#All Comedians Are Tools

[msclaritea]

I can't see this episode of his supposed 'anti-Israel' rant as anything except another damn stunt. You want to know why? Because the people quoted below, sound exactly like the trolls on Twitter, who keep repeating ad nauseaum that they feel unsafe because of people supporting Palestine. I'm sorry, but that's crap. Everyone, everywhere has the absolute right to not take Israel's side in this. I feel for the victims who were used to start this latest debacle, not the Israeli government, not Hamas. We are getting our chains yanked, big time. Let's see if Chappelle loses his show for it. He won't.

This was a stunt. We all live in a very unsafe world for many, today.

[stardust-and-fries]

Oh boy!! A chance for me to yap about gender at length?!?!!?!? DON'T MIND IF I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [See tags for details. But be warned... I Popped the Fuck OFF writing this one, it's a doozy!]

Sorry if this is rude, but how do you identify? I looked around a bit and couldn't find anything, my apologies

Not rude! Honestly, I don't know these days! Lots of thoughts swirling around in my head. Maybe this is too much, but also maybe saying something instead of keeping it inside will be helpful... I'll put my gender thoughts under the cut... maybe someone can relate and offer some thoughts lol:

Recently, I came to the conclusion that I'm really not attracted to men at all, and maybe, I never have been. Looking back, I can kind of clearly see that any crush on a guy I thought I had was more like "wow, this person is COOL as HELL. I hope we can be really good friends." And then I noticed, that any crush I had on a girl felt... different. The feeling was totally different, and it still is. Have you noticed how most of the men I draw are quite feminine? I also have no idea what's going on with my gender. I know I'm me, a Yugo, I also can't comfortably say what exactly I am. Though by technicality, I am nonbinary, the word doesn't feel QUITE right to use for me. Maybe genderqueer is better. I've never identified as a man, but I have identified as transmasc and taken T. I really do like the results I've gotten from that. But at the same time, I don't really feel close to "manhood" at all, but something about having a mustache sometimes, like I tend to do, feels right to me still. I also like to wear lipstick and stuff. I don't know. I'm also not a "woman" I don't think, but I identify with more... I don't know, masculine expressions of womanhood if that makes sense? I am very androgynous in expression, in short. So basically I don't know what the hell is going on. All I know is I love women LOL. Can anyone relate to any of this? Any ideas?? I will not be offended by any assumptions you might have lol. Maybe I should just make a comic about this.

[beanytuesday]

How are you so funny? How does one get funnier?

Humor is a social tool. If you are a naturally charismatic or charming person, you probably never developed it. Why do you think so many standup comedians look like that? God help you if ever peek inside a writer's room

Study the great masters. Everyone wants to be Eric Andre but that sort of anarchic chaos magic style humor is something that can't be taught, and attempting to emulate it will only serve to humiliate you. Sharply written comedies like 30 Rock, The Simpsons and Community are what you want to look for. All humor is fundamentally based on the subversion of expectations; study the jokes on these shows and figure out why they work.

NO CANNED JOKES!!!! Repeating or rephrasing memes and references or reusing hackneyed joke formats will never be funny-- but unfunny people will continue to think they are, because other unfunny people clap like seals at the mere gesture towards humor. You need to train yourself against this, and learn to make more novel observations.

It just takes time and practice. After a while, you will become your own worst critic. Go on my instagram and scroll all the way to the bottom-- you'll find that my trademark witticism had to evolve, steel-sharpened-steel, from a kind of bizarre esoteric unfunniness that should serve as a Gusteau-style "anyone can cook" inspiration to you chuckleheads

[inkskinned]

before you know about women, you hear that you do not need to love the man, just that you need to love him through his manhood. which is to say you have seen the future painted in lamb's blood over your eyes - how your mother shoots you a look about your father's inability to cook right. how your aunt holds her wineglass and says i'm gonna kill em. men, right! how your best friend bickers with her boyfriend, how she says i can't help it. i come back to him.

you learn: men are gonna cheat. men aren't going to listen when you're talking, because you're nagging. men think emotions are stupid. they think your life is vapid and your hobbies are embarrassing. men will slam things, but that's because men are allowed to be angry. if you get loud, you're hysterical. if a man gets loud - well, men are animals, men are dogs, men can't control their hands or their eyes or their bodies. they're going to make a snide comment about you in the locker room, about your body, about how you're so fucking annoying. you're going to give him kids, and he will give you the money for the kids, and you're going to be running the house 24/7 - but he gets to relax after a long day, because his job is stressful. the man is on stage, and is a comedian, and says "women!"

and you are supposed to love that. you are supposed to love men through how horrible they are to you - because that's what women do. that's what good women do. wife material. your father even told you once - it'll make sense when you're older. it was like staring down a very lonely tunnel.

it feels like something's caught in your throat, but it's all you know, so. it's okay that you see sex as a necessary tool, a sort of okay-enough ritual to keep him happy, even though he doesn't seem to care about happiness as-applied-to you. it is relationship upkeep. it is kissing him and smiling even though he didn't brush his teeth. it is getting on your knees and looking up and holding back a sigh because he barely holds you as you panic through the night. it's not like the sex is bad and you do like feeling wanted. and besides! he's a man! like... they're another species. you'll never be able to actually communicate, right. he isn't listening.

you just don't get it. you don't feel that sense of i'm gonna climb him like a tree. mostly it just feels fucking exhausting. you play the part perfectly. you smile and nod and are "effortlessly" charming. and it's fine! it's alright! you even love him, if you're looking. you could have good life, and a good family, and perfectly happy.

in the late night you google: am i broken. you google i'm not attracted to my husband. you google i get turned on by books but not by him. you google how to get better in bed.

the first time he yells at you, it almost feels like blankness. like - of course this is happening. this is always how it was going to end up. men get angry, and they yell, and you sit there in silence.

you mention it to your friend - just the once - while you're drunk. she shrugs and says it's like that with me too, i just try to forget and move on. men are always gonna hear what they want to. pick your battles and say sorry even though he's in the wrong. you play solitaire online for a month. you go to your therapist appointment and preach about how you're both so in love.

after all, you have a future to want. nobody lied about it - how many instagram posts say marriage is hard. say real love takes work. say we fight like cats and dogs but the best part is that we always make up. how many of your friends say happy anniversary to the best and worst thing to ever happen to me. if you really loved him - loved yourself too - you'd accept that men are just different from you.

the first time she kisses you, it's on a dare at a party. something large and terrifying whips through your body. you wake up sweating from dreams where her mouth is encrusted with pearls and you pick them off one by one with your teeth. fuck. you sit at the computer and your almost-finished game of sim city. you think about your potential perfect life and your potential future family. you google am i gay quiz with your little hands shaking.

you delete each letter slowly. you don't need to love him. you just need to keep going.

[ariaste]

Do you have any advice on how to get funnier? Do you bounce jokes/plots/etc. off other people to see what hits? Do you just write what you find funny? I feel like I'm funny enough in real life, but it's hard to translate that to the page.

Oh gosh, this is a toughie. HOW TO FUNNY.

Well, for one thing, being funny in writing is a lot harder than being funny in person, because in person you're generally talking to people that you've built a rapport with (friends, acquaintances, coworkers). Humor is one of those instinctive evolutionary tools that we developed in order to help form social bonds. Like how our brains register babies as cute because or evolutionary development requires us to be really invested in caretaking. That's how an adult bonds to an infant, yes? But then there is also an evolutionary advantage in adults forming bonds with other adults. Sometimes this happens with physical traits like cuteness or hotness (romantic/sexual attraction is one type of bond), sometimes with vulnerability and "this person needs me" (caretaking is another type of bond)... There are lots of bonds. Leadership. Respect. Solidarity. Community.

But then humor is a REALLY effective form of bonding -- arguably the MOST effective, because it can trump any other of the other bonds any day of the week, and twice on Tuesdays. We have all met someone who was physically not that spectacular to look at, just sort of a Normal Looking Human, but then you find out that they are SO FUNNY and suddenly they are the "hottest" person in the room. We have all heard of a situation where someone was the leader of a clique and had managed to get everyone to worship them... Until a new jokester entered the social circle and suddenly the leadership-bond is not nearly so compelling as THIS GUY WHO MAKES EVERYONE LAUGH (and the leader gets huffy and grouchy about it, and suddenly everyone notices that the emperor has no clothes and that the leader were faking it the whole time. And then the local jester has won the day).

So how to GET FUNNIER? And how do I advise you, when comedy is so individual and what you find funny might be different than what I find funny?

First, study funny shit. Study it like a bug. Read funny books or watch comedy shows with an eye of "How are these jokes constructed? What is making it funny?" Frequently you will notice that some comedians aren't actually all that funny, they're just snarky and good at building rapport with the audience, so the audience laughs as an expression of the social bond, not because the joke was legitimately hilarious. (Here is my "this made me Actually Laugh out loud" tag if you want some insight into my comedy style and possible raw material to study)

Second, a lot of writers like Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams have written about the art of writing comedy, and I'm sure that there are how-to books for comedians as well.

There are a couple main things that make something funny: The juxtaposition of things, the element of surprise, anticipation that pays off, repetition of an established joke, and comedic timing. (Notice that surprise and anticipation are OPPOSITES -- sometimes a thing can be funny when we see it coming a mile away. Sometimes a thing is funny when it is unexpected.)

Examples: In this video, the comedy is coming from the juxtaposition of the background song against the long shot of the Oreos. We see the punchline coming from a mile away (the oreo package says "MOST STUF" and yet he takes the oreos apart to increase the stuf, thereby disproving the package's claim), and so it reasserts something that many people already know and have experienced for themselves. It's the "we've all been there" effect. This would probably not be a funny to people who did not grow up eating Oreos, or who for some reason did not go through the spontaneous phenomenon of "take them apart for MORE SUGAR".

Comedic timing is, of course, the king of comedy techniques, and it is the hardest to pull off in writing. Or, well, people say that it is the hardest. It's not actually the hardest, because it's just a subcategory of the technique of Pacing, both on a story level and on a sentence level. If you can figure out how to take control of the reader's mind and ride them like they're a jaeger and you're the pilot, then you can make them laugh. This is done by controlling the SPEED that they're reading at and the rhythm -- control their speed and rhythm and you control comedic timing. Controlling a reader's speed is done with relatively simple techniques, of which there are two big ones:

Sentence length. Really short sentences read fast. Use a lot of short sentences. Your readers will read quickly. This style is easy to skim. Unfortunately, it can also get boring. See what I'm doing here? Lots of short sentences. On the other hand, as everyone knows and as you have probably experienced for yourself, longer sentences give the impression of a longer and more complex and nuanced thought, even if not as much information is being conveyed; it's a simple matter of hanging a lot of dependent clauses off of one main thing and seeing how long you can go before you hit that final full stop. Varying your sentence length varies your timing and starts to unlock some of the timing control necessary to generate comedy. You can put something in a joke rhythm with this and then it will read like a joke.

Forcing a pause. A pause is the alpha and the omega of comedy. Thus, do not underestimate the comedic potential of a strategic paragraph break. The human brain works so quickly that even the NANOSECONDS it takes for your eyes to physically move from one line, through the strategic paragraph break, to the punchline -- that alone is enough time for the brain to register a pause and for the reader to then feel "surprised". Strategic paragraph break is perhaps the king of comedic writing techniques, IMO. (Careful not to overuse it!)

There are other mechanical techniques involved, but these are the big ones for timing. With these, you can take an otherwise unfunny scene and adjust it through nothing but timing alone to suddenly be funny.

Finally, a fun fact: When I am writing comedy, I am writing with a dead straight face. I am a cold and ruthless joke-engineering machine. I nearly never laugh at my own jokes. There is ONE (1) joke that got me to crack when I was writing Running Close to the Wind, and that was someone talking about Avra "scuttling up a tree like a little rat that's got something badly wrong with it". Still makes me grin to this day. Idk man.

Anyway I hope that helped!! wow this got long

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Fragile Snowflake Trump Threatens NBC, Seth Myers for Telling Jokes About Him

J.D. Wolf at MeidasTouch Network:

In a late night Truth Social post, former Trump launched a scathing attack on comedian Seth Meyers and his employer, NBC, accusing the network of spreading political propaganda. Trump specifically targeted Meyers, calling him "Marble Mouth Meyers" and labeling him untalented, before further railing against NBC as a "truly bad group of people." The former president also broadened his criticism to include Comcast, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, accusing them of pushing "in-kind contributions" to the Democratic Party through their programming. Trump framed late-night comedy shows like Meyers' as not merely entertainment but as tools of political warfare, designed to undermine him and the Republican Party.

Fragile snowflake Donald Trump threatens NBC, Comcast, and Seth Meyers all because Meyers ruthlessly and righteously mocks the Orange Wanker.

See Also:

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From the 01.09.2025 edition of NBC's Late Night With Seth Meyers:

[lululandd]

rabid; (i.)

pairing: platonic simon ‘ghost’ riley x gn!reader

word count: 956

warnings: comedy, aftermath of torture, mild gore

note: heheh >:3 (also on ao3)

summary:

ghost has a love-hate relationship with his neighbour of six years. on one hand they’re quiet enough, nice enough, considerate enough and never once had bothered him in any way, but on the other hand he is a highly trained soldier with highly trained senses and the things he hears travelling through his walls are batshit insane.

part i. | part ii. | part iii. | part iv.

He guesses they are an entertainer or a comedian or some sort because on rare occasions, they—whether he wanted to or not—made him laugh. The absurdity of the questions and things that came out of their mouth really makes him feel like he has a glimpse of what a worry free civilian life could be.

On one particularly rowdy night he heard the one sided conversation about anal, which rapidly escalated to how peoples arseholes can stretch up to seven inches in diameter and therefore, theoretically could fit two smaller raccoons.

He listened in fascinated horror how that thought came into their mind, how they associated arseholes with raccoons, and why in christ fuck did they sound so cheerful about it. Maybe he’s just a battle hardened, workaholic soldier that has only seen carnage and suffering, but even if such a thought came to his mind, it would not be classified as a happy thought and he would not laugh about it.

Until eight months later where he’s interrogating an American that he really wants to just straight up murder and remembers his neighbour.

He opens the door that leads to the rest of the warehouse and calls out to his men, “I need two raccoons. Small but not pups.”

He was met with silence and a confused looks, but he saw Gaz and Soap get on it and round up several soldiers.

“Alive!” He barked at them.

—

Soap looked worriedly at Gaz, “What do you think he’s gonna do with live raccoons?”

The other man shrugged, “You think he’s gonna threaten him with rabies?” Gaz gnashed his teeth together, “Let them bite him or something?”

One of the Lance Corporals behind them chimed, “I kinda wanna see.”

In came a chime of ‘yeah’s from the other men.

—

Ghost had made sure the American in question heard his request of the live raccoons before taking a seat on the table holding all his tools and lighting up a cigarette.

He looked at the man’s surroundings, the litter of teeth and nails on the floor, three parts of his severed ring finger, and the blood splatters on the makeshift plastic floor. The cleanup crew’s gonna at least be a little happy about that.

“You like raccoons, mate?” He offers, lighting what seemed to be his third cigarette.

The question caught him off guard. “What?”

“Raccoons. Trash pandas. Those chubby lil wankers with grubby hands.” He curled his palms and did mock scratching motions.

“You’re crazy.” He spat.

“I am.” For even thinking of trying this over his neighbour’s demented jokes.

Fourty five minutes later Gaz came knocking on his door.

“Got your furry friends, boss.” He gestures at a cage sitting by the door. The animals seemed calm, they couldn’t have just nicked it from some random bins and throw them in there.

“Cheers, Gaz.” He saw the man linger. “Anything else?”

“Can we observe, Sir?”

“No.” came his quick answer. If he really has to do what he thinks he’s gonna do, he’d rather his men not see it. They’ve seen so much in their line of work already, he doesn’t want to add to their nightmares.

Imagining one of them having PTSD from seeing a harmless animal makes him feel guilty.

He took the cage from Gaz’s hands and placed it nicely on the floor, a little way away from the American’s feet.

“You know that saying?” He puts on his best southern accent, mimicking Graves. “What crawled up your butt and died?”

The man’s eyes widened and he tried so hard to shift further into his seat, trying to create as much distance between them as possible. Ghost lets the moment go on for a little longer. It makes all the difference, really; whether you rush into the torture or letting them sit and wonder about the choices they think they have.

“I heard somewhere that your arse can stretch up to seven inches in diameter.” He pointed at the raccoons, “The normal sized bastards can fit into a four inch hole. But I’m being nice today and gonna give these smaller ones some wiggle room.”

He can’t help but crouch closer to the cage and coo at them as the man starts yelling for help.

“So.” He said in a calm voice, listing his head slowly when the man had stopped screaming his throat dry. “Since I’m a very nice man today I’m gonna give you two options.”

Fat rolls of tears had started to run down the man’s cheeks, his chest heaving as he begged for mercy.

“Do you want me to sedate these raccoons so they don’t claw your insides or do you wanna..” He remembers a word that floated into his flat one night, “..rawdog it?”

—

Soap had never seen a cleaner interrogation room before. Not from Ghost, the man’s usually so brutal about it. He remembers seeing parts of a live brain one time because Ghost had bashed their skull so badly and remembered having to shoot the person dead out of pity. But today? The intel was good, the man was still alive with almost all of his body parts; save for some of his teeth and nails and the chopped up finger,

and the raccoons.

They were alive and Ghost seemed to never have opened the cage at all.

—

When Ghost came home that month he heard his neighbour say something about a ‘little birthday celebration’ for tomorrow. He checked his watch and decided to walk to the bakery and get them some cake. That last operation went smoothly, and he has them to thank.

He can’t wait to hear what other mental things that will come out of their mouth in the future and apply them to his work.

[sodachalice]

thank you so so so so much for making that post abt the scary acceptance of pedophilia and incest as kinks/fetishes/whatever, I've been feeling crazy for thinking this is all so messed up and backwards (and everyone yelling how "it's just fiction so it doesn't matter!" as if propaganda isn't a thing lmao), I'm genuinely experiencing such a huge feeling of relief to see an artist i really enjoy the work of speak about this 🫶 (also thank you for sharing your art here, I'm really glad to have found your art a few months ago during a tag scroll)

i am so very glad that you feeel a lot of relief with me saying that. there needs to be more people saying it because it is creating a space and a dichotomy on this website where you either get to be a catholic antisex puritan or super proparaphilia to the point that you never criticize it. its kept me from exploring my own sexuality so much as a "weird furry" because truthfully i am into a lot of weird stuff that IS taboo but the idea is if you are into that shit, you ALSO have to be ok with proud paraphilias in your community. and this mindset also KEEPS people stuff in their paraphilias. this is why i bring up that pedophilia and incest isn't a taboo kink, because no, it isn't taboo. you go on pornhub and can find teen and family and rape shit literally everywhere. but you know what you cant find on pornhub? hypno. you're not allowed to look that up. not to make this about homestuck but did you know they deleted and scrapped the beekeeper trolls old design and stuff because they were outed for drawing giantess fetish stuff, but then also included a character thats canonically proshipping, made by a proshipper, whos actively into incest on their blog right now? this is exactly what i fucking mean. the whole "incest/pedophilia is taboo" idea only works in the same way that a comedian saying theyve been "silenced/canceled" works. like boy, i sure do hear a lot of you all the fucking time constantly on every website for something thats supposed to be "Silenced" i wonder why! i wonder what those two things have in common? could it perhaps be that its a fascist tool to silence people who push back against their beliefs? hmmmmmm.

it makes me very angry, and very sick. and i hope that more people are willing to speak up about it because i feel like this mindset also purposefully keeps survivors stuck in traumatized states so that there can continue to be the idea of a biological predator because people LOVE to make categories of people they can kill and torture without guilt. the idea that pedophilia starts nowhere and is just some weird misfiring of the brain implies that anything we do or any kink we have is completely independent of the society we live in, which is literally just not reality at all. like you said, somehow they can keep saying that fiction doesn't effect reality, even though propaganda is real and literally works, advertising is real and literally works, misconceptions are caused by fiction to the point they change reality, and then they also can't seem to figure out that OTHER PEOPLE could be using their art to groom literal actual children. its just so irresponsible, selfish and childish in my opinion. and then you could make the arguement that yeah of course its childish theyre so traumatized that they don't have the emotional capacity to understand the reach theyre causing and im like okay. this is the same logic we apply to autistic men sexually assaulting women. "ohh theyre too unwell and have the mind of a child" ok well get their ass in therapy if they're that incapable as an adult and seriously talk to them and tell them the truth. this is WHY its such a common thing for autistic men to become sexual abusers in the first place because everyone and their fucking mother goes "well he has the mind of a baby so he cant control himself" do fucking something about it then.

im rambling about something thats not even really connected, sorry. i just have a lot of very strong opinions of this that i think need to be said.

[butterfwiesndinorawrs]

Superhero Strengths with the Slumberkins:

Superheroes have a lot of stress in their lives . What's a good way to deal with stress?

1. Using your breath! Nice slow breaths where you make your exhales longer than your inhales can help a lot! I like to imagine I'm slowly blowing up a balloon.

2. Movement. Turning on some music and getting up to dance is a great way to alleviate stress. Big brain studies prove it hehe.

3. Take a short walk in nature. Those can really help clear your mind and get your brain more active in positive ways.

4. Do some coloring or another type of creative project.

5. If you have a pet, play with them or pet them.

6. Laughter! Find something to make you laugh! Whether that's a movie, a comedian, or a friend.

7. Reading a good book is a great way to relieve stress.

8. Journal- get all those stresses out of you and onto paper. This is a great way of processing your emotions and thoughts.

9. Take a shower or a bath- for some this can be very relaxing by itself but if you have a shower steamer or some bubble bath that can help make it more relaxing.

10. Say no when you need to. Often working on strengthening our own boundaries can help relieve stress. Remember it's okay to say no and to protect your own energy.

This is only a few options! What else do you do to help relieve stress? Leave those bits of knowledge below for others to utilize too. Let's share some tools!

[strictlyfavorites]

Christmas Train3

the Cascade Canyon Winter Train.

Train - Hey, Soul Sister [HQ AUDIO] + Lyrics

17 Greatest Movie Scenes On Trains

It's FULL STEAM Ahead - 20 Best Clean TRAIN & RAILWAY Jokes !

We’re about to ride 101 Train Jokes full-speed into Comedy Central Station. Make sure your ticket’s punched, your caboose is comfy, and your sense of humor is fully onboard—this ride’s going to be a laugh-a-minute journey!”

Off the Rails: Hilarious Train Jokes That’ll Track You Up!

Why do trains always make great stand-up comedians? Because their jokes are always on track!

What’s a train’s favorite candy? Choo-choo-chews!

How do trains stay fit? They do track and field.

What’s a train’s favorite sport? Platform diving!

I tried to book a ticket on a ghost train… But it was a fright train!

Why don’t trains ever get lost? They follow their rails-tincts!

How do you stop a train that’s running late? Throw it a line!

Did you hear about the train that lost its luggage? It had too much emotional baggage!

Why are trains so good at chess? They always play on the right track!

Train Passengers All Aboard the Humor Express!

What did one passenger say to the other on the sleeper train? “I’m tired of this conversation!”

Why did the train passengers always bring a pillow? They wanted to avoid platform 9 ¾ of exhaustion.

Why don’t trains allow secret agents on board? Too much undercover work!

What did the late train say to its passengers? “Better late than lever!”

Why did the passengers bring a ladder to the train station? To reach the high-speed rail!

Train Station Humor Why Did the Train Cross the Tracks?

What’s a train station’s least favorite time of day? Rush hour—everyone’s loco!

Why did the train station get in trouble? It was caught platforming lies.

What’s a train station’s favorite movie genre? Rom-coms—they love seeing connections!

Why did the train refuse to leave the station? It had commitment issues.

What do you call a train station that serves coffee? An espresso loco-motive.

Hilarious Train Workers Comedy Gold Inside!

Why did the conductor go broke? He couldn’t keep track of his money!

What do you call a train engineer with no tools? A loco-motivation problem.

Why did the train mechanic break up with the train? Too many repairs in the relationship!

What’s a conductor’s favorite type of music? Soul train tracks!

Why did the conductor never get promoted? He couldn’t handle the pressure of new stops.

Two Fuxing high-speed trains pass by each other at a relative speed of 870 km h, China, April 21, 2022. CMG

China set a new world record of the closing speed among two trains on April 21. This speed of 870 km/h is blisteringly fast for trains. But why is this record significant?

The record is about the speed of two "Fuxing" bullet trains running toward each other. But it's not a collision test in which the trains crash and get destroyed.

Instead, the trains run on two separate tracks side by side on parallel. So, no crashing took place in the test.

Each train ran at the speed of 435 km/h during the test. And when they passed each other, the combined speed doubled to 870 km/h. That's how the record was set.

It's widely known that high-speed railway (HSR) in China is fast. But why does it matter?

The difficult part of the test lies between the two trains. When they passed by each other at such a high speed, the air pressure between the trains became so high that they could be pushed off the rails, leading to disastrous accidents.

If you live near train tracks, you should have been warned to never come close to a fast-moving train. When the train passes, it cuts through the air in front of it, creating chaotic air flows around it, which will likely first blow you away from the train and then, unfortunately, drag you toward the train, resulting in an accident - most of the time a deadly one.

The same thing happened to the two Fuxing bullet trains when they passed by each other. As they ran faster than most trains, the air blew even harder.

If you have taken a ride on the Chinese HSR network, which usually runs at a lower speed of 350 km/h, you may have noticed the short but hard air blow.

How did the engineers prevent accidents from happening then? That's what the record-setting test was all about: getting data to study the changing pattern of air pressure when trains pass each other at a high speed.

The air flow can be hard to study. There's a specific field called "fluid mechanics" in physics that studies such a phenomenon.

"A total of nine new technologies independently developed by China have been adopted on the test trains this time," said Luo Qingzhong, vice president of Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences.

Spider-Man 2 - Stopping the Train Scene (7/10) | Movieclips

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - The Loco-Motion

[jhumka-dhumka]

Thankyou jhumka-dhumka for accepting our request for interviewing you🎀

So here is the questions I have made for you—

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1||• Does our obsession with wellness and self-care empower us—or drown us in self-indulgence?

2||• Is unemployment safety net support helping people—or discouraging self-reliance?

3||• Is cancel culture a way to hold people accountable—or does it encourage online witch hunts?

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Be yourself and have fun<333

Well, First, i wanna thank you ❤️. 1. Better to be obsessed with yourself than others. Its always good to know your flaws, know your curves. I think that confidence. Knowing enough about yourself that you can put your critics to shame. As life goes, i wanna keep on working on myself. As per reading self-help books, i have stopped reading them. People should too. 2. hmm, i think monetary benefits don't really work in the long term. People actually over hype both the extremes. ohh they are doing nothing, and getting money. That's very small mindset thinking. With the age of AI, i am seeing even the most educated people struggling to find jobs. Also, the monetary benefits given by gov. are not too much. All things considered, i think its a positive thing. 3. Society has its own law and culture other than the law of the country. Society keep creating tools to keep the moral values to uphold. Politicians and Comedians can be merge into a same cluster of jobs, where ppl come to listen to you, how good you are depends on various factors. hmm, i wanna ask for cancel culture equality actually, where we cancel politicians or comedians equally. As in introvert i might want to cancel extroverts, but that not fair. In general i would say, anything wrong should be called out,. and leave it at that. Also, don't be too much active on X/twitter or watch too much news

[irregularbillcipher]

discopie is a ship, platonic or romantic, that has so much potential not because “oh they’re both funny and random and she likes his chaos!” but because they are both wildly insecure weirdo freaks who fall into thought cycles where they convince themselves that every friend they have secretly finds them annoying and wishes they were Less Overwhelming, or would be happier with someone else as a friend. pinkie isolates herself when she thinks her friends are ignoring her to the point of a mental break, discord suppresses his magic to the point of nearly killing himself, literally, because he thinks it’s the only way to keep his only friend comfortable, both of them become convinced surprisingly and upsettingly quickly that the people they care about most actually Secretly Hate Them and start being super unhealthy about it. pinkie thinks her friends like another party planner more than her and her next step is “well i need to skip town and never see them again because they think I’m Useless,” discord doesn’t get invited as a plus one to a party and tries to kill fluttershy’s first choice in plus-one about it. both of them, once discord has actual people in his life that care about him, have this insane shared insecurity that they are Too Much and Too Annoying and People Are Going To Leave. they find themselves in a situation where people aren’t engaging with them and they turn into standup comedians, literally, because that’s the one tool they feel they have even if it’s really only making things worse

discord and pinkie would absolutely have fun together if they were ever allowed to really interact, but the true core of this dynamic to me is a Recognition Of The Self Through The Other type deal, where one of them gets into one of these “all my friends are busy today and that means all my friends hate me, actually” funks and the other just pops up the minute they start feeling bad, and they just spend the entire day hanging out together. and yeah, they spend that day doing insane shit, discord poofs up a pocket dimension and pinkie loads her party cannon with edible explosives and they spend half the day blowing themselves up for Enrichment, but it’s mostly just about that reassurance that there’s someone in their life who can match their energy and wants to spend time with them

[mielthebee]

I’ve been enjoying taking notes on memetic value and my theory of Labour and Adoration Economies.

In particular, this theory states that when a people have been nourished in all five villages by their leaders, the people will volunteer labour and adoration to foster exponential growth in the societal currency of labour and adoration.

In order to make this point accessible please allow me to contribute the concept of fanart.

Our favourite translators are those who nourish all five of our villages. The medical, societal, spiritual, magical and memetic. I will quickly define these concepts here…

The Villages Theory:

Medical Village: persons and tools who allow you to regulate your body’s needs.

Memetic Village: concepts and connections that allow you to participate in discussion.

Magical Village: loved ones and experiences that nourish your life with entertainment.

Spiritual Village: figures and experiences that allow you to fulfill a sense of belonging and unity.

Societal Village: tools and teams that are focused on improving and sustaining your rights to exist and thrive.

Translator: any person who can make connections between information and make concepts accessible through education, entertainment or regulation.

Language: the format in which information is transmitted (art, academic literature, experiences, performances, connections, services).

Coming back to fanart. We make art, we TRANSLATE LOVE and MAGIC that we receive from our favourite translators (musicians, writers, comedians, artists, educators, idols) for free when we adore them. We are, whether we realize it or not, offering labour and adoration in exchange for the services that our translators provide. The chase for fame is easily poisoned by greed and the desire for societal acceptance, however, there are figures that we know and love that have successful careers and lots of money that we still adore in this manner. In searching through the patterns of adoration and understanding the economy of trading in between the villages in my “village theory”, I’ve noticed there seems to be a correlation in between a translator’s labour of nourishment and a desire for a consumer to connect with a translator through labour of adoration.

To make it easier, it seems to me that..

Assuming all parties are engaging in informed, enthusiastic, consensual dialogue (the translator is a public figure or closely related/associated figure to that person)…

Assuming a consumer’s basic survival needs are being met (to a point where they are able to provide labour freely)…

A translator’s enthusiasm to provide magic, memetic, spiritual, medical and societal economic trade will be directly matched by a consumer’s desire to provide labours of adoration.

Take for example, one of my favourite translators in the world… BBNO$.

Bibinos is a public figure. This means that trading with his community and with him is a free memetic economy. This is informed and enthusiastic consent, and he regularly encourages this labour in exchange for his ability to be the face of what they value. He is also an active member of the communities that adore him, and as such he has a direct line to trade with as many people as possible.

This environment is the ideal place for memetic and magical labour to flourish. Not only does BBNO$ actively nourish his own memetic and magical villages by being an absolute legend in most circles of GenZ culture and posting brain rot and cringe, but he is an active part of the spiritual, societal and medical villages.

Easy examples off the top of my head are his association with memes and photos like those attached at the bottom of this post.

These are all taken from the Instagram page “bbnogames”. Although the account is not run by Bibinos, he is a frequent contributor to the discussion and participates in his meme culture actively. His public denial of fragile masculinity and refusal to deny himself and his community magic are itself societal and medical village works. His spiritual leadership comes from his ability to connect persons with each other. As spiritual villages are the guiding paths between persons to achieve a sense of belonging, BBNO$ has and I think always will be one of my favourite examples of a complete translator.

Although he may never read this, I would like to immediately acknowledge that he is an essential part of our memetic economy. If anything should reach his ears I hope it’s this.

You are fueling the revolutionaries.

You are feeding the people starved of magic, you are contributing your talents to a society of people that because of you, have the energy to keep going.

I’ve heard translators say “the work I do isn’t that important. I just make silly music/jokes/art”.

I want you to know that’s not true. Your work is important BECAUSE it is silly. Because it challenges the systems at play that are currently cutting off circulation between peoples villages and you are not afraid to be cringe. You are not afraid to become labelled, and you are not afraid to be adored the way that your community knows you are fit to be adored.

If ever there comes a time where you think “I don’t deserve this”. You’re wrong.

Because our labour is a direct and complete ratio to the magic you’ve provided us.

[mask131]

There is one thing people should get more accustomed to: when talking about a piece of folklore, of legend, of superstition, of anything - it should become to norm the add a brief explanation about the "why" of the folklore or superstition. The cultural, religious or historical context that explain it. Because there are a lot of people who just repeat some specific facts about myths or legends without explaining why it was so in the context, and as a result people lose a lot of background info needed to understand it.

For example, I'll invent an example: In France, an actor, a theater-performer, a comedian had much higher chances to become a vampire, just like people committing suicides. (I made this up, except for the suicide part, it was indeed believed people who died by suicide had a likely chance to return as vampires).

If people repeat this fact again and again because it was in the legend, in turn other people are going to say "Oh yes, being an actor was what caused the vampirism". When in fact no. Why would actors be more likely to become vampires? Because for centuries and centuries, in France, actors were not considered Christian people, were refused any right to be part of the Church or partake in religious rituals, and as such they were denied a proper grave in Christian soil, or a place into a cemetery. And thus just like suicides, they were buried in un-sacred, non-consecrated earth, outside of any proper funeral ritual - hence the threat of returning as an undead monster. [Note: While I invented the part about actors being vampires, the whole burial thing is actually true. Up until the late 18th century in France, actors were considered mortal sinners by virtue of doing theater, and thus they were refused all Christian rites and rituals, from weddings to funerals, and even the greatest and most beloved actors were thrown into large corpse-pits and unmarked crossroad-graves like vulgar criminals]

This is just an example, but this shows how an important thing when dealing with folklore and legendary beings and other traditions of various cultures is to place it back into the religious, social and historical context that explains it. Today a lot of people consider that blacksmiths should have been "good" people in terms of folkloric beliefs - because media popularized the idea for example of how iron was used to protect from fae, and how legendary blacksmiths forged the weapons of great heroes, and thus there is this tendency in folkloric-fiction to depict blacksmiths as these positive, helping figures. But a lot of people don't know that in some parts of Europe during specific centuries, blacksmiths were rather seen with suspicion, fear and dread if not hate - because due to them being these massive, powerful men wielding dangerous tools, due to them living by heat and fire and soot, due to them knowing a mysterious and hard craft some associated with things such as alchemy, there is a recurring belief that smiths were sorcerers, warlocks, or associated with the devil, or that they would return after their death as vampires.

But if you just say randomly "Oh yes, it was believed blacksmiths could return as vampires", people might read this as "It was the job of being a blacksmith that caused the vampirism", when in fact the real reason behind this belief was the smith's association with devilish/hellish elements like fire and flames and soot, and the equation of his secretive and marvelous craft with other mysterious prodigious arts like "magic". Hence a tradition of blacksmith-warlocks...

I have been using European vampire beliefs here, but the same can be applied to anything. Someone who doesn't know about the concept of "hubris" will misunderstood half of Greek mythology. Someone who doesn't know what is wrong with being "effeminate" in Old Norse society will miss half of the subtext of Norse mythology. Someone who doesn't know about the tradition of "Jack tales" will be quite puzzled upon finding so many folktales involving a "Jack"...

[mintytealfox]

hello! i feel myself becoming really invested in dorothy and gilbert 😂 they’re so cute and love when you post about them! i was wondering how you would describe their dynamic and what their thoughts about each other are?

LOL LOOL AWWWWW YAY ;w; That fills me with the HAPPY XD

There is still a lot I want to figure out about them~ but the overall vibe they give off makes me think that they fill in each other’s blanks

Dorothy pulled Gilbert out of his dead-end life and brought him along with her. Giving him a place to be, by her side. Gilbert reminds Dorothy that there is still good in the world. He makes her smile and laugh. Dorothy initially thought it was all superficial and ridiculous, but once she sees him during one of his lows, she realizes he presents himself as the good hearted comedian for her AND himself. Cause when you’re busy making others laugh and have a good time, you aren’t feeling the deep sorrow and self loathing that is inside. When Dorothy finds him in that state, alone in the dark, she realizes how hard he actually works. And she appreciates him and his efforts to cheer her up so much more. She even becomes his person that just sits and listens when he needs it. Just like he became for her.

When they are on a safe breaking job/robbery. It’s Gilbert’s job to get the safe open while Dorothy watches his back and keeps him safe. He can usually crack them without explosives and just his tools, but on the rare occasion he always has an explosion ready for back up LOL

Funnily enough it is usually Dorothy who gets distracted and it’s Gilbert who guides her back where she needs to be. Dorothy can get stuck in moments that trigger her, she hears a certain sound, sees a particular object and she will just freeze in place like her eyes are seeing a movie, this can even happen in the middle of a shootout and Gilbert has to grab her and run. They have both gotten hurt during these episodes. When it first happened, when they were on a job together, Gilbert was initially furious with her cause they both were almost caught. But mid sentence into expressing his frustrations with her, he realizes that this is something else, something beyond just an accident, that it’s a condition. So instead of being angry with her he just nods to himself and becomes resolved with staying by her side.

Dorothy will stand up for Gilbert. Gilbert has never once experienced someone standing up for him or protecting him, so when it happens he is taken aback in a state of shock that actually brings tears to his eyes. He could have just shrugged off what was happening, making a joke about it later like he usually does but here is this person who crashed into his life that is doing the main thing he wished he could have had in his life, ever since he was a kid, 'someone that will stand up for him'

So all in all they end up adoring and appreciating each other~ they ying each other's yang heheh

one says JUMP and the other says HOW HIGH?? both playing either part depending on the situation heh

[ladykailitha]

Metal band AU for WIP Wednesday please 💕

WIP Wednesday! Make me write.

Don't send in new asks. I am only emptying out my inbox. It might take me a couple of days, but I will get through them all, you beautiful people!

First ask here.

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Steve let out a shuddering breath and his lip quivered. “Nancy–she almost called me by my real name right in front of our producer. She almost outed me without a single thought or care. I–I’d never been more frightened in my life when she nearly slipped up. She had been so mad at me and I just wanted to get out of there, but I forced myself to stay there and listen to her.”

Vickie stood up and knelt in front of him, taking one of his hands as his friends offered their verbal support.

“I hate how much power she had in that conversation,” she murmured. “Agents like managers and PR firms are tools to help you navigate a job which constantly changing. That goes for actors, artists, athletes, comedians, and musicians of all walks of life. They should be supporting you, not making you miserable.”