is the balloon a heritage post yet
she's sooo fucking mad that we stop her from running into the garage to huff sawdust and poisons
tumblr deleted my last confessional post so here’s a new one:
when i was like 6 my grandparents got me an awesome dollhouse (playmobil haus 5301 if anyone needs to know). for some reason, i had in my head that one day, god would shrink a bunch of people until they were the size of polly pockets and the world would be so cruel and scary for them. so every night i would pray to god that if he did that, that he would please put the tiny people in my dollhouse so i could provide for them. and every night, in case it happened, i would put water in a little cup for them and make their little beds so they’d have somewhere warm to rest after finding out they would be tiny forever. i told my friend in school about this and he said “oh my dad’s a wizard dont worry he can make them grow again” and then i felt at ease and never worried about it again.
'what was the first blank you blanked' I have no idea i do not remember things chronologically
If you want an example of how mythology and folklore works in action, think about werewolves. All the stuff you just know about them even though literally every piece of media has a slightly different version of how they work.
But you know what a werewolf is. Explaining what a werewolf is would be stupid. Everyone just knows what werewolves are. Where did they come from? Who cares? They’re werewolves.
If in a thousand years people just aren’t talking about werewolves anymore they might be confused by our modern full moon werewolves. What was that? Where did it come from? What’s the lore? Surely there’s one origin story for them that we all knew about.
Nope! Just werewolves. We all know werewolves.
And so it was in ancient times. Everybody knows the feathered serpent. Everybody knows Hercules. Everybody knows coyote. You know. The thing. We’ve all got a vibe for it. What’s the definitive one true version of it? Lol and also lmao don’t be stupid. It’s the thing! You know, werewolves.
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
Ballet and American football have a lot in common really
@squareallworthy said:
explain
@reptilemodernism said:
They grievously injure young people and lack appropriate oversight about this?
Yep pretty much. To get more specific:
They're both very extreme sports that we don't really treat like very extreme sports. Very few sports involve quite as much injury as American Football, and almost no sport involves the endurance, both in general and to pain, of ballet.
We start kids on it very early and only an absolutely minute fraction of them ever become professionals or even pre-professionals, leaving a huge number of people who have all the side effects of preparing to go pro but who couldn't make the cut, sometime between the ages of 16 and 25.
These drop-outs either have to go find other work while dealing with the side effects, or become teachers of the thing.
Very very deeply gendered.
A lot of tendrils reaching out into popular culture. A lot of mythology surrounding it even for people who aren't very closely associated with the sport.
house of leaves represents to me the danger of writing in that kind of metatextual sense (the book may not be as SMART as you want it to be) but also a successful example of how it can still be enjoyable. if it doesn't stand up to heavy literary criticism it still makes the subject fun and satisfying narratively
I want OP to know that because of this post, I entered my cat in a show as a household pet. He even got 1st place in a couple of the judgings!
how could i say no to a pretty girl like you.. lets throw a desktop wedding. i want all the icons to be there, all the folders and files. i love you forever
