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I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

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I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.

He stops and looks both ways?!?

You wanna know what makes this better?

Crows normally walk. This one seems to have both legs working, so he’s not hopping out of necessity, he’s doing it for fun. Corvids can sometimes be seen doing things like this for no evident reason other than enjoyment.

This is my new favorite post

I can’t ever not reblog.

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endershards

Have some happy crow vibes

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Tips to not fall into unnecessary anger (long post below)

this is meant to help anyone who is having problems with getting caught up in things that have no immediate harmful repercussions but are in an environment that makes them feel like they have to care about very trivial discussion that gets sparked out in any kind of social media or even just with friend groups, or feeling like they lash out very quickly at any person that just annoys them a bit, i know its hard but i know you can get out there and work on your own emotions to not end up driving people away. 

im not a certified therapist or anything like that, im just an overly observant autistic schizoaffective 20 something who has learned from up and downs of trying to socialize in my late teens when i had been caught up in my own head without understanding how people work, for years. i can only hope anything i say can help even just a little!

take care of yourselves and dont be afraid to share this around for either yourself or someone you care about who could be going through a similar situation.

im also open for anyone willing to do a transcript of this whole thing, as i am not good with transcriptions.

I don’t know how many of you were around for when “A Canterlot Wedding” aired, but looking back on it now, it was an absolute masterclass in how to end a season.

When the season 2 finale was first revealed, and promo images and commercials were being put out for it, all they promoted was the titular wedding. A two-parter dedicated to the marriage between two characters that, at that point, the audience hadn’t been introduced to yet. There was not even the suggestion there would be some kind of conflict or plot, just a sudden fun wedding romp, inspired by the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

Going in, this was literally everything we knew.

And then the thing actually aired, and the core story was a meaningful conflict of Twilight struggling with her feelings about her older brother getting married. And someone has made threats against the capital city. And the bride is acting…strange. And Twilight’s suspicions of her damage her relationship with her brother.

And then part 1 kicks your teeth in at the last possible second by Cadance suddenly dragging a crying Twilight down in a fiery portal to hell.

Not only would this finale go on from here to give us one the best songs in any children’s show ever, “This Day Aria”, but also introduce the most iconic villain in MLP, Queen Chrysalis (VA: Kathleen Barr).

This is the finale that made a lot of reviewers that had previously dismissed MLP and the brony phenomenon suddenly switch gears and announce “okay, bronies are justified”. It was that significant. And I honestly don’t feel any cartoon show has been able to pull off something quite like this since.

Life lessons.

I had a group of undergraduate students who almost always did their readings for the day, but on this one particular day: they hadn’t. They all said they had midterms to do and chose a class to not do the work for and it was mine. Lesson plan scrapped, I needed to quickly come up with something to do, and all I could think of was this post.

So I gave it a go.

Our lesson for the day was on historical re-enactments and why people did them. My students, having not read their assignments, couldn’t understand why anyone would want to engage in a re-enactment and didn’t understand the point. So I set them up with this game, explained the rules, told them they had 45 minutes to make the largest group without a witch in it, and let them go.

Within thirty minutes they were getting loud enough that I was worried I’d need to tone it down because I didn’t want to bother other classes. Some students went full in character, they created elaborate backstories, they improved their way through the entire thing and in the last five minutes had created an entire imaginary community based on this elaborate tale they’d created and were damn near ready to commit murder, screaming “she’s a witch” and splitting into two distinct groups with a lot of hand grabbing and pulling to get people into the right group.

When I told them the truth, they were stunned speechless. I reminded them of the rules: all they had to do was make a group without a witch in it. I never told them someone would be a witch, and they presumed someone would get the role. Similarly, the salem witch trials presumed that there were witches and invented them in their group.

They told me after we did our wrap up that they had been learning about the witch trials in other classes, but had never understood why anyone would actually believe in witchcraft. They were shaken, not only by the realization they were about to throw hands with their fellow students, but that all it took was someone in authority to imply something was so.

The “re-enactment” helped them to understand something that just reading about the trials hadn’t.

And, it also helped them to understand why some people do engage in historical re-enactments. They all admitted to having A Lot of Fun and that it was something that gave them a chance to just play and engage and do something they’d never done before: actually experience the history they were studying (sort of).

It was an excellent exercise, and I’m grateful for this person for writing about it because it worked so well for our class.

my niche ‘online game that seems to have been completely lost for time but I REMEMBER IT and it is my white whale’ is the hook up. there was literally an in-game mechanical system for winning arguments with people and you could be gay in it even though it was a kids’ game from 2007. i will never be able to play it again and this haunts me

the hook up was a narrative game… basically a visual novel, actually, that used to be on the n, nickelodeon’s now-defunct website for teens. you played a teenage girl who just moved into town (i think) and you were trying to unravel all the drama and romance that was going on with the teens there.

i think there were still some old gameplay videos up on youtube, but something about this game just absolutely had me transfixed as a kid. a lot of those old games are archived somewhere, but despite many many people trying to find and preserve this one, i think it was completely lost to time.

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. UPDATE FROM JANUARY 2022. SOMEONE MADE IT PLAYABLE FINALLY. THIS HAS BEEN LOST MEDIA FOR YEARS I’M OVER THE MOON

…. now i have to figure out how to run an exe file on my mac, i can’t figure out wineskin

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if i sell nudes to pay for top surgery can i call them limited edition

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uh oh

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alright fuck it. yous have blown up my notifications for three days. put your money where your mouths are.

 i’m getting top surgery in january. i need to get £1500 together by christmas to have the full cost saved up. i will be taking 150 pictures of my boobs and printing them as physical photographs so this shit really is limited edition. 50 will be sexy, 50 will be goofy, and 50 will be themed. they will come with stickers and a thank you note. they will not have my face in them. these fuckers will be paying rent in their final months so help me god.

the pictures will be available for purchase from the 20th of november for one month only. details to follow.

if anybody is feeling generous before that time, my paypal is neuronary.n.neuronary@gmail.com. i really sincerely appreciate anything anyone can give, so thank you so much.

 to put that big number in context, if everyone who has liked this post was able to donate £1, i would have more than enough to afford the surgery.

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hey so like. if you rbd the original please also reblog this version.

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No, it's not cringy it's fucking genius.

Tumblr staff understands its fucking userbase in a way Elon Musk will never understand Twitter.

Beating a dead horse into the ground is a supernatural reference.

Oh my god.

It's so fucking good.

This is just good.

This is speaking the language fluently.

Twitter is not fucking prepared.

I love and hate you all.

Be happy and DIE.

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Hey guys I just bought this cool cylinder from some guy in the flea market parking lot, not sure how it works but when you take the lid off it makes your camera all grainy, super cool!

they did not survive

[AMV] Jon Arbuckle - You’re Gonna Go Far Kid

this is one of my favorite videos on the internet, and it kills me that the source has been silenced by youtube’s copyright system, so I’m putting it here!

I have seen a version of this on tumblr before, but the audio in that one is just a little bit off because that person edited it back in themselves

but today, I am proud to present the original video, sent to me by Crispy Crungy, who gave me permission to upload it here and share it with you all!

enjoy!

I love this description. It reads like a dedication speech for an art museum. Like we’re all witnesses to this video being interred in the Met. Preserving these things is important, and they really captured that.

using a 20 year old computer to look at gandalf pics at 12:30am

welcome to my world

hi i’m rly glad people enjoyed this and i want to share that yes, i’m exploring Gopher, the archaic alternative to the world wide web aka every single website that starts with http://

for people who don’t know, Gopher “websites” uploaded with this protocol are exclusively plaintext directories that lead to either text files, images, or other downloadable files. its so stripped back, there’s zero advertising or corporate tracking, and everything uploaded there is hosted by random nerds who still have stuff up from the 90s.

if youre on a modern machine, where most browsers don’t natively support loading Gopher pages, the best way to explore it is to access it via an http proxy. this link takes u to one: http:// fld.gp/lj/r (delete the space) (alternatively u can pick up an old ass secondhand computer, and find a browser designed for its OS like Classilla on my 2001 iMac, which natively runs Gopher)

from there u can read some helpful text files about how to use Gopher servers, but i highly recommend scrolling down and just clicking on “All the gopher servers in the world”. and just click on random shit. there’s also a (unreliable) search engine, Veronica2. just typing random things and exploring servers is how i found this stuff.

I’ve genuinely not had this much fun in years being “on the internet”. so much random niche stuff and genuine cultural resources, as well as cool tools using those limiting constraints. its such an antidote to being on a corporate-controlled, advertising riddled web that wants to track you and sell you like a product for data harvesting. i highly recommend exploring it and feeling like ur doing internet archaeology

I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?

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reblog to save a life

That is incredibly interesting! Sounds like it would be a hassle, but 100% better than the alternative of just not having access to insulin.

So obviously I commented on this a while back but now I feel like it’s important to put it on the thread and not behind a link:

Using the older style insulin is not the same as using the newer versions, and requires you to be very attentive to your blood sugar and food intake, and typically requires a strict diet. It is not fast acting, and can still cause hypoglycemia. It is not a 1:1 replacement for modern insulins, and if you attempt to use it the same way you use your modern insulin, it can be extremely dangerous.

It is much better to use $25 Walmart insulin than to use no insulin, but you absolutely need to make sure that you are using it properly, which means speaking to the pharmacist, consulting with your doctor, and making sure you are knowledgeable about and attentive to your condition, which means frequent blood sugar checks and careful dietary restriction.

There are a few posts of people talking about how this post has gotten people killed and that is my nightmare, and specifically why I linked the writeup up above. If you find yourself stuck between using no insulin and using older style insulin, you have to make sure to do it properly, you can’t use it like other styles of insulin you may have used.