who else up hurkleing their durkleing

It is such a struggle to try and not start American Pie at karaoke because I know that everyone would be incredibly annoyed if I picked 8 and a half minute song

MADONNA??? NO ITS NOT BY FUCKING MADONNA, ITS BY DON MCLEAN FOR GODSSAKE!!

At age 15 at a friend's family barbeque, I picked American Pie in their karaoke machine so I could do the Weird Al version, which we had the lyrics for printed out. The Weird Al version is a normal length song about the Phantom Menace.

American Pie is a boomer song, and there were many boomer men in attendance at the bbq. So the song starts, I get up on the porch and sing about "this here Anakin guy" with a lot of enthusiasm and very little talent, and all these guys are looking at me in disapproval.

And then my version ends, but the karaoke version keeps going. And we don't know how to turn it off. It was deeply embarrassing and after that we fled to my friend's room to watch Fushigi Yugi on VHS.

They say that the way you should view disagreements in relationships is “us vs the problem” and not “me vs them” and I think that to a certain extent that mindset can also be helpful when engaging in political or ideological movements

Taking feminism as an example, it’s a lot easier to see trans people and intersex people and even cis men as your allies within the movement when you view your movement as “us vs inequality and sexism” and not “women vs men”

If you’re some form of a socialist then working with people with different political ideologies than you becomes a lot easier when you view the problem as “us vs the bad system” instead of “socialists vs everyone else”

I personally at least find most problems easier to tackle once I attach this sort of mindset into it. You do not inherently in every situation need to view other human beings as your enemy. And in fact when your goal is to solve the problem and not to Defeat Your Opponent then you can get more creative with your problem solving.

reblog to bap prev with your paw

When I was young I had this book called people who work at night and as a little kid it was really comforting to know that there were people awake while I was asleep (especially bakers for some reason).

On that note: Please enjoy The Night Mail, following the post office train from Euston to Aberdeen, overnight...

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-night-mail-1936-online

please enjoy the song Public Service Broadcasting made about the night mail called Night Mail which samples audio from the previously mentioned documentary The Night Mail

August 2011 - December 2015

hey! it’s 2025 now!

honestly I think there’s a bigger leap in improvement from ‘11 to ‘15 than '15 til now, but I think I can definitely draw more consistently than I could back then! what do y'all think? 🤔

imagine if this was your child's favorite stuffed animal and they took it everywhere with them

shayspar

that gollum is from a product page. It is merely an object, branded to appeal to certain aging fans of a movie from two decades ago

Shayspar is loved by a real human child, and thus is proved to be genuinely lovable. No other copy of the Shakespeare doll has the same wear, the same stains where tiny hands have clasped his. He is Real in a way no toy can be without the genuine love of a child.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 bloopers

+ bonus

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

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Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.

HR block also did this shit to me, fuck em

i find it funny every time people say chilchuck is "minor coded" and use it to chastize other people who like chilchuck, because chilchuck is so painfully obviously some old guy. he likes drinking and complains about his younger coworkers like he's like 50 year old because he is.

like "but he's short and looks young" yeah sure but also have u seen chilchuck? he's practically whining about how his back hurts or how his joints squeak or how his kids dont visit him or how he misses his wife or wtv old people talk about idk

like idk i jst dont get how people see him and think he's minor coded like in no way can you think that 29 year old half-foot is a child when he's scolding laios like he's his fourth kid

I don't think this was a conscious intent from the mangaka, but chilchick reminds me very much the way both Asian and trans men are treated in the west.

“There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggins, and none of them should be used lightly.”

-Gandalf the Grey, wielder of Narya the Ring of Fire and also coincidentally maker of the best magic fireworks in the world

it let me hit bc i use its actual pronouns

IF YOU LOVE FAT WOMEN HIT THAT MF REBLOG

a watched nut never busts. or something. i dont fucking know what you people find funny anymore. 9/11.

Follow up question/experiment:

PLEASE REBLOG FOR A BIGGER SAMPLE!

there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.

probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.

I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.