This is magnificent.

The only way he could be better is if he could ditch the wig.

Kara-TE!

NOBODY takes Johnny's jerky!

The youngins these days don’t recognize Johnny Bravo

my creative writing prof also HATES fantasy. as in if she asks for an example of symbolism in a book, and you give something from a fantasy novel, she’ll ask for an example from a “non-commercial book” instead.

I dunno man, people can have preferences, but the second you discount the artistic merit of sci fi and fantasy I stop taking your opinion seriously. and there’s such a big culture in Canada of only valuing literary fiction, to the point where one of our biggest authors, Margaret Atwood, refused for a while to classify her books as sci fi or fantasy. she said they were “speculative fiction”, which is entirely separate and very highbrow (sarcasm).

and I could go on about how Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin wrote books every bit as intellectual (and honestly, even more so) than their literary counterparts, but I am also an enjoyer of schlock!! I think there’s artistic merit in animorphs, and in isekais where a japanese schoolgirl reincarnates into a magical spider who has to level up like it’s a video game! it’s like with everything, you can’t draw a clean line that separates ‘art’ from ‘non-art’ or even ‘lesser art’, and pretending you can do so just makes you look ignorant and goofy. in my opinion.

Terry Pratchett did a really good interview about this.

no cruel jokes or pranks this April 1st we should instead celebrate the better April 1 holiday

What is the better April first holiday and what does this saucy little scamp have to do with it

I can't find an article in English but essentially in France it is a common children's prank to on April Fool's put little paper fish on people's backs and it's called "poisson d'Avril" (April Fish). when i was in school in our french classes we would hide paper fish around the school as well and i took great joy in wedging mine in deeply impractical places that im honestly not sure were ever found. looking at it now, my French teachers had billed it as a Whole Separate Holiday but it actually seems more to be like a cultural in-joke/France-Specific April Fool's Prank lol whoops

regardless I like it better than some of the more mean spirited stuff I've seen associated with American April Fool's day

can't be mad at someone just taping one of these lil guys to your back right !

i love this thank you

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

happy april foold everyone did you know about………………… bofa

haha… bofa them 

She's also publicly stated that she believes that anyone who reads her books or watches her shows and films does so because they explicitly agree with her political views.

There's no "agree to disagree" with her work. Every time you pick up her work or talk about it you are saying to her "I agree with you Joanne" whether you like it or not.

they're meant for each other or something

fandom wide mandate that everyone has to re-watch the source material in steady intervals to minimize intense fandomization of tropes and characterizations that happens when people go without new source material for too long

#like renewing a license to practice every few years

aaahhhhh the horrors are never ending aaaahhhhh the pain persists aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

had a little treat and that paused the horrors and pain. they may resume later

aaaaahhhhh the horrors are back aaahhhhhh the pain returns tenfold aaaaahhhhhhh

nautilus reading lamp by tiffany glass and decorating company, new york city, united states c. 1899-1902.

I think Leap Year is probably one of the most finely balanced puzzle platformers I've played in years, in that, while the solutions are often deeply obtuse, when you do hit upon them it's always less "how the was I supposed to figure that out?" and more "oh, you fuckers".

Lunchbreak 🐈

yep i really spent 18 hours drawing….a lunch table…. tried to hide a lot of little details zoom in for a fun little game of eye spy. don’t know how many eyes are here but you can try counting. haven’t really drawn many backgrounds before but I think my passion for Magnus archives must mean something if I’m spending hours drawing paperwork

I think people would armchair diagnose bad people with cluster B disorders much less if psychiatric disorders hadn't all been given names by ableists who of course picked the traits most unberarable to "sane" people to name them rather than, you know, the ways it affects the people that have them. It's like, when doctors are all "this disorder gives you extremely low self esteem. and it's called the Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder" or "this disorder makes you want to die so bad. and it's called the Hysteric Bitch Disorder" or "this disorder disconnects you from your peers. and it's called the Insane Evil Cunt Disorder" and so on and so forth, so of course you have people going "oh, this person is a selfish fucking asshole, they MUST have Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder! this further proves that all people with this disorder are like that in the first place!" Do You See It

Enabling reblogs again due to popular request. But for the love of goth. behave

The thing that abled people who advocate for the disabled community don’t get is that there are times when disabilities/accommodations clash. Horribly.

Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing? 

Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)

Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.

The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.

The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.

Food for thought.

I have heard this referred to by some in the disability advocacy profession as “duelling disabilities” and it’s definitely something I wish people would be more mindful of when discussing accessibility.

You cannot make everything perfect for everyone, because even people with the exact same disability will still have wildly different needs

The most important thing you can remember as a disability advocate of any kind is that the disabled person in front of you is the expert on their own condition and what they’ll need

There’s no perfect checklist, no easily defined right answer; the only thing you can do is be flexible and prepared to listen to what people need themselves

The job of an advocate is to amplify the voices of the people they’re advocating for, which only works if you listen to what those voices are saying first

Even when our needs conflict, no one’s right or wrong, and we do all need to be accommodated - even if that means being kept apart

I work as an architect. The philosophy of “universal design” drives me absolutely bonkers. So many things are regulated down to the millimeter and it’s just absurd. There is no such thing as the perfect wash room that will meet everyone’s needs. The best we can do is try to accommodate the largest range of human experience we can, and try to build in flexibility for a space to adapt to specific users.

There just this idea in architecture and design generally that there exists a perfect singular solution that accommodates everyone perfectly. I think we spend way too much much time in search of that ideal and not enough recognizing that no one-size-fits all solution can ever actually fit all. Maybe 99% of people. Maybe 99.9% of people. And trying to hit as big of a proportion of the population as possible is still and admirable goal!

I honestly don’t know how to regulate things better, but the philosophy of “universal” design is just flat erroneous. Chasing shadows on the cave wall.

Claude Giroux, a.k.a the stick handling savage

turns this is claude giroux being very good at avoiding pucks and not, as i initially thought, claude giroux being VERY bad at stopping even just one of them

touhou