#foundation investments

[adam-scott]

i’m actually grateful for apple tv+ who seems to be able to believe in their tv shows despite ‘low’ ratings.

based on wikipedia, they have 76 ongoing shows (drama + comedy):

- 27 of them were ended but 13 of them had at least 2 seasons which brings us to a 18% cancellation rate after their first season

- 18 of them (23%) were miniseries so their end is justified

- 21 of them are renewed but if if you add the 13 series that had at least 2 seasons, this brings us to a total of 35 shows that were renewed which is a 46% ratio renewal rate

apple tv+ renews half of their shows and i think we should be thankful for them in a time where netflix and amazon cancels 90% of their shows

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[fictionadventurer]

I keep thinking about Lewis' review of The Hobbit, because he claimed that the main thing contemporary reviewers compared it to was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Was fantasy in that poor of a state that Alice was the closest thing they could think of? Comparing that chaotic fever dream to Tolkien's intricately crafted world? Lewis does specify that the comparison is that both books are by an "Oxford professor at play", but they're otherwise so different that putting the two in the same category baffles me.

[poorlemons]

decided to fill my oc Princeton with bugs, she's all about family, yknow?

[mcytegg]

ngl watching this one vod has permanently altered my brain chemistry. like i didnt realize ro and planet had trust like That throughout s5. its esp obvious during the void arc when it was "WE dont trust you", and not I dont trust you or He does not trust you. no wonder planet kept defending ro even after everyone else had given up on her bc her betraying seemed inevitable..........

[bisthefairy]

The average Mario Kart character owns 35 shitty businesses

[anesidoraa]

it's kinda funny that while isolde is indeed in a Bad place rn, she also jumped to a time when psychiatry has made almost a century of advancement so, i know it's not that simple, but unironically? this is the best chance she's ever gotten of getting better

congrats isolde, you don't have to pick between electroshock therapy and lobotomy anymore!!

[bluetiefling]

interesting how often the ones claiming that galadriel's season 2 arc was perfect and everyone who doesn't think so is just too haladriel brainrotted or something are the same folks who openly say it's fine if she were to just... fade into the background in season 3 or disappear outright. sorry I actually do think it's sexist for galadriel to be introduced as the central protagonist only for her to be gradually phased out so that gil-galad and elendil or elrond or whichever legendarium dude can have more to do.

[dogngod]

If you ever draw more staged duo or mercenary duo or dog boy punz please please post it. I love your art so much actually. I hope you have a super good day - heelsofboreas

omg i totally will. thank you so much you are literally my freaking comrade... i am so obsessed with these guys and their fucked up brains. i doodled them again just for you

[sistersorrow]

I generally try not to be elitist in whatever fandoms I'm in, but I have to make an exception for the SCP Foundation, cause 95% of the complaints I hear about it are just signs that whoever said needs to read more SCPs instead of getting all their information from content farms

Most SCPs aren't a bajillion words long like SCP-6500, most SCPs aren't generic uncontainable Things Which Kill You or doomsday monsters that are gonna scratch their nose which causes all of Europe to burst into flames, and there are still plenty of horror SCPs out there, the site has just over the years expanded from horror/copypasta to New Weird

The SCP Foundation has plenty of good content, you just have to actually read it

[nvestiv]

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[xoxoemynn]

SNAKE KNIFE TIME LOOP SNAKE KNIFE TIME LOOP!!!

OKAY this is my most unhinged idea I will probably never write because it is just VIBES IN MY HEAD BASED ON NOTHING EXCEPT THINGS THAT WOULD BE AMUSING TO ME PERSONALLY BUT.

Poor Steak Knife is caught in a time loop where he just keeps dying of random, ridiculous things. Obviously what we see in 2x07. Getting bonked on the head with a flower pot. Eating fish that's gone bad. Tripping and falling into quicksand. Going to pet some animal that is super cute and cuddly but actually incredibly venomous. This gigantic man of pure muscle just keeps dying of THE most inane, ridiculous shit.

Until ONE DEATH he only loses consciousness and when he comes to, it's Roach caring for him. And as Roach nurses him back to health, they bond over their love of knives. They fall in love and together open the world's first hospital/restaurant. Because together, they understand more than anyone: knives are knives. Meat's meat.

Send me asks about my WIPs!

[aesfocus]

sweetie pea has been dragging all my makeup brushes out of my desk and playing with them, so I put them in a drawer, same thing they're SUCH fun, and then the bigger adult cats got in on the action

anyways, so I bought one of those silicone scrubbers and washed all the brushes(I normally wash after every single use).

WELL yuuuck

[jackawful]

still thinking about that ml "why are anarchists better at organizing than us???" post and like. Idk they were correct that punk shows are not themselves revolutionary but like. there's a reason some of the best people at disaster relief are like. punks, church ladies, and dnd nerds (the ones that play regularly at least) and it's that you need regular practice organizing low-stakes shit to be good at logistics during the higher-stakes shit. that shit is a learned skill. if you can organize a house show, or for that matter a knitting circle or tabletop group, you have skills that will naturally extend to political work.

[adhdo5]

I do think that the "Foundation just throws away thousands of staff" thing is stupid. Have you seen how they treat their staff they just cannot have that many guys