain free for all. however, if you’re in the place to do so (and you want a custom bird post), it’s appreciated! i don’t make any revenue from using tumblr itself/enshittification of the blog, nor will i ever seek that out.
TLDR: Use my KOFI if you’d like a bird post, for as low as $3! :]
dahlia loves putting bertie in situations because he's her favourite nephew. agatha enjoys putting bertie in situations because he's light incarnate and she's evil. anoria loves putting bertie in situations because of the lesbian gay man animosity. the drones love putting bertie in situations because he's the most handsome and rich one of the bunch and they need to bring him down. also they need help. swans love putting bertie in situations because there is an ancient swan-wooster feud likely dating back to before the woosters were even at agincourt. stiffy, nobby, bobby, and pauline just want to watch the world burn. madeline doesnt want bertie in situations... that's her little would-be specific dream rabbit slash galahad that can never be... the poor lamb has suffered enough... florence loves putting bertie in situations because she's doing experiments on how malleable he is. jeeves, though he would never admit it, has exactly the same motivations as florence, with the small addition of feudal spirit bashing against a healthy dose of desire to flip the master servant dynamics in power if not actual appearance. also he loves that idiot and likes to rescue said damsel from the soup.
i dont understand people who never reread a book or rewatch a movie or series. the best art will always improve upon being revisited. girl. let it reveal more of itself to you.
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis
i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to
unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school
things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)
as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on
ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)
mightypocketcow asked:
you are one of the "son boy allowed" lesbian moms?? your deco is very regularly referenced among my friends and I!! you are a celebrity!! I hope you know how much dialogue you have changed for queers young and old on the internet, particularly x and tumblr. thank you for your service 🫡
lliveonthesunn answered:
fun story: my mom is actually the one who made the sign. she was in town for our baby shower and we were laughing about the “no boys allowed” sign and she was like “wait, hold on,” switched the letters around, and voila! son boy allowed.
she used to work at a university library. her job was mostly helping students learn how to access and utilize the online resources held by the library. she was helping a student get into their account once and needed to know their password. when the student told her the pw was “son boy allowed” my mom, who is not hip to queer meme culture, said, “oh! do you know my daughter?”
and that’s how she learned her silly joke was legendarily famous in certain online circles.
[ID. A drawing of Ford, Dipper, Mabel and Stan celebrating the 8th night of Hanukkah. Ford has constructed a menorah made out of lightsabers, in alternating blue and green colors. He is replacing the central, shamash “candle”, and is wearing a sweater that says “Axial Tilt: the Reason for the season”; and he is grinning at Dipper. Dipper is grinning at the menorah, and he is wearing a sweater with a blue cycloptopus whose arms, holding candles, form a menorah. He is holding a mug with two dreidels on it, and the caption “They see me rollin’”. Next is Mabel, holding a tray of sufganiyot donuts. She is wearing a sweater with a calico cat on it, surrounded by chocolate gelt, with the words “Meowzel Tov” around it. Finally, Stan is grinning at Mabel, and holding a tray of latkes. He is wearing a white apron adorned with menorahs and stars of David, and that says, “I love you a latke”. End ID.)
Happy Eighth Night of Hanukkah with the Pines!
Finally finished the piece I started before the first night of Hanukkah, but couldn’t get done… and it’s just as well, because having had the idea for the lightsaber menorah, it looks a lot better when all of them are lit, I think?
I can’t really take credit for that (my inspiration was the “Keep the Han in Hanukkah” Star Wars sweater, seen in one of @danidery‘s delightful collections, and then I found some refs online); or for the various sweater ideas or Stan’s apron, as I just looked up “tacky Hanukkah sweaters”. Mabel’s was partly inspired by this wonderful Hanukkah-cats art. Ford’s “Axial Tilt: the Reason for the Season” sweater calls back to my earlier holiday piece, and while there are many versions for sale if you google it, the one that inspired me is here.
I’m going with the idea that Stan was put in charge of the latkes (made with love and some of his shoulder hair, no doubt), while Mabel made the sufganiyot… and Ford made the lightsabers.
Tonight is the eight night of Hanukkah. Chag Hanukkah Sameach!
(orig posted Dec. 2019)
