So I saw you asked for more rickrolls but I have a rickroll story I reckon was kinda fun.
So I was asked to play clarinet for an awards ceremony in when I was in middle school. Backing music while some kids got awards, no biggie, easy enough, I'd been playing for years already. So it's the night before the ceremony, and I completely forgot about it. And I didn't have any solo pieces. So I went through all the sheet music websites, memorised all the youtube tutorials, everything - cause I needed a good 10 minutes worth of music. I ended up printing off like Colours of the Wind from Pocahontas and some other stuff.
Anyway, come to the day, and I go on stage to play. And the chaos demon in me was like "nah, forget normal songs, play Never Gonna Give You Up" (because I had the sheet music for that next to my printed out normaller stuff).
So I listened to the chaotic thoughts, but I didn't want to get in trouble, so I just slowed it down, played a bit with it (I'd been playing jazz for years, so I was used to mucking around with melodies), and yeah, I just rickrolled all 500 kids (and parents and teachers) there.
So that was fun.
(I just remembered I had this video of it actually: https://youtu.be/nsCIeklgp1M?t=5 )
THAT IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF STORY I NEEDED TO HEAR RN OMG THANK YOU!!
and also that is ICONIC?! you are an icon, thank you for sharing!!!
also the VIDEO OMG!! having a visual just makes it even more iconic, thank you :)
tumblr users all of a sudden: oh yeah this website is SO good for art hehehe it’s waaayyyy better than twitter it’s so supportive of artists we love art so much here uwu art for the win!! ✨ 😘 💕 ��✨
artists who have spent the last 4+ years on their hands and knees begging people to reblog their art just to be ignored every single time because half this website acts like their nuts will be ripped off with the claw end of a hammer if they reblog a single drawing:
taken out of context, Goncharov is actually one of the funniest characters of all time.
he refuses to have sex with his hot wife. she invites him to dinner with Sofia (and was almost CERTAINLY going to propose a threesome) but he's like no thank you. i have to go stare into Andrey's eyes for 3 hours. he gets a motorcycle and crashes it 10 minutes later. he gives a eulogy at the funeral of a guy he killed. he picks a fight with a grandfather clock and the clock wins. his wife loses the mansion in a poker game because he was busy throwing a tantrum in his man cave and then she comes home and points a gun at him and he looks at her like a middle-aged suburban dad whose kids just broke the TV remote for the fifth time.
adrien is acespec, autistic, genderqueer, and arguably not human (sentibeing). he does not realize any of these facts, however, because that would require knowing himself. which he does not
Look, this rainfrog is called Breviceps bagginsi, so I don't have a lot of choice, now do I?
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Also, I would go with them to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor.
Low Fantasy
Phyllomedusine hylids have a certain weird clown marionette vibe to them. Just look at these Pithecopus rohdei.
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Lovecraftian
The male Rhinoderma darwinii raises his tadpoles in his vocal sac.
Sci-Fi
Gephyromantis pseudoasper sometimes wear handsome stripes—very Space Age™
But more importantly, their calls evoke a battle with laser-blasters.
I filmed this calling male in 2017 at an obscene hour of the morning.
Horror
Trichobatrachus robustus, aka the Hairy Frog, has flanks and thighs covered in weird, hair-like outgrowths that increase oxygen exchange over its skin, and BREAKS ITS FINGERS TO STAB YOU WITH CLAWS MADE OF BONE
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Romance
Breviceps males physically glue themselves to the back-ends of females, and if that's not romance, I don't know what is.
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Comedy
Nyctimantis arapapa are probably amongst the funniest-looking frogs out there.
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Adult
The 'poly' in Polypedates may be a double entendre
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Crime and Mystery
Calyptocephalella gayi is a Galaxy Brain frog.
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Speculative
Myobatrachus gouldii is basically what would happen if you decided to try to build a turtle, but you only had frog pieces in the kit.
Will a *checks notes* YouTube personality scandal finally convince people that training is necessary to do history responsibly and well, and that examining the qualifications of self-labeled "historians" matters? Probably not, but I can dream.
every time i say tumblr staff (and tumblr itself let's be real) made social media worse by never punishing harassment, allowing people to get comfortable pushing cancel and callout culture so they could harass and dehumanize anyone (especially minorities) they want without ever having to worry about consequences, an attitude they brought with them to other websites like tiktok and twitter after the 2018 porn ban....
This is what I'm talking about. tumblr staff doesn't give a shit if you're stalked and harassed, but if you're a trans woman posting selfies? instant ban.
tumblr staff has NEVER done anything to protect its users, but now they're actively participating in doing the harm.