There are a lot of absolute idiots in the comments saying things like “a good dog will never hurt a baby” and “the child is never to blame if the dog attacks” and “special snowflakes call everything abuse”
Listen here you fucktards: dogs. Are not. Fucking. People. They don’t operate by human logic. They don’t follow human moral codes. It has nothing to do with it being a “good dog“ or not. If you were getting hit and pulled on and punched and scratched constantly, you just might react. A dog can’t speak up and say “hey please stop that you’re hurting me“. What he can do is move, lunge, bite, etc. These actions might intentionally or unintentionally harm your child. Use your fucking head and don’t let your kid beat up on your dog no matter how many times he’s “taken it” before; you never know when he might snap. Don’t teach your kids it’s OK to treat animals like punching bags and they’ll never react. That’s immensely unfair to both the animal and the child. You could have a hurt or dead child and a euthanized dog because you were fucking dumbass who thought the dogs were just there to be treated like toys.
Same goes for cats and any other pet. Teach your child how to properly treat animals or don’t have any fucking animals.
When I was younger, one of our dogs, Brew, was pretty old and I loved him. I used to lie with my head on his shoulder and he’d put his head on mine and sleep. I literally loved him so much. But he was an old dog and one day I tripped and stood on his tail. He came up and nipped at me. Caught me in the face.
My mother freaked and I cried but we didn’t call police or anything because he did what comes to dogs naturally. He can’t say “ow, gerroff” so he could only bite. All he did was nip. A little warning. I felt awful and spent the rest of the day stroking him and saying sorry even though I had a bruise above my eye that looked like someone had hit me and sent me flying.
Don’t let your kids climb on your dogs or bother your cats. Your pets aren’t there to be abused for the sake of cuteness. It doesn’t matter if a baby doesn’t understand. If I toddler doesn’t know any better. I made hella sure that my niece’s and nephew didn’t hurt my pets at any age and taught them respect. They’ve been nipped and clawed because of their actions and I told them that.
Respect your pets and teach your kids the same. It’s absolute bullshit that an animal should suffer just because you don’t fucking want to teach kids to respect animals from the beginning.
Stony, Superbat, Spirk, and the concept of partnerships of Equals in shipping
I’m gonna keep this essay as short as possible, but I wanted to kind of address why these ships are seen as almost intrinsic to older, genre fiction fandoms.
The reason these ships are so ingrained and so lasting is that they’ve basically taken the two main characters of their given franchises and shipped them. As partners, as equals, as people who, despite being at odds with each other or being extremely different to one another, have a deep love and respect for each other.
The other interesting thing to note is that these ships often have a third who, while also an equal who is a well loved character, doesn’t quite have the same dynamic as the two, and while ships of this third character and either one of the first two exist and are popular, they aren’t as intrinsic as the ones above.
Steve and Tony are often listed with Thor as a triumvirate of the most popular Avengers. Bruce and Clark obviously have Diana as their important and equal third. Jim and Spock often come together with Bones as an important third.
But the thing that makes the above ships so popular is the fact that these are the two that are most at odds with each other, most different in terms of general beliefs, motifs, and personalities.
Clark and Bruce are as different as night and day, but still have a strong and long lasting friendship (and an amusingly similar physical appearance despite looking entirely different in costume).
Steve and Tony often butt heads and also often have opposing views, but before Civil War it was always a way for them to work as a team, to have different perspectives in order to reach a good and balanced middle ground that was still in line with their heroism.
Kirk and Spock were incredibly different personalities that worked well together in a solid, odd couple friendship that played beautifully off each other.
And all of the above ships are partners. Equals not just in the story itself, but in terms of narrative significance.
They are equal in the eyes of general pop culture. You could prefer Superman or Batman, prefer Captain America or Iron Man, prefer Kirk or Spock, but in the end they are all counted among the MOST IMPORTANT in most of their medium.
And that equality, that idea of differing personalities and perfect foils coming together as partners to form a balanced middle ground, the idea that people who disagree on most views can still respect and love each other and work together as equals, is incredibly appealing to fans who ship them.
if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it.
You missed some of the best ones
the best part about it is that the art installation isn’t actually called the Bean. It’s called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.
But i mean, look at it. It’s a bean.
How could you forget this one though
I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.
someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?
Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.
So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it’s hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he’s kind of a prick about it.
Art world is not thrilled with that.
Enter Stuart Semple.
Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoor’s dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because it’s awesome, and damn it we deserve something.
Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.
Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with “Up yours. #pink”
Everyone flips shit, because. Y’know. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. He’s a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.
Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after it’s applied, but glitters like a mofo. It’s the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, it’s going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Semple’s way of saying “shove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happens”. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.
He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.
Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. It’s completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, can’t be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if you’re not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.
So I think we can guess who got the better deal.
And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.
…But not quite.
Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.
No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.
The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesn’t like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.
Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.
So that’s been the art world for the last two years.
Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.
Stuart Semple is organising a bean-kissing event for Anish Kapoor’s birthday.
Reblogging for “By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.”
ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!
I know this isn’t my art blog but this entire post gives me life
im sorry is that man holding a real actual miniature star in his hands
Y’all missed the best part about the lightest light, called aptly ‘Lit’. This is from their product page:
Two things:
1. “Anish Kapoor is however a penis” is the best line in this post.
2. I wish to be half as petty and half as awesome as Stuart Semple
I hope Stuart Semple is making a lot of money. What a good person.
Go support him the paint’s are pretty cheap and you get the added bonus of being one of many to help piss off Anish Kapoor
I usually don’t reblog long posts, but I’ve ever only seen the bean events and never the actual brilliant and read-worthy stories about the best artist trolling since painting dicks on curch ceilings. This post is truly blessed from start to finish. Ôô
the most telling thing about the political climate this year is that usually my dash is filled with 4th of July posts by now but there’s been absolutely nothing… like nobody can even find the strength to post ironic eagle memes are you guys alright over there
“When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn’t say what we lost.”
I gotta wonder how much of Steve’s craptastic immune system came from surviving the 1918 flu. I mean, babies can get the flu, and this strain was a million times more contagious than usual. Literally.
Death By Catchphrase 