SO I read the actual original article. It wasn’t by a conservative group. It was by college students. They sent a poll to other college students. The questions included things like “would Santa be way more lit with a man bun?” Their classmates, fellow college students, had a fun time filling it out. It was for laughs. People agreed Santa would be cooler if Santa was gender neutral, had tattoos, vaped, wore beanies, drank starbucks, had an iphone, and road a swegway. It was a joke poll filled out by a couple thousand college kids for a laugh.
However a poll taken by couple colleges worth of jokesters in the US and UK is being treated like actual data. This is exactly what media is good at. Taking nonsense, jokes, and statistically tiny groups and stating that these are the facts.
the most fucked up thing about married straight couples in paranormal reality shows is that the husband is almost always the skeptic and the wife will be like terrified to exist in her own home and she’ll beg her husband to believe her and she’ll be crying every night and he’ll straight up look at the camera and be like “I don’t know I guess I just thought she was imagining things.”
like this is beyond belief in ghosts what it comes down to is one member of these couples was so distressed they were in tears nightly or at least weekly, BEGGING their partner to listen to them, and their partner was like “whatever this’ll blow over.”
how does your relationship survive that?? how are these people still together?? if my wife came into the room crying and told me she’d seen bill watterson, author of acclaimed comic calvin and hobbes, manifest in our kitchen and tell her he didn’t like our wallpaper, I’d like. obviously have some questions. but I’d fucking address her distress and take steps to make her feel better lmao???
these husbands are all garbage and they feel justified bc they weren’t the “crazy one” who believed in ghosts.
they were the good, logical, “sane” spouse who did rational and good things like, completely and purposefully ignore their partners’ growing and life-altering distress for months.
I know this seems like such a niche topic to get into but I grew up in an old town where everyone has one or two ghost stories, and it’s almost always wives telling them while their husbands chuckle and shake their heads throughout the entire story.
It doesn’t matter whether they believe in ghosts or not. What it is is one adult recounting experiences they not only firmly believe to have happened one way, but which have profoundly affected their lives, and the other adult literally publicly laughing at them “hahaha, women and their imaginations, you know?”
Both possibilities shock me but don’t really come as a surprise: the husband literally thinks his wife is such a child that she “imagined” these experiences like a backyard game for elementary schoolers, or the husband believes his wife apparently idk?? hallucinated but it’s not a big deal and we don’t need to have a discussion about her health and whether she feels safe and happy in her home because again. silly women and their apparent hallucinations you know???
Turns out horror tropes aren’t actually Metaphors, that’s really just how it is
I was thinking about how I always wanna see horror films with gay families but then was thinking about this post and it made me realize how heavily these films rely on men’s disrespect of women to work.
Finnish soldier gets separated from the rest of his unit but he’s the only one carrying the emergency amphetamines for the unit, takes too many and goes on a one man rampage for like 2 weeks straight giving the opposing Soviet soldiers nightmares for decades. Oh and he did it all on skis.
Did he survive?
Yes, during his methed up 2-3 week rampage he got injured by a land mine, travelled 400km on skis, and only ate pine buds and a Siberian Jay that he caught which he ate raw. When he made it back to Finnish lines he was taken to a hospital where it was found his heart rate was nearly 200 beats per minute and his weight had dropped to 43kg (94.7lbs).
His name was Aimo Koivunen if you want to look him up
Those are the eyes of a man who has seen god and laughed
no one wants to admit they shop at hot topic but we all do
I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
California Dreamin’ by The Mamas & The Papas except it’s playing from a box radio while you sit on the porch of a Yosemite Ranger Station in the very early morning. It’s summer. It’s 1979. And you love your job.
here’s a picture of a baby cedar waxwing begging for food from a robin. neither of these species are nest parasites, so it’s not possible the cedar waxwing was ‘adopted’. this is essentially the bird version of tapping a random person on the shoulder at the grocery store and going “MOM”
I’d like to offer an addition to the headcanon, as somebody who wears a binder and knows that one like the one that I wear wouldn’t be safe in Spiderman’s situation. He is doing acrobatics, fast moving, lots of stretching and twisting, heavy breathing, in life or death situations. You can’t stop for a breather with Thanos or Electro or The Vulture or Loki or Hydra bearing down on you, you can’t fix your binder or keel over in pain - if he twists wrong, loses his breath, falls down, they’re seizing that opportunity and taking his life. Stark wouldn’t take that risk… but Stark is pragmatic - he knows that getting hurt and that feeling dysphoric would both be a disadvantage to Peter. So here’s my proposal: Stark invents a whole fucking brand of sports-safe wear for transmen to solve the issue. Incredible nanotech that disguises breast tissue as pecs without risk of injury or strain. That binder in Peter’s suit isn’t your run of the mill binder, it’s a brand new, top of the range, Stark binder that’s waterproof, bulletproof, perfectly safe to wear for longer periods of time and during exercise. Tony Stark becomes known in LGBT+ circles for his miraculous binders, and the media interviews him, a shitty interviewer who presses the “What inspired you?” question, dying to get him to out one of the team, but Tony won’t, and he just says “I wanted to make sure that everyone can become the hero that they were meant to be.” and it leads to even more successful trans heroes.
Also (and I can’t stress this enough) DO NOT FUCKING FIGHT THANOS IN A BINDER
I found this headcannon and now I wanna cry because thinking about the Best Boy™ being trans too gives me hope
i’m convinced that the ice age franchise won’t end until the squirrel that always chases after the nut gets an equally hideous girlfriend with Squirrel Tits™
and eyelashes
no….. No
NO
No you don’t understand, I have this entire developed theory about the Ice Age universe which has been cooking up in my mind and has only be reinforced by the latest 5th installment. Scrat is the god of the Ice age universe. The story began with him and the story will end with him. If there weren’t hints before, in this latest installment, it becomes clear that Scrat’s actions dictate what happens on Earth and to the protagonists. Yes, maybe Scart’s only goal is to get the nut, but his actions SHAPE what happens in the film. If we needed any further proof then may I point out something Buck said in the 5th film along the lines of “we’re 6 mins early! Somebody up there likes us!” That phrase is usually used to refer to a god and in this case it’s used to refer (unknowingly) to scrat!
However, there is an ALTERNATE theory that I have been working on. What if Scart isn’t the god of the ice age universe, but rather, the NUT is? As i have already said, Scart’s actions shape the course of the story but what motivates Scart? That’s right: the nut, it is truly because of the nut that Scart does what he does that leads to the events that take place in the story. This would create an interesting metaphor here. Scrat is chasing the nut like man chases divinity. So when will the Ice Age saga end?? When Scart finally gets the nut for good. When man catches God.
i didnt even read this but im laughing at how many times scrat is typoed as scart
“what motivates Scart? That’s right: the nut” is the funniest fucking string of words I’ve read in my life
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