Oy

So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess

Buddy, real Michigan is super fucked up (I have never been there in my life).

I think it's so important to hear her voice. Like literally, if you can, listen to her voice. Listen to her accent. Listen to that rasp that tells you how long she's been shouting and how long she's been crying. Listen to the Distortion from that microphone, listen to the sound from the crowd. Listen to how desperately she needs these people who left their homes and came out in the streets and risked their lives for Community she loves and tries to help, how much she needs him to listen to her for two God damn minutes. Realize this is her speaking to you literally half a century ago. It's been 50 fucking years and some of y'all still aren't listening.

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth.  The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts. 

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment. 

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

#BECAUSE IT IS

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

I was gonna make a post wondering why people bother with locks in fantasy worlds when there’s spells that can unlock things but then I remembered that I live in a world where you can learn how to pick locks online and I still use locks so maybe my observation wasn’t very well thought out

It’s tempting to be like why are these guys still using swords when mages can basically make bombs but like we live in a world with guns and atom bombs and someone got stabbed to death literally yesterday in a town near where I live so like maybe these smart guy observations aren’t that smart actually

As both someone who can use firearms, bows and arrows and swords - you don’t bring a sword to a gunfight, but a sword to the face is still a sword to the face

First rule of being a graphic designer…they will absolutely just print and use your fake placeholder copy so just go into it expecting that

every time someone says “look how they’re looking at each other! they’re in love!” about a non-canon ship i just think of the kuleshov effect for a second but then i come to my senses and decide to have fun

So brutalism is not actually my favorite architectural style surprisingly, I just have frequently found there to be a major need to defend it. I honestly really love late 19th century American vernacular styles

Cities shown, Louisville, Cincinnati, Knoxville

S tier steven universe moment is when connie finally realized that all of steven’s parental figures sucked shit at being parental figures and have been relying on him for emotional problems the whole time and she calls them all assholes

Steven universe future beautifully reframes a lot of stevens “mature” “growth” moments as moments where his guardians failed and he learned to be easier for them to take care of

Thinking about that episode where he leaned that the sea spire was just a test and the gems make an impossible to fail test to try to give him a win and the moment where he learns that the gems feel like bad parents and learns he can cheer them up by pretending everything is great is maybe the single biggest character moment in the whole show