ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

ive been thinking about this meme template for a few days now and it just such a snapshot of the state of misogyny. these men cannot so much as express an opinion without imagining a girlfriend who they're emotionally neglecting

god actually baited us into creating the tower of babel so that He could create His most beloved children: autistic linguistics enthusiasts

Listening to a podcast

"Let's take a word from our sponsor."

*Skip ahead a minute* "You can-"

*Skip ahead a minute* "Use code-"

*Skip ahead a minute* "300,000-"

*Skip ahead a minute* "300,000-"

*Skip ahead a minute* "T-shirts-"

*Skip ahead a minute* "Motherfuck-"

*Go back 15 seconds*

Oh we're all feeling this one aren't we?

"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way

"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well" way

noticing that for mono relationships you hear stuff like "they weren't right for each other" or "it just didn't work out" but for poly relationships it's always "this is why I could never do polyamory"

posting thoughts about an oc with no art & no writing attached to it is so mortifying. here's blorbo from my brain, yeah she exists exclusively there, but if u harken your ears you can perceive the minute chiming motion of my neurons & taste her transcientness in the wind!

Oh… his contentness! Wait… the beauty in his smile… Wait… 📸 Wait…! His appreciation for the world, he is free!!

Is. Is anyone getting messages from fishy furry artist accounts that claim to be open for commission. Usernames like [blank]artist who then just send you a dm out of nowhere.

And they're calling it a "purely financial decision", which is all kinds of hilarious...

Slightly good news, you can tell them they're making a bad decision:

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not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but there is speculation that the decision to cancel the show came BEFORE Colbert called the settlement a bribe... Trump has a personal vandetta against Stephen Colbert and the Late Show in general... Paramount very well may have cancelled the show to appease Trump, like how Fox News fired Tucker Carlson so people would stop suing them (not exactly the same, because Fox News deserved to be sued, but I wouldn't bet against Paramount caving to Trump, tbh)

The show is still going to be on the air for 10 more months, so I highly doubt this was a response to Colbert calling the settlement a bribe... they could have cancelled it on the spot, or replaced him with another host, if they were that concerned about what he said on air.

You'll notice that I didn't say "because of."

I said "these things happened in this order."

None of the things you said make it less likely that the timing, at least, of the announcement is purposeful, as a "warning" to other media figures. If an Emmy-winning, ratings-growing show can get the axe, you can too.

And yes, the show will be on for ten more months, as of this moment. Contracts are a reality, and buying out his contract (especially after paying that bribe) may not be financially feasible, especially if his contract has a clause that says "you have to give me even more money if you fire me because I comment on the news in a way that makes an executive sad."

Do I know his contract has a clause like that in it? No, but I would, if I had done The Colbert Report for ten years.

But I'm not the only person who thinks this looks sus as fuck. I'm not linking to Xitter, but multiple Senators have said, essentially, "sus as fuck."

People in the notes referring to this as "propaganda" are going to make my eyes roll out of my head.

If anyone is claiming “propaganda” on this, they clearly have not been paying attention to news, CBS, the Late Show, or anything else in the last 8 months.

People have been speculating for ages that CBS/Paramount might kick out Colbert and Stewart for going after Trump. Trump has repeatedly made comments about how they need to get rid of those two because the comedians made him feel bad.

And now it’s happened.

Also, friendly reminder that LSSC had the highest viewership out of any late night talk show, with over 2 million viewers per episode. The “purely financial decision” quote could not more obviously be a lie.

I love what we've done with the word "ratatouille." It's kinda like how we fucked up the popular understanding of the word inception, except we borrowed a word from a language we usually copy 1:1 and assigned it a wildly unrelated meaning. Hell with the tomatoes. Steer that man by his hair.

when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

to all the men out there not getting laid: try less hard to get laid and try more hard to be an enjoyable and relaxing presence

woupd you guys crucify me like jesus if i drew unironic american dad yaoi

I’m starting to think some of you don’t like me…..

Toy Story 2 (1999) dir. John Lasseter | Game Changer 7x08 "Fool's Gold" (2025)

Are you fucking kidding me

Watching Jurassic Park and I have Opinions on this place as a zoo. Feeding the predators live prey?? There's other ways to provide enrichment! Also that enclosure is way too small for multiple large animals like that! Electric fences? Ha! Electric fences won't stop a fucking goat! Where's the zoo experts? Who designed these enclosures?? Were all zoos this shitty in the 90s???

This t-rex is so happy to be tearing a car apart and pushing it over a cliff! She's got so much energy! She needs healthy outlets! Where the fuck is her enrichment team???

#i love this post #both because it's funny and good #and because it gets right to the heart of the problem #jurassic park wasn't designed as a zoo #it was designed as a theme park #the amazing scientific advances? #the miracle of real live dinosaurs? #it meant nothing #the lives of the creatures themselves were nothing #just the means for a rich old white man to get even richer #hammond was never doing it for the children #the kindly old grandpa facade was a lie #he was a billionaire doing what billionaires do #and this is way too much rant for a post that made me laugh #but here we are 

ok but these tags tho

This is actually a big part of the book! The fact that the people designing and working with the animals aren’t considering the inherently chaotic nature of living things, they overlook obvious and simple mistakes that cause huge problems. They just expect everything to “work” and be normal and don’t take into account the vast differences between the park and a zoo and between a place of entertainment and a place meant to properly house and care for animals. That’s why Malcom being a chaos theory scientist is so relevant. 

In the book, Hammond is a much darker character, as well. Movie Hammond is misguided and sort of buying his own sales pitch about this place being so magical and that leads him to overlooking or ignoring the danger out of a sort of naivety. Book Hammond is just kind of an awful person. He rejects all advice and warnings from everyone even when the danger becomes very apparent to others. He wants to control every aspect of the park and it’s just not possible,especially since he also wants everything to be automated for ‘effiency’. He makes the classic mistake of thinking that containing animals is making sure there’s “no way they could possibly escape”, which anyone who works with animals knows is not possible to achieve, instead of “make it so the animals are contented and happy and don’t feel the need to try to escape”.

"Look at this really badly run zoo" could have been the subtitle of the book, honestly. That's the premise behind most of my favorite moments in the books.

They had hundreds of animals and no staff ecologists. They had 1 veterinarian. Instead of having paleontologists on staff, they had a big game hunter. All their biologists worked in the lab. They built everything like theme park rides because automation kept labor costs down and made secrecy easier.

The whole point was to demonstrate how spectacularly a project can fail if new scientific advances are used for profit before they're properly understood. That said, you could make an argument for dinosaurs being a novel way to highlight the shortcomings of for-profit zoos in general. A tiger eating the visitors isn't as headline-grabbing as a T-Rex, but it's still very much a possibility if you decide to show tigers without any understanding of their behavior or ecology.

so painfully stupidfunny that white people traveled all over the world and were like "this is india" and it almost never was

trying to figure out the plot of kpop demon hunters solely off of the posts and mostly gifsets that im seeing