based on the SDCC trailer from a while back! but with more hugs

Gaming Webcomic

Official Post of Massachusetts

Glad to see the Flayed God of Aztec fame is still putting himself out there. : )

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

… I am unironically here for this

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

an absolutely stunning interpretation

this is stupid just take it

happy thursday here’s the video that got me a copyright strike on my twitter account

it got nuked from youtube too this is now the only upload of this video

Me: *unmutes expecting to hear a demily cover*

Me two seconds later: Oh, goddamnit.

Toei: We’re cancelling Sentai.

Fans:

Toei: Because we’re bringing back Gavan.

Fans:

Oh. OH! The implications!

Was Abstraction Caine’s fault? Maybe not the entire phenomenon but at least part of it? Everyone in the Circus has the sword of Damocles that is Abstraction hanging over their heads, but was it not supposed to be possible? The dread of Abstraction has a high chance of causing it, so by messing with Scratch’s head and showing it was possible, did Caine doom the rest by showing them just how bad they really had it? Or did he try to fix something with Scratch and just make the situation worse? I love lore so much

Well, we’ve seen that a person’s mind CAN influence the Circus, like Kinger and his butterfly.

Maybe Caine opened Pandora’s box by accidentally causing Scratch to abstract, and every abstraction after that was the result of a “your mind makes it real” scenario where the people who abstracted abstracted because they THOUGHT they would?

to me Samus is in her ship slumped over a chair, exhausted, lazily eating ramen after striking out with some alien girl at a bar. she’s three days behind on laundry and four days behind on everything else. she has exactly seven space dollars

the ideal bounty hunter type character is really good at exactly one thing and that’s bounty hunting and that’s why they are a bounty hunter. they should suck shit at literally everything else

you get me

Riku based on concept art

finally, it has appeared on my dash

finally, when we least expected it.

Wasn’t expecting this

I’m sorry I know this is normally just an art and rambling blog you didn’t honestly expect me to pass up reblogging The Spanish Inquisition did you?

Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

This post is 13 years old, let that sink in

i couldn’t let that sink in because I would have to expect seeing it.

and-

and nobody-

and nobody expects-

Didn’t expect did you mutuals

Queuing this so even I won’t expect it

Thanks! Queeu again!

Randomly queing it

old artwork of a human au i found in my drafts, might as well upload it (´・ω・)

shadows of doubt, the detective sim, just added a mode where a snail spawns in the city and chases you down and if it touches you, you die. look at the fucking art for this

Folks around here took to calling the skyscrapers of the finance district the headstones, because if you find yourself at the bottom you’re as good as dead. I leered up at them and they did nothing back. I knew three things about her. She was a brunette, she was dead, and I was the only person in the world that had to care. It had the window dressing of a crime of passion, but was too blunt and loveless in its execthe snail. Shit. The snail is here. Fuck. Where are my car keys. The snail. The snail. Shit. The snail.

you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

Here’s my favorite lolcat:

Next stop: Noobshire

it’s often the cute meme’s that age well once you get past the “literally everywhere” phase.

I like this classic

More classics

I went through almost ten years of photos on my Facebook page go find this

But WAIT! DO NOT FORGET. the granddaddy: 

HOLD UP THERE 

SKIPPY 

“I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER” GOT FAMOUS OFF THE BACKS OF THE PIONEERING LOLCATS

THIS WAS IN THE BEFORE-TIMES 

WHEN THEY WERE KNOWN AS 

CAT MACROS 

AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO MAKE ANY SENSE

AND NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL THROUGH A FUCKIN’ FEW MORE

  https://youtu.be/UF2bVxFRKhA

THERE WAS A SONG.

“Jesus Christ it’s a lion get in the car!” still pops into my head on a regular basis. Same with “eh meh gherd” (“oh my god”).

Also long cat. I’m sad no one posted long cat.

Also- I can’t find it right now, for some reason- but the “happycat has run out of happy” was referencing not just the format of “[thing]cat is [thing]” but specifically another meme with an identical cat smiling (“happycat is happy”). Possibly it’s the same cat.

I think about this one literally any time I start a sentence with ‘do you want’

Kitty has reached critical mass MY BELOVED

Missed a perfectly good chance to do KAT-RATE or CAT-RATE in that last one, just saying.

“Do you ever dream of land?” The whale asks the tuna.

“No.” Says the tuna, “Do you?”

“I have never seen it.” Says the whale, “but deep in my body, I remember it.”

“Why do you care,” says the tuna, “if you will never see it.”

“There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains.” Says the whale.

“They will disappear.” Says the tuna, “one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains.”

“Maybe I don’t want to forget,” Says the whale, “The forests were once my home.”

“I have seen the forests.” Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

“Tell me what you have seen,” says the whale.

“The forests spawned me.” Says the salmon. “They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home.”

“Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?” Asks the whale. “They have bounty of their own.”

“You forget,” says the salmon, “That the oceans were once their home.”

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I’ve had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

just look at these fluffy motherfuckers. i want ten of them

I just had to read the words “Labubuvitscher Rebbe” with my own two eyes so now you do too.

Translation:

Panel 1
“Say, Rabbi, aren’t you worried that fewer and fewer young people go to synagogue?”

Panel 2
“Don’t worry, I know how they will come on their own!”

Panel 3
“Wow, the Labubuvitcher Rebbe!!!”

The Jüdische Allgemeine, a weekly newspaper in Germany published by the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland (Central Council of Jews in Germany), has these little comic strips and this was the comic strip this time.

(Artist’s links: facebook / instragram)

The reconstructed face of the “Cheddar Man” (c. 7,000 BCE) compared to his living descendant, Adrian Targett    

The Cheddar Man is a Mesolithic skeleton that was recovered from England’s Cheddar Gorge in 1903. At around 9,000 years old, the Cheddar Man is the oldest complete skeleton ever discovered in the UK, and has long been hailed as the “first Briton.” DNA analysis on the Cheddar man from 2018 indicated that he was lactose intolerant, had light-colored eyes, dark brown or black hair, and had a dark to black skin tone. Although the discovery of the Cheddar Man’s dark skin tone was surprising for both scientists and the public alike, it corresponds with recent research suggesting that genes linked to lighter skin only began to spread about 8,500 years ago - approximately 32,000 years later than what was previously believed.  

In addition to the development on his skin tone, the Cheddar Man surprised scientists in 1997 when DNA analysis revealed that he had a living descendant -  a retired history teacher named Adrian Targett. Targett and the Cheddar man share the same mtDNA, which is passed down from mother to daughter. In other words, they share a common maternal ancestor. What is even more remarkable is that Targett lives in Cheddar, only a half mile away where his 9,000-year-old ancestor was discovered.

Targett was not invited to the initial reveal of his ancestor’s new facial reconstruction, but he has since seen it and has commented on the family resemblance. “I do feel a bit more multicultural now,” he once joked in an interview “And I can definitely see that there is a family resemblance. That nose is similar to mine. And we have both got those blue eyes.”

The development of the Cheddar Man’s skin tone has generated resistance, especially among far-right and white supremacist circles. Targett, however, is unbothered by it, stating that it is “marvelous what scientists can reconstruct once they sequence the DNA.” When asked if he thought whether the findings affected the way people think about race, Targett responded: “Yes, I do think it’s significant. Not many people in Cheddar mind it. But the lesson is that we’re all immigrants, whether you’ve been in a place for 10 minutes or 9,000 years. We’ve all come from somewhere.”

Source! This is real wow

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/09/hes-one-of-us-modern-neighbours-welcome-cheddar-man

I love it

The first brit is black

I’ve heard of staying in the same town your whole life, but this guy’s on another level.

Finally finished drawing this 💚💙 Me and my partner LOVED their dynamic while rewatching!

Controversial TF Opinion:

I think TF One not getting a sequel, while disappointing, is for the best in the long run.

It did what it set out to do - establish the origins of the Autobot/Decepticon conflict and the backgrounds of the major players therein.

And you know what?

It did it really, really well.

We don’t need to know what happens to Cybertron afterwards.

We already do.

We don’t need to know how Optimus and Megatron’s relationship (d)evolves after this point.

We already do.

Beast Wars and Beast Machines.

Prime and Robots in Disguise.

Transformers (2007) and literally everything that came after Transformers (2007), except Bumblebee and maybe Dark of the Moon and Rise of the Beasts.

So many TF properties have gotten bogged down by sequels that had a hard time holding up to the original.

Just… let TF One exist in its perfect little bubble.

For now at least.

Did it deserve better?

Absolutely!

If it gets a sequel one day?

Great!

But for now, let’s just enjoy what we have.

Three dimensional characters for the win.

“It feels better, right?” is the part that gets me, because it explains everything about Flash ever.

hi everyone can hate on amazing spiderman all they want but ndklnfklngsksfkjnsn this is how you write a real person

Flash being the first person to approach Peter with the genuine intention of trying to comfort him after Uncle Ben’s death + the allusions to Flash’s incredibly abusive home life that manifests at school because he’s a kid who doesn’t know how to handle his emotions delivered all in four words = good fucking scene, great fucking understanding of both Peter Parker and Flash Thompson.

Reblog to save a duck

Quack quack

It’s getting to be that time of year where more people are going outside to parks and stuff so i thought it would a good idea to reblog this again

Once I was feeding some ducks from a bag of birdseed I brought with me, and this woman next to me looked so confused and asked what I was feeding them

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”

She then had a look on her face like a new groove was just forcibly carved in her brain and said softly “oh my fucking god”

Nice.

Ya’ll are forgetting the 70th:

slop! slop!

Shipping them but not rlly in a romantic way more just like in a weird fucked up codependent qpr way. Two aroaces in a house together biting each other

TRANSFEM ROSE QUARTZ GOES HARD ACTUALLY

THE WAY SHE ADMIRED A HUMAN’S ABILITY TO “CHANGE”

HER CHOOSING TO HAVE BOOBS

THE WAY SHE GAINED WEIGHT AFTER CHANGING IDENTITIES

THE WAY SHE LOOKS BACK ON HER PAST WITH DISDAIN AND LITERALLY WANTED TO LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND

GREG LITERALLY SAYING “I NEVER CARED ABOUT WHO SHE USED TO BE”

FUCK

YES

I like the idea of a Vulcan character who constantly does very reckless things so her human crewmates think she’s strange but then she always has a logical explanation she delivers with absolute confidence.

“No, it was perfectly logical for me to jump out of the shuttle at that time. I had a breathing apparatus, and I was certain I could seal the subspace rift by hand before the Romulans opened fire. This was the only solution that would result in zero casualties. I might have died, but giving up is illogical.”

She’s known as one of the most fearless members of the crew.

Other Vulcans try not to acknowledge her.

“I eliminated all the threats with ruthless efficiency. To do any less would be illogical.”

An absolute menace.

“I concede that by taking further stock of the issue I could have arrived at a more elegant solution. However, the more time one takes to analyze, the greater the odds of a window of opportunity elapsing. Most issues can be dealt with most effectively by applying a peculiarly logical human maxim - Occam’s Razor.”

“Or an actual razor.”

“It was in arm’s reach and was sufficiently sturdy and well maintained, so yes.”

I think you could make it work by saying that she has intensively trained to, essentially, be a badass, simply because she personally found the physical aspect interesting. And as a result, all her decisions stem from her having abilities that open options normally closed to other Vulcans. While Vulcans find some of her decisions disagreeable because they don’t have her knowledge and experience that turn risks into near-certainties, most of her decisions seem quite logical to Vulcans once provided details of her physical capabilities.

Since joining Starfleet as a security officer, she consistently verifies her understanding of various facets of her exact physical capabilities. Three examples:

• Her ability to accelerate to, maintain, and stop from her top running speed. (Useful for combat scenarios.),
• The strength and speed of her arms and legs. (Useful for throwing items, punches, and kicks.),
• Her accuracy with her Starfleet phaser.,

This list of things she consistently tests and practices is a few dozen items long, and contains skills of either great importance or great versatility. She also maintains an understanding of how her performance of these skills is affected by various common handicaps — fatigue, encumbrance, zero gravity, etc. But she also maintains a second list of skills. These skills are more… esoteric. It started as a list of skills not worthy of the first list’s high standards for understanding and practice, but still important to maintain — proficiency with various improvised weapons, specific combat scenarios, fighting while handcuffed, etc. But this second list has grown, because every time she could’ve made a more favorable decision if she were more confident in a certain skill (like jumping out of a shuttle, or sealing a subspace rift, or doing a keg stand, or evaluating whether intimidation would work on a certain enemy), she puts the skill on the list, practices it to a shine after the mission, and then practices it occasionally to make sure she’s still got it. In her free time, she completes “adventure” holodeck programs, generated by the computer to incorporate novel applications of her versatile consistent skills, as well as requiring her to practice random selections from her second list. It’s actually why she signed up to join Starfleet — a holodeck was the logical next step to continue developing her skills once she began nearing the extent of what she could do in a traditional training environment. Her character development involves her having to come to terms with the fact that pairing a job of intense adventures with a hobby of intense training is just too demanding for anyone. She has to learn to give up on continuously getting stronger and better, and find enjoyment simply in meeting her own standards, not in raising them. (This is an allegory for continuous growth under capitalism.) The first time a friend dies on her watch, she feels the mistake was not in any decision she made that day, but in the decision to stop raising her own standards. She writes a list of the hundreds of skills she would’ve learned by now if she’d “made the right choice,” and shuts herself in the holodeck with a new, punishing adventure program designed to teach her all of them. Eventually, she’s forced to reckon with the fact that she can’t do this. In fact, she was never capable of reaching the point she projected she’d be at by now. Her physical limits, as well as the limits of how much she can practice before things start falling through the gaps, actually laid not far beyond where she stopped. With this realization, she finally accepts that she truly did all she could. And now, of her own accord, she chooses for the first time to lower her standards, accepting that she needs rest after keeping herself right at her limits for so long.

Lapamedot nap (I can’t come up with a more creative title)

the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.

Reblog this loby when they least expect it.

lobter

Random inspiration struck! May I present Kamen Rider Ichigou and Nigou as Hollowknight characters.