The Joker when he sees his face in a Banned From Gotham sign

@dracaelus​ These tags nearly made me spit out my coffee :)))

Somehow this poll has upset more people than the chips/crisps/fries poll

It doesn't rhyme with either of them

Huh, weird

Its pronounced like duv

How do you pronounce that

like the first half of duvet

Oh good so I've been pronouncing it correctly

i love when ppl ask writers questions about their ocs and they're like "uhh i think so?" as if they didn't invent them. like they're just mild acquaintances we have

Image description: digital art of Dipper and Ford from Gravity Falls. They're sitting in a clearing, and Ford is gesturing with a smile as Dipper gives a plaidypus a pat on the head. They're surrounded by birch trees with glowing yellow eyes.

The second image is a redraw of a Spongebob meme that shows Bill in a dark room, watching through a window as Ford and Dipper run from a monster. Bill is turned away from the viewer, and holding a martini. End description.

I got very bored

It's not Ford's fault he was stuck in another dimension for 30 years

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?”  and then scream and cut out his mic.

Everyone forgets Michael Collins and it’s fucking tragic.

Guys, the liquid stuff you use when you make a pen mistake so you have to cover it over, what’s it called?

White out

Okay that’s what I thot too,

But apparently it’s “Wite out” 😳😳😳 hello??????

Mandela effect *X-file music plays*

Views from an alternate dimension

Wite-Out is a brand of white out/correction fluid/liquid paper. The colloquial ‘white-out’ probably derives from the Wite-Out brand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper

More importantly:

New Zealand math classroom, circa 2019

this post just shot me in the face like ten times

remember when you were 12 and the internet seemed like an endless source of fun and now you just scroll through tumblr and check instagram?

or is that just me

thought i was the only that felt this way lol

The internet when you were 12 in 2007: Most of your friends didn't use it and neither did your parents. Corporations didn't fully understand it yet, commercialization consisted almost exclusively of banner ads. The most popular social media was MySpace, of which you could personalize almost every aspect and nobody's parents used. Instead of having one Nerd Website that everyone uses, you had accounts on a bunch of different forums related to your interests and each had its own unique environment. YouTube was an uncharted terrain of kids just like you uploading whatever they wanted, unpolished and unedited with no ad partnerships.

The internet in 2020: Literally everyone is online, every member of your family has an account on each of the most popular websites. Instead of being a place you can enter on your own terms when you're ready, the internet now comes to you, giving you a little spike of anxiety with every new notification. Ad spam is everywhere and it's becoming increasingly harder to differentiate between real people and marketing schemes. The most popular social media websites have streamlined, neutral colored UIs that cannot be personalized at all beyond a singular photo and username. Instead of being a haven for fellow weirdos, everyone is a denizen of the internet now. 90% of online activity for your interests takes place on a single website, the community is going to be devastated if it ever goes down but what can be done? YouTube is just mainstream television but on the internet now, YouTubers are rich celebrities who live in Hollywood mansions.

Im so glad people are talking about this cuz Ive been scared it was mainly my depression sapping the joy out of everything again

Because smallpox used to kill about 30% of everyone who caught it. The successful vaccine program run by the world’s medical community means that no one will ever die of smallpox ever again.

Because rabies is 100% fatal without a vaccine. No one needs to die of rabies ever again. It is entirely preventable.

Because 1-2 in 1000 who get measles, die. Vaccines let us contain outbreaks or fully wipe them out. There is no specific treatment for the disease once you have it. Your immune system either wins or you die.

We like vaccines because vaccines save lives and raise our standard of living.

My mother, now in her 70s, talks about how her mother wept for joy when her children received the polio vaccine. Because she didn’t have to be afraid of polio anymore.

Photos of people in the Victorian era goofing around

I've been a little confused by the revisionist history of people saying Dave Chappelle was never funny. Maybe not everyone dug him, but he has been on quite a few GOAT lists for stand up. During his peak in the 2000s it was not uncommon for folks to consider him the best performing stand up since Carlin and Pryor. I was among those people. Perhaps the people saying he was never funny were too young to appreciate him during that time. I don't know.

But I don't think we need to pretend like he always sucked. His fall from grace is an important thing to acknowledge. With people like him and JK Rowling, we are collectively trying to figure out how to deal with artists we love letting us down. It's a good conversation to have. If we just say "well, they always sucked" I think we are avoiding dealing with it.

I’m glad JKR was mentioned comparatively too because she’s always the first person I think of in these discussions about revisionism.

And yeah it feels like a side effect of purity culture tbh. People feel this need to try and easily pigeonhole media as either Good or Bad and if it’s Bad it was always bad and people should be ashamed for ever liking it, but if it’s Good it’s exempt from criticism. Which is just… not how anything works. There’s something almost victim-blamey about it, although that’s probably the wrong phrase. This idea that you can somehow sniff out Badness through someone’s work even when it hasn’t really made itself apparent yet, and anyone who doesn’t just isn’t trying hard enough, and “if I’m just careful and vigilant and only consume the purest of pure media I can avoid falling into the trap of getting attached to something Bad!! I knew all along!!” feels like it’s coming from the same line of thinking as “you should have known there was something shady about that guy!”

The point about thinking only bad people can be radicalised being dangerous is an extremely important one. 

There was a time when JKR was viewed as the unproblematic queen of the left. It may not have been in the text but she made Dumbledore gay when it was barely legal to mention anything queer to children (I’m being very literal there. The first five books were published and the sixth written when Section 28 was still law and no publisher would have been legally able to mention a gay character in a children’s book).

At that time the very idea that she could ever be viewed as homophobic, or ever even remotely consider siding with a Conservative government on any issue was bizarre. The face she showed the public was inclusive and very anti Tory.

But she also went from as poor as you can be without being homeless to astronomically rich in a short period of time, had the eyes of the world on her and was really quite viciously stalked and harassed by the less ethical corners of the press. Her phone was tapped, her children stalked, friends she hadn’t spoken to in years and distant family members had people turn up on their doorsteps trying to dig up any possible story about her. 

As a result she wound up extremely paranoid. I live in Edinburgh. A workman who came to fix something at my house told me he’d worked on a garden wall for her and there had been a rule of no phones allowed anywhere near her property and there was a line around the house that they weren’t allowed to cross or even approach. I’ve heard similar stories from people who have friends living near her.

People who live in that kind of state of paranoia (whether justified or not) are very easily radicalised by anyone who plays on their fears and offers any kind of safety, whether real or imagined. Yes, it could be that the bigot who has recently sided with the Tories on several occasions was always there underneath. But it also equally possible that in the past there was only ignorance on some things and that the bigotry and political swing is new and entirely the result of paranoia enabled radicalisation.

The desire to retroactively demonise everything she’s ever done and assume she was bigoted from birth is understandable, but it doesn’t reflect the reality of how people can and do change for a whole variety of reasons and that sometimes even the best people can become something you’d never have imagined possible.

It’s actively important to remember that good people can go down some horribly twisted paths, because if you reassure yourself that ‘good people’ will always remain good then you lose the ability to self reflect and examine your own ideas, or examine the difference between an actively malicious viewpoint and a confused and ignorant one.

I can also see that thought pattern excusing some people: “Oh, they can’t be X. They’re a good person.” But people can and do change.

The point about stressors creating ripe conditions for radicalization is a good one.

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

This is like the opposite of clickbait.  The whole story is there.  Behold it.

they don’t make news like they used to, and by they i mean turtles

I really feel like I don't talk enough about what ford means to fiddleford. I usually talk about it vise versa, but ford was JUST as important to him. they were each others support back in college, and I think ford was probably fiddlefords first friend who he could match with on an intellectual level, setting ford apart from most other people.

I've drawn comics that represent how upsetting ford's lack of writing or phone calls between 1977-1981 were for fiddleford. I think it was something that weighed on him a lot from time to time. He would understand the reason why (ford's just not very good with socializing and he can't make him), but going from best friends for 4 years to no contact would be really difficult for him.

Maybe during that time, he viewed his and ford's friendship as something really fragile and was worried about pressing him to call more often? I can imagine the bond strengthens again in 1982, and they start to hang out again, but ford is probably someone completely irreplaceable to fiddleford who he cares about too much to lose. until he did

thinking about this again. I think Emma would've convinced him to call stanford or write him a few letters from time to time, but when stanford doesn't always answer its hard on him to keep trying. just having someone who you were really close with only to find out that they don't do long distance so well probably was really unfortunate to find out the hard way.

i think fiddleford would've been worried that stanford was becoming less interested in him as a friend and would've been too nervous to ask him if he needed to back off. (lack of communication baby!!!!! and they're not even at the part where they really separate!!!!) I also feel like fiddleford wouldn't have wanted to ask anyway. I mean who would want to figure out if their friend really didn't care about talking to them.

meanwhile there's ford. who probably started to get so wrapped up in his work he forgets nearly all of his surroundings and wellbeing. ford goes weeks without showering, buying food or cleaning, so he sure as hell isn't thinking about calling his mom or his good friend. except he misses him. but also "hes probably busy! wouldn't wanna bother him."

and on fords side of things, i think it would scare him to lose the only person who's ever treated him as a friend without betraying his trust. I think ford realizing that him and fiddleford were going separate directions in college was really difficult for him. I think once it finally clicked he started realizing just how much he'd lose especially since fiddleford was really the only good friend he had. he'd be leaving everything behind. I feel like the only way he really would've gotten "past" it would've been for him to block off those emotions like he did with stan and just be like "life goes on. keep your head up and your eyes forward" which is essentially him neglecting his own feelings but he doesn't know that. he thinks he's being smart by disregarding how he feels.

and he doesn't tell fiddleford how much it hurts that they won't be together all the time, so when he moves forward and continues his work and attempts to strive at what he can do (+ disregarding how lonely he is) he doubles down on research and cuts everything else out. and then fiddleford feels like he doesn't want to be friends anymore! YAYY I love lack of communication.

i love thinking abt drama before all the real drama

[image ID: Two tweets from Janel Comeau (@/ VeryBadLlama) reading: apparently a lot of cis women need to hear this but a world where our faces, bodies, hair, breast clothing and voices are constantly scrutinized as "not feminine enough" is infinitely more dangerous than a world where trans women might also be in the bathroom and need to pee

angry people feeling an obsessive need to look at every inch of my body to decide if some small flaw in my waist proportions or jawline warrants demanding to inspect my ID or genitals does not feel particularly safe to me /End ID]

we the penis. fuck can i start again your honour

i dont even know wgat this is a reference to but it makes me laugh so hard this post deserves a billion notes

posts that flopped and got 12 notes. to me.

FUCK OFF!!! 100 TRILLION NOTES FOR WE THE PENIS!!!

oh i googled it its the US Constitution i thought it was something a jury said before stating their diagnosis thats why i said your honour

fuck. verdict. not diagnosis. i shouldnt be allowed a keyboard

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