sawdustandsprig:

jojojo-jo-jo-jojo:

thevoidfish:

Just imagine you’re Clint McElroy. You have three sons, and you are very proud of them. They start a successful podcast which is influenced by your career in radio. One day on a lark they invite you to play D&D with them while your oldest son needs time for the birth of his first child. Your oldest son is a father now, too, and you’re very proud of him. The audio you record of that play session becomes so popular that you’re able to retire and make your living working with your three sons who you are very proud of (all three who are fathers now.) You get to spend your time creating something with your boys that you are so proud of and love so much.

And every single day they put you on blast for not using a character voice.

Please don’t forget his career in (mostly ghost) writing comics, so he was the one to adapt this podcast with his sons into a NY Times best selling book 

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biglawbear:

malcolmcooks:

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bpdmum:

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

So you mean my brain literally looked at my whole childhood and said “sorry that file type is no longer supported”

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missjukebox8bit:

imalreadydashingthroughtheno:

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Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

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Q:

Hi sorry I’m a bit of an idiot but how exactly do we go about getting the Princess and the jester?

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modmad:

right here! we’re running a kickstarter and hit the goal- so if you want a copy of the book, you can find it in the rewards of this campaign! they won’t be ready for shipping ‘til next year but they are 100% going to happen bc it got funded aaaaand I am still giddy with relief at the fact!

These Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species

lyinginbedmon:

tenaciousmiscreation:

mousathe14:

myfrogcroaked:

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Oh no…

Y'all this is BAD

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Wow this is a really elegant way of describing why falling populations result in a narrow and incomplete picture of the actual species

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akallabeth-joie:

astriiformes:

I cannot emphasize enough, museums/zoos/aquariums and the like are at an incredibly dangerous point right now, and it’s breaking my heart that not only is it happening, but it’s happening so much more quietly than it deserves. The main people I have seen sharing information about the crisis museums are in right now are others in the field, and while I know it’s not out of malicious ignorance, because people love these places and don’t want to see them gone, it’s scary that these places are dying with so much less fanfare than some of the other institutions threatened by the current situation in the US.

I came across an article from NPR the other day suggesting that unless something changes, ONE-THIRD of museums in the entire country (a loose term that includes certain places like aquariums as well) could be dead before the end of the year (source). A third! Can you even imagine the incalculable loss? And it goes so far beyond the services museums generally provide to the public, like field trips or a place to go on the weekends – not that those aren’t important. But museums do so much more than that. If these places die, where do their collections go? Often there’s no one else who can take them in, and as someone who has spent a significant amount of time in the bellies of museum collections, most people have no idea how many specimens or artifacts would become homeless and in danger of being lost forever. In the case of zoos and aquariums, what happens to their animals? Another friend of mine mentioned on Facebook the other day that the Aquarium of the Pacific is not only in dire need right now, but that a person they know who works with them has said that if they close, they’ll have to euthanize a significant number of their animals. And for the places that do survive, they won’t be unchanged. The science museum I used to work for isn’t in danger of permanently closing – yet – but still had make the incredibly difficult call to do a 39% reduction in staff positions, meaning that even when they reopen, the jobs that I and over a hundred and fifty people held before the pandemic – educating, running programs, engaging with visitors on an extra personal level – won’t exist anymore. Another friend of mine doing a museum studies degree has said that even the Smithsonian (the SMITHSONIAN) had to make a similar call and many of her friends doing work there are now jobless.

Your local museum isn’t getting help from the government. Museums, zoos, and aquariums have had to beg desperately for stimulus money that hasn’t manifested. These are non-profits, that rely on revenue from visitors and memberships for the most part, and as they are responsibly staying closed for everyone’s safety, they aren’t getting visitors. Without some form of help, they are going to drop off the face of the planet, or appear at the other end of this as gutted shells of their former selves. 

If you want to help, you have two options: get money into the hands of these places directly, or put pressure on your representatives to offer museums and other institutions like them some kind of federal stimulus money. If you can afford it, this is a great time to get a membership to a place you love – many of them are even offering special online programming for members, so it’s more than just a donation. Or you could make a donation, if that’s a more practical amount for you to spend, because at this point anything helps. And if you can’t do that (or even if you can), yell at your senators and representatives to do something. Many places even are offering guidelines for the sorts of things to talk about, like this script from the Monterey Bay Aquarium (although repetitive scripts are less likely to have an impact than individual e-mails, something is still better than nothing, and you could even read over it to figure out how to formulate your own message).

I’m not usually one to beg people to signal boost something, but it’s breaking my heart that this issue is being ignored. Every day it feels like I have to explain these places are struggling to someone else who didn’t know it was a problem, and while I don’t blame them for not knowing, I want people to know. I want people to be aware that we are at risk of losing some of our most valuable cultural and educational institutions, not find our after all this is over that they’re gone. Please talk with people you know about what’s going on. We need our museums. And right now, they need us too.

Adding:

AAM’s call to action (lobby your representatives/senators).

The AAM press release on the state of US museums (source for 1/3 of US museums at ‘significant risk’ of closing within a year).

Via the Incluseum: Museum Workers’ Relief Fund


Other ways to help your local museums:

*Seriously, contacting your representatives to include museums in stimulus, relief and emergency loan/grant programs is incredibly useful. Please, please, please do it!

*Monetary donations are nice, if you can afford it. Memberships are a really good way to support your museum, beyond the actual monetary price. When the museum is trying to prove its worth to funders, hard data like the number of memberships (and in happier times, onsite visitors) is crucial to establishing the museum’s impact and community involvement.

*Check whether the museum’s gift shop/book store is accepting online orders, and consider ordering something.

*Follow your favorite museums on social media, and interact with their posts. Whether or not their youtube channel is actually making ad revenue, these online interactions get noticed, and help quantify the museum’s impact to grant-funding agencies (private or government).

*Volunteer. Not just in-person volunteering (when that’s safe again), but remotely. Does your regional history or science museum have research projects or data-processing that can be done remotely? Does your small local museum need a volunteer that can maintain a Facebook page for them?

*Collect. Looking further down the road, if your local history museum survives Apocalypse 2020, how will they preserve and interpret this ‘unprecedented’ time? Consider donating artifacts or documents that tell your experience of everything that’s happening. Message me if you need contact info for museums in Washington (the Evergreen State, not DC). 

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Death

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The Nine of Cups

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Justice

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The Nine of Swords

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The King of Swords

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The Hanged Man

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The Hermit

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The Six of Swords

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The Eight of Cups

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The Five of Cups

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The Sun

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The Three of Swords


‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

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Source: bloodbonestelephones

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

So, what Noelle is referring to is the silver lining to various shitbags crying that an imaginary woman had bigger guns than them - their meltdown a week or so ago leading to a glorious trend for real life buff women to share photos of their beautiful physiques.  Including this viral tweet debunking the claims that a woman couldn’t get swole within a few years. 

Now, the Last of Us 2 is (assume spoilers in all the links) a very contentious piece of art  - with a wide spectrum of opinions about the role of violence (1,2), depictions of a trans character (1, 2) and so much more. However, there are some parts are indisputably positive: the graphics are amazingly beautiful, the accessibility is leaps and bounds ahead of so many AAA titles, and the outfits for the female characters are excellent. 

Someone is frantically typing a comment about how “they’re just clothes” but they’re really so much more, these are outfits specifically chosen and tweaked to reflect the world the characters live in, and the demands of their lifestyles. 

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The outfits and the way they change to reflect the changes in the mood and the characters - all without distracting from the rest of the narrative.  It’s a great example of how much story telling potential you can get out of clothes when you’re not limiting yourself to the most T&A possible. 

- wincenworks 

edit: fixed first Polygon link (right after spoiler warning)