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happy pride instead of throwing money in the garbage buying crappy pride shit from target or pining away for mainstream franchises that only give you table scraps when it's convenient please consider directly supporting literally any of the queer indie shit being made accessible online by queer indie creators ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ your money OR your fanwork OR whatever form of support you feel compelled to offer will be so so much more impactful; marvel movies will keep coming out no matter what, but making cool fanart for that queer webcomic you've been checking in on for years could reach new readers to help the artist make rent so they can keep posting! It all helps!! Please Consider It.

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My ex and Ialways had a relationship where I was the practical one doing DIY, gardening and Cooking.

Since he got his own place I've been helping him put up shelves and pictures, build flatpack furniture and generally DIY around his flat.

And I always have to lug my toolbox up to his because everyone who does DIY knows that a job that should take a phillips head screw driver ends up needing a hammmer drill, a rubber mallet and a weirdly specific allen key.

We've always been comfortable with this (he's not a man to feel "emasculated" by his female ex putting shelves up for him) so i thought as a silly father's day present I'd get him a basic tool kit. In shocking pink. And a "women's guide to DIY" type book. He'd find it funny.

Looked on amazon. The pink "toolkit for women" is £4 more than the red "toolkit".

Looking at the specs it's not engineered for smaller hands or lower strength. It's literally priced higher because it's fucking pink so for "ladies".

Excuse me while i take my trusty dark green hammer drill to capitalism

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alright! we've got a new blog here, so i wanted to start things out by saying i'm dedicating the month of May to be my own little Piracy Month!

i hate how dependent the average joe schmoe is on multi-billion dollar corps just to get a chance at enjoying the media he wants to enjoy. even if you pay to use the service, you are by no means guaranteed access to what you pay for all the time. streaming services like netflix and disney+ sunset and vault content all the time, with no consideration for the end user at all. even with gamers, you can pay $70 for a game and if steam decides to remove that game from steam's library, you're now down $70 AND you don't have the game.

fuck these corporations for essentially forcing us to be dependent on them just to enjoy things. i'm gonna take things into my own hands and start building up my own storage of PHYSICAL media, and these corpos aren't getting a cent outta me for it. i'm gonna pirate my favorite shows, movies, games, etc. and give my money to those who actually deserve it, like if i bought an artist's album off bandcamp or smth like that. and i'm gonna put em on physical media: mp3 players, cd's, etc. so that way, even if these twats decide to sunset EVERYTHING and fuck everyone over, i'll still have my own little slice of physical enjoyment, that NO ONE can take from me!

it's time to sail the high seas

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Can I just say: I hate it when people call every little thing over consumerism. No, putting something into a reusable container to fit in your cabinets properly is not over consumerism. No, having home personalization (ex: a pink themed kitchen) is not over consumerism.

I've seen people call DIY-ing a jewelry plate over consumption. THEY MADE IT THEMSELF???? How is that over consumerism?!?

I feel like people need to learn the real definition of it. For anyone who doesn't properly know (/lh):

"Overconsumption refers to the excessive use of goods and services to the point where resources are depleted or the environment is negatively impacted. It often leads to waste and can harm both individual well-being and the planet's health."

It just bothers me so much how so many people think the smallest amount of personalization is bad! Even if it came from themselves and their own creativity.

yeah all this is right on. people saying this have a very not correct idea on what overconsumerism is. its not an aesthetic issue, its an ethical one.

you can have a clean girl ikea showroom hashtag minimalism core home and still be doing overconsumerism

you can have a home covered in throws and pillows and trinkets and maximalist fancies and that not be overconsumerism

people who call ornamental additions in a home overconsumerism have that "does having decorative pillows make you part of the bougeoisie" mindset, and to that just remember that people have real problems.

go diy yourselves an unnecessary jewelery plate today punks

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After having officially finished the BTTF Minute podcast, I'd like to share another piece of conversation that I really liked.

It was during the scene where Marty first shows up to '55 Doc's house and chases him out to the garage, where Marty then goes through the whole "I know how you got the bruise on your head" story where he recounts the invention of the flux capacitor. One of the hosts of the show (can't remember which off the top of my head) mentioned that he was surprised Marty could remember all the details of that story he'd only just been told in the parking lot with Doc. Then Nick said something like, "Maybe that's what makes him such a great assistant for Doc. He's got a good memory."

And I just absolutely love that that ended up being their conclusion, because I feel like it's sort of an unconventional trait to assign to Marty? Especially considering the fact he's labeled a slacker by Strickland, and that Marty just generally appears frazzled and confused a lot. It's easy to label him a scatter-brain, make all the "Marty has a single brain cell" jokes and everything. He's a silly guy.

So them just casually agreeing that Marty's got a really good memory, and that it's part of why he works so well with Doc is super interesting! And you know what? I agree with them and think it's a great headcanon. Marty was told the flux capacitor story once at like 1:30 in the morning after just having witnessed a car travel through time. Yet he committed the entire story to memory in the moment, even remembering the name "flux capacitor" which is impressive considering that's a brand new term he'd just been introduced to. And he's able to re-tell the story for Doc in such a panicked moment after being sent to the past and having suffered recent head trauma.

Marty remembers it because he was interested! Totally invested in everything Doc was saying in that moment, so the whole story stuck, nearly word for word. And being in the "Marty has adhd" camp, I think it's very fitting of his character to be seen as a slacker or lazy by others and then have these moments where we see just how bright he is when the environment is right. And I love thinking about how maybe when they first met, Doc understood this right away. That he looked at Marty and went, "Oh, this kid is smart. He just doesn't know it."

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it turns out a lot of people are actually on the same page about whether or not they'd work if they didn't have to earn money, we just all seem to have wildly different definitions of what counts as work. i'll see one person say "of course i would, i'd still want to create art and volunteer in my local community" and another say "hell no i wouldn't, i'd quit work and just create art and volunteer in my local community" and then they look at eachother like they said something incomprehensible.

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Jumba just delighting in Stitch's existence. He goes through the original movie willing to turn him in for his own freedom (that is, if he was going to stick to the deal he had with the Grand Councilwoman) so I don't think even he realized how deep his affection for his creation was until later.

(He does switch over to his side 'juuuust like that'.)

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Disney announced that they’re planning on sequels to the Lilo and Stitch remake (uggghhhhh) and obviously we don’t know if they’re gonna be based on any of the actual sequels and/or spinoffs of the original but thinking about Lilo and Stitch sequels just reminded me of that scene near the end in Stitch Has a Glitch where Stitch dies and Jumba takes Stitch out and cradles the experiment he’s come to consider a son to him since Stitch basically is his son…

Then that just got me raging all over again about how Jumba was changed to just be a villain. Ffs there’s a difference between being a villain and an antagonist. Jumba and Pleakley were antagonists throughout the first and second half of the movie since their goal was to capture Stitch, but then this magical little thing called character development happened. Gantu was the villain and they got rid of him because Complexity Bad, we need to change Jumba’s whole character instead (and Cobra Bubbles, but that’s a rant for another day).

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Turning this big loveable goofball into an irredeemable villain in the Lilo and Stitch live-action remake is a red flag. Especially after this ending scene.

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Can we talk about how well animated the emotion is in this scene? The camera movement to show us Stitch quickly glancing around the thicket? The fact that despite being very powerful he's clearly afraid of Jumba and at his most vulnerable, he's only been alive for a short time, and Jumba hasn't gone through his character development yet - and speaks so callously to him.

I'll always commend 'Stitch Has a Glitch' for highlighting Stitch's struggles, as well as just how much Jumba would come to love him. What gets me is that Stitch is waiting for his family to show up and Jumba appears.

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Underappreciated moment from (og, naturally) Lilo and Stitch: when Pleakley's trying on his wig again in his and Jumba's little campsite, and Jumba catches him starting to get into it, Jumba's reaction isn't mockery, it's interest. And the whole argument starts, not because Pleakley's having to justify his choices, but because he doesn't want to let Jumba try on his wig. Everything now and then I think about Jumba bellowing "Share!!!" while tackling Pleakley, and I giggle to myself, such a good moment!

10/10, no notes!

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Lilo & Stitch's need to make absolutely everyone round and squishy and adorable is so. Yes. Like, look at Jumba.

This is a crazed evil scientist that wants to bring chaos to the galaxy just for fun, ending lives and civilizations and stuff like that.

But he's so precious.

Jumba Jookiba - Lilo & Stitch (2002)

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this is like lingerie to me

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i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it's common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i'm starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that's what it's built for. but nowadays we don't think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don't keep address books anymore because it's all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it's all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you're still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.