Obsessed With Dracula Skulking Around In A Zoo After Hours Scouting Out Wolves To Kidnap And Then Getting

You guys don't put ketchup on hotdogs?

Geralt looks like he's wearing one of these

When the breakup hit you hard but it hit your ex harder

Some monster designs!

"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. [EDIT: I SCREWED UP! This was created in 2019 by the guy who runs the Midnighter-Core page on Facebook, and Joey just reposted it!]

So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe is fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

- Midnighter-Core, 2019

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BECOME AS GODS

I need so badly for someone at Nintendo to listen to me; I know they don’t accept unsolicited advice or suggestion but hear me out PLEASE

I would literally do ANYTHING to be able to give Blathers the fossils that he wants for his own private collection PLEASE. It doesn’t even have to be for any kind of result or reward if that is too much to program in, but maybe you could complete HIS fossil collection for like a golden fossil trophy or something. I don’t know. I don’t need a reward, I just want to be able to give the man his fossils 😭 he does so much good and puts up with SO MANY INSECTS for the town’s benefit and he gets SO LITTLE in return and I want to make him HAPPY

Reblog if you just want the little science man to be happy 😭

so, no normal rabbits are seen in Hop 2011, only weird CGI ones. When Fred hits EB with his car, he doesn't go 'holy shit, a rabbit with human eyes and a shirt on', he goes 'fuck I hit a wild rabbit'. With this, can it then be assumed that all rabbits in Hop are mostly bipeds that wear clothes and are as expressive as a human, and its only the fact that EB talks that makes him strange? if this is the case, it can be assumed that all rabbits (and possibly chickens) can talk, and are simply upholding a masquerade over the humans because... I don't know. Even EB's ability to speak is dubiously impressive, because a number of bystanders see him talk and react with only mild surprise, like the waitress who gets him his food at a public diner or David Hasselhoff. when he gets onto Hoff's show, his talent that makes him television worthy is being a drum prodigy, rather than being a talking rabbit, although I'm sure they also advertised that fact if its at the least uncommon. But! If rabbits can talk to humans, but simply prefer not to for some reason, there's no reason Fred should have been shocked when EB begged for his life (which seems like a good reason to break such a lax and unregulated masquerade), or even tried to kill him with a rock in the first place. if only Easter island rabbits can talk, and the rest of the species more closely resembles the Pink Berets (Ie can vocalize and move with clear intelligence, but don't actually speak any human languages), it still seems unethical to kill one with a rock (or cook one, as we later see EB using a cooked rabbit as bait without much existential concern), but I can at least see Fred doing it because Fred is awful. Magic exists in this universe, as is seen at the end of the movie when it turns Carlos into a rabbit bird hybrid, so its possible that the magic of Easter Island is granting normal rabbits the power of speech, although 'normal' still means wearing clothes in the Hopverse. Ergo, it can be assumed that normal rabbits are understood to be very intelligent but still animals (much like dolphins or apes) in this film's universe, and the debate of whether or not killing rabbits is immoral (which it is) rages in the background of the film's universe, and Fred is staunchly on the side of 'kill them, they're just vermin', which you'd think would drive a wedge between him and EB as coworkers

I am literally claustrophobic

have you ever wanted to know what tma entity you're an avatar of? now you can know :)

*Whispers*

We think of the Stone Age as being primarily about the stone tools like hand axes and arrowheads, but really thats just because that’s almost all that’s left of that time period. Stone preserves much much better than things like wood and textiles. But some of the earliest tools made by our austrolotpith ancestors could’ve been just sharpened stick spears. We see chimps sharpening sticks as tools today. Maybe if wood preserved we’d find lean-too shelters built by Homo-erectus, and not just handaxes. More and more evidence these days points to Neanderthals being very adept at working animal hides and doing things like weaving rope out of tree bark, and imagine how beautiful those would be to see? What other things were our ancestors and cousins capable of that we have no idea about?

If ancient homosapiens were painting on cave walls I would bet we were also painting on things like wood and textiles that don’t preserve.

We are probably missing the vast majority of ancient tools, artwork, shelter, and culture because of the simple fact that wood and textiles do not preserve. In fact if wood preserved we would probably call it the wood age, because so many things (boats, homes, baskets, spears, even rope) can be made out of wood.

finally done with the challenge!! Thanks to everyone who requested characters :DD

The last one is penguin chillin with the Penguins of Madagascar requested by @kirah-zh