Just a guy

when you remind him of the babe >>>>>>

Hozier this, Hozier that, let us not forget the highest eldritch being 

Chris Fleming

The holy trinity of eldritch fae beings: the mother (Florence Welch), the son (Hozier) and the holy ghost (Chris Fleming)

Stop tryna classify fae beings under a patriarchal Christian framework. 

Ambition

A remake of my “a new look” comic from a few years ago. Part of a new series tentatively titled Eldritch Friends.

I believe that attitudes towards art will always come to impact other academic areas

“the curtains are just blue” okay and this study proving known carcinogens are “good for you, actually” paid for and published by scientists funded by a major producer of those materials is probably totally objective too

I don't understand the connection you're making?

The average citizen needs to instinctively approach complex information with the intent of understanding not only the information presented, but with active critical thinking required to determine if the platform presenting the information is reliable and trustworthy

If you read a story about a sad person in a room with blue curtains blocking out the sun, maybe it’s nothing. But if you come at it ACTIVELY SEARCHING for more, you may come away with a lesson

maybe the author was saying the sad person could move the curtains and is choosing not to, thereby saying that we as individuals have some control over our own happiness but are either unwilling or unable to exert our control, which could teach you about how feelings work or how to help others and yourself

maybe the author didn’t mean to say that, but it makes sense anyway, and you learn to view complex situations differently. You are literally building up the structures inside your brain that make you more analytical, more insightful, develop better and faster thinking skills

But if you’re never encouraged to even consider the possibility, if you take the curtains at face value and never challenge it, never consider the possibility of metaphor or symbolism, you DON’T grow those networks.

Without those skills and connections, you don’t learn to be inquisitive and make connections and you don’t learn how to seek out proof or fact-check yourself. You don’t learn how to recognize yourself when you’re wrong, or how to check if you’re right.

So you take everything at face value. Is Hamlet a reliable narrator? Who gives a shit. Is this sales rep pitching a legitimate product that will change countless lives for the better, or are they scamming me? Well, no way to find out, guess I have to listen to hem or the influencers they paid off or your random ass neighbor who says it’s a government listening device.

And the VERIFICATION part- finding evidence to support your theories!

Have you noticed how many people are buying into wild conspiracies now? That Antarctica is actually a giant wall of ice circling the earth, that the earth itself is flat, that vaccines cause autism and wifi is mind control?

Those are coming from people who either KNOW they’re lying for a profit, or from well-intentioned people who know how to be inquisitive and critical but never learned how to SEEK OUT AND EVALUATE RELIABLE DATA FROM RELIABLE SOURCES.

Being able to understand the message behind Catcher in the Rye might not benefit you in the short term, but it’s essentially a series of push-ups to strengthen your brain so you don’t take fucking horse dewormer to kill a virus cause the president told you to

The world is starting to see average citizens, most alarmingly in the USA, graduating and going into life without these skills, and younger generations not seeing anything wrong with that

Which is terrifying much in the same way as getting into the back of an Über and seeing the driver pull out his phone to Google “what is brakes” while going 110 on the freeway

red broken mackerel tabby

hey guys just woke up in my closet lol. what did i miss

did you guys actually let a cat start a cult.

my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo

me: mama what the hell does that mean

my mom: so muscular

Doc and Marty's friendship is so funny and unique because they are fundamentally, above all other things, best friends. Doc isn't really very paternal towards Marty, nor is he much more avuncular, he is only a mentor in the loosest sense of the term--the reason those two hang out is because they are close, would-die-for-each-other friends. Who just happen to be 17 and [truck rolls by quickly making a loud noise]

This gets very silly when you consider that Doc ends up having two kids of his own, which I think would really put into perspective that he encouraged Marty to do some absolutely insane things at a decidedly young age (even before all the time travel). It probably doesn't kick in until Jules hits 10 or 11 or so, because you know. Surely it's not the same with much younger kids, that must be why it feels different.

But as his oldest starts creeping closer and closer to the age Marty was when the two of them started hanging out, Doc definitely comes to the conclusion that George and Lorraine McFly would be within their rights to hunt him for sport.

Shit man, this bunny war is fucked. I just saw a bunny clap his paws together and say "the ten hays" or some similar shit, and every one around him was surrounded in hay, loafed on the ground, and then started eating. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting flop and level 2 binky. I think I just heard "power word:thumper" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

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.

Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society

Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???

My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah

Jacek Yerka, Eruption 

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

i like tumblr because occasionally i’ll be recommended a 12 year old post that depicts something so absolutely my shit that it makes me believe in art again

Luigi Mangione could be getting the death penalty…

This man is innocent, his appearance and build doesn’t match that of the killers, the only “motive” he had was a convenient written confession showing that he supposedly viewed healthcare companies as “parasitic” and too expensive (which does somewhat contradict the actual killers actions) he had said note and the murder weapon conveniently on him while living his ordinary life, the killer held the gun in his right hand while Luigi is left-handed, Luigi and the Killer were potentially seen simultaneously, they wore slightly different coats.

The NYPD KNOW these are different people, they know the evidence is lacking, this isn’t a mistaken identity, it’s framing, they are trying to make themself appear to still be control by catching this man, humiliating him, killing him, when they know full well that the person they are prosecuting ISNT EVEN THE RIGHT GUY! This is an injustice! This is not a fair trial! This is downright tyranny!

They confiscated his bag at the mcdonald's, took it out of everyone's sight, unpacked it and repacked it, and THEN took it down to the station and wow there was a manifesto in there that he was just carrying around in daily life for some reason

Definitely the sort of thing that the Bag Of Monopoly Money Guy would be carrying to McDonald's