what's fun about the trickster in sja is that for all he claims to love chaos, what he actually poses is the threat of normality. sarah is weird. both as a person, and for someone of her age - she skipped all the typical milestones of adulthood; she never married, never had kids, you get the idea. what does the trickster present her with? an alternate version of reality where her life is normal. in whatever happened to sarah jane?, sarah is literally replaced by a woman who lives in her house but acts far more like what you'd expect from a woman her age. in the temptation of sarah jane smith, sarah is presented with the opportunity to replace her childhood as an orphan raised by her aunt with a childhood raised by her parents. the wedding of sarah jane smith speaks for itself - an opportunity to replace a life spent perennially single with marriage. crucially, each of these occasions is a path to certain destruction - course correcting her life to be normal will literally destroy the world. the trickster is an outside force threatening to impose social expectations on sarah's life; it is perhaps telling that it is otherworldly forces, in particular the doctor - long a symbol of nonconformity and weirdness - that counteract and ward off the trickster. the trickster is tempting because he offers what seems like a better life. but equally, the trickster only has power over reality if you let him.

#also something something true destructive chaos coming from being forced into social expectations #that girl is so autistic

conformity may be tempting but it will literally ruin your life and also possibly send you to the weird white void of nonexistence

i think lemon demon fans should start romanticizing massachusetts like weebs with japan

MA boys are so cute!! [pictures of neil cicierega and jerma] i need to try lobster omg… maybe i’ll go to massachusetts to teach the inhabitants english <3

i want to study at a Massachusetts university. i will spell chowder as chowdah and not use my turn signal. i would watch Cheers on WHDH-TV all night while drinking a dunky donuts with my broes. i’ll have fenway franks every day that’s worth abouta buck fifty. i would go to Sox bars every night. i am also more likely to meet massholes, Mark Wahlberg, Tom Brady and Bill de Blasio. i wish i was Massachusettsian :(

This is what happens to the economy without wokeness. Until my pronouns are respected, I will destroy another 3% of the American GDP. #darkwoke

Barn Owls (Tyto alba), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Carrizo Plain National Monument, CA, USA

photograph by Mitch Waters

JSTOR launched in 1995 with a radical idea: digitize academic journals to free up shelf space and expand access to knowledge.

A year later, our visual identity took shape. Designer Michael Mabry’s floral “J,” inspired by Renaissance-era typography, gave a face to the mission: rooted in print culture, built for the digital age.

In our new blog post, we’re reflecting on 30 years of JSTOR, including the design that helped define us and the origin story that brought it all to life.

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.

All it ever does is rain, Christophe Jarcot

I was talking to my therapist today about my anxiety and problems with stuff like preemptive mourning and somehow ended up talking about Dune and the paralyzing claustrophobia of having visions of possible futures but unable to walk away from them and she was like “and how does that end for the character” and I was like. well. he is blinded and gets murdered by a mob while preaching against himself after his wife dies and then his son turns into an annoying worm. and she was like oh shit really that was supposed to be a leading question but it sounds like Dune is even weirder than I assumed it was.

Have you considered having an annoying worm son as a form of treatment

David Cronenberg and James Woods on the set of Videodrome, 1983.

"Woods found the stomach slit uncomfortable, and after a long day of wearing it, vented, 'I am not an actor anymore. I'm just the bearer of the slit!'"

why must a fic be "finished" is it not enough for it to be lovingly daydreamed over a period of 6 months.

🟪 minecraft-elvis follow

woah mama i tried to water bucket clutch in the nether

🟦 speedrunner-elvis follow

woah mama you suck

🟪 minecraft-elvis

bitch

🟦 speedrunner-elvis

wooaaahhh mama @/elvis-corrector he didn't say the line woah mama

🔫 elvis-corrector follow

say the fucking line or you go to the big toilet in the sky

🟪 minecraft-elvis

woah mama i'm being threatened *wiggles my legs in defence*

🔬elvis-scientist follow

this elvis is clearly in distress, they only wiggle their legs in such a funky way to ward off predators, the little guy thinks his life is in danger please be more responsible with your elvis husbandry

🔍 elvis-detector follow

BEEP

the student said, "i'm reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes." and the teacher replied, "ah, dogen's instructions for the cook, written in 1237?" "yeah," said the student, "it's saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot"

letting rats fall into the rice pot violates the buddhist concept of nonviolence, ahimsa. and this is one of the more dauntingly advanced cookbooks i've ever seen

ingredients: 1 grain of dust.

step 1 turn the Wheel of Reality within the grain of dust

Oh I see what you mean!

I felt like I was keeping up here:

But then I realise the very next sentence that I’m not even remotely on their level:

There’s a lot I don’t know about soup.

Chat, is this true?

because we don't want too many twitter-attitude people here, everyone rebog this with rent lowering gunshot posts please

we say faggot and death and other Mean Words™ here