got a major pest problem this year actually

Cookie in a milk cup.

I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS PICTURE AT ALL

Egg

OH

Milk in a cookie cup

Backwards egg

Are you trying to tell me the centre of an egg is a cookie?

I can't remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it

wait isn't it also implied somewhere that Sally was in contact with Chiron at some point before Percy arrived at CHB? Im dying imagining a convo between them about Percy's godly parentage like-

Chiron: Unfortunately, its fairly common for the gods to not disclose of their godly nature, so a lot of parents don't exactly know who-

Sally: Oh I always knew Percy's father was a god! You see I met him at a beach in Montauk and-

Chiron: You know what Sally 😀 I'm going to have to stop you right there.

Tech is tall. He discovered it can be a tactical advantage in the affairs of the heart

Reference image for first drawing under cut

I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

And all cars should have cd players

I think physical media and wires should be commonplace again

Creative & DIY

SO THAT’S HOW THEY FUCKING DO IT

Reblogging this because my entire life, all of my bows have looked like my shoelaces. Wrapping presents is going to be so much more aesthetically pleasing now

There is zero chance I will remember how to tie these, and even less chance that any of them would stay tied if attached to the vortex of entropy that is my person. But they’re so cool!

little insomniac making sure eyebags stay in style

Sketching on my break again! I hurt my hand and my sleep schedule is nonexistent, so drawing has been slow. I hope you like this Tech/Phee piece! Might color in the future.

My husband plays this game he calls “king of the cats” where he tries to hold all 3 of our boys at once… today he was successful

Have to acknowledge this poor creature:

He’s so done 😆

sorry not sorry but the MOMENT i get this guy back it's gonna be over for all of you

This piece is made with AI!

When I saw this piece it was reblogged by a person I follow, and none of the notes seems to notice that it's made by computer

Even I at first couldn't put my finger on why, but it just FELT made with AI so I sent it to my friends and together we found inaccuracies that no human could make

Firstly, this armour has two knees. They do resemble the clone armor pieces, but the amount is something no one could make a mistake about

The lizard's paw and the wacky claws

The computer tried to make a scar, but it looks like it forgot about the fact that the arm and torso were two different things, and made it look like a scratch on paper rather than piece of the armor

Besides that, the underbelly does not look like scales nor skin, the folds being nonsensical as well.

Someone in the reblogs noticed that the helmet has Mandalorian vibes and they were right. AI didn't know which helmet to pick, so it slapped Mandalorian visor on clone phase two bucket

Don't support AI generative content, there's so many legit artists on this app

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

Honest question: Why do pop culture references work and get a laugh in things like Shrek, but in others they just come across as just being lame and forced? What makes a pop culture reference work? 

I think the thing with references in general is that they need to either a) work on their own even if someone DOESN’T understand the source material and/or (preferably and) b) are brief enough that someone who doesn’t understand them most likely won’t notice them, instead of stopping the story shut in its tracks for a minute so you can wink at the viewer and say “geddit? eh? eh?”… metaporically speaking.

Example: in Shrek 2, Shrek sees an old poster in Fiona’s old room in the castle.

When I was a kid, I genuinely didn’t recognize that this was supposed to be Justin Timberlake, because I wasn’t that up on celebrity stuff (and he already wore a full beard at this point). But I still smiled, because even if you DON’T recognize the celeb it still is a solid joke even without that, narrative is still easy to recongize that Fiona as a tween had a crush on some male celebrity, and it ties into character development of Shrek feeling insecure because he’s not human - so it fullfills point a).

And in addition to that: that shot? It lasts for THREE SECONDS. It’s a quiet scene (except for music), noone makes any mention of that poster, there’s no dialog or callback or anything. If you don’t get it, you miss absolutely nothing. So it fulfills point b) at the same time.

True, and even the longer references (like the scene in Shrek 2 where Fairy Godmother sings “I need a hero” and you get that whole Godzilla Cookie bit) don’t actually impede the story, because there’s still stuff going on. Most of the time, when a reference falls flat, it’s because the movie stops in its tracks or doesn’t advance the plot, which tends to get on the nerves of viewers :P

another example: in Meet The Robinson’s, when Wilbur says his dad looks like Tom Selleck and we’re given this picture for a fraction of a second among a bunch of pictures of goofy cartoon characters:

now as a kid this was hilarious bc come on, thats not a cartoon character, thats just a man!!! and it’s absurd and only there for a second. and then i learned later that his dad is actually voiced by Tom Selleck and GOD THATS HILARIOUS

pop culture references usually just fall somewhere on a spectrum from “funny” to “obnoxious,” with “boring” smack dab in the middle

I’d say that’s also why the Genie worked so great in Aladdin. It wasn’t until I was in my 20’s that I understood most of his references and impressions. But they are all so rapid fire that even when I don’t understand in my mind he’s just a silly man doing silly voices.

One of the Fallout writers had the best rule for it.

If you want to put a pop culture reference, do it in a way that the audience who inevitably won’t get it, won’t realize that it just happened.

The funny walk that Groucho Marx does is a pop culture reference from the turn of the 20th century but it works as a funny thing even without context. Looney Tunes are full of 1940s pop culture references. They still work as silly and amusing things even without context. But it is funnier if you know the caterpillar is supposed to be Frank Sinatra.

I think Phineas and Ferb did really well with this too. The first example that comes to mind is in the first space episode, when they’re navigating an asteroid field and Phineas says “just like beggar’s canyon back home, ay, Ferb?” and seven year old me who’d never watched a Star Wars in her life just went “oh okay.”

(This also had the converse effect of me laughing my head off when Luke mentions beggar’s canyon in A New Hope, because suddenly Phineas’ Star Wars reference made a lot more sense.)

I will also put VeggieTales forth as a commendable example of this. It’s funny enough to see a brightly colored elf who bakes cookies adventuring alongside the vegetable equivalents of Legolas and Aragorn. But when you realize that gourd is an obvious knockoff of the Keebler elf? Top tier.

Actually, now that I think about it, VeggieTales did a lot of parody episodes, and all of them held up well for this. I grew up not watching a ton of movies, but I still thouroughly enjoyed VeggieTales parodies of movies I’d never seen, because they made them entertaining for everyone, not just fans of the media they parodied. You don’t need to have watched Lord of the Rings to laugh when Toto reads the bean’s inscription that says “if you can read this, you’re too close,” or to cheer on Ear-a-corn as he stands bravely against an army of sporks.

yes, percy rose through the ranks of new rome disturbingly fast. no, jason did not do the same at camp half blood. yes, percy's rise to leadership at both camps took about two weeks and was completely unplanned. no, the same cannot be said for jason. his rise was carefully planned and took over a decade. they're both children of the big three, but where percy thrums with raw power, jason is a sword honed by zeus and hera. where percy is a survivor, jason is a weapon. where percy is a cycle breaker, jason can't get out. jason's fatal flaw was temptation to deliberate because he never managed to make his own choices. he was every classic definition of a hero rolled into one, and he never questioned it because his happiness came after the responsibility. jason was never going to ascend as fast as percy because jason was raised on hard work and discipline while percy, an abuse survivor and child of poverty, knew when to fight dirty. where jason was a transplant, percy was an invasive species. jason was always going to die because he was never more than a tool for the gods to throw away when he outlived his usefulness, or when he started to question his place. if someone as locked down as jason can question the system, anyone can. now that luke has put thoughts of overthrow in everyone's heads, zeus has to be very careful because while jason was expendable as his weapon, percy was unexpected in every way. zeus has no plan for him. when percy dies, he will become a martyr, so he can't die, except now everyone knows that percy doesn't want to be a god either. jason had to die, and now percy has to live.