Tactical reloading of things that donโt need tactical reloads
The most delicious non-vegetable ever slandered by children's cartoons
presented without commentary or apology
Why OP
slam that fucking unmute button
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โI know Iโve heard this before. Is this from an anime or someth-OH FUCK!โ
OBSESSED with this new su signing poster. pearl holding greg just because. slightly older steven with attempts at growing out facial hair. the little pebble in the corner. garnet criss-crossed on gregโs van. lapisโ pants riding down so low you can see her hip. bismuth with that muscle definition. connieโs preppy outfit. peridotโs blank glasses.
"most allegedly haunted houses turn out to have gas leaks!"
no they don't. you are merely skimming the surface of mundane shit that can be wrong with old houses with your one puny little explanation that only fits a very small number of cases. try harder
They should bring back paranormal home inspectors because it is fascinating the amount of spooky happenings they resolved with one surveyor and his clipboard
not surprising AT ALL
as I said in the tags, I believe in ghosts! wholeheartedly! I believe I've had weird experiences that can't be explained any other way!
but
I work with/in old buildings professionally
they are the most temperamental, bizarre beasts you can ever imagine. the number of things that can make strange sounds, drafts, smells, or even motion in an old building are insane. like yeah, maybe you saw a ghost! or maybe you had a gas leak!
but to assume it must be one of those two things is to ignore the vast smorgasbord of Obnoxious Stuff Old Houses Do
Tell me more about the Obnoxious Stuff Old Houses Do.
[cracks knuckles]
- settling. this is a real thing, hence why people bring it up so often. wood expands and contracts, which can cause noises or doors sticking in their frames or becoming easier to open
- pressure differences in rooms. I mentioned this in the tags of my reblog, but I work in one house that has many rooms with two doors on opposite sides. sometimes, opening or closing one will cause the other to open or close if it's not firmly shut or wide open. I have had guests mistake this for Ghost Phenomena. it is not; that happens every time like clockwork and it's all down to pressure
- faulty window or door seals causing drafts
- doors not shutting all the way when you think they have, making it easier for said drafts to blow them open "on their own"
- black mold. never encountered this personally, thank the gods, but it can apparently cause hallucinations
- faulty wiring- can cause flickering lights, alarm activation, devices randomly turning off or on, etc. speaking of alarms...
- motion detectors or alarms "randomly" going off because dust blew across their sensors. one of my houses was having some plaster work done a while back, and the fire alarm kept going off because our very sensitive smoke sniffers picked up rising dust from the work site
- leaky roofs can also cause water to drip into alarms and such and short them out, which sometimes makes them emit warning noises and/or go off as normal
- weird acoustics. I lived in an apartment from 1920 once, where I could hear people in the downstairs unit as if they were in my own- ONLY when I was in the shower. terrified me the first few times I showered at home alone, until I figured it out. row houses are even worse for this
- once I was working late at the museum alone, and scared myself silly thinking I heard heavy footsteps from a floor below (I was more scared of a break-in than ghosts, though, tbh). turned out a windstorm had blown a large metal element loose from- and then completely off of -the faรงade, and the sounds I heard were it flapping back and forth. we got it fixed, if you were wondering
- animals get stuck places (scratching in walls) and die (smell, flies). never experienced this one either, knock on wood, but I know it happens
- thicker walls can mean less street noise gets through than in some newer buildings, contributing to a feeling of isolation that can really creep one out even if nothing is amiss
now like I said, things I can't explain away have happened to me. "I heard the staff door open and close, complete with motion sensor ding, and footsteps moving around the room it leads into- and also my coworker heard it too, from a completely different area of the house -but nobody was there and there are no other exits from that space" can hardly be chalked up to dust in that sensor
but a LOT of weirdness can
concrete/cement and unfinished basements can have infrasound issues (which explains why you feel creeped out for no reason, and/or like something's lurking), or wiring issues, or both. You can't make infrasound go away (and it can be coming from a ways away) but if you toss down a rug you can dampen/diffuse it. This is really why more properly finished (and insulated) basements tend to feel less creepy (although our brains can make it creepy bc brains are silly!).
But I have fully had inexplicable things happen, even things people with me have also witnessed. So I believe in both ghosts AND things being sciencey at you and making you experience "ghosts".
Shows you should save physically immediately
- Over the Garden Wall -- It's being pulled from HBO Max on August 31 and knowing HBO, there's a chance it'll be pulled sooner. *I have now made a Google Drive of all the episodes of OTGW. Please, please, please, PLEASE, save these on a physical device.
- The Owl House -- Disney has tried to bury this show many times (giving it a weird release schedule, cutting the budget, etc) and has even cancelled the show. Also, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue soon and I doubt TOH will survive*I have now also saved all the episodes of TOH. Click here for the posts with all of the episodes
- Amphibia -- I know less about the behind the scenes BS than TOH but Amphibia was screwed over by Disney mainly by poor promotion. Also since one of the protagonist is openly bisexual*, like TOH, I really can't imagine this would survive.*Amphibia has also been saved. Go here for the post with all the episodes.
- Steven Universe -- Cartoon Network cancelled Steven Universe and gave it a weird release schedule, it has also just been pulled from HBO Max.
- Gravity Falls -- Once again, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue at some point in the future and between Wendy being canonically bi, Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland being in a relationship, and Alex Hirsch (being the amazing man that he is) constantly calling Disney out on their BS, I imagine that Disney would be more than willing to nuke Gravity Falls. *Iโve also saved Gravity Falls now go to the main post here to see all the episodes.
and most importantly
- Every single show, book, game, fanfiction, movie, etc you've ever loved
We now know that at any moment's notice, streaming services can and will just nuke their catalogue without hesitation. If it's digital, it can be removed and there's a likely chance you'll never see it again.
So, please take some time to save anything you love on an external device. It could be a box set (it can be official or fan-made one), a USB, or anything.
If you have a physical copy of something, it's yours forever and no one can take that away from you.
*Edit because Iโve seen some confusion about this. Read this again, itโs โone of the protagonistsโ not โthe protagonist.โ Sasha is the one whoโs bi, Anneโs sexuality hasnโt been confirmed.
Also in addition to this, people have reblogged this to say Steven Universe is still on HBO. Since I donโt have HBO, Iโve been going off of what people have been saying and Iโve seen it mentioned that HBO was taking off SU. You should still save it though.
*Edit 2 if any of the links here donโt work, check the original post as I mightโve changed/updated them. If that still doesnโt work, send me an ask or DM Iโll give them to you.
a clip from my new comedy special (x)
Does anybody else have suffer from "I stopped keeping up with this media ages ago but I have an extreme affection for its characters and concept. The writing just started to suck ass"
new tarot card Zero of Cups. no cups
tags from crtastrophe have been peer reviewed and i LIKE them
by Lorraine Sorlet
fuck everyone who has ever tried to make me feel guilty about the amount of sugar in FRUIT
i cannot even with you people right now
At work last night, one of the servers said "did you guys watch the eclipse? My eyes still kind of hurt from it." And me and my coworker (who has a degree in astrophysics) were just like "?????? You're not supposed to look directly at it" and this girl. She says "yeah people kept saying that but I thought it would be okay" like. Abigail. This is how you deal permanent damage to your vision.
This is an excellent example of why we still have covid
- Our society leans on industry driven by nothing more than profit motive, resulting in fake safety products (like recalled solar eclipse glasses) and pushing ineffectual measures as panacea
- Our public health apparatuses do not use all the tools at their disposal to inform the public to prevent mass harm via clear, science-based public massaging
- Even when people are informed or around the informed, they act without thought bringing harm to themselves (and often others) in a moment of pure thoughtlessness.
you cannot advertise to me in a way that matters.
Another cat image I had to draw.
yea pretty sure
I haven't thought about Encanto in forever. Remember how Mirabel was a teenager still living in her family's nursery? Remember how she was denied the basic right of growing up because she failed to conform to her family's standards? Ever think about young people being infantalized by their societies because they can't conform to the standards of "adulthood"? Do you?
i think part of the reason lost media videos are so fun is that it more ethically scratches the same itch as true crime. a bunch of people online being amateur sleuths and going down rabbit holes is a lot easier to enjoy when theyre looking for a cereal commercial from 1991 instead of liike bothering the families of murder victims
Smart
what the actual fuck
we did it everyone. weโre no longer allowed to talk about the CISGENDER MALE CHEST because itโs sexually explicit
this plus that sfw trans comic getting flagged and then my repost of it also getting flagged just really depresses me. this doesn't even show anything that could be deemed sexual, it doesn't even show a trans person, and it still got flagged. we're so obviously not wanted here, and yet other big social media is even more hostile








