nobody likes the “bad boys” who insult and degrade their partners while wearing pastel polos with popped collars, people like REAL bad boys who wear leather jackets and take a lot of care in how they shape their pompadour and carry around stiletto switchblades and care about their communities and ride a motorcycle and rebel against the government and says stuff like “NOBODY insults my gal” and gets in fistfights with dudes who catcall their girlfriends. THOSE bad boys are the guys everyone wants.
okay but imagine a worth it/unsolved crossover where they do each other’s shows or something, but also where they film it in the style of their own show
so you get andrew and steven wandering around a haunted house, with slow motion close ups of their faces every time they get scared, every now and then they shout “ghost fact!”
and then there’s shane and ryan going to try three different popcorn places at three drastically different price points, constant bickering over which popcorn is the best, everything is filmed with a go pro, shane makes up terrible animations to go with each restaurant
On the one hand, Supernatural is so far past its logical ending point that it could get a farmer’s permit.
On the other hand, I find it hard to begrudge a new generation of teenaged girls finding a role model in Dean Winchester.
@ this entire website did u know it’s possible to make an informative post about a tragedy and/or national disaster without guilting and/or blaming your entire reader base for not posting about it when they PROBABLY simply haven’t heard about it?
The Kickstarter that we’ve
spent the last several weeks preparing for is launching tomorrow
morning. I’ve been working on Pillowfort for over three years now, which
seems like a very long time. I distinctly remember the moment that I
first had the idea for Pillowfort: I was talking to a friend back in
2013 and she told me about how she’d been part of a forum for fiction
writers that had been close-knit and supportive, but that the forum had
eventually shut down and she hadn’t found any online communities since
to match what that group had meant to her. And it reminded me of the
amazing times I’d had on LiveJournal and other websites before they’d
started changing into something else and the user-base migrated
elsewhere, and how much I missed those unique experiences.
Thus
Pillowfort started out as a simple passion project: to make the kind of
site that would bring back the sense of community and togetherness that
earlier social media experiences had brought me, while still keeping
the ease of communication and global sharing that the newer sites
enabled. To simply make the kind of blogging site that I was yearning
for. But it was an ambitious project for one person; I worked on it on
my own for a few months, sometimes wondering if sinking so many hours
into this pie-in-the-sky dream was worth it. I ultimately decided to set
up an ‘official’ Tumblr account for Pillowfort and make a little
introductory post describing my ideas for the site, accompanied by some
screencaps of the site demo, and see if people would be interested in
what I was working on. I added some tags that seemed relevant and threw
the post into the ether, telling myself that if nobody responded to it
then that was that, and I’d move onto something else.
I checked the post
the next morning to see that it had somehow, inconceivably, collected
thousands of notes overnight, purely by being shared among people who
saw the post and had connected with the idea. Over the next week the
post would gather around 35,000 notes and be mentioned on other
websites. It was far more than I could have anticipated. At that point I
knew that I had something real, that thousands of other people wanted
as much as I did, and it would be a shame to let such an opportunity
go.
A lot is riding on this Kickstarter. Up until now
the project has mostly been worked on by volunteers; even I as the site
founder have had to find the time to work on Pillowfort in my free time,
but it’s become increasingly clear over the last year that if
Pillowfort is to truly grow into its potential, we’re going to need a
committed and consistent staff that can put in the hours to develop the
site as quickly as our growing base of users want it to. As proud as I
am of the progress that’s already been made, the site is still very much
in its infancy; there’s so much more that I want to do with Pillowfort,
but to make it happen we’re simply going to need the funds so that I
and my developers can afford to work on the site at least part time.
I’ve made the decision not to seek out VC investments because I want the
primary focus for expanding the site in the near future to be on how we
can make the site the best possible version of itself, not on
maximizing revenue to pay back our investors. I’ve seen the other social
media sites we’ve all used start to make decisions that were geared
more towards increasing earnings instead of improving user experience,
and the dream for Pillowfort is to create a social media site that can
stay focused on being user-friendly and efficient. It might be a naive
dream, who knows, but I’m determined to try it.
If you
can’t contribute to the Kickstarter but still want to help us out, the
best thing you can do for us is to share the link to the Kickstarter on
your other social media accounts– just spread the word, tell others how
much you like the site, and that will help us a great deal. The fact
that has always buoyed me most when working on this project got
frustrating was that Pillowfort is something most people seem to really
want, and that’s probably the biggest blessing we could have asked for.
Thank you, to all of you who have supported us this far; I’m so
encouraged by how far the site has already come and I hope that I can
realize the rest of this dream with your help.
There’s this feeling I sometimes get watching humans do the cool things that humans have been doing for thousands of years. It makes my chest expand and my heart thud and I love it. I love this.
poking at it with a fork to ascertain the flexibility and chewiness
considering its similarities to other foods I’ve disliked
considering its differences from other foods I’ve liked
knowing that there is an ingredient in it that I hate
trying to chop it with a knife and feeling the gristliness and hearing that telltale horrible creaking noise of gristle and noping right out of that situation
this is how humans naturally decided whether or not to eat unfamiliar foods in the wild thousands of years ago
our senses interact with each other to protect us, so your nose alerts you to an incoming bad taste before you put it in your mouth so you don’t end up eating the bad thing and dying
hello internet, can we please have a quick talk about what a sheriff is & is not.
A sheriff is:
an elected official
the head of a county level law enforcement agency
often responsible for (or their deputies are responsible for) search & rescue efforts and mediating disputes in rural areas
A sheriff is not:
their deputies
town or city level law enforcement
federal law enforcement
state law enforcement
necessarily a man
someone who is appointed to their job by another official or who gets their job through promotion
So, for example, in shows like Teen Wolf & Twin Peak the characters of Sheriff Stilinski & Sheriff Truman behave much more like the chief of police for a particular town than like a sheriff. On the other hand, Stranger Things’ Chief Hopper acts much more like a sheriff than a chief of police, as he is clearly responsible for policing not just the town but also the rural areas around it & possibly other nearby communities.
Any questions? No? Okay, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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