#i am not even kidding

[belovedroach]

finished my sketchbook days ago !! and I decided to make a final drawing on the last page

the anatomy is not the best, just take in the vibes

#when i tell you that these idiots appear in 80% of my sketchbook #i am not even kidding #they ruined my life #can someone help me #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #fanart #art #good omens crowley #good omens aziraphale #gomens

[therowdymagpie]

Guess who's route I've replaying again after a hot minute

Bonus:

#very much based on true events #it's a real problem you guys #i am not even kidding #arcana memes #the arcana #the arcana game #julian devorak

[thegalaxysedge22]

this line lived rent free in my mind for so long i ended up making a pop song out of it

#i am not even kidding #that’s not to mention the other song i wrote based on stations character arc #astarion #astarion romance #bg3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #astarion fanart

[jet-lag-the-game-in-my-brain]

all i do all day is listen to the layover podcast and play subway surfers

#let lag the game #jet lag: the game #the layover podcast #sam denby #ben doyle #adam chase #i am not even kidding

[empressofmankind]

It's me, I'm the treasure.

#I am not even kidding #buggy the clown #shitposting #captain buggy #rewatching one piece and absolutely dying #every other minutes from the inanity #one piece #buggy #one piece buggy #buggy thoughts

[borathae]

him.

#this screams sanguis alpha taehyung #this is peak him. #imma fucking paint him #i am not even kidding #th #sanguis alpha inspo #magnus venatio inspo

[masonjarsmoments]

I got so much Antti content. Every competition should be a team event in Finland from now on.

#ski jumping #i am not even kidding #i only got more antti in willingen #so he also could just lead after the first round from now on #antti aalto

[allo-frouto]

yesterday I made someone have a squirting crying orgasm you seriously could use it

I could use it right fucking now.

#<3 #and #I am not even kidding #ugh

[per-the-jellicle-magician]

I fucking found out why Warsaw Misto is said to be able to juggle like a clown in his song

It's borrowed from the 1970 translation of the poem by Andrzej Nowicki

I don't have all the poems Nowicki translated (only the Naming of cats, and fragments of Mr M, RTT, Skimble and Addressing), but even with only these I found a few lines that are quite similar to their equivalents in the show, like e.g. one of the last lines in the Naming being made up of words with core -myślnie, or 2 lines in the "chorus" part of Mr M poem being very close to the chorus of the song ("To nie do wiary, Po prostu czary" vs "Och, Ach to nie do wiary, co za kot! To istne czary")

And there are just things that Mr Nowicki came up with that Wyszogrodzki adopted. The 3 coming to my mind rn are the already mentioned juggling Misto, Tugger's name, and also the time that Skimble appears at the platform (it's 11:02, it's also the time the clock he appears in shows)

#aaand on the other hand Barańczak inserted pizza into Mr M #i am not even kidding #cats the musical #cats warsaw #mr mistoffelees #jellicle cats #warsaw guy talks

[nessa-and-elfie]

happy international pride day this cat is trans

#i am not even kidding #cat acquaintance #chungus #catblr

[hollythemage]

Have y'all ever noticed all the parallels between Naruto and Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer?

Like, they both start out with a protagonist that is heavily ostracized for something they have no control over.

For Rudolph it's his nose.

For Naruto it's the Nine Tailed Beast sealed inside of him.

There's an authority figure who is renowned as an excellent leader and the protagonist looks up to them. The authority figure is aware of the fact that the protagonist is ostracized by their peers, and yet they seemingly do absolutely nothing to condemn these open acts of discrimination despite arguably being in the best position out of anyone to bring about the changes necessary to make the protagonist's life less miserable.

For Rudolph, it's Santa Claus.

For Naruto, it's Hiruzen.

The protagonist meets someone from their same home town who is in a similar position to them. They don't fit in and they don't get along with their peers. They have a set goal in mind, and eventually they come to the conclusion that they would have a better chance of fulfilling that goal if they left their home town behind and ventured out into the world beyond it.

For Rudolph, this is Hermey the Elf.

Hermey doesn't get along as well with his fellow elves because he isn't all that crazy about making toys.

No, Hermey has a different goal in mind. He wants to be a dentist.

When he expresses this desire, the other elves mock him, and his boss even goes so far as to fire him.

In retaliation, Hermey declared that his boss can't fire him because he has already chosen to quit his job at the toy factory.

He then leaves the north pole, because he knows that he would never be respected in his desired profession if he stayed there.

For Naruto, this is Sasuke Uchiha.

Sasuke has difficulties getting along with his peers due to the trauma of losing his entire family after his older brother Itachi slaughtered everyone else in the Uchiha Clan.

His goal is to avenge his dead family by tracking Itachi down and killing him, but in order to do that, he has to get stronger.

Orochimaru offers to train Sasuke and teach him the skills he needs to kill his brother in exchange for being allowed to use Sasuke's body as his next vessel.

Eventually Sasuke leaves Konoha to begin training under Orochimaru.

Side note: Unlike Naruto, Rudolph actually leaves with his friend Hermey after realizing that his peers don't respect him and that no matter what he does, no one seems to be able to get over his nose. Which is ironic considering that Rudolph actually had parents waiting for him at home, and he still decided to just pack up his shit and leave with his new elf friend on impulse without telling anyone.

Meanwhile Naruto is an orphan who doesn't have parents. He doesn't even have adoptive parents. He doesn't even seem to have any kind of legal guardian at all. Hell aside from having his basic material and educational needs met through the financial support granted to him by the state, he really doesn't have all that much access to social or emotional support on a regular basis. He lives alone and the few people who tolerate his existence are mostly other kids around his age and his teachers (and Ramen Guy. God bless). And yet he never seems to even consider leaving Konoha.

On the contrary he seems determined to drag Sasuke's ass back to Konoha even if he has to do so with the Uchiha kicking and screaming all the way there.

Both protagonists go through various trials and tribulations until they eventually gain the chance to prove that they can be useful to their peers and finally earn the basic human decency that they always deserved and that they never should have had to earn in the first place. And they do this by being useful to the same people who have spent the majority of their lives ostracizing and neglecting them.

At least Rudolph gets somewhat of an apology from Santa before Santa asks him to use his glowing nose to guide the other reindeer pulling his sleigh through the snowstorm, but Naruto doesn't get that same courtesy.

Up until the moment he saves Konoha from Pain's invasion, there is very little indication that a majority of the people in Konoha who have been neglecting him since he was a child have changed their tune.

And after Naruto saves them, it is openly acknowledged that this change of tune is due almost entirely to the fact that Naruto had finally proved that he could be useful to them. Or at least useful enough for them to make an effort to get on his good side despite barely ever bothering to get to know him personally.

Unlike Rudolph, Naruto acknowledges the hollow, empty feeling it leaves him with to know that his worth as a person in the eyes of his peers is reducible to the benefits that he can provide to them, rather than any other part of who he is as a person.

He even acknowledges that he still holds a grudge against the other villagers for not being there for him in the past when he was growing up in Konoha.

He manages to overcome those inner demons at the waterfall of truth, but I can't help but feel as though this seems empty as well considering that none of his new fans seemed to have bothered apologizing for the shit they put him through when he was little, and even if they did then the apologies would just ring hollow since they only happened after he saved the village and rose to fame. And yet he still forgives them and pledges to move on if that is what it would take to prepare for what was to come.

Finally, a majority of the people responsible for ostracizing, harassing, or neglecting the protagonist are never held accountable for what they did, and there is little to no indication that the people in charge are going to enact any kind of policy against harassment or discrimination in order to prevent these incidents from happening again in the future.

Neither Santa Claus nor any of the Hokage that were in power during Naruto's life ever mention attempting to use their authority or the resources at their disposal to prevent history from repeating itself.

They aren't shown passing laws to safeguard individuals from being harassed for something they have no control over, despite knowing that Naruto and Rudolph suffered from those exact problems. And the reason this is so important is because a change in attitude towards the protagonist doesn't automatically equate to a change in attitude towards other people who are discriminated against for similar reasons, especially if the protagonist is treated as a special case and thus an exception to the rule. All it means is that the protagonist's reputation has changed for the better. Whether or not other socially alienated individuals will continue to suffer from discrimination has yet to be seen.

And even if those broader societal attitudes do change, it doesn't necessarily mean that the institutions that allowed such abuses to occur must have changed as well.

As long as the legal and social systems remain the way they are, there is always a possibility that the abuse will occur again and continue to go unpunished. Attitudes against harassment and discrimination can only go so far without a higher power to reinforce them, such as a legal system to penalize people for committing such offenses.

It's also a lot easier for popular opinion to revert back to what it was if there are no rules in place to enshrine those sentiments in public policy, so any changes that the protagonist has managed to make aren't guaranteed to last.

Also, the fact that Naruto seems to think that he'll only see the changes he wants to see in the village if he becomes the Hokage indicates that he assumes he's going to have to do all of those things himself since he can't rely on anyone else to do it for him.

That is sad as hell.

A person shouldn't have to become a world leader in order to draw attention towards a problem as serious and pervasive as systemic neglect and abuse, and they shouldn't have to face the monumental task of addressing those issues all on their own either.

If you feel as though your only recourse for addressing the injustices that have been committed against you is to become your government's head of state then there is something seriously wrong with that government.

It doesn't matter if the Hokage is an elected position because even representatives are elected via the majority vote and that still leaves plenty of room for abuse if that same majority decides to collectively neglect or abuse someone. Also I doubt that kids as young as Naruto have voting rights and if they do then it is never mentioned.

Oh well, at least he is the Hokage now.

So basically in summary; Rudolph and Naruto spent their whole lives being discriminated against for something they had no control over only for everyone to suddenly change their tune and begin worshipping them as heroes the second that their usefulness was shown to outweigh whatever perceived flaws had caused those same people to despise them throughout their childhoods.

The North Pole and Konoha do not deserve them.

#naruto #rudolph the red nosed reindeer #naruto shitposting #happy holidays #have a nice festive naruto shitpost #I hope you enjoy it because this literally took me over two days and several hours to write and find all of the pictures #I am not even kidding #Why did I do this

[elbiotipo]

Fun Fact: a 1/3 of my entire personality and life story is because of the 1990 simulation game SimEarth made by Maxis.

#I am not even kidding #cosas mias #it's because they used the Monolith on me #and it was successful

[nonsensical-pixels]

oh my god those lindasims files are a goldmine for 'how to corrupt someone's game with 1 nail recolor file!' and i cannot even make this shit up

rundown of what i discovered from one nail package coming later... maybe. because wtf was linda or whoever uploaded that cc on when they clicked save.

#ky rambles #lindasims2 #s2cc #i am not even kidding #it's beyond lightning mcqueen this time #think bhavs in all the wrong places

[stillworshipthislove]

tell me why this karaoke place has ronan of all songs

#i am not even kidding #i promise you

[golden-reedwolf]

All the people in the notes of that post saying to throw up in a trash bin clearly didn't grow up with a parent who was aggressively against bins in the house

#i am not even kidding #my mum was very against bins #we had one main one in the kitchen and that was it #i suggested getting a bin for the living room once and she got mad and screamed at me...

[florensicz]

returning to tumblr has made me realise that in fact i feel as if the b99 fandom may be more deceased than i thought like. where did you guys go. where are you. stop being in hiding and converse with me about silly detectives. i BEG.

#b99 fandom #b99 #brooklyn nine nine #interact with me i beg #i am not even kidding #if you are even remotely a fan of b99 come talk to me about it #i need more of yall #rosa diaz #jake peralta #gina linetti #amy santiago