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Muppet fact of the day: One of the Muppet show’s pilot episodes was called “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence”, but the Muppets are owned by Disney now and Disney really doesn’t like the word “sex” so they insist on just calling it “the Muppet Show Pilot”

anyway reblog this forbidden image of Jim Henson in front of the Sex and Violence title card to make Disney mad

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ok I’ve talked before about how, if you don’t want what you’re reading and kudosing on ao3 to be associated with you as an author or whatever that a lot of people have reading accounts that are seperate to the fics they post and I just came across a delightful example. I hope they don’t mind me pointing it out, but when I saw this on a fic today I let out the most delighted laugh

their account just has bookmarks on it, so I’m guessing that they just read on this account, leave reviews that are exactly what the times would say about books and bookmark shit. king shit.

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this is fucking ghoulish

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One day my mom overheard me and my friends talking about anime and asked what "tsundere" meant. After I explained it to her, she said, "oh, so it's just like you then", which is NOT something you can come back from

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you know there actually is a meaningful difference between 'men's' and 'women's' deodorant beyond the selection of scents. 'mens' plays better with pit hair and doesn't pill up in it and 'womens' tends to have a more powdery finish to help prevent chafing. so really the two genders are actually hairy and bald.

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There's this moment in Fantasy High: Sophomore Year. It's a very intense moment, everyone knows about it if you've seen the season, it's when the group enters the Nightmare King's forest for the first time and Kalina attacks Riz and Kristen.

I've seen people talk about this being a character-defining moment for Kristen, this moment where she makes the purely selfless decision to save Riz's life and take all the hits meant tmfor both of them, and I agree. This tells us a lot about Kristen and who she in as a person, how much she truly cares for her friends and for Riz especially (which is really cool! Her parents are bigots and she was trapped in their little echo chamber for most of her life only to immediately make friends with Riz, a Goblin, and chooses to unlearn the prejudices she was taught!!!). Kristen looked at her friend in that moment and decided it was more important to her that he lived than that she did, even though she's the healer and the one who can revivify, which is an incredibly difficult decision to make.

But what about for Riz? Riz who had one friend before the Bad Kids, who is incredibly socially inept to the point of not understanding why business cards are not how you make friends with high schoolers, who wasn't even really all that interested in having friends outside of cases until he had them! Imagine what it must mean to him, for Kristen to all but sign her own death warrant just to protect him and give him a fighting chance to get through the Nightmare King's forest. And with that, the fact that she tells him in that moment to not only get them out of that situation, but puts absolute faith in the fact that he can and will do it. I just think it's beautiful.

Bonus commentary: Brian Murphy's acting in the moment only adds to it. Just seconds before Ally decides what to do, he's leaning over to look at their character sheet with them to see if there's any way he can help. Then, they make the decision to heal him, and Murphy's head snaps up to Brennan so fast with this surprised look, and then proceeds to stress tf out because his friend!! She's dying!!! There's nothing he can do to stop it now!!!!!

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TIL The Double Empathy Problem theory suggests social difficulties experienced by autistic people when interacting with non-autistic people are due to reciprocal differences, not an inherent deficiency, most autistic people are able to display good social reciprocity with most other autistic people

via reddit.com

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I'll have more thoughts on this later, but there's a thing my local queer communities did, especially in the twenty-teens, where they tried to be as inclusive as possible while still drawing a hard line between insiders and outsiders and it functioned in practice as a big ol Fuck You to anyone with OCD

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i understand why people like the queue and i do respect you guys for using it but that is just not how i roll. if i think these 37 posts are funny you’re seeing them right fucking now

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you ever have “cry and scream yourself awake” level nightmares that are immediately the stupidest premises imaginable the moment you actually wake up

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i am in my 20s but also in my teenage years and also in my 40s

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i love working at an aquarium i just witnessed a grown man with children enter the freshwater gallery and loudly exclaim “oh shit, piranhas are REAL?!?”

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my fave thing about being alive is that there is nothing that cannot be learned. tapestry weaving, astrophysics, swimming. music, theremin, singing. cutting your own hair, dancing, quantum mathematics. sewing, philosophy, social skills. knowledge is divine, but sharing it is human !!!

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it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like

WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???

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reblogs appreciated for sample size!

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So I finally got my water heater replaced after more than half a year of it leaking and nearly destroying my floor, but that's not the story. The story is of the handyman that installed it.

Dude's name is Chris, and he's your typically midwestern schlub - friendly, apologizes too much, really likes the Cardinals, maybe a little younger than my parents. Hella nice tho, gets the heater installed quickly, and even offers to fix the floorboards it warped (after nearly tripping over the hump it made in the floor twice). Overall, a stress-free experience.

Then, as he's gathering up his tools - "So, I noticed your, uh, banner. Over your bed."*

*(The closet where my water heater is is located in my bedroom because I live in a mobile home, dude wasn't just wandering creepily into my bedroom)

He's referring to a giant pride flag that's hanging over my bed, with the words "Sounds gay, I'm in"

My anxiety spikes instantaneously, thinking oh christ I'm about to get hatecrimed or at least microaggressioned.

But then he says "Yeah, my daughter is gay, and I was wondering, like...where do you guys, ya know, meet up?"

What.

"Because she met her most recent girlfriend when she was in jail, and I keep asking why she doesn't just find a nice lesbian librarian or something and she said 'dad I know they're out there, I just don't know where'. So...like...where do you?"

So I ended up confessing to this nice man who installed my water heater that I don't know of any real gay culture in our mostly Baptist Missouri town of about 18,000 that routinely freaks out over pride displays in the library (I'm sure it exists but I'm lazy and haven't gone looking for it). My girlfriend lives in an area with a rather bustling gay community (we just did a face painting booth for their pride festival a few weeks ago), so maybe have her go out there with some friends, and also a lot of queers I know play dnd so maybe find a nice group of them and network. I then apologized that I wasn't more helpful in getting his daughter settled with a nice, wholesome dyke.

On the plus side, he was not deterred at all, and seemed to be very interested in the fact dnd was so popular amongst the el gee bee tees. I told him the names of some dms I know and told him to go to town. I do not know if the names will be given to his daughter or hoarded for himself so he can join a group and play like he did when he was a teenager and not be called satanic for it.

He's coming to fix my floor next week.

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A few months back, I read about a study that found that people who were told to regularly think about things they’re grateful for reported significantly improved physical and mental well-being at the end of the study. So I started going for a walk every day before work and making myself come up with 5 things that I’m grateful for. And I know it sounds like the most cornball shit ever, but it has fundamentally changed my brain chemistry.

I was aware that I was becoming a little bit too much of a sarcastic little hater before I started this experiment. Now I am almost startled to catch myself saying shit like, “Wow, look at the flowers on that tree, I am so grateful I decided to walk this way,” unironically, completely unprompted, and outside of the specific time in the day when I do the gratitude practice. I’ve rewired my brain to look for things to be grateful for, and so I look around me more and find more of them, which makes me feel happier, which makes me find even more good things.

For the record, I’m not saying, “Only think positive thoughts! No bad vibes!” Toxic positivity is probably about as unhealthy as only thinking negative thoughts. Sometimes shit does just suck. I’m not telling you to be grateful for the bad things around you. Being a sarcastic little hater definitely has its place. But setting aside like 2 minutes per day to come up with 5 things you’re grateful for will genuinely improve your outlook. It doesn’t have to be big stuff—sometimes the best I can manage is simple shit like, “I’m grateful that zippers were invented,” but even that forces me to be in the present moment and deepens my appreciation of the world around me. Try it, even if you have to do it badly or sarcastically at first. Even if you only do it so that you can come back and tell me I’m wrong in 3 months. Set a daily alarm on your phone and give it a try.