fromacomrade:

acoolguy:

siahatha:

it’s time we start oppressing ppl that use the word “hubby”

sorry but “Hubble Space Telescope” takes too long to say

glumshoe:

Honestly one of my biggest pet peeves in fiction is when monsters are malevolent for no reason. Is it “evil”, or is it just hungry and vicious? If the monster is a dangerous animal with no ultimate evil goal, what are its motivations and why is it hellbent upon menacing the heroes?

I found the last Jurassic World movie unwatchable because the behavior of the predatory dinosaurs was so unrealistic. Why are they hurting themselves and endangering their lives to attack the humans? If it is merely hunger, why are they ignoring freshly dead, easily available meat in favor of chasing humans through dangerous obstacle courses? If it’s the hunting instinct, why is it so much stronger than every other instinct of self-preservation? Are they sick? Are they rabid?

I just. Ugh! Unless an animal is portrayed as intelligent enough to want revenge, is influenced by supernatural powers, or has some useful plot reason for wanting to kill anything and everything it can without care for its own life, I don’t buy it. It’s not scary to me. It’s stupid and frustrating and I sit there waiting for the big reveal that mind control or demons are responsible.

On the other hand, antagonists that are genuinely mindless – like non-sentient robots, alien terraforming programs, or weird diseases – are much scarier to me because of their lack of malice or reason.

iamfuckingtrash:

finalfantasie:

I studied the blade too we were classmates

hey bro is there any blade homework due tomorrow

uncarnetmaisvirtuel:

whydoiloveyouanyway:

uncarnetmaisvirtuel:

My mom have been to Germany recently, and she told me she did the “internal screaming dead face” whenever people offered her a drink  because Germans drink their wine mixed with sparkling water and 

Germans did it, they did better than the Greeks and the Romans with their wine mixed with still water

JUST IMAGINE SOME ANCIENT GREEK DUDE TASTING A GERMAN MIXED WINE

but … one of the things that fascinates Romans about Germans (and would probably similarly shock and confuse any given Greek city-state if they had also conquered Germany) is that they don’t drink wine

this is a little bit in historians (Caesar BG vi.22 remarks as strange that Germans don’t have agriculture at all – they just eat meat and cheese) but as ever the source most salient to me is Lucretius, proem to book v, when he explains that if various gods count as gods bc they gave us such gifts, Epicurus is clearly a god as well

[from memory: Hercules just slew a bunch of beasts and monsters no one cares about and that, honestly, would probably be dead by now anyway

Ceres gave us grain and Liber gave us wine but not everyone even plants grain or drinks wine, so it’s obviously not necessary for life. (that this is probably about Germans, I take from Leonard & Smith’s commentary)

but everyone needs truth and happiness, which Epicurus first gave us the possibility of, so you know. way more than a mere cult hero. a true divinity]

….. but anyway the idea that if not for our knowledge of the Germans, we would naturally have thought it obvious that everyone needed wine to live … is just so very Roman

Ancient greek/roman : but I thought you Germans did not drink wine

German from the 21th century, drunk : We do and we’re better at it than you are

Ancient greek/roman : finally, they understand :’)