friendly reminder not to buy spiderpunk merch from major corporations.

it is disrespectful both to hobie's character and to punk culture. you cannot capialise on anticapitalism, you cannot capitalise on punk culture.

punk culture is directly opposite (counter-culture) to mainstream commercialisation and instituation. it's not all that marketable. major corporations do not need your money. small businesses do, and their merch is likely higher quality anyway.

that's not a joke, most hobie merch out there is ugly as fuck, and would break apart in a day.

HE'S SO SAD AND BURDENED BY THE HORRORS. I MUST HAVE SEX WITH HIM.

Rating slasher characters based on how attractive I find them

giant leaf katydid (Steirodon sp.) cleaning her antenna :)

quick and easy tips

@blubushie

I find some visceral feeling in this image that I am more than willing to experience.

since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the enby spectrum!

this is so fucking funny. im going to say "here come the locusts" everytime something goes wrong now

@gstring-theorist bless you for bringing this onto my dashboard

wanted to share my SallyFace bits here

they are oldie (but goldie for me), and i miss drawing him dearly

1000% agree here! Oswald is a strong character beyond his apparent dislike of Mickey- he's stubborn, impulsive, overconfident- but he's a father (One of the few in the Disney Toons to be one besides Goofy and someone else, I forget who) and a loving husband to Ortensia, his wonderful kitty cat wife! I've seen a lot of movies and shorts about Mickey and Minnie- Give me Ozzie and Ortensia! Give me a short about Oswald struggling to adapt to being a father to so many children- with some Ortensia struggles on the side as well!

Better yet- give me a movie where Oswald comes back from Universal like it was a vacation or a gig that didn't work out- have it to where he is struggling to fit back in after being gone for so long- heck, you can even have it to where Ortensia and Ozzie meet AFTER he come back so it can be an introduction to those two for younger audiences! Give us Ozzie!

Not only could Nick be interpreted as gay based on his interactions with Mr. McKee / the elevator scene / the way he talks about Gatsby being more romantic than how he talks about Jordan, but I think Fitzgerald did this intentionally. F. Scott Fitzgerald has equated homosexuality with both emotional weakness and a lack of self control. These are traits that are very present in Nick throughout the book, and as such, it would make sense for Fitzgerald to also imply Nick’s homosexuality as an extension of these traits. In this essay I will

Hey OP, I need a link to that essay

Emergency (sort of ?) commissions

Another reason we have commissions open besides car stuff: gender affirming care. We’re a transgender teenager in Texas and we don’t know how much longer we have until we can’t access care anymore. Being in a right-wing state has affected us terribly. Our parents ignore us, and we won’t have money until at least late June, and it might be too late by then. Stop the discrimination of transgender youth. -DD

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

This is fascinating if you’re into math or sociology or computer programming or all of the above.

Everyone, everywhere, without exception, should play this thing through.

Don’t check just this - check out all of Nicky Case’s work. They’re a brilliant creator and I heavily recommend checking out at least one of their projects.  Their website can be found here.

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

We Become What We Behold - “ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“ A short five-minute game about news and media. Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

OH MY GOD THIS IS FRICKING AMAIZNG WOW WOW WOW WOW YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YES INTELLECT 

Tucking this into my jar of secrets to be shared to the gremlins

postal 1 dude/"the demon" voicelines but you can tell why i chose certain lines