biglawbear:

spoonmeb:

arandomthot:

An interesting perspective to consider

this 100% true. toxic people are everywhere annoying everyone. learning to cut them off has been such a blessing.

Mind blown

insomniac-arrest:

I don’t think anime vs western animation are as different as people claim due to the fact they have inspired and fed off each other for decades (they’re friends!!), however I do think our environmental messages to kids are… significantly and interestingly different

whereas, say Ghibli films express a deep Shinto-based respect and reverence for nature:

fighting for it as a means of both self-preservation and expression of heroism revolving around justice

and a matter of other groups of humans (the government often) going up against the stalwart youth

This is contrasted to western animation which tends to be like…. hey! look at this funny bat! And pollution is an evil spirit you can fight like physically 

that isn’t to say the west doesn’t depict environmentalism as heroic and even involving collective action, Captain Planet is a good example of this

but individualism is still very present, the struggle is stalwart youths versus an individual or individual corporation, hell, sometimes you even get a sympathetic backstory for the corporation and weirdly cool rock song

to be clear, antagonists like Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke are sympathetic too, but it is… different, Lady Eboshi is trying to survive due to circumstances but it is all of Irontown that represents a system of corruption

In comparison, there is this western idea of corruption coming from individuals rather than systems as well as the fact they aren’t trying to save nature because we are part of it, but because nature itself is a person and thus worthy of respect

In Fern Gully the fairy’s represent nature, the Lorax represents nature, Captain Planet is literally just nature, all things we can talk to and relate to, where in Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa the ultimate nature spirits are something you can’t talk to and are frankly terrifying, awe-inspiring, and mighty

Western epistemology is heavily rooted in Christianity which says that man has dominion over fish of the sea, fowl of the air, and creatures of the land, ect, which leads to a utilitarian and separate view of nature– what can it do for us as separate (higher) beings, and the only way to combat this view is to say “actually nature is a person and thus worthy of protection”

Whereas Japanese Shintoism has much more emphasis on the idea that we are all part of a whole with nature, nature is the ultimate divine with nothing more important than the other, and something worthy of protection not because we can understand it, but because we can’t

“It’s a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential to human beings”– Hayao Miyazaki

this is not to completely bash western animation, it does have other strengths such as emphasizing children’s relationship to empathy, empathy toward others in “Toy Story” and empathy toward themselves in “Inside Out” 

However, our methods of conveying environmentalism could use some updating and steering away from “goofy” and “relatable” and maybe a little more terror and awe involved with fighting the good fight

antelopian:

cookingwithroxy:

rainydayscore:

women really don’t think men are capable of emotion 

You know, some people obviously have never talked to men because i honest to god hear this concern from men so often it makes me want to cry.

when men talk about their issues, people tell them it’s emotional labor to listen and that they’re actually just speaking over women and therefore oppressive assholes. or tell them that they can’t have it bad because they’re men. or that they should actually like it, because they’re men. or act like it’s some sort of revenge for historical sexism. the list goes on.

reaper-0-1:

swooood-dooooood:

ztgrant:

desmondsprettyface:

catchymemes:

BLOCK 100

HEAVY ARMOR 100

So I looked up the whole story and, as the BBC reports:

I legitimately want to know what the wife’s reaction to this was.  I know she deserves to go to jail for attempted murder, but I can only just wonder what was going through her head when she saw him get out of bed complaining of a headache.

There is not a singular use better for that picture anywhere on the internet. 

salvrun:

celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725:

scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat:

thebuttkingpost-deactivated2021:

I am real tired of having to see people clarify that lovecraft tried to become a better person later in life. How the fuck did “I like your shoelaces” permeate the general knowledge sphere of tumblr but this hasn’t yet

I’ve been told that Lovecraft trying to become better later in life is completely made up with no accredited source backing it.

“I can better understand the inert blindness & defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was… I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centred, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! … It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33—but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.”
—HPL in a letter to Catherine L. Moore, February 7, 1937

He died a month later.

ms-gyroscope:

slavetomyheadcanon:

gif87a-com:

Noot Noot

I don’t know what it is, but the second one splashing into the water cracks me up hard core, like literal tears streaming out of my eyes I’m laughing so hard.

plasticlove1984:

the inherent inhericism of inherency