Emo Nerd Phan

banksy is so funny how do you gentrify vandalism

more people would exercise if this culture didn't make it absolute hell

I teach martial arts. we play games with the little kids. they swordfight with noodles and throw foam balls at each other. in the summer, we take them out into the parking lot with water guns. in the winter, we have snowball fights.

the teenagers get swords and staffs and practice knives. we teach them moves from marvel movies that they ask about. they get squirt guns and snowball fights too. we let them goof off and climb the support beams and charge directly at each other in padded suits.

sometimes parents say they miss doing things like that. I tell them, "stay for an adult class. just try it out." we build obstacle courses and let them mess around with training rifles. they chat while sparring. we scream and cheer for them when they're in the middle of a circle. and then we send them out to the parking lot with squirt guns and snowballs.

it's exercise. it's healthy. it's an important life skill. and it's fun as fuck.

This is one of the forgotten but imo super harmful symptoms of diet culture-exercise being relegated to weight loss rather than just enjoying using and being in your body.

Don’t like the gym? Ok, go find a line dancing club. A Tai Chi class. Play Just Dance every day. Arrange a tag football team. Go to a trampoline park.

Using our bodies shouldn’t be a chore assigned in shame.

"military time" do NOT disrespect miss 24hs she would never join the imperialist machine

his introduction in the first book being falling down the stage and "yeah, he is known for that"

one of my favourite shows of all time ever which i feel like tumblr should know more about is a 90s british detective show called Jonathan Creek

the two leads are Maddy - a true crime journalist whose niche is impossible crimes, locked room murders, etc - and Jonathan - a guy who designs illusions for magicians and who lives in a windmill and who fucking hates solving crimes but unfortunately Maddy knows where he lives

their chemistry is second to none, but Maddy leaves after three seasons sadly. it was a great show and I still rewatch it every couple of years

Getting older I’ve realised Jonathan Creek really had the perfect life. Socially awkward but people were cool about it because he's a genius. Gets to do his passion as a job and sets his own hours. Lives in a kick ass converted windmill in the middle of nowhere filled with fun knick knacks.

coriolanus snow projecting his insecurities about covey girls onto 15yo haymitch abernathy will never not be funny to me

it really does only take one basket of laundry you procrastinate putting away before your whole life turns to shit huh

I'm just a girl. Standing here. Begging Lionsgate to FOR FUCKS SAKE ENSURE ELIZABETH BANKS AND WOODY HARRELSON AT LEAST MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN THE SOTR FILM.

“No, [...] we need someone exactly like you.”

"Just luckier?"

Reading articles about MrBeast's dominance of YouTube is fucking bizarre because, from my perspective, the dude isn't even on YouTube. I've never watched one of his videos. YouTube has, to the best of my knowledge, never recommended one of his videos to me. Every thumbnail screenshot of his looks like something you could tell me was a photoshopped parody of YouTube culture, and I'd believe you. No one I follow on YouTube ever mentions him, even negatively or in passing. The first time I ever heard his name was in regards to the quality of his ghost kitchens. The only way I know he isn't a mass, shared hallucination is that I've witnessed the thoroughly mid-looking chocolate bars he sells at Walmart for some reason

The Dragon Dance

Maysilee’s final poster wasn’t her death, it was her pin being the face of the rebellion 25 years later.

"but the text never explicitly stated it!!!" hey, so that's actually what they tried to teach you in those english classes you barely passed 😁

The reveal of how Effie got involved with Haymitch, and by extension, District Twelve, is actually so funny. Like this poor woman helped her baby sister with her schoolwork ONE TIME and it spiraled into Effie literally getting accused of helping to start a revolution that eventually killed the president.

beetee latier came up with one singular plan ever to defeat the hunger games and canonically tried to make it work TWICE despite the fact that it literally blew up in his face the first time.

this officially makes him the world’s most accurate fictional scientist because he HAS a favorite hypothesis that he IS going to make sure works even if it fucking kills him