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what do you think of first when you see the initials GB? (try to think of an answer before viewing the poll)

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TICHINA ARNOLD, MICHELLE WEEKS and TISHA CAMPBELL as Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986)

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You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

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Why do robins lay blue eggs? It seems kinda counterintuitive to have brightly visible eggs that are easily seen by predators.

it's so they can recognize their own eggs!

a predator really won't be able to see the eggs in the first place unless it's already found the nest, meaning it's going to find those eggs anyway at that point, so robins made their eggs a brilliant sky blue as an adaptation against brood parasitism.

brood parasitism can be a major concern for songbirds, because it means that parent birds will raise an unrelated species instead of their own offspring, and this may be the only breeding season they get if they're unlucky.

(note that cowbirds and cuckoos are NOT EVIL, this is just nature!)

BUT BACK TO ROBINS:

one of these is a cowbird egg, can you tell which?

SO CAN THE ROBINS. that little sucker is getting yeetus the fetus'd as soon as mom or dad returns from foraging and finds a weird little not-blue egg in the nest.

which is just another reason why robins are so successful! we're knee deep in these suckers every spring and summer because they are in fact, VERY good at being birds.

bop bop.

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The 8-year-old, Bear, a good-natured but clownish and impulsive person, was winding up the scrupulous quartermaster of the 5-year-old (Bug) by not listening to me and - for reasons that make sense to Bear - indicating this by gnawing comedically on the side of the bathtub.

Bug visibly composed themselves and said, with phenomenal access to another plane, with an exquisite blend of patience and judgment and teacherish tone, “Bear, if you have trouble controlling your chewing, Mummy can buy you a silicone necklace. For a SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION.”

(This did not work on Bear, who is perfectly capable of not being a nuisance, and would like a new necklace. but is a fascinating look at Bug’s mind.)

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Some of you are getting a little bit too Joseph Campbell with folklore, acting like every single folktale has the same lesson, the same story, acting like folklore is somehow counterculture when it's very much culture, as in, "teaches and enforces mainstream ideas of the culture that produced it."

Guys I LOVE folklore; that's why this bullshit about "it's always about being kind is clever and being clever is being kind" type of new age illiterate hokum is making me real fuckin tired.

Have you actually, you know, been told or read any old folktales? Or are you reading fanfiction of them, or relying on your memory of disney movies?

The POINT of folktales is that they model and teach all the DIFFERENT values and mores of a culture. They are entertaining, but they have purpose in a way that modern fiction doesn't, because folktales carry culture forward, teach it to the next generation.

"When we told ourselves our past with stories, explained our present with stories, foretold our future with stories..." isn't just a beautifully-written piece of dialogue, it's true.

Kindness is not the only fucking value or moré a culture has, if they have it. Kindness isn't even DEFINED the same way across all cultures. There is no universal cultural truth. Some stories teach kindness, others teach cleverness, or humility, or obedience, or hospitality rules, or duty, or any number of things! To say all folktales are actually about kindness does them a HUGE disservice and insult!

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Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.

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The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

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Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe

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Hey what’s the weirdest, morally neutral parenting hack thing you do? For us our 2.5 year old refuses to take any kind of medicine so we mix her meds in sugar free root beer and call it magic root beer

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trump's big beautiful bill, which just passed congress, expands ICE's budget from $9.6 billion to over $170 billion, of which $45 billion is appropriated for new detention centers. not only is this budget bigger than the budget of the federal bureau of prisons, but it's greater than the military expenditure of all countries besides america and china ($246 billion), giving more money to ICE than the russian military receives ($129 billion). it will completely remake american society

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My friends husband got this awesome photo of me at the parade!

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my best friend’s miniature horse Smoochie just won the mayoral race on our island (just barely placing before a beloved humpback whale) and Saga walked in from a nap and I said “Smoochie is mayor!” and they went “wh..huh?” and I said, “Smoochie, [friends]’s horse is mayor!” and Saga said “I don’t…know this meme” so Maggie and I started saying “Smoochie! THE REAL MINIATURE HORSE THAT WE KNOW IN REAL LIFE IS THE NEW MAYOR!!!!” as if the sentence made any sense to anyone off-island and if we just kept repeating it Saga would know why Smoochie is mayor

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My apologies to whatever poor Ao3 tag wrangler first sees the 'Bruce Wayne Muppet Threeesome' tag.

Your gift basket is in the mail.

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