“Lol” hasn’t meant “laughing out loud” in like 15 years… it’s just a word now and more importantly it’s the perfect way to end a sentence lol
today's children are gonna become teens and clown the shit out of us for 'eepy' and 'blorbo' but they'll say it in cocomelonese so we won't understand them
today’s eepy blorbo is yesterday’s heckin doggo is last week’s smexy bishie
I hate that you're right and that I understood all of that.
I’m a huge fan of yours (requested by Anonymous)
For context: In that production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian McKellen, playing the titular character in a scene where Lear has essentially gone round the bend, strips completely naked right there on stage. New York critic Michael Portantiere, noted in his review, “Special note for those who care about such things: In a brief nude scene, McKellen amply demonstrates the truth of Lear’s statement that he is ‘every inch a king’.”
The above scene is amazing but I also feel we need to take a moment to appreciate the fact that a respected theatre critic took time to mention in their review of this production of King Lear that Ian McKellen has a truly impressive penis
@bucklikethedollar why would you hide poetry like this in the notes
i really hate the hurf durf positivity memes that are like *~you are not a burden~* 😌☺️🙏 bitch yes i am. taking care of sick people is hard. putting up with and organizing your life and tasks around people who take ten times as long and one hundred times as much energy to do simple tasks is HARD. never being on time, abandoning plans, leaving early, not eating normal food, these are all things that make everyone else's life harder. I'm a burden! the point is that humans carry their burdens and always have and the way the species is designed makes this not just ethical but beneficial materially to everyone. saying disabled people "aren't a burden" is just erasing all the work caretakers do to keep us alive. the point is that everyone is entitled to be a burden, and even if you are never sick a day in your life you will still spend years at either end of your brief stint on earth being bothersome to someone else. that's normal
Me: So yeah, casual english has completely changed since then. Nowadays instead of 'There was a crying baby on the bus today' you would say 'Me when I'm in a being loud and annoying competition and my opponent is crying baby on bus.' And then you'd post this picture of Squidward. Oh, uh, Squidward is a guy from a cartoon-"
Reanimated Corpse of John Wilkes Booth: *Has been staring angrily at a penny for the last 15 minutes and not listened to a word I've said*
Our big publisher/movie making evil overlords made people believe a spoiler ruins the experience of a story. It does not. It never did. Stories that are ruined by spoilers aren't good stories, because it means it has nothing more to offer than a twist, or anything else it offered are rendered meaningless as soon as the twist happens.
but shitty stories are easier to make than good ones.
So how is it that second-hand embarrassment is the single most powerful and weakening emotion one can feel from media?
Tragedy? Delicious.
A hard-earned happy ending? Wonderful.
A convoluted narrative? Keeps you glued.
Simple slice of life? It’s entertaining.
Second-hand embarrassment? Hang on, g, I gotta pause this for fifteen minutes, no, I cannot continue watching this right now, I am just not strong enough.
Legends only
Reblog for wholesome good luck
i asked my dad to make me a hot chocolate and he’s literally sawing something in the kitchen rn
It is with profound disappointment that we report the industry CEOs have walked away from the bargaining table after refusing to counter our latest offer. (1/11)
We have negotiated with them in good faith, despite the fact that last week they presented an offer that was, shockingly, worth less than they proposed before the strike began.
These companies refuse to protect performers from being replaced by AI, they refuse to increase your wages to keep up with inflation, and they refuse to share a tiny portion of the immense revenue YOUR work generates for them.
We have made big, meaningful counters on our end, including completely transforming our revenue share proposal, which would cost the companies less than 57¢ per subscriber each year. They have rejected our proposals and refused to counter.
Instead they use bully tactics. Just tonight, they intentionally misrepresented to the press the cost of the above proposal – overstating it by 60%.
They have done the same with A.I., claiming to protect performer consent, but continuing to demand “consent” on the first day of employment for use of a performer’s digital replica for an entire cinematic universe (or any franchise project).
The companies are using the same failed strategy they tried to inflict on the WGA – putting out misleading information in an attempt to fool our members into abandoning our solidarity and putting pressure on our negotiators.
But, just like the writers, our members are smarter than that and will not be fooled.
We feel the pain these companies have inflicted on our members, our strike captains, IATSE, Teamsters and Basic Crafts union members, and everyone in this industry. We have sacrificed too much to capitulate to their stonewalling and greed.
We stand united and ready to negotiate today, tomorrow, and every day.
Our resolve is unwavering. Join us on picket lines and at solidarity events around the country and let your voices be heard.
One day longer. One day stronger. As long as it takes.
- Your TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee
[Oct 12, 2023]
imagine you’re an immortal princess and after ~800 years of immortality you hire this weird preteen boy as a knight. And he’s young and reckless but he’s a sweet kid and he’s damn proficient with a sword so mostly you trust him with the safety of your kingdom which is the culmination of ~800 years of your hard work. And you get to be pretty fond of him. But then he starts bringing your immortal ex around because apparently they’re friends now. And he doesn’t know about your nasty breakup because that was hundreds of years ago and he’s literally 12 but every time you start to fight he looks at you with his big sad little boy eyes and tells you you have to get along because you’re both his friends and it would make him sososo sad if he couldn’t hang out with all his friends.
and IT WORKS. after spending some time with your ex you start to reconcile your differences and realize how much you’ve missed one another and you rekindle your romantic relationship. All because you hired a weird child with a sword.
After hundreds of years of walling themselves off from the world, I truly believe that Finn shows both Marceline and Princess Bubblegum what it means to be human again. Watching him grow up. Watching his joy. And his struggles. Watching him love and live and have fun. I think he brings both of them back down to a place where they can see light in the world again, after being hurt and cold for so long.
Finn being a 12 year old human amongst thousands of year old fantasy creatures is actually extremely powerful. It’s the heart of Adventure Time, to me.
For Banned Books Week, we offer you this 81-year-old image from our collections.
No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny.
A print of this poster currently hangs in the hallway between our reading room and classroom, along with several other posters about libraries, books, and reading, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.
he's very excited about his first night as a jack o lantern
my boy
I love how its getting closer to that time of year again and ppl starting to reblog my boy again
Hi! I’d like to clarify something about the accreditation of this comic.
It’s by Matthew Inman, and you can find the original comic at his blog, “The Oatmeal”, and I’m posting it below as well.
Reblog if you want to flatten Christian values with the gayroller 2000
Love love love that tiktok of the beautiful scary American blonde saying "friendly reminder I am choosing kindness, which means that I am willing to explore other options if the kindness is not working out". I love that. It gives me so much power, so much energy. I always tell myself I'm annoying, I'm not helpful enough, I'm not what everyone wants all the time, and it's so so good to remember that I don't have to try as hard as I'm trying. I could very easily just not. I could scream if I felt like it. How great is that
A phrase I've recently developed is, "I am kind for ✨️my✨️ peace of mind, not yours."
something particularly sickening about the current fascist transphobic demonstrations in canada is that they’re co-opting the slogan Every Child Matters, which was originally created by indigenous groups to talk about the history of residential schools and the legacy of indigenous genocide that is still ongoing in Canada to this day. and fash are using it to legitimate their disgusting views about trans people, hiding under the cover of a progressive veneer. in this respect they take after the fascists that came before them, whose actual views are so openly vile they have to cloak them in left wing language. they are and have always been parasitic to left wing causes, so intellectually bereft that they cannot make anything of their own, only steal, only plunder, only destroy