Darling, you'll be okay.

Oh, boy, for real?! I wanna see!

We must remove the heads of the wealthy.

Starting a collection

KILL EVERY FAMOUS PERSON ! LET INTERNET TRANSSEXUALS HOST THE MET GALA !

YES!

ordered pizza from a small local place and they didnt actually cut it so i've chosen to revert to a wild animal and begin ripping it apart instead of just using a knife to portion slices

absolutely visceral experience. food is so much more satisfying when you have to fight it. i may be feral

i am not proud to say this but that pizza lasted fifteen minutes. i normally am not that gluttonous, but this goes beyond glutton. there was gluttony and wrath. a whirlwind of sauce, cheese, and pepperoni, all atop a flatbread that was shred apart by my own hands due to the neglect of another

in that moment i was wild. i was free. i understood the simplest joys in life. the joy of eating and manifesting my own destiny

been reflecting on this all day and the unsliced pizza experience honestly ruled. i think everyone should try it sometime or another. you have not truly lived until you just absolutely obliterated a pizza in such a feral manner

is this you

yes

run

My best friend and I have this tradition we call “chicken dinner” where we get a rotisserie chicken, lay it on a tarp, start on opposite ends of the tarp, and on the count of three we both run at the chicken and start ripping into it with our bear hands. We will be on our knees fighting for the best pieces of meat, ripping into the chicken with our faces, and it is the most viscerally delicious chicken I have ever had in my life. Grease gets everywhere. We have to do this outside. We have to tie our hair in buns beforehand.

You have never known the joy of food until you are lunging at your friend to rip the best part of the chicken out of their hand, rolling around on the tarp, stuffing it in your face before they can retaliate, and you realize “holy shit did I just growl?” And then you realize they are doing it too.

The chicken gets decimated. It’s absolutely destroyed. We aren’t allowed back inside until we have been hosed down. It’s the best.

This feels like the Yang to the Yin of the Shower Beverage, where in a peak of Unhinged civilized decadence, you experience the full flavor profile of a beverage whilst in the midst of a Hot Shower. Similarly carnal in it's satisfaction, and worrisome when to your mom when she asks you what you did this weekend, and you explain. At Length.

I look forward to seeing every one of you people at @dennys.

saturday at shul I was talking with a guy who introduced me to an app that one can use to build a record of your personal library by scanning isbns. someone should've stopped him but they didn't so here i am going ooooh a project that could easily suck me in and consume me for hours where i can't stop until i'm completely finished

better put some guardrails on that one I guess

as of right now I have scanned and catalogued 440 books from my and @ameliarating's home library. there are 2 nonfiction shelves and 3/4 of a shelf of graphic novels to go, this not including the handbound books, zines, art books from conventions, and many, many seforim, none of which have barcodes or ISBNs.

don't look at the time stamp for the first post. nobody needs to know that information.

Rip met gala cockroach 😔

with the new john mulaney special out i just want everyone to know that it's not because of his divorce that i refuse to watch it. honestly, i think how the internet handled that was weird. it was a personal romantic relationship that we didn't have all the information on, and as someone who had an addiction problem i'm not going to judge him for making (what looks like to us) a bad decision right after he got out of rehab, and if you would i think you need to look inside yourself as to why you think that's okay. i'm not saying i loved watching that, but i think we need to have grace for people in difficult situations and i normally would want to hear his side, perhaps even through a comedy special!

why i refuse to watch the new special or engage with his content is he openly and happily platformed a transphobe right after he started getting heat for being openly transphobic. i'm not letting that go.

do gen z and really young millenials realize that the most popular screensavers of the 1990s had SOUND?

I feel like it's important that y'all know that the After Dark screensavers, which were basically the most popular not-automatically-provided-with-Mac-or-Windows screensavers around, had sound. And were a thing. DO THE GEN Z BABIES KNOW SCREENSAVERS????? I SEE SO FEW THESE DAYS

#i thought they were still images? #i think I’ve actually misunderstood what a screensaver does

Okayokay, no judgement, but yeah you have. Or at least the original point of screensavers. Because nowadays afaik you're not at risk of getting burnt in images or dead pixels if the screen stays on one image too long.

But back in the 90s, if a CRT monitor was turned on, and had the same exact display for too long, you could literally damage the pixels and cause them to be discolored, permanently turned to one color, or burnt out so they just didn't work at all. So screensavers existed for when your computer was idle, it would have a moving image on the screen to keep your monitor from developing dead pixels or image burn (where you could faintly see the shape of whatever the screen had been displaying for so long, no matter what else was being displayed, because of the pixels being slightly discolored.)

Do not ask me how the pixels did that, I don't know, I just know they did. Also you could seriously fuck them up by putting a magnet near them.

So you'd get shit like this:

animated images that would help keep your monitor from getting image burn or developing dead pixels. And iirc the default windows ones (which all the above are) did not have sound.

But the After Dark CD-ROM that had a bunch of really fancy and amusing screensavers? Those screensavers had sound. And frankly I assume the point was to be like "hey, if you're not using your computer, just wanted to let you it's STILL ON!" because many people would probably have been like "oh shit right, I should turn that off."

Behold this treasure from my childhood:

(Next stream maybe I'll sing it for y'all)

But yeah. Screensavers were meant to explicitly NOT be a still image, because the point of screensavers was to prevent image burn and dead pixels, which you would get from a still image. Thus why they're screensavers. They were there to save your screen.

gen z thinking that their wallpaper is a screensaver because boomers failed to learn the difference is a tragedy.

there were also narrative screensavers! one of the more popular ones was a dude trapped on a desert island! it had a day night cycle, his beard would grow and he'd have to shave it! the dude kind of sucked in a newspaper comic way so occasionally he'd try and fail to get rescued, and if you weren't in or near the computer when it happened, too bad.

there was a d&d screensaver that did not make any sense to me!

it's objectively better that monitors turn themself off after a while now, but I still miss screensavers.

I miss screensavers. I never bothered to do any but the windows ones, but I miss them sometimes.

@egg-tats​ I think you mean Johnny Castaway! Once I upgraded from the maze (in maximum trip mode with the pulsing walls/floors), Johnny Castaway was where it was at. 

....Looking back at it now, I’m not entirely surprised it was Sierra. 

You can actually still get it - although I’m not sure how well it would upscale, it was made in 1992 after all.  

https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/johnny-castaway-237/

I have heard stories of Johnny Castaway being specifically responsible for a drop in productivity in the 90s. Instead of working, people would let their computers idle just so that the screensaver would start and they could watch Johnny's misadventures. It was particularly addicting because Johnny doesn't stay on the island! He builds a raft over time and eventually escapes, and there's a whole epilogue scene that eventually results in him... being stranded on the island again.

Gather around this video and relive what it was like for your whole family to stand around watching a screensaver at walmart.

It baffles me when you have a clearly asexual character and people erase that like "They're not asexual. They just got other things they're more focused on." As if that's not the peak asexual experience. The most asexual thing that can happen. Peak asexuality.

I'm not asexual. I'm just more focused on reading books. I'm not asexual. I'm just more focused on my career. I'm not asexual. I'm just more focused on my mental health.

AroAces are especially erased with this rhetoric. Of course they're more focused on other things. You're more focused on literally everything when you don't experience sexual or romantic attraction.

Like I get the point the allos are trying to make. "When they complete their goal, they'll start showing interest." But it's never a goal that'll be like... complete. Like "Oh, she's more focused on becoming a knight." But then when she is a knight she'll still be more focused on being a knight. Like you're acting like life goals aren't goals that are intended to expand across your entire life.

And if you do really experience attraction. Your life goals wouldn't get in the way of that. You'd find relationships that fit with your dreams (just like you find friendships that fit with your dreams).

Dumbass.

Bronze wine vessel, China, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 11th century BC

from The Shanghai Museum

"i dont like pop" why not its so fun. u dont like lady gaga? jesus is my virtue but judas is the demoon i cling to? i cling to?

Poetry in Motion — the phenomenal Florence Welch

Papercraft commission of Wei Wuxian (flautist extraordinaire) and Lan Wangji (a dragon)! 

I had sooo much fun with this one - not only was it an adorable request and an interesting composition, but I got to bust out my slowly-growing collection of dragon-patterned papers! (You can see some twisty scaly serpents in the black fabric of Wei Wuxian’s robes and in Wangji’s blue mane.) I may have to make more dragon-themed art of these two lovebirds (or rather, a lovebird and a love…mythological creature…?) in the future. 

This guy is literally playing the violin on the accordion

he is NOT playing the violin on the accordion he is playing the WHOLE STRING ORCHESTRA on the violin this is one of my favourite classical music builds and I have no idea how he is doing it

is he okay

Damn he must've contributed so much to Morbius' gross

That's the funniest part. For his Morbius vid, he actually bought tickets to Everywhere All At Once and snuck into Morbius each time as to not play any part in making Sony think that they should make more Morbius.

Not all heroes wear capes, but according to that thumbnail this one does

Reblogging because I legit did not know Shoe Clips were a thing, I thought shoes just came fancy

the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not

you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot

other assorted roles may include

Don't forget the Tommy Gun

You should never forget the Tommy Gun

Marvel character Gwendolyn “Gwen” Poole aka Gwenpool has been confirmed aromantic and asexual!

Gwenpool will come to terms with her sexuality in next week’s issue of Love Unlimited: Gwenpool, her current series which is made by an acespec creative team.

Acespec creators Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley, Bailie Rosenlund @bailiesartblog, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Alanna Smith @alannawrites and Kaitlyn Lindtvedt discuss Gwenpool’s asexuality and aromanticism in this new interview for Marvel.

It’s a really great interview, highly recommend reading it!

Love Unlimited: Gwenpool is available now from Marvel Unlimited. The concluding issue of this 6 part limited series will be out next week.

Check out this reading list for Gwenpool if you’d like to read more of her comics!

Gwenpool is the second Marvel character to be confirmed asexual this year, although she will be the first to have her asexuality shown on-page.

Morgan Red was confirmed asexual back in March and his asexuality will be addressed in New Mutants Lethal Legion #5, out in July.

Notes on this one are extremely good