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Bemused Valkyrie

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Old enough || INTJ || Slytherin || Multi-fandom || LGBTQ+ ||  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ||

St Andrew: I am not worthy to have the same manner of death as our Lord so if you must crucify me then may I request you turn the cross upside down?

Roman guard: Oh is this like a thing or something with you guys? We were just talking about how that Peter guy asked the same thing in Rome

St Andrew: What the fuck? Are you serious? This was my idea first and I told him about it and Peter goes off and does it before me?What a fucking asshole uhhhh what about an X shape can you do an X shape like that’s still a pair of wooden beams right

Roman guard: I mean, an X would be a entirely different thing and I’ve never designed something to asphyxiate hanging from an X but, ok you know what that sucks your friend stole your idea and did it first so sure we can make it work

Not parasocial love nor parasocial hate but a secret third thing where I respect the celebrity for their talents and achievements while acknowledging that I do not have a personal relationship with them and that they are a human with flaws

Thank you for acknowledging that parasocial hate is just as weird as parasocial love. You don't know them. Stop speculating about them actually being horrible.

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my favorite calvin and hobbes comic is the one where his dad just rolls up and casually destroys his entire night by pointing out some neat trivia about record players

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are you sure. are you sure calvin’s dad is not a seasoned elder trickster. are you sure this isn’t the exact outcome he was hoping for

ok but that’s actually canon

You forgot this one

*looks pointedly at ETD*

Calvin’s dad is basically a Calvin who has learned that he can’t get away with running outside naked or throwing snowballs at neighborhood girls, but he is still precisely the same little shit under the thin veneer of civilization.

@lyricwritesprose Calvin and Hobbes has been one of my favorite things since I could read and Calvin’s dad one of my favorite characters, but that last comment blew my mind wide open. Of course that’s what he is. Of course.

one of the most subtly delightful things about calvin and hobbes is that you can SEE that calvin is his parents’ kid: his dad is so playful and imaginative, and his mom has a heck of a temper and a good sense of what’s right and wrong. calvin is a smart, passionate, imaginative kid who gets really upset when he thinks things are stupid or unfair. he drives his parents crazy sometimes because he’s a kid. but they were probably a lot like calvin themselves, when they were little. 

My favorite goddamn comic

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Also didn’t Calvin make a comment once that apparently his grandma said his mother was just as much of a troublemaker as he is

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My lifelong love of Calvin and Hobbes has facets that I am only discovering as a diagnosed adult.

Anonymous asked:

I dunno about you, but in MAwS, I feel like things are building up to a big confrontation between Lois and Clark where she calls him a liar, and he just straight up goes "look, when I said I don't know, I literally do not know where I came from. I'd know a lot more if I knew what my computer ghost dad was saying, but that is a lengthy work in progress."

--and Lois is just poleaxed because that is a lot more about himself than she was expecting to get out of Clark, but it also explains absolutely fuck-all, so Clark just bites the bullet and flies her to Smallville so she can meet his parents, and experience The Ship™ for herself.

I mean from the looks of the 'next week preview' I think Lois is concerned about trying to get Clark to feel comfortable enough to tell her on his own, because she knows Superman is uncomfortable and flighty, but she still has a lot of trust for Clark and like, now that she knows Superman isn't just this weird sketchy hot guy in a tight outfit but rather her deeply kind and caring coworker, she's coming to this understanding of, "Oh okay he actually really doesn't know and he's just trying to do good."

I honestly feel like she's going to push Clark to actually figuring out what the hell The Ship™ is and how it works and maybe recording samples of Jor-El's hologram for a cryptologist to figure out what the hell he's saying--or even try to recognize its patterns herself (maybe more Korean Lois content because Korean is historically a very consciously structured language??? But also what Kryptonian we have heard seems to follow a pretty western cadence so idk...I'd love to see the conlang notes on this show if there are any).

It would be interesting to see her like... pursue something and solve a mystery not out of crazed "I need to prove myself" journalistic instinct but rather because she deeply cares about Clark and is recognizing more and more how much not knowing who or what the fuck he is is weighing on him. Also, it would be really interesting if that ends up making her way more focused and patient as a reporter rather than her usual modus operandi which has been, "I need to prove myself so bad I actually end up self-destructing by never actually doing what Perry asks of me."

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Haters be like

“It’s totally possible to make a path that goes through every door exactly once”

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Idk if I did it right

sorry!

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.

im just fucking with you i’m pretty sure this has no right answer

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i concocted a solution with a 100% mortality rate

Stop being so incredibly funny on my impossible puzzle post

You can switch the tracks so the trolley will kill one person, or you can allow it to attempt the fruitless crusade of running over each person in the maze only once.

all in a days work! *passes out*

My indecisive butt, walking in and being faced with having to make a decision, immediately leaving

oOoOoooo I’m a ghost!

Fire

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dude my house

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What I love about tumblr is when we see a logic problem meant to be frustrating and/or unsolvable, we almost reflexively try to destroy it.

This website’s userbase is a chimp chewing through a Chinese finger trap

Crab Day

okay, so here's a new info post from the top.

the problem: tumblr is extremely extremely in debt. the current model is not profitable. this is why they are trying to turn the site into a shit clone of every other social media site, so they can attract new users and their money.

solution: not a ton of people can afford a long-term subscriptions like ad-free. however, many of us CAN afford $3 to inflict crabs on another unsuspecting user. (and those that can't, can still enjoy crabs everywhere)

the idea: in the grand traditions of mishapocalypses and goncharovs and tumblr users' obsession with [random inconsequential thing] Days, we create a fund drive/holiday on July 29th, dubbed Crab Day. buy your friends crabs. buy your enemies crabs. blaze posts. post memes. change ur icon. whatever. actually put your money where your mouth is and show @staff that there actually IS profit motive to listen to the current users about what we want this site to look like. (and yes, that means accessibility features too. we currently have zero leverage to demand these features. let's change that.)

i don't know if this will actually go anywhere. worst case scenario, a few of us have fun, tumblr gets a small amount of money, and nothing changes. best case though, we actually provide incentive to keep our stupid hellsite unique.

oh shit, thank you to the person who blazed this! ^^ i really hope the idea catches on, it really could be a lot of fun.

this is so fucking funny, tumblr is like "pwease we need money so so bad"

Hello, fellow writers. I am here to make your lives just a bit easier, by making your character's experience with near-critical blood loss have a little more personality!

(This is how I cope)

  1. One thing they don't tell you about major blood loss? How it ruins everything. You will be nauseated, exhausted, and more than a little traumatized! There are three bags of snacks that are probably going stale on my desk because they are from before the hospital, so the very thought of them sickens me. I can no longer use the same deodorant, because the smell makes me want to die! The shows I watched during the worst of the symptoms now make me barf! Yay!
  2. Iron pills all taste like blood! Every single one of them! I've never met an iron pill that didn't taste like blood! They all taste like iron! Which is what blood tastes like! Even if it's vegan it will taste like blood! Gummies too!
  3. You won't just be kinda sleepy. You won't just be a little tired. Move more than 20 feet and your legs will want to give out, and you will hear nothing but blood rushing in your ears, and your vision will go black. You will try and walk up the stairs and fall down the minute you clear the last step. Everything will be hard. Everything.
  4. It hurts. Your legs will hurt, your head will hurt, your pride will hurt. But mostly your head.
  5. Recovery is so long. It might even be longer than recovery for the injury that caused the blood loss in the first place. Probably not, I'm a special case, but it might be.
  6. If you have a uterus, be warned. Once a month you will feel it all over again. That blood loss is no joke, either.
  7. And finally, IVs suck ass. That's it. I had a 20 minute panic attack in the hospital, not from learning I had almost died, not from being in the fucking hospital, from the thought of someone messing with my IV. They are horrible. The nurse eventually gave up and left the room until I calmed down, because her just being there with the new unit of blood freaked me out so bad. Now, your character will probably not be as terrified of needles as I am, but if they are? IVs are probably their worst nightmare.

Anyway, hope my trauma can help you! Don't ask questions about why I had a haemoglobin count of under 6, you dont want to know the answer! All other questions are allowed and encouraged! I know all sorts of shit now and can help with probably lots of inquiries you might have! Yippee!

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"Anarchist" but gets triggered when people voluntarily don't wear bicycle helmets.

Me when I know what anarchy is

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Gravity legally cannot hurt you if you scream "NO GODS NO MASTERS" immediately before impact

I'm so fucking tired of this bicycle helmet discourse. Bike helmets aren't going to do shit to protect you if you get hit by a car

Most of the time... Bike accidents.... Involve things.... Other than cars...... like the ground....also it's safety gear..... Wearing it is non negotiable.... You are one accident away from being permanently disabled..... You need to protect your brain

Not towards OP

Is OSHA and other safety regulations also cop behavior?

*sigh* The belief that OSHA and other safety regulations are cop behavior are common opinions that people have, anarchist or not. Wearing PPE is annoying and often uncomfortable, sweaty, and cumbersome. People also generally hate being told to be careful, because they believe that "be careful" is synonymous with "hey, you're too stupid to do that without hurting yourself".

But all it takes is one time for you to slip up and suddenly the grinder disk that would have gotten stuck in your safety glasses is in your eye, or you're getting treated for lung cancer because you didn't want to wear your respirator while you welded. These are decisions that you were free to make, but might seriously regret later on.

People will scream until they're blue in the face about how oppressive it is to have to wear a safety vest and hard hat on a construction site, but do you really think that the hammer that slipped out of your buddy's hand is going to take that into consideration when it collides with your skull?

No political theory will save you from an accident. You can either wear your PPE, or can die, unexpectedly, painfully, and slowly. The choice is yours. Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it.

when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

i get kidnapped by a rich creep and he does the whole "have dinner with me wearing this specific dress (or die)" thing and i'm like okay lol let's see the dress and it turns out the dress doesn't fit me because the loser just thought he could grab any old low-cut red dress off the rack because he's a man and so i have to explain that there are very very few dresses that actually fit my weird proportions and so we take the fancy dinner to go and spend four hours dress shopping and then sometime around dress #27 i make my daring escape and he doesn't even bother to pursue me because he's so tired of shopping