#center of the world

[pratchettquotes]

"It seems, Mister Lipwig, that you are using your extra cheery voice and so once again find yourself in your own chosen environment, that being the center of everything."

Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

#havelock vetinari #moist von lipwig #raising steam #discworld #tone of voice #making choices #peak performance #entreprenuerlife #center of the world #the extra cheery voice

[chepooka]

Apparently Lucifer's balls are the centrum mundi (center of the world) in Dante's cosmology, as this print by Cornelis Galle the Elder shows

#dante #dante's inferno #lucifer #hell #center of the world #centrum mundi #satan #Cornelis Galle

[consumedshadow-mysticmc]

Cheers to probably seeing this scenery a lot.

#final fantasy vii #gaming #cloud strife #final fantasy 7 #sony ps1 #center of the world #jenova #Sephiroth #here we come

[yelloworangesoda]

the reason people "act like" they get sick of tumblr trends is bc you guys are all really annoying and when something becomes A Thing you dont know how to shut the fuck up. which is fine but im going to like the post about how annoying it is

#one post never kills it anyway. shut up about the walrus pleasseeee #i kinda hate tumblr culture for this reason i literally never like when something becomes a Tumblr Thing #i hate you supernatural i hate you gonachorov. ect idk how people from the Old Days or whatever stand STILL seeing overdone jokes about #those posts #act like is in quotes bc just bc you saw 50k people say they like it doesnt mean theres not 50k ppl who didnt idk why... you think youre th #center of the world #and someone on the post im vaguing is like 'and cmon guys these things arent overdone theyre only on tumblr' like yeah we know jslfkjd #we're not complaining on instagram about the prevalence of... walrus jokes and cannibalism as a metaphor. we're literally on tumblr #simons spouting

[saturnisscreaming]

Contrary to popular belief I was not born I simply spawned in the molten iron at the center of the earth and clawed my way out

#cryptic #cryptid #horror #mild horror #monstercore #creepy #cryptidcore #iron #center of the earth #center of the world #spawn #spawned #scary #fear #was i born? #goblincore #gremlin core #gremlincore #am i alive #maybe #you can decide #molten lava #lava #liquid metal

[areyoudoingthis]

calling your country america perpetuates in general and in each of your minds the idea that a) the entire continent is homogeneous and synonymous with "land your country should have power over" b) the whole world functions exactly the way that your country does c) your country is what america is and has always been, which is widly racist to the native people of this land that our countries exterminated in order to exist (mine too, but at least I don't insist on naming the whole land the same as my country. america isn't even the name those peoples gave to this land) d) the attitude of the oppressor from the pov of someone from a third world country that is a third world country because your country (among others) benefits from that status quo

#I'm so tired of the internet #usamericans have no idea how much of the individualistic and imperialist discourse of their country they have absorbed and put into #everything they say and do #a lot of you mean well but if you mean well you have to start by taking apart the attitude you have absorbed that your country is the #center of the world #do you even know what the native american name of the continent is #do you even know what countries currently exist in it #alex txt

[110789angle]

Nergal Moodboard

#grim adventures of billy and mandy #nergal #center of the world #ink #fiend

[eremosjournal]

‘Church at the Center of the World’ highlight

by Nathan Johnson

#Deconstruction #catholic #catholicism #Christianity #Christian #center of the world

[actual-changeling]

so sorry to my followers being bombarded with all that german i promise i do not even watch that show but i was part of the gay panic last year and i am a part of it this year

#alex yells at the void #center of the world #YOUR WORLD MAYBE #girl wtf

[just-a-pole-sir]

#jannik schümann #louis hofmann #die mitte der welt #center of my world #gay #n* #p* #d* #jannikschümannedit #gifs #mine #1k #10k

[yokelfelonking]

Post 9/11 Trivia

Most folks on this site were either children on September 11, 2001, or weren’t even born yet.  But America went crazy for about a year afterwards.  Here’s some highlights that I remember that might not be in your history books:

There was national discussion on whether or not Halloween should be canceled because…fuck if I know why.  After planes crashed into buildings in NYC it follows that 6-year-olds in Iowa shouldn’t be allowed to dress up like Batman and ask their neighbors for candy, I guess.  (Halloween wasn’t canceled, by the way.)

On a similar note, people asked if comedy - any sort of comedy - was appropriate anymore, ever.

People sold shitty parachutes to suckers “in case your building gets attacked and you have to jump out the window.” There were honest-to-God news reports warning people not to jump out of the window with shitty mail-order parachutes because they wouldn't work.

As a follow-up to the attacks, someone mailed anthrax to some prominent politicians and news anchors - you know, famous people - along with some badly-written notes about “you cannot stop us, death to America, Allah is good” and after that every time some random dumbass found a package in the mail they didn’t recognize they thought that the terrorists were targeting them, too.

Everyone was similarly convinced that their town was going to be the next target, even if they were a little town in the middle of nowhere. "Our town of Bumblefuck, South Dakota (population 690) has the largest styrofoam pig statue west of the Mississippi! Terrorists might fly planes into that too! It's a prime target!"

People started taping up their windows and trying to make their houses or apartments airtight out of fear of chemical and biological attacks. There were news reports warning people that turning your house into an airtight box was a bad idea because, y'know, you need air to breathe.

"[X] supports terrorism!" and “if we do [X], the terrorists win!” were used as arguments for everything.  "Some rich Arab you never heard of donated to his organization that backs Hamas which backs al-Queda, and also owns stock in a holding company that has partial ownership of the Pringles company, so if you eat Pringles you're supporting terrorism!" "The terrorists want to tear down our freedoms and our way of life and rule us through fear! Eating what you want is one of our freedoms as Americans! If you're afraid to eat Pringles, the terrorists win!" (I promise you that this sort of argument is in no way hyperbole.) (This argument is how Halloween was saved, by the way.  “If we cancel Halloween, the terrorists win!”)

People worked 9/11 into everything, and I mean everything, whether it was appropriate or not.  If you went to the grocery store the tortilla chips would remind you to support the troops on the packaging. Used car sales would be dedicated to our brave first responders. You couldn't wipe your ass without the toilet paper rolls reminding you to never forget the fallen of 9/11, and again, this is not hyperbole. My uncle, who lived in Ohio and had never been to New York except to visit once in the 70′s, died of a stroke about 8 months after 9/11, and the priest brought up the attacks at the eulogy.

On a similar local note, on the day of 9/11, after the towers went down, gas stations in my home town immediately jacked up gas prices.  The mayor had the cops go around and force them to take them back down.  I doubt any of that was legal.

Before 9/11, Christianity in America - and religion in general - was on a downward swing, with reddit-tier atheism on the upswing. Religion was outdated superstition from a bygone age. The day after 9/11? Every single church was PACKED. (This wasn't a bad thing, but the power-hungry on the Evangelical Right saw this as a golden opportunity to grab power and influence.)

EDIT: By Popular Demand - Freedom Fries. I initially left these off because they came a couple years after the initial panic and most people thought they were kind of absurd (and I don't recall anyone really going along with it other than maybe some local diners here and there). France didn't want to get involved in our world policing so some folks were like "TRAITORS!" and wanted to call french fries "Freedom Fries" instead, so as to stick it to the French.

Besides dumb shit like that…it’s really hard to overstate how completely the national mood and character changed in the span of a day, or how much of the current culture war is a result of the aftermath. (9/11 was the impetus for the sharp rise in power of the Evangelical Right, who made themselves utterly odious and the following backlash helped the rise of the current Progressive Left, for instance.)

#9/11 #9-11 #september 11 #september 11 2001 #world trade center

[publiccollectors]

A graphic from Mad magazine #182 from April 1976. The larger piece this comes from is "A Mad Portfolio of Some Idealists' Dreams" by Arnoldo Franchioni.

I have been starting to visit and revisit Mad following the discovery of a huge box of old issues in the storage unit of my wife's late uncle. Some of this stuff has aged in rather interesting ways.

#Mad Magazine #Mad #WTC #World Trade Center #Arnoldo Franchioni #political graphics #911

[soon-palestine]

The driver and translator for the foreign delegation that was targeted

the martyr Saif Essam Abuta

The western aid workers' murder by Israel may be a deliberate slap at Biden. They were there for his pier project. WCKitchen is very much a Clinton/Biden linked NGO and selected for that reason. WCKitchen ran a Biden get the vote out operation in 2020 including giving food to voting lines in Democrat neighbourhoods. They did photo opportunity projects specifically for Bill Clinton in Africa. Their murder by Israel is a real problem for Genocide Joe.

Today @WCKitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless…they are not nameless. The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #world center kitchen

[neocurio]

cENTER OF THE WORLD

#center of the world #atlas obscura #neocurio

[wojakgallery]

Title/Name: 9/11 Soyjak Towers Wojak Series: Soyjak (Variant) Image submission by: wrenchwenches on Tumblr Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Soyjak Wojak

#Wojak #Soyjak #Soyjak Wojak #wrenchwenches #911 #Soyjak Towers #Towers #Twin Towers #Twin Towers Soyjak #World Trade Center #Soyjak Series #White #Gray #Blue #Soyjaks #Family Group

[saturnisscreaming]

Removes your normal force so you plummet to the center of the earth

#physics #physics jokes #forces #normal force #free body diagram #cryptic #shitpost #bad jokes #earth #center of the world #center of the earth #dumb jokes