personblogging:

• Fantasy world not based on typical medieval Europe
  
• Was a children’s show that openly discussed war, death and genocide
• Had several handicapped characters, one of whom was the show’s most powerful person
• Every single character was a person of color, drawn to represent Asian and Inuit peoples
• Had a character story arc centered around both emotional and physical parental abuse, whose arc was about learning that they didn’t need the parent who abused them
• Absolutely BEAUTIFUL ART STYLE AND DIRECTION
• Three dimensional writing that rivals even most adult dramas
• Characters dealt with sexism in society
• Showed citizens on both sides of the war, including showing how the people in the enemy nation were merely influenced by propaganda and an oppressive regime
• Had romances that developed overtime and actually talked about the issues of forming a relationship instead of just “and now they’re in love.”
• Characters died. On a children’s show. Characters who you fucking knew! Who had story arcs and were their friends and were kids like them!
• When those characters died, they left an impact. It wasn’t ignored after a few episodes, the feelings they had for these characters stayed through the entire show
• Had environmental messages that weren’t cheesy, and they made you take the destruction of the environment seriously
• SUPERB world building, fleshing out many cultures and histories that always felt real
• Had a magic system that never felt like magic. It always felt natural and like a solid part of this world with rules that couldn’t be broken
• The cute animal sidekicks weren’t just there to sell toys. They were characters who had so much emotion to them and were vital parts of the show’s dynamic. Also, the animals never talked yet somehow still portrayed an insane emotional level that some Disney films only dream of
• Spawned a sequel series that dealt not only with sexism, but with sexuality, religion, and the benefits and dangers from the rapid progression of technology

The point is, Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the greatest shows of all time and the proof is right there

aledethanlast:

If you ever think history impressive or grand, here’s a story for you:

Right after ww2, Jews were freed, but basically had no citizenship to speak of, and the allied forces weren’t that!helpful. So a group called the TTG was formed to help emigrate (read: smuggle) Jews from Central Europe, to Mediterranean ports, where they would take boats to Israel.

The TTG did this by piling the Jewish refugees into trucks bearing British insignia, their operatives dressing up as British soldiers, and just openly driving to port cities.

If they were ever stopped by actual military forces, they would say they were a part of a covert supply missing, under special orders from Major Tuches. They would stress that the contents of the trucks was super secret and to not be disturbed under any circumstances. They saved over 300,000 Jews like this.

If that sounds reasonable to you, here’s the thing: TTG stands for Tilhas Teezee Gesheften, and the operatives named one Major Tuches as their commanding officer whenever they needed to.

Or, to translate that into English, the event that saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees was called Operation Kiss My Ass led by Major Asshole.

peoplegettingreallymadatfood:

orbispelagium:

God fucking dammit

The Joker in the Lego Batman movie is driven by his desire to establish an archrival hate-relationship with Batman, and his clothes have a card-suite motif

I want to get off Mr. Hussie’s Wild Ride

pr1nceshawn:

Movie Scenes Inserted Into Real Life by François Dourlen.

tooquirkytolose:

tooquirkytolose:

nonsense phrases ive seen on this site that make me laugh everytime:

1. HIM BIG

2. im dying squirtle

3. this kills the man

and last but not least

4. he chunch those leafs

very important update:

5. lov the cronch

candyredterezii:

its-witching-hour:

I 100% think that if you went inside, you would walk into a normal sized one. It would be seemingly normal, with everyday employees and shoppers. And you’d wander around and almost forget the weird beginning of this adventure, buy a DVD, and then step back out into this field.

isnt this the little building that Chell walked out of at the end of Portal 2

bigdipper24:

A Twitter bot named “mewo2″ or @unchartedatlas has been auto generating fantasy maps since February of 2016.  Here are only 3 of the over 8,000 maps the bot has made so far.
Find and follow them here: https://twitter.com/unchartedatlas/media

awwww-cute:

When you have twins, it’s not always easy to figure out which one is the evil one, but sometimes… (Source: http://ift.tt/2myknbd)

doobiewrap:

gaytotodile:

This is an actual tweet by dennys

Oh my god

smugplankton:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Groundbreaking new poll results show broad support in Canada for boycotts and sanctions against Israel. The Palestinian call for a boycott of Israel was considered a reasonable response to violations of international law, including Israel’s ongoing construction of settlements on occupied Palestinian territories, by 78 per cent of respondents, while 66 per cent said sanctions were reasonable.

“These results should give courage to those MPs who want to do the right thing on this issue,” Thomas Woodley, president of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, told Ricochet by telephone on Thursday.

• Poll: Canada’s politicians out of touch with public on Mideast

The poll was carried out by EKOS and commissioned by CJPME, Independent Jewish Voices, and several individuals. The first part of the polling results, released last month, revealed that a majority of Canadians believe their government is biased towards Israel in its Mideast policy.

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this is wilder % of support than i expected

allthecanadianpolitics:

hitting-her-stride:

allthecanadianpolitics:

cosmicdwarf:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Residential and small business hydro bills in Ontario will drop by 17 per cent on average this summer under a new plan released Thursday by Premier Kathleen Wynne.

The plan will lift billions of dollars in costs off customers this year, and load them onto future hydro bills and taxpayers.

The dramatic move comes as Wynne’s Liberal government trails badly in the polls ahead of next year’s election.

The Liberals say the plan will cut 25 per cent off the average residential and small business bill. That figure includes an eight per cent reduction that kicked in Jan. 1, when the government exempted residential electricity costs from the provincial portion of the HST.  

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Ye ole political tactic of fuck the future to make myself look better now.  Totally in line with the rest of the Liberal decisions.

Also a year away from the Ontario election this comes across as insincere to me.

I don’t understand. Isn’t this beneficial for consumers in Ontario? I thought that their electricity prices were outrageous. Wouldn’t spreading out the costs be a huge relief?

It is, but the larger point is that this is only a temporary measure, and it will ensure prices get even more expensive later

Because of this move, yes, Hydro prices will go down, but in the near future prices will go up even more (as the interest will continue to pile up).

Considering there’s an election in a year and the Liberals are floundering in the polls, this comes across to me as a cynical ploy to boost their popularity.

The Liberals have been in power in Ontario since 2003. Electricity prices have been an issue for this entire stretch of time, but they’re only going to act now, and act in a way that simply putts the problem down the road for some other government to deal with? This doesn’t seem like long term thinking.

Plus the NDP actually came up with a plan that would reduced costs even more (by up to 30%), without laying the costs on rate payers in the future (as the Ontario Liberals will be doing).

savagry:

TOO MANY!!!!!

powtothenuts:

n-homme:

shorten:

there’s a lot of weird shit on this site but have you ever seen a peeled lemon

I feel like i’m not supposed to be looking at this.

Nakey

godsgifttotheyaois:

if you ever feel down on your life just remember at least you are not this person