Not to make a Christmas Post but Santa did everything right re: the Rudolph situation and every time I see some edgelord slander talking about “the lesson of Rudolph is that your differences will be punished until the powers that be find them useful” I just assume that person is a little thick and misunderstood a song written to be so simple babies can understand it
One of the most basic things they teach you in Teacher School is that if you know a kid is being bullied, bringing all the other kids together and scolding them for being mean and excluding That Kid is a great way to escalate it from “they don’t let this kid play with them” to “they are beating up this kid.”
If you actually want to address the problem, the other kids can’t know they’re being told what to do. A good way to address it is to create a situation where the bullied kid gets to be the big cool hero in a way that benefits everybody, then put the bullied kid in that situation and let them save the day.
Santa, in “Rudolph,” is essentially doing the same thing that any teacher does when they have a class jeopardy game with a pizza party riding on it, and give the last question to the weird kid who’s bullied for being super into anime, and that question happens to be about that kid’s favorite anime, and they get it right, and now EVERYBODY gets pizza, thanks to Anime Kid!
Creating a situation, among a community of christmas-loving deer, where christmas can only happen because of the thing that’s special about Rudolph, was literally LITERALLY him intervening on Rudolph’s bullying. Do you think Santa, an immortal time-bending elf-saint who is sanctioned by god to monitor the children of the world and deliver them toys, is unable to navigate a foggy night? You really think his offering Rudolph, an untested rookie, the glamor post was an act of last resort? Do any of you know ANYTHING about Pedagogy or Classroom Management? These are deer. BABIES understand this song.
I mean, I actually don’t know anything about classroom management. Thank you for explaining! I feel better about that song now.
haters mad because they paid $100k for a fast car while it cost me nothing but time and patience to tame and form a bond with an enormous winged beast that loves me
haters seething because their girl would rather ride with me on dragonback with her arms wrapped around my waist than in the passenger seat of their lamborghini
the thing about AI art is there’s a whole- wait. did you guys hear that
oh shit heimdall just sounded the gjallarhorn to signal the arrival of naglfari
an interesting part of migrating to tumblr and learning its culture is figuring out by clues how bloggers announce that they don’t give a fuck about whatever issue of the week is happening and don’t want to get wrapped up in the discourse. If that’s indeed what this means idk
that’s very close, it mostly signals that the awareness of the discourse has reached critical mass on people’s dashboards and folks are parodying the most common popular posts. Kind of like a clown routine making fun of other clowns when they’re not looking, except everyone can see it and hits reblog anyways. There’s a whole category of post that makes fun of the discourse of pet ownership that’s like “lumberjack is an invasive species in hardware stores.” Self aware humor is the vibe. Don’t worry it’s easy, just use form without the original context like
“learning about tumblr culture like” *spins roulette wheel* “running outside and touching grass all the time”
“actually that’s not quite true because” *spins roulette wheel* “most tumblr users don’t know what outside is nevermind how to touch things”
it’s also a subtle jab at the original conversation being really dumb. It’s not about not commenting or participating, it’s PVP. You’ve just entered an attack zone, anyone can jump in on this conversation and own you or me or both of us at any time. It’s great.
what are y'all talking about can we Please focus on the fact that the sons of Muspel literally just destroyed the Bifröst
its really really fucked up that people in the global north think? assume? are told? that the ozone hole closed & went away forever & isnt a problem anymore
i dont really have any kind of moral to this post just please be aware that the ozone hole is very much still a problem and not something you can put in the ‘solved’ basket. it still massively affects the lives of people in the far south and the idea that it’s permanently closed is false.
(please do not ask me any followup questions i am not some kind of scientician im just a guy who got sunburned through jeans one time on a long car trip)
Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.
I might just be incredibly tired, but hot take: Michael Bublé’s cover of Santa Baby “Santa Buddy” is the closest he has come to making an artistic statement. Like. He doesn’t write his own solos: someone else writes them and he learns them off and as such he’s widely disparaged by jazz musicians. But at least in Santa Buddy… he’s saying something original. What he’s saying is “I am absolutely Not fucking Santa” but it’s something. It’s a take on the work that is his own. And it makes me absolutely furious, which is An Emotional Response To Art. Which is more than I can say about any of the soulless saccharine pablum that usually drips from his grinning maw. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Reblogging in honour of hearing Santa Buddy played in McDonald’s the other day and once again becoming obsessed with the artistic choices of Mr. Michael Booby.
25, He/They, Kommunistisk ubåtråner, back from a long journey, formerly moiraine-damodreds-kesiera.