no one understands how happy the return of the fourth of july watch hill party makes me!!!!
I honestly think people should talk about the UK the same way they talk about North Korea.
Like, remember back when Kim Jong Un first became General Secretary, and our media just became flooded with mountains and mountains of absolute bullshit about how North Koreans believe that Kim Jong Un doesn’t poop and can speak to dolphins and stuff? Just a whole bunch of bullshit that was obviously not true?
Yeah, that’s how we should talk about the UK.
Today, in that isolated, barbarian island nation, Charles Windsor road down the streets of London in a carriage made from pure gold, passing throngs of cheering urban peasants, many of whom could not even afford to pay their heating bills this past winter. Some of them even died because of this. From there, he went into a church filled with the moth wealthy and powerful people in the country, so that a man in ornate robes could put not just one, but two crowns on his head. Then, without skipping a beat, Charles Windsor turned to the camera and commanded all of his subjects to stand before their television sets and recite an oath of loyalty to him. Those who dared to protest this backwards, uncivilized display have been arrested, and are being held indefinitely and without charges by Charles Windsor’s personal private army.
Tell me just how in the world this fetid country belongs anywhere outside of a Renaissance Festival.
Look Scooby Doo as a franchise slays in part bc of how fluid it is in terms of premise and structure despite the initial concept being balls-to-the-wall 1960s niche BUT any iteration of Scooby Doo where the gang look down on/ talk down to each other bc of their respective differences just doesn’t Get It and should be expunged from canon imo… like, first of all that’s kind of the point- they all have a role to play in the group they all have their own strengths and blind spots they all bring something different to the table which is what makes them so ruthlessly efficient as a collective entity! And second, they weren’t thrown together by circumstance- they’re all very different people brought together by a shared passion, sure, but they all CHOSE to live out of a van with three other people and a bigass dog driving from town to town cross-examining the locals bc they all like each other!! They’re literally living the dream of every tight-knit teen friend group, where they all get to live together and hang out everyday with their shared weird pet doing their shared weird hobby enjoying the highs of low-stakes drama and unlimited resources. THAT is why the franchise has had such long-term staying power and that is what some of the modern iterations are missing. THAT is why Scooby Doo FUCKS- because of FRIENDSHIP and GHOSTS
Even Mystery Inc (my beloved), the legitimately dark and relatively adult one which has an actual body count, is still about the power of friendship.
(Spoilers for the finale of Mystery Inc.)
Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.
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Okay, to all the people blaming Amazon and TikTok, you are wildly missing the point or misdirecting blame.
TikTok is an app. It is not sentient. It is not doing this.
Amazon is also an app, and it is WHERE this is happening.
The problem is the people who are choosing to do this.
In order to “save money”— please read that as “steal”— they are buying a book fully intending to read and then return it so they get something without truly paying for it.
Nevermind, libraries let you borrow books for free, including ebooks.
Nevermind that writers can’t keep food on the table or a roof over their heads (so they can also keep writing, btw) if they aren’t getting paid.
No, no, what matters is YOU. You wanted it, felt entitled to it, made excuses to yourself and others to justify it, and then helped yourself to someone’s hardwork without intending to pay for it. AKA “theft.”
This isn’t some vigilante, anti-corporations BS. You don’t hurt corporations by doing this. You hurt authors. You hurt the author your stealing from. You hurt every author who gives up getting published because of this behavior. You hurt other authors who sees this happening, knowing you don’t give a rat’s ass about them only want to selfishly benefit from their labor. These are people who work hard, aren’t paid a living wage, and are practically begging just to be fairly compensated, yet people continue to exploit them and take their hardwork for themselves. (Slavery is coming to mind, is it doing that for anyone else? Make someone else do all the work while you reap the benefits and do absolutely nothing to earn it, including not paying them so they can pay bills and eat?).
You hurt people. You hurt the people you are stealing from. You are choosing to do that.
Stop blaming TikTok and Amazon. It’s PEOPLE who are choosing to do this to other people.
Meanwhile, you could have gone to the library or used their electronic resources. Y’all are some fucked up, selfish assholes. Treat others how you’d want to be treated. If a toddler can understand kindness and caring, so the fuck can you.
Reed Richards stupid ass be like “Hey Wanda, class 5 omega level mutant who also happens to be a nexus being, this Black Bolt dude here will kill you when he opens his mouth” then acts shocked when he gets fucking shredded like an expired credit card
look multiverse of madness was a good movie but i think it would've been better if instead of us seeing evil wanda right away. we start out with her genuinely trying to help protect america and maybe she could even not know that shes the one that's after America because idk the subconscious of the scarlet witch and shes trying to protect america but throughout the movie we see the little stuff about wanda change AND THEN THE HUGE PLOT TWIST IS DR STRANGE FINDING OUT WANDA HAS THE DARKHOLD AND SHE WAS THE VILLIAN ALL ALONG.
THATS HOW I WOULD'VE WRITTEN THE MOVIE.
"Is the richest manchild on earth succeessfully buying twitter good for free speech and democracy or not" - a discourse that's for some reason actually happening
the most baby-brained people imaginable: “yeah this guy will protect freedom of speech”
A lot of people are talking about Twitter refugees coming to Tumblr, but I think we should consider the opposite. We KNOW how to ruin a website. Sure, the tools are limited but we can still try. Make a throwaway email account and dedicate it to tweeting Elon Musk about shit he’s done. Kung Pow Penis him a couple dozen times. Say “Boy I want this on a shirt” on every image he posts. Pick a few other celebrities too while you’re at it.
I heard this metaphor growing up, and in my case, it backfired supremely, because I went out into my neighbor's backyard where a rose bush was growing, and the one I tested had like 30 petals (it was yellow, but definitely a rose of some kind), and as a very logical lass, I came to the conclusion that you could have premarital sex AT LEAST ten times before your future husband would even notice something was up. Moral of the story? Test your metaphors on the weirdest and most neurodivergent child you know before writing your weird religious propaganda.
fuck google docs so fucking much
i've just lost hundreds of docs and pdfs and i'm beyond pissed right now
they're all permanently gone
actually they're not holy shit
okay so, gonna tell ya'll something awesome rn
google drive is a mess sometimes with its storage things and if you're unlucky it might delete some of your files and you won't realise until it's well past the point where they won't be in 'trash' anymore and you're fucked
all is not lost however!
if you're on drive via browser, hit the little ? in a circle next to the settings cog and select "help"
search for "file recovery"
it'll show you the ways to try and recover your files on pc, android, and mac etc
these don't matter
you need to scroll down to the bottom and just hit the "contact us"
you'll be logged out automatically
log back in
click the little box to give google permission to attempt to restore your files for that account
click "submit"
give them some time to work but it's an automatic process
i've got most of my files back in less than 10 minutes
all is not lost! rejoice!
I'm gonna reblog this again bc wow but was it helpful to learn!
reblog to save a life
the thing that pisses me off about 50 shades of grey isn’t that it’s twilight fanfiction, it’s that it’s bad ooc twilight fanfiction. the implication that edward would be into bdsm is so fucking dumb he’s a 100 year old virgin who cried and went into a week-long depression the first time he fucked bella he wouldn’t even consider the idea of fucking her until they were married because he didn’t want to compromise his virtue and you’re telling me he’s a dom? no, edward cullen has the most boring vanilla sex ever the only thing unconventional about the way bella and edward fuck is that bella tops and edward cries the whole time and bella gets fed up and goes to the other house to fuck rosalie and edward cries some more in his room alone
I could get 10 Bastille Dan look-a-likes from the gas station but what makes Bastille Dan Smith special is that he’s MY basic white British man
This is an Amber Heard hate blog, if you support her in anyway pls unfollow and get tf away from me
Don’t confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don’t want a six figure sports car, or a 40 room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle wagyu steak dinner. I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens’ basic survival needs.
while i completely agree with this statement, i feel like there’s this disconnect between the common man’s desire to experience what life has to offer and the hyperwealthy’s desire to exploit the masses in order to hoard resources to the active detriment of others.
i want to experience driving a fancy sports car down a big open road, the top down and the wind blowing in my hair. i don’t want a garage of 20 sports cars that i never touch.
i want a nice, comfortable, tastefully decorated house that’s big enough for me, my family, my pets, my hobbies, and any friends i might want to invite over. i don’t want a megmansion with more space than i could ever possibly use, that i only own because i want my house to be bigger than someone else’s house.
i want to experience eating the best steak dinner that the culinary world can offer. i don’t want to eat gold, which has literally no flavor, just because i can.
i want to travel to different cities around the world, see beautiful places, experience different cultures, and meet interesting people. i don’t want to buy up swathes of land and push natives out so i can build my twelfth house in hawaii or greece or somewhere else i’ll barely ever visit.
i want to dress in nice, well-made clothes that represent my style and make me feel good about myself. i don’t want to carry a thirty thousand dollar handbag or rolex watch just because it costs thirty thousand dollars.
i want to be able to give my friends gifts, i want to be able to invest in causes that i believe in, i want to be able to buy myself things like books, art, electronics, theater tickets, and nice food without having to worry about how much it costs. i don’t want to buy elections or shoot myself into space.
the average person’s concept of luxury is so far removed from the hyperwealthy’s everyday life that the distance cannot even be measured in ways that we can comprehend.
so while of course it’s more important that we work towards everyone’s basic needs being met rather than achieving luxury for ourselves, you, an ordinary person, shouldn’t feel guilty just for wanting to experience exciting and comfortable things. life should not be unyielding drudgery.
unfortunately I’m watching supernatural and someone on screen said ‘there are No Wolves in pennsylvania’ and I was like. what a bold incorrect statement. where did they possibly get that idea from. so I googled it…google is insisting there are no wild wolves in pa?? except I’ve Seen wolves here?? there used to be a wolf that would hang out in my backyard and roam around the neighborhood?? like Everyone knew about this wolf we assumed he lived on the golf course and would come to our yards if he got spooked by golfers (very quiet block). like we all thought he just lost his pack or whatever so people just gave him a wide space and let him chill, he didn’t try to break into any houses or attack any pets but this was definitely. a wild wolf. where. where did he come from what do you MEAN there aren’t wolves in pennsylvania I’m literally spiraling right now
still feeling so gut-punched over this
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To be fair, PA also said “we did not reintroduce mountain lions, they are not there, you’re seeing really big house cats, please keep coming to the parks and camp sites and ignore that video, that was totally not a mountain lion, someone took last week”
okay I’m sorry but this came up on pinterest and I Screamed
you are the state of Pennsylvania (allegedly)
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i just showed this to a friend from pennsylvania and 1. theyre losing their mind bc theyve seen mountain lions which prompted them to look it up which leads me to 2. this fucking bonkers article
[caption: “We’ve been here 45 years and I’ve probably been told by people at least 100 t imes that they’ve seen a cougar or mountain lion,” said owner Vince Hall. “I kind of doubt they saw a cougar, but I’m not God.”]
PA: I can’t believe we’ve lost all our native apex predators Citizens of PA: there’s a mountain lion right there PA: sometimes we can still hear the sound of them scaring away tourists
…PA has fucking EMUS and you want me to believe we have no wolves or mountain lions?
what the fuck do you mean we have emus
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Guys, I’ve cracked it
This thing goes all the way to the top
what the fuck is happening in pennsylvania
As a regretful born and raised Pennsylvanian, we have wolves, coywolves, mountain lions, lynx, and coyotes. Not a single person in authority will admit to there being anything but coyotes and lynx. If you see a cougar, they will tell you you saw a lynx. If you see a wolf, they will tell you you saw a coyote. Ignore the massive differences in sizes. No one knows what a coywolf is but we have them. I have seen a cougar with my own two goddamned eyes. There is an entire nature park whose main attractions are the cougars and wolves (and bison but we’re not talking about them) - it’s called Penn’s Cave, it’s been there forever. Everyone I know has seen a cougar or wolf at least once in the woods.
So what I’m getting at is don’t trust the government.
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bruce hitting alfred w “you’re not my dad” immediately after turning down his Nirvana playlist while residual eye makeup runs down his face within the first twenty minutes of the film. at last. an adaptation that truly Gets Him
You can only reblog this today.
I missed my chance last year. Not gonna let it happen again
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The thing is that like “edgy humour” really is a GIANT red flag among young white men……you hear white boys making racist jokes all the time but people tend to brush it off and assume they’ll grow out of it or that they’re just going through a harmless edgy humour phase and like…..some of them might grow out of it but that’s not the POINT! They’re racist NOW! They’re spreading islamophobic ideas NOW and we brush it off because we assume they’ll grow out of it in the future but whether they do or not is irrelevant; they need to grow out of it Right. Now. Or more lives will be lost.
As someone who has worked with teenage boys, most of whom actually liked and/or respected me, the best tool I had for shutting down edgelord bullshit was a flat stare and “you’re better than that”. Simultaneously conveying “I am disappointed”, “I have expectations of you”, “you have otherwise met them”, “that sort of behavior is unacceptable”, and “you are better than the people who engage in that sort of behavior, but only so long as you don’t join them.” is an incredibly powerful tool with kids who care about what you think. The worst I ever had to escalate to was ‘disappointed headshake and “I thought you were better than that”.’ I’ve never had to repeat the sentiments or escalate after deploying that one. Actually made one of them cry once with just that. He felt that bad about letting me down, and we had a solid talk after. With guys my age, “I guess you’re not the kind of man I thought you were.” has proven effective.
I think this is something that we need to carry with arguments with these kinds of people. It is a sentiment grounded in humanity.