exmachinus:

disenfranchisedchads:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

fantheoriesandfoodporn:

Fun fact! According to folklorists, all myths, fairy tales and nursery rhymes that are about some dude named Jack are talking about the same guy

What this means is, that ever single one of the following

  • Jack Be Nimble (who jumped over burning candles for fun)
  • Jack the Giant Killer (who sold his cows for magic beans then robbed and killed a giant)
  • Stingy Jack (who tricked the devil so many times he was banned from both afterlives)
  • Jack of Jack and Jill (who splattered his head open falling down a hill)
  • Jack o’ Lantern (the headless horseman spirit of halloween)
  • Jack Frost (the spirit who heralds the end of autumn and the start of winter)

Are literally the same jackass who made so many bad life choices he ended up an immortal ice dullahan with a pumpkin serving as both his head and flashlight

but what an incredible journey he had getting there

He’s Ye Olde Florida Man

@solivar

Small amendment to this story:

“Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Jack the Giant Killer” are two separate stories. Jack and the Beanstalk features, as OP described, a boy who sells his cow for five magic beans that take him to a giant’s place where he steals all sorts of treasures.

Jack the Giant Killer is about a young man reknown for killing giants. He stays at a two-headed giant’s place and is offered pudding by them to fatten him up. He tricks them into slitting their own stomach to get the pudding back out. At some point, he strangles a three-headed Giant and rescues a number of maidens (presumably one of them is Jill). Also, for some reason his uncle is a Giant, and when he and his buddy the prince are chilling and looking for a place to stay, he goes and tells his uncle the Giant “hey, the prince has 500 guys that are looking for you; hide in your cellar until they leave!” So his uncle believes him and hides in the cellar and he and his buddy drink all the good wine and eat all the good food and have a good night’s sleep, and the next morning the Prince rides off and Jack goes down to tell his uncle the coast is clear, and the Giant is so grateful that he gives Jack some kind of invisibility coat, shoes of swiftness, and a magically sharp sword, which Jack uses to defeat the strongest giant yet.

I don’t remember exactly how the story ends, but presumably one of the giant survivors pushes Jack and Jill down a hill when they’re trying to get cider.

forthegothicheroine:

Villains in Addams Family movies go to really unnecessary lengths to defraud them of the family fortune. These people just give it away on whims all the time. If I just walked into the house and started wearing their clothes and spending their money, they wold start introducing me as Cousin Intruder and forget there was ever a time I didn’t live with them.

Okay, random hot take:  

The reason why the villains wanted to defraud the Addamses was because they all hated the Addams Family and were all “these weirdos are rich – let’s take their money!”  And obviously they had to be bad people, too, but the reason why they were going to defraud the Addamses instead of just asking for money or living with them was because they were good, ~Normal~ people and would *never* turn into one of those weirdos who totally didn’t deserve their money and needed to be relieved of all of their wonderful possessions that they hadn’t earned.  

Except ultimately in the first movie, the lawyer and the Fester imposter’s mom are the ones who hate the Addamses and want to use their riches to renovate their own Normal lives, and they end up being buried alive.  Whereas Fester grows to like the Addams Aesthetic TM and becomes an Addams for real, and not only does he succeed in getting the Addams family fortune, he’s made the lord of the Addams estate.  Meanwhile, the villainous nanny in Addams Family Values could have been a well-loved member of the family, but she decided to try and kill them all to make sure the estate went to herself so that she didn’t have to change a thing about her life to get filthy rich.  She ended up getting electrocuted for her troubles.  

Moral of this story:  You can’t just take their money without being an Addams.  But being an Addams just means living their life without asking stupid questions like “what are you doing with that guillotine?” and “is that a hand?!” 

lolashketchum:

gahdamnpunk:

Poor child has to suffer cause his dad is an asshole who didn’t let his baby mama have an abortion. This is why we need to talk more about reproductive justice

To all the guys who say abortion isn’t fair because, “what if the guy wants to keep the baby?” It’s just never good enough. You want to force women into carrying your child, then you want to force women to be part of that child’s life, even though they were very clear that they didn’t want a child.

It’s never enough. It starts with being forced to go through a pregnancy, then you’re forced to parent a child you never wanted because it’s not fair for the father to do all the work, pretty soon she’ll be a single mom because it turned out dad only liked the idea of a kid not the actual responsibility.

Source: gahdamnpunk

tshifty:

when i say “unfollow me if you support trump” im not saying it ironically. no, seriously, if you support trump then i dont want your disgraceful ass to be in any way associated with my blog. get out.

So I’ve been seeing discourse about this post, and a lot of people are thinking it’s a purely political post.  

It’s not.  

The reason people are reblogging it – at least, the ones who aren’t adding commentary or spewing vitriol – is because they perceive Trump as being toxic in a way that’s beyond partisan politics.  None of them are saying “Unfollow me if you’re Republican”; they’re saying “unfollow me if you think what the Trump administration has been doing these last two years – and what Donald Trump himself has been doing his entire life – contains nothing that is reprehensible enough that you feel you can’t support him anymore”.  

And it’s completely valid that this is a dealbreaker for some people.  It’s not about being closeminded or angry over politics.  No one ever said “block me if you support Mitt Romney”.  No one ever said “I don’t react with anyone who’s fiscally conservative”.  The reason why Trump is controversial is because he’s made ableist comments, has racist statements published in his book, seems to fetishize his daughter, has boasted on-tape about sexual misconduct with women, has been accused of sexual misconduct by 22 women, and we’re not even getting into the whole mess with Russia, because that’s too messy to untangle; or everything his choice of running mate represents about his attitude toward the LGBTQ+ community*.  

AFTER he got elected, things only get worse.  The KKK held a victory party over Trump’s election.  Trump’s first year saw the rise of neo-Nazis and white nationalists.  There was the issue with Stormy Daniels, the whole migrant detention camp thing, the Puerto Rico comments, the attempted stripping away of  rights for trans people, the Kavanaugh appointment, the fact that he rips up important official documents when it’s literally illegal to, the fact that he still hasn’t released his tax returns, and the fact that he refuses to follow basic security protocols and literally uses his personal phone to make calls, putting America at risk of having important state secrets spilled.  

This is no ordinary politician.  And the pro/anti-Trump split is no ordinary political issue.  The most charitable thing that might be said about Trump supporters is that they don’t believe any news they read and therefore don’t buy any of these stories.  

I’m not going to say “don’t make contact with me in any way if you support Trump” but please do try to listen to people when they talk about everything bad Trump has done, and why he’s so reprehensible that people with queer, minority, women, or immigrant friends feel like it’s a dealbreaker for you to support him.  

*the last link isn’t about Mike Pence being homophobic; it’s just a spot of somewhat-good news after all the bad stuff I had to read through.  

elaynab-writing:

Never abandon your craft.

I’m going to tell you a little story.

At the age of 14, I finished my first novel length piece. For the standards of a 14 year old, I was told it was good.

So I edited.

And edited.

And wrote 5 full books in the series.

I got to college where people were older, wiser…more skilled.

And I got so used of being told that my idea was good, that it came as a shock when some people told me it was childish and poorly written…like a 14 year old wrote it.

I abandoned it for almost all of college. Got a degree in finance. Went to work as an analyst…which is still my job now, 3 years later.

I picked up the story again towards the end of college. And I decided – no, I won’t abandon it. I love these characters.

I just need to change them. And revamp this.

Use what I learned.

So I did.

I rewrote.

And here I am now. Close to being ready for betas. Hoping that my idea is at least somewhat appealing.

And since truly picking it up again this past year…I think, I’ve been more inspired, more in love…and maybe a bit happier?

I guess what I’m saying is…don’t abandon your stories. Accept they need change. And prove that you can change them.

Grow.

Write.

Accept.

Be phenomenal.

escapingceano:

silverhawk:

silverhawk:

this bird genuinely looks so Gothic™ to me that i had to show everyone in its own post so

its called the long-tailed widowbird and i think its just genuinely so Cool Looking and wanted to appreciate its long tail some more

you have to see them flying too i

nyOO-

NYOOOOOM

You must see these things fly into a head wind. That tail is so heavy, it looks like a little black blob with a dishtowel attached to its ass, flapping frantically and almost going nowhere