bisquid:

bisquid:

Okay so bearing in mind that I have ADHD and Chronic Terrible Observational Skills:

• I am in Cardiff
• For a concert I am attending solo
• Doors open at 5
• 4:15 ish I go ‘hmm I should eat something’
• Cardiff is - unsurprisingly, being tiny and yet home to FOUR concert venues - Very Busy
• Find McDonald’s
• McDonald’s is very full. I recall my last concert related McDick’s experience, and promptly bounce
• Directly across the street
• Is an Italian restaurant
• It looks closed but fuckit maybe I can beg for like. Bread or some shit
• Go over
• Am immediately pounced upon by the hitherto unnoticed chain-smoking woman hanging out by the door mostly hidden by a potted ficus(?)
• “I was wondering if you were open and if-” “yes yes we are open what would you like?” (strongish Italian accent)
• Inside restaurant is Deserted
• Explain that I’m sort of in a rush, am assured it’s fine
• Order chicken milanese which is generally a pasta dish with a breaded chicken component
• Am led to seat nearish the front and promptly provided with a pint of coke in a glass tankard
• Am then provided with a front row seat to an absolutely incomprehensible series of people entering and exiting (and in one case walking directly into) the door to what I can only presume is the kitchen
• Starting with the guy who had been sitting at a table chain-smoking over a pile of papers
• I counted at least three people exiting at least twice without actually entering in between
• Am finally brought food
• It is a breaded, butterflied chicken breast approximately the size of my face and a small pile of pasta approximately the size of my fist
• It is all delicious
• Chain-smoking papers man reappears, now wearing a chef’s apron labcoat thing
• Go up to pay, chain-smoking ficus lady is now having a very loud argument in a language I did not recognise but was not Italian Welsh English French russian Gaelic or Spanish
• She sees me, says, and I quote 'ah little girl lost, one moment’ and promptly hangs up
• I am 27 and only nominally female
• I am not remotely lost
• She charges me for the pint of coke but not the food
• I try to point out that she hasn’t charged me for the food
• 'do you want to pay for the food?’
• ’…. Not if I don’t have to?’
• 'good’
• I leave. The door is now full of half a dozen very tall very Italian men and one absolutely adorable cocker spaniel
• I ask if I can pet the dog (I have my priorities straight okay)
• I am allowed to pet the dog. The dog and I are now best friends
• The dog lead holder asks me in extremely accented but impeccably correct English if I had enjoyed the food
• 'yeah it was great!’
• Everyone laughs a bit
• I smile and pet the dog and realise I’m now late for the concert and hurry off
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• I see a post on Tumblr about mob fronts and several connections are made in my brain all at once

Everyone I’ve mentioned this to has gone ‘was the food really good?’ as a like initial litmus test for front-likelihood so I’m glad to see we’re all on the same page here

mjewie:

thebdsm5:

thebdsm5:

so many social justicey arguments really do seem like they were invented in a lab to be a saw trap for people with obsessive compulsive tendencies

one of the examples i was thinking of is the idea you are Morally Obligated to tag any potential triggers, despite that being a category that theoretically includes literally everything. maybe the implication/way most people interpret it is “if you have a decent following, its best practice to tag common ones plus requests from followers” but i dont think it should be difficult to understand why trying to figure out which ones people will get mad at you about is a saw trap. esp on platforms more like twitter where providing content warnings in the first place is a logistical nightmare

Op’s tags:

hollowburrow:

manicpixiedckgirl:

just like me fr

ALT

(via @necromancy-enthusiast)

epilepticsaints:

shaaknaa:

mywitchcultblr:

This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

I’m sure they’re trying to be helpful. However “This is how you interact with the pain nexus :)” has the side effect of informing you that it’s the pain nexus.

transmutationisms:

some ppl on here honestly need a refresher on the us govt’s current and historical imperialist bomb apologia. these positions have included, in various combinations and permutations:

-it was a tragedy, but a necessary and gravely chosen one

-it was a few scientists gone rogue, disobeying the noble orders of the us govt

-it was the us govt gone rogue, deviating from the noble aims of the good scientists

-it ended the war

-japan brought it upon their own civilians by being a belligerent and warlike nation

-the scientists felt really bad about it

-the scientists later got unfairly scapegoated for having been leftists (yes this is a real thing people still say about physicists who explicitly deliberately worked for the us govt)

-it was still a scientific achievement, though the knowledge gained was used immorally

-it was a horrible mistake and everyone learned an important lesson

-they underestimated how many japanese would be murdered, disabled, or injured, and wouldn’t have dropped bombs if they’d known

-it saved lives ‘in the long run’

if you are repeating any of these things in regards to a christopher nolan film based on a revisionist history explicitly aimed to 'redeem’ j robert oppenheimer’s legacy, then congrats! you are not immune to propaganda!

newtsfrogstoads:

newtsfrogstoads:

Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it’s not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?

It’s like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I’m like ah okay so I’m clearly overthinking this

This restaurant is absolute chaos and I’m giving it 5 stars

whatbigotspost:

soberscientistlife:

Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.

This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.

thepleasuregoblin:

helianthus-hellion:

virgo-dicks:

Yeah my name is Tim, short for OpTIMus Prime

[id: tags saying “wait wait i wanna know where they plan on using their full name, why’d you cut it off”]

answer: THEIR WEDDING.

I can’t describe to you the emotion I would feel if I was hanging out with my friend Tim and he was like “hey we’ve been friends for a while now I want to show you something,” and he hands me his driver’s license, upon which I read “Optimus Prime Jones”

phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts:

bramblewing:

yoho-orwhatever:

pajamaslam:

chicagobysufjanstevens:

i love how you guys talk shit about cartoon style and animation but what the fuck is with this phineas and ferb obsession, The Ugliest Childrens Show Ever Animated.

Fun fact: In one interview the creators mentioned that one reason everyone’s heads are shaped like really recognizable shapes (Candace is the letter p, Phineas is obviously just a triangle) is so its way easier for younger kids to draw them. Not being able to to draw your favorite characters when you’re little can be really frustrating and kind of put you off drawing all together.

I got to speak with the creators in their studio years ago when P&F was still being created and they said at dinner one night they challenged themselves to design a character with a triangle shaped head. Right there on the paper tablecloth (the kind restaurants provide with crayons for kids to draw on), they drew the very first Phineas, then realized he needed acompanion, and thus with a rectangle, they drew the first Ferb.

Dan & Swampy are incredibly kind men who wanted to create a show that was easy for kids to recognize and participate in, while having fun antics for anyone of all ages.

It’s not even that ugly, it’s got funny shapes sure, but the colors and character designs are bright and fantastically fun, and the show’s writing was completely clever.

I detailed in a long post once how they left most of the dialogue up to the animators: they had a basic outline of how each episode would go, and as the animators would draw it out (they didn’t use puppets folks, they used cintiq tablets and drew everything, I saw it first-hand) and as they were drawing they’d think “what would this character be saying while making this gesture?” and that’s how the dialogue was created. The animators also worked in pairs, so they always had a companion to talk to, work with, and help with dialogue as they went. This is how most of the jokes were created, and as they had multiple animator teams, they were able to keep jokes and dialogue very fresh so the show never stagnated from using only the same couple of writers like most shows do.

For the songs Dan & Swampy themselves would pull a guitar off wall, go into the meeting room and gather anyone around, and just come up with songs on the spot right there. They would sit for a couple of hours messing around gathering input from anyone and everyone. This kept the songs fun and fresh and also kept them from stagnating or becoming boring.

Phineas and Ferb was made in a very rewarding, fun environment. Everyone who worked in the studio seemed very happy, and they loved having visitors and getting to show off and explain every aspect of the show. Everyone was kind and fun and just loved their job. I genuinely can’t accept seeing anyone saying negative things about a show that was intrinsically meant to be gratifying, fun, and wonderful for kids and adults of all ages, and stuck to that mindset throughout its entire creation process.

Edit: I forgot to add one of my favorite parts! The creators knew their animators so well that they could tell who designed which episode! To each person watching, it’s difficult to tell differences in style since it’s meant to all look the same, but the creators looked at some clips in front of us and guessed which animator pair did the clips and then they double-checked it and were correct, pointing out extremely minute details that were recognizable trademarks for each team. Clearly they had a very kind and caring and friendly environment!

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