Bullfrog

inspired by this post and this panel

After seeing Representative Zephyr kick major legislature ass, she deserves to wield a massive mallet in the chambers.

Seeing clips of Zooey Zephyr stand up against anti-trans legislation has helped renew hope in me that there are ways we can still fight horrendous policies targeting queer people. She is an inspiration and I cannot express how much I appreciate having her fighting in the fray for our rights. Representation definitely does matter.

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AAAAAH!!! THE REAL ZOOEY ZEPHYR SAW THIS COMIC AND NOW I NEED TO BUILD A MALLET! WOOO!!!!!!

Mallet delivered. She wields it like a badass.

americans will look at the US slaughtering brown people (a country whose foreign policy is shaped around endlessly slaughtering brown people) and say "don't fall for the trick of caring about brown people being slaughtered, they are slaughtering brown people just to distract you from domestic issues" and act like this doesn't make them look like the biggest nastiest chauvinists who have all but accepted the routine slaughter of brown people

I have this thing about people deadnaming me…don’t deadname me.

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

oh shit

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

maybe I would like to see CSA survivor, teacher, foster parent and overall protector of children Helena Bertinelli meet up with someone who rubbed a teenager girls forced prostitution past in her face and shot a ten year old point blank in the chest, because she might do what joker failed to do and put him in the ground for good

It looks like they might be shipping Jason and Helena, and I wanna ship Jason with A Crowbar. Their honeymoon can be 6 Feet Under. Again.

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

My little bother brother also uses a voice keyboard to communicate (nonverbal due to genetic mutations) and he would definitely pull shit like this

Wait, stop, Prev Hold the phone. This post was about people with communications aids being incredibly funny and clever with how they are used, but now it's about the insane inhumane implications of putting language restrictions on the communications filter. That blows so hard, I'm glad he found a way but he shouldn't have to.

It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

Also impressive how quickly and thoroughly people who previously loved his work have disowned it, stopped buying it, and stopped discussing it.

Wish Rowling's fans would do the same.

^^^

The central joke of the Ulysses Ogre meme hinges on the Ogre holding themselves to unreasonable standards by expecting to fully grasp one of the most famously difficult works of the 20th Century after only a single reading, which just doesn't work if you substitute your favourite video game, because frankly, your favourite video game is not Ulysses – but to be fair, the overwhelming majority of books are not Ulysses either. There's probably a video game somewhere out there that's as textually challenging as Ulysses, and it's probably some random-ass RPG Maker game from 2006 with an author whose name is a dick joke and a present fandom of approximately eleven people.

for the longest time i somehow had it in my head "yeah okay finnegans wake is so impossibly dense that there's barely an academic consensus about the plot of the damn thing and that's the joke there specifically, but surely ulysses is like, something everyone's supposed to know and that i'm just uncultured for not getting, i shouldn't insult everyone's intelligence by assuming it's even close to being as difficult"

and so i took the message as more "everyone operates at their own level, and that's nothing to be ashamed of if forcing the issue will hurt" and not "stop holding yourself to impossible standards and beating yourself up for not meeting them"

once someone pointed out that "ogre finished reading ulysses at all" was part of the joke, it occurred to me that it's basically the impostor syndrome version of this XKCD strip

and realized i was, in fact, the ogre here.

or, to be more succinct:

EVERYONE CALL OGRE STUPID AND IT'S TRUE! OGRE BARELY EVEN LITERATE! OGRE FINALLY FINISHED READING "ULYSSES OGRE" BUT OGRE CAN ONLY IDENTIFY SURFACE LEVEL THEMES LIKE MEDIA LITERACY AND SELF-ESTEEM, AND CAN'T COMPREHEND DEEPER IDEAS LIKE "SOMETIMES SOMETHING ACTUALLY IS DIFFICULT AND IT'S NOT JUST A SKILL ISSUE ON YOUR PART" THAT MAKE ULYSSES OGRE A TUMBLR CLASSIC! OGRE SO DUMB, IT MAKE OGRE SAD! AT THIS RATE, OGRE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND SILICATE CHEMISTRY!

Yeah, I've bumped into a lot of folks who think the joke is that Ogre really is barely literate and is misreading the themes of Ulysses, which is, ironically, the product of poor media literacy causing them to misread Ulysses Ogre.

happy pride

Something that truly jostled me out of sleep in RGU is how Utena’s compassion for anthy is what knocked her out of her own suicidal ideation. When faced with eternal suffering, utena said to herself, I have to convince this girl there’s more to life than that. Only through “saving herself” - developing a will to live - did she manage to “save” anthy, who, through utena, saved herself the same way. You hold your own hand. Only then can you extend it to another.

IT FUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAY

GMORNIN IT'S MOTHERFUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Utena turning into a car has to be the most danny_devito_getting_it.gif scene in history. It's so absurd. How can you not laugh? And the bit after, "Did you think you were the only one who could turn into a car?"

But in context, the show is taking it seriously, so you try to engage with it. Okay, the car. Akio's car was a metaphor for sex, and it was a weapon he wielded to control and objectify everyone. But Utena is the car. And her ring, the symbol of her constructed knighthood, becomes the key. And in Anthy's moment of hesitation the car rusts, but as soon as she turns the key, it bursts off revealing shining pink. Anthy, the most narratively objectified character. But Utena isn't trying to free Anthy, she's a tool for Anthy to free herself. Suddenly actor and object swap. Anthy is in control. She drives. Hard. Fast. 500 kilometers per hour. The car is run ragged. Down to a shell of a shell. But the sun rises. They kiss.

went to an elementaryschool musical production and they started the show with the director saying: "Now there's some very small viewers here today, so just so you know. There will be a scary character later in the show. This is her," and a girl in a kinda scary ghost outfit did a creepy walk across the stage, then stood up straight and did a cheery wave, "but remember, it's just Nina. She's pretending to be scary."

Aaaand i would very much like for horror movies to have that as a little bonus feature you can chose. Let me start a movie with Guillermo del Toro showing me a scary ghost that might jump at me, but don't worry, thats just Doug!

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”

—Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde WAS gay and he DID suck dicks but “love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling” is not about oral sex. It is not even erotic.

Here’s the rest of the quote. It’s from De Profundis:

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. If any love is shown us we should recognise that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine, non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.”

Fanart of Tedd, from El Goonish Shive! I've been bad with keeping up with all webcomics, but was inspired by a few recent scenes and fun designs!

Mainly this scene and the Cinderella NP strips

😳 Wow