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"Aren't you worried those medications will affect your brain?" my dude that is literally exactly why i am taking them

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:34:26 -0700

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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:30:21 -0700

steveio-supreveio: I regret nothing.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:50:36 -0700

steveio-supreveio:

I regret nothing.

extraterezi:Based on this (x)

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:49:59 -0700

extraterezi:

Based on this (x)

zagreus: flame-cat: im bout to trigger yalls fight or flight reflexes “i baked you a pie” “oh boy!...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:34:48 -0700

zagreus:

flame-cat:

im bout to trigger yalls fight or flight reflexes

“i baked you a pie”

“oh boy! what flavor?”

this didn’t trigger my fight or flight reflex it just made me yearn for a simpler, more innocent time

bedlamsbard: jerseydevious: i have to say, i’ve grown a fondness for palpatine. he’s just…. so...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:16:45 -0700

bedlamsbard:

jerseydevious:

i have to say, i’ve grown a fondness for palpatine. he’s just…. so completely, wholly, and entirely evil. he’s so evil i don’t think, “evil,” covers it. i think in the pit of dead sith lords he exists in, now, the other sith lords stay away from him because He’s Just So Evil. i mean, this guy looked at tiny anakin, “the biggest problem in the galaxy is that no one helps each other,” skywalker and said, that one. i want that one, and i want to destroy him and warp him so utterly he will be unrecognizable.

and it’s not like he particularly needed darth vader or anything, that was just icing on the cake. he was already well on his way to taking the republic down, he had the jedi’s kill switch in place, and then he just decides to corrupt the chosen one because he could. it’s like the blowout sale of democracy, and palpatine is the one clearing out the story. i will take away your FREEDOM, your BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, i will commit ATROCITIES UNPARALLELED, and i think i’ll take your 9 year old, too. throw him in. everything he does to anakin is so horrifying, but it’s just palpatine taking a victory lap. he’s not only going to crush the jedi and the republic, he’s gonna turn their chosen one into the face of his empire and have him hunt down the last remnants of their order. he did all of that just because he could. palpatine is an unparalleled MONSTER and i kind of love it

#palpatine is fantastic because he’s so /archetypical/ #he is the Ancient Evil Wizard #he’s pure distilled one dimensional evil and he’s so committed to that that he somehow gains dimensions #he’s the kind of character who would lose something if you tried to give him depth the way you usually go about giving characters depth (via @alexkablob)

stability: nothings worse than passing up an opportunity you know you would’ve enjoyed because of...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:11:00 -0700

stability:

nothings worse than passing up an opportunity you know you would’ve enjoyed because of the fear of being judged

cezarywho: madlori: tastefullyoffensive: by Xergion This is...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:18:19 -0700

cezarywho:

madlori:

tastefullyoffensive:

by Xergion

This is true! The zoo where I volunteer (the illustrious Columbus Zoo & Aquarium) was one of the pioneers of this program.

Our zoo is known for raising cheetah cubs. Cheetahs have a terrible infant mortality rate and cubs are often rejected, so we get a lot of cubs to raise from all over the country (other zoos and sanctuaries, mostly).

The cubs are placed with a puppy friend when they are wee and small, so they grow up together like littermates. They play together, wrestle, and the dogs (yellow Labs) are so calm, friendly and well-socialized that the cheetahs take behavioral cues from them. When they meet new people, or go into new situations (which they often do, as ambassador animals for cheetah conservation), they check out if their dog friend is feeling chill - which he is - and then they know it’s okay for them to be chill, too.

Basically the dog is a service animal for them.

The cats need their dog friends less and less as they get older and more comfortable, but they still often hang out as grownups.

Our zoo does cheetah runs, where the cheetahs get to chase a lure and show off their speed. Often they’ll have one of the cheetahs run (we have like twelve cheetah), and then they’ll have one of the dogs do the run to show how much faster the cats are. People get a kick out of that. The dogs…let’s just say they try their best.

Omg I’m crying, this is so beautiful. 😭

carboncornbread: darkleer as hephaestus, dolorosa as demeter,...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:54:04 -0700

carboncornbread:

darkleer as hephaestus, dolorosa as demeter, disciple and signless as psyche and eros, demoness as hades, and alternative signless as prometheus

i should call it olympus-stuck or greek mythology stuck

autistic-evanhansen: character: has one (1) trait even remotely similar to me me:

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:47:38 -0700

autistic-evanhansen:

character: has one (1) trait even remotely similar to me

me:

mokgae: 생각 난 김에 동영상 GIF 작업해서 올려봄. ㅋㅋ 지옥의...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 18:56:04 -0700

mokgae:

생각 난 김에 동영상 GIF 작업해서 올려봄. ㅋㅋ 지옥의 재업맨ㅋㅋㅋ

원페이지: http://mokgae.tumblr.com/post/159493648915

1: http://mokgae.tumblr.com/post/143535010080

3: http://mokgae.tumblr.com/post/175137556220

+ 번외: http://mokgae.tumblr.com/post/147292230745

actuallybestrpgideas: pyrogina: actuallybestrpgideas: daitoshi...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:51:17 -0700

actuallybestrpgideas:

pyrogina:

actuallybestrpgideas:

daitoshi:

My friend turned 29 today.
For his birthday, he hosted several “challenges” to set our stats - contests of strength, agility, wisdom, etc. (constitution was how well we could bear eating spicy salsa, intelligence was nerdy trivia, etc)

Based on our final stats, he assigned characters - heroes of various types, or goblins.
We then went out and played “live” DND.
Everyone here is between ages 23 and 29.
Anyway, if someone says adulthood means abandoning ridiculous parties and fun times with your friends they’re full of shit.

Can someone find where I can acquire giant dice like that? Asking for a friend

@actuallybestrpgideas im not sure where to buy but i bet you could make them pretty easily from foam-board and cardboard! plus you can completely destroy it if you get a critfail!

My birthday is in a few months I can totally do this omg

sib333: flatw00ds: one of the reasons I don’t really ‘get’ people who make fun of kids with silly,...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:55:13 -0700

sib333:

flatw00ds:

one of the reasons I don’t really ‘get’ people who make fun of kids with silly, super self indulgent OCs/self inserts is because as an adult I still have those. I just don’t share em. But you can bet after seeing a great movie I spend the whole car ride home imagining the WORST possible self insert and enjoying the helllllllll out of it

!!!

chipmunkchiptune: daydreams-at-midnight: turn on sound This...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:24:07 -0700

chipmunkchiptune:

daydreams-at-midnight:

turn on sound

This has a better three-act structure than some movies I’ve seen lately.

ollive-oil: glossiests: if you’re gay, you’ve almost definitely gone through/are going through an...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:19:42 -0700

ollive-oil:

glossiests:

if you’re gay, you’ve almost definitely gone through/are going through an emo phase, an anime phase, a homestuck phase, a weird kids tv shows phase, or some combination of these four things. sorry, i dont make the rules.

zenosanalytic: adelmortescryche: jenroses: the-real-seebs: curriebelle: actuallyclintbarton: gu...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:18:22 -0700

zenosanalytic:

adelmortescryche:

jenroses:

the-real-seebs:

curriebelle:

actuallyclintbarton:

guinevak:

skull-bearer:

thainfool-of-a-took:

roachpatrol:

mercurialmalcontent:

I’m not even much of a fan of genderbends but goddamn am I even less of a fan of getting ordered around about what I should enjoy and how I should enjoy it and being lectured about how ‘problematic’ it is, when the real problem is that they’ve cast the thing in question in black and white and refuse to admit that there’s anything but their narrow framing.

Changing a character to the ‘opposite’ cis gender is a very different thing than making them trans or nonbinary. Insisting that people only change characters to trans is also really damn invalidating, because it implies that being trans is interchangable with being cis. Whoopsie doodle!

I think the real issue here is that a lot of people want to see more trans headcanons, but for some reason think that using sj words while being bossy and rude is the way to go about it. Dress it up in progressive language all you like; at the end of the day you’re still being bossy and rude to get what you want, regardless of anyone else’s valid feelings.

i get really irritated at kids who scream that genderbends are transphobic because they’re completely missing the context and history. they have no idea. it’s like to them, Cis People made up genderbends specifically to thumb their noses at trans people.

rule 63 was originally a guy thing, sexual objectification thing. it states ‘for every male character, there’s a female version of that character’, and not because the dudes who were into it cared about having more realistically rendered female heroes in their media. it was made popular on 4chan and porn boards and comics+gaming forums because you could reduce a manly male character into a sexy tits-and-ass pinup. there were related kinks of sissification, but mostly it was about getting to jerk it to a sexy female version of a previously unappealing, macho male character.

then women got hold of the rule and started going, okay. let’s look at the female version of this male character. let’s talk about being a woman in a man’s world. let’s talk about rorschach’s misogyny, tony stark’s womanizing, batman’s grimness, the fact there’s one girl ninja to every four or five guy ninjas, let’s talk about that in the hypothetical context of these male heroes being women instead. if there’s a girl version for every male character, what does that mean? what’s her story?

and it became this really amazing lens for female fans to interrogate stories through, to examine the effects of sexism and misogyny and masculinity, to introduce another woman into a story with very few, to identify with fully-rendered heroes of the fan’s own gender. and to interrogate the very nature of gender, which led into the development of genderbends where the character’s gender identity didn’t necessarily match their assigned sex, and from there an increasing interest in, and familiarity with, trans characters, trans people, and trans issues.

so like. people now reducing the issue to ‘cis people are gross and hate trans people’ is pretty ridiculous. it ignores basically twenty years of women questioning, confronting and then dismantling the de-facto heteronormative, exploitative male gaze in order to create the radically progressive fandom atmosphere as we know it today on tumblr.

I’d been trying to put into words my issue with the idea that genderbent versions of characters are somehow automatically, innately transphobic, and I think you pretty well nailed it.

Originally, it was called ‘genderswap’ or ‘genderswitch’, which was rightfully criticized for reinforcing a binary view of gender. Hence why it is now ‘genderbend‘. Things can bend in many directions.

Yeah basically.

Rule 63s can be transphobic and gender essentialist, no question, just as m/m slash can be misogynistic, but it’s not inherent to the genre.

The way I see it, rule 63 and trans/nb headcanons are two subsets of what I call “gender AUs”, and they’re not mutually exclusive. Girl!Sherlock Holmes is an example of one, trans!Holmes is the other, and trans woman Holmes is both. All those would be worthwhile explorations.

Yes! And all sorts have their place because all of them are exploring the experience of an under-represented group (or two) in a different way.

Thank you for writing this :) I never want to tell people that their feelings are invalid, but sometimes I think those feelings come from gut negative reactions that deserve to be re-examined. Like in this case, trans people have every right to be wary of something that could - and admittedly, sometimes does - re-enforce difficult gender stereotypes, and they also have every right to say genderbent art/fic isn’t to their taste or ask people to tag it.

But there’s nothing inherently transphobic about art that explores gender - quite the opposite, I think - and that’s what genderbends are about. It can be hugely beneficial to imagine male characters as female in order to explore roles that aren’t traditionally given to women (I would really love to see a genderbent take on, say, Stacker Pentecost for that exact reason).

i just want to point out that i know at least five trans people who have referred to the place they see a doctor about HRT as “the rule 63 clinic”.

Yes, to all of this, and oh my god “Rule 63 clinic” has me rolling. I’m going to see one myself sometime in the next year. so.

I tend to back out of mediocre storytelling pretty fast, but some of the best fics I’ve ever seen were doing EXACTLY what Roach said… using gender bends and gender swaps as lenses to examine shitty canon through a feminist lens.

Some of the best had now-female characters who were actually saltier and harsher than their male alteregos, specifically because of sexism, rather than having characters become caricatures of femininity.

Is there a rule that says “A good writer can break all the rules and make people happy they did?”

Because seriously.

All of this.

Just want to add that genderbends predate Rule63 by decades. The misogynistic objectification came after.

rrareearthh: fisnikjasharii: Naturally Erupted Elephant Rock in...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:09:37 -0700

rrareearthh:

fisnikjasharii:

Naturally Erupted Elephant Rock in Heimaey in Iceland

I’ve often seen pictures of the elephant’s head, and have been amazed by it every time. But I’d never seen the picture from above, showing the whole body/tail and trunk. It’s incredible from this angle, and am convinced it is a real ancient mega elephant turned to stone by a dark or benevolent force long forgotten.

AKA this fucks me up

heauxsettastoned: captaindannylid: he scream DAM THIS FOD GOOD

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:27:12 -0700

heauxsettastoned:

captaindannylid:

he scream

DAM THIS FOD GOOD

Jokes that people always forget when talking about the History Of Japan video:

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:04:15 -0700

heikes-classy-ass:

- Knock Knock, get the door, its religion

- And they made some reforms like: Making the goverment govern more, and make the goverment more like china´s goverment wich is a goverment that governs more

- CORRECTION: rich people hired samurai, poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai

- So the mongols came over, ready to fight and then died in a tornado. So they tried again, and then had a good time fighting eachother for a while and then died in a tornado

- And then everyone voted SO HARD that the palace caught on fire and burnt down

- and you know what else is western?? thats right! its CONQUERING STUFF

- So they make the railroad guarded my a SHIT TON of soldiers, and when they finished it they downgraded it to a FUCK TON OF SOLDIERS (did we just say downgraded not upgraded?)

- then japan and britain made an alliance to be a little bit less scared of russia

- So you know what that means, duh: JAPAN S H O U L D GET THE ISLANDS!

- THE L E A G U E OF NATIONS!!!!!! (whose mission statement is to try to not to take over the world)

- POST WAR ECONOMIC M I R A C L E ! ! ! !

silverjohn: Adultier Adult: We’re both adults you’re allowed to call me by my first name Me: I...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:44:48 -0700

silverjohn:

Adultier Adult: We’re both adults you’re allowed to call me by my first name

Me: I Cannot Do That