I love how humans discover this rare new sight in far distant space, and immediately go “That looks like a part of me.” A vast dust cloud from an ancient star, and we see … the tips of our fingers.
whenever i find a good world heritage post i do my best to carefully remove unnecessary “why is this so funny!!” or “i cant believe i found the original” reblog comments. sometimes it takes a bit of work digging back through the reblog graph to accomplish this but fine art restoration is tedious but important work
category of blorbo called “technically i like them but fanons obsession with them to the exclusion of other characters pavloved me into having a negative reaction whenever i see them”
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
I’m full on zero tolerance for callout stuff, but I see sometimes “don’t send me a random callout without proof,” and here’s the thing - the proof is always like a discord screenshot with a mildly disagreeable fandom opinion or some ancient stupid thing or personal life stuff that shouldn’t matter and really everyone passing around callout stuff calls everything equally damning equally irrefutable evidence.
And the fact of the matter is that life is too short to dig through some stranger’s dirty underwear at the demand of another stranger who collected it, just so I can stay morally pure by not reblogging their posts. It’s an ugly act and it’s very unpleasant to ask someone else to be be a part of it. So I won’t and I think that’s a healthy decision.
this is tumblr. if you dont like someone, block them and move on
dont pretend to be some pion of rightousness and go on a smear campaign about someone who annoyed you
Honestly the only time I really give a fuck is if someone’s, you know, repeating Nazi shit. If you can’t show me someone’s Nazi opinions, then … leave me alone.
if you want to send me like a “hey I’m pretty sure that post doesn’t mean what you think it does, you should check (location on their blog that is currently active)”, or “this person seems to be a Nazi/TERF/radfem/otherwise holds opinions you have openly expressed are distasteful to you here”, that’s fine- but do so with the expectation that I can and will do whatever I want with that information, including ignoring it outright, and that even if I do act on it I will very likely never post what you sent me or say anything else about it.
it’s one thing to say “you should look into this further because it is relevant” with the understanding that you may be wrong and that it’s okay to disagree with you.
but the threatening language, the moral purity tests, and the unearthing of private information and personal lives are actively harmful to any and all efforts to cultivate a non-punitive, non-carceral, culture of restorative justice.
seeing the terms “bad rep” and “good rep” applied to media that was created by and for an in-group makes me want to eat glass
“not sure if this is a good representation of the trans community :/“ right well a trans person made it, and they made it for other trans people, so. perhaps that logic is not applicable here. must we live our entire creative lives under the watchful eye of Cisgender Scrutiny? how can you compare self-expression to willful misrepresentation lmao
friendly reminder that if it’s not “by and for an in group” then this post simply has nothing to do with it fhdjfhfh, nothing made by disney or marvel or whatever has ever been “by and for an in group” in human history. i’m talking about people representing themselves—purely for the sake of sharing a single perspective, not claiming to represent the whole, not catering to outsiders—which they should be able to do! perhaps not entirely without criticism, but without people endlessly arguing over whether or not that real, actual lived experience is “good enough rep” in the comments
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