The trope where a character overhears something out of context and assumes the worst is usually annoying and bad but I really think it works well in Shrek
We, the audience, know that Fiona is talking about herself but, regardless, she’s calling herself these terrible things because she is an ogre. If Fiona is these things because she is is an ogre what does that make Shrek?
If Fiona says no one could love her because she is an ogre, she is saying that Shrek is also unloveable whether she wants to or not.
Imo the scene is a really good portrayal of how when you talk poorly of yourself or others for having a trait, you’re also talking about every other person who shares that trait; even if you love them or think what you’re saying doesn’t apply to them.
Not going to lie, I saw the word “Shrek” and never expected this to be a deep post.
On the being deep about Shrek website?
The teenager was asked to write a short scene or draw a short comic using a comedic trope from a list on a handout in their HS American Lit class. They chose to do the comic …
the Bard will never die.
and this comic is fucking genius.
i need people to understand that when a person with a chronic illness talks about the fatigue that comes with it, we're not talking about the tiredness that comes from a 10 hour shift at work, we're talking about the inherent exhausting heavy malaise that hangs on your entire body like a weighted blanket from the time you wake up in the morning and doesn't get any lighter as the day goes on.
fatigue doesn't come from exertion. it's just innate- and when it does come from exertion, it's been worse than the innate fatigue that was already there in the first place, and it adds on top of it, not replaces it.
*pokes tumblr mobile with a stick*
*pokes tumblr mobile with a third stick*
Okay, the answer seems to be it didn't want to upload screencaps taken via that feature on the video and instead will let me post screencaps if I do it manually. Which is stupid.
I thought the cat's name was tumblr mobile
*wheezing*
Tumbleweed is pretty close to that, right? XD
this is crazy this is the only time i've seen an online boycott actually work. and the entire fucking reddit website is broken rn
here is where you can see the status of the boycott btw
it might be broken bc reddit is broken rn
it's also the fact that so many different communities with wildly differing userbases have come together for this that's wild to me. like you have r/gaming fighting side by side with r/legaladvice and r/furry 😭
i need to recreate this truck i saw with my eyes while driving on the highway today gimme a sec
it was like this
found a pic on reddit. 10/10 for accuracy
OK APPARENTLY the tooth fairy is NOT as universal a myth as i thought. so. if you/your culture has a myth about a being/creature/whatever who Takes Your Teeth when you lose them as a child, please tell me what it is. so far we have “tooth mouse” and saint apollonia.
the world is a large place full of wonders that i have barely glimpsed
It’s dangerous to yeet your teeth around! I’ve always heard that whatever animal finds your lost tooth, you’ll get a tooth from that animal growing in instead of a human tooth. So if a dog finds your tooth, you’ll get a dog’s tooth. Or if a rabbit finds your tooth, you’ll get a rabbit’s tooth.
We have a magic talking mouse in lieu of a tooth fairy over here. He's a distinguished gentlemouse and wears little clothes. Have a delightful piece of vintage art
He also has a family with named members a la santas reindeers but hell if I remember those, I'd have to look for the original tale somewhere at my parents' for that
YESS!!!! I'm glad someone mentioned El Raton Perez here already. One time my little sister was suspecting he wasn't real so she didnt tell my PARENTS she had lost a tooth. BUT SHE TOLD ME. She left him a slice of Kraft single under her pillow, a letter and her tooth. I had some coins saved up so I put those in there and I used my nails to cut out a cartoon bite out of the kraft single.
She woke up sooo excited hahaha.
it's so cute to me that gift wrapping is an ancient human custom. for thousands of years we have ceremonially made nice little bundles to present to each other, and we have decorated them and ensured that they're neat and careful to communicate the care with which we think of the recipient. and for thousands of years we have been made curious by the concealment of the gift, and been surprised and delighted by the act of uncovering what's inside. we are such simple creatures. we are so thoughtful. we are so cute.
I learned this by googling the historical accuracy of a line in a porn game i'm editing. anyway,
writing porn is also an ancient human custom
funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls
Okay fuck so for like the entire first part I thought this person was like... Using one of those 3d pens to replace lace in this curtain somehow
Then the next couple I was like "wait are they just like painting the curtains a different color? Were the lace threads just black or something on that other one?"
Then finally it clicked and I freaked the fuck out
EXCUSE ME
If you say "art" people just think paintings in museums, if you say "media" it's too vague and clinical, if you say "content" you sound like a YouTube terms and conditions corpo-ghoul, if you say "crafts", plural, it sounds like you mean macaroni art and hand turkeys, if you say "craft", singular, you sound like you sell pussy candles and migratory bird feathers on Etsy, if you say "creative expression" you sound like a lotion-handed Human Resources weasel straight out of a Mike Judge cartoon. How have we managed to completely drain the linguistic well when it comes to discussing individual and collective cultural creativity, aka Capital A Art. It's dire!
Fun fact! One time, I moved to California (5 year stint, it was fine, met some cool people, about went insane because of number of people, heat, and lack of distinct seasons as I was familiar with them). I was living in some dorms, heard that there was a dude nicknamed Alaska! And I was like fuck! That's a cool nickname! Also he's ALSO from Alaska so I gotta see if we know any of the same people.
Anyways over the next few months I nursed a burgeoning jealousy that this guy, who has lived maybe two years in Juneau, was being called Alaska, which meant that there was no chance that I, who had lived 15 years in a place in Alaska that could only be reached by boat or plane (technically not an island!), would not be getting that sick ass nickname. I mean I got over it, obvi, but I did find it hilarious and I do now have to share with you, a stranger on the internet, because your posts came across my dash and Alaska. Also yeah, sudden tourist death is just. Horribly common. And so many times it's someone you look at and you, from the state, can't fathom how they got there in the first place.
That said I have a serious hate for inappropriate food storage (can you tell I've worked for campgrounds and adjacent), at best you're giving the ravens a fucking heyday and they're gonna make mess, at worst you're gonna be the first link in a chain that ends up with a dead bear. However the reason this annoys me so much? Food Storage Is Not Unique to Alaska. There is nowhere in the world you can go where you DON'T have to consider about how your food is being kept! Unless you live ALONE you gotta think about appropriate food storage!! Anyways thanks for coming to my Ted talk by which I mean reading my Ted talk that I shoved into your inbox.
I had a friend who went south for college, and was known as that Dude From Alaska for a bit. While he's a very sweet dude, he's maybe not the most socially adept because there was this girl who was not from Alaska but she did have the opening verse of The Cremation of Sam McGee tattooed on her ribs beneath her tits. And she showed him her tattoo. And he politely complimented her tattoo and DID NOT pick up the i-want-to-fuck-a -dude-from-Alaska vibes until he was back home and telling the story.
So three cheers for being from a notable place that makes people lose all their common sense.
