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Maple|27|Fallout, Life Series, Hermitcraft and more!|I'm not Canadian

I have my ask box open again, but I am going to say before you send anything that you do not send the following:

Fundraisers - Please do not send me any fundraiser requests in my ask box. It stresses me out and I am financially tight as it is. I am also a very small blog. I have no real reach so I cannot spread your fundraising requests either. If I keep getting anonymous asks about this, I will remove the option. If I share any fundraisers, it's at my own discretion.

Transphobic, homophobic, ablest, or racist statements - This is obvious, but I do not want to see this stuff.

If you break these rules for sending me asks, I will block you. If I have to, I will add more rules.

Scar is a QT

scar: scar is QT

grian: [laughing]

scar: oh. oh.

grian: theyre not wrong, theyre not wrong

scar: you guys are amazing for 10 dollars

grian: scar is a QT

scar: my spending issues at a dollar, my newborn child a dollar, oh my gheh

Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”

It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you

Taken from the Wikipedia page. Even Trent Reznor said it's not his song anymore.

in case you hadn't seen

Holy hell that's video is…painful and stunning. If you grew up listening to Johnny Cash I think it'll hit even harder. And June Carter Cash is in the video, which takes hard and doubles it.

I'm glad people who didn't know who are discovering it's a cover, not just because Trent Reznor deserves that much, but because I think the fact that Cash did not write it is crucial to the power of his version. This is a young man's song about suffering, about addiction and self-destruction in youth. And Cash is, in the most majestic possible way, taking that and going "oh kid, you have no idea", and changes the meaning without changing the lyrics (except for a single word). In his voice, on his face, in his aged hands on the guitar and piano, it becomes about the agonising brevity of life, the irretrievability of mistakes, and the inevitable loss of everything, including a recognisable self. But the creativity of repurposing only shows if you can still see what was originally there.

chicken jockey being the last possible 4chan post is fucking hilarious but there's so many amounts of comedic irony to it.

it's like a tyrant dying from falling over a medium sized brick wall. humiliating end.

chicken jockey is just, a bad omen at this point

but in this case, it's a blessing in disguise.

for those that don't know.

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Do any of my mutuals know anything about magical girl stereotypes?

What I can think of are probs closer to tropes than stereotypes, but these are all the ones I can think of from the top of my head:

- Main character tends to be either a minor (anywhere from like 7-17) or exactly 18. Almost always the former tho. The story is usually a kind of “coming of age” type of thing.

- very sparkly and “pretty” for lack of a better term. Sparkles and bright colors.

- most that I’ve seen have some sort of love interest.

- there’s usually some kind of little cutesy companion (talking cat, floating star, chibi versions of the main character’s special skills, etc)

- the big bad tends towards being fairly intimidating in that kind of, “scary for younger audiences” type of way.

- the magical girl stuff is usually a secret. Maybe the best friend of the protagonist will know.

- the hero always wins.

- The Power of Friendship

I will admit that I’ve not seen a lot of magical girl stuff. I’ll list off the ones I’ve seen either in all or in part if that’ll help any. It might be kind of debatable if some of these count towards the Magical Girl genre and I’m not endorsing or recommending watching any of these.

Shugo Chara, Sailor Moon (original), Cardcaptor Sakura, Madoka Magica, Kill la Kill, Bee and Puppycat, Miraculous Ladybug, She-Ra (2018), Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to Be a Magical Girl

Hey future me! You’re a weiner! And guess what? No matter what comeback or scathing insult you can come up with to give me in retaliation, that shit’s gonna fall on deaf ears cuz Past Me’s never gonna know what you’re sayin. Get rekt idiot

oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

hello, fellow apes

The lead up to that sentence is gold:

[Image transcript: porch. The group had been day-nesting and sunbathing when I contacted them, but upon my approach they nervously retreated to obscure themselves behind thick foliage. Frustrated but determined to see them better, I decided to climb a tree, not one of my better talents. The tree was particularly slithery and, try as I might, no amount of puffing, pulling, gripping, or clawing succeeded in getting me more than a few feet aboveground. Disgustedly, I was about to give up when Sanwekwe came to my aid by giving one mighty boost to my protruding rump; tears were running from his eyes as he was convulsed in silent laughter. I felt as inept as a baby taking its first step. Finally able to grab on to a conveniently placed branch, I hauled myself up into a respectful semislouch position in the tree about twenty feet from the ground. By this time I naturally assumed that the combined noises of panting, cursing, and branch-breaking made during the initial climbing attempts must have frightened the group on to the next mountain. I was amazed to look around and find that the entire group had returned and were sitting like front row spectators at a sideshow. All that was needed to make the image complete were a few gorilla-sized bags of popcorn and some cotton candy! This was the first live audience I had ever had in my life and certainly the least expected.]

imagine some freakish not-a-human alien THING has shown up out of nowhere and is trying to get into your office building to study you. but it has no idea how to get past a revolving door. it tries for three hours. by the time it finally understands the concept of a revolving door and squeeze into the building everyone in the office is crowded into the lobby to watch and call helpful suggestions. it’s conclusively determined that the alien is definitely not a threat, except maybe to itself.

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