While some species of dragons fiercely guard their hatchlings from would-be predators, others give no parental care at all. But nest robbers, be warned - this is because those hatchlings are perfectly capable of dispatching would-be predators themselves.
a lot of these snarky “if i ended up [situation from a horror movie] i would simply let the horrors kill me” posts are just a refusal to engage with the story, but i saw one about the saw franchise and like. can you actually imagine how mad that would make jigsaw. choosing to sit still and let the saw trap kill you is not only a power move, but also is the only power move capable of genuinely fucking jigsaw up. get him in the ideology
If you wake up in a bizarre deathtrap you must immediately smash any speakers or screens you see. Take that dipshit, no getting off on a monologue for you, hope you spent months setting up whatever ironic bullshit I'll go to my grave utterly unaware of
"Goncharov this" and "zephota that " lets talk about the real mass hallucination/fake media the oldest one
Fucking
I, Libertine.
Aka the time a radio host got so angry about new York times best selling books list and the annoying people who claimed to read all of them he made up with his listeners a over the top ironic bullshit romance and told his listeners to just ask about it in libraries to confirm no one actually read the best selling books and it was just word of mouth and popularity that made those books famous and weeks after the bit started he got reports back from his listeners including a lady who said two women on her book club said they read the fake but and one didn't liked and a guy who made a fucking thesis about it and got a B
So tik tok sit the fuck down you are not the first nor the last not even the best
Not to mention that the joke spiraled out of control so that there was enough interest in it by people who didn't know it was fake that then-burgeoning Ballantine Books founder Ian Ballantine hired acclaimed science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon (best known on Tumblr perhaps for writing those homoerotic star trek episodes, including Amok Time) to write the book in reality
It was written in one night on Ian Ballantine's couch
conversation I have with my ferret 1000x a day
This image from Armored Core 3 has stuck with me for YEARS. A red anthropomorphic bull. Pectorals. No fingers. Hoof hands. Biceps. Two enormous pistols, not held in the hooves but instead like he decided he didn't need a grocery cart. How does he shoot them? It haunts me.
gothic horror rlly is just. aw fuck look at what youve done. the house has inherited your inter-generational trauma and in response has transformed itself into a metaphorical device to track the decay of the family. we're never gonna pay off that mortgage now
They want a violent crime wave to exist so fucking bad but it never happened so they had to make a moral panic over shoplifting and loitering ie things people use as examples of the most minor types of misdemeanor crimes but even then they had to fudge the numbers with fucking shoplifting
rosencrantz and gildenstern are a strategist dying of the ending written for them
Given that we're talking about the Tom Stoppard versions, I think a strong argument could be made that only one of them is dying of endings; the other is dying of tropes.
(One of them is convinced that this is a critical distinction, and the other regards the distinction as pure sophistry. The arguments they have about it are legendarily stupid.)
This picture i took of hector while i was drunk last night looks like a damn renaissance painting
Hector
Hector
georges de la tour, la madeleine a la hector, 1640
persona 5 doodle dump. i have such a love/hate relationship with this game
Have I told y’all about my husband’s Fork Theory? If I did already, pretend I didn’t, I’m an old.
So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It’s super useful and we use that all the time. But it has a corollary. You know the phrase, “Stick a fork in me, I’m done,” right? Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens. A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one “you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it’s fun to see me melt down” pitchfork.
This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as “It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.”
I like this and also I like the low key point that you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way.
does this mean somewhere there is a knife theory?
Knives are traumas that require help to fix. Take a fork out and stress is reduced. Take a knife out and you better be prepared to stop the bleeding.
this is fucking animated crazy good, how come ive never seen this
This isn’t animated, this is somebody with full-body tracking in VRChat! I believe they also have ELBOW TRACKERS, which is two more trackers than people usually have. VRChat’s native IK (inverse kinematics) does its best to guesstimate a good elbow position for you, but this looks much more coordinated than it usually manages.
The elbow trackers are also extremely funny imo because they contrast with the grungy, rough-and-ready utilitarianism of the chosen avatar. That’s a significant extra financial and system outlay PLUS a significant extra physical burden of strapping in and out of your fullbody setup, which also implies uncluttered, dedicated space. Like, the avatar (and choice of topic) is of a man unconcerned with appearances but then the ELBOW TRACKING is the cat’s tailtip poking out of the bag: this is a person maximally concerned with appearances.
There was an old lady
I hate chatbot and image generation programs so so so much but one of the minor but more frustrating reasons for me is the fact they use the name ‘ai’ even though it categorically is not, and its made discussion about any ai in fiction a nightmare. If you compare slave allegory ai to convincing babble program i will hit you with a rock
This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.
Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”
boyonetta
ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m
wonder-meathead
can we have some context to this, perhaps?
Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.
Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.
That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.
(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)
just fucking read it
There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me
This is just as wild with the context
birdscreaming15
Some of my favorite moments in the series
From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.
The fact that the gays’ names are literally Adam and Steve is hilarious to me. Like, he’s not being subtle. I love this so much. I’m going to be reading this for sure.
“I’m the Labor Day Fairy and I’m here to teach you the true meaning of collective bargaining.”