Waiting for the Next Thing

I’m going to Constantinople, that shit better not be Istanbul

Real shit

cowabummer!!

Now that Avatar is on Netflix in the US I get to enjoy all these gags again surrounding Toph’s blindness. It honestly impressed me how it was seriously humorous they were able to make these punchlines without it feeling jarring or downright off putting basing humor around someone’s visual disability.

However, they pulled it off so amazingly well. Looking forward to taking a trip down memory lane.

it’s so funny because the fact that Toph is blind isn’t generally the punchline, the punchline usually is that everyone forgets that she is blind 

btw I know ppl on this site go on abt mutuals but if you are someone that shows up in my notes regularly who I don't follow, I do notice and I am fond of you and if you reblog something from me I do think "YES I have pleased the follower with good taste"

The amount of experience as Spider-Man/Woman in order

Their greatest challenge yet… 💥

'Client escort in progress'. Illustration drawn from the perspective of the client, who is about 160 cm tall. Dazai is slender, but in my opinion has a surprisingly solid physique when seen up close.

The colourful one was processed using paint software.

BSD doodles

Fuck that post going around saying "you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don't need to explain everything :)" I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don't explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don't explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you

Why are your stupid little wizards and knights eating potato stew in your dumb European middle ages fantasy world. Where did they get potatoes from. Where is the center of domestication of potatoes, do you have a fantasy Andean civilization? What are the social and economic consequences of having such a calorie rich crop in cold climates. I don't care about "themes" or "enemies to lovers with found family", I didn't ask about that. Where does your idiot space captain gets their shitty coffee from. Is it imported from Earth? Are there coffee growing worlds? Is it an alien species replacement with the same name? What are the social consequences of that? Don't try to change the subject, I'll stop pointing the gun when I want, I'm trying to have a conversation here,

gold in them there tags

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Their names were Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon. They were kept in the Royal Earlswood Hospital, formerly known as "The Asylum for Idiots". Burke's Peerage listed them both as deceased in the 1940s but Nerissa died in 1996 and Katherine died in 2014.

The hospital had no record of any visit from the family during the time the sisters were there, and they never received a birthday or Christmas card. They also received no money beyond the £125 paid to the hospital per year.

Nerissa Bowes-Lyon was buried in a pauper's grave with a plastic marker and a serial number:

The family didn't even buy her a headstone until a Channel 4 documentary highlighted the sisters' story and showed the grave. None of her family had attended her funeral.

The Queen was reported to be "hugely distressed" by the airing of the documentary.

“Can I just say something in MY defense? We had to keep our disabled family members a secret, because then people might start to question whether my family has magic blood that makes us uniquely able to govern.”

Sci-fi author admits to not actually having written anything in 9 months

Sci-fi author admits to plaigirizing for 9 months.

Please add a custodian paid $12/hour cleaning the whole fucking office complex (who the boss doesn’t even give healthcare coverage to) for added accuracy

I fully understand that, in spite of their superficial similarities, giant-monster-as-relatable-character and giant-monster-as-natural-disaster are two completely different genres of films – but, like, given this understanding, maybe I want a movie where you’re supposed to feel sorry for Godzilla.

That’s, like, 90% of all Godzilla movies though?

Like, the first one even explicitly ends with Godzilla’s death being such a wretched sight that all the humans who witness it regard it not as a triumph, but as yet another tragedy to cap off a series of horrible events.  Godzilla was explicitly portrayed as a victim of nuclear war, which is brought up directly in the text of the film as well as in the subtext (his distinctive scale pattern is based on the keloid scars of radiation burn victims).  Subsequent sequels built on this, to the point where Godzilla slowly turned from villain to hero as humanity stopped trying to kill him and started trying to understand him.  Even in the ones where he’s kept as the antagonist, he’s almost always a sympathetic one - even Shin Godzilla, an entry where Godzilla has very little screen time and is purposely made more horrific than ever, gives the monster pathos in the form of a friggin’ ballad about his isolation and pain in a world that rejects him:

Ishiro Honda, who directed the original Godzilla and many other classic kaiju films kinda summed up how Japanese giant monsters are meant to be viewed as sympathetic:  “Monsters are tragic beings; they are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy.”

You were always supposed to feel sorry for Godzilla.

All my friends and family: Thanos gripping your dash isnt real

Thanos gripping my dashboard:

This post jumpscared me

every time this has shown up theres been an ad in the middle

Thanos holding up an ad for you

just go see an ob-gyn

Help me ob-gyn kenobi, you’re my only hope.

She needed more midwife-clorians. 

I really hope everyone reblogging this followed the link and read the article, because it’s larger point is really good “Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and cannot be intervened with the way that that the loss of limbs can be remedied with robot prosthetics, or the way Luke can be rescued from near-death on Hoth by being submerged in a bacta tank. Having babies is worse than being mauled by a wampa ice creature or being chopped up by lightsabers and falling into a river of lava. Lucas can write a world like that, and worse, the audience will accept it. But uteruses aren’t made of malignant magic. Women’s bodies are real physical things that can be studied and understood and when necessary, cured. ”

IDK about everyone else, but I’ve actually been certified as a doula and childbirth educator and worked in women’s health media for most of a decade.  All points valid, but “Help me OB-GYN Kenobi” broke me. 

And this is how you can tell a story was written by men because pre-natal healthcare never even occurred to the writer. Women’s insides are a mysterious and magical place that no man either can fathom, or just just not want to think about, so in stories like this they just handwave it away as” dying in childbirth”.

Help me, OB-GYN Kenobi.

https://www.deviantart.com/capnchef/art/OBGYN-Kenobi-438450694

I love how everyone’s like YES ALL POINTS VALID

But

to be fair, it is a brilliantly executed pun