the illustration Jessica Hayworth did for this Night Vale episode is gorgeous
My jester's the cutest! He's been getting better at rhyming in song and I'm so proud! I got him a new set of beanbags to juggle as a treat! His wisecracks and silly giggles are seriously what keep me going nowadays.
"bears repeating" and "time flies" are two kinds of creatures that fill similar ecological niches
Its all “i love putting guys in situations” until were on a filler episode. Where are the REAL putting guys in situations lovers.
“It dosent progress the plot!!!” Have you never been on a whimsical journey that did nothing to change you as a person.
I think y’all kids have forgotten what “filler” means.
Put your guys in emotions, PLEASE.
From Reddit: "Jake the Brick is one of the most calming, peaceful things I've ever watched. Every time I watch it, it puts me in a mindset that I can't fully explain."
“Filler” originally meant “episodes of an anime based on a manga, in which the anime was waiting for the manga to catch up.” This is why the original FMA diverges so much from the manga—it didn’t wait. Same with Trigun, I believe, which is also why Trigun is 1) so short and 2) did actually split the Gung-Ho Guns into so many episodes. They’re not exactly filler, but they are an attempt to stretch the material. Naruto has A LOT of filler; the all-time champ might be DragonBallZ, which, technically, has been all filler since 1996. (And yes, because it’s still following Goku, that means there have been four series’ worth of filler.)
Note that “filler” does not mean “not good.” One of the most highly-regarded duels in Yu-Gi-Oh (Kaiba/Atem vs Noa) is filler. In Sailor Moon, the MOTW format was adopted to stretch the original, very short manga (at that point presumed to be a single arc long; its continuation was not yet confirmed) into a full show, but this allowed for a more organic growth of friendships between the main characters. Basically every hot-springs-shenanigans/beach shenanigans episode ever is filler.
No, filler doesn’t advance the plot, and that’s because the writers don’t yet know what the plot is. (This is also why it’s pretty rare for characters to die or suffer permanent injuries in filler, unless it’s a franchise where “I died but I got better” is common.) But that doesn’t mean it’s bad and it doesn’t mean you should shit on it at every opportunity. It can be pretty great, if you give it the chance to be.
every day of my life i scream and cry and throw up bc i dont have this jumper
if ur one of those femcel af coquette girls who’s like “boys will never understand anything i say bc im so special and feminine and sad and men suck” please stay the fuck away from me lol. yall act like men have never experienced a feeling in their lives. i guarantee you that men—especially trans men!!—absolutely relate to all of the things that you say men could never understand about being a girl. men can have depression, men can be insecure about their bodies, men can have feminine interests, men can enjoy “girly” things like makeup, fashion, ballet, etc. and trans men can have the exact same gender-related trauma that you do bc they get treated like girls all the time. so stop being fucking weird
thats on every men's dreams & fears & ways they talk about it can sometimes feel like they imagination/ideas from off explained with care. weird in particularly is how transgender men is done about sharing its participation in their community. just like, a young boy is being seen by his behavior such as sexual preferences, starting to accepting his body & preferences & before those femcels manifestations nothing was impliying at values of feminity- when talk about mature teens both trans/bi/gay. totally agreed but in actual days to be resistant when following a exact aes by opining while pretending lies can't buy someone answers; if a femcel one & daring to expose any girlishs point of view about subculture & gender is totally a thing that will never work & make sure of that i'd make it clear for you, not myself. to stop betraying your own issue bc no one cares. references at cultofcoquette . com the dumbest jokes wins again babydolls 🤭
to this day nobody knows what she was tryna say
The YouTube content creator community was wracked by macabre tragedy this morning after Amelia Bedelia was instructed to hang streamers for a six year old’s birthday party
ilove people who work at front desks of things. i can walk into a building and go to the desk and i ask how do i do this thing. and then they just fucking tell me !!!!
i walked into my college found the first desk and asked hey where do i pay my student fees. did that. ok where i do find the academic advisor? got the general direction, went up to the first desk i saw, asked where to go to drop a class .awesome. went to the bookstore, walked up to the desk, asked how to find out what textbooks i need. and AGAIN they had answers for me. this is so cool thank you desk people
no this is so real actually !! it always feels like you'll be expected to know everything when you do Adult Things but you don't, actually, you just need to know who to ask
dashboard simulator
mutual 1: [one million posts about a fandom im not in. in the span of five minutes]
mutual 2: M. Caelius too must not pass unnoticed, notwithstanding the unhappy change, either of his fortune or disposition, which marked the latter part of his life. As long as he was directed by my influence, he behaved himself so well as a tribune of the people, that no man supported the interests of the senate, and of all the good and virtuous, in opposition to the
mutual 3: patricide would fix me
mutual 4: [5000 word theoretically informed breakdown of a book i have not read]
mutual 5: #omg this reminds me of the roman legal system
mutual 6: cannibalism is so mainstream now we need to start posting about necrophilia
mutual 7: so a detailed prosopographical analysis of this roman family reveals that actually they all died due to being haunted by an ancestral curse
mutuals 8-10: this tv show is actually just sophocles’ oedipus. to me
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mutual 12: here’s why these two words actually have NO etymological connection!!!
mutual 13: i’m just like this 18th century lawyer but a girl
mutual 14: cicero big naturals
mutual 15: scurvy is inherently both transgender and sexy…… put the rot in eroticism or whatever
mutual 16: she moby on my dick until i doomed by the narrative
The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”
also "Oh God there are so many hot people"
Okay, I know people as a general rule tend to not care about invertebrates as much as cute, fuzzy mammals, but this is a must-read if you care about animal welfare. The short version is that horseshoe crab blood has been used for decades in medicine as a way to test whether something is truly sterile; the blood clots in the presence of bacteria. Since then millions of horseshoe crabs have been captured and drained of blood, even though a synthetic alternative was developed a few years ago.
They go through a pretty brutal experience in the process. They're caught by fishermen who often throw them by their tails into a pile in the open air, and they're then trucked to a bleeding facility where they're strapped down and their blood is removed with needles jabbed directly into their hearts. Over half their blood may be taken, after which they're supposed to be returned to the ocean. However, it's likely many of them never make it back, instead turned into fish bait and sold by the same fishermen who caught them in the first place.
Apart from the fact that this is a horrific thing to put any animal through, the attrition due to fatalities has put a serious dent in horseshoe crab numbers. This is compounded by massive habitat loss, pollution, and the capture of horseshoe crabs as food, particularly as the females of one species are considered a delicacy. And other animals that rely on horseshoe crabs are suffering, too. The American rufa subspecies of the red knot, a medium-sized shorebird, is critically endangered as the horseshoe crab eggs it must have in order to successfully complete migration have become increasingly scarce, and it is likely the bird will become extinct if trends continue.
While there are guidelines for medical horseshoe crab harvest, they're considered optional. The few laws that exist are poorly enforced. Short of a complete ban on horseshoe crab blood in favor of the synthetic alternative, these animals are in very real danger of going extinct after a history spanning over 400 million years on this planet.
Thankfully, this article is not the first to bring forth the issues surrounding horseshoe crab harvest. Here are a few resources for further information and action (US based, though horseshoe crabs are threatened throughout their entire range):
Horseshoe Crab Conservation Network - https://horseshoecrab.org/conservation/
Wetlands Institute - https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conservation/horseshoe-crab-conservation/
Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition - https://hscrabrecovery.org/
"ironic hell" is my favorite kind of punishment. someone being condemned to suffer eternally for their desires? boring, pedestrian, what are you catholic, etc. getting what you want but in a way that makes you wish you never did, on the other hand? now that makes me sit up a little straighter in my seat and lean forward excitedly
also call me sadistic but there's something so satisfying about getting to see the moment someone realizes that their "reward" is nothing but a shiny gold-plated boot up the ass