#GetTheToiletsOutOfTheJuulRoom

liberalsarecool:

republicandoorknob:

liberalsarecool:

The statement — signed by myriad former career government employees as well as high-profile political appointees — offers a rebuttal to Attorney General William P. Barr’s determination that the evidence Mueller uncovered was “not sufficient” to establish that Trump committed a crime.

‘Individual 1’ is a criminal.

Over 400 now.

Over 500 now.

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msramrimrmmrrwmiomrmmsrpafk:

robotmango:

some man online: “arya’s a mary sue. rey’s a mary sue. i simply don’t believe a young girl could be that skilled.”

what they expect me to say: “well, no, actually, canon supports it, because if you look back as far as season three, she’s been training for–”

what i’m actually gonna say: “good. good. about fucking time. in the next movie i hope rey blows up a dreadnought with finger lightning that she learned earlier that day. i hope she rips palpatine’s spine out with her bare hands while everybody claps”

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feministism:

turning-point-hre:

evgaming:

queenwhiskey:

queenwhiskey:

the best part of thanos is that the rest of his species isnt like that. he was born fucked up and purple and his mom tried to kill him because she gave birth to a weirdo purple baby

That’s great and all but are you telling me Thanos’s mom is named Susan?

last name Fortnite

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celticpyro:

Kinda thinking of that post that’s saying the Pokemon in Detective Pikachu are good because they’re “cartoony” when in reality they’re pretty realistic, but keep a good balance between their cartoonishness without the creepy hyperrealistic renderings we’re used to seeing out of edgelord artists. Ironically, the people who did this movie took a lot of cues from an artist on Deviantart who did hyperrealistic-looking Pokemon.

Originally posted by damstevens

I dunno, these look pretty realistic to me. The key is they render the cartoony elements (like Majikarp’s eyes and the shape of his fins) pretty accurately so it doesn’t just look like a rat hauling a weird fish, you can tell that’s a Pikachu and a Majikarp.

They also did a good job keeping most of the cute Pokemon looking fairly cute,

Originally posted by lankybrunettepartdeux

although you can still get moments where Aipom and Jigglypuff appear legitimately creepy and threatening when angered.

Originally posted by thechocobros

Then there are Pokemon who are odd-looking because they were always meant to appear odd-looking

Originally posted by corsolanite

And the ‘scary’ Pokemon actually look like dangerous, powerful monsters!

Originally posted by zainclaw

Originally posted by redundead

What I like about these designs is that they’ve got a good balance of traits that make them instantly recognizable enough that any Pokemon fan can name them at a glance, but given just enough nuance and realistic elements that presumably wouldn’t render very well in a cartoon. (For example, the little hairs on the inner part of Jigglypuff’s ears, Pikachu’s fluffy fur, and Charizard’s rough, dinosaur-like scales).

You can tell the people behind the design choices are really passionate about Pokemon and wanted to create characters you could easily suspend your disbelief to accept and also fully enjoy with the original ‘flavor’ of Pokemon as a long-time fan.

And anyway I just wanted to talk about how cool that all was.

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betterbemeta:

girlintheglassboxx:

hatingongodot:

girlintheglassboxx:

hatingongodot:

hatingongodot:

I can’t stand… book culture. One time someone got me a canvas bag that was like “Books + Tea = Perfect Day” and I drove to goodwill with that shit so fast

Most books suck. Most books are goddamn awful or utterly extraneous. Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re deeply lucky to live in a world where most books can vanish without us losing anything culturally or intellectually, rather than a world where books are so scarce that a single person might own like twelve in a lifetime. But still. Books are easy to aestheticize as Magical Portals of Adventure and Whimsy if you only read maybe two genres

AH! Words for that whole… situation.

I work at a public library and book culture there is nauseating. Not really among the other employees (though we’ve had a few come through over the years), but the patrons?

Oh god the patrons. Most of the people who check out books are just regular people who like reading. I even have patrons who L O V E to read, and who spend a majority of their free time reading or discussing books, they’re part of multiple book clubs, they always bring a big bag and leave with it full. They aren’t the Book Culture People.

Book Culture People loudly announce that they’re so surprised that there are children who know what books are!

They act affronted when I mention our ebook service, and scoff at the idea that anyone could enjoy reading from a screen instead of off the page!

They are personally offended that publishers hire actors to read the books for audio versions, because they feel that “audio books cheapen the experience of reading” and “audio books are cheating”!

They have to proclaim their fetish for ‘real’ books, whether through tacky tote bags, weird quote filled pinterest boards and social media posts, or awkwardly shoehorning unimpressive humblebrags about all the classics that they’re reading into unrelated conversations with tired library assistants.

They’re terrible, and I resent them because I fear being grouped with them by the nature of my field.

I was literally just talking about a friend whose classmate in her library science program was bragging because she didn’t use any digital resources for her final paper because she “respected books too much.” It’s such a bizarre attitude for anyone, much less an aspiring librarian, to have

I’ve also been approached by people while I read in public who are like “Oh my GOSH it’s so GOOD to see other people who READ nowadays!! Honestly I just have NO hope for our generation” and it’s like, first of all if you’re a reader you should know the last thing anyone wants is to be interrupted by a stranger for unnecessary conversation, and second please shut up holy crap

Oh god, I’ve heard that one before.

Hating accessible books and shunning technology is basically the antithesis of modern librarianship.

I don’t get the ebook hate, ebooks are literally just books. You cite ebooks the same way, and depending on the format, you don’t even say they’re ebooks.

It’s a performative, self important approach to something that I genuinely enjoy, and I think it bothers me more than, say, fandom antics, just because it’s so much more common. People get offended when I tell them I don’t read a lot in my down time, that I genuinely prefer audio books, that I’ll skip their recommendations because I don’t share their tastes.

It’s so… boring.

I think this is a repeatable phenomenon with a lot of media and it has to do with curator culture. There are lots of people out there who try to derive status out of their ability to collect media together, to select media, to turn the consumption of media itself into something, like the media consumed, to be appraised.

Incidentally this is why while it’s not always clear what to get an actual librarian for their birthday, The Book People are so easily wrangled by marketing, cheap slogans on a bag– because icons repeat the idea, and in turn advertise their form of perceived status. What use is being a Book Person if nobody else knows what’s Important to them (and, by result, what these people consider unimportant in others).

You can see this in art circles where people fuss over gallery showings and being seen with art they consider totemic for their status, when people suddenly become amateur film critics as if through their taste they, too, are an auteur. Music snob culture is related. These same people get really fussy over what “real” art is, or the access the general public have to art. When Book People behave condescendingly over kids “actually reading” or sneer down their nose that “ebooks/audiobooks are cheating” they are trying to protect Books ™ as a status symbol only they care about, prevent it from degrading in ‘value’ in the face of the reality that kids read, books on tape are good, not all books are great literature, or that some genres aren’t going to yield many Future Classics™. 

So long as some portion of the world believes that you are as sophisticated as the media you surround yourself with (and in some ways, the media that serves as a barrier to access you!) we’re going to get The Book People choosing the the physical tome of the printed word itself as their icon and status symbol.

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anachronistic-cat:

garlicsaucewithdahomies:

frictioninyourjeans:

frustrating trying to b goth when ur skin isnt pale

GOTH HAS NO COLOR. DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT. I BELIEVE IN YOU.

The first picture looks like a queen of the dead

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beetledrink:

not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”

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