oh yeah have i ever told yall of the academic war i have been an unwilling soilder in for the past two years

okay SO. i have two professors that both teach this one subject, but different classes. they have different last names, so i didnt know this at first and espically since they are academic RIVELS at my school, but they are MARRIED. but for the past 8 years they have been in an academic WAR of geospatical sciences data. more accurately, the raster vs vector data debate. i am personally on the side of “both have their pros and cons and can be utalizied to the utmost efficency” but both professors are like, DEADLOCKED in insistanting one is better then the other

so, professor A is my mentor. i like him a lot, and he was the main person that taught me the most abotu Eris and ArcGIS. professor B is a professor i had one for class, and shes nice and knows a lot of little tricks about Eris programming but mostly relies on arcMAP because shes the raster data professor.

and THESE MOTHERFUCKERS. have written no less then 30 papers that is basically like a “re: re: re: re: re: re: vector data is better then raster fuck you” but like, Professionally. and they leave stupid notes in the footnotes that read “Reguardless of Professor A’s opinions reguarding the efficency of Vector data, Raster data has a more efficant polygon computing rate and is the most commonly used program on interplantaring mapping” and its HILARIOUS

ive read all of their papers, and its basically like reading an email chain between a married couple arguing over the colors of the kitchen backsplash for their new home. its HILARIOUS. but obviously, because of their differnet last names and because they act like they HATE each other, NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE REALIZES THEYRE MARRIED

until like LAST WEEK

professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word “husband”

and obviously all the students are like “oh i didnt know u were married!” because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine

and shes like “yeah, its Professor A”

and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT

we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A’s desk was ironic because hes that type of guy

like, you gotta undestand. these two have gotten into YELLING matches in hallways. these two refuse to go onto trips with each other. but apparently they have a system where they quite LITERALLY leave all of their work at work and drive home in seperate cars and literally NEVER mention work at home. it is SO funny

Когда хозяин где-то шарахается, а ты дома один.Нечёсаный. Неглаженый. Нецелованный….

“When the master is gallivanting about somewhere, while you’re home alone. Unbrushed. Unpetted. Unkissed….”

I love how they left out the part about them giving out the lesbian couple’s personal information to send them death threats, running them out of their home, and encouraging other fundies to petition to have their children taken away. **examines fingernails**

Also the fact that they raised half million dollars from other raging homophobes to fund this bigotry. I hope the dickholes lose the shirts off their backs and have to live out of a van. But that’s too much to hope for.

I just wanna add that the lesbian couple were getting married because their mutual friend had just died of cancer and they were adopting her two daughters… and that the death threats were so bad that they had to quit their jobs and move. it’s never just about a cake. it’s about the precedent you set when you allow ppl to discriminate. it’s about all the disgusting bigots that crawl out of the woodwork when they feel like they have the right to hate.

Still losing my mind over the Animal Crossing series having a Turnip seller, Bug Catching enthusiast and whoever the hell this Beaver was who used to look like this

But now for New Horizons they look like this

Complete bimbo/babyfication

it's their grandkids, are they not allowed to retire??

Absolutely not

It's granddaughter and sons, and CJ even drags his dad saying he doesn't actually know how to fish just eat them.

The new characters are a treat. Daisymae will send you bamboo shoots if you buy turnips often enough, Flick will basically pay off your house with his love of bugs, and CJ will talk about his boyfriend and buy fish, as well as hold the fishing tourneys in a much better way than old games.

Tom, Timmy and Tommy haven't aged because they're tanuki which are often considered yokai.

Blathers and the Able sisters got in with Nook early so he shares his power with them.

Kicks started as a young skunk so he can slowly age with the series.

Gulliver is essentially a sailor's ghost stuck to sail the seas.

yeah that all tracks

Wait go back to the part where the Nook family are yokai because I don’t think we’ve fully unpacked that yet

Tanuki, or Japanese racoon dog, the animal nook, timmy, and tommy are actually based on (it's only localized to racoon); is a famous magical trickster figure in Japanese folk lore.

They liked tricking humans into giving them money by trading them leaves magicly cloaked to look like other objects. Sound familiar?

They are not evil however, just mischivous, and in modern iderations of the mythos they generally bring good luck and fortune to small businesses. People even place their statues outside their stores to bring in customers.

Nook also started out as a small town businessman, down on his luck, and eventually with his quick wit grew his company into a housing empire where he builds homes, furnishes buildings, populates towns, and mentors others in good business practices ala Timmy and tommy, who were his pupils, and Lyle the otter later on.

Lyle being a former conman who likely got in over his head working with one kitsune...speaking of, one of the biggest bits of evidence of Tom nook being a yokai is his bitter rivalry with said fox, Crazy Redd.

Crazy Redd was a character in the series known for running a black market of fake and real art and would regularly con the player character out of their money selling them overpriced items and fake paintings.

In the back lore of wild world and happy home designer we learn that when Nook was young he went to the city with hopes and dreams to earn his fortune, but his dreams were crushed when all his money was stolen from him by a business partner he trusted, thus why he took Timmy and tommy and eventually Lyle under his wing and helped them learn better business practices to avoid, or at least get themselves out of, a similar fate. In happy home designer we learn that Nook once worked with a fox when he was young and he would never make that mistake again. Redd also makes multiple references to nook in that game as well, making fun of his home, ect. You can infer from this that Redd was the fox who cheated him and likely was the same one who broke his spirit in the big city. Tanukis and Kitsunes (fox yokai) have a similar bitter rivalry in mythos, to the death sometimes even.

Kitsunes also have the power of illussion but are much more malicious generally and regularly trick people into thinking sticks and leaves are valuable objects or food, much like Redd tricks people with his paintings.

Inshort Tom nook is a yokai cause Japanese myth inspiration in his character and species. However, this falls under and relies on the same assumption that Redd is also a yokai.

Real

Daddy’s at the food store, Mummy’s out of town,

She’s working at the hospital since Rhona came to town,

Hide away, hide away, Miss Rhona’s come to town,

Hide away, hide away, she’s come to take us down.

Miss Rhona’s at the doorstep, I’ll keep 6 feet away,

But Grandma needs the paper, I’ll take her some today,

Hide away, hide away, Miss Rhona’s come to stay,

Hide away, hide away, we can’t come out to play.

But Grandma needs the paper, I’ll take her some today,

And here’s a note from Rhona, she wanted me to say,

Hide away, hide away, keep 6 feet away,

Hide away, hide away, she took us down today.

[Image ID: Tumblr user @neanderthyall says in the notes, “I thought that 6 feet was kind of a double meaning. Like six feet away to stop the spread, but when people die they’re six feet underground, and its six feet of the dirt that keeps you apart. Like ‘Hide away, hide away, even though it hurts Hide away, hide away, or the six feet will be dirt’.” End ID.]

HI DON’T LEAVE THIS IN THE NOTES THAT’S ACTUALLY BRILLIANT

New art prints are finally here! Just $15 for one or $30 for three! There's lots other prints not shown here too and we ship worldwide :D

Add some color to your room during quarantine at YuumeiArt.com/shop

I love this.

I won’t lie I’m shedding a few tears right now

Don’t touch.

When did hikers develop the collective impulse to stack rocks and make obnoxious, useless decorative cairns at every park and river they visit? I don’t remember seeing them as a kid except as trail markers, but now they’re EVERYWHERE. What part of “leave no trace” don’t people understand?

I'm gonna leave a trace and it's gonna be a cool ass rock tower in the woods :D

Please don’t! 

If you want to build rock towers, get your own rocks and build them at home. That’s perfectly fine. But rocks provide vital habitat for wildlife, especially in stream bed; moving and stacking them leaves them without shelter, crushes them, exposes their eggs, and leads to soil erosion and bank destruction. Leave them where they are.

Furthermore, cairns are used as trail markers to indicate routes. Creating pointless cairns for funzies and Instagram can actually be dangerous to other hikers who rely on them for navigation, and immensely frustrating for rangers. We don’t say “leave no trace” to be mean--we’re trying to protect both the environment and our visitors. 

Things I’d like to see in a Batman movie

Alfred, Bruce, and Dick(14ish) fighting intruders at Wayne manor. Alfred’s moves are all very precise and fast, all close hand to hand; Dick is jumping off bookshelves and roundhouse kicks someone and is just a maniac; Bruce just fucking yeets a grown man out of a window

—-

Dick: [practicing ballet while Alfred and Bruce are in the doorway]

A: your father wouldn’t have let you do ballet.

B: I’m not my father. [pauses, looks at him] you would’ve let me do ballet.

A:Let you? Would’ve preferred it over what you do now

——

Bruce sprays himself w fear toxin to make himself immune (or just prepare for its affects) and has the most batshit horrifying nightmare sequence.

Scarecrow later sprays him in a fight, Batman doesn’t flinch, slowly breathing out fear gas out of his nostrils like a goddamn demon

———

Dick at his apartment on the phone with Jason, suddenly aware there’s someone in there with him. Dick continues a normal convo as he scours his house. Maybe he stays on the phone during the fight, maybe he puts him on hold idk

——

Early in his training, Jason spits on Bruce bc that’s how Jason learned to fight. Bruce says to never, ever, spit on an opponent unless he was ready to die. When joker asks him if he has any last words, Jason spits in his face.

——

B: [just got Dick. He’s using a child in the house an excuse not to host so many parties bc he doesn’t like them that much] it’ll be nice to finally get some peace and quiet around here.

*very loud crash from the other room. The light leaves Bruce’s eyes*

—-

Bruce: [in some remote area in the middle of nowhere, being held up by men who’re p much abt to kill him

Man: who’s are you?

Bruce: Thomas uh...Pennyworth

Man: Alfred Pennyworth is your father?

Bruce: [visibly confused] Yes?

The band of men: *cheer, give Bruce a hot meal and send him on his way*

——

Maybe just a recurring theme of the moment the Batfam members realize alfred is incomprehensibly badass

——-

Tim on a 4chan(ish) site, where everyone adamantly denies that Bruce Wayne is Batman. He notices a pattern emerge. Tim copies the posts onto a word doc. Despite being local, most of the posts contain British spelling. That’s how he knows it’s a cover up

——

Bruce’s and Jason’s motifs both contain the Dires Ire. Dick’s and Joker’s motifs are both circus music, but jokers is discordant and dicks is just a little bit sad. The Batfam theme combines elements of their motifs, adding more the bigger the family gets

——

Barb: [as oracle] oh, look it that, I got into their speaker system that’s weird.

Nightwing: can you play music?

Speakers: It’s Britney, bitch

Nightwing: [screams, fist fights to gimme more playing in the background]

——

Movie opens with a woman you don’t know fighting some guy and stealing his shit. She bursts through a window, doing impressive flips n shit to scale the fire escape. She slides into a black car, revealed to be the Batmobile. She leans down, takes her wig off- it’s Dick.

———

Bruce[suiting up, grabbing supplies, having an argument with Alfred] maybe I’m Gotham’s hero, and maybe I’m just some bratty rich kid whose bored, I don’t know. But I know one thing

A: and what’s that?

Bruce: [getting into the batmobile] No one is going to die, tonight.

Someone fucking hire OP to write all the Batman content ever please.

2020.02.22

God when is art nouveau going to make a comeback.

When capitalism dies

In the dog world, humans are elves that routinely live to be 500+ years old.

“They live so long…but the good ones still bond with us for our entire lives.” 

“These immortals are so kind we must be good friends to them”

My heart wtf

Not gonna lie, this fucked me up a bit.

POV Fantasy slice of life book when?

“Now I am old. The fur around my muzzle is grey and my joints ache when we walk together. Yet she remains unchanged, her hair still glossy, her skin still fresh, her step still sprightly. Time doesn’t touch her and yet I love her still.”

“For generations, he has guarded over my family. Since the days of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather he has kept us safe. For so long we thought him immortal. But now I see differently, for just as my fur grows gray and my joints grow stiff, so too do his. He did not take in my children, but gave them away to his. I will be the last that he cares for. My only hope is that I am able to last until his final moments. The death of one of his kind is so rare. The ending of a life so long is such a tragedy. He has seen so much, he knows so much. I know he takes comfort in my presence. I only wish that I will be able to give him this comfort until the end.”

SHOOK

I wonder, when I look at you, if there is a riot behind your eyes muted by the blankness, by orders, by regimented white.

Are you beating helpless fists against a wall that will not yield beneath them?

Are you fighting? raging? burning?

(Biding your time?)

I wonder, when I look at you, if there is a storm within your throat chained by foreign poison, by commands, by echoed lies.

Are you kicking weakened feet against a tide that will not cease to drag you under?

Are you striving? roaring? thundering?

(Holding your breath?)

When I look at you, I fear that I can’t feel your heat, your spark, because

it’s gone.

Air stifled, ashes swept away, leaving only

empty space.

—surrounded by your multitudes but i’m still cold | imj

Okay but are you a Stiles’ or a Stiles’s writer?

Okay LISTEN this is a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Stiles’ is grammatically incorrect. The s’ format for possessives is only meant for plural nouns which end in ‘s,’ NOT for any any old singular noun you found on the street that happens to end in ‘s.’

The wheel is the bus’s, not the bus’ - that looks looks RIDICULOUS. The word bus’ is only acceptable if you are referring to some sort of mystical object called a ‘bu’ and there are multiple bus and there is a thing that belongs to them, which is the bus’.

The coat that belongs to Nicholas is Nicholas’s, not Nicholas’ - again, that looks ABSURD. It also implies there are multiple people named Nichola, which I DO NOT BELIEVE IS TRUE.

Stiles’ implies an object which belongs to multiple persons or objects called ‘Stile’.

End Stiles’.

Save a life.

I mean, technically both are correct. Not to confuse this more but I like complaining about style guides:

AP Style Guide says Stiles’

MLA says Stiles’

APA says Stiles’s

Chicago Manual says Stiles’s

Elements of Style says Stiles’s

And the internet (which is never wrong!) seems to say both are acceptable in writing fiction.

I realize the first two are for journalism and academic writing but in that case should we use Stiles’ for our blog posts, and Stiles’s for our fic? What about a newspaper article in a fic? WHY IS ENGLISH SUCH A DUMB LANGUAGE??? 

I say just don’t switch back and forth in the same story and I won’t even notice which one you’re using!

Lmao yeah I was taught to drop the s after the apostrophe if the word ends in s, doesn’t matter if it’s plural or not, so Stiles’ is always going to be Stiles’ for me, Stiles’s just makes my brain blue-screen.

Power move.

one of the most aesthetically beautiful displays of protest i’ve seen

I see posts like this about Russia and feel happy!! Yea!!!! Fight them bitches and maybe in like 50 years I will get to marry my future wife in my own country!!!!!

y e s this is everything!!