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I'm Moby Goddamn Dick and you're swimming in my waters

@mcconaughating / mcconaughating.tumblr.com

Trina. Old. I'll take a selfie with your skeleton.

the year is 2012.

I have two tabs open. one is tumblr. I am 160 posts back on my dashboard - I have made it back to the place I left off the night before.

satisfied, I open the second tab to pull up a post-avengers fanfic. everyone lives together in stark tower - each of them has their own floor. for no explained reason, loki shares thor’s. no one questions that he has not been arrested. the team has friday evening movie nights. at breakfast, thor eats all of tony’s pop tarts.

I am content.

to all the people saying this was an embarrassing time: I am 34 full years old and reading/writing these fics brought me so much joy and rereading them still does. embarrassment is a construct, cringe culture is dead, and the found family trope saves lives.

#they were not as cringey as the actual mcu movies are now (via @nostalgiaiscool)

the CDC's like "how could covid cases be RISING?! all we did was tell the dumbest, most selfish population in the history of the world that they didn't need masks if they got vaccinated, entirely on the honor system"

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i legally cannot let this sweet old woman down

why did this make me tear up 🥺 she reminds me of my play grandma rosie

I am actually sobbing wow, protect her 💜

Man 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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pearlmarley

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st-ne-ld

[video ID/ transcript:

An older Black woman in a bonnet and glasses speaks,

“Hey sugars, I was just sitting here and something just came to my heart to say. And at my age, when stuff be coming on your heart, you better go ahead and be saying it. ‘Cause you know I got more days behind me than I got in front of me. And I was feeling like some of y’all out there, you got dreams. You got expectations for yourself, but you know, you’re feeling like you just don’t believe in yourself.

Well honeys, if you don’t believe in you, it’s gon be so hard for other folks to believe in you. So, do you know what I want you to do today? I want you to start practicing telling yourself that thing we used to say to you children all the time,

‘You can do anything you put your mind to!’

‘Cause I feel like some of you out there got some things— you got some books to write, you got some songs to sing. You’ve got some inventions to invent! Now you know, I want you to go out there and get started. Make that first step.

And you know what, I believe that it’s so much stuff out there you gon do, I might even stick around ‘til I’m a hundred and something just so I make sure I see it.

Alright, sugars, somebody loves you and somebody’s praying for you. Me! (joyous laughter). Go on out there and have yourself a good day. I believe in ya.

end ID].

Jurassic World did the Avatar thing where it made a gajillion dollars and left no cultural footprint whatsoever. Name your favorite Jurassic World character. What was your favorite line. It evaporated despite everyone seeing it.

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themistrustfulmistress

WRONG fav character was the extra that ran away from the pterodactyls with two margheritas in hand

Gotta do everything myself around here

So, I went into this guy’s Wikipedia page, because he looked familiar. And there’s this big “Controversies” section, so I was preparing myself to read that even the margaritas/pterodactyls guy has sexually assaulted someone. But it turns out that he hasn’t. However, he:

- Has been sued for copyright infringement for a ‘blasphemous’ musical rendition of a monologue from the 1950s

- He was on a plane with U2′s Bono and his family, and the plane was shot by the Jamaican police, who believed they were smuggling marijuana. He wrote a song about the incident.

- He’s actually a singer, and his better known song in called MARGARITAVILLE. He also owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain. And has licensed Margaritaville Tequila, Margaritaville Footwear, and a Margaritaville Foods. He owns the Margaritaville Casino, has released a “Margaritaville Online” game, and he wrote and starred in a musical called “Escape to Margaritaville”

- He also wrote a song called “Math Suks”, which was condemned by the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for its alleged negative effect on children’s education. 

- He was thrown out of a basketball game he was watching for using blasphemous language in front of kids.

- And he was detained by French customs for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy. Although he was released after paying a fine, and, according to him, the pills were a B-vitamin supplement.

So, yeah, that was refreshing controversies section-wise, but now I don’t know what to do with all that information.

Maybe its my age, but i’m a little concerned that the fact he is a singer and wrote Margaritaville wasn’t prior knowledge and is considered a controversy

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Beach, booze, Buffett.

Jimmy Buffett plays the margarita guy in Jurassic World because his most famous song is “Margaritaville” and this is therefore hilarious, I thought

absolutely obsessed with jimmy buffett being called “this guy”

Love the suggestion that the song and brand Margarativille are mentioned in passing on the Wikipedia page for uncredited Jurassic World extra Jimmy Buffett

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svvordvviz

reading the first half of the comments like