more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys

What The Actual Fuck

@stealingyourbones

more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys

What The Actual Fuck

@stealingyourbones

Me, refusing to leave tumblr: sir, this is my emotional support hellsite

beepboop. censorbot approved

“Me, refusing to leave: sir, this is my emotional hell” is a funnier text post than my original one, good job censorbot.

hello, future tumblr! this is what we thought was funny in december 2018.

We still think it’s funny in December 2019

We still think it’s funny in December 2020

We still think it’s funny in December 2021

we still think its funny in december 2022

we still think it’s funny in December 2023

Achievement Unlocked:

Only Our Bodies Can Leave

The spirit remains eternally (at least five years)

Achievement Unlocked:

Forever And A Day

Yup, still funny after 6 years…

hey pal it’s april. you got a time machine?

diorite collection plots

Donald Trump has *already* changed everything:

--No nation will ever again trust the United States to ensure its security. A multipolar world with competing defense alliances, many of them with nuclear weapons, is already emerging.

--No alliance of mutual trust and trade centered in the United States will ever reemerge. Nations are already building new alliances with each other.

--The US dominance of innovation and technology is doomed. Excluding the world's talented people, crushing its universities, and arresting and deporting people for their political speech ensures that China will be the new hub of tech and innovation. Why would talented people come here now? Why would they center their research in American universities?

--The preeminence of the dollar as the global reserve currency is done. So is the practice of other nations buying treasury bonds, thereby supporting the US economy AND binding those nations to the US for financial security (a la Alexander Hamilton).

There is no change in US policy, even today, that will prevent this from happening. FAFO is here.

ren met bigb irl before but bigb didn’t recognise him while ren ran over to hug him because they knew each other from double life and bigb was like “hey nice to meet you! are you a viewer” 😭😭😭😭

Do NOT give in to despair. Yes, the response isn’t always perfect. But the perfect is the enemy of the good.

People are standing up.

We finished my new house!

And all it took was to refuse to end the stream until it's finished (for 5 hours)

it's MY picrew spree and i get to make as many cleos as i want

How have I never made a Cleo?!

My first two bookmarked pictures were kinda limited on options

HumanCleo, I guess? As the queen she is and then watching someone fail hard

The third one has some non-human skin tones, finally

When you forge a saint in hell, they might come out with more than a halo

This has been good for my bookmarks list, because going through all the different ones has let me weed out the ones that are no longer working

Another HumanCleo, just imagine the little creature in her hand is in fact a BDubs

The last functional one on my list was an ITSV spidersona maker

Show of hands, who remembers SpiderCleo from season seven?

hell yeah let us all make Cleos

Can you share your list? I don't think I've used most of those picrews

first one (i've got a lizzie i made in this somewhere)

second one

third one

fourth one

Another hellspawned Saint for your enjoyment

this is a robbery

the snake marked king and the working sculptress

it's MY picrew spree and i get to make as many cleos as i want

How have I never made a Cleo?!

My first two bookmarked pictures were kinda limited on options

HumanCleo, I guess? As the queen she is and then watching someone fail hard

The third one has some non-human skin tones, finally

When you forge a saint in hell, they might come out with more than a halo

This has been good for my bookmarks list, because going through all the different ones has let me weed out the ones that are no longer working

Another HumanCleo, just imagine the little creature in her hand is in fact a BDubs

The last functional one on my list was an ITSV spidersona maker

Show of hands, who remembers SpiderCleo from season seven?

hell yeah let us all make Cleos

Can you share your list? I don't think I've used most of those picrews

first one (i've got a lizzie i made in this somewhere)

second one

third one

fourth one

Another hellspawned Saint for your enjoyment

this is a robbery

I've seen the take floating around that Henry's death at the end of season three was unnecessary, so now I'm feeling the need to ramble a bit about why it had to happen that way.

We all know that the vibes of MASH gradually shift over the run of the show, and that the first three seasons are a lot more lighthearted overall than the later ones. More Requiem for a Lightweight, less Death Takes a Holiday. While the show is never exactly "hijinks at the front" and does have some early episodes that lean into darker themes (such as, famously, Sometimes You Hear the Bullet), it's still more comedic than dramatic in the early years.

Because of this tone, the audience is set up to expect things to be a little angsty here and there but still turn out alright overall. Sure, soldiers die all the time (even named ones like Tommy), but all the main characters were supposed to get out okay. From a Doylist perspective, they need to survive because they're leads on a show and they're getting paid to come back regularly. Not Henry though. McLean Stevenson chose to leave after season three, and the writers had to give Henry a proper sendoff.

I'm not feeling the need to go on a tangent right now about how great Henry is, but rest assured that I love his character. The show makes it clear that he's the one with the most waiting for him back home. Sure, Trapper and Frank have wives and kids too, but Henry gets multiple episodes about how much he loves Lorraine and even home videos of his happy domestic life. Plus, he's got a baby son born while he was overseas, someone he desperately wants to meet. Out of all the characters, he's got the most American dream and apple pie life waiting for him across the ocean.

All of that makes Henry a great person to send home, and it's why he could never make it there.

Once Stevenson decided to leave MASH, Henry was fated to leave as well. He got the discharge letter and the celebrations; everything all the characters had been dreaming off since their deployment. It would have been so easy to just let him return to his family. He's off the show either way, why couldn't the writers let him be happy? Because it's a fucking war, and even a plane home doesn't guarantee anyone's safety. The show needed to kill Henry off to remind the audience that they are watching a tragedy dragged across dozens of countries and millions of people. The closer they let him get to home, the more pointless his death was in the grand scheme of things; the more important it became.

Killing Henry is how MASH fully lived up to it's own expectations. The show is full of little tragedies and people with rich lives who never returned to live them, but we never really felt that loss as more than a concept. Sure, Tommy is instantly likeable and his death his deeply impactful, but we the audience only get the implication of Hawkeye's deep friendship with him. Henry is someone we've come to love on our own. All these deaths are pointless and cruel, none of them had to happen. Because we've spent three seasons getting to know and care for Henry (and are aware that the writers could have easily let him live), we finally feel that pointlessness.

Going forward after Henry's death, nothing is quite the same. Death is suddenly a true option, and no one is entirely safe from needless tragedy. When Trapper goes home and Hawkeye doesn't get to say goodbye it isn't just sad because he can't throw his friend a party or give him a hug, it's heartbreaking because he doesn't know that Trapper will even make it back to Boston.

Going home will always be the ultimate goal of all the characters, but it can never be a simple "get out of trauma free" card. The war will always follow them.

HEARTBREAKING: band you just discovered doesn't have any other songs that sound like that

The Felidae

kittyyyy

mcyt culture is getting cuteness aggression at a fully grown man in his 30s or 40s

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.