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sam | she/they | 20s

Apparently I started this flipnote 10 years ago. Which is crazy to think about. I decided to dust off my old friend (my red dsiXL) and try again from the ground up on this one.

[Description: a TikTok video showing someone holding up a Macbook laptop with an incredulous look, with a caption reading "Alan Turing after I bring him to 2026". The person inspects the laptop, and as they do so they say "Oh my god. This is—this is incredible. Like, I just—I can't even comprehend what I'm looking at here. Like, I just never thought that like in a million years society would ever, ever be able to create something like this." They pause and look at the laptop screen, and say "And you said they're both hockey players?" /End description]

This is the sorta segment I wish still existed in kids’ shows. Soothing voiceover, mellow music, no flashy graphics. Just a calm behind-the-scenes look at something you might call mundane but that most of us would never have a clue about if no one pulled the curtain back to reveal its inner workings.

Okay but imagine being in kindergarten and seeing something like this, you would absolutely change your mind about wanting to be a fire fighter or teacher or whatever Job you've been told is cool and possible to grow up to do because wait a minute it's just like play-doh, there's so much it's kept in trash cans, you can use your hands to smear icing everywhere? It smells like cinnamon buns all the time?! Yes please!

I vaguely remember having a field trip to a bakery in kindergarten and thinking croissants were magical and that I wanted to make them in the future cuz kneading dough looked fun.

Tangentially related, I discovered there is a whole genre on youtube of ASMR craft videos. Like, there are wildly popular channels that are just, like "watch this cobbler make a shoe from scratch with all the sounds recorded."

the EN dub being able to drop an F-bomb at the final line is killing me lmao

julius' voice cracking being a subtle cue that he knows he's doomed is also just pure lol

(also that perfectly cut scream at the end, rip bro)

“May I kindly knock your fucking teeth out” I don’t even go here but FUCK this is a mood

I got so sick of the cheesy Christmas playlist at work so I snuck in a version of All I Want For Christmas Is You where half way through the vocals change to Welcome To The Black Parade

Watching the customers slow down and squint in confusion is giving me life.

This is the song

Tea what the fuck I’m howling oh my god

I love you guys omf

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