babe wake up, new evergreen boat just dropped in Maryland

You know what would be so fuckin funny?

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I just.

You don’t need a reason to not like a ship.  You don’t need a reason not to ship a ship, canon or otherwise.  You don’t have to prove it’s “problematic” or “abusive” or any of that shit.

You’re allowed to just not like it.  You can literally just say “eh, I don’t like it, it’s just not my thing” and that’s valid.  You don’t have to explain it or excuse it.  Just say you don’t like it and move the fuck on, for fuck’s sake.

I am BEGGING y’all.

but it’s blocking the FUCKING SUEZ CANAL–

i hate the criticisms of queen’s gambit that are like “it’s unrealistic that she doesn’t face as much misogyny in a such a male dominated field in the 60′s” and i’m like that’s the whole point???? it’s a female power fantasy!!!! we WANT to see her triumph because of her merits and not have incredibly arbitrary and unjust obstacles like sexism in her way, lol. we want to see her be supported by the men and women in her life. it doesn’t have to be true to reality, that’s why it’s so good. 

And if the show had put more emphasis on topics like feminism and misogyny, those same people would be saying "why does every show have to be about SJW politics nowadays" and "does it have to be about her being a woman, can't it just be about her playing chess".

in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me

you can’t repeat the past

can’t repeat the past? why, of course you can! of course you can. 

date of origin: 19th of may, 2013.

this is my post. do you know how it feels to have this be your post? do you understand the guilt i have to live with knowing this is my post? the weight on my soul as the decade popped into prominence with spanish flu …  2 ! 

do you know how it feels, heritageposts? are any of these heritage posts your own or are you just a curator of human misery? do you know how it feels to live knowing that of anything i’ve ever made, anything i’ve ever said, this has been seen by most people, and this will probably remain the case until i die? for this to be my legacy? can you relate? can you empathize? 

but do you want to know the worst part? the absolute worst part of all of this?

we haven’t even brought back art deco into mainstream prominence. sickening

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

IM CRYINGNFN

english: ninety-nine

french: :)

english: oh no

french: four-twenty-ten-nine

english: potato

french: :)

english: oh geez

french: apple of the earth

french: papillon

english: :)

french: don’t

english: beurremouche

French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit

english: squirrel

german: :)

english: oh dear

german: oak croissant

english: helicopter german: :) english: uh oh german: lifting screwdriver

english: toes

spanish: :)

english: no don’t

spanish : fingers of the feet

english: bowl

spanish: :)

english: oh lordy

spanish: deep plate

english: car

polish: :)

english: i changed my mind

polish:  that which walks by itself

french: coccinelle

UK english: ladybird!

american english: ladybug

french: weird

dutch: :)

french: …what

dutch: the good lord’s little animal

french: …ok

irish, polish and russian: *giggling*

french: …just tell me

irish, polish and russian: GOD’S SMALL COW

English: jellyfish Japanese: :) English: what yo got Japan Japanese: ~*~*o c e a n m o o n*~*~

English: gloves Dutch: :) English: omg what now Dutch: hand shoes

English: porcupine Dutch: :) English: … please, no Dutch: sting pig

JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

English: Poppy

Dutch: :)

English: … tell me

Dutch: Clap rose

English: dragon

Finnish: :)

English: for fuck’s sake

Finnish: salmon snake

english: dragon

asl: :D!

english: tell me?

asl: SPICY DINOSAUR

English: nap

Romanian: :)

English: huh?

Romanian: a baby of a sleep

@the-cloud-road

English: Giraffe

Latin: :D

English: what?

Latin: camelopardus!

English: In the middle of nowhere

Slovene: Behind God’s back

Serbian:

Serbian: Where wolves fuck

Polish:

Polish: where dogs bark with their asses

English: somewhere really far and isolated

Italian: :)

English: what now?

Italian: in the ass of the world

Welsh: hiraeth

English: :S

Welsh: …

English: a longing for something or somewhere which no longer exists, to which you can no longer return; the longing for the lost homeland of your ancestors, which you know only through blood and tradition, and will never feel under your feet

English: ladybird

Welsh: :) :) :) :) :) :)

English: look, you literally just made fun of me for my lexical limitations, why are you -

Welsh: little red cow :)

English: aw :)

Welsh: :)

There may be a day I do not reblog this post but today is not that day!!!

English: raisin

English: Come on French, isn’t raisin a word in you vocabulary?

English: French?

French: …

French: DrY gRaPe

English: grape

French: you’re not gonna like it.

English: what?

French: in my defence I was first.

English: What?

French: raisin 🥺

English: computer

Finnish: :)

English: oh no, not you again

Finnish: knowledge machine

Penelope Scott makes music for girls who felt so excited to grow up and do so many things and then got slowly crushed into gray little cubes by all of The Systems in place in society that just drain all of the everything out of us, and then we have to fill our little cube voids with something, or we'll implode, so we fill them with our anger at school and at corporations and with our deep and nearly endless sadness and grief for the genuinely happy and excited-for-life kids we used to be and we fill them with our disappointment in our potential we not only didn't reach but lost altogether and with our rage at all of the individual singular persons that fucked us all over, and even with all of that emotion packed into our tiny little crushed up soul corpse cubes they still aren't full, and we know that we won't ever be able to totally fill them up because even though they're just the smallest, saddest parts of who we used to be, we've lost too much of ourselves to complete even those, and all of it just makes us so fucking sad and angry and most of all, it just makes us lost.

media hyperfixation ask game!

this can also be applied to special interests! if you have multiple, put them in the tags so people who send asks can specify which hyperfixation/spin they’re asking about. 📃 what is the plot of your hyperfixation? and is it a movie, game, show, etc? 📌 how did you find your hyperfixation? ✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it? 🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation? 🎶 if your hyperfixation has songs/an ost, what is your favorite song from it? 💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them! 💔 tell us about one of your LEAST favorite characters and why you dislike them. 🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you? 🍀 do you have any kins or comfort characters from your hyperfixation? 💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share? 💢 what do you NOT like about your hyperfixation? is there something you would want to change about it?

me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

(via @itsbenedict)

eternalfarnham replied to your post

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market. 

sm FUCKING h at y’all granola-crunching conspiracy theorists. you probably also believe Super Potions cause autism.

Ok, but it is a shame that artisanal balls are basically off the market now. Like, you have to ride the monorail and hike through a half dozen routes just to find someone willing to sell you a Fast Ball. Believe me, when your boss at the power plant needs five Electrodes by Tuesday you are not going to want to make the trip to Alola; you’re going to head on down to the Mart and get some Ultra Balls, which will do the trick but aren’t well tailored to the job.

I’m with you that modern catching techniques are better, not to mention more humane, but there genuinely is a loss from more niche balls becoming harder to find. Maybe someday the long slowpoketail of consumer demand will be met, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Shellder.

In universe discourse is the most RIVETING shit possible, dude. I would read HOURS of in universe Pokemon discourse, god, seriously.

I’m not even in the Pokémon fandom but I’d read an entire book of this

if someones pronouns are it/its you are obligated to use them and if not youre being transphobic for misgendering it and not respecting its pronouns

it absolutely does not matter if it makes you uncomfortable because other peoples pronouns arent about your comfort

you think its insulting to trans people? you think its dehumanizing? cool. maybe that person wants to reclaim it, wants to take something that could be used as a form of violence against trans people and take it unto itself. maybe it doesnt consider itself human. maybe literally no other pronouns feel right. maybe its just what its comfortable with for any number of reasons that arent any of your goddamn business because people dont have to justify their pronouns for them to be worthy of respect

use peoples correct pronouns no excuses or exceptions

*laughs in Finnish*

For context: in Finnish it’s completely normal to call people “it” while talking casually (regardless of their pronouns - different pronouns aren’t even really a thing in Finnish, we just use one gender neutral pronoun, “hän”). In fact, if you use “she” and “he” in casual talk, you often sound way too formal in a weird way.

We don’t even have she or he bc we don’t have gender pronouns though. The only english equivalents are singular they and it for third person singular pronoun.

Yeah, but "hän" is usually translated to either he or she depending on the person's gender, that's why I used those words since the post is in English. The point was that the pronouns that sound completely normal in English can sound way too formal in Finnish, not what those pronouns are exactly.

Homework should be abolished

This actually isn't a joke

My thoughts are very scattered right now, but I'll try to arrange them in some sort of coherent way:

I also think this way about the jobs where people have to continue working even when they get home

yEAH stop training students to dedicate there entire lives to school/work

Another good point I completely forgot about !!

If people are interested, there’s actually a whole book about this! It’s called The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn. I highly recommend it. I read it years ago but the thing that stuck with me the most is that academically, depending on age, homework either doesn’t correlate with higher academic achievement or it actively harms them. Elementary school students do worse in school when they have homework. By high school there’s a very slight improvement correlated with homework (within reason—if every class is assigning a lot of it, that’s a problem), but imo not enough to be worth all the other negatives.

We do have homework in Finland though, just wanted to correct that part

if someones pronouns are it/its you are obligated to use them and if not youre being transphobic for misgendering it and not respecting its pronouns

it absolutely does not matter if it makes you uncomfortable because other peoples pronouns arent about your comfort

you think its insulting to trans people? you think its dehumanizing? cool. maybe that person wants to reclaim it, wants to take something that could be used as a form of violence against trans people and take it unto itself. maybe it doesnt consider itself human. maybe literally no other pronouns feel right. maybe its just what its comfortable with for any number of reasons that arent any of your goddamn business because people dont have to justify their pronouns for them to be worthy of respect

use peoples correct pronouns no excuses or exceptions

*laughs in Finnish*

For context: in Finnish it’s completely normal to call people “it” while talking casually (regardless of their pronouns - different pronouns aren’t even really a thing in Finnish, we just use one gender neutral pronoun, “hän”). In fact, if you use “she” and “he” in casual talk, you often sound way too formal in a weird way.

How deep does the hole go?

Art by Penzilla

one thing they don’t tell you about tumblr is you gotta look out for the spike traps

Yeah man, it's a problem. A little more about it under the cut, i don't wanna clog your dash.

We really don’t talk enough about how Artoo went into the desert to find Obi-Wan because no kid would be stupid enough to follow him into Tusken territory and then this kid chases him down and gets beaten up and his unconscious body is dragged back to his landspeeder and Artoo looked down and went “This one. This one knows how to have a good time.”

#he’d had adventures but really all those rebels were too cautious for him#he’d served Anakin Skywalker there was just no coming back#and then there’s this nerdy kid who kinda sorta reminds him of that guy#and then Obi-Wan says “your father wanted you to have this” and pulls out ANAKIN’S KRIFFING LIGHTSABER#and Artoo just EXPLODES because NO WAY THIS IS THAT KID??!#and he cross-references his old memory banks and THERE’S PADME NAMING THE KID “LUKE” THIS IS THE KID#THE WHOLE TIME HE WAS TRYING TO RUN AWAY FROM ANAKIN’S SON#NO WONDER HE COULDN’T ESCAPE#also no wonder he could fool this idiot to take off the restraining bolt#HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN#and he was ride or die forever#and about two days later he DID die#but he got better#so really WOW this guy IS the best#artoo detoo

What he says: im fine

What he means: in Toy Story 2 Woody is treated as the rarest of the toys from Woody’s Roundup when he’s the main character of the show. That would mean he would have had a higher production number than any of his costars, and in fact probably would have been made for the longest and earliest of the toy line. Stinky Pete, by being the fan unfavorite, must have had a smaller run, and less of his toys would have survived in the 50s as kids would have needlessly damaged or destroyed him making him the rarest of the group and Woody the most common. If anything, the plot of Toy Story 2 should have revolved around Al stealing Woody’s hat as it would have been the item most sought after by collectors as it’s easily lost and not attached to an otherwise common doll. Fundamentally, Al’s apartment should have been littered with Woody dolls in various states of damage, all missing hats and maybe a handful of decent condition Woody dolls needing a hat while Stinky Pete is the rarest and most expensive as a collectors item.

@everyone saying Woody was a limited run or some shit like….. y’all telling me the character that got onto the cover of time magazine and had all this fucking merch didn’t saturate the market with Woody dolls? In the 50s at the height of capitalism and the baby boom???

real life be like:

Your error is in assuming that Woody is rare because few Woody dolls were made. Not the case: Many Woody dolls were made- and because of their popularity they were sold and played-with until they were wrecked and - this being the 50s - thrown out. That plastic Woody you’ve got there will outlast most civilizations: but our Woody? With his cloth body and its aging 1950s fabric? By the 80s most of those would be a wreck: cloth-body stuffed toys have a very short shelf-life once they’re out in the world. Store a Woody in the attic for ten years and the mice get him, or the mold, or the simple weight of time loosens the bindings and makes his limbs unravel. And the voice box? With an in-tact, still functional draw strings? Do oyou know how often those things jam? Woody is unique because he seems to have belonged to a family that takes unusually good care of their toys, going so far as to fix them. Toy from the 50s are not in any way shape or form equivalent to modern full-plastic toys or even BEanie Babies, which were sold primarily with a view to the long-term collectors market. There is absolutely nothing weird or strange in a Woody doll surviving in such good quality to 1999 being notable: his popularity and high production rate has zero impact on the toy’s long-term survivability. (Indeed, that high production rate could have even introduced a lot more manufacturing defects into shipped Woody dolls, creating an overall decline in quality.) Just because it saturated the market is no indication of longevity. Yes, Al sure has a lot of Woody stuff - and most of that is very rare. For a good comparison point hop over to ebay and start looking for vintage, no-package Howdy Doody dolls from the 1950s - not the 70s re-releases with 70s materials but the 50s ones. Start judging the quality: the faded fabrics, the dirt, the smudges, the dinginess, and you’ll begin to see why Al freaked out so much: he didn’t just just find a Woody with a hat, he found a Woody who was clean - with no chipping on the hand-painted face, whose hand-stitched hat hadn’t lost its stitching, whose arm break could be repaired by a master who knew what they were doing. A hundred thousand Woodys might have been made in the 50s - but the number that survived to the present day, out-of-box, out of the hands of collectors, in good enough shape to be polished-up into museum-quality condition?I Al found the treasure of a lifetime.

[Fun fact: according to the wiki, Woody’s full name is Woody Pride.]

^ me dropping everything to learn more about the intricacies of the Toy Story universe

and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet

Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action. She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story. One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings. Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things. So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations. Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.