I have the baseless headcanon that Mary Poppins is Maleficent.

Maleficent reforms sometime in the fourteenth century, greatly reduced. She wanders the countryside in the shape of a harridan, another bogeyman to warn children of.

The peasantry - who remember Maleficent as the fey who inexplicably sent her minions to inspect every cradle in the kingdom - think that she is another of these goblins.

They call her La Mauvaise Paysanne.

***

She arrives in England in the eighteenth century on the back of a fairy tale.

Fairies take the shape of the stories told about them. The myth has changed, and so has she. She takes the shape of an enchantress, the punisher of naughty children, the rewarder of the good.

The English people call her the Merry Peasant.

***

By the nineteenth century, the edges of her myth have been sanded off entirely. She’s known as a fairy godmother who blesses good children.

She doesn’t mind this, but when she gets the chance to reshape her wand, she gives it a crow’s head in memory of her old familiar.

They’ve started calling her Mary Pauper.

***

By the twentieth century, Mary Poppins is more powerful than she’s been in centuries.

She’s also changed completely. She understands this to her core, and mostly she’s fine with it.

She misses it every now and then, of course. The palace, the minions, the mistress of all evil. She sniffs and says these are are ridiculous thoughts, but she thinks them nevertheless.

This is partly why she enjoys being a nanny. It’s a good compromise. She can be strict but fair with her charges, and every now and then she meets a particularly incorrigible parent who she can curse into oblivion.

badboneszone:

theromanbarbarian:

dawaxxenpith:

johnny-depp-is-loved:

At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI

Edit: yeah its AI

This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn’t actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.

Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way

captain-price-unofficially:

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

riazendira:

sarahsupastar:

riazendira:

libertarirynn:

Here’s an oldie but a goodie: (please note, for best recommended results, try at liberal arts institutions known for being fans of theater)

As seniors, my friends and I greeted freshmen students (no one asked us to). One of us held a clip board and pen. One held a tailor’s measuring tape. And one had a sharpie and a small stack of “Hello my name is _______” name tags. Here’s how the prank goes.

1) Cheerfully greet each student as if you’re an official greeting team of some sort. Clip board holder says “Friend, let’s get you a name tag”

2) Measuring tape holder proceeds forward, holding out tape-measures something random about the person (something where you don’t actually need to be up close and personal, like the length of their shin from 2 feet away, or I suppose you could try asking “please may I measure your wrist” or some such). Measuring person calls out a number. Possibly two.

3) Clip board person studiously records the number on a chart. Nods gravely/excitedly/smoothly/suspiciously/enthusiastically/whatever at Name tag person.

4) Name tag person writes down something utterly totally random in the tag blank. Like “peanut butter” or “ aerodynamic jellyfish”. With great ceremony, tag person hands tag to new student. All prankers bow, or offer waves, while saying “Pleased to meet you (name tag name), welcome to college! We hope you have a great year!” And walk away in whatever style suits you best.

Done correctly, this can happen so fast and flawlessly that parents, new students and onlookers will all be awed and confused by the time you’re out of earshot and if they see you later, will simply go “hey, it’s the welcoming committee!” and laugh. And it’s so much fun.

I’m obsessed with the idea of doing this but ONE person just gets named Steve.

If their actual name is literally anything other than Steve, it’ll still be funny and everyone will wonder why this one person got a regular name on their nametag while everyone else is labeled as Jubilation or Injket-1098 or whatever.

If their actual name is really Steve, they will spend the rest of their life wondering how the hell you knew that by measuring the length of their pinkie.

You. You get it. Carry on.

redrover73:

Best Internet Meme Ever.

michaelnordeman:

A swimming Common Slow Worm/Anguis fragilis/kopparödla. Värmland, Sweden (July 26, 2021).

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

technofeudalism:

technofeudalism:

yeah i’m gonna have to disagree. if you’re not from here and you don’t have family here, do not come here. don’t come to the united states. they are gearing up to deport people from foreign countries to Guantanamo Bay without even notifying their home government. as in like… citizens of the United Kingdom.

the post means what it means. it doesn’t mean come to the largest city in the country with a police force that is extremely, extremely violent and as well equipped as most normal countries militaries or come to a state with a coastline. that is, in fact, probably the riskiest thing you could possibly do.

do not come to the united states. there is nothing here worth dying or being sent to a slave penal colony for.

We need one of those old fashioned tourism posters for the US with “There is nothing here worth dying or being sent to a slave penal colony for” as the tagline

one-time-i-dreamt:

one-time-i-dreamt:

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I adore this

gemstonechronologist:

biglawbear:

yunisverse:

spittlefleckedhyperbole:

This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”

When we had Moonlight:
Moonshine, Moonrise, Midnight, Nightlight, Nighttime, Twilight

My favorite in recent memory, though:
“The Big Sick” = “The Fat Bad”

Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?

Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.

importantcatpics:

@importantcatpics

saywhat-politics:

The Dutch government has filed a protest with the US ambassador after plaques honoring black soldiers were removed from an American cemetery in that nation, calling it “indecent and unacceptable.”

Happy Veterans Day!

‘Unacceptable’: Leaders demand permanent memorial for Black WWII soldiers after plaques removed

‘Unacceptable’: Leaders demand permanent memorial for Black WWII soldiers after plaques removed

174 of the 8,200 U.S. soldiers who are buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery are Black.

Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been removed at the only U.S. cemetery in the country.

According to NRC, the two panels celebrating the “Black Liberators” of the Netherlands from Nazi rule were removed from display “earlier this summer” without an exact reason given as to why.

More than 8,200 U.S. soldiers are buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. One hundred seventy-four of those troops were African Americans. Lawmakers in the Netherlands have called for either a temporary replacement of the plaques or a permanent monument to be erected in honor of the Black soldiers who helped build the cemetery, calling their removal “indecent” and “unacceptable.”

One of the panels at the memorial site celebrated the Black soldiers’ fight on two fronts: against Germany and racism in the U.S. military. The military was desegregated in 1948.

“Initially, that exhibition paid no attention to African-American soldiers whatsoever,” Kees Ribbens, a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and endowed professor of popular historical culture of global conflicts and mass violence at Erasmus University Rotterdam, said. Ribbens says he was “shocked” to learn that the plaques commemorating the soldiers had been removed and offered an opinion as to why it happened.

“It aligns with the Trump administration’s policy,” he said.

no-chill-at-all:

smashcut:

On the day of Dick Cheney’s death, I’m thinking about a lot of horrible consequences of his actions, but I’m also thinking about Lauren Hough telling Dick Cheney to waterboard her “if it makes him feel better” when she repaired his cable.

lleyksie:

too many catnip mice, too little time.

thememedaddy:

nothingweirdhere:

gayvampyr:

ifiknewiwouldtellyou:

churchoftheconfusedchicken:

butch-bakugo:

doobiebenson:

afronerdism:

adamtheredbeard:

:

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it’s rough

Bucky with the Good Arm on Twitter

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…

cyle:

a-garibaldi-is-a-fish:

raychleadele:

So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a “plein air” painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was “Do you hate these banks?” I can honestly say yes.

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.

an addition from his insta:

perfect t-shirt

prokopetz:

I have to confess “your web browser’s assistive AI can be instructed to steal your online banking password via prompt injection because it operates with full privileges and treats all text it ingests as equally authoritative sources of user instructions, including the text of web pages it’s summarising” is more surprising to me than it should have been. There really is no one involved at any point in the development of these tools who actually understands what they’re doing, huh?

crabussy:

you know what. I cast spell of pīwakawaka snuggle session

ID: dozens of tiny round birds with long white tail feathers snuggled up together on a wire. the wire is bending from the weight of all the birds

Keep reading

lichtensteining:

I’m in love with a woman. She’s big and breathtaking and beautiful and cold and also a little scary sometimes. Her name is Lake Michigan

thefoolishkat:

sharkinablanket:

dinovelvet:

and they are the bestest of friends

everythingfox:

Speedy boi

chennnington:

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

cuntnikida:

Zohran becoming mayor in his 30s will actually have harmful effects on poc in nyc. And y'all wanna know how?

Scientists have discovered a surprising benefit of the acne drug doxycycline: it may lower the risk of schizophrenia. Teens prescribed the antibiotic were about one-third less likely to develop the condition as adults. The effect could stem from the drug’s ability to reduce brain inflammation. Researchers say the findings highlight an unexpected new direction in mental health prevention.

hellenhighwater:

hellenhighwater:

Laika is complete! Voting for ArtPrize starts tomorrow, September 18, 2025. The first vote you cast has to be within the grounds of ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI, but you can vote daily after that from anywhere, until the event ends on October 4. Please do attend and vote for Laika if you’re able! There’s prize money to be won and I gotta buy new hips for Mayhem No Bones Jones. Also it’s genuinely a super cool event and you should go if you can!

https://www.artprize.org/entries#23233

LAIKA

THE PATRON SAINT OF ONE-WAY TRIPS

In 1957, Laika, a small stray dog taken from the streets of Moscow, was the first living creature to orbit the earth. Her trainers kissed her nose and begged her forgiveness, and then sealed her inside the capsule of Sputnik 2 three days before launch. She waited patiently in a compartment just large enough for her to stand as they readied the rockets. It was early November, and she was cold.

In the days before her historic journey, the scientist who had chosen Laika to fly took her home from the laboratory where she had been trained. He let her play with his children. He later wrote, “Laika was quiet and charming…I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live.”

Sputnik 2 launched with Laika as its sole passenger on 3 November, 1957. It had a porthole, only six inches wide, where Laika could see the earth leaving her behind. The rockets roared beneath her, and Laika, Little Barker, was the first to look down and see the whole world spinning below her, blue and gold in the velvet blackness.

There was never any plan to retrieve Laika. We could send her up, but the technology did not exist to bring her safely down. But for days, the Soviets insisted that Laika was alive and well in Sputnik 2.

In reality, she hadn’t made it nearly that long. The heat and stress killed her mere hours after launch.

But she did succeed in her mission: Laika circled the world four times before she passed. It’s impossible to know what she thought or felt in the hours she orbited above us. Her story is a triumph of human ingenuity and a testament to human cruelty. We cannot consider Laika without marveling at the universe and wondering if it was right to subject her to the fate she suffered. Did Laika, viewing the world, think it was beautiful? Did she feel alone?

Eventually, months after she passed, her ship fell from orbit and broke apart on reentry, leaving a trails of fire in the sky that stretched from New York to the Amazon.

And at last, Laika came home in a rain of wishing stars.

She was installed safely!

athingofvikings:

armengoldira:

PRACTICAL EFFECTS! YAAAASSSS!

rebelculture:

vcollies:

airlocksandaviaries:

adastra-sf:

mckitterick:

timelordlettuce:

havingrevelations-deactivated20:

oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets of moscow. her ability to endure hardy conditions got her chosen as the candidate for a journey she was never meant to survive. she passed away seven hours after liftoff. I hope she died dreaming of chasing rabbits up in the stars I love u laika forever and ever

Never forget, she was loved

She was not killed as an act of cruelty, or simply neglected. People cared about her, and the many space dogs who survived proves it

She was loved

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great ritual for honoring Laika’s memory (from another thread)

OMG @vcollies

the story behind my first (and currently only) tattoo. the patron saint of one way trips