listen i know each actor brings their own spice to a role, but i just can’t take timothee chalamet’s wonka seriously 

where is the madness behind his eyes??? the malice??? the complete disregard for the laws of mankind and decency???

this man makes me fear that i’ll be shoved into a taffy machine at the slightest provocation 

as! he! should!

I’m not gonna let this gem of a tag on this post go unnoticed.

I think we could all benefit from learning how to sit with discomfort

We live in a world where one’s personal discomfort is weaponized to justify bigotry or stripping of bodily autonomy

We need to learn that others’ lives don’t and shouldn’t cater around our own personal icks

Also, the corollary of this: That Eleanor Roosevelt quote, "No one can hurt you without your consent." All too often when we feel discomfited by something, we allow ourselves to immediately give up our power to the thing/person, especially when we do not feel secure and confident in ourselves and our identities. We want external validation that we are Real, but Real only ever comes from inside you.

Example: If a random lady at the supermarket misgenders me -- even if she does so maliciously! -- it doesn't make me an iota less nonbinary. I'm nonbinary because *I* say so; her opinion has very little to do with me. She might as well waste her breath all day long trying to tell the sky that it is green for all the good that it'll do changing objective facts. Additionally, if she's so bigoted that she wants to try to ruin my day with kindergarten name-calling, then that's rather sad and pathetic of her, but it's not my problem to deal with, nor anything that I have to spend my energy on. Getting angry at her for the purposes of forcing her to validate my identity is... well, it's silly, isn't it? If a bully on the playground calls you a stinky butthead, you don't burst into tears and say "Take it back, I'm NOT a stinky butthead!!!!" because that means that you've implicitly agreed to the rules of their game, in which you might be a stinky butthead. You take back power when you change the rules, or when you refuse to play their game. You smile and walk away, and that makes them madder than anything else because that sort of person just wants to get a rise out of you so they can have a cheap thrill and feel like they're winning.

If someone tries to make you uncomfortable with yourself, you can simply choose not to let them. Though yes, I know it is not actually "simple" -- it takes a LOT of practice. When you first start trying this, it is okay if you're seething on the inside, or upset. This is a skill you can build up slowly. Eventually, you become the walking avatar of "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Turns out we did learn all our useful human-ing skills on the playground, huh?

Now, to fend off the inevitable counterarguments of "So you're saying we should just put up with bigotry? We should just let atrocities happen around us and smile and walk away?": No, that's not what I'm saying. The two crucial factors are scale and impact.

The factor of scale means "if it's one individual yelling at you (another individual), you can just simper 'god bless you' or 'Jesus died for our sins' at them (if you're in America, they're probably Christian, and this particular flavor of Christian will Hate This because they cannot help but recognize it as a winning chess move in the interaction) and walk off". Scale does NOT mean "If a politician is trying to pass a bigoted law that will harm you and your friends, you can just ignore that, haha."

The factor of impact means, "If one stranger at the supermarket is being verbally rude to you (another individual), you can just think to yourself 'hm, dunno what's going on with this person but whatever it is, it's is not as important to me as choosing a box of cereal' and return to choosing a box of cereal." It does NOT mean "if someone you know who has power to materially impact your life (ie: a boss who could come up with fake reasons to fire you) is starting to pick fights because they're a bigot, you can just shrug it off." It also does NOT mean "if someone is coming at you with the intent to cause physical harm, just put your earphones in and turn on some chill low-fi beats to get murdered to."

Don't get murdered. Do stand up against institutional injustice. But also remember that you are an individual, interfacing with other individuals, and sometimes choosing a box of cereal is more important than giving a Local Karen the satisfaction of pissing you off.

SO, in summary:

Which means that the golden rule is: So many things can be labeled "Not my circus, not my monkeys" if you try hard and believe in yourself.

August 6: Dracula

‘Top’

I hope they start having better sex, what a shame

me and my friends praying for better gay sex in the vatican

(Stolen from Reddit.)

"Hmm...I feel like there's something wrong, in an 'are we the baddies?' sense, about what I just wrote, but I can't quite put my finger on it...ah, well; time to post."

"Behind every Proud Boy is a sad mom"

Sticker spotted in Portland, Oregon

Walking switchbacks never ever occurred to me.

But I’m big on pacing myself. Taking frequent rest breaks, etc.

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

So its that easy huh

Of course it is

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.

Small reminder for any artist who can't run Glaze on their own computer: you can get invites for WebGlaze by sending a DM to Glaze on one of their social media accounts. Twitter link here => https://twitter.com/TheGlazeProject

listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults 

maybe I’ll start a big google doc or something one day but for now *deep breath*

Books I haven’t read but I’ve heard good things about

in general i would say that “it’s not fun if they’re totally unrecognisable” is my fandom thesis. like the point of fanfic etc is putting your favourite little guys in situations. where’s the appeal if they’ve been through so many fanon spin cycles that they’re barely even your guys anymore

loads of people are reblogging this like “this is why i don’t like AUs” and honestly this is not an anti AU post by any stretch of the imagination. if you think “alternate universe fic” = “completely unrecognisable characters” then love and light but you need to read some better AUs!! putting your little guys in a completely different setting or time period or making them baristas or racing drivers or pop stars or whatever doesn’t inherently render them unrecognisable and in fact the APPEAL of a well done AU fic is seeing how your favourite guys deal with a completely different set of circumstances. support your local wacky AU today x

I didn’t realize this was about wind I just thought the lady was having a bad day

You can't leave this in the tags

In my mind now this is what king of the hill looks like