So you’re telling me you see a butch/ stud/ masc lesbian and you don’t lose your shit for a second thinking that’s the most attractive human being you’ve ever seen before??????? Ok liar…

did anyone ever tell the Backstreet Boys why

My FAVORITE quote, of all time, is from the like, 2008 VH1 Top 50 Best Boy Band Songs special when AJ was commentating this song’s #1 win and he said, “I’ve never understood this song. WHAT WAY do I want it? And why DON’T I want it that way if SHE wants it that way? What’s the way? This song makes no sense. But man, they paid me to sing it.”

He was so distressed about his confusion, and I loved it. I love this song. It is truly the song of all time.

The songwriter, Max Martin, has written or contributed to the lyrics for a huge number of pop hits since the 90s. Max Martin is Swedish, and English is not his first language, a fact which feels incredibly obvious once you know it.

It’s not my intention to mock him for this–his English is miles ahead of my Swedish!–but this sincere vagueness and novel interpretations of English grammar are a noticeable quirks of his songs, especially his earlier work, so much so that trying to tease apart the individual words and phrases of the songs is a task designed for a Greek tragedy. His songs are the aursl embodiment of “no thoughts just vibes.”

Citation: Slate’s 2014 article/highlight reel of some of Martin’s most baffling lyrical Decisions:

They don’t bring it up in that article, but Martin is also responsible for Britney Spears’s “…One More Time,” and I’m sorry to anyone in whom something was awakened with those lyrics, but our good friend Max thought “hit me” was contemporary American slang for “call me.”

I feel like this adds a thin, waxy coating of surrealism in a genre whose worst examples can lean hard toward bland vapidity, and I love that Backstreet Boys lyrics are still making people question their sanity 25 years on. But mostly I can’t get over the thought of all of these singers–many of them already really big before they worked with Martin–puzzling their way through these lyrics enough to figure out how to sell the shit out of them.

“hit me up” the phrase he was probably thinking of was “hit me up”.

please tell me that everyone else also scrolled down, saw the caption on the second photo, and scrolled back up to double-check

most of my posts are normal I swear 😭

here's the link to the source

she does lots of videos like this on her insta

just learned about the granulated sea star . . .

dont talk to me

Hey, I'm gonna be that guy

So sea stars are echinoderms

Which means that they have a dermal skeleton of tiny plates basically infused throughout their skin

And while this lil guy looks like he gives the squish

His connective tissues are capable of becoming incredibly rigid, and so he's quite tough to the touch

So unless your various orifices are in need of a good sand blasting, I'd say ol Romeo here isn't exactly body safe

But I love the enthusiasm

bold of you to assume there'd be no takers for the hyper-exfoliating five-dicked sea dildo here on the i'm gonna fuck that poisonous rock website

Hi. Local friendly family doctor here with some free medical advice. Don't fuck the starfish. Do NOT.

Illegal to hide this in the tags

@official-penis-posts

i'm sure you've been tagged in this several times but it needs the additions.

Official Quintildo Post

I had an upsetting dream last night.

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

I fell in love with this chicken on sight….and I knew I had to draw her. What an iconic, confused little lass.

This is the real photo

Who on God’s green earth photoshopped their butt cracks to be larger and smaller. Why would anyone do this.

merry christmas

original post by @adrenoceptor

this was posted on Patreon @/magpiecrown a month ago and is now coming to tumblr - and made available to all patrons, including free members, if having everything in one place works better for you 💗

“Umm it will actually be very difficult for universities to divest from israel and arms manufacturers without tuition skyrocketing 🤓☝🏼” why is the financial stability of a college (and the economy at large, especially in the us) so reliant on what amounts to war profiteering to begin with? Why is that an inevitability that we’re supposed to accept?