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GUY GARDNER WITH HIS UGLY HAIRCUT IN THE SUPERMAN MOVIE TRAILER. I REPEAT. GUY GARDNER WITH HIS UGLY HAIRCUT IN THE SUPERMAN MOVIE TRAILER.

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Not gonna lie, I would also believe that Clark Kent and Superman are completely different people

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mood post-superman trailer

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bro is not subtle...

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[ID: a screenshot of the “Almost Christmas” Ace Attorney meme behind a slightly transparent stock image of an ice cube. End ID.]

it’s defrosting

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they removed posting from tumblr. now there's only scrolling down through the vast blank expanse. great

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Well it's a bit late, but here are the 2024 Tumblr memes as per usual

We have to kill this guy

Ever since I was a little girl

Tumblr Live's beautiful death

Car hammer explosion

Walrus or Fairy

Oobh I got Planty off time

Tumblr Brackets again (hot vintage poll, 60s/70s/90s/2000s music tourney)

Boop war

Friendpilled Visitmaxxer

I don't know/I'm bald

King Charles Portrait

The White Pharoah

Hey Girl, I mean They

Dashconiversary

Trump got shot

Cloudstrike

I guess we're making factory

Mikus of the world

Moo Deng

Making my bf as a cookie

Za/um break up

Boop War 2

The Healthcare CEO Assassination

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seeing a lot of "almost christmas means it wasn't christmas" memes already and it's not even christmas eve, so remember:

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Hand study gao hang 5x6 feet Acrylic on raw canvas 2023

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i would like to hear your thoughts on the "You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi" tie into greek and roman mythology please

OKAY SO.

Gaia is the Greek personification of the Earth, right, and Terra comes from Terra Mater (Mother Earth), the Roman version of essentially the same thing.

And I think we tend to view Ancient Greece as a kind of mythical fantasy place (this is fair, much of the culture of Ancient Greece the average person interacts with is fiction) vs. Rome, which is very real to the average imagination. When one thinks of Rome, one thinks of real events that actually happened (the Ides of March, the Great Fire, maybe the big fuckoff wall in England, etc.)

What I think is super interesting about that is that this is an effect of the primary technology of the Roman empire—colonisation—being so blisteringly effective that Roman mythology and their incredibly pervasive religion (and the 5D chess they were playing with it in order to facilitate the colonisation project) is pretty much invisible unless you sit down and look for it. Did you know the Romans had a god-personification of doorways (Forculus)? Now you do. And yet it's ALWAYS Romans In Space because we think of them as a real and serious imperial power vs. like, theatre nerds.

This is a shame for science fiction I think because other options include:

Space Peloponnesian League. Nice planet you got there. Sure would be a shame if anything happened to it. Have you seen our armada. Would you like to contribute to the armada, thus enlarging it, to ensure nothing unfortunate happens to your nice planet?

Space Sparta. Empire run entirely on the dominion of one single other planet with a population of perhaps 100x the legitimate citizen population. Control of said planet maintained by random acts of terrorism enacted by particularly horrible children. Bad at warfare despite putting all their time and attention into it. Deluded into thinking they're good at defence where the fact of the matter is that no one in their right mind would want their barren death planet.

Space Scythians. What home planet? Oh no they live on their ships. Yeah they just raid whatever planets they pass for supplies. They have this whole sector under an iron fist.

Space Persians. Hello new subjects we are religiously mandated to defeat chaos and also we're collecting your plants for our gardens. We have hundreds of vassal states and they're all terrified of us, for excellent reason.

and so on and so forth

Not to suggest these literally never come up in science fiction but the ratio of Romans to other possible imperial structures is way off and imho it's because Romans were such unbelievably successful colonisers that we think of them as real (and therefore reasonable fodder for science fiction) where almost all other ancient civilisations end up being used as blueprints for fantasy even though they were real too.

This isn't necessarily bad but it is an interesting pattern & the fact that it exists says a lot more than we tend to think about re: Western culture and Western cultural product as a whole.

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no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.

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love when a professor is like "i'm not assigning any work over the break, take it easy" like that is literally so sweet and so considerate but I will not be taking it easy because no other professor at this school shares your philosophy

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on the thirteenth day of christmas my true love was investigated for his many flagrant violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918

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at the mariners bar: sorry mates i cant go out today.. My boat's transmasc now. He's more comfortable with he/him. He just went through top surgery to get his sails removed and he's recovering. Bluebeard-and-Pronouns the woke pirate: arrg so he's gotten a mastectomy. well i'm glad that he's discovered himself.

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ive forgotten the origin of "she blank on my blank til i blank" and i dont even begin to know how to look it up

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the bus stop sunk cost fallacy