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Starry, starry nights

@steampoweredskeleton

I'm Caleb (He/him). Hi! I'm a gay English dude who has no idea what's fucking going on. Tune in for a spam of whatever has tickled my fancy at the time.
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Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

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Anonymous asked:

Where the hell are you that all this stuff happens to you? Your account is a wild ride and I'm one hundred percent here for it

Yesterday a guy outside my grocery store showed up in a buckskin jacket and a Canadian flag cape with half his beard shaved off and got into a yelling match with a gay dude about who owns the rainbow, but I ran into him later and it turns out he’s a really cool dude so Idk where I was going with this but yeah this is just my life.

Today a totally different guy showed up, drank milk and vodka in his car, rolled down the windows, started BLASTING AC/DC, and began playing what has to be the worst flute solo I have ever heard in my life. He played for half an hour and then turned off the music nd left. Didn’t even step outside.

People accuse me of lying for internet points, and I swear to the fucking Lord I am not capable of making this shit up. 

Like….. It would sound too fake to lie about

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Ready to bet the real difference between your life and the rest of the world isn’t the amount of weird stuff happening to you, OP. It’s that you actually pay attention to it.

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@leafenclaw YES THANK YOU

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SUPER LATE UPDATE but rainbow guy later met me in the park and gave me a bag of broken glass and told me we were reincarnated soulmates, so. That took a few off of the initial ‘really cool dude’ verdict.

He also got arrested but that was unrelated

Werewolves being a nuisance

In most Dutch werewolf legends the werewolf kills livestock, not humans. But most of the time they are still a threatening presence. Not always though, and I’m very fond of folktales where werewolves are portrayed as a nuisance rather than an actual monster. For instance:

The werewolf who had a habit of taking a swim in the local river and liked ambushing people who walked on its banks at night by shaking his pelt dry to drench them. After that he’d run out of reach, make a mocking bow, laugh at them, and disappear back into the dark or the river. (Recorded/published in 1925)
The werewolf who transformed after every night drinking at the inn and jumped on his friend’s back, forcing him to carry him all the way home. When his friend finally undoes his transformation by hitting him on the forehead with a knife and betrays his secret to their other friends, he sends six other werewolves to jump on him as revenge. (1925) (Werewolves jumping people to ride on their backs are very common in Dutch/Flemish folklore and it has to be mentioned it is usually described as a terrifying experience, but compared to being ripped to shreds its rather funny.)
The werewolf who shows up outside a farm where a woman and her niece are asleep, to wake them up by opening the shutters. Once they look outside he dances and jumps and makes a spectacle of himself, bows mockingly, and runs away in the direction of a nearby hamlet. They suspect it’s the father of the niece’s boyfriend, who does not approve of their relationship. (1925)
The werewolf (looking more like a big black dog) who rushes at a friend who walks alone in the dark, sniffs him and follows him home and then disappears. The following day he remarks to his friend that he wasn’t very afraid of the dog. When asked how he knows this, he dryly replies: “Well, it was me after all.” (1933)

In German werewolf legends they are often portrayed as a (more violent) nuisance to shepherds and farmers by going after their animals. Which is frequently solved by either giving them a good beating, by scolding them with their name, or sometimes even catching them by the scruff of the neck. Which is also a fun image, but not quite as fun as this Dutch/Flemish shenanigans.

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There was a HUGE raven on top of the church and when I stopped to take a picture it swooped at me, so I figured ‘oh shit I disrespected the unseelie’ so I apologized as it flew away and ten minutes later I got hit by a car but like, really gently, so what I mean to say is that the Fair Folk are real and they are willing to dish out warnings

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YOOOO IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS PICTURE

GUYS I TOLD YOU I HAD A PHOTO OF IT

FUCK YEAH

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after inputting some complex algorithms into my super computer i’ve determined what tumblr will look like in the year 2020

i love how this comes back after every shitty update staff makes

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we’ve started feeding this tortoiseshell-point siamese recently. she’s beautiful, aside from the fact she has disturbingly big, bulging blue eyes. we’ve started calling her… ‘goop’

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it’s goop!

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GUESS WHO HAD GOOPLETS! SIX ENTIRE BABIES! mama goop held onto her gooplings for an entire week longer than she had to, so the gooplitos came out very well done and fluffy!!

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nearly five years ago… since then, mama goop has aged significantly, and as she nears the end of her life, she’s been given a cushy retirement alongside her beloved husband, papa pumpkin. for everyone who remembers this post, the goop troop sends their regards

the way tumblr is trying to distance itself from being a blogging platform is fucking. infuriating!!

like do you not know this is your strength!!! I want to be able to visit other people’s pages that have been CUSTOM MADE for their purpose!!! ARTISTS HAVE LINKS AND TAGS FOR THEIR ART!!!  COMMUNITIES AND HELP/TUTORIAL BLOGS HAVE TAGS FOR SPECIFIC QUIERIES!!! WRITERS CAN LINK ME TO THEIR STORIES!!! IT HELPS BOTH THE POSTERS AND THE CONSUMERS TO MODERATE THE EXPERIENCE TO THEIR LIKING!!!!

SENDING PEOPLE TO THAT UNSLIGHTLY “BOARD” OF A “BLOG” THAT APPEARS NOW WHEN YOU CLICK THE NAME OF THE BLOG INSTEAD OF SENDING YOU TO THE ACTUAL BLOG IS SUCH A DUMBASS MOVE? IT DOESNT EVEN ALLOW LINKS!!! I CANT DO SHIT ON THERE!!! I CANT FIND WHAT IM THERE FOR!!!! IT MAKES ME NOT WANT TO USE IT!!!!

TUMBLR IS/USED TO BE THE MOST FLEXIBLE AND THAT WAS ITS BIGGEST MERIT!!! YOU HAVE ONE OF THE BEST TAGGING SYSTEMS AND YOU WONT LET ME USE IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL!!! 

YOU CAN FOSTER COMMUNITIES, YOU LET PEOPLE KEEP MULTIPLE SIDE BLOGS WITHOUT HAVING TO SIGN IN WITH A DIFFERENT EMAIL, YOU ALLOW VIDEOS AND AUDIO AND +4 PHOTOS PER POST!!!! TWITTER CANT HAVE THAT!! TIKTOK CANT HAVE THAT!! REDDIT CANT HAVE THAT!!! FACEBOOK CANT HAVE THAT!!!

IM SO SICK OF THIS TWITTERIFICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter

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twitter gets run over by a bus and the next day tumblr comes 2 school wearing her clothes like. oh my god come on

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

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THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

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this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

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I feel like practicing any skill would be way more fun if I could have a lil level increase thing that pops up in front of me every time I do good like in Skyrim

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“Push ups increased to level 5”

“Writing dialogue increased to level 37”

“Coping mechanisms (healthy) increased to level 18”