happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

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HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

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HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

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HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

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HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

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HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE

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you can only reblog chicken noodle melon today reblog any other day and you fucking die

The anonymous button is not for hate messages and death threats! It’s for confessing your love and asking stupid questions!

Coraline is a masterfully made film, an amazing piece of art that i would never ever ever show to a child oh my god are you kidding me

Nothing wrong with a good dose of sheer terror at a young age

“It was a story, I learned when people began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. It’s the strangest book I’ve written”

-Neil Gaiman on Coraline

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This is a legit psychology phenomenon tho like there’s a stop motion version of Alice and Wonderland that adults find viscerally horrifying, but children think is nbd. It’s like in that ‘toy story’ period of development kids are all kind of high key convinced that their stuffed animals lead secret lives when they’re not looking and that they’re sleeping on top of a child-eating monster every night so they see a movie like Coraline and are just like “Ah, yes. A validation of my normal everyday worldview. Same thing happened to me last Tuesday night. I told mommy and she just smiled and nodded.”

Stephen King had this whole spiel i found really interesting about this phenomenon about how kids have like their own culture and their own literally a different way of viewing and interpreting the world with its own rules that’s like secret and removed from adult culture and that you just kinda forget ever existed as you grow up it’s apparently why he writes about kids so much

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An open-ended puzzle often gives parents math anxiety while their kids just happily play with it, explore, and learn. I’ve seen it so many times in math circles. We warn folks about it.

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Neil Gaiman also said that the difference in reactions stems from the fact in “Coraline” adults see a child in danger - while children see themselves facing danger and winning

i never saw so much push back from adults towards YA literature as when middle aged women started reading The Hunger Games. They were horrified that kids would be given such harsh stories, and I kept trying to point out the NECESSITY of confronting these hard issues in a safe fictional environment.

SAGAL: No. I mean, for example, your incredibly successful young adult novel “Coraline” is about a young girl in house in which there’s a hole in the wall that leads to a very mysterious and very evil world. So when you were a kid, is that what you imagined?

GAIMAN: When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: And it was always a brick wall.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: But it was one of those things that as I grew older, I carried it with me and I thought, I want to send somebody through that door. And when I came to write a story for my daughter Holly, at the time she was a 4 or 5-year-old girl. She’d come home from nursery. She’d seen me writing all day. So she’d come and climb on my lap and dictate stories to me. And it’d always be about small girls named Holly.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: Who would come home to normally find their mother had been kidnapped by a witch and replaced by evil people who wanted to kill her and she’d have to go off and escape. And I thought, great, what a fun kid.

im doing my movie analysis project on Coraline and I just casually added this text post to my notes

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I REALLY WANT DEADPOOL TO SHOW UP WITH THE AVENGERS AT SOME POINT AND NOT EVEN DO ANYTHING JUST KINDA BE REHEATING SOMETHING IN TONY’S MICROWAVE AND EVERYBODY’S ALL SERIOUS AND HE’S JUST EATING IN THE BACKGROUND AND NODDING ALONG AND THEN THEY ASK WHAT THE FUCK HE’S DOING THERE AND HE JUST CASUALLY JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW YELLING SOMETHING LIKE “SPIDEY CATCH ME” AND THEN YOU JUST HEAR A SPLAT AND HEAR HIM YELL “WHAT THE SHIT PARKER”

He has to be reheating a chimichanga though.

WHAT THE SHIT PARKER

I want this. I want him to also comment on how hes not even allowed to be in this franchise.

how many shrimps to do you have to eat

BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR SKIN TURN PINK!

EAT TOO MUCH AND YOU’LL GET SICK!

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SHRIMPS ARE PRETYY

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holy fuck kizuna ai is doing a promotional special with lawson

shes fuckin. she’s reaching miku levels, dudes. she’s legit growing like miku did.

look at this, im so proud of my daughter

Lawson is one of the three most successful convenience store franchises in Japan, along with 7&i Holdings (7-11) and FamilyMart.

this might not seem like a huge deal here since in America (and pretty much everywhere else) convenience stores are usually equated to that of a truck stop or a place to get cheap, low quality food. however, in Japan convenience store (or “Konbini”, a colloquial term adapted from the Japanese pronunciation of convenience, Konbiniensu) culture is a lot different. they’re kind of seen as a hub for a bunch of community stuff. you can pay your bills there, get a hot meal, pick up groceries, send mail, withdraw money from your bank account, and all sorts of stuff like that. i recently learned that they can also be used to send money to people like paypal kinda. i still dont know exactly how it works but i know it’s true.

so the fact that Lawson is doing this promotional campaign with Kizuna Ai is a HUGE deal, relative to her position as a youtuber.

it’s like if Markiplier did a brand deal with like. Walmart or something.

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art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

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So I actually wrote my dissertation about this and it’s not just that the Department of Defence (there’s an office in the Pentagon dedicated to liaising with Hollywood productions), but they effectively have a strangle-hold on how Hollywood portrays the US military since the DoD give permission for producers to use military hardware, without that permission the cost of filming sharply goes up and films end up extremely over-budget. So the producers can either drop any critical elements at the DoD’s discretion, or continue with a film which will barely be released at all and will never make its budget back. 

Any American film which involves the military, know that the DoD probably signed off on it, or were directly involved with. Films like American Sniper and Zero Dark Thirty had a heavy government influence, the latter to falsely justify the methods the CIA used in finding and killing Osama bin Laden, which included torture.  

It’s why the military figures are always the heros and there will never be a Hollywood film which is critical of the US military because of this. Just remember, whenever you see the US military in a Hollywood movie, it’s exactly what the Department of Defence want you to see. It’s not being hyperbolic when these types of films are called propaganda. 

Off the top of my head, I’m curious about what this means about how animated movies may be able to portray the military, since they don’t need real equipment for film. It feels like anti-military sentiments are more common in American animated movies than in live action (The Iron Giant, off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are others).

On the flip side, video games are apparently deeply entangled with the military…