#and then the last one

[ghost-in-the-fog]

Minors DNI please.

I am old. I am ancient. I have not watched a new season of SpongeBob in Goddess knows how long. But I just scream laughed at a character that is a CLEAR caricature of Peter Lorre in fuckin' 2024. Oh. My. God. Whoever came up with this character, give them a bonus. This made me do the 'tism happy flappy thing. Like, this means a new generation is potentially going to be introduced to Peter.

AND JUST THE CHARACTER TO BEGIN WITH. HE'S SO SILLY. The fact that he doesn't appear to be a one off character either. He's permanent!

It makes me think of that line in 'Addicted to bad ideas,' the album based on Peter's life. "I wasn't always a monster, I was a saint, now forgotten...."

Nope. He wasn't forgotten. Had I realized there was a community of Peter Lorre fans here, when I was thirteen, I probably would have joined. It just makes me happy that there are people who get it. Because there wasn't in middle school, aside from a teacher who I bonded with.

Whoever created this character is definitely a fan of Peter too. Considering the character's last name of Laszlo. Laszlo was Peter's birth name. Someone definitely knows their stuff.

I gotta watch more of this goofball, oh my God.

[neyxmessi]

[housederiva]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

[charseraph]

Collection

[caleohateclub]

new reason to stay alive: outlive the trump presidency. In fact, outlive Trump. He isn’t immortal. We can live to see the day he's guaranteed to never be in office ever again and we can make sure he knows that he'll never have enough power to kill you

stay strong, friends, this isn't your fault

[mochasucculent]

Dumb thing that would not leave my brain

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[sarahmackattack]

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[borealing]

obsessed with this

[demaparbat-hp]

Arsonist's Lullaby

[sparrowlucero]

speaking of how to train your dragon and creature design, the shift from the really naturalistic art direction and character animation for the first movie's toothless- the face getting flatter, the eyes bigger and closer together, getting rid of the little realistic details like the dust collecting between the scales, the pink splotching where the scales end at the nostrils, the muted markings, the animation making a shift from largely realistic animal behavior to much more anthropomorphic- is such a huge downgrade to me, made worse because it's subtle in such a way that you will sound insane if you mention it

(huge L for the "the audience's capacity to find a creature cute and empathetic and expressive is directly proportional to how much it looks like a human baby" principle of character design because the first one is so so much cuter)

[jellyjamheadobb]

[bakedbeanchan]

random fire nation diplomat #492 will never understand the complex and fucked up relationship between the water siblings like I do 🙄