Don't know what to call this so yeah.

One thing that bugs me in movies is how often protagonist characters will ridicule minor characters to their faces, dumb quips and "funny" insults, and the target is written to have zero reaction or if they do it's a dopey staring obliviousness to what was just said.

People don't do this. If you're a snide douchebag to someone you should expect them to notice and care. If you make a dumbass joke about someone being ugly or weird they will probably (and should) notice and care and not let it go without an apology.

I know the logic of the directing is that this would grind the story to a halt but the obnoxiousness of this trend already takes me out of the story. Nameless awkward side character #53 should just punch the quirky asshole star in the teeth. That would be an entirely better movie.

ommg quit it!!! stop, you guys are making me so shy and giggly ^w^ hehehe *abruptly lashes out with my scorpion tail*

On it boss

unironically this

“My dog getting all cleaned up for family coming over for Thanksgiving. Hates to be combed but loves to be vacuumed.”

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The predominant family of Christianity by county in the USA.

by forummapping

This is only Christianity. In some parts of the country, particularly in the big cities, the majority has no religious affiliation.

I mean yeah? That’s what it says on the top? This chart isn’t tracking the dominant religion of an area, but the dominant flavor of Christianity.

I remember Catholic tumblr being aghast that California is so Catholic. They’re so caught up in the narrative that California is the secular hell state, they forgot Latinos exist.

“Carious” is a largely forgotten word for something decayed or otherwise a corpse and that makes the word “precarious” really funny when you break it down, like oh you’re in danger so you’re pre-corpse, except that’s not even the etymology of precarious??? Disagree

Wait, like…“Carious” meaning like…“has caries”?

“Caries” as in the weird word they used in health class when they were talking about dental problems because for some reason they never used the word “cavity?”

So caries presumably means like…“decayed areas” or something like that?

So “Carious” would mean “decayed,” and therefore “precarious” would mean “threatening to decay,” except that’s NOT the etymology of the word “precarious?”

Because “precarious” comes from the root “prex” meaning “prayer,” and the word “precarius” meaning “obtained by entreaty?”

Today is a weird day.

rabbits know and resent their place on the food chain

mice and rats also know they're prey animals, they just have such joy of living that it cancels out. guinea pigs have no concept of death but understand contextless fear. hamsters however do know the food chain, but they also know that attachment to the earth is the root of suffering and they wisely deny the faults of the ego

I just had an indescribable moment of confusion with my mother. She was looking for something to watch on her tv guide app when all of a sudden she gets exited and goes “oooh” and turns to a channel I’ve never seen before. Cocomelon. The channel was playing cocomelon. I ask my mother “why are we watching cocomelon?” She responds “because I’ve never seen it before.” I reply “why would you have seen it? It’s a baby show meant to entertain children who can’t even walk yet.” She says “no it’s not, isn’t it the movie with the rock and the chicken?” Moana. She thought we were watching Moana. How????

oh i can’t fucking believe this. the gods—they smote me. just smited me out of the blue. i’ve been smit. they gave me absolutely no warning before smating me. smoted my guts all over the place. with thunderbolts and everything. absolutely smurted me

linguists and philosophers don’t know how this word works really

Further new discoveries have been made on my theory.

In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.

the spectrum of political literacy on tumblr

Mobility aids and sensory aids aren’t a “worst case scenario”

Stop acting like it’s a tragedy when someone starts using a cane or wheelchair, and stop acting like it’s someone admitting defeat if they need ear defenders or stim toys.

Aids are a good thing. They allow us to live better than we could before, and that’s something to celebrate, not demean and be doom and gloom about.

Stacy’s Mom Turned Me Into A Frog

male and female are not opposing forces that cancel each other out. you're allowed to be both, at the same time, even, if that's how you feel. you can be a boy who's a girl. you can be a girl who's a boy. same with masculinity and femininity. they're not mutually exclusive. you don't have to sacrifice one to have the other. you dont have to choose one to like and one to hate. you CAN have both, again, if that's how you feel.

Space cat

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Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) hitting elon musk in the back of the head with his scrap metal guitar. Commission done by @witchdoctordb

Putting powdered sugar on the post below

Got 'im coach