Tag: nostalgia will probably kill me

spatscolombo:

So I accidentally learned today about this thing where lots of people ship Carmen Sandiego and Waldo from Where’s Waldo?

And on the one hand I love it, because it’s silly and hilarious and you can learn about it and giggle and move on OR you can think about it for a long time and get really into it and that’s a great thing about the Internet

But it really grinds my gears that all the fanart visions of the couple I could immediately see on google showed this really conventionally gendered arrangement where Waldo is like leading/supporting Carmen or rescuing her?

And it’s like exCUSE ME I get that they’d be a cute couple because they’re both hard to find, and because why not, but like she’s an ex-detective criminal mastermind unbound by time and space and he’s a tourist who can’t find his map they are hard to find for VERY DIFFERENT REASONS and you cannot convince me that fucking adorable bespectacled soft butch brings-a-walking-stick-to-the-beach dazed and confused WALDO would be in the driver’s seat of that operation I mean GOD

Right, i mean obviously you can’t find Waldo because CARMEN SANDIEGO STOLE HIM.

strampunch:

hmas-sydney:

unbelievable-facts:

Critics complained that Indian musician Daler Mehndi’s music was only popular because his videos featured beautiful women. Mehndi’s response was to create a video featuring only copies of himself greenscreened in, leading to the creation of the “Tunak Tunak Tun” video.

Creates his most popular video just because people say he cant.

What a lad

posted the video because some people in Tumblr are too young to remember this masterpiece.

archatlas:

Contrived Structures Nick Sellek

This series of photographs are of detailed models, embracing the contrived structures that surround us in our overdeveloped urban environments. They are close up, exaggerated studies of architectural components, severed from context to emphasise the absurdity of their design. The models are also intended to be displayed as freestanding objects, and to be viewed from all angles.

Images and text via

Nick Sellek

do-you-have-a-flag:

technology related sensory memories from my childhood

  • sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
  • the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
  • ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 
  • rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo

feathersmoons:

goshawke:

feferi:

missvoltairine:

it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet 

tbh i still start sentences with “hokay, so” at least 3 times a day 

Honestly, who doesn’t?

THIS THE EARTH!

When I’ve been rambling for a while in conversation and don’t actually know how to finish what I’m saying (or realize that the previous sentence was actually the last thing i had to say), I inevitably pause for a couple seconds and then go “THE AIND!”

grandenchanterfiona:

bemusedlybespectacled:

poedameron-tony:

bigender-gamzee:

lehrastar:

perfectionistdia:

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robot-tiddies:

maliwanhellfires:

brotoro:

the military begins recruiting ‘soldiers’ before they grow out of their booster seat

four year olds have toy guns and green army men

by grade school you’ve memorized the star spangled banner and the pledge of allegiance

in middle school you’re old enough to play first person shooters set in war times. you and your friends brag about how many kills you have, what guns are your favorite

in high school, rotc comes to visit. you get letters in the mail detailing scholarship and housing opportunities you could have

and if you’re poor or unsure of your future or in love with the idea of ‘protecting your country’ like the men in call of duty

every branch of the military has a sponsored blog on here because they want everyone 13 and up to know that soldiers are heroes and they should join them

To those of you who were wondering, this is a very US-specific post. What gets done to you guys is terrifying, and it’s really unfair.

Ah yes I remember how the different military branches visited my high school at multiple times throughout the year and set up their little pull up bars and had little competitions and the strong little ones got lanyards so the recruiters could pick them out

I dont even know if you’re joking or not

We’re not

We are so not.

This is all 100% accurate and I just now realized how fucking creepy is all is

I took the ASVAB while in my senior year of high school and the recruiters started calling me right away. 

We were all encouraged to take the ASVAB in high school whether we were planning to go into the military or not. I got a letter from West Point right after getting my results back, and honestly if I were more conservative and less of a nerdy spaghetti noodle, I would have considered it. They were very complimentary of my scores.

I’m pretty sure the only reason my high school didn’t get much military recruitment and ROTC and stuff was cuz we were a school specifically for kids on the autism spectrum and autistic people can’t serve in the military.

And I’m pretty sure the reason we didn’t get them was that we were a sci/tech high school, and they wanted us all working for the Department of Defense designing the weapons for everyone else to use.

(Worked, too. >_<)