thanakite:

viejospellejos:

Practice makes perfect:

@urbantheory

I love this and it was literally the best way to show it. By starting with the practice you get to see how hard they worked on this and that it isn’t like edited or visual effects, plus you get the satisfaction of seeing the finished product at the end

crtter:

crtter:

crtter:

WHAT DID THEY DO TO THE LITTLE GUY

NOOOOOOOOOOO

aziraphalesbian:

aziraphalesbian:

episode one of the dr. who revival was absolutely balls to the walls. some exec was probably like let’s do something normal that kids and adults will love! and mister russell t davies was like get that shit out of my face immediately. we’re doing an episode on a sentient pile of goo, bad cgi lightning, evil garbage cans, and mannequins with guns, or we riot

episode TWO of the dr. who revival was absolutely balls to the walls. some exec was probably like okay NOW let’s do something normal that kids and adults will love! and mister russell t davies was like i thought i told you to get that shit out of my face. we’re doing an episode on a sexy tree lady, an evil flap of skin, toxic by britney spears, handholding, and the inevitable fiery doom of planet earth, or we riot

butchdreams:

ALT

@gang_testosterone-ig on Instagram

alexseanchai:

dollsonmain:

discountalien-pancake:

ashes-ink:

discountalien-pancake:

discountalien-pancake:

Also apparently my brain won’t shut up today but:

JKR’s new book announcement should not surprise you. It should not shock you. And I don’t mean that like, oh she’s been racist and horrible before so this is nothing new.

No. I mean that this is 100% intentional and reactionary. This is in direct response the backlash she got for being transphobic trash. She’s doing this because she’s digging her heels in and doubling down on her bullshit. This is PR 101, causing outrage to get people to pay attention to her.

So what we are not going to fucking do is give this woman a single fucking penny. We’re not giving her the fucking time of day. I do not want to see discourse posts in however many months’ time when the book comes out. There doesn’t need to be discourse because we fucking know already that it’s trash. This book and this author need to die with a whimper.

Relevant once again.

Would this be the time to use that “free book tip” where you buy it off Amazon, read it, then return it?

No. I wouldn’t even pirate it. I want it to be given the Morbius treatment.

It’s [unironically] Morbin’ Time.

Remembering that the “free book tip” described above means authors pay Amazon more per return of an ebook than Amazon pays authors per sale of that ebook: The only problem I’m seeing with that strategy, in and of itself, is Amazon makes money on both the sale and the return, which is also the only reason it works to take money away from the author.

I prefer the “nobody talk about it” strategy because I’m sick of hearing about JKR.

thefloralpeach:

dono-harm-totonystark:

heartoffireandembers:

societyliver:

piedude:

nanopearl:

bandtshirt:

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

believe it or not, we liked that more

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

storybookhawke:

My dragon? Aged.

My mass? Affected.

the-astro-ambassadors:

nickbilz:

adamsmasher:

duncebento:

weaver-z:

This is the most powerful call to ratio I’ve ever seen. It’s like she’s performing an incantation.

Originally posted by vague-vixen

“NO!….RATIO!!!”

Honestly obsessed with her

just-a-normal-eccentric:

captainjonnitkessler:

I love that Tumblr is like “We got Neil Gaiman to do a question and answer session so send in your questions and maybe he’ll answer them!” as though the man hasn’t spent the last few years hanging out here answering random questions and cementing himself as a widely beloved fixture of this site

“We brought in Neil Gaiman”

the fuck you did, he lives here

legittriplecrit:

roach-works:

a-knight-in-shining-rainbows:

princecharmingtobe:

horror-thot:

You know Dating Cis men has actually showed me something that makes me really mad. Yall are way to mean to guys, like regular guys. They are litterally so insecure and it makes me mad ok. i dont think we realise how much pressure they actually feel to be like ridicuously muscly in order to be attractive. We all keep saying that the beauty standards they are held to are “power fantasies” but i think just because its not what women actually find attractive about a guy doesnt mean that they dont feel like they have to meet that standard. not to mention there are lots of girls that do hold them to that standard.

i just think its absolutely crazy how mean we are to guys about their looks. and then theyre also made fun of for being insecure like all the time??? i see so many woke women tell men that they are ugly and worthless and then make jokes about men being insecure. like youre contributing to the problem?

i dunno its just heartbreaking when i tell a guy they are actually good looking and they dont beleive me. I think if we started complimenting and hyping up men more they might not always mistake it for flirting

The thing that pulled me out of the “Men are awful, men are pigs, men have it all so easy all the time and don’t care about women” mindset was… being friends with cis men. I had gone several years with no cis guy friends, and living with my divorced mother with no other family in the immediate area, I didn’t get a lot of exposure to cis men outside of work which wasn’t generally the best experience. So with most of my experiences with men being neutral at best, my opinion wasn’t very high and it was easy to accept that they all sucked or at least didn’t care.

Then I joined a D&D group where I was the only afab player. And suddenly I was spending a considerable amount of time interacting with cis guys. And I saw how they cared, how they tried hard not to be That Guy, how they tried to be self aware of how they interacted with me. I got to hear about their problems and the pressures they felt. I had to assure them that excitedly telling me about something I ended up already knowing about wasn’t mansplaining and they weren’t being Bad Men by doing it. 

I’m dating one of them now and I have to assure him he is not a hideous monster and I do actually enjoy looking at him. He’s always saying how he’s gross and doesn’t understand how I can stand to be around him. If I say something nice about him, or don’t say something negative, he’ll say I’m the first partner to give him such compliments/not shame his appearance. And this isn’t one-sided, my self-esteem is in the crapper and he’s been helping get it out of there as well.
And he’s not some rare, magical unicorn. He’s just a guy. They’re all just guys. Yes, there are shitty guys out there, and unfortunately those are the ones you’ll be interacting with against your will in public because the better ones know better. But if you let that form your entire worldview of men, you end up sinking into a very negative place where half the population is The Enemy and I can say from experience that’s an awful place to be in.

^ via @tereziserkets

no wait actually we should talk about this

trans guy chiming in here: yes we should talk about how trans men experience a lot of really damaging rejection and vilification from our former sisters when we transition

HOWEVER, the original message is fucking important and shouldn’t get derailed in a cry of What About Even More Marginalized Groups??? kind of gotcha.

normal, regular, every-day cis men don’t get to feel like attractive or worthwhile people; they don’t get to feel desired unless they fit a VERY few boxes: wealthy, strong, and/or handsome. they’re expected to be sexual agents, to initiate and pursue, and then they’re subjected to a lot of hostility if they do it ineptly. self aware men KNOW that women dislike creeps, weirdos, sissies, rapists, douchebags, and they don’t WANT to be like that; they also know that for some inexplicable reason creepy, rapey douchebags do seem to chew through an awful lot of women. what gives? they don’t know. no one really knows. feminists and misogynists often arrive at the same conclusions, there, and sometimes at wildly different conclusions.

but still: men need a lot more love than they get. practically everyone does, but so many men are starving for something they don’t really know how to earn. a lot of dysfunction between men and women i think comes from that invisible, emotional malnutrition, and the haphazard ways that men go about trying to fill that need.

As a cis-het man this hit me like an truck of emotions, especially as a cis-het man who struggled and often failed to fit into the narrow masculine mold. Well into high school I was incorrectly believed to be gay by parents and peers (not even because I showed interest in boys, but because I was a very late bloomer and not interested in girls).

I was bullied mercilessly and felt unattractive and unwanted for most of my childhood and well into my 20s. Even nearly fell into inceldom, but mostly talked myself from that ledge.

The hardest part about it was having a younger brother who did fit the masculine mold very well and was often compared negatively to him. As far as anyone was concerned, my only redeeming feature was my intelligence, and even that was questioned at times because of my autism.

I can’t help wonder how my life, how many people’s lives, would be better if we had a more inclusive and varied view of maculinity. Not just for trans people, but for anyone who wanted to be masculine.