I don’t even know where to start with this 1) Nursey’s hand on Dex’s back 2) the eyes or 3) the fact that Nurse is trying to convince Dex to live with him
About what I see as the biggest moment for Jack and Bitty as individuals as well as a couple?
The newest comic definitely hearkens back to the biggest tension so far this year– Bitty’s breakdown in the previous update over the stress of keeping it secret from everyone– and his doubts over how serious Jack is about this relationship.
But as we saw in that rainy entryway, Jack’s not just thinking about his career. And “team” means something more than just “the people you play ice sport with”.
This isn’t just personal growth for Jack 110% Zimmermann, this whole arc has shown Bitty coming to understand that they’re both in this relationship together, and it’s the motherfuckin’ culmination of communication.
After all of this, Bitty’s coming to accept that he matters to Jack, but it’s also okay to matter to himself. He doesn’t want to meet Jack’s teammates as anything other than his boyfriend, and he says so. And that is what leads to my number one moment that puts a fuckin’ BOW on this whole fear of Bitty’s:
At the end of the day, Jack loves two things.
Hockey: cons include Expectations, Spotlight, Anxiety
Bitty: “a few risks” “it’s scary, but”
Just, the way Jack’s little speech here is weighted is amazing. Their relationship has a few risks, but it’s worth it. Those risks are nothing to him compared to the shit he faces for his other love.
My comic for the HS fan zine :’) I’ve started loving homestuck when I was the same age as the kids. Over the years I grew older than them, but now that Homestuck’s over, the kids are once again older than me (oh the irony). I’ve had a great time in the fandom, and I’ve met a lot of good people along the way so, thanks Homestuck.
Hope everyone had a good 4/13! Can’t believe Homestuck’s finally over.
★ Inchell’s illustration for the Year Two Kickstarter print set! It gets the award for Most Adorable And Accurate Portrayal of the OMGCP Cast ever. Go check out her stuff!
Disco was killed in the US by disgruntled unstylish impotent white men rotten ass filth the lot of them. Disco deserved better.
You know what. I wonder a lot why disco died and I have never read anything about it. I kinda just assumed times change I think but of course it’s more than that. Now I’m super curious.
Okay so this is something I actually looked into and a lot of rock djs were really disgruntled that disco had taken over the air waves and there was resentment which basically bubbled over. So there was this DJ by the name of Steve Dahl a shock jock who was vicicously anti disco and he sent out a call that he was doing a show at a Chicago Sox game. He asked everyone to bring disco records, young white men who were as unjustly disgusted with the magic of disco (something mainly Black/urban and a vehicle for lgbt expression). So he invited these men to come demolish disco records and they did in droves 50000 of them came and it was horrible they ran over records, stomped on them, burned them, ran over them just acted a violent ass. R&B acts fell into funk and post disco/synth but other acts went to Europe where disco now is still big but it really ruined disco’s time at the top. Basically racism and homophobia killed disco.
Somebody mentioned this in the Off The Wall documentary that Spike Lee did. White men were unhappy that everything wasn’t about them, and the colored and gays were getting shine.
That’s why the 80s generally looks so different from the 70s. White men had to rebound hard and came with (lame ass) rock music and bands, that were very straight and very white.
It makes perfect sense when you see these 80s rockers being exposed as racists (Gene Simmons, Guns N Roses dude), because that was when they came back in droves to take over music.
Yep and disco was always reported as something primarily Black/Latinx/lgbt news cycles were reporting is as taking over. Now we all know what happens when something fly is happening white folks get mad mainly white men especially if it effects their bottom line. That’s exactly what it was doing too disco was a hit and money making MACHINE outselling all other genres for a long period of time. This included rock mainly classic rock, hard rock, glam rock, the beginnings of hair metal, everything white dudes enjoyed, disco was coming for they necks. I’m never suprised when old rockers are exposed as racists cause they directly benefited from the destruction of disco something primarily Black/Latinx/lgbt. The really intense backlash started to come after Saturday night fever did exceptionally well once people saw how huge that was…there was a wave of resentment and then you had motherfuckers blowing up disco records in a baseball field. It’s really a shame though disco is one of the most sonically adventurous genres and it was only going up.
i don’t much like reblogging purely negative news on this blog but like, man, i really hate seeing cute pics of animals that are actually a total horrorshow if you know what’s going on, and because i love animal pictures i end up seeing a couple bad pics every day, and it’s a real bummer.
like i’m always seeing tigers from tiger farms or abusive resorts on my dashboard— most of the cutest pics of tigers are from shitty, unnatural situations with tigers slated for shitty, exploitative deaths. is it a picture of a tiger with a buddhist monk? yeah, those shitheads run an abusive tourist resort. is it a whole bunch of tigers in the same enclosure? that’s a real bad sign. is the tiger hanging out with any other species for any reason whatsoever? that’s also bad. is the tiger really fat? healthy siberian tigers don’t put on so much winter weight they look like garfield. white tigers and white lions are incredibly fucking bad for conservation efforts: every single one is an inbred, maladaptive mess that can’t survive in the wild, should never be bred back to viable members of their already-endangered species, and has been created and maintained purely for publicity, prestige, and money.
and all those pics of rainforest frogs in cute poses: those frogs are captured and then cold-stunned or killed and then arranged with fishing wire. a photographer is not going to get a ‘natural’ photo of a frog riding on a beetle like a cowboy. someone might have gotten a natural photo of frogs in a cute little pyramid stack, like, once. the others are stacking the frogs themselves.
is there an interspecies friendship photoset between a big wild apex predator and something little and cute? unless it’s a cheetah and an emotional support dog— or the grouping involves a capybara, one of nature’s chillest bros— it’s very likely to be from a shitty unregulated stunt zoo that does shit like put piglets in with tigers or give weiner dogs to lions or teaches monkeys to ride horses or whatever.
kittens photographed playing with and grooming chicks and ducks? cats have a whole lot of nasty bacteria in their mouths and can make young birds (and rabbits and rodents) pretty sick. rabbits playing with dogs? probably not having all that much fun: they will leap up and box to try and scare a predator off if they realize that running’s not their best option. rabbits do chase each other around and bink (jump up in the air) happily, but it’s just a really irresponsible and dangerous thing for people to allow their dog to get involved with. almost everyone is way worse at reading animal stress and fear than we think we are.
video of ostrich doing a funny dance at or with a human? it’s probably captive, farmed ostrich. that’s a sexual display, and ostriches form sexual attractions to humans only when raised around them. i mean it’s pretty funny. it just doesn’t indicate a good situation for that bird.
and all those funny pics of a dog smiling in a goofy or weird situation? if the dog’s mouth is closed and the lips are pulled back tightly, that’s a placating grimace, the dog is trying to get its people to stop freaking it out. a real smile on a dog almost always involves a loose, open mouth and casual or forward ear placement. dogs are as varied as people and some do have idiosyncratic expressions, but generally squinting, tight grimaces, pulled back ears, and hunching with paws together are all ‘pls pls make it stop’ indicators, not ‘we’re having so much fun!’.
and any instance of pet birds or rodents being allowed out of their cages around cats and dogs? no. please no. do not do this, do not endorse this, do not be charmed by pictures of this. it’s a demonstration of human ego, to show their control over an incredibly dangerous situation for a fragile and vulnerable bird, or human denial, that our domestic predator friends will never follow their instinct and take a snap at something that looks and smells and moves like a toy. even big parrots have delicate bones, and their immune systems just aren’t set up to handle the bacteria load of a cat scratch or nip. ditto rats and hamsters.
silver lining tho: almost all pics of humans hanging out with rescue sloths are legit. do not worry about those.
yes, to reiterate, capybara pals are one of the (few imho) cute animal buddy stories that aren’t secretly horrifying. capybaras are very large, chill, semiaquatic herbivores with few predators, and they like to live in family groupings. they seem to view smaller animals as harmless kiddos. so, in zoos and rescues they can be paired with other species and live harmoniously, with no apparent stress. in several instances they have been paired in enclosures with small primates (monkeys and gibbons) and the paired species have seemed to adopt each other into a mixed family group, with the primate species attentively grooming their gentle capybara friend-mounts. there is a high likelihood that any photo of a capybara with monkeys all over it is healthy for everyone involved, so you can enjoy those with no guilt whatsoever.
just moving along like everyone else 