[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.

Bee:

Wasp:

At the very bottom, in smaller text, is the URL bug-maniac.tumblr.com. /End ID]

NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST

I love showing people this wasp. Behold the beauty of the wasp!

If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:

Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say "yes", the second will say "no."

If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.

But what if people question you from there? "Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?" For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: "I don't have a card for that."

"What the fuck," they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: "I have laryngitis. I've lost speech. My throat hurts". Whatever you expect to occur.

The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. They wonder about logistics. "How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?"

As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.

"I have powerful wizard magics."

Gets them every time

i know eldritch horror kwamis aren't their every day form but can you imagine if tikki approached marinette that first day like this

Some of you might remember a couple of years ago when Scarlett Johansson sued Disney because she was making significantly less money for Black Widow than was guaranteed in her contract because so many more people watched it on streaming than in theaters, how there was a massive misinformation campaign from Disney that a ton of people on this website (and Twitter and other social media) bought into: That she was a greedy bitch who didn't respect people who needed to stay at home during the pandemic (I believe the word "ableist" was thrown around with aplomb) as opposed to someone who just wanted to be paid what she was owed. What was literally in her contract!!! And where everyone who took more than a couple minutes to actually look into and think about the situation could figure out that her issue wasn't with streaming itself, but with how little streaming was allowed to get away with paying her and other actors. But of course, a lot of people just saw the chance to dunk on a rich woman, and didn't think about it beyond readying some snarky tags and hit reblog. And in doing so, threw their support behind a much wealthier, greedier studio head who is already using similar language to describe the current strike.

Anyway we're going to see a lot of that from studios now, especially now that actors have joined with the WGA and it's easier to sell them as rich and greedy than writers, because of this cultural stereotype we have of all Hollywood actors as celebrities. Don't fall for it. SAG-AFTRA represents people like Tom Cruise and ScarJo but it also represents the kind of people who played a Borg in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager in 1997 or who had one line in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as an enthusiastic audience member. Most actors are not crazy wealthy, and in fact, if you're a big TV fan (especially older TV and genre TV) that likely includes some actor names that you know, who played supporting roles in your fav shows, or who were even a star in something decades ago but haven't done anything major since. The AFTRA side also represents people like radio broadcasters. But even beside that, all workers deserve to be fairly compensated for the work they do, and the threat of replacing them with AI, or real actors being required to sign contracts to allow their likenesses to be used by AI forever without paying them, is an existential threat to acting as a profession in general. The actors are in the right. The writers are in the right. The studios are in the wrong. The studios have exploited new technology to get away with horrifying labor practices for years and their feet need to be put to the fire. Circulate the articles about how poorly the Orange is the New Black cast was compensated for making one of the defining shows of the early streaming boom, and of the studios saying they want to force writers to starve and lose their homes. Don't get distracted by propaganda aping progressive-sounding language about wealthy celebrities. Focus on the real enemy, the truly greedy fat cats who care more about money than people and art: the studios.

superhero fans how's it feel to be winning

They did it again

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Three things to always do in rich neighborhoods when you're poor:

Explanation:

I love when people credit artists. This is French circus artist and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois, probably in Tentatives d'approche d'un point de suspension at hangar Y in Meudon a few days ago. Most of his work is an exploration of balance and equilibrium, he has several variations around the stairs/trampoline thing (fugue-trampoline, this one, cavale, l'art de la fugue…)

well if that isn’t a metaphor for life

i don’t think native english speakers can ever fully appreciate the emotion i felt when i first found out that the vulnerable spot on the side of your forehead which is arguably the best spot to be kissed is called your temple 

i don’t think native english speakers can ever fully appreciate the emotion i felt when i first found out that the vulnerable spot on the side of your forehead which is arguably the best spot to be kissed is called your temple 

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

Sadly my nature and gardening posting seems to get popular with radfems which means I have to go all the way down the reblog chain blocking people and I witness some real horrible shadows passing in the deeps

Today I saw radfem posts that were like "radblr, being a misandrist alone doesn't make you a radical feminist, I agree with anti-natalism but some of y'all are too comfortable calling women 'dickriders' and 'breeders'" [not an isolated incident, i've seen terfs calling women breeders in tags at other times]

Apparently one of the dramas right now is that some radfem made a post requesting financial help because she was dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and she got a bunch of harassment by people calling her all sorts of gross, derogatory things referencing the fact that she had sex with a man incl. "dickrider"

SHUT UP ABOUT BEING THE LAST STRONGHOLD OF TRUE FEMINISM

YOU'RE LITERALLY INVENTING NEW MISOGYNISTIC SLURS

i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police

I am obligated to reblog this again, because it is now Superwholock, and therefore perfection.

people need to remember that every tumblr post in 2012 was like this

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[Image ID: Twelve-panel pen and ink comic. In the first panel, a hairy dyke sweats and blushes in embarrassment as they lift weights at the gym while bystanders glare at them in disgust.

In the second panel, the dyke stands alone wearing a towel, about to enter the bathroom.

In the third panel, they raise a razor to their very hairy leg. A speech bubble interrupts them. It reads: “Just what do you think you’re doing?”

In the forth panel, the dyke gasps and looks over their shoulder in surprise. Their ass is out.

In the fifth panel, the dyke exclaims: “Who… who are you?!” to the five saintly apparitions hovering above them, crowned with halos and garbed in masculine styles from various time periods.

In the sixth panel, the first apparition speaks: “We are the Butches of Ages Past. We appear to you now in your hour of need.”

In the seventh panel, the second apparition says: “We saw that you were about to succumb to societal pressure to shave your legs.”

In the eighth panel, the hairy dyke looks down shamefully at their razor and whines, “People keep staring at me like I’m a walking infection…”

In the ninth panel, all five apparitions shout “DEAL WITH IT!” in unison.

In the tenth panel, the third apparition says: “You wear your stigma with pride and don’t flinch or look back. That’s the way it is done, friend.”

In the eleventh panel, the first apparition places her hand upon the dyke’s shoulder and asks: “If you don’t dyke this place up, who will?” The dyke adopts a determined expression and exclaims: “You’re right!”

In the twelve and final panel, the dyke is back at the gym, lifting a large weight and smirking in smug and wicked pleasure at the alarmed expressions of other patrons. Their legs are still very hairy. Above them a video game-like marker floats in the air and reads: “Mission: DYKE THIS PLACE UP!!!!!”]

Reblogging again for the image description. I thought of trying to type one up, but wasn’t fully sure how to go about describing it. OP rocks.

I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for

ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:

And sometimes you just won’t get it. You’ll turn it over in your head and you’ll poke and prod and reread and you won’t get it.

And that’s okay.

One of my most memorable reading experiences as a teenager was reading a novel called Sophie’s World. It’s a Norwegian “novel about the history of philosophy” and it was dense and complicated and confusing, but it was still so rewarding to read somehow. I still don’t understand most of the complicated philosophical concepts the book introduced, but just because I didn’t understand most of it doesn’t mean it wasn’t still interesting and entertaining. It doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything just bc i wasn’t smart enough to understand the whole thing.

And the same goes for all of you! Just because a book is over your head doesn’t mean you can’t still learn, or that your time reading it is wasted, or that you’re stupid. It just means that you’re not going to understand everything and there’s nothing wrong with that! 

Have fun, and good luck with your reading! :)

Sophie’s World was mind blowing for my tiny 13yo brain as well and I did not understand most of the philosophy stuff. I think I read it like three times (and also a bunch of other jostein gaarder novels, they weren’t all that incomprehensible). There was a PC game based on Sophie’s World in which you played like Sophie iirc and you were taught philosophy through perhaps more accessible means. I never completed the game though

You are not stupid I promise. All the best books have layers of meaning that become opened to you only as you re-read them throughout life...