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europeans will really look americans dead in the eye and say they’re so uncultured because they never leave the us

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do europeans understand you can take a train two countries over with no passport required in almost the same time it takes someone to drive to another major city within the same state

me planning for a kayak day trip: [making lists, researching dry bags, cross referencing reviews, trying to strategize what gear I’m likely to actually want and need and where and how to carry it]

justin: oh I’m not even gonna bring my phone

I've always been Like This but it's been a lot worse lately because I've been Experiencing The Horrors for the past... yanno. four years? so I've done VERY LITTLE (not none! but very little) going out and doing things between covid and The Brain Bad so I'm lowkey trying to relearn how to be a human kgjhdfjkg and I have to plan for Going Outside like a person who's never done it before I GOTTA bring my phone (I wanna take pictures!) but it's brand new and not insured so I also GOTTA... NOT DROP IT IN A RIVER I wanna bring art stuff but I'm also really out of practice doing that so what am I gonna ACTUALLY want to use we're bringing lunches! there has to be room for lunch! also towels also sunscreen bugspray etc also a pocket knife surely?? first aid?? something to put berries in if there's berries???? about me husband

do you ever think about how in most interpretations/ representations of fantasy races, it’s not that other peoples have pointy ears, but rather that humans have small round ears?

dwarves are typically the wildcard here I feel like I've seen em both ways but what is going ON with human genetics when they're one of-- if not The-- only People Race with what are apparently weird little ears NO big mobile ears NO tapetum lucidum NO lifespan in the triple digits NO innate magic!! absolutely tragic smdh

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thestuffedalligator:

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

Let me tell you a story.

Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a “master-planned community,” constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.

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Seaside, FL

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Seahaven

And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don’t exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

The best part of worldbuilding is making something that sucks. Magic schools with bullshit rules that don’t work. Spaceships that are built stupid. My favourite thing to do is to make an inconvenient world that is full of stupid things for boring reasons, and then putting a character int here and making them live with that.

Picture of the goose from Untitled Goose Game having a picnic. Caption: I think I will cause problems on purposeALT

I was about to reblog this like “wow I so agree” and then I checked the username and apparently I posted it.

#There’s a giant water monster in my homebrew world who occasionally investigates boats

#he doesn’t attack anyone he’s just curious about boats so the nearby town made him their mascot#his name is Big Sneak because despite being 120ft long he sneaks up on boats all the time and spooks the fuck outta people

#He’s 230 years old and has a title equivilant to a knighthood

#He is not an uplifted animal. It’s the equivalent of giving a knighthood to a scaled whale. They just love him.

#He was given that title so it would be illegal for anyone to hunt him

#What purpose does this lore serve? None at all. It’s a giant monster you aren’t allowed to kill and who might sneak up on you and go Bloop

#If you try to attack Big Sneak the entire town will be mad at you.

@ashedink​ You cannot just hide this absolute work of art in the tags

(I immediately love Big Sneak)

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HERE HE IS

THE BIG SNEAK

THE GUY

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I love you big sneak

foone:

Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?

They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.

Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?

So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.

And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.

And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.

If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.

I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.

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