“This is the future. Your clunky metal suits will be left in the dust,” says Helen Cho.
“That’s the plan,” Tony Stark replies.
“Stark would be threatened by Wakandan technology and would be angry and jealous of it, and defensive about his own intelligence and achievements,” say fools who don’t understand Tony’s character in the slightest.
we had an entire fairly odd parents episode on why this is a bad idea
wait which one was that?
magic watch lets timmy turn back time and try anything as many times as he wants
to be fair i dont remember what it was that made it go wrong
Vicky ended up getting CosmoWatch and Timmy has Wanda become a watch that only works for him as Vicky and Timmy repeatedly mess up the timeline to fuck with each other, usually involving cats. Vicky ends up hit by a school bus.
nvm i take it back. great idea
i just rewatched (pun intended) the episode to see what happened, so yeah as long as it only works for me we good. should we redo this post?
every time you ridicule a nasty person’s appearance there is chance it’s going to reach a vulnerable person who sees themselves in their features
This. It really frustrates me when someone is being problematic and then people start attacking their looks. Like go ahead and call out the person for bad behavior all you want but when you start making it about their appearance you become part of the problem.
can you PLEASE put your age in your about/sidebar and make sure it’s accessible on mobile. imo if you’re an adult esp 20+ it’s a little weird that you wouldn’t have your age readily available on your blog. if you’re reading this now and you don’t have your age listed, please rectify that. i feel like teenagers get lured into talking to adults in fandom/lgbt spaces that they may not have intentionally sought out because they think they’re talking to other teenagers, and this can lead to a lot of other – much more insidious –problems
Can you guys step out of the tumblr “everyone over 20 is inherently predatory and creepy towards children” bubble for once and consider that encouraging people to give up their personal information for the imagined safety of the community is like…not safe?
this advice doesn’t even make sense for multiple reasons; if someone is intent on preying upon minors, all they have to do is follow your advice and lie about their age, being over 20 doesn’t mean you can’t be preyed on yourself, you should never be coerced into giving up your privacy on social media (seriously, did a fed write this?), and promoting the idea that turning 20 means your interactions with younger people should be viewed with suspicion is absolutely harmful,like OP do you have any common sense? At all?
“ignore your own privacy boundaries and discomfort and if you don’t idk 🤔sounds a lil sus 2 me, pedophile” will you guys stop larping as conservative politicians for one second please
think-of-the-children fearmongering is not the same thing as actually protecting minors
You’re talking about - much more insidious - problems while telling people if you don’t do what I tell you, you might be a threat to the safety of our community, like okay Dubya!
Also there’s a big fucking problem with kids oversharing information about this website to begin with, and pushing the mindset that if you don’t have your age- which is in fact a piece of personal information- readily available on your blog you’re a bad person is bad, no matter whether you’re an adult or not.
YOU DO NOT OWE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF.
REPEAT: NO ONE OWES ANY STRANGER ANY PERSONAL INFO WHATSOEVER.
This goes for adults and minors both - and honestly, I don’t think minors should advertise the fact that they are. It’s not like that’s going to drive predators away–very much the opposite.
There is nothing “shady” about having personal boundaries and choosing to keep personal information private - and when in doubt, it’s always safest to err on the side of privacy. For everyone. What creeps me out is people demanding to know things that are none of their business. Age is the most innocuous probably but I’ve also seen people on here demanding to know complete strangers’ disabilities, traumas, survivor status, etc, just for the purpose of winning a fucking internet argument. THOSE are the truly skeevy people.
writers: how are we gonna top ourselves! we got tons of exciting stuff in store!! at least eleven big bads this season!!!! whos gonna survive who won’t????!! 3 love triangles and 2 quadrangles!!!!
me: I’ll Pay You 5$ To Let The Characters Just Simply Talk To Each Other For Once
i don’t know if people outside of brazil are aware of this, but our country just decriminalized
gay conversion therapy. basically, it is now 100% legal for therapists to treat homosexuality as a disease if they want to.
btw here are are some sources to read more about it (they’re all in portuguese): 1, 2, 3, 4.
we need more people talking about this on the media.
please reblog this, especially if you’re not brazilian.
PLEASE READ THIS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE NOT FROM BRAZIL/LATIN AMERICA:
I’ll try my best to keep it as short and to the point as possible.
This absolutely outraged me and a lot of Brazilians when it happened, in September of last year. Even the National Board of Psychology said that gay conversion therapy is a violation of human rights and immoral. But that didn’t stop ONE judge from making this decision. ONE. JUDGE.
Seeing your country go backwards in progress reaaaaaaalllyyyyy sucks. And that’s an understatement. However, things could be about to finally get better.
Brazil is on the brink of presidential elections. The currently most popular candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, is a bigot in every sense of the word. He’s racist, sexist, homophobic… I could go on and on.
Recently, a councilwoman named Marielle Franco got assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. She was an outspoken activist for the rights of black and LGBTQ+ people in Brazil.
At the time of her death, Marielle was suing the police for their violence against black women, especially in the favelas. Since her death, protests have arised in the whole of Brazil.
“Political murder! For the end of military intervention! MARIELLE LIVES!”
Bolsonaro, as expected, has barely spoken out on Marielle’s murder. All he’s said so far is that it probably won’t get solved. We don’t know yet who killed Marielle, and it has barely been 2 weeks since her death, but it has already sparked huge amounts of change in the country.
Marielle’s murder has catalysed the black and LGBTQ+ movement in Brazil.
Katy Perry brought out Marielle’s family during a concert in Rio, and dedicated a song to her.
WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE. The politicians in power do not represent the Brazilian people.
And to my fellow Brazilians:
Por favor, não esqueçam de manter a luta viva. Nós brasileiros merecemos melhor. Merecemos um país que anda pra frente. O governo não nos representa.
Hello! I wanted to ask something art related- I've watched your streams and youtube videos and I was wondering how exactly you changed your sketch lineart to that vibrant blue? I see you using the autotone setting but is there any pre-setup you did with autotone to get that? I've tried using it in photoshop but it never seemed to do anything aha. Thank you for your time!
It’s pretty easy. Just head on to Image >> Adjustments >> Curves
Click on the Options, select either of the first three selections. Then change the Shadows to any color you like. I’m used to blue so I do that.
Now when you use Auto-tone, it automatically uses that setting.
Then just create another layer and draw the clean lineart there (or just draw directly on top of the sketch if you hate yourself lmao)
I think the thing that really thumps me in the feels about Shiro and Keith is how they both consistently and utterly underestimate how much they mean to the other one, while at the same time making no secret of how much the other means to them.
I mean Shiro was totally willing to tell everybody off for Keith’s sake in “Blade of Marmora”, from Lance all the way to the whole Blade organization and screw this whole alliance thing if you’re not going to let Keith keep his knife.
…And he completely failed to grasp that, yanno, telling Keith ‘if anything happens to me, I want you to lead the team’ wasn’t an honor, or a kindness, and that it was entirely possible Keith would be grieving far too much to cope with his own life never mind looking after everyone else’s. (People who rag on Keith for being a bad leader often don’t seem to realize we only get one episode where he’s both unequivocally in charge and not overtly grieving, and most of the stupidshit that went on in that ep was actually Allura’s doing. The kid was grieving for a fair chunk of S3. Like…utterly-not-coping-with-existing levels of grieving. Bet you anything, Shiro had no idea Keith would take it that hard.)
But the reverse is true too. Keith will immediately spring to Shiro’s aid, whether it’s Shiro freezing in a PTSD flashback or holed up in a cave with chunks ripped out of his hide, and he’ll pull stunts that would have trained ninja stuntmen demanding danger pay to do it.
But he honestly thinks he’s got to prove his worth to Shiro all the time, that Shiro’s only a breath away from ripping him a new one for being selfish, or angry, or generally Not Good Enough, and that Shiro doesn’t notice or concern himself with little things like whether Keith is injured. It took only two episodes of butting heads before Keith decided he needed to leave the team so Shiro could lead it properly, and all of one episode before Keith was withdrawing like mad. And Keith is probably going to kick himself hard to find out that Shiro (or Kuron, or mindwarped!Shiro or whoever it is we have right now) is losing time, and feeling off, and having a hard time confiding in anyone.
And…there’s just something kind of real about both of them being kind of equally boneheaded on this front - like, anyone else could probably tell either one of them Hell Yes, You Mean The World To HIm. But they don’t see it, themselves. And while I love to speculate about it, I’m honestly not sure they ever will.
God please don’t comment on your kids eating or weight please
Also, don’t put bathroom scales in the children’s bathroom. Children are curious. Children may weigh themselves. Children can be influenced by their parent’s talk of dieting and losing weight. Children can develop eating disorders.
“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)
look, at some point youve got to give people some slack.
people dont always read the entire history of an OP whose single post they like or reblog on social media, and shitty people can sound reasonable once in a blue moon, especially when what theyre talking abouts got nothing to do with the subjects theyre shitty about. it doesnt change that fact that theyre a shitty person with shitty opinions, but it does mean they dont always come across that way.
thats why so often you meet someone and think theyre pretty okay until they Open Their Mouth and say that one thing that reveals them to be a douchebag. thats why you can be friends with someone for ages before realising that theyre actually terrible and cutting them off.
sometimes it takes some probing for the gold to wash off the turd. and with how disconnected people are on social media? that doesnt often happen
i think we all should be more careful about who we support in public forums, especially if we have any kind of influence over others, but come on- someone likes or reblogs a post that seems completely harmless, and it turns out that the OP was a terrible person who believes terrible things? doesnt automatically mean the reblogger supports all those ideas- they might not even know about it.
if you think its relevant, or that the reblogger would care, by all means tell them. id hate to in any way give people with dangerous opinions more of a platform. but, guys. let them know first and hear their response before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
