i think draiwng images is impossible and everyone is playing some kind of tricks
Reblogged theonlymack99
im so done with seeing articles about kids and screen time that doesnt mention parent behaviors even once. “kids are always on their phones” so are the parents! which the kids look to for how they should behave! ipad babies didn’t chose to only play on their ipads, thats what their parents gave them!
an anecdotal example: when i was a kid, all my parents would do in their minimal free time was watch tv and then they would be surprised when in my sister and i’s minimal free time we would also only watch tv/play video games. they scolded us for not reading books, but they never read books. they scolded us for not going outside but they never went outside.
“kids are always on their damn phones” my mom is in her 60s and opens up candy crush anytime she’s sitting — it isnt just the kids
Reblogged theonlymack99
Ratatouille (2021)
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readypumpkin
Reblogged agentsnickers
oh good lord (x)
Reblogged ruinedchildhood
“male character gets a girlfriend whos just him but a girl” is one of the worst tropes except for grundgetta from sesame street who rules
peak of female character design
trans4trans couple
My favorite bit of the wiki for this absolute power couple:
Reblogged theonlymack99
Fucking hate pet rent. You want my cat to pay rent? She is a cat. Cats don’t have jobs. Idiot.
Excuse me? What, and I can not overstate this enough, the fuck is pet rent?
The US is hostile to both human and animal life
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They’re also chordates, like us vertebrates! Their embryos have basically the same anatomy as ours, but the notochord, the part that becomes our spinal column, just remains a notochord until they’re ready to become a jelly bag forever. Then they digest the notochord as well as their own brain because they won’t need either of them.
So fucking jealous right now these little bastards get to just live their best life meanwhile I gotta drive 40 miles to work each morning and pay taxes
Reblogged thehighladyelf
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
mayfriend
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
mayfriend
OKAY THIS IS PARTIALLY RIGHT BUT PARTIALLY WRONG
Lord of the Flies was written as a reaction to a book called “The Coral Island: A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean.” In this book, three English schoolboys shipwreck on an island and have “adventures.” It is as imperialist and unrealistic as you’d expect, and is generally treated as a rollicking good time.
William Golding went “what the fuck is this shit? Have you MET an English schoolboy? Do you really think for one moment this is what would go down with a group that’s been actively taught the world is theirs to own and also is made up of creatures who are still fifty percent mud pies?”
And so, instead of pirates and adventures and “Polynesian cannibal rapist savages” oh my (I’m sorry, this isn’t on me, blame R. M. Ballantyne, he wrote it), we get Lord of the Flies.
Golding’s book is as much a criticism of imperialism as it is of The Coral Island itself. When placed under “might makes right” leadership, the boys descend into anarchy and chaos. As someone excellently noted above, you can see this as well in the fact that it’s the presence of the world’s war that causes the bloodbath to begin.
So was Golding being a dick? I mean, kinda.
But he was also pointing out that one specific group, which has been primed and trained to be spoiled and take the world as theirs whether it is or not and to thoughtlessly exploit the lower classes, is not going to just gaily start befriending “savages” and pirates and inventing things. Our mistake is in assuming this would extrapolate to all children.
Reblogged timgy
lil nas x is a true pop icon like we haven’t seen in years
[image ID: a tweet by @/kianangu that reads: "That Lil Nas X refuses to be palatable makes him a fucking hero for queer kids. His absolutely unapologetic presentation of queerness that society has feared is a fucking relief in its ferocity." /end ID]
Reblogged deejay
me: reblogs anything
the green bar that pops up telling me I reblogged something:
Reblogged ruinedchildhood
YOU NEARLY KILLED ALL THOSE PEOPLE FOR A REPTAR ON ICE TICKET 😂
hutchj
Priorities.
Reblogged timgy
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No...
I thought I could figure out the referent, but no. I can’t. Which murdered British boys? Someone go back and ask that elderly neighbor or I’ll never be able to sleep again.
King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York! They were murdered by their uncle!
She... she does
Reblogged likehelloneels
yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:
(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)
so here is what NOT to do if you’re a loyal fan of adobe who has the cash to shell out for a newer and shittier version of the product you already paid for.
1) DON’T use your search bar to find and open the Run app
2) DON’T type in services.msc
3) DON’T find Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Services and right-click to get a dropdown menu, and don’t select ‘properties’
4) if you happen to click properties, DON’T use the startup type dropdown to locate the option to disable the program. be sure you DON’T click apply to finalize that change.
5) DO NOT do the same thing in order to also disable Adobe Genuine Software Monitor
if you do all of these things, this WILL disable adobe’s ability to monitor the software, and you will be forced to continue using the same older software that you already paid for instead of having to sign up for a newer, shittier version and pay more for it. so if you have lots of cash to spare and are cool with putting it the pockets of racketeering capitalists, definitely don’t do any of these things.
however, you SHOULD reblog this to spread the word, as we certainly want to make sure lots of people know what NOT to do :)
I’M SORRY MA'AM. I KNOW YOU’RE UPSET.
Pretend to be upset.
yaboybigbadguzma
OP how could you
I hope none of my friends who use Adobe programs find this, follow your detailed instructions, and spread the word. That would be devastating!
Reblogged likehelloneels
If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.
Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.
I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.
I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”
I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.