this is the teaser image and actual title of an upcoming horror movie, by a director who thinks cgi is overused and too fake looking already so it’s probably going to be pretty funny

This went from “funny meta joke” to actually top tier monster concept the moment I just learned that the gator is canonically made of bad cgi in-universe. It is created when laptops get dumped in the swamp. The characters will recognize that it is a CGI entity and it will presumably have powers and abilities in accordance with that.

I still have this shirt its almost 25 years old

dont blaire witch me i'm 2

Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

an ice cold beer topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. lying on top of the ice cream foam is a salted peanut. this is the angel. around him are sprinkles (his tears). this is "the angel's lament", my new cocktail

Sure, why not. ‘Angels lament’

for the redditors coming here, this is how we spread news of important events in the world, with a Destiel meme

Right??

westley in the princess bride was so funny for being like ‘talk about this dead guy you loved lol’ and getting the tea about himself

oh he was ur true love? you thought he was hot n strong? rate him 1-10 and why

K this is a real problem for public libraries trying to supply their communities with media. We can't buy those shows on DVD either. And what about bringing the community together to watch a show or movie? We can't get licensing for it. We can't preserve those shows if streaming services never release them on DVD. It's frustrating and concerning.

[Image: Rick Riordan ( @/rickriodan at mastadon ) says: I am glad books are not (for the most part) provided by streaming services. Imagine a world where book series are not just cancelled but all copies are erased from existence, like many of the shows being pulled from Disney+ right now. It's deeply unsettling.]

This (media not being distributed in physical formats) is especially frustrating in rural communities. In many rural places internet infrastructure is practically, if not actually, nonexistent, making streaming highly impractical. Remember the early 00's, when dial-up internet was still the most affordable option? There are so many places where it's still the only option because it isn't profitable to run cable or fiber. Since internet service is still 100% privately-owned in the US people who live in far-flung, sparsely-populated areas are dismissed as not valuable enough potential customers.

Then there's the parallel issue of cost in general. In the days of exclusively physical media it was eventually possible for most people in a community to upgrade to the newest media format. As technology ages it (generally) becomes more affordable as mid- and low-end versions of things like DVD players become common. It might take a long time, but a low-income family could conceivably save up to buy a Blu-Ray player and keep themselves from being locked out of the modern media ecosystem. Those devices were one-time investments that could be used for years. Streaming services are the opposite in every way: the cost of the platform subscriptions and the internet connectivity needed to access them will only continued to rise, and there's no end to the payments. Two months of bare bones internet (~$20 if they're lucky) and a Netflix subscription ($9.99 for the basic plan, $6.99 for the godawful ad-supported tier) will be more expensive than a basic Blu-Ray player (~$60) within 3 months.

Not providing physical copies of this media prevents people from participating in culture.

An important addition.

oh paleolithic penguin ancestor, we're really in it now

Anyway here's some additions from the Maasai and Kikuyu, two grassy plain-dwelling groups from Eastern Africa that I think count as unfuckwithable

Feel like Poland should be included since we're literally called "people of the fields" according to the etymology of Poland.

Also look at her GO

I’m Métis, here’s some of ours! You’ll notice it looks remarkably similar to the above.

We also have some less intricate clothing (if it looks a bit Victorian to you - that’s pretty much the right era for most of this!)

Can’t believe no one’s done it yet I will be the person to add the cowboys: Latin American focus.

Here is the Chilean huaso:

Gauchos, from primarily Argentina where they’re a large national symbol close to the level of cowboys in the US. Also gauchos are in Uruguay.  Their pants are called bombachas and the other garment wrapped around them are called chiripas.  They work in grasslands called pampas, known for being really fertile:

While they’re not as dressed up as the others or have as prominent of a culture, for a broader Latin American cowboy context, I feel like also adding llaneros, who are from Colombia and Venezuela, in the llanos region, a type of tropical grassland similar to the pampas, hence the name llanero. Pampas get annual flooding and these guys would go barefoot a lot, and you can see that the stirrup on the horse’s saddle is really different than what you’re probably used to seeing, to accommodate for that, which is what I want to point out as an aspect of plains cultures developing clothing/accessories/tools to suit the environment. 

Cowboy culture happened wherever Spanish colonial influence and grassland biomes came together.  They differ based on the grasslands having different climates (ex tropical in South America), and the local indigenous influence (ex, backtracking to gauchos, they would use this tool called bolas to catch animals, which were basically two balls tied to a string that you threw and it spun around an animals legs, and were an indigenous invention):

I would love to keep posting cowboy dress lol but will stick to the post’s theme of grassland of course.  

Adding to the post, I, hereby, present people of Kalash and Chitral:

Chitral means ‘field’ in the native language Khowar. Both Chitralis and people of Kalash are known to be indigenous people of Asia.

drove past a hotel and they had a pretty big digital message board and I glanced over and almost had a fucking stroke while driving because it was just playing this gif

I’M GOING TO LOSE IT IT WASN’T FOR MOTHER’S DAY THEY JUST HAVE THE FUCKING DANCING BABY 24/7

WE WENT??? ITS THERE???