the aforementioned brother

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

wirt from otgw really is one of the best written teenage characters ever i think. like. he's 15-16-ish and wants people to take him seriously SO badly, but he also struggles to take responsibility for most things. he's dripping with anxiety. he overcomplicates everything in his mind but sometimes he has lapses of impulse. he can be surprisingly blunt when he's angry. he can't help but hate his little half-brother (and stepdad) out of spite and it takes both of them nearly dying for him to start working through those feelings. he's really creative but he keeps his interests in poetry and the clarinet a secret because he thinks it's fucking embarrassing. he reads real estate magazines and knows a lot about architecture and interior design, which is such a random little detail but i love it. he's self-conscious and lowkey suicidial and always assumes the worst in other people's view of him, but BASICALLY EVERYONE BACK HOME LIKES HIM, including the girl he has a massive crush on, and he just can't see it because he never makes an effort to reach out. every minor stepback feels like the end of the world to him. he has no idea who he is or what he wants.

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

something has gone deeply wrong when "focusing pragmatically on issues you can influence and working to make life better for yourself and your community" is considered an unserious distraction while "endlessly exposing yourself to media about distressing situations you can't control" is considered political engagement

me: boy oh boy I wish I had somewhere to study the nearly complete skeleton of a columbian mammoth 🤔

the esteemed la brea tar pits:

god the handshake difference

i love when people suddenly ask my pronouns like some light just turned on in their head and they went "holy shit it's a faggot!"

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

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ppl dont talk about the fact that even Daisuke's characterization is affected by Jimmy's unreliable perspective. He refers to Daisuke as a spoiled rich kid who has his mommy and daddy behind him, that he's impressionable and stupid, and i do see people kinda characterizing him like that

like he has these rich parents who will dote on him and give him everything, that he's an airhead who isn't good at anything...

yet in curly's perspective we see that he's good at board games, he's trying his best, he's trying to listen to swansea and learn from him. He did get the internship from his parents but not because he wanted to, but because his parents thought he wasn't going anywhere in life, that he needed to be doing something. Daisuke is silly and a positive person but that's just for show, we see in the scene where Jimmy finds him lying on the floor drunk on mouthwash, that Daisuke isn't doing well, he's scared and feels sad about his parents. He makes jokes to cope with the horrible tension on the ship.

people characterize him as a stupid little kid too much for my liking, that's how Jimmy sees him. As a spoiled brat who came on the ship just to be an inconvenience. Even Swansea didn't see him like that, sure he complained about him but in Daisuke's final moments we see Swansea's true colors and how much he actually cares for him. He's an adult, who's putting on this happy go-lucky persona because he truly wants to succeed in life, and he's doing the internship for his mom and dad even though he doesn't want to. So he makes friends, he tries his best, he wants to be on the good side of everyone on the ship.

Jimmy just saw him as an easy target, someone too trusting and easily manipulated. A stupid kid he can use to get what he wants. He even plays with Daisuke's feelings of needing validation from Swansea, someone he looks up to. He tells Daisuke that by going in the vent, he'd make Swansea proud.

Daisuke isn't someone who has it easy or someone who's a stupid airhead. Jimmy just saw kindness and positivity as weakness.

That relatable (older) Gen Z memory: when all the projectors and white boards got replaced by Smart Boards™ around like fifth grade and none of the teachers knew how to use them but they Had To Use them otherwise the school just wasted a bunch of money and it was a rlly weird transition

an addition: when they calibrated the board by pressing the dots and everyone in class lost their minds

Or when ðey found out you could just circle ðe eraser tool around what you wanted erased, and ðen you just tapped in ðe middle and boom, gone.

so fucked up that spongebob squarepants is a children's show that can't feature alcohol because squidward would look right at home cuntily swirling a glass of red wine

Prev tags has the best episode pitch ever:

Yousef @yousefmadiblog is a university student in Gaza who is at risk of missing out on this semester.

Like many Gazan students, amidst the destruction of almost every educational institution, Yousef is studying remotely.

Even with all these hardships, Yousef is entirely commited to his studies and has not relented in his efforts.

The only thing that stands in his way, as it stands in many students' ways, is the tuition fees.

Yousef is overdue $1,000 in order to proceed with this semester, and with your help we've raised half that amount.

I am asking you to cover the remainder $500 as soon as possible.

You've very generously helped his friend @ma7moudgaza2 with the same predicament last week, let's catch them up together!

vetting link: @/gaza-evacuation-funds https://www.tumblr.com/gaza-evacuation-funds/763492435768786944/help-yousef

doctors in gaza are putting aside their own well being to ensure that the wounded get medical attention and stay alive somehow. they have seen some of the worst injuries ever. they're performing surgeries without anaesthesia and holding the hands of their patients, trying to console them and distract them from the pain.

there has been no aid in gaza since may and medical supplies are running low. there are so many wounded and so little resources to take care of them. despite all these hurdles, healthcare workers in gaza are doing a great job and helping as many people as possible.

we need to protect doctors in gaza. they're being deliberately targeted and their lives are at risk. dr. shahd works in a hospital in gaza. she is fundraising to ensure that she can buy necessities and evacuate once it is possible. please help her keep herself and her family safe.

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