We read to know that we are not alone.

derinthescarletpescatarian:

witchern:

by the way, it’s real bold of hollywood to be like “the writers and actors have unrealistic expectations, but WE know what we’re doing” when they got tricked into releasing morbius in theaters a second time.

They’re running out of material, maybe we can convince them to try to fill the gap by releasing Mobius again.

s-leary:

charliejaneanders:

Every single craft has been paying “The Passion Tax” for generations. This term (coined by author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant) — and backed by scientific research — simply states that the more someone is passionate about their work, the more acceptable it is to take advantage of them. In short, loving what we do makes us easy to exploit.

Guest Column: If Writers Lose the Standoff With Studios, It Hurts All Filmmakers

If the phrase “vocational awe” isn’t part of your lexicon yet, stop scrolling and read Fobazi Ettarh:

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

—Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

I see it in every field I’ve ever worked in: publishing, open source software development, higher education. It describes pretty much every industry that relies on creativity, altruism, or both.

definitelynotcecelia:

It’s already happening. Like guys I cannot emphasize this enough the studios are going to make content creators the deal of a lifetime because they have a void to fill and those content creators will then be on the do not work list for the rest of their professional lives.

marzipanandminutiae:

3dghostt:

i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????

everything from 1860-1900 was 100 years ago and 1920s stuff is Not That Old hope this helps

copperbadge:

cipheramnesia:

cipheramnesia:

the-semicolonoscopy:

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

They’re looking at each other, comparing cats:

And Vincent Price was also bi so, y'know, let’s hear it for the bi pride catboys.

The real reason bisexuals have a reputation for being unable to sit properly on chairs is that they’re trying not to sit on the cat that was already on the cushion.

[ID: Two images; first image, Freddy Mercury, in a brightly-colored shirt, proudly displays two enormous cats, a longhaired Siamese and a marmalade tabby. Second image, Vincent Price, scowling dramatically and dressed in a tweed blazer, holds four cats at once, all of them facing away from the camera; two black cats on the ends and two grey cats in the middle.] 

nudityandnerdery:

vaspider:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

trickstertime:

heroofthreefaces:

fadeverb:

roach-works:

averysoftsheep:

candygarnet:

if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

They ship of theseus’d my girl

Can’t have shit in Detroit

this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.

call that the meme of theseus thesis

tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat

my naym is ship
and when i’m broke
the broken part
from me they toke

replace the part
had been the plan
but in the morn
hand door car man

*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go

We owe the reddit refugees an apology for making them see posts like this

absolutely not, they need to be naturalized to the environment quickly

Also, give Reddit the credit it deserves, we stole “lik the bred” from them.

kareenvorbarra:

Taura

• Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between ‘One Man And One Wolfman’
  
• Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure
  

Aral

• Area Family Has No Idea Where Dad Gets Shirts
  

Elena

• I Love My Country - Aw, Who Am I Kidding? My Country Can Go Fuck Itself

Miles

• Friends, Family Waiting For Current Bout Of Man’s Depression To Subside Before Really Laying Into Him
  
• Man Has Carefully Calculated Timeline For Revealing Negative Personality Traits To New Girlfriend

Mark

• Area Man Glad His Brother Is Giving Mom Grandkids
  

Alys

• Can Your Aunt Do This?
  

Shiv and Udine

• Area CEO Likes To Think Of Family As Small, Close-Knit Business
  

The Duronas

• Army Of Identical Scientists Demands Legislative Support For Cloning

elldritch-horror:

crown-him-with-many-crowns:

elldritch-horror:

elldritch-horror:

Spicy-brained friends, I would like to propose an update to the very useful ‘if you hate everyone, eat, if everyone hates you, sleep, and if you hate yourself, shower’ mantra to live by

Have you suddenly become a petty, hateful little gremlin who thinks people should face the firing squad for (checks notes) leaving teabags on the counter, breathing loudly, or daring to exist in the same space as you? Perhaps mundane and reasonable requests like ‘hey, we agreed to hang out now, let’s hang out’ make you want to scream and move to a yurt in the woods.

You. Are. Overstimulated.

People talk a lot about being overstimulated, and the physical/mental effects of it. What I haven’t seen is people talking about what it does emotionally, and it took me an embarassingly long time to link up those nitpicky, resentful emotions with the state of overstimulation/meltdown/shutdown.

These feelings do not mean that you’re a bad person! They probably aren’t how you actually feel about the people around you. They probably do mean that your nervous system is at its absolute limit and any request/demand/stimulus is Too Much and taking you into fight or flight territory.

Go lie down in a dark room for an hour, or find somewhere safe and familiar to stim for a bit. If it’s happening a lot, schedule yourself regular low-stimulation shutdown time

Signed: someone who moved in with their nearest and dearest only to have a massive crisis of faith about Suddenly Hating All of Them. I don’t hate them, it’s just overstimulating living with people. If I can spare anyone else a similar 9 months of suspecting that they may actually be a bit of a shit person, then this post is worth it!

Quick, someone think of an R so we can make it HARLOT. I find harlots delightfully memorable.

Maybe ‘restless’? Sometimes you just gotta Go Outside

If you feel like you want to remove your own skin and removing stimuli from your environment hasn’t worked, then you might be Restless and need to Move Around?

Yeah! Understimulation is also a nasty fucker

helloitsbees:

natashafromfallout:

andmaybegayer:

slowedclover4:

memewhore:

This will haunt my nightmares.

Squelch! Squelch is the technical shorthand for noise gating. Your antenna will constantly pick up ambient noise, which is useless and annoying to listen to all day while you wait for a call. Squelch tells the radio to mute the speakers if the overall power of the signal coming through is below a certain level. You twiddle your squelch until it just cuts out ambient noise, and when someone tries to talk to you the extra power from their signal will go above your squelch setting and it’ll unmute so you can hear whoever’s calling you.

You know what? Fuck you. *untwiddles your squelch*

​she twiddle my squelch till i end up abandoned and unidentified at a local museum