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Hi! I was wondering if you’d be alright with other people using your pikmin song in stuff? (With credit obviously and not for profit i’m thinking of making an amv set to it)

I didn't write it so go ahead, just credit the composer (Yoko Shimomura) and lyricist (@seaslux) too!

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"Now, here's a band I really think you'll dig"

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thinking about creatures.

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who me?

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Long-tailed Weasel (Neogale frenata), family Mustelidae, northern Colorado, USA

photographs by Hilary Bralove

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close ups of some of the weasels from my last post, ft transparent background & identifications!

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There's a song about that...

obviously im of the belief that labelling food abd the ingredients it contains as clearly as possible is really good practice, and i highly approve of it

but the specific sense of comedy thats invoked in you when you look at a dish that is almost entirely a certain ingredient and theres a little sign next to it that reads “THIS ITEM CONTAINS [INGREDIENT]” is something that cannot be ignored

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I had a dream about angels last night. Or like this morning depending on your view because I woke up at 3am to give Leeloo her inhaler and this dream happened after that.

So this group of angels had descended to earth on a mission and ended up in a living situation with a bunch of humans. Like they were just roommates with angels. The angels were attempting to carry out inscrutable divine plans but were handicapped by the fact that the world was too much for them.

Every sensory experience was a massive overload to them. One tasted garlic and burst into tears. They could barely function let alone fulfill their purpose on the mortal plane. So one of the roommates came up with a sensory acclimation program for the angels.

Each angel was paired off with a human to attempt some experiences. The humans job was to help them through it. One angel was going to brave the movies. Another wanted to attempt a short walk on the beach. Like, their goals were very modest normal guy stuff.

There was just one problem. All of the human buddies. Desperately. Wanted to fuck their angel. They all wanted the angels to be down with sex acts so bad, they had the major angel hornies and there was no cure. One person successfully seduced their angel and all the other humans lost their shit trying to up their seduction game on these sheltered divine ding dongs who could barely handle the taste of popcorn.

So most of the dream was spent watching people engineer elaborate situations in which they might go to ethereal pound town while the angels blundered around licking frogs and sticking their hands in garbage.

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this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem

1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"

2. hitting the baby will still win you the game

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There was a poll going around lately about opinions on Blazed posts, and it reminded me that I have the power to make random strangers perceive very important cats. As such, please enjoy this cat. Thank u

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Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.

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I just wanted to make an inspirational video but I hit the wrong audio filter

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Caprice Reviews Very Important People Ep. 4

This is just a Thing I Do now, isn't it?

In the fourth episode of Dropout's Very Important People, in which one or more comedians is put in absurd costume and siced upon fellow comedian Vic Michaelis for an in-character interview, we have two comedians (three, counting Michaelis): Kimia Behpoornia and Jacob Wysocki, playing French dolls come to life named Marionette Conqui and Zonton de la Doll.

It was pretty enjoyable. It didn't reach the full chaos of, say, Princess Emily or even Denzel, but it ended on a very heartwarming note. Aside from that, I do like how Behpoornia just sort of made trumpet sounds when presented with the prop horn and then was surprised to see Wysocki actually play it. Well, "play" it - he actually sounded the horn is what I mean. It's a fun time if you like comedy French accents.

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here is the original comic i'm talking about

here is some stuff on relationship anarchy

here is a blog post that helped me (it's about sexual attraction but it resonated with me about romantic attraction too)

I get this isn't a very satisfying conclusion, but hopefully this helps someone😅also to add on, it's totally ok not to have a label or change as you figure out more about yourself! I think realizing I could be comfortable and happy being aro/ace really helped me decide

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Caprice Reviews Very Important People Episode 3

This was a tough one. This isn't why it took a whole day after release for me to post this - I just straight up forgot, and also I'm not an official reviewer bloke so who gives a damn if I don't review a thing on the day it releases.

In this Dropout show, a comedian (in this case, Lisa Gilroy) is put in wild and wacky costume and makeup and has to make up a character as which to interview the Fancy Lounge Suit-Clad fellow comedian Vic Michaelis.

The entire episode, pretty much, is marked with a content warning for "Depiction of an emotionally and physically abusive parental figure relationship", which, yeah. Gilroy plays Vic's "ex-step-grandmother", who was and is abusive to her on live television. It's played far too real, and there's not very much comedy in it.

I think the problem lies in the idea that Vic and Nana (for lack of any other better name) have an established history with one another; because of this, we don't see their dynamic with one another change. With the other two, this was Vic's first time meeting them, and so we got an upward tick rising to a hilarious climax. Not so much here.

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This is purely a meaningless kvetch but I'm watching Mice and Murder (set in Edwardian England, furry Edwardian England but that part doesn't matter) and they never call it the Church of England, just the Anglican Church

Also they mention "the Cardinal" which is not a thing in Anglicanism