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(tweet by Janel Comeau)

[having size 9 shoes on paper]: completely normal, literally the average women's size in the USA

[having size 9 shoes at the store]: greetings Amazonian giantess, we keep your enormous clodhoppers in the shed out back, lest they frighten the villagers

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You all need to watch Galavant! It’s literally just a muppets version of game of thrones! So good!

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Polar Bear | Canada Wild

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Thoughts on 'The Princess Bride'

I got to the sequence where Humperdink drains 50 years of Westley's life, and Inigo concludes from hearing his scream that The Man In Black must be nearby.

Inigo: "It is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Rugen slaughtered my father. The Man In Black makes it now."

Fezzik: "The Man In Black?"

Inigo: "His true love is marrying another tonight, so who else has the cause for ultimate suffering?"

For the first time, my brain pounced on this, and I wondered "when did Inigo and Fezzik even find out Westley and Buttercup (well, The Man In Black and The Princess) were in love?" Westley didn't go into his motives during his interactions with them, so the audience would be surprised by The Reveal that he's alive. And it's not like Humperdink was publicizing that his fiancée was in love with another man.

At first I thought it was a plot hole, but I have since concluded that, while Fezzik was on the Brute Squad, he heard some gossip from soldiers who were there when Humperdink and Rugen intercepted Westley and Buttercup leaving the Fire Swamp, and Buttercup bartered to save Westley's life. Fezzik shared that gossip with Inigo while explaining Vizzini's death and how Fezzik found the six-fingered man Inigo has been hunting for twenty years.

Another thought that crossed my mind earlier in the film, watching Humperdink tracking Vizzini's group: "Oh, I used to think he was just trying to show off how smart he is, but he's actually doing this 'forensic' thing, stopping to puzzle out how the fights went instead of skipping ahead to tracking the winners, to give Vizzini extra time in case Buttercup isn't dead yet."

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my earnest hope for 2025 is that everyone embraces being a little weirder and freakier and less judgmental bc we will all be better off for it like to charge reblog to cast

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My superpower as a kid was my ability to rewind VHS tapes almost exactly back to the beginning of the movie without going all the way back to the commercials, and, if someone else had rewound it all the way, to fast-forward all the way through the commercials without missing the start of the movie and having to backtrack.

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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For any relocated TikTok users

you can say sex and kill its fine

If you don't have a profile picture people will assume you're a bot

theres barely an algorithm, if you want to see cool shit reblog things instead of just liking them

follower count doesnt matter

tumblr fame gets you one thing and it is Yelled At

no one knows what the fuck the nsfw policy is

block anyone that annoys you even a little bit

And most importantly:

post cringe

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Artists.

You do not need your Twitter.

Twitter is not the boost you think it is anymore.

I have seen at least 6 people I follow on BlueSky saying they have looked into their numbers and compared to Twitter? BSky gives them over double the exposure and follow through for outside links (probably because Twitter kills your tweet if you have links).

Twitter is testing a feature to allow other users to click a button attached to your posts to put your art into their Grok ai and make ai art with it without your permission automatically.

It is marking non-ai art as being made with Grok (probably to promote it).

You do not need Twitter.

Twitter needs you.

Starve the fuckin thing.

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This is making the rounds on BlueSky, but I haven't seen it here yet.

Twitter is rolling out a "Recreat this with Grok" button directly on images now when you open them. Also, some people have experience their artwork getting labeled as 'made with Grok'

I understand why some people have tried to stay but, please at the very least start transitioning your work to other places so at the very least you have a exit without hurting your finances too much.

Twitter is only going to become more hostile towards artists. It's full of poison and it's only a matter of time before it fully erodes.

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A random thing that always annoyed me, you know when you’re a kid and you get hung up on one line or thing in a book or movie that doesn’t make sense to you?

The Emerald City scene in the Wizard of Oz:

There’s one line in there, from the cabby with the Horse of a Different Colour: “We get up at twelve and start to work at one, take an hour for lunch and then at two we’re done.” And it annoyed the snot out of my as a kid, because when you parse that it means there’s no work being done at all, because they start to work, immediately take their hour lunch break, and then clock off an hour later, done for the day. Jolly good fun! Here’s a city where no one has to work!

But it’s being sung by a guy who’s clearly working. And then followed up by a bunch more people at the ‘Wash & Brush Up Co.’ who are also clearly working. Like. Our main foursome are getting pampered, sure, but the people pampering them are clearly working. At a company!

It annoyed me so much when I was a kid how the song was clearly and blatantly lying like two seconds into it.

It took me a good few years to realise that that was fully on purpose. That the Emerald City, like the wizard at its core, is a ‘humbug’, a great big pretty lie.

There is a bit of me that wonders if the line is a very specific comment on Hollywood itself. In the book, IIRC, the ‘lie’ in the Emerald City, aside from the wizard himself, was whether or not the city was actually green at all, or if that was the emerald lenses the wizard mandated everyone wear. In the movie version, the city is indeed extremely green. I wonder if that line, the specific lie, was a bit of a comment on Tinseltown herself, the way people think you can show up, become a glamorous star, get pampered, do a couple of hours work a day, and call it good, when the reality … isn’t like that. If someone tells you ‘you don’t have to work to live well here’, they’re either lying outright or they’re only talking about a very specific group of people.

But it did (and still kind of does) annoy me, as a line. Like. Would you not at least try a less blatant lie? One you’re not giving the lie to, this very second, yourself?

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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

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#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ��️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

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There was a poor soaking wet crow sitting in the rain, I had to draw him. Looked like the world's most dejected rectangle 😅💚

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Happy Valentine's Day