comedies that turn into tragedies when the fucked up stuff played for jokes suddenly gets treated with the severity and realness that it would get in real life are genuinely my weakness and hit so much harder than tragedies that start off with the sad stuff.

like not only is the audience caught in the whole "boiling the frog" thing with the comedy slowly become a tragedy but it reveals that the characters are as well; that the previous comedy was only perceived as a comedy because the characters had no clue that what they were going through was not normal and just lighthearted fun. the audience realizes it as the characters do, making them both more sympathetic and their arcs all the more tragic as you look back on what previously happened.

@nathanielisking its a comedy i swear

no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides "actually, never mind, you're both awful!" and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched

having friends is literally just like hey i drew this for u (i love you) i just found a batshit insane image and i can’t look at it alone so i’m sending it to you (i love you) it’s 4 am and i’m gonna bully you until you fall asleep (i love you) you need to eat today or else i’m gonna throw hands (i love you) i want to squeeze your ocs like a stress ball (i love you) we’re halfway across the globe from eachother in completely different timezones but i still say good morning anyway (i love you)

your ocs should be friends with mine btw. my ocs told me they want to be friends with yours. theyre too shy to ask so i have to tell you. my ocs are asking your ocs to be friends with them

First ever recorded snowball fight (1897)

Happy Holidays And Merry Christmas To All!

Colorized!

Guy On Bicycle gets so smeared he leaves his hat behind to escape!

All Victorian ADULTS. Awesome.

I love this so much. Someone slowed it down so it's not the old-fashioned herky-jerky of old films, now someone colorized it…the past feels like the present because, well, people. Lookit them having fun! *beams at everyone*

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

no offense but I’ve been learning how to have fun in dumb circumstances

I was showering during the storm tonight and the light started flickering violently so I peeked out from the curtain and looked at my cat sitting on the counter and said to her “mrs obama it’s been an honor” and then the power went out

Carved Rose Quartz Rabbit

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

The problem are not the facts, but the limits of imagination. For many, many people UBI is just too different from what they know and no amount of factual evidence will ever change their opinion. So what we do is bring reality closer to UBI and bridge that gap. Start off with, say, universal food security. Everyone gets a food card that they can buy a certain money amount of food with. No strings. Even the billionaires. And that will work and have massive positive effects across our society, and maybe then they will accept the idea, because it is not such a large leap anymore. But if that isn't enough, we do something else. Medicine, housing, childcare assistance, clothing, transportation, depending on where you live there are a dozen things that could be done at any time. Choose one, take that step, and repeat until the gap is small enough for us to make the jump. I mean it would be great if we can skip all the middle steps and jump straight to a good society, but the larger the jump the harder the jump and we as a political block might simply be unable to bring change that large that fast because we lack the political power. We may never have the political power to make it happen all at once, and these strategies are not mutually exclusive. Constantly take steps but always be ready to take the leap.

Ok. I am a bankruptcy attorney in the U.S. and people generally end up in my office for one of four reasons.

1. Medical debt. That is a whole kettle of awful beyond my point here.

2. Divorce. Significant upheaval of everything tosses a bomb into finances.

3. Reduced income without time to plan. This is generally people who abruptly are unable to work, spouse dies, job loss, etc.

Often related to #3, but not always, is

4. Snowball debt. This is debt that creeps up $500-$1000 at a time. Car breaks down, put it on the card. Have to pay the card this month, need a payday loan for rent. Etc. etc.

The kind of debt I almost never see? Charged $40,000 for extravagances. No, it was $100, $500, $1000 at a time trying to stay alive. Buying food. Rent. A bad month, or setback (or tragedy) snowballs. And the crazy thing is, if you track it back, it is usual the result of being a few $100 short.

Part of the bankruptcy paperwork is a work up of income to expenses. And sometimes I stare at it, because it is literally impossible. They are doing everything they can, their expenses are whittled down to achingly lean, and the math doesn’t work.

A couple hundred dollars a month would change everything. They might not have that debt snowball at all. They could drop the second job and finish up their degree, or get that side business selling their art up and running, or go home and make dinner and read books to their kids, or live without stress pushing them toward a medical crisis. Or go home and pet their dog and rest.

I can’t help but think about the net societal benefit of a few hundred dollars a month. It would be more than the expense of a few hundred dollars a month.

Oh. And people would be less miserable.

this is good

I’d just like to add, see how they behave when they’re angry/frustrated/exhausted, and if you see something that concerns you, wait until they’re calm, and then talk to them about it.

My husband used to yell when he got frustrated, but after I explained to him that I found it upsetting, he stopped yelling and started consciously working on asking for help before he got to that level of frustration.

When I’m upset over something, or just in a bad mood, I tend to withdraw. My husband explained to me that it makes him feel like I’m mad at him, so now when I need some space, I’ll tell him what I’m upset about, or that I’m in a bad mood for no particular reason, and I need to be alone for a little while.

See your friends and partners at their worst, but don’t assume that their worst is immutable. If someone loves and cares about you, they’ll try to accommodate you to the best of their ability.

^^^^ This is the best advice I’ve ever seen on this site, and it is so important. Communication is everything, and is 80% of the reason my husband and I have such a healthy, strong, and supportive relationship.

rb to give the previous person a fucking break because life aint life-ing the way its supposed to life and it fucking sucks.

judy hopps is a cop who leverages a strangers felony tax evasion to get him to put his life in danger and work around the clock so that she can keep her job

she then presumably helps him cover up his crime to get him a job on the same police force

judy hopps has some very nice feet but we need to remember that she’s still a cop

just fyi for everyone out there using tumblr on this day that you can reblog a post without the extra commentary by clicking the OP’s URL on the original post

She is a cop and all cops are already unsexy

I’m sorrynotsorry to everyone in the notes just learning that Tumblr is a place for horny furries to blog about acab.

Unfortunately, Judy Hopps is very sexy AND ALSO a cop and therefore a bastard, and insisting that all cops are automatically unsexy is still attaching appearances to morality. Remembering that things can be sexy and evil, or ugly and good is imperative! Forgetting this derails and disrupts the conversation.

First base is violence second base is convoluted codependence third base is applying pressure to the vulnerable parts of their body to keep their entrails from spilling out

hey @nathanielisking, what

trying to get your story together like:

Explaining your story to a willing ear:

“I really like your story! is there more?”

“I like this character, is there more about them?”

When they ask “What happens next?” and you haven’t figured it out yet.

When you have figured things out but you haven’t written/drawn anything yet, and trying to figure out how to:

When you only write and draw things out of order and everything remains in the drafting stage:

When you publish something and someone else points out a continuity error:

I feel WHOLE post on a mental and emotional level

*cough cough*

lmaooo this is us @weirdestarrow

Friendly reminder to all the writers on here:

You don’t owe anyone good writing.

You don’t owe anyone a complete storyline written in order.

You can jump around. You can abandon projects. You can write really shitty stories! Writing is about telling stories and creating worlds. Not about what makes your followers happy.

I have to remind myself of this a lot, because in most of my stories I’ve gotten stuck and don’t know where to go. But you can jump around. You can skip parts. It doesn’t matter.

Write what makes you happy.

made a tutorial because i love furry ergonomics

being a fucking casual is a skill that takes years of honing

you need to have the kind of soul usually reserved for monks to be able to hop on a game you have hundreds of hours on that you've been playing for years, suck ass at it, and not want to jump into the sun or get mad in chat at some 13 year old who downloaded the game last night and is already better than you . there are many others who live like me. join us

I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

all you goyim I follow - I see you reblogging this and it warms me.