choices made in anger is such a crazy image. if you know what i'm talking about

i'm gonna thrup

San Juan National Forest, Colorado - 35mm

first rule of fandom is everything goes back to destiel

second rule of fandom is everything goes back to kirk/spock

third rule of fandom is everything goes back to holmes & watson

fourth rule of fandom is everything goes back to achilles & patroclus

the funny thing is. I originally typed out "fifth rule of fandom is everything goes back to gilgamesh & enkidu" but then I thought 'no, I can't trust that people will be familiar with the epic of gilgamesh'

I should have known. nerd ass website.

Crandall New Model Typewriter, serial # 6467, c. 1887 The Crandall Type Writer Co., Syracuse, New York image credits: Auction Team Breker, Koeln, Germany

I was scrolling through tiktok and heard "Ea-Nasir" and I knew I had to share lol

The Most Tumblr Punchline

I've noted before that my favorite punchline on Tumblr is "hang on, gotta look something up/okay that's funny."

Let me explain why:

This, and You Are One Of Today's Lucky 10,000 are very much things I love about Tumblr culture, yes!

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

Windows from Snovsk, Yenkova Rudnia and Snovske, Ukraine

Terry Fan (American-Canadian, b. IL, USA, based Toronto, Canada) - Leviathon, collaboration with Terry Fan and Joe Carr (based Wasilla, Alaska, USA), Painting

weird take about fiction: sometimes, actions that would be abusive in real life, hit different in a story. and sometimes i see people react very very strongly to those actions, and i totally get it, because like, that can be extremely triggering and ymmv on whether its handled well or not, but it always makes me a bit. hm.

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

like obviously ive been on the 'you can portray whatever you want in fiction, its all a pretend game' train forever. but i think the important thing to me here is that, you can also defend bad things in fiction. not just 'they did everything wrong and i love that,' but even 'they were 100% justified when they did [thing that would be extremely bad irl].' cause its like, ok, they did do that, but like it was the only way to tell the story well. dont worry about it.

"i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level"

Yeah.

Or you’ll have something like Megatron hitting Starscream, where some newer continuities are taking it seriously and portraying a trauma bond, and others are using looney tunes logic, and others are hinting that Starscream is into that, and people will lose their minds if you prefer the silly versions because the serious ones also exist.

Im not sure what to tell you guys. The same action can mean different things in context. One writer can be going for horrifying realism and someone else can be over the top for fun.

Crazy shit goes down in South America

Traveller - Alex Colville , 1992.

Canadian , 1920-2013

Acrylic polymer emulsion on masonite , 17 x 34 in.

It's actually kind of striking how rapidly the ads on ostensibly respectable platforms have changed in the last 12–18 months. I've been getting penis enlargement scams and pyramid schemes that don't even bother to pretend to be otherwise on YouTube – it's like every platform is now running the kinds of ads that even three years ago would have been restricted to porn sites, and I'm not gonna lie, the fact that everyone seems to be getting desperate all at once ain't an encouraging sign!

I just saw full frontal erect penis on a weather app. It's not the sign of the impending tech-bubble implosion I expected, but apparently it's the sign we're getting.

"You know those are based on your browsing history" no, you don't get it: I tried obfuscating my identity on YouTube with a burner freemail account on a public terminal and actually got more boner pill ads. Boner pill ads appear to be the default experience when they don't know your demographic.

Mantis is so intense about waiting to be pet when she knows you're gonna. Gotta hold super still. Gotta be ready. Here it comes. Ready the feathers.

Ahh. Yes. Break rub (clumsy) acquired.