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i think it's fucked up that we've made death, an inevitable thing that happens to everyone, into such a taboo subject that enjoying spending time in places where dead people exist is offensive and sinister to you

That's what a cemetery is FOR.

At first I thought anon might be confused and think you’re like, walking OVER graves, which has a superstition against it and is considered bad luck and also in bad taste—but no I had to go back and reread their ask to confirm they definitely just say “walking around.”

Like, sorry for occupying the public land in the respectful manner for which it’s intended lol. Girl, the souls are lonely they enjoy the visit. Why don’t you go walk around the grounds of a local cemetery and feel the stillness of life and death communing together peacefully and maybe you’ll calm down.

Also I know this isn't hugely relevant but it is in fact psychologically healthy to hang out in graveyards. Performing tasks that "touch death" (mindfully and deliberately hanging out in graveyards or mausoleums, spiritual practices that involve pondering death in a down-to-earth and mature way, writing wills or memorials for loved ones, attending to corpses, etc.) are necessary psychological tasks. Why do you think so many religions, including those without a concept of an afterlife, have some kind of regular death or funerary practice in them? A graveyard is a public place and you're supposed to go there and spend time with the dead in it for your health.

I mourn the modern cost-saving, money-skimming graveyards where the average person gets a tiny plot and a flat metal plate as a plaque because the businesses involved have figured out that they can get away with draining every dollar without needing to pay any stonecarvers. Bring back the angel statues. Death is supposed to be present and visible and beautiful. It's good for us.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways

"EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL TO THE POINT OF STERILE UNFUCKABILITY. " 1 . // 2. // 3. // 4.

what’s funniest about the pacific rim scientists is like. when newt geiszler says he’s a scientist he means an old-timey 1910s entomologist wearing khaki shorts and a comically oversized pair of binoculars traipsing through the jungle capturing endangered species of butterfly and murmuring “egads!! fascinating…..” and scribbling it in his journal. when hermann gottlieb is being a scientist it’s literally the fucking manhattan project. tortured chainsmoking physicist. pawn of a war. repressed homosexual all his life. gets executed for being a communist. And they have to do each other’s peer review

I’m curious as to where you all stand

Reblog for demographics!

Has either union called for a boycott? Because boycotting can disrupt their plans and make negotiations harder unless they’re actively asking for one. I’m boycotting reality TV (which every studio is going to be pushing because it’s the only content they can make cheaply and without writers or professional actors) but nothing else unless we are asked to.

#i always understood that boycotts and strikes were sort of two opposing strategies#if a strike is happening you want demand to continue as normal because the point is to prove what would happen without your labor#a boycott is reducing demand and the point is usually in response to a practice that cant be solved by employees walking out#for instance a boycott might be ideal for protesting AI generated content (via @displacedlabrat)

This is correct. If anything, I want the execs to be terrified because the consumers are demanding more from them and they have nothing in their reserves to sell and no way of making anything else to sell.

Also "new" content is going to keep coming out for a while because it's already been written and acted and edited. (I'd actually expect a lot of bad-but-finished movies that would normally never be released to get released once they start running out of the good stuff) There is less than no point to boycott anything right now.

1) Nobody in the unions has called for a boycott.

2) Boycotting takes away the residuals/initial payout due to the actors and writers right when they aren’t working.

3) Boycotting let’s the studios say “See? You aren’t valuable; nobody wants your labor” which is precisely the opposite of the message to be sent.

i'm literally the priest's favorite sacrificial lamb because i am so docile and sweet and i hold very still when they put the rope around my neck and i trot along so happily while they lead me to the altar and they do not even have to tie me down because i lie so very still and only bleat once or twice in my lovely lamb voice and when the knife comes down it cuts through me like butter and i offer no resistance and i bleed so prettily all over my new white wool and my guts all unspool like the most beautiful shining yarn and my eyes are animal and dumb and hold no accusation and every time i die i come right back as another little lamb because the priest loves me so so much and he always chooses me for the sacrifice every time and he always places one hand on my small and twitching nose to calm me while he lifts the knife and he doesn't do it for the other lambs only me because i'm his favorite

i have three responses to "how is your writing going"

1) it's not

2) it's going

3) i am ENTHUSED. i have been BLESSED with the POWER of the MUSES. i am an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CREATION i am the MOST ULTIMATE OF ALL WRITERS

fursona research

the giant armadillo is the land mammal with the most permanent teeth at 74

sea slugs go through 750,000 teeth in a lifetime

orcas have the sharpest teeth of all animals

the water deer has retractable saberteeth and is classified as a deer despite not being true deer

there is a species of duck with a sawbill that has been nicknamed the tooth duck

the hyena and the titan triggerfish both have teeth and jaws strong enough to crush bone

mosquitos have 47 teeth

walrus and elephant tusks are teeth. so are narwhal "horns"

the phrase "long in the teeth" meaning that you're getting on in years is because horse gums recede as they get older, thus making their teeth look longer

giraffes and humans have the same number of teeth

lobsters and crabs have teeth in their stomach. minnows have teeth in their throats

the paraya fish has fangs that can grow up to 7 inches long that they use to impale their prey

the crabeater seal has teeth that work as a sieve to filter out things larger than the krill they eat

naked mole rat teeth are on the outside of their lips to keep dirt out of their mouths while they dig

you can tell the age of both dolphins and horses via their teeth.

dolphin teeth have rings similar to the ones in trees that you can see when their teeth are bisected horizontally.

horse gums recede uniformly over the years, so you can see how old they are based on how much tooth is visible. this is the origin of the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

pangolin do not have teeth

beavers have orange teeth

echidnas don't have teeth OR nipples

dragonfish have evolved transparent teeth so that fish can't see them behind their bioluminescent lure

lamprey eels have no jaws, just a circular mouth with very strong suction

i got so caught up in teeth facts i forgot to make a fursona

i love you and your fixations but this post feels like a cry for help

is he okay

Damn he must've contributed so much to Morbius' gross

That's the funniest part. For his Morbius vid, he actually bought tickets to Everywhere All At Once and snuck into Morbius each time as to not play any part in making Sony think that they should make more Morbius.

Not all heroes wear capes, but according to that thumbnail this one does

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i think far too many people have only seen this video as that one sped up gif version of it and that is a crime that needs to be fixed because this video actually changed my life

Full support!

Wow that was FAST. Check out this YouTube ad I just got trying to hire scabs immediately.

The fact that they're advertising it as hourly pay is so telling that they're hoping to just hire random people off the street. They're trying to prey on desperate actors who don't know that $180/hr for a fucking GODZILLA movie is the hugest rip off anyone could possibly pull. No rights, royalties or residuals but hey at least you'll get paid fucking nothing!

Godzilla vs king Kong 2 is a Toho co and Warner Bros production btw. Just so you know what corporations are sanctioning this pathetic shit

going thru my phone at the dermatologist trying ta find that one really unhinged comment i saw under a picture of springtrap on pinterest

found it

they're under almost every single picture ive found of him on there btw

their names are cpu and graphics card and hard drive and usb port

in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay

had a realization about certain similarities between p3, p4, and p5

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.