I am once again pondering the fact that Marty McFly is just such a fantastic character. Like, especially when you look at other male protagonists in the 80s, they all follow a similar trend. A lot are uber cool and suave, with the added side effect of also being a jerk. Many are popular jocks or whatever. Big flirts. Edgy and troubled or sleazy, etc.

And Marty is sort of in his own category entirely. He's cool, but he's not? He skateboards and kills it on guitar but has 2 whole friends--his girlfriend and a disgraced scientist--and crippling self-doubt and can't go a day without falling down or tripping over his own feet or nearly being killed by a car.

He's polite. He's respectful. Won't let anyone mess with the people he loves and doesn't let a moment pass by where he can thank somebody or apologize for a wrongdoing. (seriously, Marty has beautiful manners. Like, it is quite noticeable how often he says, "please," "thank you," "excuse me," or "sorry".)

His emotions are all SO BIG and he doesn't hold back on them. He gets all animated when he's excited and yells when he's scared and cries when he's sad and pulls his friend into big ol' hugs.

He literally never knows what is going on. Marty exists in the constant state of confusion. Between asking Doc to "wait a minute" every other sentence and his ever-changing, scattered thoughts, Marty is just out there trying to survive. Just slow it down, alright? He's a smart guy, but he's also got elevator music playing in his head. Really really fast elevator music.

Time means nothing to him. His watch is broken. He's racking up tardies like it's nobody's business. Stopping by the garage to look for Doc and play some guitar when he should be at school. He's got to get out of that stupid suit RIGHT THIS INSTANT even though he's got one shot at the lightning strike at the clock tower.

Marty just. Does things. There is zero impulse control. A synapse fires and Marty's brain goes "!!!" and that's that. Punch the bully who's twice your size, buy that sports almanac, just Walk Away while Doc is talking to you. Buy that sweet leather jacket. Ignore ALL instructions you're given! Marty, you need constant supervision and I love you for that.

He's just. Marty is the most character. Look at him.

They really knocked it out of the park with this guy.

[ID: A screencap of Marty McFly asleep on a bed in an awkward position with his mouth open, wearing his day clothes. End ID)

I am curious, bc I just ran across one of those, 'everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened!' things so-

This isn't meant to be a commentary on the event, just whether or not you remember where you were/what you were doing when the news hit.

As an example, I was home sick, doing dishes, when mom yelled for me to get in the living room RIGHT NOW.

love hearing people on tumblr talk about Star Trek: The Motion Picture cuz every critical source I’ve read has been like “this movie was an outrageous disaster and did terrible at the box office, everyone pretends it didn’t even happen. don’t even look at it”

And then ppl on here will be like “i thought it was neat :)”

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.

It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.

Aziraphale: *defies God's will and gives away his Holy Weapon to protect 2 humans who God Herself literally just cast out of paradise* *has unwavering faith in a demon's kindness* *lies an archangel in the face* *saves Crowley's life* *is ready to fight Satan himself with basically a Stick* *protects the one person in the universe who has probably mistreated him the most at extreme risk to his own life* *ready to fight 71 demons with a candle holder to protect 2 humans and said person who mistreated him all his existence* *gives up literally everything he loves the most in the world for the slim chance that he might make a dent in a system that brings nothing but suffering hoping to make the world a better place for everyone in it*

People out there (nowhere near me, luckily for everyone involved): *talk shit about Aziraphale*

Me: What the FUCK

People picking Kembleford or Carsely over Midsomer are crazy and have a death wish. They all have about the same amount of murders, but in Midsomer that's over an entire county made up of many many villages. Kembleford and Carsely each have the same amount of death but in a single village. Statistically way more dangerous.

Midsomer has way more murders per episode. And reliably so. There's only one without? At least there was for a long time.

Short explanation of what the hell the Luffy tab on top of the dashboard is:

- For some reason the tumblr marketing team decided to make a deal with Netflix to promote the new live action One Piece movie with a site wide tab, instead of like... An ad.

- The Tab started with the name Luffy, the protagonist of the series. It has now changed to Zoro. There's not explanation given but I suspect it's in the order of the One Piece rap

- The tab seems to be very broken, only showing 5-7 posts that were posted months ago. The users who's art and posts have been included were not asked permission to be used in an ad campaign.

- The disclosing of this being an ad has also been suspect, with many only finding out through word of mouth rather than the tab telling it. I'm not a lawyer but I think that's at least skirting a crime.

- The popular reccomendation is to not engage with the tab, because it'll encourage tumblr to pull more stunts like this. Their sponsors will be delighted the more you click, no matter if its out of confusion or not.

This whole thing is a mess and I hate how marketing teams are trying to bypass adblockers by making alternative ads that get people talking. The act of me posting this is what they want and I'm enraged.... Still, uh, I want to spread the info we've gathered as a community. Let me know if you find more or something is incorrect.

Ps. dont attack one piece fans, they didn't know this was gonna happen either. Please dont leave weird comments to the posts in the tab, the OPs are not involved.

Sucks that "sleeping together" refers to sex. Sometimes a fella just wants to snooze with a pal.

I'd seen some of pattie gonia's stuff but hadn't looked into her, and i found this interview about her thoughts for climate change activism and getting queer people connected to the outdoors and it's just so beautiful

Disabled people get in free. He offers a free wheelchair valet so ppl who can't get their own wheelchair wet can still play in the water park.

The entire park is accessible, including the carousel which is designed for wheelchair users. There's a sensory village and playground as well.

ID:

First Image. A fact trivia image made by unbelievable-facts.com.

A father and daughter, and a theme park entrance.

The text on the image say: "When Gordon Hartman could not find an amusement park that would accommodate his daughter with special needs, he sold his successful homebuilding business to open a 25-acre non-profit accessible theme park in Texas.

He named it Morgan's Wonderland after his daughter, and this completely wheelchair accessible park is the first and only theme park of its kind in the world."

Second Image Set.

Several photos are shown of "Morgan's Wonderland" amusement park.

In the photos there are several wheelchair users and other disabled people of different ages, at the amusement park.

The park attractions at "Morgan's Wonderland", include but are not limited to:

Each attraction at Morgans Wonderland theme park has an accommodation shown for different physical and mental disabilities.

Accommodations include - securing wheelchairs, waterproofing disability aids, having wheelchair ramps, providing assistant carers, additional handle bars, and wider spaces.

There are more than one version of each accommodation.

End ID.

Website for Morgans Wonderland: https://morganswonderland.com/

Location: San Antonio, Texas - in United States

Morgans Wonderland accepts volunteering, donations, sponsorships, and feedback to be more inclusive.

Sometimes I see straight women posting and I'm like hmmm okay I can see why some straight men are driven insane without necessarily being like Andrew Tate psychos

Oh there's so many of these

The feminine trait of *checks notes* wanting to stay hydrated

Ethan, you wanna see some shit?

The rope??

The wall???!

Just the other day my dog did a big stretchy and fell off the couch

Just the other day

my dog did a big stretchy

and fell off the couch

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

life back then mustv been crazy people just thought whatever

The experiment was crushing a bean and saying it smelled like cum afterward btw

Not the Pythagoras' theorem I've heard about, but important all the same

“omg ur so quirky for not wearing makeup” people want so bad for not wearing makeup to be just as much of an active, effortful gesture as wearing makeup so they don’t have to acknowledge how much added labor they go through each day because to do so would be implicitly conceding that the act of wearing makeup has a cost. too bad though because, baby, we are genuinely just waking up in the morning and walking out the door without thinking twice about it

NINA WADIA as FATE MOTHER THE SANDMAN: SEASON 1 (2022- )

For those worried about the crew having to do a whole job just for one person, flight staff only get paid for time they're in the air; if he'd cancelled, they wouldn't have gotten paid for zip.

So in other words, he gave them an easy day where they can spend most of it on break, and also airplane staff should unionize.

Also the plane likely has to get to NC somehow so you might as well have fun with it

Hey Good Omens Amazon series artists!

Michael Sheen's nose looks like this:

[id: two close ups of Michael Sheen, one side profile one front, with his nose outlined in black lines. ]

David Tennant's nose looks like this:

[id: two close ups of David Tennant, one side profile one front, with his nose outlined in black lines.]

[id: a front and side profile outline of David Tennant's nose next to Michael Sheen's, with an exaggerated outline of a hooked nose and an exaggerated outline of a button nose underneath labeled "NOT THIS!']

You can't use the excuse of "oh but that's what the actors look like" whenever you apply antisemitic and racist stereotypes to your art because that's not what the actors look like. David Tennant does not have a hooked nose, Michael Sheen does not have a button nose.

Your art style is just antisemitic.

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!