So, here's my thought...

The least realistic thing about the Lord of the Rings is that a team got together for a group project, decided everything in one meeting, and their plan worked.

The group abandoned the original plan halfway up Caradhras, split up several times, some group members started looking into different projects, found new partners and ended up doing something else, the original plan was abandoned early on, and the project was salvaged at the last moment by the one group member that didn’t get sidetracked. Sounds like a pretty astute description of teamwork to me

One of them also died.

Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!

what?

*holds up a sign that says “Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!”*

*before the sign is fully up* Oh! Thank you for the support!!!

I’ve watched this 6 times

hey are you the american prairies the way that people who don't know you make uncharitable generalizations and assume there's nothing of interest but people who do know you think you're beautiful and unique and defend you fiercely and consider you a vital part of the world

@nenerobopistol noodles are ready

THIS IS SO FUNNY?? YOU COULDVE TEXTED ME??

extremely fucked up that the only way out is through

Yeah okay ill reblog that

oh you missed the best part

her twitter is a goldmine

So one of the funniest things about Maki Itoh is that her gimmick is that she used to be an idol but was fired because her head is “too big.” Most of her wrestling career has been in Japan, where she’s a rude and foul-mouthed heel, but when she wrestles in America she’s a face because by god do we love her.

anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

”okay but are you normal about-“ no. I’m an insane pervert.

I think about this Juggalo I met in Philly a lot.

It was probably five years ago now.

I used to get on the train after work sometimes and just go to center city. And there was a dress shop I'd stop in front of. The kind you don't walk into unless you know beyond a doubt you've got the dough to buy something.

There was a floor-length dress on a model in the window that I was taken by. It was stunning. With bead work enough to fill a craft room.

It glowed down at me from up on its pedestal of perfection, and I felt down my body, trying to imagine if I'd ever look good in something so magnificent. My pitiful excuse for self-worth was eating at me as I mentally checked every reason why, even if I could afford something so nice, it be wasted on someone like me.

I heard him before I saw him. The jingling of a wallet chain and the heavy thump of black work boots.

He stopped next to me, a big fucker, probably 6'8 or 6'9, in all black except his face which was done up with white and black grease paint. The lines were crisp, and the colors didn't bleed into one another at all. To finish the look, he was wearing an ICP tee, the sleeves cut off at the shoulders. He looked every bit the stereotype.

He looked down at me, them to the dress and then back at me.

I don't know what he saw but he spoke to me, with warmth and conviction the likes I'd never received from a stranger before.

"That dress would look beautiful on YOU."

I could only nod and give him a thank you. He shook his head and pointed at the dress then me.

"You aren't listenin. That DRESS," he pointed again for emphasis, "would look beautiful on YOU."

I thought I understood then what he was trying to say then. That I would be the one assigning the beauty. Not the dress, not the clothes. But me, the person wearing it. I nodded and thanked him again, saying it with more confidence.

Then he kept walking. I never saw him again. The interaction took probably all of twenty seconds. But I'll never forget.

The dress looks beautiful on YOU. Not because the fabric is nice or the materials or fine. But because it's on you. And you make it beautiful.

That's what I took away from Philly Juggalo that day. And I hope I never forget it.

I remember I was in college working the ticket counter for a play when this guy comes up and buys a ticket. I take his money, give him a ticket, and he says something about my voice. Like how I should be on radio, how I had a big, boisterous powerful voice.

And he couldn't have known. In high school, it took forever for my voice to start deepening and I was mocked for it constantly. I remember constantly being told my voice was screechy, annoying, some particularly nasty high school bullies liked to say my voice made them want to strangle kittens.

This guy couldn't have known all that, known the insecurity that years of that I carried because of it, insecurity about my voice in particular. When he said he liked my voice, that it belonged on the radio, he couldn't have known what it meant to me.

Guy probably doesn't even remember it these days. I was just a nameless extra in his life. He never saw me before, he never saw me again. And I don't remember his face, his name, anything. I wouldn't recognize him if I saw him again.

But I will remember that moment forever for how it cut through years of bullshit, ugliness and insecurity. For how that one conversation had such incredible power.

I hope some of the shit I say to people has that kind of power too. I wanna be someone's Philly Juggalo or Voice Guy. One compliment can have untold power.

I'm convinced Mythbusters needs a reboot. Misinformation or mythinformation if you will, is at an all time high. We NEED the show that promotes critical thinking to come back. It doesn't need the same cast, in fact I think it would be better with some fresh faces. Imagine all the good it would do if you could just show your crazy uncle the Mythbusters reboot episode that debunks his anti-vaxx conspiracy in an easily digestible and entertaining format.

Where's that tweet about people still living long fulfilling lives even through the fall of the roman empire because I think about it constantly

Imagine Anakin absolutely losing his mind as it’s explained to him that his marriage is literally illegal because of article whatever subsection b and it’s because 400 years ago there was an entrapment scheme and that’s why Padme is being sued by the republic

Funniest possible set up for a fix it.

Padme dragged before the courts bc you had to know this was illegal there’s literally no way you didn’t know this was illegal. Naboo under a microscope bc the former queen/current senator married a jedi – and not even a real knight jedi at the time, a baby jedi!! – and is naboo trying to entrap the jedi order??? sources say: MAYBE!

Anakin, losing his mind and opening his mouth to cause more problems, says something – on live broadcast, beamed to every corner of the galaxy –about his good buddy the chancellor knowing and saying it was totally fine🤬🤬🥺🥺🥺.

“Oh, so it’s definitely an attempt by naboo to entrap the jedi order and/or claim ownership of them and/or do any of the other things we have that law to prevent huh” says literally everyone in the galaxy, “chancellor palpatine 💯 wants to Rule The Galaxy Forever and is going to extort the Jedi to do it”

which. yes, but also, no.

something something, investigations into everything naboo has ever touched, something something, hey, chancellor, why the fuck do you have a red lightsaber in your desk actually??

Anakin: 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 So if I want to stay married, I have to leave the Order? Or get divorced? But I love her! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Mace, thirty-six hours into a heated debate in the rotunda on religious tax exemptions as plausibly applied to senatorial personal account audits: That is the LEAST of our problems right now.

Anakin: Our? This is not a we situation.

Mace, stuck with trying to figure out whether the Order supports suing or not: This is absolutely a we situation.

—

The Mundi prenups were 357 pages long for a reason, and Anakin is reading them with fervor to see if he can retroactively apply something to his marriage with Padmé and stay married.

His research to understand the blasted thing amounts to half a bar exam. Also, he cannot apply this retroactively.