cant stop thinking about this video
For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
Re: the top gear bit: not only did they try to destroy a Toyota Hilux and failed, they also drove one to the magnetic North Pole, and another next to an active volcano, both without damage.
Can you imagine the "rusts when left out in the rain" car surviving either of those?
I feel like tumblr would dig this tiktok
Is this the long lost Bowling for Soup song?
Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses
King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.
He didn't want to talk to you.
Uh.
Point of order.
King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.
This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.
King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.
He just doesn’t do much about his administrative duties
But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.
your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate
Image description: tags.
#i saw the framing suggested: #don't ask what your strengths are #ask what everyone else fuckin' sucks at for no goddamn reason
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Common crowdfunding fulfillment fuckups:
“You’re gonna have to run this by me again,” he said, shaking his head at the screen of his laptop. “Cause I’m pretty sure I called you for an apartment, not a matchmaking service.”
“We are not a matchmaking service,” the woman in the red blouse said firmly, almost as if he wasn’t the first to make that remark. She rather reminded him of one of the managers at work. “We select tenants for very specific homeowners.”
“Okay,” he frowned. “So now you sound like an escort service.”
“No,” she insisted. “No, I told you. You would be renting a room in a house. That’s what this interview is for, nothing more.”
Sure, just like the advertisement had said. And yet— “So why do you need to know about my personality and hobbies?”
The lady was beginning to look rather frazzled. “Because it is very important to my client – the homeowner – that his tenants are a good fit,” she answered. “He lives in the house too after all, and he prefers to keep turnover as low as possible.”
“Turnover?” he baulked.
“Oh you know what I mean,” she said hastily. “People leaving. It upsets him.”
He was trying not to stare, he really was, but he didn’t manage very well. “Right,” he said, as airily as he could. “You’ve moved from escort service to potential serial killer.”
“Really, sir!” she protested, but by now he was honestly ready to laugh.
“I’m sorry, but what else do you call a landlord that has his tenants screened so they will not leave.”
The woman’s shoulders sagged. “That is not at all what I’m doing! And my client is renting out rooms in his own house, he isn’t doing this to make money, just to break even.”
Yeah he had heard that before. But it was a nice house. “So he’s looking for housemates, then, not tenants.”
She brightened up considerably. “Yes!”
He pressed his fingertips together. “And your ‘client’ has a creepy service to find him these roommates that may not leave because…?”
“Oh alright. Fine. Because he’s a dragon.”
Whatever this woman’s problem was she had a weird way of deflecting reasonable questions. “Because he’s a dragon,” he echoed.
“Yes,” she sighed. “I usually don’t lead with that, for obvious reasons, but that is essentially why, yes. It’s all very proper and traditional, of course, speaking from a culturally dragonish point of view. But it makes most humans uncomfortable until they fully understand the situation. I assure you all our clients have excellent character references. And we pledge to find a viable alternative for any tenant who wishes to move out within the six-month trial period if our dragon-human mediation does not work out.”
“Wait, you’re serious?” He was pretty sure his brain stopped working at the words ‘culturally dragonish’ but whatever else she had just rattled off, it was definitely not a joke.
The woman blinked. “Why yes, we take our responsibility as intermediators very seriously.”
“No, no, hold up. You’re actually working for a dragon?” Certain parts of their earlier conversation were slowly starting to slot into place. Stuff about a cosy household, landlord-to-tenant responsibility and a mutually supportive living environment. All very proper and traditional… He met her eyes with his mouth unapologetically agape. “You’re working for a dragon that hoards housemates??”
She cleared her throat uncomfortably. “We prefer not to call it that.”
“But that’s what it is, really.”
The woman’s mouth pulled slightly. “…yes.”
He took a moment to let it sink in. A long, glorious moment. And then he sat back upright in his chair, leaning towards his laptop with entirely renewed interest.
“Alright, so first off, just for the record: you totally are running a matchmaking service. Second—” He added quickly before she could start up another protest. “I will answer whatever questions you need to ask to match me to this dragon household-hoard.”
“Wh- You will?” she said in surprise.
“Whatever you need,” he vowed. “And uh, word of advice, next time, definitely lead with the dragon thing.”
Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson
I'm never going to hell
you're like that guy from the mummy
destroy the idea that angels are blonde and blue eyed and fair skinned !!! destroy the idea of holy imagery consisting only of white people !!!
iirc this is actually one of thomas blackshear’s main subject matters! so check out his stuff if ur interested
YES!!!!
Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.
What is the most inappropriate show to add a beach episode to?
Yeah okay this one's the winner
the what
*coughs* Friendly doll person here.
So Mattel came out with different Barbie body types a couple years ago, right? There’s your normal body, but there’s also Curvy, Petite, and Tall now.
Around the same time, they came out with the Made to Move body, which has a ton more articulation than your normal Barbie.
Customizers love the Made to Move body, because hey, a lot more fun positions to put a doll in for photographing. But now Mattel has started making the Made to Move dolls with the additional body types from above. We’ve gotten a Curvy Made to Move doll so far, afaik.
This Queen Elizabeth doll, though? Is the first time there’s been a Petite Made to Move body released by Mattel. So customizers were buying it up not out of any care about Queen Elizabeth — but they were buying it to pop her head right off and use the new body for other dolls!
The thing i like the most about tumblr is learning tiny details about communities i would otherwise not even be aware of. thank you for this info
one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(
Maybe with shorter show seasons with fewer low stakes episodes, people have less to base them on or to incite them to write these sorts of fics? I imagine some were born out of people going "Oh they handled this episode badly" or "what if this show did the low stakes episode concept from that show?". Also younger fanfic writers might just not encounter these sorts of plots as often and thus not think of them as ideas.
When I started making my own clothes, I had a much-loved cotton sundress that had been worn to death but fit me perfectly, so I took it apart and used the pieces as the starting point for the bodice pattern I use for most of my dresses.
This fabric is the closest match I’ve found for the original dress, and I’ve had the half-assembled pieces judging me from a shelf for several months now. Yesterday I finally put the skirt together and finished the dress, and I now have a replacement for that beloved original dress. I’m wearing it right now!
things u do not know about if you have watched project hail mary but not read the book
1: Ryland Grace experiencing involuntary knowledge of his co-workers sex lives because they think of him as someone they need to report to
2: Ryland Grace's surprise at being informed that he is considered the second highest up on the mission after Stratt
3: Ryland Grace finding out a room full of people assuming he's sleeping with Stratt
4: autocannibalism
What is the movie even about if they cut out all the best parts
THEY LEFT OUT EMBEZZLER BOB AND NUKING ANTARCTICA??
I've decided never to watch this movie, because after the way the The Martian movie was eviscerated to the point where the plot barely made sense, I just know that this one would make me just as angry.
#honestly they really glossed over most of the earth part so they could really hone in on the gracerocky bromcom of it all#i do overall like the movie but you have to go in knowing you're watching a bromantic comedy not a fully developed sci fi movie lmao#also they fucking castrated stratt#ran her over and pissed on her grave and replaced her with just. a nice lady.#so kind of. any scene with her is almost unwatchable
THEY MADE STRATT NICE??????
I usually try to be tolerant of anachronisms in books, particularly ye olde medieval generic swords and sorcery type books, but I think I broke the sound barrier with how quickly I just shot out of my immersion in this book when ye olde ancient archivist in the ye olde fantasy-england castle's library tells the protag where to find a certain book by giving him its dewey decimal number.
Today in an arthurian retelling set in pre-saxon britain I encountered a character who said he was going to quit drinking "cold turkey," which I think puts him roughly a thousand years prior to European awareness of the existence of turkeys, and the dissonance had barely registered in my mind before I remembered the medieval lending library run on the dewey decimal system and decided a chronologically misplaced poultry idiom wasn't worth noticing in comparison.
it’s wild to me how there is literally ZERO correlation between what a piece of media is like and what its fanworks are like. 2014 captain america fans were out there writing poetry and full-on academic papers inside of their fics. sonic the hedgehog and my little pony fandoms are both famous for drawing fetishes you’ve never even heard of. les miserables fans spent most of their energy on college aus. there is literally no consistency or observable pattern and it’s incredible
