Happy Moth Monday.
They should make airplanes that look like this.
What makes Dr. Doofenshmirtz such a fun character is that he chooses to be evil as a career but in his day to day life he’s actually a very nice and considerate person. Unlike Francis Monogram.
Unionized labor vs unpaid labor, hmmmm.
@ slack’s emoji artist turn on your location i wanna talk
astrology is gay you heard it here first folks
oh, to be innocent and think this is just a pride flag
*record scratch*
Wait a minute... YOU DEVELOPED THE BARBIE: FAIRYTOPIA MOVIES???
Ohmygodohmygod I loved those moves as a kid! They were beautiful and the story was so engaging and asdgssf j lhf
Ahem. Thank you so much for brightening my childhood! (And definitely other people's, too, but I'll only speak for myself here xD)
You're very welcome.
I developed the basic universe from Mattel's early notes, and wrote the Fairytopia bible. I then wrote the first movie (and was rewritten, so you'll see another couple of writers' names there as well on the IMDb page: but over a screenwriting career, sooner or later rewrite happens to us all). :)
HTH!
(ETA: A lot of my prose readership has no idea that I’ve also been a screenwriter for forty years, or of what I’ve done. If you want to find out, here’s my page at IMDb.)
Well, that was fucking creepy.
Took Davos out for an Emergency Poop at 2 am.
While he's going, I look up the street - without my glasses on - and someone is coming down 58th. I can't tell you anything about them except that they were walking a bike.
Davos snaps on to them, too, and I'm like "oh great", except then I'm like, "oh shit," because
Davos. Doesn't. Bark.
This dog challenged a thunderstorm, but whatever was up with whatever or whoever this was? He pinned his ears back and dropped his tail and was like MOM WE NEED TO GO INSIDE NOW
I had to drag him so I could get to the garbage to throw out the poop, after which point he like bodily dragged me inside and to our room. I could barely get the door locked. This dog weighs 40 lbs and he fucking dragged me.
I don't know what the fuck he picked up from that ... person? but when my Fuck Around And Find Out dog decides to fuck off instead?
I listen.
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A.FUCKI G.REAL LIFE LWJ. A fkn modern wangxian au this is crazy
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THERE’S MOOOORE
This is a hell of a ride but this is the Queer romance of arranged Marraige actually turning romance and ahhh i love it so much
GOOD FOR THEM!
this is adorable but i’m still just stuck on ‘he keeps crawling into my lap and cuddling and nuzzling me, but i can’t tell if he LIKES ME-likes me, please help’
dude
if you read romances and think “no one is that oblivious in real life” i have some news for you my friend
apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead.
Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area’s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help. (source)
tfw a group of unprepared strangers show up, refuse the food you offer them, start fucking cannibalizing each other, and then call you the savages
The story of the Donner Party is hilarious to me because like, everybody talks about them like these brave pioneers who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of their destiny or whatever the fuck, but they were just complete dumbasses.
Like, have you ever heard of the Murphy Party? Sometimes called the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party? They were the first wagon train of the pioneers to make it over the Sierra Nevada, two full years before the Donners tried it, first of the american pioneers to reach the shores of lake Tahoe, first licensed physician in California, etc. etc. Ten families, about fifty people, not a single casualty (they actually arrived with more people than when they left). Because when the Donners picked the most charismatic city boy as their leader, the Murphys picked a mountain man. Where the Donners decided to take a “shortcut” that was completely impassable based on a letter they got from somebody who wanted to drum up business for a trading post he was building but who had never actually driven a wagon, the Murphys scouted properly and stuck to paths their vehicles could actually traverse. Where the Donners decided to shoot at the people who were already living in the area, the Murphys asked the natives for directions. When they got snowed in, they sent a few men on ahead to bring back supplies to the rest of the party after building a sturdy cabin for shelter, instead of trying to hole up in shoddy tents and lean-tos before eating each other.
Not to mention all the idiotic in-fighting in the Donner party; they were constantly brawling or stabbing each other or exiling people or just leaving old men on the side of the path to die or “accidentally” shooting their rivals while cleaning weapons, while literally hundreds of other wagon trains somehow made it through the same trials without any murder.
So naturally, the Donners got a lake and a pass and a state park named after them and became household words, while anybody who wasn’t a complete moron got maybe a local park or a small creek.
Daaaaaaaaaamn.
It gets even better!
Donner was not the original leader of the group- the expedition started out under the leadership of a man named Reed, who did know what he was doing and had lead several groups safely to the Oregon Territory before.
When they reached the point where the new “California Trail” diverged from the Oregon Trail Donner convinced a large portion of the group to join him and travel across the Sierras.
Reed knew this was a very, very bad idea but Donner was apparently just- extremely charismatic and persuasive. Not only did the Reed Party safely make it to Oregon, as originally planned, but Reed immediately headed south as fast as he humanly could, and upon reaching Sacramento recruited a rescue party to bring emergency supplies up from the other side of the pass.
Unfortunately, it was already too late in the year and the weather forced the rescue party to turn back. Despite knowing the odds against the Donner Party surviving Reed refused to assume their deaths and stayed in Sacramento waiting for the mountain trail to clear.
So not only did Reed warn them not to, he was also the one that found the survivors afterwards.
Fuck Donner.
drek-odradek
These animals were evil fcking assholes who did way worse than just refuse native ppl’s help, abandon an old man to his death so they wouldn’t have to feed him anymore, and cannibalise each other like freaks.
They HAD indigenous guides, it’s not like they were completely unprepared. They had hired two Catholic Miwok men (bc ofc they wouldn’t have cooperated with actual uncivilised s*vages 🙄) baptised Luis and Salvador, both of the Consumne branch of the Miwok from what is currently California. They were employed by John Sutter. Historian Joseph King has deduced that Luis’s given Miwok name was Eema, and he wasn’t even 20 years old in 1846. Salvador’s Miwok name was probably QuéYuen and he wasn’t yet 30. These shitstains murdered and cannibalised them in one of their ill-conceived attempts to cross the mountain range, and it was pre-meditated, since the one white guy with a conscience attempted to warn them and they managed to get away for a couple of days before being literally hunted down 🙃
Quit romanticising ‘pioneers’ they were a fcken calamity and plague to the indigenous population, bringing nothing but barbarity, violence, disease and ruin. You all like to focus on the heroics and footnote the actual philosophy behind manifest destiny and it shows. Stop celebrating any of these ppl, regardless of how ~successful/clever~ they were at settling and thieving land jfc
On the atrocities the pioneers committed against Native Americans
I don’t think people realize that California, what became the state of California, was particularly brutal. [For] many California tribes, it was total genocide. There are stories of Anglos going out and literally having target practice by shooting Indians. That was part of that whole Manifest Destiny thing — “we” could possess the continent because there were no people out there. There were Mexicans, yes, a lot of it belonged to Mexico and there were all these Plains Indians, but they in fact weren’t people, they weren’t human beings, so it’s “ours” for the taking.
“I’m like, ‘Okay, she’s a doll. She’s a plastic doll. She doesn’t have organs. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs. If she doesn’t have reproductive organs, would she even feel sexual desire?’ No, I don’t think she could,” Robbie said. “She is sexualized. But she should never be sexy. People can project sex onto her. Yes, she can wear a short skirt, but because it’s fun and pink. Not because she wanted you to see her butt.”
Margot Robbie said Ace Barbie Rights with her whole chest.
Every time I read an interview from someone who worked on this movie it sounds like they went through some sort of spiritual enlightenment
I have more
"No one at Lucky-Chap, Mattel, or Warner Bros. saw any pages of the script until it was finished." And it already shows <3
I can never reblog that one post that's like "what fictional food did you desperately want to eat as a child " bc I had this dinosaur book as a kid and in the book there was this illustration of a T. Rex eviscerating a Triceratops and feasting on its remains and it looked like it was having such a good time with the triceratops carcass that I would have traded anything to be that T. Rex. And I can't just add that to a random stranger's post
I see how it is you can all post about cannibalism and blood drinking and it's cool it's normal it's ENCOURAGED even but I say I wanted to indulge in the absolute carnage of felling a 26,000 lb horned beast with my hands and then feasting upon the spoils of my victory as a child and suddenly IM the weird one
Everyone says they want a weirdgirl who is hot and strange and off-putting and then she says she's harboring a secret desire to be a Mesozoic superpredator from the late cretaceous and you all switch up REALLL fast
Had a dream that I was reading a book called The Tiger, about a living city that slowly digested its inhabitants. The title annoyed me because the city was clearly not an ambush predator, but a passive hunter like a jellyfish or sundew. No one knew they were being digested—life in the city just wore them down little by little, and fate always seemed to conspire to keep them there. The book was ambiguous about whether the forces of economic instability and social injustice were supernatural qualities “the tiger” generated to subdue prey or natural occurrences that had attracted “the tiger” to settle in that city as its hunting ground.
wait fuck this was an ABBA dream wasn’t it
The concept of a hard-hitting surreal political horror novel based on an ABBA song is great. Thank you brain keep up the good work.
You mean y’all aren’t getting regular ABBA dreams?
Have you ever thought of a Chinese dragon combined with a dachshund or a ferret?
you mean like. a little. wiener dog dragon ohhohoohh man
the song of the summer is call me maybe, for the eleventh consecutive year,
Anonymous asked:
anti-convert idiots crying screaming throwing up when they find out there is no such thing as a "non-ethnic" convert since converts join the ethnic subgroup they converted under (most commonly becoming ashkenazi or sephardi) so their ~blood quantum~ is meaningless
yup! there are so many reasons someone might convert, someone may or may not have jewish ancestry, and it shouldn’t matter if they do or not. once they join the jewish people, there is no difference.
I knew there was a lot of fucked up shit with what that anon said to me but I'm not fluent enough to articulate it other than knowing it's wrong for them to try to hold my convert status over my head.
imo once someone starts the conversion process they enter a grey area of not quite goy and not quite jew and both jews and goyim don’t seem to know how to deal with that. and like the answer is to just leave conversion students alone and give them time to grow and adjust to jewish life, but that doesn’t always happen bc ppl are weirdos.
Stacia Napierkowska in Les Vampires (1915)
In Aziraphale’s head, this is the plot of Good Omens.
yeah i love lgbt (legolas gimli bilbo thorin)
fucking obsessed with the big wave of notes i've gotten now that it's june 1st. happy pride month folks
Hang on, you guys. I’ve got a crazy idea.
This is the most horrible thing I’ve seen all week and at the same time I can’t stop laughing.
A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump ruled late Friday night that Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act (AEA), which would restrict drag performances in the state and threaten performers who violate the law with felony criminal penalties, is unconstitutional.
“The Tennessee General Assembly can certainly use its mandate to pass laws that their communities demand,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote. “But that mandate as to speech is limited by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which commands that laws infringing on the Freedom of Speech must be narrow and well-defined. The AEA is neither.”
Parker, appointed to the bench in 2017, found after a two-day trial that the law — criminalizing “adult cabaret entertainment” performances anywhere “where the adult cabaret entertainment could be viewed by a person who is not an adult” — is unconstitutional on several grounds.
Parker did not shy away from the underlying issues, either.
“The word ‘drag’ never appears in the text of the AEA,” Parker wrote. “But the Court cannot escape that ‘drag’ was the one common thread in all three specific examples of conduct that was considered ‘harmful to minors,’ in the legislative transcript.”
After detailing that legislative history, as shown in four transcripts reviewed by the court, Parker found that “the legislative transcript strongly suggests that the AEA was passed for an impermissible purpose.”
That “impermissible purpose,” Parker found, was “chilling constitutionally-protected speech.”
-via Law Dork, 6/3/23
letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.
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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.
“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.
“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."
Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.
Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride