kaptainkristain: 5-10 minutes/video, engaging and awe-inspiring
Big Joel: ~30 minutes/video, nothing groundbreaking but good brain food!
Nerdwriter1: ~8 mins/video, covers lots of social issues as well as film
Nerd City: 10-40 mins/video, primarily covering youtube trends in a chaotic, colorful way. Touchy subject matter.
HISTORY:
The British Museum: <10 mins/video, but the titles are incredible and the people are passionate and fun!
Internet Historian: Does this count as history…? Either way it’s entertaining as hell! Somewhat offensive subject matter, you’ve been forewarned.
Sam O’Nella Academy: 5-10 mins/video, covers mostly fun/weird stuff from history! Like popcorn for your brain!
Overly Sarcastic Productions: 3-30 mins/video, a dynamic duo who cover history and historically important novels! VERY fun, probably one of my favorites on this list!! GO WATCH THEIR STUFF
GAME DESIGN:
Scruffy: <5 mins/video, behind the scenes info about game models, as well as some cute musical compositions!
Ahoy: 10-110 mins/video, incredibly in-depth and covers the history of different genres/elements of gaming!
Extra Credits: ~10 mins/video, an actual developers’ insight into game design, with some unrelated history thrown in for good measure. Insightful to say in the least!
Zero Punctuation: ~5 mins/video, fast paced and INCREDIBLY cynical, lots of foul language, BE WARNED
GAMERS:
Agentjr: total sweetheart who plays through horror games with a soft spoken, well reasoned attitude. Highly recommend his Silent HIll playthroughs!!!!!
Cryaotic: plays lots of indie horror/cute games and tries to be as morally right as possible, refreshing if you don’t like the chaotic/screaming playstyle of Markiplier.
MISC. SUBJECTS:
Ask a Mortician: 5-10 mins/video, covering the morbid subject matter of death in a way that’s respectful and uplifting in a fun way!
PBS Idea Channel: ~15 mins/video, no longer uploads but worthwhile if you want to look back on social issues in a discussion-heavy format.
How to Adult: 5-10 mins/video, MY SAVING GRACE, covers everything from doing taxes to making coffee.
ReignBot: 5-20 mins/video, horror, urban legends, and creepypasta commentary. Cheesy, but not as horribly abrasive as similar channels.
Sorrow TV: ~10 mins/video, reads the top posts from various subreddits in an entertaining way. Junkfood for your brain!
Matt Baume: varied video lengths, talks about LGBT history, current events, and culture!
What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.
What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’snot merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.
me, the first palaeontologist to dig up a triceratops skull, whispering softly: what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuckkkk
fun fact: modern paleontologists and archaeologists have pointed to some greek vase art of mythological monsters as being evidence that the greeks dug up dinosaur skulls and were like “what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuckkkk”
and then they did the Greek Thing and painted naked men fighting the monster
or, well, a deeply flawed representation of what they imagined the fossil had looked like while alive, an early form of paleoart.
but sometimes they also just. drew the skull and slapped a black blob monster onto it? anyway i love the greeks.
i haven’t seen any noise about this on tumblr yet, but a fire has completely wiped out a small town in california.
they’re calling it the camp fire. over 20,000 residents have been evacuated so far, the last area estimates i heard were over an hour ago at 18,000 acres and its still zero percent contained.
this is the smoke from about 18 miles away from the fire three hours ago. if you know anyone near chico, paradise, oroville or durham california you might want to check they’re okay
UPDATE: 4PM FRI NOV. 9, 2018
the fire has completely walked over paradise, magalia, and much of the rest of butte county. it’s under 10% containment and moving towards chico, which was been mostly evacuated as well. it’s been documented as one of the top 20 deadliest fires seen in california. i know many of the people personally whose lives have been destroyed by this fire. my aunt and uncle’s home, of whom we’re very close to, was demolished last night, same goes for family friends and others who lived in paradise– which is completely gone. there are 5 confirmed deaths, several dozen missing people.
EVACUATION SITES STILL OPEN AS OF 1 HOUR AGO:
Butte County Fairgrounds (199 E Hazel St, Gridley, CA 95948)
Yuba-Sutter Fairground (442 Franklin Ave, Yuba City, CA 95991)
Glenn County Fairgrounds (221 E Yolo St, Orland, CA 95963)
Chester Memorial Hall (22 Gay Street, Chester)
HOW TO HELP/DONATE:
“Currently the best way to contribute is to make a monetary donation via the North Valley Community Foundation website.” -abc7news.com
“Supplies: Hope Center in Oroville (1950 Kitrick Ave Ste. A) is taking donations. Hours: Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Needs: warm clothes, shoes, socks, coats (primarily for elderly residents).” -abc7news.com
the majority of those affected by the fire in paradise were elderly people. and having known paradise and magalia myself for years, it’s not a wealthy part of california. these people will need help, and lots of it.
if you have any questions, you can message me personally or seek information online or from the above references personally.
if you cannot help yourself, please spread the word and reblog. so many wonderful people are going through a terrible thing and need your help.
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This was the biggest excuse to draw Papyrus being great, in a sweater holding a small child, bunch of Sans expressions, goat mom and skeleton kisses. Ever. Also, based on conversations I had with @friendlytroll.
Plot Designing 