Saturday Night Live I 51.10

They're writing coffee shop AUs in the comments of breaking bad clips

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

20 years. I am not happy about this.

Apparently Monorail Cat will also be 20 this year! :o

I’m fine

I need divine intervention

something i think would make a lot of historical romance more accurate & interesting is the realization that people are less likely to totally disparage the ethical & social values of their time than they are to use those values to defend whatever it is they want to do

a woman is less likely to go "it's stupid that women are expected to be modest" than she is to go "there is nothing immodest about a woman going out without a chaperone" or even "i can go out without a chaperone because i am so modest"

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way

I would also like to add that, just like what has been happening with our own societies recently, history isn't a one-directional march from less open and progressive to more open and progressive, so you should reflect on the exact time period your novel takes place in and how their social mores relate to those of the previous generation.

E.g., 19th century people were more puritanical and sexually conservative than 18th century people, so a young person longing for more freedom might invoke the past as an argument for why something should be allowed, perhaps even with the usual argumentation about parental hypocrisy and, "YOU got to do all this crazy stuff when you were younger, so how come I don't." To which the reply might be something about what a seedy, debauched, amoral time that was and how the more stringent rules were built on elders' mistakes and aim to protect young people and keep them from being taken advantage of and falling through the cracks and making life-ending mistakes. See also: the Augustinian reforms in the Roman Empire, the gradual disappearance of public bathhouses in Europe over the course of the 16th century, flappers vs. 1950s housewives, queer respectability politics after the AIDS crisis, 2016 instaglam vs. clean girl aesthetic, the rise and fall of hookup culture.

This also means that, just like what is happening currently, sometimes it's the younger people making up more rigid social rules and enforcing them, as a way of giving stability and structure to an uncertain world, protecting themselves from exploitation even at the cost of personal freedom, or signaling cultural values that mark them as "one of the good ones" (see the shift in cultural norms post-French Revolution, for example). This means that, depending on the time period you've set your story in, your heroine's problem may not be, "My parents don't allow me to do anything from fear of my being labeled a slut", but "All my peers think I'm a slut and are ostracizing me over it but my parents and grandparents see no issue with the way I'm acting. Modern culture is going insane."

i liked that video of a pig blowing bubbles but i thought i'd like it more if it played the amen break during it

most badass video in the website past and future

Nostalgia for 2016 tells me everyone is not ok

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament

I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn't notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.

However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."

I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."

And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."

And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.

So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.

when Batman media introduces a pre-villain character like “this is my good friend Harvey Dent :)” or “hey look it’s forensics guy Edward Nygma wow he sure is weird” it’s always:

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

FRIENDS (1994-2004) 04.09 — The One Where They're Going to Party