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That is an amazing comparison.
Not even that, a lot of people do actually not know anything about gardening or food.
That makes it an even greater comparison.
I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.
When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"
When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...
"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.
"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"
Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."
People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?
Reigen Arataka is literally sex symbol catboy with the collar nghhhhh WHAT HAVE THEY DONE
we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?
SHITPOST HOURS FOR TATA
-BEN’s voice is deeper than people expect. He also sniffles a lot for some reason.
-Jeff sounds like he swallowed a chunk of charcoal and its just. Stuck there.
-Slender’s voice is very smooth and easy to listen to, but he also talks very fast when he isn’t tired, and is a lot more excitable than people expect.
-Toby sounds….like a dork.
-Twitch has either a very low, gravelly voice or a kinda high-pitched, very fast voice. Depends on their mood. If you’ve ever heard my voice, they sound like me ogjrhwowjrhojhrwjo
let’s see what else i think of.
art history nerd here! when the notre dame burned a few years ago, the most damaged area was the roof. y'know who has a very extensive 3D model of the roof? ubisoft, for assassin's creed! ubisoft has been very involved in the restoration of the notre dame, pledging over half a million euros in support. so yep, that is most likely an assassin's creed dude carrying the olympic torch!
I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.
one thing i love about portal 2 is the distinct difference in physicality between wheatley and glados. in the core transfer scene, glados, as she does, moves fluently, smoothly; seductively is a good word to describe it. you know how she is. then after wheatley takes over, despite using the same body, noticeably shifts from "I suggest you take a deep breath. And hold it." to "HARR HARR HARR I'M BLOODY FOCKEN MASSIVE INNIT" and i just love that so much. glados smoothly rotates around like a serpent and wheatley starts spinning circles and bouncing up and down it's just great
additionally:
[ID: Reply from user clareironbrook that reads: "Credit where it's due to Karen Prell - best known for her work with the Muppets, lead animator for Wheatley. /End ID]
i had NO idea! credit where it is ABSOLUTELY due, i didn't even mention Wheatley's facial animation as well but it is beautifully done. all he has is a rotating eye, eyelids, a pupil that can expand or contract and some little handles at the top and bottom of his face, but his animation is still impressively emotive. it's really half of the charm of his dialogue honestly, puppeteering is already such a cool skill and it's even more impressive to do it digitally on this little fuck
ADDITIONAL addition: @meow-moment you're a PART of this post now you are FUCKING Correct
[ID: Reblog from @meow-moment that reads "i love in the scene where he tells you you have "a very minor case of serious brain damage" when his eye pops out a little and his handles flare out and it somehow looks like he's adjusting his glasses nervously]
there are a good few additions to this post I'd love to add to it but this one is like. NECESSARY. that is PRECISELY what that conveys and it's fucking magic how well it works. hats OFF karen prell
Jade.
i recently noticed that @ jetblackcode created a really interesting tool that lets you see your tumblr stats, one of which is a comparison between the number of notes you’ve gotten on all your posts to the entire userbase! so, i figured a fun reblog game would be to put in your blog and tag which color you got:
i’ve colored the buckets on the histogram so that it’s easier to tell where you landed on the graph rather than just using numbers ^_^
think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.
fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence, Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.
🤍 sadie, 14, she/her, straight
🤍 my favorite movies/shows: black swan, priscilla, girl interrupted, mean girls, gilmore girls, gossip girl, scream queens, bridgerton
🤍 my music taste: i listen to a lot of lana. my music taste varies wildly but i like songs that are hauntingly beautiful and speak to me. my favorite song rn is teen idle by marina!
🤍 interests: reading, writing, fashion, victoria secret angels, haute couture, pink, nails, nutrition, philosophy, science, technology, physics, thought experiments, riddles (esp teded ones 🙈)
🤍 fashion sense: my outfits are usually pretty girly! i wear lots of pastels, florals, denim, and sweaters when it’s cold. i admire a lot other styles though.
🤍 my favorite books: the bell jar, little women, the secret garden, white nights, the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, etc. i have many books on my tbr list though. i’m particularly interested in dostoevsky and sylvia plath.
🤍 what i’ll post: things i find thought provoking, outfit inspo, writing, lana, etc
MY BESTIE MADE ME THIS MEME. NO YOU CAN'T HAVE CONTEXT. THANK YOU AND GOOD DAY.
Ya know one thing I find pretty interesting about social media, Especially reddit is that despite the internet's sometimes prudish nature I feel like most of the horny sides to these platforms are more wholesome and caring than pretty much any other part of their respective websites. I guess as kids were sort of told that sexuality is unpure by nature and we lose the fact that these people are doing this because it's fun and it feels good that all their is to it its not any deeper than that. Obviously their are the bad ones like the pedophilic ones but those are the outliers and most of these communities are pretty nice I would say.
Ya, know I've been seeing a lot of people on tumblr and on other parts of the internet talk about how certain multiwriter universes like the backrooms and scp have been ruined by people giving it too much lore and making it not interesting and how they lost their mystique by having too much lore and stuff and personally I cam agree to an extent like the backrooms had a very interesting concept and liminality of it all is something you never really saw up to that point but at the same time I feel like it's unavoidable for stuff like this because of our natrual curiosity with the unknown like for example whenever you discover some interesting series or some historical event ypur first instinct is never "Oh I don't wanna know more about this fascinating topic" you naturally WANT to learn more so with stuff like the backrooms it's only human instinct to make up lore because we just can't stand something staying unknown. Obviously I know some people don't care but your never gonna squash the attempets people make to more to a universe.
I might just be biased cause I thought the extra backrooms lore that people made was kinda interesting expaclity its use of other popular liminal space images and the sometimes really interesting entity concepts but whatever lol.
Am I the only one who doenst like it whenever people say stuff like "The comments on this post are gonna be the worst" on a post about like a trans person or something I'm not trans myself but I feel like its like a self fulfiling prophecy like why would you will it into existence.