i know everyone draws barry wearing a white t-shit, but tbh? he strikes me as one of those guys who EXCLUSIVELY wears free t-shirts he’s gotten from events. like all his shirts are shit like:
IPRE TEAM BONDING 2387
TWO SUNS UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2379
I COMPLETED THE FUN RUN 5K
FANTASY GOOGLE
FANTASY MIT
FANTASY BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
#1 NEC”ROMANCER” (lup got this one for him)
@unofficialbuffalobeauts
FUCK THAT ONES PERFECT I BET THE ENTIRE TEAM GETS THESE.
I always knew about the ariranhas (giant otters) that inhabit the pantanal and amazonian rivers, and that they are bigger than other otters, but I had no fucking idea they could reach up to 6 feet (1.82 meters) in length
listen nothing in sound design will ever come close to the sheer power of the sound of a lightsaber turning on
I truly 1000% believe that Star Wars would never have gotten as popular as it has without everything about the lightsaber being absolutely perfect.
And I also believe the lightsaber is the perfect weapon in any form of media ever.
It draws upon a traditional and iconic weapon: a sword. Swords have gravitas, an ethos, that I don’t think anything else has. People love swords. They’re dramatic, they allow posing, tense back and forth battles, tests of skill and chances to flourish and show off.
But it’s better than a sword, because it sounds fucking awesome. You know what’s even better for your sword fight? If they make a cool ass noise when they hit eachother. Like everything about a lightsaber sounds amazing. It turning on, when they clash, when they deflect something, hell even when they just sit there and HUM it sounds cool.
There’s also the different colors, and this is important because it allows there to be differentiation. Vader has red, Obi-Wan has blue, Luke gets green. They’re instantly recognizable and you can understand what side someone is on based on the color of their weapon. It also allows there to be a certain amount of personalization and customization, which is VERY IMPORTANT because you know what really gets people into your story? When they start imagining themselves in it. When people start thinking about themselves in Star Wars I guarantee one of the first three questions that will come up (if not the first) is what color lightsaber would you have.
Finally, this is a small thing but, lightsabers are just easy to carry around. You just turn the damn thing off the and blade goes away. It’s a very manageable prop to carry around, and then you get sweet noises and posing when it turns on.
new cool meme: start saying “transmisogynist” instead of “terf” bc there’s nothing radical or feminist about transphobia (and i don’t think we should give them that cred). also “transmisogynist” is much more effective since a lot of younger people don’t even know what terf means and also “terfs” are actually proud of the term…
A leading Canadian expert on internet law is accusing media giant Bell of “astroturfing” government hearings on the future of the internet by urging its employees to back a web censorship plan.
Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, publicized an internal Bell communique on Tuesday provided to him by a source.
The document urges staff to contact the CRTC in support of an application by political pressure group FairPlay Canada. The proposal would create a mandatory website-blocking system in Canada in an effort to reduce online piracy. Bell is a founding member of FairPlay Canada.
Geist posted the memo to his Twitter account. In a later tweet, he said Bell’s move “meets the classic definition of astroturfing,” the practice of making a corporate or political campaign look like a grassroots movement.
On everyone’s 18th birthday they receive a letter from their future selves. Some receive long messages about their future lovers or messages about changes they would have made. Yours contains nothing but a small list of locations and the words, “NEVER VISIT”.
“You’d think I would know myself better than this,” you say, typing the first set of coordinates into your GPS.
