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its SO fascinating how little girls have this inherent need to throw twigs and leaves and dirt together and mix them with water .. how we all called that some variant of the word potion …. how its an intercultural thing that no one taught us to do ……………. keep fostering that witch energy ladies
do any of u have like .. a soulmate band/artist? like not to sound entitled but u connect w them so much u feel like they were literally put on earth to make music just for u and ur soul specifically
hey. hey. stop scrolling for a sec.
breathe. you’ve made it so far this year. you’ve gotten through so many things that you thought you wouldn’t, and you’ll continue to get though this, whatever it is. i know you can. i believe in you, and i’m so, so proud of you. i know it probably seems impossible, but it’s going to be ok. it’s going to be ok.
breathe in, breath out. and just keep breathing. we’re gonna get there.
me to a waitress when she tells me of a minor inconvenience: no problem! that’s okay!
waitress: ??! you’re so kind! thank you! i’m so sorry!!
me: are you Ok
me, gently touching the waitress’ arm: who hurt you
look i know this is a bit niche, but I would die for the human who wrote this pattern description. maybe you won’t feel the same if you haven’t spent hours and hours reading knitting pattern blurbs by the designer or the designers hype person.
listen, this niche is made for me and i am buying this pattern sometime this winter to make myself one!!! thanks for sharing, i am in love
the pattern is called the rangers cowl by Michael Vloedman, the image is a link, but i guess that doesn’t carry through on reblogs?? here’s the url - ravelry.com/patterns/library/ranger-cowl
So sorry abt that folks, i really didn’t think anyone would notice this post at all.
@ardatli @alicesaurusfragilis maybe it’s just me, but I’d say this in deep red would make an A+ casual cosplay of Billy Kaplan…
….yes, yes it would. Brb, going to Michael’s.
Soooooo….I actually know the human who wrote this IRL. Any special regards/thoughts you’d like me to pass on @scarylullabies???
@itsadrizzit amazing amazing! tell them their work is a breath of fresh cool autumnal air after a centuries-long summer! tell them that I hope their career in blurb and other writing takes them far in life and that I hope their skill leaves an indelible mark upon the world of marketing and that their creativity inspires a new era of straightforward and funny advertising. tell them thank you for taking things lightly in a world that is constantly trying to weigh us down! ok maybe not last one that i got a little real there, ha ha i’m gonna go now.
my favourite thing about the ancient egyptian numerals is that once you get to a certain point really high up in numbers you just have this little guy holding out his arms saying “a whole fuckin lot of numbers”
dont know why this got notes but i figured itd be relevant to add that the little guy’s name is “heh”
I want villains who go against the stereotypical bullshit that “evil cannot love” or whatever.
I want villains who spend months in their creepy dark lab building the death ray with their best buddy and hug each other when the superweapon is finally complete.
I want villains who fall madly in love with the other evil prince or princess they married to consolidate their power.
I want villains who tell bedtime stories to the little clone they created to be the successor to their throne and order their minions to get the clone a cup of warm milk because she can’t sleep.
I want villains hanging out with their best friends and acting like dorks while they bowl with their enemies’ skulls.
I want villains who are both evil and real, and real people have friends and families and loved ones.
Do you mean heroes?
No.
How do you get heroes from this!? What hero goes bowling with the skulls of their enemies?
I want villains with families.
I want mad scientists helping their children with their science homework.
I want villains leaving halfway though a battle because it’s their anniversary and they are not going to leave their spouse waiting.
I want villains who don’t work on Wednesdays because that’s the day they visit their mum and take her out for tea.
I want villains who hypnotise teachers to give their children good grades.
Basically you want Dr. Doofenshmirtz
^^^^^^
Team Rocket
So you mean heroes.
42,000 notes later and the above reaction to this post still confuses me.
pretty sure it means “people who are cruel or selfish in any way can only be one-dimensional monsters. if they can love or show other positive emotions, then they can’t really be cruel or selfish, and they can’t really be villains.”
whether real or fictional, tumblr only knows angels and demons, nothing in between.
Yes, probably. But why would you do that on this post of all posts? :-P
Then again someone else just did this:
I also don’t get that reaction, because my default expectation is that villains are like this.
Like, irl, most people who are awful to strangers are good to their family/friends. Putting entire towns to the sword so you can hand their treasures over to your beloved children: Totally unsurprising human behaviour. The more surprising thing would be people doing evil who didn’t feel any connection to a small circle of loved ones.
Most of history’s greatest monsters had friends, loved ones, families. Plenty of serial killers were married. Plenty of murderous dictators adored their children. The vast majority of people who commit heinous acts are entirely capable of experiencing love and friendship and human connection. That doesn’t make what they do any less heinous.
I’m just going to sit over here making baffled flaily noises that some people think giving a character any redeeming features – ANY AT ALL – makes them a hero instead of a villain. OH TUMBLR NO.
I have definitely enjoyed some media with villains whose sole characterization is “evil”. You don’t have to make your antagonist nuanced, depending on the story you want to tell. In general, though, I think the most compelling and believable villains, not to mention the most terrifying human monsters, are the ones who love and are loved, and are driven by relatable impulses that are common to most of humanity. Because those are the ones who hold up a dark mirror to our worst impulses and show us how not to behave, just like heroes are the ones who show us how to be the best versions of ourselves through the choices they make (even if they are terribly flawed people themselves).
Okay sorry for mucking up this post with something only semi-related but.
I think the people who think like this (characters with any redeeming qualities must be heroes not villains) are very scary. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what evil is and who can do evil things.
Every human being is capable of unspeakable acts of evil. Even you. Even me. And nearly every human who has committed unspeakable acts of evil thought they were a hero. Humans are capable of justifying literally anything to ourselves because we believe we are the heroes of our own stories.
The second you forget that you are capable of being the villain is the second you’re in danger of becoming one.
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
Nef goes on to explain the difference between her photoshoot with Velencoso, versus how transgender women are typically photographed in fashion editorials. “images of trans femmes being loved rarely exist outside of pornography,” Nef wore. “We tend to be hyper-sexualized and objectified within the cisgender gaze. Either that or we’re dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses.”
Photos: Twitter/Hari Nef
fakeliampayne: My thoughts and prayers go out to Orlando and the lgbt community today, such a senseless tragedy #prayfororlando
tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism
I’d like to clarify:
dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain.
dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)
so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.
but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing
in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement.
so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.
related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this
tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal
a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:
you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:
shitposting is the deconstruction of hegemonic discourse through the use of the absurd and surrealism.
I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.
As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.
My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:
and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:
And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.
I think you might be onto something…
Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.
This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.
Love
My grandmother took several classes on Dadaism, and I attended them with her growing up. Then I took plenty of art history when I got my BFA in Illustration.
This post is 100% legit in their observations. I’m seriously impressed.
Duchamp’s Urinal was one of the most famous, well known Dada pieces ever made, and he made it purely to prove that literally anything can be art. It was all about ignoring the Establishment’s rules of what art was and wasn’t, - this is exactly the same thing happening in real time.
Some people won’t ever recover from their mental illnesses. Some people can’t. I don’t give a fuck if that offends your “Happiness is a choice!!!” or “Change your mind, change your life!!!” way of doing things, because it’s just a fucking fact. My uncle, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 13, is in his mid-50’s now. He lives with his mother in a bedroom that is stacked floor-to-ceiling with outdated electronics he fixes obsessively to keep his mind off of his hallucinations and intrusive thoughts. He won’t ever get better. But you know what? He will always be schizophrenic and he’s accepted that. He has a girlfriend who loves him. His bestfriend drops by twice a week with movies and junk food and complaints about work. He’s happy with his life. Stop forcing your “You can overcome your illness!!!” bullshit on neurodivergents, because some of us CAN’T/WON’T EVER OVERCOME OUR ILLNESSES. My sister, age 33, will always be bipolar. My aunt, age 54, will always have depression. My grandpa, age godknowswhat, died struggling with panic attacks and violent tendencies he’d had since youth. We will always be sick, and that’s fucking okay. And don’t you dare say it’s a cop-out, or an excuse, or a lie, because if you had to live a single day of our lives, you would be hanging from the end of a noose before the clock struck midnight. So here’s to all of us who will always be sick, by choice or by neurology. And here’s a “Fuck You” to Tumblr’s toxic self-help bullshit.
Yup yup, this
They used to shout my name Now they whisper it
- Liam Payne, speaking all of our feelings. (via truthtattoos)
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