The Bear Cave

hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

of course bro opening up about your lack of knowledge and asking questions is the only way to fill in that fundamental gap

LET HER BIPPITY BOPPITY AWOO

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

I sometimes joke about folks in my parents' generation who think Scooby-Doo ran for like one season in the 1960s and are shocked to learn that it has like thirty seasons, but it's become increasingly clear that this is basically how a lot folks of my own generation think of any webcomic they read in high school. Any time I bring up a long-running webcomic it's like, okay, I'm glad this is such a Nostalgic Blast from the Past™ for you, but we are discussing an ongoing piece of serialised media that last updated as recently as this morning. Do try to keep up!

Like, we need to understand that it's completely normal for an ongoing piece of serialised media to run for multiple decades. It's not typical, but it's also not bizarre. Don't let media optimised for binge consumption skew your frame of reference; people never stopped making long-form serialised media. They're doing it right now.

Don't be afraid to use the same recipe to make a new cake

albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric

wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on

Why is it easier and more comfortable to sit in a position that actively damages my joints than it is to just sit with okay posture. Why does my body crave its own destruction