Author: acescents
all of my republican family and friends keep saying shit like ‘we dealt with Obama for 8 years’ even though there’s no logic in comparing any of Obama’s mistakes to the nuclear disaster that’s going to be our future president
yelp review of the paris catacombs
written using a predictive text interface
source: yelp reviews of the catacombs
transcript:
*Me walking in front of my 100+ people lecture hall* who’s falling in love with me right now I wonder
man this has been said before by cleverer folks than me, but sometimes you have to sit down and let the sheer size and age of the storytelling tradition just completely overwhelm you, ja feel?
like— think for a second about how mind-bogglingly incredible it is that we know who osiris is? that somebody just made him up one day, and told stories about him to their kids, and literally thousands and thousands of years later we are still able to go “there was a god whose brother cut him into pieces”, it’s so arbitrary, it’s so incredible
that in talking about scheherazade and her husband, you are doing something that someone in every single generation has done since it was written— you are telling stories that have lasted an impossible amount of time
can you conceive of telling a story, and then traveling into the future and hearing that same story told— with alterations, and through media that you could not possibly conceive of, but your story— in the year 3214?
the fact that we! as a species! have been telling the same damn stories for so long— the fact that we’ve seen homer’s troy and chaucer’s troy and shakespeare’s troy and troy with fucking brad pitt because we never fucking stop telling stories! never ever ever!
we never stop caring about stories, or returning to the same stories, or putting our own spins on stories. we never stop talking about the characters as if they were real, or asking what happened next, or asking to hear it again.
generation after generation, they never ever ever stop mattering to us.
I say “bye love u” to my dog every morning when I leave the house
show creator: i know what you are
bi character: say it. out loud.
show creator: …not interested in labels
Dr. Seuss was not even in the general area of fucking around.
I think almost all of his stories have a deeper meaning and Horton Hears a who was written as an apology to the Japanese after WWII
Holy guac
Also the Pro-life movement used his line “a person’s a person no matter how small” on their literature without his permission, and he made them stop using it an apologize because he was pro-choice.
okay but before reading the caption I thought these were contemporary cartoons in the style of dr suess, and the fact that these are so relevant again is pretty scary
the moon is beautiful 