everyone talks about how tumblr should make an @everyone feature, but I have another proposal: an @anyone feature. this tags a few users at random and there’s no way of predicting who it will be. this will also solve nothing and make everything worse
omg
you’ve got to be kidding me
You have no idea how much I want this mass migration to tumblr to be real. I would love it if there was an entire ecosystem on tumblr of tiktokers who don't know or don't want to reblog anything, so they are functionally incapable of interacting with the rest of this website. Nothing is funnier to me
"I understand. You found paradise on TikTok. You had a good fyp, you made good content. The censors protected you and they were friendly for advertisers. So you didn't need a friend like me. Now you come and say "Tumblr, give me content." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer reblogs. You don't even think to call me "Hellsite." You come into my house on the day my blorbo is to be married and you ask me to do content - for likes."
The Zootopia gif after the Godfather reference both destroys my soul and is also the Most Appropriate Thing for Tumblr.
How the hell did the internet come to the conclusion that differing opinions on indoor vs outdoor cats is ANIMAL ABUSE
Because of science and statistics. Outdoor cats live shorter lives and die crueler deaths than indoor cats. That's not a matter of "differing opinion" it's a conclusion based on observable evidence. The "differing opinion" is based on arrogance and refusal to change behavior to improve your husbandry
It's hard for a lot of people to hear, because if you have had outside cats a lot of your life it's very heartbreaking to hear something that seems to say that you abused your animals, especially if you really loved them.
Also a lot of us as kids had outside cats and we didn't have any control over their living conditions, but it still creates much guilt.
That's not the point though. The point is that culture changes and we know more and have a better ability to do right by our creatures, and we can do Our Best now just as we did Our Best in the past.
Many people are not conscious of cats being non-native predators, don't think of them as invasive species because they were never told that. It's fine to not have known something.
It's also fine to not have known that cats can thrive indoors and they don't need to go outside unsupervised to be happy. There are very common myths about how cats can't be trained and how cats don't get enriched by interaction by their owners that dogs do.
With that said—it is a good idea to keep cats inside. I grew up with outdoor cats and had so many of them get gruesome injuries or diseases and die very young. There is the occasional lucky cat that makes it a long time, but most outside cats die well before their time. They get in fights with other cats, they get mauled by dogs, they get hit by cars, they get all sorts of worms and other parasites, and they get poisoned or shot by malicious people who don't want cats on their property. One of my childhood cats, I found under a bush with her guts ripped out. Things like that happen to the cats that "disappear."
These things can happen even to a smart cat. You can't be sure your neighborhood is safe. Your neighbor two doors down might get a Husky tomorrow that mauls cats. A drunk driver might tear through your otherwise quiet neighborhood.
Your cat doesn't have a cell phone that they can call 911 if something is trying to kill them. They can't yell "Help me!" if they are stranded somewhere with a broken back or some horrible injury.
A cat isn't thinking, "I'm confident that I can deal with all the dangers out here!" when it goes outside. Cats roam around because instinct makes them feel that it's a good idea to maintain a big perimeter of territory, not because they necessarily like doing it. They don't know what a disease is. They just catch a disease and they know that they hurt and feel awful, and sometimes they die.
For all these reasons I think the choice that makes sense is to keep your cats inside when you can't supervise them or keep them in an enclosed space. They're animals that don't know what we know, and we have the ability to keep them safe from lots of things. So I think we should.
and these wakeup calls come in waves. I never had outdoor cats, but my wakeup call was learning that declawing isn’t just a matter of ‘cutting the nail off,’ but amputating the entire fingertip. My late cat Oni went 15 years walking on the stubs of her toes because the gruesome realities of declawing weren’t common knowledge when I was a kid. Once we learned better, and committed to not declawing any of our other cats, this set her up to get bullied by younger cats who still had natural weapons she lacked. It’s a sucky situation.
This is like that. We’re brushing the veneer of normalcy off of ignorant animal-keeping practices that have led to short, tragic lives. We’re presented with the opportunity to do better.
Yeah, most of the time I don't think people are maliciously ignorant and I think they care about their animals. I think there's a pressure to not have ever been ignorant about certain things, and it feels like if you're wrong about this thing you're just an awful person forever.
Y'all know how people say that "animal abusers" are unspeakably evil people that have something wrong with them. That's hard to reconcile with the fact that ~40 years ago, everyone you knew raised their animals a certain way, and you're pretty sure they weren't all evil people.
But sometimes you have to be like "I was doing my best then, and I will do my best now, and it's worthwhile that my best now is better than it was then."
People who try to educate others online about this, unfortunately, have had the same conversation 70 thousand times with strangers who often have no desire at all to learn. Which makes it hard to begin every conversation with the same amount of grace.
wait are there really new people joining this site. i thought it was a hoax.
Congratulations, that's the vibe
AU where Dooku has a heart attack and ends up in a coma because of Old Man Syndrome and Ventress becomes incidentally in charge of the entire Separatist Army but nobody TOLD HER Sidious’s identity and when he reaches out, she doesn’t like his tone and cuts the call before he can convince her he’s her boss’s boss, so she just runs the army HER way, which is still a comprehensive war effort against the Republic and devastating to the Jedi, but in a way that really doesn’t help the Sith Plot.
Ventress: I’m going to be a problem.
Obi-Wan: For us or for the Sith?
Ventress: I’m going to be a problem.
Ventress and Grievous don’t get along but they agree on the goal of Causing Problems and Separatist leadership is too scared to actually tell them No about anything. They’re begging Dooku to wake up and stop the unhinged generals. Please. They both have multiple lightsabers and battlelust, and Nute Gunray is getting a LOT of angry calls from that Sid guy.
They don’t know who this Maul guy who showed up is either but causing problems? Good.
And that Sid guy still won’t stop calling
A WONDERFUL ADDITION, THANK YOU
Ventress and Maul don’t like each other much either, but at least one time Ventress just does the SW equivalent of “Dathomiri represent” because the Separatist Council is being assholes at her about being from an ‘uncivilized’ planet again.
And Ventress might be a bitch, but if they want an uncivilized Dathomiri, let her grab her asshole maybe-cousin who spent ten years going insane on Planet Trash
NOBODY on the Republic side knows about Dooku’s coma except Palpatine. The Separatists are all trying very hard to convince people that their charismatic, hella powerful leader is still totally kicking. Yep. The Count is definitely alive and just lurking around the corner to fight the next scary Jedi.
Ventress, Maul, and Grievous together manage to take out Palpatine with the combined forces of their frankly batshit plans, because he no longer has an in regarding Separatist plans since nobody tells Nute Gunray things, and Good Ol’ Sheev isn’t arranging his own kidnappings now, this is just happening, he has to pull out his own sabers in an attempt to fight off eight lightsabers from three individuals of varying hingedness, which is caught on camera because reasons, and there are a lot of questions flying around but Ventress and Maul posed on the corpse to scream about the Rule of Two so everyone’s now pretty sure that not only was Palpatine genuinely a Sith Lord, but that Ventress’s weird rampage to Coruscant for purposes of Murder was actually her cutting the knot on not being a proper Sith Apprentice by killing her Master’s Master because she was tired of Dooku not treating her like the dangerous young lady that she is.
All three of them get distracted when Obi-Wan shows up, but immediately get into a shouting match with each other about who’s his Real rival.
At some point, Quinlan seduces Ventress to the light side. Nobody’s sure how. They’re also not questioning it too hard.
Dooku wakes up eventually to find out that while he was down with Being Old Disease, his apprentice went and killed his boss and everyone’s hoping he has the answers, up to and including some visiting Jedi.
Because Ventress went and killed the Sith Master and then apparently got bored of being a Sith because she met a hot kiffar dude and so the Sith are now just Dooku and Maul, which are distinctly opposite ends of the Sith Spectrum:
The vaguely evil art collector who got into it for the theory VS Trash monster who’s obsessive about the murder of one (1) individual and will rave about it endlessly
Maybe Dooku looks at that situation and just decides that, no, actually, he’s going to retire. Ventress is gone, because she threw away the war she’d literally just won to boink a Jedi, so that’s a bust. Grievous can go do whatever, Dooku doesn’t care.
So now it’s just Maul.
Still chasing Obi-Wan.
Still screaming.
Batman (2016) Annual #1
Ace being trained as a service dog and alerting when Bruce dissociates or stops taking care of himself is one of the best things to ever happen.
Alfred really did that. He really said "You may not listen to me, Master Bruce, but you'll bloody well listen to this dog."
I love the phrase gross misconduct. babygirl your behavior is yuckydisgusting
Jaskier cannot cook much, BUT, I submit that he is an excellent cook’s helper.
Got in trouble at home? “Go help the cook,” and he is promptly made to put his excess energy to use beating SO MANY egg whites, and plucking chickens, and doing things that his parents maybe thought were humiliating for a noble to do? but little Jaskier doesn’t know any better. He’s just happy to be useful, and also the cook secretly gives him a sweetmeat when he does an extra good job.
Got in trouble at boarding school? “Go help the cook,” and this time the cook is meal prepping to feed a bunch of teenage boys, and Jaskier chops SO MANY onions, peels bushels of potatoes, kneads countless balls of dough, and bundles and dries fresh fruits and herbs before winter. This cook doesn’t give him candy, but they are a fount of good jokes and good gossip, which to teenage Jaskier is basically the same thing.
Got in trouble at university? Jaskier doesn’t actually have to help the cook, but the cook is still one of the best gossips on campus and by now he’s used to thinking through the cause and effect of his actions while his hands are busy doing cooking-adjacent things. He also makes himself at home in various tavern kitchens, trading chores for performance time because Oxenfurt is a locale with more singers than places to sing.
The Witcher version of scut work is a bit different, but Jaskier makes grabby hands without thinking and does all the plucking when Geralt finds a bird for dinner; he figures out how to build a campfire that’s good for both cooking and warmth; after a period of careful observation, he starts helping with Potion Nights by prepping the herbs Geralt uses for his disgusting potions, because he doesn’t know alchemy but he does know how to grind, chop, and macerate things. It doesn’t occur to him not to do this. He is a DELIGHT and his presence is a GIFT, but he also suspects that Geralt has mentally plopped him into a box labelled ‘trouble,’ and, well, Jaskier knows what to do when he’s there, doesn’t he?
When Jaskier gets to Kaer Morhen, he looks at Vesemir. Vesemir looks at him. Jaskier’s ‘in trouble’ senses tingle even though he hasn’t had time to do anything yet. He shows up at the kitchen the next morning, bleary-eyed but entirely willing to chop the cabbages and onions that they’ll need for the midday meal. Jaskier makes himself personable, compliments the repairs done on the keep and sings a song from when Vesemir was a child because he’s the kind of academic who researches music from hundreds of years ago for fun and wants to know if the song was supposed to say ‘the sun rises like a water buffalo’ or ‘like well-water from below.’
Vesemir says Jaskier might as well come back to help with dinner, and Jaskier doesn’t realize it’s a compliment.
Later that day, when they’re prepping the evening meal, Vesemir says, “Make the gravy when you’re done with those potatoes,” and Jaskier says, “How do I do that?” because Jaskier is a gravy-stirring expert. THERE WILL BE NO LUMPS IN HIS GRAVY. But like, no cook has ever trusted him with the gravy-starting process. And Vesemir is, deep in his soul, a teacher, and Jaskier, deep in HIS soul, actively wants to learn everything in the known universe, so they’re actually a pretty good match.
Vesemir shows him how to make gravy, and also a bunch of other things, so gradually and matter-of-factly that Jaskier doesn’t really think about it. He takes Jaskier on little plant-gathering field trips and shows him how to find the best places to set snares. Away from the younger wolves, Jaskier feels less like he has to ‘perform.’ Vesemir gets to tell Jaskier some of the stories that the other Witchers have heard a dozen times already, and there are no Witcher traditions telling him how to treat bards.
Jaskier is canny enough to ask Vesemir questions about his stories that make him think of old events in new ways, and it’s the same with old recipes. “Why this and not that?” and “What would happen if…?” Since Vesemir is a learn-from-experience kind of guy, usually his answer is “let’s find out” and they set up a little test pot next to the big tried-and-true one.
(”It’s called curiosity, Geralt,” but also it’s craftsmanship, Jaskier’s natural tendency to push, pull, and tweak until something is the best it can be for the people who consume it. His audience deserves good things.)
There comes a day near the end of winter when the only thing Vesemir has to do in the kitchen is tell Jaskier what he wants for dinner and then lounge around with a glass of wine to keep an eye on things. After everyone has eaten, Vesemir announces proudly to the other Witchers that today’s delicious meal has been hunted, gathered, and cooked entirely by Jaskier. Jaskier abruptly realizes that maybe he was never in trouble at all.
Cooking isn’t atonement for Jaskier anymore. Instead it’s an act of creation, giving, and love.
(Next winter, Vesemir is going to start teaching Jaskier about alchemy.)
genuinely cant stop thinking about whatever early human first looked a literal wolf full in the face and thought domestication would be fun but ALSO cant stop thinking about the ENTIRE early human tribe that absolutely did NOT think to stop them
HOLD THE PHONE
Slightly related: I read a book by Rick McIntyre, who was official Wolf Guy at Yellowstone Park for 25 years (and studied wolves for 40 yrs total). He describes how, when they’re alone, wolves—both adults and pups—will pick up sticks or bones or bits of animal skin and toss them around to entertain themselves, the way you might toss a ball up and down. They essentially play catch by themselves.
So if wolves do this by themselves, in nature, that means that we saw them playing this game and thought “huh, that wolf enjoys fetching the stick it’s throwing for itself, maybe I could throw it further and it would like that more?” And thus began our two species’ mutual favourite game to play together
But the point is that they invented fetch
they made fetch happen
can we talk about how boba calls himself a "crime lord" but his entire operation is just him, fennec, and two (2) gamorreans. like bro, you're barely even a crime office manager at this point
he has also yet to commit any crimes
crimes canonically committed by boba fett:
1) that one time he crashed a star destroyer trying to kill mace windu (note: he was 12 at the time) (note: he served his sentence for that crime)
2) that’s it
he was just a bounty hunter after that as far as we know and he operated within the guild and often was working as a government contractor so he was entirely within the law. in fact boba fett was 100% a law-abiding citizen until he up and shot bib fortuna
he shot that guy in self defense so Boba’s Crime Count is still at a Big Fat Zero
Fennec: look, if you keep up with this “ruling with respect” and “making and enforcing consistent rules” thing, you’re not gonna be a crime lord, you’re gonna be like... a law lord.
Boba: what about the tributes? I extort money from people in exchange for protecting them and ensuring their health and wellbeing
Fennec: that’s just taxes
note: neither of them have ever paid taxes in their lives
“I don’t want other people to decide who i am. i want to decide that for myself. ” – Emma Watson
Happy international women’s day!
“Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a saviour. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.” -Hayao Miyazaki
Happy International Women’s Day!
"I found it quite hard," McGregor, now 50, admits of the reaction to the prequels. "For it to come out and get knocked so hard was personally quite difficult to deal with. And also, it was quite early in my career. I didn't really know how to deal with that. I'd been involved with things that just didn't make much of a ripple, but that's different from making something that makes a negative ripple." Simultaneously dealing with sudden fame and criticism, the now-40-year-old Christensen also couldn't help but experience a measure of emotional whiplash over the prequels. "When the films came out and the critics were very critical, of course that was a difficult thing — because you care so much about this thing that you've invested so much of yourself into. So, for sure, that's challenging."
"Now I meet the people who we made those films for, who were the kids of the time," says McGregor. "And our Star Wars films are their Star Wars films. In the way that Carrie Fisher and Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford's films were ours, we're theirs. And that's beautiful that they were important to the kids who we made them for. It's just so nice to finally get that wave of positivity about them." (x)
guys stop making want to cry
