Decided to start collecting out of context post titles from PDX games and
I love that a lion with an eagle's head and wings is such a well-known mythical beast but apparently the English language can only agree on a grand total of 3 out of 7 letters in its name.
Regex that ought to match (most) spelling variations of this mythical beast's name:
I write it either as gryffin or griffin
But
Gruphon, gryffon, griphen (sounds like the plane, grippen, lmao), gruffin and others would be enlightened spellings
@artemisonahunt this one is for you
This made me cry a little. The number of people who tell me they used to play the flute but that they weren’t ‘talented’ enough or they gave it up to, you know, do life… This is just so beautiful.
This is the exact reason why I’ve tried to do something creative every day. There’s no time limit on how long I do it, and it could be anything from playing piano or another instrument, learning lines for a play, a new monologue, writing poetry, etc. Often I start out thinking I’ll only do it for a few minutes, then realizing more time has gone by. It’s made me a lot happier, especially during the work week.
Good job with the sheep description, really upsetting
I'm just saying that if you met your first ever nonhuman mammal at six years old, it might be a bit confusing.
Yeah I immediately texted that excerpt to my dad, just to let that filter into his work day. Very upsetting.
I was thinking about that Tumblr post about the toddler who was just finding out that parrots can talk
During WWII, children in London were evacuated to the countryside. For many of them, this meant their first encounter with livestock:
How London Boy Learned Where Milk Comes From
LONDON.—Ernest Brown, minister of health, read the following essay he received from a 10-year-old London East End boy who had been evacuated to the country: “The cow is a mammal. It has six sides, right and left and upper and below. At the back it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this he sends flies away so they don’t fall into the milk. The head is for the purpose of growing horns and so his mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with and the mouth is to moo with. Under the cow hangs milk. It is arranged for milking. When people milk, milk comes and there never is an end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not yet realized but it makes more and more. The cow has a fine sense of smell and one can smell it far away. This is the reason for fresh air in the country.
“A man cow is called an ox. The cow does not eat much but what it eats it eats twice so that it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos and when it says nothing at all it is because its insides are full up with grass.”
This is one of my favourite bits of writing ever
Fuck yeah he is learning so much
Man cow
That kid absorbed and recapitulated an awful lot of stuff about cows
#i love that you can hear the questions and explanations as this boy no doubt followed someone around getting answers#'what are those' 'they're horns' 'what are they for' 'to butt with'#and possibly in a moment of exasperation#'why is its head like that' 'so it has somewhere to grow horns do you want to play inside while i finish the farm chores'
lowkey poison is bad
Is highkey poison good?
I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.
I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.
reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world
The other thing about this that's wild is that with smartphone adoption came photos. There are so so so many photos now where they used to be so rare and precious. The amount of pictures of me in any given year as a baby or young child is tiny compared to even the amount of photos of my cat I've taken this year. For a lot of photos of me as a kid, they are the only photo of their kind: we don't have a digital backup and we lost the negatives. And I also am not that old. Even after digital cameras became a thing, it's not like you took your camera everywhere with you. The amount of photos I have on my phone would be completely unimaginable to my parents carefully timing shots of me on film back in the day. Blows my mind
yesterday I got the “are you a boy or are you a girl” question from a six-year-old, and I told her that some people aren’t boys or girls (like me!) I was expecting her to be a little confused, but she nodded thoughtfully and said, “wow, just like snails.”
I've been thinking about this tweet:
I was seeing this social media push for embarrassing ICE by posting videos of yourself being buffer than they are, which I think is trying to be a good sentiment, but the post kept saying "they aren't embarrassed about what they're doing, so we need to hit them where it actually hurts."
And I don't know if that's actually a solution. Like, what's that going to actually do? The real problem is that they aren't embarrassed about their naked cruelty, racism, and lack of compassion. And while anyone around them accepts that they are embodying the aspirational "real man" hegemonic masculine ideal, there can be no embarrassing them. So what if you can do more push ups? They can get away with murder.
But I think it could and should be couched in a way that shows how embarrassing it is. Like "I know that you as a grown man have the ability to solve your problems with words and not violence. I know you're not like a child who just lashes out physically when he's upset. I know you have enough dignity not to let your anger or any other emotion get the better of you. I know you can be measured and not reactive. I know you're not threatened by the people around you so that you have to lash out like a caged animal."
Truly it is embarrassing to let reactivity to your emotions dictate the way you interact with other people, especially to the point of violence. Even if you claim to be measured about it, doing violence will always make you look insecure, afraid, pathetic and out of control. Of course emotions are always going to play a factor in how we interact with each other, but culturally it seems like we've lost sight of the fact that adults are people who have higher cognitive function and can control themselves; and those who can't control themselves and don't want to are like people who never got past childhood.
Yeah Mr Yukimura, I agree with you. I wish guns were so deeply uncool that they just stopped being a problem because everyone reacted to them like they react to Bronys or something. Like eww, you're into that?? Ummmm.... Ok ...
It's weird bc it feels like the Masculine Ideal a century+ ago was stoicism, control, nonreactivity. And in contrast to that you had women's "hysteria". Losing your crap and giving into your emotions was seen as deeply un-manly. And maybe that's not how it actually played out in practice--maybe the respected men in the world have always been big, poorly-regulated bullies, what do I know--but it's weird that we're not even pretending that anymore. I don't even hear very many "haw haw women are over-emotional" jokes anymore. It feels like the ideal has shifted to "a man is someone who's stronger than the people around him and can do whatever he wants" including the owning of guns for the appearance of being the strongest. The fantasy of making everyone else fear you. Idk, it's weird and unsettling.
To be clear I'm not saying this with nostalgia, necessarily, for how things Used To Be... But I am definitely saying it with contempt for the current masculinity trend. I think it's childish, brutish and unattractive (since that apparently matters so much to the male ideal); I think it fosters a kind of widespread social distrust that rots healthy social systems; and I think it projects an embarrassing level of fear of other people. Yuck.
Romeo and Juliet retelling but it's a married couple who are planning to carve time out of their busy schedules to go out together, but she decides to take a little nap to try to get more energy to stay up later, and when he finds her asleep he assumes she's gone to bed for real so he goes all the way to sleep (I'm talking sleep mask + vaporub + white noise + melatonin, or whatever routine people do for a REALLY good sleep) and when she wakes up from her nap and finds him out cold she just goes to bed too. Tragic 😔
This post has been a hit with what I can only imagine is a specific demographic of Tumblr user
"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."
Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?
Your life saving medication should be free, period. It literally makes no difference if you were born with it or if you developed it later in life or any factors in your life that might have contributed to it. Medicine required to keep you alive and give you a decent quality of life should be free. Full stop.
Many moons ago I started a flower hair series but got art blocked half way through so I never got to finish Rose Knots and Hydrangea Buns. Inspiration strikes are funny times and now I'm back at it haha
The original 4
Painting process! The full hours long videos, HD images, and PSD files will be DMed on my Patreon
Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:
On Android
With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.
On iOS
To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.
Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.
I like memes that would be funny 1000 years ago.
there are mysteries in this world, and none of us may ever know the answers.