@sisaloofafump / sisaloofafump.tumblr.com
some of my current favorite responses to weird/confusing sentences:
happy serious breach of the laws of biology to dan and phil & all who celebrate.
While @sisaloofafump may have their own ideas, what do YOU think Mr Brucie is getting ready for?
"you can't pick and choose what you like from canon" common misconception! yes you can
but please do not get this very true concept confused with โyou cannot pick and choose what is canonโ
they are two very different things.
the biggest scam tumblr pulls is all the people who come here convinced they want to be tumblr famous
the best experience you can have on tumblr is goofing around with your mutuals and one of the worst experiences is having a post with 20k+ notes.
My one friend group can't stop saying, "See you in hell!" in a cheerful voice instead of, "Talk to you later!" and my other friend group can't stop calling things "penis" instead of "cool" or "good", so I just unironically uttered the phrase, "Sounds penis, see you in hell," as I got off the phone.
I think everyone should be doing this btw. Maybe, "Sounds penis, see you in hell," could be our, "Always."
I tried to quote this post to my housemate the other day but botched it so said "nice cock, kill yourself" and now it's turned into a call and response so instead of saying goodbye one of us says nice cock and the other tells you to kill yourself
Another thing I love about lil Jason in Batman: The Adventures Continue, is that it is told to us that Jason admired Batman and wanted to be like him before he let him. He has drawings and posters of Batman in his room. Not Robin, not Nightwing, Batman.
And I love this because I like to believe it's the same in the current main canon. Jaybin wanted to become Batman. He looks up to Batman, not Robin. He looks at Bruce and he wants to be him. And, even now as an adult, there is still a part of Jason that wants to be Batman (between when he stole a suit when Bruce was gone and in Red Hood & Arsenal when he complains that someone is Batman and it's not him, I have proofs that this boy wants to be Batman, in contrary to his brothers)
For me, it highlights the similarities between Bruce and Jason, and how Bruce failed him (because he wasn't able to raise him, as he lost him, to become better than him, to realize Batman was pain and misery and not something to desire)
Some other resources that might be worth checking out (not strictly about faeries but related):
The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, a collection of Irish cultural materials. This includes English translations of Irish myths.
Mary Jones - similar to CELT, and a resource we used for translations in the Irish mythology class I took in undergrad.
An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katherine Mary Briggs, a British folklorist.
The Folklore of Cornwall by Ronald M. James. Unfortunately this book is harder to access and is often only in university libraries, but if you're interested in piskies it's a potentially very helpful read.
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Bottrell.
British Goblins by Wirt Sikes is THE encyclopedia of Welsh faerie mythology
In honor of Dracula daily starting (somewhat) soon, here are three lists to help people understand how modern the novel Dracula is.
(this is because I can see from adaptations, general vampire media, and vampire posts across the internet that some people really don't know how recent of a book it was)
List 1---Things that were invented before Dracula was published in 1897:
List 2---Events that happened before Dracula was published in 1897:
List 3---Things that happened less than ten years after Dracula was published in 1897:
(Bonus!!) Other fun facts of this nature:
On their way to ruin Bruceโs night and make fun of Tim
Look, I'm not gonna pretend that I don't get it, when it comes to AI. But it's like this:
In most parts of the US, a residential electrician works only on houses and apartments. They use romex wire, that yellow cable stuff. You run it from the panel to wherever it's going, staple it to the studs, then make up both ends. You need to know basic electrical code but mostly it's pretty simple. A fast learner could be a decent residential electrician inside a month.
I, on the other hand, am a union industrial electrician. I work primarily in hospitals, factories, and research labs. Most of our wire is run in steel conduit that has to be hand bent on the job, which is an art form in and of itself. We work with much higher voltages, much heavier wire, much more complicated equipment, and we need to know much more of the code. Our apprenticeship is 4-5 years and that's only enough to scratch the surface of everything an industrial electrician might do.
And yes - I absolutely get a little defensive when unknowing people compare me to a residential electrician. There's absolutely a knee-jerk impulse to declare that they're not *real* electricians, that they're merely a pale imitation of what I do. But I fight that impulse because it's a *bad impulse*. Resi still takes skill and work, it's just different than mine. We're both electricians. And it's better for us to work together to improve working conditions for all workers than to get into pissing contests about whose job is more "real". And both our jobs are in increasing danger due to the proliferation of low voltage systems that the average homeowner can install and repair without hiring a professional.
So yeah, I do get it. But it has been very, VERY insulting over the last year to hear people repeatedly say "AI was supposed to replace blue collar jobs, not *my* job! My job is ~special~ because it has ~humanity~!"
Your job is not special. It's not more important than my job and it's not more fulfilling to you than my job is to me. And I don't get to insist that everyone start building homes with steel conduit just so less skilled people can't be electricians, and I don't get to yell at people for hiring a handyman to replace an outlet for $50 when my time would be worth $200.
I absolutely understand the instinct that AI art can't be real art because people who use it didn't "earn" it, or that automating art is uniquely damaging in a way automating other jobs isn't because it's "supposed" to be about human expression. But please actually think about what you're implying and who you're throwing under the bus when you say shit like that, and whether it actually holds up to your other values or if it's just a knee-jerk reaction you need to examine.
it is absolutely essential to have friends you can have extremely insane pervert conversations with. this is kind of what makes life worth living
Bunch of bunnies
Happy Birthday Neil, you deserve all the happiness in the world โก
i love when fic writers who have clearly never tried any kind of alcohol in their lives try to write someone drinking bc they're always like
"he ordered a tall glass of hard liquor. after three large glasses he was feeling tipsy" like babygirl i can't be sure but i think u just sent this man to the hospital
"the amber liquid tasted sweet" bestie i can assure you it did not
