adventure time lore is insane. it starts off just being a goofy kids show that has magic for no reason, but then you learn that all magic users are manic and/or depressed (what betty calls sadness and madness). because it turns out magic is actually a cosmic force beyond mortal comprehension, that itself was learned from cosmic entities that predated the existence of time itself inside a sea of monsters. and “magic” really is just understanding more about the nature of the universe than most people. that, in a way, reality isnt “real” and understanding that allows you to mold it. and thats magic. but that drives you to insanity and/or apathy. and there are beings who hold significant cosmic importance who are more prone to magic. and the reason magic became prevalent on earth is because of a nuclear war a thousand years ago, which released the entity that represents the destruction of all life onto the world. and after a nuclear apocalypse this gave way to a new earth, where magic could thrive. but a lot of the beings we see arent even magical, theyre just mutants from what happened 1000 years ago. and humanity as we know it has been all but wiped out. but everything stays the same because cycles of war and violence continue. and it doesnt matter if its nukes or magic. everything stays the same, but still changes.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS’ UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
fascism looks like asking elderly & disabled individuals to turn their air conditioning off and die while your HOA/county also bans putting solar panels on your roof because “what if it’s ugly”
it’s also: telling people to evacuate their homes in a natural disaster and not offering them any method to leave whatsoever
71% of people who died in Hurricane Katrina were over the age of 60 or disabled
climate change will kill disabled people and the most vulnerable first. it already has. the fucking White House itself even admits they utterly failed disabled/elderly people in 2005
“neckbeards” are a common facial hair pattern for people with PCOS and hirsutism and people who go on T and people who have a lot of weight on their face. It is not funny or cool or based to use physical features as a moral attack, and especially not when it’s a common feature of intersex people and trans people and fat people and countless other types of people who society already mocks.
What?? Neckbeards are made fun of because they are too lazy to shave properly..
the fact that you see that as some sort of moral detriment is exactly the problem. Who the fuck cares what someone does with their facial hair, why does the way someone’s hair grows naturally need to change. Terrible take. Get lost.
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for their behavior??? not their appearance??? it’s pretty simple.
Every time you target physical “flaws” to mock, you need to know that you’re doing this because society has trained you to equate beauty with goodness and ugliness with degeneracy and immorality.
If you can’t do the work to unpack these lazy but DEEPLY ingrained associations you will literally never achieve any kind of positive change in society.
The reason you target these traits is because society still largely agrees across the board that physical appearance is acceptable to mock. It’s a target that you can be assured that the target of your ire is probably actually sensitive about on some level (or you perceive it to be that) and so you choose cruelty.
The reason you don’t default to behavior is that you know it’s not an instant win. You already know that a person who has chosen some loathesome idealogy probably doesn’t value the things you do. So you can’t actually shame them for their world view because “not caring” is baked into it. And thus…retreating to the cowards position: attempting to win via exploiting a known vulnerability, even though doing so runs counter to the values you claim to espouse.
[ID: a stick figure comic drawn in MS paint. a figure labelled “You” fires a laser gun labelled “Bodyshaming” at a second figure labelled “Guy u don’t like but will never care”. the second figure deflects the “Bodyshaming” laser with a shield, so it ends up hitting a third figure labelled “Person you care about with the same trait who now knows you think they’re ugly”. /ID]
i saw that picture sometime last year and it has altered my brain permanently, in a good way
Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.
“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.
We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]
We’re not saying you should take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent, the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.
One of my favorite things is learning what words people used for this hand game—where you sit in a circle with your hands facing up, right hand on top of your neighbor’s, left hand below your other neighbor’s, and you sequentially go around slapping right hand into left— where they lived when they were kids. The regional variations are the best. It’s in Wikipedia as “Stella Ella Ola,” but for me (and many NE USAmericans) it’s “Quack Diddly Oso.”
The way these games are taught to younger kids by older kids and spread throughout regions is so fascinating; I want a visualization where you can see what happens when one random kid 50 years ago moved to a different state. I have no idea how widespread this game is, but I think it’s all across the US and Canada, at a minimum. I haven’t seen my kids play this—is it still a thing?
I especially appreciate the versions that include “your mother smells like pizza,” “the toilet over fulled,” and “the cat peed on the floor,” “potatoes on the floor-a”
What about you? Anyone play it outside of North America?
everyone who played “down by the banks,” I feel sorry for you that you had such a boring version
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