zell2036
(Future) President Zell
We deserve a president that's terminally online. Founder & Director of the Pedestrian Party
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I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.
If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?
Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can't go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can't work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.
Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you'd let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.
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My god y'all if you don't have a Dropout subscription get a Dropout subscription. I just started binging Game Changer and what the hell is this show.
It's a Saw-like dissection of Brennan Lee Mulligan's psyche and last nerve.
It's Sam Reich telling the players one episode that he's phoning it in today and they're just gonna play Jeopardy and then the Jeopardy board becomes an elaborate pirate adventure with custom art of a sexy octopus man, a city inside a whale, and a Jimmy Buffet-esque parrothead Poseidon.
It's Ally Beardsley getting paid $5000 to buzz a notch into one of their eyebrows on camera.
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You guys really liked my last poll so
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You guys really liked my last poll so
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Isn't this contextual?
Specifically, fascism has commonly been described as unoriginal, as a cuckoo that inculcates itself in the ideas of other movements, coopting the signs and signifiers of organizations that have more egalitarian goals, but does that discount the validity of the original movement?
Tradition isn't inherently evil, modernity isn't inherently good, and using a pithy slogan doesn't necessarily imply a subscription to a fascist ideology. Even being reactionary isn't an automatic indication that someone's an ass, because it depends on what they're reacting to- in conversations about gender and self determination, a reactionary is denying individual liberties, while a technical reactionary might be rejecting the metaverse or the commodification of attention.
I'm not saying that some people AREN'T using these slogans as right-wing recruitment tools, but there's no reason that the left can't steal some of them back. I personally like trains, and I support rapid mass transit as a step towards full freedom of movement, which I believe is an inherent good; calling back to a time when people didn't need to spend thousands of dollars (buying a car) to regularly go between American cities is a powerful retorical tool, and a refutation of the electric vehicle movement that's merely a stopgap in the climate war.
And pithy slogans are needed to win political battles. Presenting a world that's different, improved, necessitates that people can imagine it, that they can see how they fit into this new, grand vision. This isn't building a scientific doctrine off of the abhorrent practices of Mengelev, it's looking at the rebuilding of Europe after WW1 and saying that it wasn't finished, that it was coopted in the service of fascist optics.
Living in the world of slogans alone is lazy, and abandoning the ones with power is cowardice. If we're just policing the origin and not the current usage, then we're alienating potential allies, and in a democracy, that's a good way to bury the very reforms that you might insist on.
i've been seeing this around a lot lately as like a little memey jokey thing but "this is what they took from you" is a fascist meme.
"they" are jewish people/"the global elite"/"cultural marxists"/"globalists"/"the woke left" etc.
and it's basically the same as "RETVRN" like this is explicitly a fascist thing that fascists say about their fascist beliefs
please don't go around saying it
you can talk about capitalist enshittification without invoking fascism, and just because YOU mean something different doesn't mean it's not invoking those things it's explicitly meant to invoke
#screed#jargon and slogans#tone policing#disagreeing on semantics#the most passionate fights are between people who almost entirely agree with each other#punctuation used vernacularly
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May Writing Challenge
This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊
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There were three race horses; ernie, bill, and ted.
the three of them were good friends; they enjoyed racing each other and generally won and lost to each other equally. every evening, after the races, they went to a local bar to relax and drink some beer. they would often discuss racing techniques, their families, etc.
one season, bill wasn’t doing so well. he rarely beat the other two, and was worried that he’d be sent to the glue factory if his luck didn’t change. one night, at the bar, he talked with ernie and ted about it.
“you know, guys, i just can’t figure it out,” he said. “everything’s fine at home; the kids are doing great, my wife is being nice, the bills are paid, my mother-in-law rarely visits - nothing could be better. maybe i’m just getting old. if things don’t pick up soon, they’ll send me to the glue factory.”
the bartender, a big llama from peru, overheard the conversation. he looked around, to make sure nobody else was listening, then said, “hey, pal, i got something for you that’ll make you feel like a young colt again.” he reached under the bar and pulled out an unlabeled bottle of beer. “here, drink this; i guarantee you’ll start winning again. come by each night for a week and I’ll give you one. if it doesn’t work, i’ll give you double your money back!”
bill looked at ernie and ted, who only shrugged, then drank the contents of the bottle. “oh, just one thing,” the llama said, “it’ll make your ass itch, but that’s okay; it’s just a side effect. don’t worry about it.” the three horses stayed a few hours, played a few games of pool and darts, and went home.
over the course of the next three days, they went back to the bar each night, and bill continued the regimen of mystery beer. his racing times did improve! he was slowly moving back up in the rankings, and was soon back into the top three with ernie and ted. bill was ecstatic, and thanked the llama profusely.
“hey, my pleasure,” said the llama.
a few weeks passed by, and ernie started slowing down. after losing three races in a row, he sobbed to himself, “i just don’t get it. my life couldn’t be better. i can’t believe I’m getting old! they’ll send me to the glue factory if i don’t get back in the groove!”
that evening, at the bar, he told the llama bartender about his troubles, and asked if he too could try the mystery beer. “okay, but remember, it’ll make your ass itch - but don’t pay it no mind. it’s just a harmless side effect.”
“no problem. it’ll be worth it to get back in the groove,” ernie said.
a few days went by. ernie’s ass did indeed itch, but after a few more days, his races improved, and he was back in the top three with bill and ted.
at the bar one evening, ernie bought a round of beers for all the horses, and thanked the llama profusely.
“i just can’t believe how great that mystery beer worked!” ernie said. “you’re sitting on a gold mine, there!” the llama said it was his pleasure, don’t worry about it, etc.
a few more weeks went by, and now ted started slowing down, losing races. he, too realized that he’d be shipped off to the glue factory unless his races improved.
“say,” he said to the llama one night after a particularly humiliating loss, “i think i need to try that mystery beer too. they’ll ship me off to the glue factory for sure if I don’t start winning again.”
“no problem,” the llama said, pulling out an unlabeled bottle. “here. come back every night, and i guarantee you’ll be back in top form again, or i’ll give you double your money back.”
over the course of the next few weeks, ted’s races continued to improve until he was back in the top three with bill and ernie. he pranced into the bar, full of vim and vigor, and thanked the llama profusely. “you know, my ass itches a lot; it’s almost unbearable. but i can’t thank you enough. they would have turned me into glue by now if it weren’t for you. anything you want, let me know and i’ll see what i can do.”
“no problem,” said the llama, “i make this beer at home using an ancient inca recipe. it’s just my way of thanking my regular customers for their patronage over the years.”
“i’m not kidding,” ted said, “this is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. anything, you name it, anything you want, let me know, and it’s yours.”
“well, now that you mention it…” the llama began -
right then, a greyhound walked up to the bar. he was obviously depressed.
“barkeep, give me something strong. i’m on a losing streak you wouldn’t believe,” the greyhound said.
ted looked at the greyhound, then at bill and ernie, and said, “hey, look! a talking dog!”
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I've been following your work for most of my adult life. You are one of the most important artists I know. I know you've had a difficult time. I really do hope you win.
My difficulties lie within my childish notions that I still cling onto. Notions that my work can change everything in the entire world as if I'm the band Dethklok in Metalocalypse, a whole world dedicated to metal. That may seem like a big ego trip kinda thinking, but comics and humor are simultaneously important and seen as a childish medium in the eyes of most normal people and critics alike. Everyone knows the meme, but people think it's a public use. Everyone loves a joke, but writers had to strike to get fairly paid, etc.
I feel like I have to live in a hypocritical realm of never being taken seriously and always got a laugh on hand. And that's not a new zone for entertainers the more I get comfortable myself in it.
The other side is that maybe I am delusional and my comics aren't as good as I think. But I am on mostly solid ground with my work and I know when I'm proud of something I've done. So let's keep the delusion going as long as we can.
image unrelated.
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youve heard of the Fisher King now heres's 3 fish kings
incredible flag & coat of arms for the Hague district of Scheveningen
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Princess & the Pawn (Full Comic)
An ActiRanger Adventure!
(Bonus page and additional info after the jump)
More info about the ActiRangers/Gambit Gang here and here. Be aware that most of my Actiranger stuff is Adult themed and NSFW!
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I'm glad T-rex finally got to experience the sensation of being wrong, after 20-ish years of being perfectly correct
even vats have been affected. time was, you could fall into a vat of anything and get powers. these days vats just aren’t what they used to be, credible origin-wise
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So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century
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This all looks like "jebati" is the root and the others are modifiers or conjugates- are these other words prepended to your version of fuck?
the nuisance of our language is stunning
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“Did you know the Italians have 200 different words for pasta?”
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