TIL how the Superman radio serial helped significantly weaken the KKK: https://youtu.be/LUOODp8PQac (17m video giving background and summarizing the story)
as part of a much bigger coordinated effort, of course, more with raising public awareness than anything else, but still significant
full original recording of the 16-part 15-minute episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvRiiEXQLZWVxE_Yd97MwuD4WsbVhmD-
please, i beg you, someone out there who has #yakuza and some 3d posing software and/or time for fanart. PLEASE recreate this trend but it's haruka quietly dying of embarrassment as kiryu yeets himself skyward in full ministry of silly walks pose https://imgur.com/gallery/9zMjljf
@maple (e.g. when i know i'm in a space where there's a lot of kids - like, say, in the splatoon2 tag on twitter - i have to keep in mind, quite seriously, what i'm saying and doing as to be a good influence, publicly and visibly. i feel like way too many people laugh that off or "oh whatever they'll be fine" when it's very important.)
@maple honestly, agreed
i'm glad my parents did most of their monitoring of me by being involved in my life, interested in my activities, etc. and i think this is really the best way to do it - fostering a good relationship with your kids to the point where you know what they're doing, because they want to tell you
but i know on furcadia for instance i certainly had a lot of "there but for the grace of god go i" moments, and i try hard to pay that forward when i can
i mean i make that joke but i also know enough about myself that although i wouldn't hold a puppy gender reveal party, mostly because i intend to adopt where there's not much fanfare about that part,
i totally would throw a puppy shower aka baby shower equivalent aka "everyone come over and look at my cute dog" party
I REALIZE I SHOULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN ABOUT THE NAMING CARS AFTER SERIAL KILLERS THING
i figured that a pattern had been set so my nissan is named
Bundy.
not because of any sort of particular adulation or honor, but mostly because car names are like dog names: you really want something you can easily shout in frustration or elation depending on circumstances, and "bundy" is excellently shoutable
I REALIZE I SHOULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN ABOUT THE NAMING CARS AFTER SERIAL KILLERS THING
so my family names their cars
my first car was a little white car (a volvo). my mom's first car was also a little white car (tho not a volvo). it was named Sam.
she told me this and i immediately said "oh well, mine must be Son of Sam then of course".
then my volvo bravely died in service after somebody hit my mom while she drove it and literally truncated my car (my mom was fine tho), so...
@pettancow it may just be my family's thing but i think my parents were naming computers way before they wired up a home LAN - lmao
then again we also name our cars and that's why i have accidentally created a serial killer theme for mine? sooo uuhhh ymmv
my first one (that was really Mine) was an emachines pc got on special on black friday; i stood in line like 30 minutes before best buy opened in the pre-sunrise dark with my mom so we could grab it
the theme for computers on our network was currently grecoroman mythology so i named it Eos, after the rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn, because i got up so fucken early in the morning to get it lmao
30 y/o - token cishet - tumblr refugee. spoonie/15 chronic conditions in a trenchcoat/actual cyborg. just hangin' in there 