#you know for kids

[ms-scarletwings]

The hell is everyone always acting like King Ramses was the scariest thing to ever happen in Courage? You know how many nightmares I had as a child of the silly cgi man? How many nights I was up thinking about whatever slab he wants me to return?

None, zilch.

Donut.

That’s not me gloating about being a tough kid or whatever, this show scared the SHIT out of my 7 year old ass many times. But that absolute meme????? He’s not even top ten material. His episode is literally more comedy that keeps taking the piss out of itself than actual horror. He’s not properly even a monster or a villain, just a very patient ghost that only wants to punish stubborn grave robbers, and he admittedly has catchy taste in music. If I were to make an iceberg meme about this show, Ramses wouldn’t even show up below the water line. But does he really deserve that reputation?

I’m trying so hard to understand why y’all have lower case ‘t’ trauma surrounding this character but somehow don’t even remember to mention…… this

That shit made me turn the channel immediately whenever the cockroach episode came up for years.

Or like, the windmill vandals. Good lord why does no one talk about the windmill vandals? They had NO business bringing that level of suspenseful storytelling or that art style to a prime time CN broadcast slot. The ost played on their arrival is still downright dread inducing.

Harvest moon guy??? Anyone else remember him or is it really just me bearing that mental burden???? Like actually wtf was with them approving the harvest moon episode’s direction? This is honest to god not photoshop, just actual screen caps burned forever into my elder zoomer brain.

You’re Gonna overshadow that t h i n g for the Man in Gauze?

Or do the same with Benton Tarantella and his associate?

And honest to god if ANYTHING, any single moment in this entire series actually rightfully earned the childhood nightmares it starred in, it was not King Ramses when this sequence was also aired to compete with him

Yep… still gives me the shivers…

[paulsebert]

Was researching the 2000s Krypto cartoon and... uh...

They had to know right?

[jadeazora]

And here I thought the Chamblemon episode was uncomfortable, silly me. Now Ghost Game is having this dude go on a date with his girlfriend’s dead body.

She’s possessed, but no one’s home behind those eyes.

[dafukdidiwatch]

The Fourteenth Doctor of

Soooooo it is our big battle time! It is stike for us to Strike! To figure shit out as what the hell is going on!

Two titans duking it out, ancient and experiences in ways of magic and their world! Tessa possessed by Gloop and mystery narrator Rose girl who controls the magic around them!

Time to see what secrets they spill and if death is imminent

[xekstrin]

One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.

The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.

“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”

The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”

“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.

I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.

He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”

“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”

A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.

I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.

So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….

“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.

Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.

The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.

So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)

But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.

“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”

[feluka]

oh god shut up. you didn't even know the damn kid.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe, and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." — James Baldwin

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

[emberglowfox]

Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)

*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.

This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.

[marzipanandminutiae]

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

[ms-scarletwings]

Thinking out loud but good lord was it disturbing or was it disturbing that the only reason really that Sly survived the events of what went down on Kaine Island was because Dr.M was sadistically vindictive enough to torture him to death rather than play the cold, calculating villain that clockwerk was (I.e. stop messing around and kill the bastard who’s in your way to victory already)?

That thing he was plugged into was more than strong enough to just spike him into the shore rocks to get it over with, or swiftly crinkle him in like a soda can,

hell, if you fail the rescue as Carmelita, you’re punished with a cutscene of the monster literally devouring Sly, still conscious, in one gulp.

The setup originally kind of implied that the MO was going to be getting the life crushed out of him, but the funny thing is that broken ribs or limbs were “miraculously” not even on the list of injuries they found on the poor guy after he was let go. A concussion was, though.

That concussion was probably both… not intentional, and it might have deadass been what saved his life.

I kept wondering as a kid how squeezing the body = head injury and figured it was a suspension of belief sort of deal, and then today I realized that Sly most likely got the concussion during the face-off that started when Carmelita showed up- the beast was violently swinging him around for the majority of that mess, and it’s actually fortune in disguise that it rendered him unconscious. Any other incapacitating injury and M would have finished him off himself rather than turning his attention elsewhere and allowing the gang to retrieve him.

The crushing was only a cat playing with its meal. M didn’t just want Sly to suffer. He wanted to watch him fight against the inevitable, writhing on full display for the entire gang like the helpless worm he truly reduced Conner’s son to. It was probably the most joy the madman had gotten a taste of in decades and he was going to savor every second of it he could wring out. That’s seriously how deep his resentment for the Coopers had become. And he would have kept that up for as long as Sly had that tenaciously stubborn will and strength in him to keep struggling.

So,

I have to

notice,

the timing/connection between

dying in the rescue mission as Carmelita, and then immediately watching M’s play come to an end.

[littler3d]

I’m sorry if I was in any version of the pjo universe I would’ve clocked that Percy was the son of Poseidon as soon as the bathroom incident occurred. Tf you mean “I wonder who your dad is” he EXPLODED A TOILET. Chiron this is the second water incident you have witnessed how are you still confused

[jadeazora]

I fucking jinxed it, saying they haven’t been bold enough to show a corpse yet. Because only a couple weeks later from Lilithmon’s episode, Ghost Game basically went, “Hey kids, wanna see a dead body?!”

The only question is if she’ll stay dead, they’ve been holding back on human death since Calamaramon’s episode.

[itsreaditandwow2]

Please be photosynthesis. Please be photosynthesis.

Alia Shelesh (SSSniperWolf)

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

Yall remember how Texas had that "report an abortion" form that they had to take down after a week?

Well, Missouri has one, only it's for reporting transgender concerns.

Comrades. Friends. Romans. Countrymen. You know what to do.