Huh that makes a lot of sense. A lot more than my split-second initial reaction, which was to picture several hundred chrinostasis pods all containing Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Wake up all the Brennan Lee Mulligans on the ship at once it'd be fucking hilarious

these three pass around a braincell like the fates from hercules pass around their eyeball

“let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite”

(via File Photo)

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

Tasty obelisk fries..

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

“It’s digestible”

“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

The more you know! :D

I have learned a new thing today.

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!

Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes

This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.

It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post

someone tell the tumblerinas that you can raise an issue without deliberately guilt-tripping everyone about it

okay, I take it back. I don’t think everyone is doing this deliberately. some of it is so deeply entrenched in tumblr culture that you probably don’t always notice you’re doing it

“nobody’s talking about this” -> you can just delete this phrase

“if you can’t reblog this, unfollow me” -> you can also delete this one

“x group can, and should, reblog this” -> remove the “should”. or you know. delete the entire sentence

your post will still spread all the important information without the guilt-tripping parts, I promise

if an otherwise valid post tries to guilt trip me it’s a pass on the rb, sry.

There’s a lot of Proper English things they teach in english classes that do nothing but make for boring writers, and the worst by far is saying that it’s bad form to begin a sentence with the word “but.” It’s both grammatically coherent and also a pleasant way to set up a punchy sequence of sentences. Fuck the Académie Française and its Anglo-Saxon wannabes, you can phrase whatever you want however you want until you die

watching dungeons and drag queens and ive seen people joking about how brennan must've really been like "fuck you" to ally because he's being so specific explaining things to the queens, but in all seriousness, since fantasy high was d20's first season, i think he probably didn't have quite as much of a handle on how to teach someone how to play dnd while doing it for a show. and also, it probably would've stopped up the flow of things pretty bad for brennan to be meticulously explaining things to Just Ally (since literally everyone else had notably more experience) instead of just sitting them next to murph, who also dms for actualplay and had had a year more of experience than brennan with doing it on-air. it also might've seemed misogynistic (like man-splainy) or just kind of pointed since a lot of people who watched fh hadn't become familiar with the cast yet. plus all of the intrepid heroes are improvisers so ally definitely had that advantage as well

honestly this may sound obvious but it changed my whole mindset when I realised that *I* am a person I can give love to

like for so long whenever I was single I’d always think oh I have so much love to give, I just want someone to shower with love and do nice little gestures for

and then one day the penny dropped that like... I am also a person I can give love to and do nice things for. and now I do. and it’s changed my life

you don’t need a partner in order to channel your love into someone. that someone can be you

to cis artists, yr allowed to draw trans characters to be clockable, in fact i encourage it. it's not politically incorrect or offensive to depict trans people as being obviously trans, especially if you're drawing cartoons. its not a stereotype a lot of us just look like that

i mean, i know a lot of trans people disagree, but eventually every ally has gotta bite the bullet & use their judgement to decide what's best for the group they're allied with. literally just give her stubble, it's quick, it's easy and it's free.

coding is neutral, it's just aesthetic, framing is what actually matters. no one's out here calling ms frizzle an antisemetic caricature. its not racist that u can tell the one car in Cars that sells gas is black. when cartoons show a man in a dress & treat the contrast between makeup and body hair as being self evidently funny, that's transphobia. but that doesnt mean its bad to have a big hairy man wear makeup in your illustrated works, thats just normal hot guy behavior

I think the biggest thing cis artists need to watch themselves on is what traits they give ONLY to trans women. Its very common, especially in animation, to have trans charicatures be the only characters with say, a cleft chin or five o'clock shadow.

If none of your cis characters (including the men!) have the traits you're giving trans women maybe watch your back.

I also would warn against this addition/subtraction view of masculinity/femininity that a lot of people have, where they think a clockier woman must have a hyper-feminine presentation to "make up for" said clocky features, so the result is full of jarring contrasts.

The reality is that there are lots of trans women who are equal parts clocky and hot, and still have an understated, consistent vibe they give off because they wear clothes that compliment their body instead of fighting against it to look more cis.

The Atomium

The Atomium under construction at the World Expo, Brussels, 1957 by Dolf Kruger

The Atomium 1958 by R.Seidman

Two 1958 issue Belgian stamps featuring the Atomium

The Atomium in spring (postcard view)

Five interior views of the Atomium by TheLadyTravels.com - March 20, 2015

The Atomium is an iconic building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo ‘58, the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn with interiors by architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine 18 m (59 ft) diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

Tubes connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. They enclose escalators and a lift to allow access to the five habitable spheres which contain exhibit halls and other public spaces. The top sphere provides a panoramic view of Brussels … or the shadow in the parking lot. 

Carry your dog on the escalator! (obligatory dual Flemish and French signage)

Two Door Cinema Club l What You Know

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i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

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Hey nonny just listen to some Black Sabbath and maybe you’ll calm down. No ‘virgin shit’ in there Ozzy Osbourne is a bona fide fire breathing whore

im like 98% sure ozzy osbourne is not transmasc but thanks anyway

Southeast Asians cannot even travel to Japan and South Korea without showing our itinerary and proofs that we gonna leave the countries on time

Passport privilege is real

Not only that, but oftentimes, these backpackers begging for money aren’t as impoverished as they make themselves out to be. Typically, they’re incredibly wealthy, but the simulacrum of ‘vagabonding’ is a bragging right for them in backpacker communities. 

They become obsessed with the idea of being the most remote, the most frugal - if you’ve ever heard of Thailand’s Full Moon Party, the island of  Ko Pha-ngan used to be a rural fishing village - until a backpacker decided togo “off the beaten path” and live there by the generosity of a local family. Because they do this for bragging rights, the tourist bragged about this island to the people at a hostle, and low-and-behold, every few weeks (because they now have half-moon raves as well) the island is completely TRASHED because of these raves. Not even mentioning the fact that they abuse hospitality workers for increasing prices to keep up with the demand. 

Meanwhile, these people are the type to turn right back to their home country and brag about how they’re somehow rejecting capitalism by using their power as the exploiting class.

Sources: “Lovely Girls, Very Cheap” by Decca Aitkenhead in Granta Magazine

“Gringo Trails” By Pegi Vail (documentary)

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.