I am Aquarion. Writer of unpublished things. Coder of Larp.me & Lampstand. Formerly head ref & story team for #OdysseyLRP. I have nothing to do with the anime or water company that share my name. May contain traces of: Opinions, Reblogs, Kittens, original content, mild peril.
do you remember how mad people on this site got when they realized that instead of teaching isurrectionary anarchism or the immortal science of marxism-leninism-maoism, Steven Universe was teaching elementary and middle school kids not to get in fights with their peers and try to get along
I say this as someone who was basically a SU fandom tumblr in 2015, like you check my frequently used tags from back when i used to tag things and its soooo much steven universe
and like i kinda get it like steven universe was this revelation in a way like for me specifically the story it told of like, being raised by inexperienced gay moms desperately trying and failing to get their shit together was really relatable to my exact childhood in ways no other cartoon ever had been, and the show was fun and gay and anime inspired and it really felt like “holy fuck im glad cartoons are so good now and kids growing up now get cartoons like this”
but then i think some people took that too far and wanted this show to stand as like, this total statement on morality and ideals and like, reflect the ideas that they themselves were having as tumblr young adults. but no, the show was always gonna be about solving problems through love and forgiveness and compassion.
(Except the last arc, SUF, which was about how even if you try to help someone multiple times as they refuse to deal with their shit, you can still gaslight yourself into thinking you didn’t do enough for them)
Ok. Somebody make it make sense. CJ gets dumped on and no one cares, no one helps her, and they blame her when she shows the slightest bit of stress. But in S4xE11 Holy Night, Josh has to actually *do* his job, and both Bartlet and Leo admit to piling it on because they had a bad day. A canon acknowledgement and apology for making the Deputy Chief of Staff work on a bad day, but CJ suffers through a season of bad days with no response???
Sadly, it’s because Aaron Sorkin is a wanker. He’s one of my favourite writers, and when his prose soars it scoffs at wax wings and impales the fucking sun.
Ok. Somebody make it make sense. CJ gets dumped on and no one cares, no one helps her, and they blame her when she shows the slightest bit of stress. But in S4xE11 Holy Night, Josh has to actually *do* his job, and both Bartlet and Leo admit to piling it on because they had a bad day. A canon acknowledgement and apology for making the Deputy Chief of Staff work on a bad day, but CJ suffers through a season of bad days with no response???
Never date anyone who can’t sit through a marathon of the LOTR extended editions u don’t need that kind of weakness in ur life
how dare you keep this gem in the tags?
Three times rewatching LOTR in full has been involved in a seismic shift in relationship status. So far the extended editions have been alongside a breakup (twice) and an over-night cinema marathon of the original editions has been an early date for a (so far) decade long relationship.
Do I intend to watch them again? The magic is clear, but the science wants its day.
Now, I’m not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that they’re useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What I’m saying is that two people (or characters, since we’re talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesn’t have to be romance.
Friendship isn’t a stepping stone between strangers and romantic partners, it’s a different path. And you can follow that path as deep into the wood as a romantic one if you want, and neither is inferior to the other, they just have different views.
Now obviously John Mulaney has had a profound affect on all our lives, but without a doubt to me one of the most impactful things he has ever said was: “Whatever. This might as well happen. Adult life is already so goddamn weird.” That has become one of my guiding life philosophies.
(Thought I’d upload my recent comics to Tumblr! I totally forgot it only lets you upload 10 pics at a time, and this is 11, but fingers crossed it works!)
Today is the day this toucan discovered a traffic cam
you can only reblog it today
Missed this last year by 50 effing minutes.
Hell yeah I’m scheduling this again.
Apparently this road needed a toucan crossing.
(Note for americans and people who don’t know: In the UK, crosswalks with both a pedestrian and cycle crossing are called “Toucan” crossings, because tou-can-cross)
(Crossings where traffic must stop if there’s a pedestrian waiting to cross are called “Zebra crossings” because they’re marked by white and black vertical-to-traffic stripes)
(Crossings where you press the button and the lights for traffic eventually go red and the green “cross now” light appears on the other side are called “Pelican Crossings”, which comes from the original term “Pelicon” - _pe_destrian _li_ght _con_trolled crossing. Pelican Crossings (1969) are now joined by occasionall by Puffin crossings which have the “Cross now” light on the same side as the pedestrian - just above the button - and also have sensors to extend the stopped traffic time if someone’s still making their way across. Some places (London and Birmingham especially) prefer the Puffin tech with the Pelican lights locations)
(Toucan crossings where the second lane is for horses are called Pegasus crossings)
(And finally: The reason we have green-man and red-man icons instead of words on our signs is not because iconography is better understood than words for tourists (though it is), but because “Don’t Cross” as an instruction from a government-installed object was considered to breach the UK Right of Way laws).
(This has been British Road Crossing Facts. Please tip your toucan)
‘ard’ is a real suffix in the english language just like ‘ly’ or ‘ify’, it just isnt common enough for us to notice its usage. ‘ard’ means ‘too much’ or ‘too easily’
so ‘mustard’ is something that is ‘too pungent’, just as ‘wizard’ is someone who is too wise, ‘coward’ is someone too easily cowed, and ‘drunkard’ is someone too often drunk
this implies that ‘bastard’ is someone who is too ‘bast’ and this needs experimentation and research
Are you fucking serious omg
This is pretty much correct. According to the OED bastard is from Old French and the bast- part means “pack saddle” which was used as a bed by mule drivers, giving the phrase fils de bast, a child conceived on the pack saddle instead of the marriage bed. In English it becomes bastard, the -ard being a pejorative. It is the same one as wizard and coward and drunkard.
