I’ll Stop Making Hamlet Memes When I’m Dead

isnt it weird that we cant ride any other animals except horses. like if horses weren’t a thing humans would be fucked cause we couldn’t ride any other animals. like riding animals just wouldn’t really be a thing. we should probably be more grateful to horses

Some gorgeous person a while back made a post about if various other famous elves had been part of the fellowship instead of legolas, one of them being Maglor, and now I can’t stop thinking about that au

Elrond: Hi Frodo. This is my dad. He’ll be coming with you on your impossible quest.

Frodo: Wait, I thought your dad was Earendil? Bilbo did a whole musical number about it.

Elrond: Yes, that was awkward for all of us. Have fun!

(more hilarious outtakes beneath cut)

Czytaj dalej

aleheather is in top 3 best ships in total drama... ya can’t convince me otherwise... i am a stubborn girl

After 6000 years Tumblr stopped being a bitch and let me upload something 🙃🙃🙃

broke: midsommar is a girl power movie

woke: midsommar is a horror movie about a manipulative cult

bespoke: midsommar is a litmus test to tell how easily you could be indoctrinated into a cult and if your first thought after watching it is that it was a girl power movie you’re very susceptible to cult tactics and you should be aware of that

so the megalodon is most definitely extinct? how do scientists know?

well, the thing about large predators is that they leave an impact on an ecosystem big enough that you can tell they’re there, even if you never observe one directly. in this case, we know they’re definitely extinct because of the behavior of whales! whales used to max out at about 50 ft long and were fast and agile, entirely because of predation by megalodon!

but about 2 million years ago, our whales began to rapidly increase in size until we ended up with real monsters like the blue whale. this pretty directly lines up with the extinction of megalodon, and the removal of the pressure they were putting on large whale populations.

basically, large whales can get away with being gigantic, slow tanks in the oceans today because there simply isn’t a predator big enough to take them on anymore. if megalodon still existed, we would be seeing its impact on whale populations! whales would be smaller, and a hell of a lot more skittish than they are.

everything in a given ecosystem is connected, and you can often get important information about the unknown parts by observing the behavior of other parts of the ecosystem.

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistant. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowing. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

I’m just saying though…

snk comics o vo

what can i say? i'll ship till i die

Doodles Wow now I’m afraid I’m almost addicted to this movie can’t believe this is not even ¼ of what I drew in 2 days

tag yourself! i'm iceland

Hello! Would you be able to do what the Nordics (separately) would be like as your roomate in college? Thank you!

Oh my lord the Admins are laughing about this ask. Hope you enjoy!

Norway: The Silent and Organized Roommate 

The roommate you often forget is actually there, since you hardly see or hear him in the room..not to mention, his side of the room is always completely  organized. 

If you can’t find him in his room, assume that he’s either at the library or at a coffee shop with his laptop writing deep poetry for his English class.

You’re usually jealous of him since he hardly studies but seems to pass all of his classes with ease…maybe you should ask for tutoring? 

It’s safe to assume that he has headphones in all the time- even when he’s not listening to music, just so no one talks to him. 

Iceland: The Hot Mess Roommate

The roommate you find awake at 3 in the morning eating ramen cups, drinking instant coffee and trying to cram a weeks worth of homework into 4 hours before class.

Emil will sometimes send you memes at various times throughout the day.

Self deprecating jokes often have you worried about his mental state. 

Is constantly panicking about student loans but plays it cool…or at least tries to. 

Has to set 5 alarms every morning or else he misses his class. 

Finland: The “Parent” Roommate

Tino is the type of roommate to actually be close friends with all of his roommates….and everyone else on your floor..RA included.

Will actually make lunches for his roommates, and make sure that they keep up healthy eating habits.

Always ends a conversation with “love you, stay safe, make good decisions, and drink water!”

Casually talks to his professors outside of class…for fun..

Will always help his roommates with their homework! Though..you really never catch him doing his own..but he still passes with flying colors..you don’t question him much.

Sweden: The “Mr. Mystery” Roommate

Berwald is hardly ever in his room..but whenever he is, he’s working on some big project that takes up the entire dining room table. You’ve learned not to ask what he’s doing. 

Can and will fix anything broken in the room. Coffee machine broken? He’s got a part. TV not working? There’s a manual somewhere. Bed squeaking? He has the missing screw for that. 

He doesn’t talk to you much, but when he does, it’s usually funny and pretty sarcastic, but you have a hard time knowing whether he’s joking or serious. 

You’ve learned not to wake him up in the morning..you did once..never again.

Even though he looks scary, if you ever need help regardless of what it is, if you just ask, he will help you.

Denmark: The Friendly Frat Boy Roommate

Yes. He’s a frat-boy. But the good kind. The one that helps little old ladies cross the street, or just hangs out with his friends. Not partying every night.

Matthias brings a lot of surprises to your dorm..whether it’s balloons..or rearranging furniture while drunk off his ass at 3 am. But hey, he’s nice, so it’s okay. 

Always brings food home for his roommates. Sometimes it’s sweets, sometimes it a bucket of 50 wings. It depends. 

Is friends with literally everyone on campus. 

He sometimes asks for help with his homework..or notes from class…he gets behind sometimes, okay? But in return he’ll basically be your body guard! 

110% about school spirit..to be honest, he probably has a sports scholarship. 

finland is fuckin wild, i swear