I'm a fan of being a fan because fandom rocks.

If there's ever a Team Fortress 3 it needs to carry the ironic retro nostalgia thing the series has developed to its logical conclusion and situate itself in a straight-faced pastiche of what folks in the 1950s thought the year 2000 would be like and show these chucklefucks what a real sci-fi shooter looks like.

@mikermccall replied:

What Fallout has going on is almost precisely the exact opposite of what I'm talking about. The Fallout franchise is taking modern science fiction tropes and projecting them backwards onto a fictionalised America roughly spanning the 1950s, 1960s, and the early bits of the 1970s; if you look at American futurist media that's actually from the 1950s–1970s and examine what it imagines our own era will look like, you'll see something very different.

(Folks often make the same mistake when conflating, say, steampunk and retrofuturism. Steampunk is projecting modern science fiction tropes onto what we imagine the 1890s were like. Futurist media from the 1890s looks nothing like contemporary steampunk.)

talking about comics canon is like. this is true. this used to be true but isn’t anymore but everyone still acts like it’s true bc it makes for a more interesting story. this is TECHNICALLY true but hasnt been referenced for so long that, practically, it is untrue. this is arguably true but presenting that as certainty is misleading and ignores the nuances of individual interpretation.

TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”

that’s…a pretty good analogy actually

US moron came to town

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

And this bitch called it Gucci

Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America

Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

God help us, we're in the hands of engineers. JURASSIC PARK (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

aahrgrjjj dinahollie makes me so,, this is based on this panel :>

while kissing my cat's little head: you're a problem *smooch* you're a terror *smooch* you're a menace to society *smooch smooch smooch*

I want to make this absolutely clear to kids: children didn't used to be stuck inside the house like you are today. There used to be public places you could hang out. It used to be fairly safe to walk around because trucks weren't designed to kill children. You didn't need a car to go anywhere so kids without a license weren't trapped. There weren't 24/7 cable news networks constantly scaring parents with anecdotes even as crime was at all time lows and the biggest danger comes from adults kids know not strangers.

It's easy to ignore old people talking about "the good ol' days" because a lot of the people saying that shit are racist assholes, but the way society treats kids today really is objectively worse than how kids used to be treated. You deserve better, and you should know that better things are possible. We just need to kill the suburbs and for-profit news.

me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

A poll for US folks

Please reblog!

A nonhuman character in heavy makeup: *is very long*

Me: is that you, Doug

The credits: Freaky Creature played by Doug Jones

Me: YEAHHHH

A nonhuman character in heavy makeup: *does that elegant hand movement that Doug always seems to do*

Me: DOUG!!!

How dare anyone over look:

Where it started

DOUG WAS MAC TONIGHT??

Y’all also need to know that Doug Jones was in Smash Mouth’s music video for “All Star” as Pencil Head:

Not only was he in that music video, this was a whole scene from the movie “Mystery Men”

knuckle tattoos that say AI GENERATED

Where does the eleventh letter go?

me avoiding easily completable tasks.

im sick to death of the girlboss phenomenom. appreciate strugglewomen or we'll never get anything done around here

no more "she has the only braincell of the group". i want more women who fail at tasks that are unimaginable to fail at. we need more pathetic wet meow meows who are women. literally open your heart to strugglewomen because theyre all we have left in this fucked up world

The world is ready to re-discover infomercials.

I want a girl who gets up early. I want a girl who stays up late. I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity Who uses a machete to cut through red tape With fingernails that shine like justice, And a voice that is dark like tinted glass.

No you cannot fix your entire life at 2am. Go to bed.

You can fix some of it though! By going to bed.

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

My grandma was born during the great depression and learned to cook during wartime rationing and thought that ketchup was an acceptable substitute for tomato sauce. Some secrets are meant to be buried.

My family's recipes that deserved to survive everything that happened between 1920 and 1985 are the ones that made it, everything else was lost to time and for good reason