im a bar of soap and God is an instagram girl with acrylic nails and a box cutter

Granny: No printer, just fax!

The laborers of the world need their own UN💯

find someone that knows how to calm your storms

are you saying thor is the only valid soulmate

yes

literally NO superhero actor/person/whatever will ever get on the level of ENLIGHTENED andrew garfield was on when he said “spiderman is bisexual and his boyfriend should be played by michael b jordan” they killed him for it but that was PEAK

Lovely.

What a punch

This is assault and illegal. He may spew nothing but bile but his right to free speech must be protected

Ain’t nobody throwing him in prison, so his freedom of speech isn’t being violated.

Also, learn what speech is exempt from it, like, for instance, fighting words. Words that by their very utterance inflict injury, and speech that incites an immediate breach of the peace, kind of like, yknow, saying you want to exterminate all of their kind of people. Basically, talk shit get hit is 100% protected.

I swear people that yell about Freeze Peach have no idea what it means. If you provoke someone and then they act on that provication, then it’s on you, not them.

Freedom of speech just means the government can’t tell you what to say. 

Barely Any Ketchup

I am HERE to defend the lgbt community

Going into therapy like

vague post

eh y’know just kinda

y’know

Even the language barrier doesn’t stop me from knowing the chat is both laughing at him and saying “NOOOOO” at the same time.

is that twelve and a half hours on a timer or is it Noon/Midnight on a clock?

That is

12 hours

Oh god

Yep, that’s twelve hours of progress lost. And you can see the exact moment his soul is screaming.

The sheer anguish is painful to look upon

theres something fun about wasting time reading about celebrities and zodiac signs like it wont really change our life but we still do it

i thought im the only one who felt this way

no I do too don’t worry I think we are normal

since yall love to waste time:

bonus: only a true astrologer can score 10/12 on this test 

what is that gif for?

me at 1 pm: borderline comatose, eyes need to be propped open, behaviorally indistinguishable from lichen

me at 1 am: planning an expedition to neptune, listening to three songs at once, blood has become liquid copper

I JUST GOT PEGGED IN A BENTLEYYYYYYY

if you are in high school and you follow me idc if you learn nothing else from me, but learn this: do not join the fucking military. they will promise you all sorts of things in exchange for joining their muder-system for a few years. do not listen to them. you won’t find a sense of purpose, you won’t find an adventure, you might not even get the money they promise you for college. if you survive, you’ll come back with blood on your hands, feeling just as aimless as before except knowing you’re a killer. the government will drop you like hot potatoes the second you are not useful to them, and you will be on your own with nothing but some ptsd and a more intimate understanding of the phrase “blood for oil.”

So…

You’re 19, according to your blog anyway. Are you in the military?

I actually DID join the military. I served 4 years in the Navy.

I found a sense of purpose and adventure and confidence in myself and it wasn’t hard at all to get the money promised for college. I’m using it right now.

It wasn’t hard to survive because I wasn’t in the infantry, getting shot at all the time. There are a lot of branches of the military and lots of jobs. I was on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

I don’t really feel like I have blood on my hands. I don’t consider myself a killer. But again, I wasn’t in the infantry and I wasn’t shooting people in the face. There are many, many jobs in the military that don’t involve shooting people in the face.

I don’t feel aimless; being in the military actually gave me a very strong sense of purpose and illuminated what I wanted to do with myself once I got out. I passionately went back to college and I’m one semester away from earning my degree.

Can all of the negative things above happen to someone who joins the military? Yes. Absolutely. The military can destroy you emotionally and physically. Is that a guaranteed outcome? No.

I fear you misunderstood my post. I’m not saying that joining the military might make you feel like a killer and that that would be bad, I’m saying that if you participate in the military you are participating institutionally in the killing of innocents, and that you should feel guilty. The fact that you don’t feel that way after being a part of an organization that engages in such large-scale violence doesn’t prove that you’re not fucked up, in fact, it shows me the opposite.

Luckily I didn’t fall for anything the recruiters threw at me in high school, but I’m writing this as someone with friends and classmates at various stages of joining the military and getting shipped out.

Like I’ve said, what military may or may not do to your mental state after you sign up is bad, but it’s nothing compared to what the military does and will continue to do to kids and families that never volunteered to be a part of this. 77% of those killed in the Iraq War were civilians (many of those were children). Other recent wars have been similar. That is the handiwork of the military, from the highest general to the lowest teenager in combat gear, and every pencil-pusher in between. The only difference between you and those infantrymen is not that you do not have blood on your hands, it is that you did not have to see the faces of the people you helped to kill.

lets bring back romanticism im tired of trying to be rational. were all dumb and we all want love

The Collection

You know the main problem with the “live action” Lion King? Why it looks so lifeless?

The hyper realistic style is actually limiting the animators, rather than freeing them. The style makes it much harder to have memorable character designs and good expressions. Real lions don’t need to do things like emote in a way that humans can understand – but characters in a film do. The original movie was more cartoony not due to animation limitations of the time, but because that style genuinely serves the story better.

To show you what I mean, compare these two shots of Simba, from right after Scar says “run away and never return.”

Here is a clear reaction, with a strong beat for us to connect with before the character makes a decision. Even without any dialogue, even without any context, you can understand the emotion there just by the expression and the mannerisms. Is it realistic? No! He’s bright yellow and has eyebrows. But do we empathize with him? Yes!

Meanwhile, here is… a lion. Turning and running. No expression, no beats, no character moments, nothing. He actually can’t express himself because the animators are locked into the realistic style. If they tried to animate a strong expression as warranted for the scene, it would look terrible. Is it realistic? Hell yeah! Look at those textures! Look at that fur! But do we empathize with him? …nah. Not really.

To conclude: when you’re retelling Hamlet with a bunch of animated lions, cartoonish-ness is your friend, not your enemy.

no hate for u specifically op, b/c ur far from the first person I’ve seen making this argument, but I’m getting sick of ppl failing to grasp that realism isn’t the failure here

one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen– and easily one of the most realistic in terms of CGI animals– is Guardians of Ga’hoole

now I’m not gonna get into how the movie was adapted or how certain changes may or may not have affected the story/characters, I’m only talking aesthetic and style here

and y’know what this highly realistic style does?

it delivers scenes like this

realism doesn’t just make this scene look real– it punches you in the goddamn gut with the color, framing, and intense zoom-in

and what about the characters? do they show any real emotion?

look at these expressions– these microexpressions! I bet you can easily name every expression here w/o even knowing the context of the scenes! and the realism is absolutely critical here– from the slight pulse of contracting pupils, to a twitch of the cheek. realism shines best in the subtle details

the people animating Ga’hoole clearly had a clear, vibrant vision which they were passionate to deliver. they knew how to bend light and color to grip the audience, they knew how to map gorgeous landscapes and feathered bodies alike, and most importantly they knew where to emphasize owl body language vs. where to emphasize anthropomorphic body language

realism isn’t failing these stories– Disney is 

Disney doesn’t fucking care about these stories. if they did, then we’d be getting more Ga’hoole-esque realism– it’s not like they don’t have the budget for it compared to other studios. they rly don’t have any excuse beyond apathy, b/c ppl are gonna shill out to see any movie Disney’s name is attached to, no matter how shit

I have a great respect for both cartoony and realistic styles, and I’m tired of ppl blaming the tool instead of the person wielding it

AMEN!!! Its not realism, its lack of care!

longcat is probably dead :(

WRONG

Awww, long cat’s owner got married.

this is a good post

“When you say “Looooong”, I think of my cat. Around 15 years ago, someone made me lots of collages of my cat. The cat is still alive and she is the longest living cat in our family!”

“Now she is 17 years old. She does not climb to high places anymore, but she is relaxing and living her life.”

“It’s not something recent. This is the photo that we took when we made her Figure”