jazzw4ve

*thunder crackling*

THOU ART LISTENING TO

*fireball explosion*

102.3

*bubbling cauldron*

REAL WIZARDS FM

*shimmering mana crystal*

WHERE WE PLAYETH NOTHING BUT CHANTS, CHANTS, AND MORE CHANTS

*wololo*

THIS ART NOT THINE ELDER MATRIARCH'S STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

  scienceninjaturtle

  eleonorpiteira

Guillermo Del Toro retweeted my art, those RT/like numbers are ridiculous, I suddenly have more than 1000 followers on twitter (when yesterday I had less than 600), my Lyra illustration got more than 1000 notes here on tumblr (+ more followers)… I don’t know what’s happening anymore!!!

What I mean is: THANK YOU

  eleonorpiteira

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH TODAY OH MY GOD

  eleonorpiteira

sorry y’all, I changed the canon of the movie sakdjfadasjkdjkhdsaf

  eleonorpiteira

YOU GUYS (here’s the link btw, should have posted it before!)

and he follows me on twitter now! which means I will never again post anything there in my life

  eleonorpiteira

I can’t believe how many notes this has holy shit 👀

Thank you all truly! The tags and comments are just a bundle of love, and I can’t thank you enough for that ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  eleonorpiteira

HOW is this post is now over 50k HONESTLY 😭😭😭

I’ll take the opportunity to thank you all again for sharing this ridiculous and lovely moment with me, and to reiterate that Guillermo del Toro is THE BEST!!!  ❤️

  eleonorpiteira

IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR MY DUDES!!!

Cheers to the VisibleWomen tag, cheers to Guillermo del Toro, and cheers to YOU!  ❤️❤️❤️

  kus3m0n0

  sagwgastrikeupdates

Taylor Swift has reportedly withheld negotiations with streamers, for her ERAS TOUR concert movie, until the SAG strike gets resolved.

Swift earlier bypassed studios to release her film in theaters, after receiving a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.

  tiktoksthataregood-ish

  thefingerfuckingfemalefury

The first one was already funny but the second made me crack up :D

  bulletproofheartmp3

I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters

  elasticitymudflap

but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.

and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).

i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.

don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice

  umjammertammy

bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.

not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.

  hsavinien

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg

This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.

  certifiedlibraryposts

Certified Library Post

  casgirl

This disclaimer pops up whenever I start talking

  chris-in-eugene

I am in this picture and I don’t like it.

  whitneyavalon

Today's the anniversary of when we released "Whitney's Big Umbrella" (a show that looks like it's for kids but is definitely not, in fact, for kids.) Someday we'll sell and make an entire TV series of it, full of puppets and songs and nihilism, but in the meanwhile enjoy this joyous musical blasphemy!

  thisgingerhasnosoul

You know, I used to believe that the leftist… fixation, shall we say, on Israel/Palestine was in good faith. Like, I figured the reason they talked about it so much was because they saw Israel’s lopsided military power, and how they were using it (to commit war crimes), and were rightfully horrified. It descended into antisemitism for them at times, not because they truly hated Israelis or Jews, but because they had bad rhetorical habits built into them and just didn’t realize. So of course, I was of the very firm belief that in the event of an attack like the one on Israel, leftists would condemn it as horrific, since their problem wasn’t Israelis themselves, but how Israel was perpetuating the conflict with their disproportionate military power and committing human rights violations. I truly believed they would never cheer on those doing the same to Israeli civilians—because the war crimes were their problem, not the Jews.

And, um, yeah. I was wrong.

  spacelazarwolf

yeah i think a lot of people are very ignorant and just repeat what they hear, or they’re afraid of backlash from their peers, but there are absolutely leftists who just straight up fucking hate jews and intentionally use israel as an outlet for that hatred. and unfortunately those are the ones who are the loudest, so they are the ones who are having their words repeated by people who are ignorant, and they are the ones people are afraid of backlash from. being a jewish leftist has been absolutely miserable this past week. and it was already pretty fucking miserable.

  notebeans-galaxy

a lot of leftists have this idea about ‘the revolution’ in their heads and toppling the state or the bourgeoisie or whatever material conditions or people in power their particular brand of leftism characterizes as the enemy, and that group sometimes ends up being ever expanding to include anyone who doesn’t believe the exact same things they do, anyone who isn’t just like them. it’s poorly disguised tribalism, and in this case it’s also working with preexisting antisemitic bias.

and once a person sees someone as the enemy - Israelis, including civilians, including anti-zionist Israelis and children - they stop seeing them as human. after that point, nothing’s off limits.

  starlightomatic

  captain-acab

This is why historically, so many revolutions end up being just as bloody and repressive than the regimes they toppled. It happened in France, it happened in Russia, and it’s really disheartening to see self-described “revolutionary leftists” fail to even passingly consider that maybe, just maybe, if a successful “Revolution” is their goal, they should study history and try to not repeat its very obvious and predictable mistakes???

So many big leftist and anarchist blogs have revealed themselves in the last week to just be run-of-the-mill reactionaries cosplaying la revolución.

And the way they project their violent fantasies onto Middle East countries with which they have no personal connection really highlights the unexamined imperialism underlying all their beliefs.

  saltedweather

I try to have sympathy for people whose families or lives are in danger and who are lashing out. But those are not, as far as I can tell, the people who say civilians lives don’t matter if they’re Israeli. The people saying that are for the most part Americans without anyone dear to them in the line of fire.

And it’s so frustrating because the rhetoric on the right about Palestinian civilians is also horrifying and dehumanizing, but I’m genuinely afraid to ally with supporters in the US, because I know so many of them are not drawing a line between “an end to apartheid and genocide of Palestinians” and “the beginning of apartheid and genocide of Israelis.”

And these are the folks with “restorative justice” and “end the death penalty” in their bios half the damn time - but apparently, that only applies to their own countrymen, not people they can other without risking their own hides.

ETA:

there’s a difference between “it is valid to use violence against oppressors” and “any violence committed by oppressed people is justified.”

This is a really, really, really important point. Re: the conversation in the notes, I’m specifically frustrated that people are acting as though the Hamas attack on the concert and so on can somehow be considered the understandable outrage of people with no peaceful alternatives. Two really serious issues with that: One, it misses the context that there’s evidence the far right party in Israel, Likud, believes in supporting Hamas (to ensure they never have to deal with a government the rest of the world would support), AND the Israeli government pulled defense forces away from that area before the attacks, leaving them vulnerable. This attack was not a spontaneous response to political repression, and Hamas is not on the side of the Palestinian people. Two, I am absolutely certain that many of the lives Hamas uses for its attacks are young, and being exploited for this horrifying violence and political purpose, just like soldiers in every conflict the world has ever seen. That does not make their actions acceptable. Have they, much like young IDF conscripts, been manipulated? Yes. Does that somehow justify violence against non-combatants? Absolutely not, in either case.

  knickynoo

I am once again pondering the fact that Marty McFly is just such a fantastic character. Like, especially when you look at other male protagonists in the 80s, they all follow a similar trend. A lot are uber cool and suave, with the added side effect of also being a jerk. Many are popular jocks or whatever. Big flirts. Edgy and troubled or sleazy, etc.

And Marty is sort of in his own category entirely. He's cool, but he's not? He skateboards and kills it on guitar but has 2 whole friends--his girlfriend and a disgraced scientist--and crippling self-doubt and can't go a day without falling down or tripping over his own feet or nearly being killed by a car.

He's polite. He's respectful. Won't let anyone mess with the people he loves and doesn't let a moment pass by where he can thank somebody or apologize for a wrongdoing. (seriously, Marty has beautiful manners. Like, it is quite noticeable how often he says, "please," "thank you," "excuse me," or "sorry".)

His emotions are all SO BIG and he doesn't hold back on them. He gets all animated when he's excited and yells when he's scared and cries when he's sad and pulls his friend into big ol' hugs.

He literally never knows what is going on. Marty exists in the constant state of confusion. Between asking Doc to "wait a minute" every other sentence and his ever-changing, scattered thoughts, Marty is just out there trying to survive. Just slow it down, alright? He's a smart guy, but he's also got elevator music playing in his head. Really really fast elevator music.

Time means nothing to him. His watch is broken. He's racking up tardies like it's nobody's business. Stopping by the garage to look for Doc and play some guitar when he should be at school. He's got to get out of that stupid suit RIGHT THIS INSTANT even though he's got one shot at the lightning strike at the clock tower.

Marty just. Does things. There is zero impulse control. A synapse fires and Marty's brain goes "!!!" and that's that. Punch the bully who's twice your size, buy that sports almanac, just Walk Away while Doc is talking to you. Buy that sweet leather jacket. Ignore ALL instructions you're given! Marty, you need constant supervision and I love you for that.

He's just. Marty is the most character. Look at him.

They really knocked it out of the park with this guy.

  tardigradetheking

oh my god adhd for real

  legalizegay

Must watch

  capacity

This could save the world you know

  beboots