eXCUSE ME???????????????????????
I love semantic drift
A watermelon eating contest
English added by me :)
you may coordinate as needed
hey why did the dead by daylight devs give the xenomorph queen so much ass
Hold on I gotta look something up
hold on i also gotta look something up
for reference this is the original xenomilf
and this is the Dead by Daylight version
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hello can you sign my poster pretty please
only if I get to frame it too
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Hi Mr. Gaiman!
I'm an English teacher, and I'm going to teach my senior class your short story "Chivalry" as part of a unit on Arthurian legend. I wondered if you might share with us some insight as to why you wrote the story, your favorite part(s), or just something you want to mention to students reading and studying it!
Thank you so much!
I wish I had something to add to it, but really everything I wanted to say is in the story. I wrote it immediately after finishing Good Omens with Terry, and I remember how nice it was not to have to be funny, except in a gentle sort of way, and I put a lot of my mother's mother, Pearl Goldman, into Mrs Whitaker, and her house is my grandparents' house on Parkstone Avenue in Southsea.
Galaad was an early spelling of Galahad.
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To make sure their accents were accurate, the child actors in the Harry Potter movies were forced to grow up in England
samus says "don't forget to stretch!"
the duality of man
Anonymous asked:
I know copyright and intellectual property is bullshit, but how do I tell that to someone who's convinced that it protects small artists?
tell them about bill mantlo, creator of rocket racoon, whose brother has to start gofundmes to pay his medical bills while marvel makes millions off that character's merch. or to gary friedrich, creator of ghost rider, who sued DC for using the character at a point where it should have returned to him, lost, and was then counter-sued for selling merch including sketches for fans at conventions. or alan moore, who vowed to never work with DC again after he was screwed out of owning watchmen. or the archetypal examples of this phenomenon, jack kirby (co-creator of iron man, captain america, ant-man, the hulk, and a fuckton more characters) who of course was also screwed out of any ownership, or jerry siegel and joe shuster, who spent decades fighting over the copyright to superman, a character they created and sold for $130 as desperate struggling artists and who then went on to make millions for DC comics.
or if they're not a comics fan, why not talk to them about robert kurvitz, head writer of disco elysium, who through an extremely suspect purchase lost the rights to the world of elysium, representing his life's creative work. or to hideo kojima, who was forced out of konami, keeping absolutely no rights to his iconic metal gear franchise, and had his demo for Silent Hills made into fucking vaporware that nobody can download anymore!
or about the time that disney used threats of legal action to put a stop to such nefarious infringement of their copright as 'being painted on the walls of a daycare' or 'being put on a child's gravestone'.
the thing about copyright is that it has to be enforced in court. a 'small artist' -- even ones who are independently successful and considerably wealthy -- can simply not afford to fight a protracted legal battle while paying top legal talent. disney and marvel and any other big media company, however, can fight as many legal battles as they want for as long and have the legal fees be a drop in the bucket. companies that can afford lawyers and can afford to, if it really comes down to it, lose a lawsuit -- that is, companies with millions of dollars to spare -- are simply above copyright law. this is not a bug--this is a feature. this is the system working as designed.
Unmute !
Ever hear an Andean cock of the rock before? Probably not, or maybe you have and didn't realise it, because they sound quite a bit like a kookaburra!
Kookaburra laugh: just absolutely losing it at some silly nonsense
Cock of the rock laugh: you are about to die to an Evil Scientist Device
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gonna start formatting my posts like fics on ff.net circa 2008
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A/N: This is a post about my day!!!! If you don’t like it, don’t read it! Flames will be used to boil water for my tea, LOL! ^^”
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I tried so hard, and got so far But, in the end, it doesn’t even matter I had to fall, to lose it all
(A/N: I don’t own the rights to Linkin Park!!!)
i made some bombass fried rice today fuck
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A/N: And that’s it :D I hope you guys enjoyed this update, I worked really hard on it!… If this chapter gets 10 comments, I will upload the next one ASAP. ^_^” This is a lot of fun–
My teacher: Hey, shouldn’t you be doing your homework?? -_-” Me: EEP O_O! Okay, see you later guys, GOTTA GO FAST! Please comment and remember NO FLAMES!!!
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Your post about the origin of paladin in D&D made me think of a long standing pet peeve of mine - when people insist that a knight, guarding a palace, without employing holy magic, is not a "real paladin" in modern media. Do you have any particular thoughts on the way that D&D has so heavily coloured definitions of things in this way?
(With reference to this post here.)
It's just basic lack of media literacy. People who get hung up on how Dungeons & Dragons defines its character classes are in the same boat as folks who misidentify bog-standard sword and sorcery fantasy tropes as Discworld references because they've only ever been exposed to the genre via Terry Prachett's parodies of it, or folks who see colour-coded alchemical symbols and think they've caught you name-checking Homestuck – they all need to read a second book!
What you say: Well ACTUALLY, that's not a dragon, it's a wyvern, because—
What literally everyone else hears:
if your support of decolonization (anywhere) is predicated on your view of the colonized people as exceptionally peaceable, equitable, environmentally conscious/“in touch” with nature, or otherwise morally superior by your own personal standards, it’s not support. the only moral high ground colonized people need to justify decolonization is …. not being the colonizer
thank you pdf fairy <3
i always love to see puffins dive because they remind me of how a Super Mario Bros. enemy in an underwater stage are typically animated.
THE GIRLS CALL ME BANJO KAZOOIE THE WAY I NEVER STAY FOR BREAKFAST I JUST NUTS AND BOLTS!!!
Ask me to walk on fucking water Malborn
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I'm not saying Canadian truth-in-advertising laws are perfect, but I just got a promotional email with five separate footnoted disclaimers in the space of as many sentences, and it's kind of fun to see exactly how they plan to screw you over clearly outlined in bulleted list format.
I still get business-to-business emails for a certain industry, and I often get both the American-directed and Canadian-directed emails. Now, truth in advertising doesn't exactly apply to B2B advertising, but it did change what precedents were set with relation to fraud. And now and again, you do get two wildly different emails, mostly of the variety where some claims just . . . don't appear in the Canadian version of the email. Rows missing off comparison tables and the like. My holy grail, should I ever receive it, will be when the Canadian version simply makes no claims whatsoever.
I think my favourite example that I've encountered of promotional claims varying by jurisdiction is a breakfast cereal where the front of the American packaging says it contains 22 essential vitamins and minerals, but the front of the Canadian packaging for the exact same cereal with the exact same listed ingredients only says it contains 9 essential vitamins and minerals.
I'd be willing to bet it has something to do with specific requirements that need to be satisfied for "contains X" claims that are stricter or more well-defined in Canada but I like to imagine that 13 vitamins and minerals are essential in America but optional bonus vitamins and minerals in Canada