I saw a tiktok the other day that was showing the "nonbinary aesthetic" and included binders... idk how to tell u guys that constantly excluding amab nonbinary people is bad...
this is also not to mention that like, painting a flat chest as the "neutral" and being surprised when nonbinary people want or are happy with their breasts like. why are we creating gender roles for nonbinary people. can we stop now
“The time of hot chocolaty mornings and toasty marshmallow evenings.”
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs
Why is this even a question? How is your child meant to learn to apologize when you don’t do it yourself as a parent?
This is actually a really important factor in how I establish healthy, trusting relationships with kiddos at work. I am a human and therefore make mistakes, which children will catch and call me out for, because children are information sponges with no verbal filters.
When a kid says, “but miss tommy, i thought you said we’re not supposed to do that,” I answer, “You’re right. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that. I won’t do it again.” It could be something small, maybe a kid sees me biting my nails, or maybe I grabbed a kid by the arm who was about to collide with something solid but I grabbed too hard. Whatever it is, it’s important to
Not only does this model HOW to make an effective apology, but it establishes trust on many levels. The children who witness the exchange now know that:
Apologize to your kids when you mess up! It won’t diminish your authority as their grown-up, it shows that you respect that authority!
This is one thing emotionally abusive parents are known for. Holding power over accountability and they wonder why their children don’t want to be around when they get older.
TED LASSO (TV Series 2020– ) ➼ Episode #2.6: The Signal 🖕
I just…. My celebrity crush liking my favorite musical is just so perfect
Humans are awesome
Alien 1: “So you see, this is why we do not provoke the humans.”
Alien 2: “Yes, this is an insightful battle simulation training recording.”
Alien 1: “You misunderstand. The humans are not battle training. They are doing those things for entertainment only. For fun.”
Alien 2: “…What?… for entertain… Even the human young?!”
Alien 1: “Yes.”
Alien 2: “I… I understand now.”
This is awsome holy fuck
I mean, not just for fun, though.
Like, the fun helps, sure, but the three strongest motivators of the human race are “it was there,” “hold my beer,” and “they all said I couldn’t… so I did”.
And that’s probably pretty damn close to a perfect summary, here…
You forgot the 4th motivator : “This guy did it, so i’m gonna do it better”
My proprioception is essentially broken, and vestibular stimulation sets off a panic response, so I can literally only imagine what it’s like to fling yourself in the air on purpose because it feels good. I keep interviewing my husband about all his stunts so I can write fictional athletes properly, because my brain damage makes all this extraordinary ability impossible for me, so of course I love watching it.
Never Forget the Reign of Terror waged against Muslims (and by extension, Sikhs profiled as being Muslim) in the nearly two decades following 9/11.
I made a difference in the world!
I’ve seen a bunch of people in the notes concerned (like I was) of comparisons of members of the lgbt to dogs: but upon visiting their website I was reassured that they monitor a variety of content, including (but not limited to):
THIS IS A GOOD SITE
Yeah, this site is literally so people can check for content they don’t want to see…or in some cases content that would make them physically or mentally ill. (I have strobe issues myself…)
It’s highly useful for a lot of people.
I had no idea they warned for strobe effects, that’s awesome! They give me headaches and nausea.
okay so I’ve seen a lot of artists,including myself, make this common mistake of coloring the palm of a hand(and the sole of a foot) as the same color as the person’s skin tone.
but in fact ,palms and soles are a different color compare to our skin
this is due to the lack of Melanin on them
hope this helps!
Don’t put this fucking whitewashing bullshit on my feed
IM SCREAMING
LMFAOOOOO
local tumblr user accidentally reveals they have never seen a black person
How to spot a Twitter refugee on Tumblr
The tone difference in foraging guides between native plants and invasive plants is literally so funny to read
Terry imma need examples
Foraging guide entry on native plants: Make sure you only take a small amount from a well-established patch. Leave some for the wildlife, and yourself next year! Please get involved in land restoration programs to protect this plant for the future :)
Foraging guide entry for Japanese Knotweed: RIP RIP TEAR KILL REND DESTROY EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT E V I S C E R A T E EAT EAT EAT EAT
The music in water levels:
The music in snowy levels:
Don’t forget the desert levels
The haunted house level:
A E S T H E T I C
Who the Hell is hearing nails on a chalkboard in a spooky house?!
Mr Gaiman, sir, with all due respect (quite a lot)... Why do you support Amazon? It's, to say the least, not a good company to get behind?
Because they make the things that other people wouldn’t make. Dirk Maggs and I had been trying to get the Sandman audio to happen since 1991 with the BBC and nobody was even a little bit interested. We were both convinced it would be wonderful, and we wanted someone to share our vision and pay for it. Audible did.
It was important to us that they released it in physical form, to allow people who couldn’t use Audible, and library users, to access it and they did.
Terry and I had been trying to get Good Omens onto the screen since 1990 and nobody had been willing to make it, not even when Terry Gilliam wanted to make a movie of it.
With Good Omens, the deal was with the BBC who then went out and looked for a partner to pay for it, as what I’d written was way beyond what the BBC could afford. They found Amazon, so we found ourselves making it with Amazon and the BBC, and Amazon were terrific: supportive and honest and helpful and smart. I’ve worked with companies and Networks who were not these things.
Red and Endor had been trying to get Anansi Boys made since 2011. They are two of the top production companies in the UK. Nobodybwas prepared to make it until Amazon understood what we were trying to do and took it on.
I’m very happy to be working with them on Good Omens 2 (with the BBC), Anansi Boys and the Sandman Audible series, just as I’m very happy to be working with Netflix and WB TV on Sandman for TV.
They were willing to step up when nobody else was on all of these projects. It’s fine to grumble about, for example, Sandman Acts 1 & 2 being on Audible, but if it wasn’t on Audible it wouldn’t exist. Same for Good Omens. Same for Anansi Boys.
In 2011 I fell in love with Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula books, a lesser known vampire book series from Count Dracula’s point of view. I met Fred Saberhangen’s widow on Facebook and she was very nice, very friendly, very kind. I suggested that the books (especially the first book, called “The Dracula Tape”) should be released as audio books. A plot point is the novels are dictated by Dracula into a tape recorder so the novelty of audio versions wasn’t lost on me, besides the fact that I wanted the books to be accessible to those who can’t read the physical novels.
Not long after that Joan came to me via Facebook and told me that Audible had offered her a deal for audio adaptations of the books. She asked me if I thought she should take the deal. Of course, I said yes. Within a year all ten of the Saberhagen Dracula books were adapted to audio with a reader going by the name “Robin Bloodworth” (which sounds like an alias Dracula would use). And it was fantastic. He gave the right tone, the right inflection. He even trailed off and zoned out and cleared his throat when “distracted” by descriptions of blood. It felt authentic. Much like Sandman they were first available on digital and then on Mp3 disc.
Without audible I wouldn’t have ten fantastic audio books sitting on my shelf complimenting those delightfully pulpy vampire novels (which I actually love more than Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, that I had been obsessed with in my teens).
For all its flaws there is good in Audible. And many books would never have gotten an audio adaptation if not for Audible.
Just go back to the 90s. In 1994 the only audio book of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat available with the abridged book-on-tape version narrated by Michael York. And that, quite frankly, was the worst audio book I had ever heard at the time. Michael York is a great actor. It wasn’t his fault. It was just that badly edited. It didn’t just remove various descriptions, the entire last twenty pages were missing very jarringly. The start of the next book, The Queen of the damned makes no sense without those pages. The “cliffhanger” was missing. The reunion with Louis, the concert, the vampires bursting into flame, the rescue by Gabrielle, and Lestat’s last minute abduction by Akasha… all gone. Those were important scenes.
Now keep in mind, in 1994 that was the only readily available audio book of The Vampire Lestat and at the time The Vampire Chronicles were VERY popular. So one of the most popular books at the time had this really awful, badly abridged, cassette tape version (Four tapes). Today, on Audible, I can easily get it unabridged and read by Simon Vance (Lucien in The Sandman audible). And if anyone is curious the Michael York one is also available.
Now, thanks to Audible, I can find the most “obscure” titles in audio book form.
Audible even had restored and digitized the audiobook for the novelization of the Tim Burton Batman movie read by Roddy McDowell of all things! Do you have any idea how rare that was in the 90s and early 2000s?! The audiobook of the novelization of the Tim Burton film read by Roddy F—king McDowell!?!? There was a time collectors would have killed just to hear a sample of that.
I had to pay sixty dollars via money order (back when they accepted money orders) on ebay, in 1999, to hear the early 80s audiobook version of The Man who fell to Earth by Walter Tevis because it was so rare (and that wasn’t well read, but at least it wasn’t abridged.) Today that’s eighteen dollars on audible.
For all its “evil” Audible has done incredible good.
Yeah, I’m pro-audible. They made things exist and accessible that were all but impossible for the visually impaired just twenty-years-ago.
oh this is a life saver
So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.
Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.
I don’t think of myself as a cook at all, but I looked through this list and was like “if you have [center] and [any item on a surrounding ring] how do you sit there thinking you’ve got nothing to eat?” Like, I buy a fair amount of staples knowing that I’ll be able to quickly assemble them into something tasty if I’m hungry and don’t have anything instant (or in a leftovers container because I made it earlier in the week specifically to eat for a week): butter, cheese, noodles, and more.
It still impresses people how I can go into random kitchens with no food in them and emerge with Filling Snacks for Five People. This is the secret: knowing how to assemble Cupboard Meals. And these charts are incredibly well-laid-out too!
