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VENGEFUL MEDIOCRITY

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Tumblr blog for Keffy R. M. Kehrli. [Writer, Nerd, SCIENCE!, etc. www.keffy.com]

Twilight may be trash but at least they cast actual native americans to play natives

you know you’ve fucked up when Twilight does something better than you

Okay story time

So I went to college at Western Washington University, which is super close to the Lummi reservation.

I went to see New Moon in theaters with a couple of friends (we love hatewatching stuff, and had a few drinks before going to the theater). We were super confused when we sat down, because for some reason about half the theater was full of 12-year-old boys. The movie starts, it’s just as terrible as we expect, and then about halfway through the movie theatre erupts into cries of THERE HE IS!!! THERE HE IS!!!

Turns out the boys had come to see their Lummi buddy who had been cast as one of the werewolves in the movie. It was absolutely adorable, and my friends and I instantly felt super irresponsible for having come to a movie to trash the film a kid’s friends went to to support.

Hey guys FYI the Quileute tribe (the one depicted in Twilight) is currently fundraising because they have to move their entire town of La Push to higher ground to avoid everything being destroyed by climate change related rising oceans. Maybe give them some money okay.

I've been trying to think of an entertaining ask to send you for 15 minutes

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Do you know anything good about woodpeckers such as why do they need to be so fucking large

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I do actually,

Woodpecker skulls contain HIDEOUS TRUTHS, allowing them to SMASH THEIR FACES INTO wood at one THOUSAND times the force of gravity which really ought to kill them, or at least result in brain damage. 

but anyway among other extreme adaptations, their  tongues go around their GOTDAMN brains, 

a topic that can only be truly expressed via the medium of these prime scientific illustrations that I got from Google,

Mbbbbbllaaaaaaaaaaaaaah llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllladies,

TONGUE! TONGUE! TONGUE!

The seven-eyed Lamb broke the Seal of the last scroll and This IS what Came Forth, 

the reckoning;

command it to speak and it will show you the price

Anyway with all those sponges and wires in their enormous piledriving skull, it would be weird if their bodies weren’t also big; it would just look wrong,

like think about it: would you WANT them to be small??

do you WANT to think about that?

wouldn’t it be….. worse…..

excuse me what the fuck birbs

Friendly reminder that Vincent van Gogh willingly checked himself into an asylum so that he could get better, resulting in him creating some of the most iconic paintings of his entire career, done in the asylum, when he was being treated 24/7, because he finally didn’t have to struggle with his demons and could instead focus on his muse, WHICH WERE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Remember this little insignificant painting?

How about this one?

Check this one out:

All of these and more were painted in the asylum when he was receiving treatment for his mental illnesses and I know I just said that but I said it again and I’m saying it a third time until you dramatic abled assholes understand!

VINCENT VAN GOGH

- KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY ILL

- WANTED TO CHANGE THAT

- WENT TO AN ASYLUM

- GOT THE HELP HE NEEDED

- PAINTED SOME ICONIC MASTERPIECES AS A RESULT!

SO DON’T YOU DARE COME OUT HERE WITH THIS, “I WISH I WAS DEPRESSED SO I COULD BE AS CREATIVE AS VAN GOGH” BULLSHIT BECAUSE EVEN HE KNEW THAT HIS DEMONS WERE HARMING HIS WORK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS HEALTH, AND HE DID EVERYTHING WITHIN HIS POWER TO FIGHT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL THEY ENDED UP WINNING! 

This is also incredibly important for any creative persons dealing with mental illness, and their parents.

Receiving mental help improves your craft, not hurt it. Before getting put on medication for the first time to treat my mental illnesses, my mom expressed to me how she’s worried about my getting treatment because of my art. Regardless, your mental health should be more important anyway, but, honestly, it’s a lot harder to produce good art when you struggle getting out of bed, let alone creating masterpieces. When you’re in more health, improving your craft comes much easier!

Personally I think the most beautifull painting of him was this one:

He made it when he heard about the birth of his nephew who was named after him. Still in the asylum but really happy for his brother! “How glad I was when the news came… I should have greatly preferred him to call the boy after Father, of whom I have been thinking so much these days, instead of after me; but seeing it has now been done, I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, big branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”

Oh I have sucb rants about how “good” art comes while suffering.

No.

look at me.

The idea of the “suffering artist” comes from bunch of alcholic, drug abusing, womanizers trying to justify their bad life choices as some sort of artistic angst.

IT IS 100% BULLSHIT

Take your meds, get your therapy, be happy, and live life

The art will be there.

Kill the myth that artists must suffer.

In their continuing quest to squish all the things, the Hydraulic Press channel recently debuted a tool with a series of small holes they can extrude various substances through. The video features several great extrusions, including oobleck, temperature-sensitive putty, cheese, and crayons (above). Most of these substances are non-Newtonian fluids of some kind, and the extreme forces the hydraulic press causes makes for some wild effects. 

Many of the substances, including the crayons above, display signs of the sharkskin instability in their rough edges. When non-Newtonian fluids (like the paraffin wax in crayons) get extruded quickly, the material at the edges experiences a lot of friction and shear when trying to flow along the wall of the hole. When the fluid finally breaks free, the region along the outside accelerates to match the speed of fluid at the center of the extrusion. Parts of the mixture may resist that acceleration, resulting in the uneven edges seen above. (Video credit: Hydraulic Press Channel; GIF via Colossal)

i hate typing the word “sire” and i hate that it’s common-use in any vampire context i hate that i’m expected to use it while writing about vampires there HAS to be an alternative

i got it

“i met my Daddy 200 years ago,”

i want everyone who’s mad at this post to know i gained 3,000 followers this month

Get you a party this lit

I know this is a standard party but I can’t help but bring my 

It is approved, I also present this roster update.

My contribution to this roster.

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MLPFIMXFFVII (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic X Final Fantasy 7)

A bundle package re-post of all the FF7 crossovers I did from inktober, for easier reblogging if that was an issue before. Oh, well, minus the GriffonsXChocobo crossover; I realized that tumblr only accepts 10 images max per post.

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Shout-out to @poisoning-of-the-party​ for the commission, to Nick for bringing this song to life with his amazing voice, and to Kira (@localdogwolf​) and Matt for their performances on violin and guitar, respectively. This was a lot of fun to work on and I hope you all like it!

Lyrics:

Just yesterday A boy came up to me He said, “I wanna be just like you” 
I said to him
 “My boy, what do you mean?” He said, “How can I be country like you?

Your arms are muscley Your tractor’s big and loud How do I join the country crowd?”

And I said, “I ain’t country at all I ain’t country at all No, despite my rugged looks and my vaguely southern drawl I ain’t country at all”

Well after that I went down to the bar To have Good times and whiskey with my buds

I said to them “A kid came up to me He thinks I’m country, ain’t that weird?” They said,

“You have a pickup truck Your heart’s red white and blue My friend, you’re country through and through”

But I said, “I ain’t country at all I ain’t country at all No, despite my rugged looks and my vaguely southern drawl I ain’t country at all”

My daddy and my wife left me I like potatoes and red meat I feel the need to look manly Lord, is it true?

I went to church And bowed my head and prayed I said, “Oh Lord above, can this be true?”

Then Jesus came He opened up my eyes He said, “To thy own self be true

It isn’t how you act, it’s who you are inside Now, do you feel that country pride?”

I might be country after all I might be country after all No it’s not my rugged looks or my vaguely Southern drawl It’s who I am And I’m country after all No it’s not my rugged looks or my vaguely Southern drawl It’s who I am And I’m country after all

(Yeehaw)