My dream Gen X retirement community isn't a golf course or a luxury resort.
It's a fully renovated 80s/90s shopping mall.
Half the building is apartments. The other half looks exactly like the mall we grew up in.
The Waldenbooks is now a massive library where you can spend hours getting lost in books.
The food court is part of your meal plan, so you can grab an Orange Julius, a slice of pizza, Chinese food, or sit down for a proper meal at Shoney's whenever you want.
The movie theater plays classics every night.
The arcade is free and packed with Pac-Man, Galaga, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong, and every cabinet game we spent our allowance on.
Sam Goody is still there. You can browse CDs, listen to Bowie, The Ramones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or whatever you love. They even host monthly dance nights for anyone who still remembers MTV when it actually played music.
The Sharper Image has massage chairs you can reserve whenever your back reminds you that you're no longer 25.
The pharmacy is still an Eckerds.
Blockbuster is fully operational. You can rent movies, video games, and spend 30 minutes wandering the aisles before choosing something you'll probably fall asleep watching.
There's an aerobics studio offering Tae-Bo, Richard Simmons, MTV's The Grind workouts, and every fitness craze we survived the first time around.
There are fountains everywhere, a lazy river because we've earned it, and plenty of benches where people can sit and talk instead of staring at their phones.
Every morning we go mall walking before the stores "open."
Every evening we meet friends at the food court.
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. No influencers.
Just books, music, movies, arcades, friends, nostalgia, and the feeling that for a few hours, it's 1995 again.
Honestly, I'd put my name on the waiting list today.
I see Madonna is pissing everybody off again.
Good.
Gen X checking in:
Were some of y’all born yesterday?
You’re clutching your pearls because Madonna is 68, wearing lingerie, fishnets and thigh-high boots like she suddenly lost her mind at bingo.
THIS IS MADONNA.
She rolled around on the VMA stage in a wedding dress in 1984.
She gave us Like a Prayer.
Vogue.
Erotica.
Truth or Dare.
Justify My Love.
Ray of Light.
Confessions.
She made Evita, Who’s That Girl, A League of Their Own and Desperately Seeking Susan.
She reinvented herself so many damn times that entire generations of pop stars are still borrowing from the blueprint.
And now the woman who spent 40+ years telling society to go fuck itself is supposed to hit 68 and start dressing like somebody’s meemaw because you got uncomfortable with her aging?
Fuck that.
Prince never needed permission to be Prince.
Bowie never needed permission to be Bowie.
Madonna doesn’t need permission to be Madonna.
And bookmark this post:
The day Madonna dies, half the people dragging her today will suddenly post “We lost an icon 💔” and spend a week explaining how she changed music, fashion, sexuality and pop culture.
I’m not waiting for her obituary to give her her flowers.
Wear the corset.
Wear the fishnets.
Piss people off.
You’re fucking Madonna.
i actually dont trust anyone who claims that hazbin hotel has bad animation when this piece from vox dei exists
how can you look at this shot and not think that these artists are doing incredible work that theyre genuinely passionate about??
*Joe Vulpis interview with Amir
-Favorite song: “A S3 song, I’ve preformed”
-Would Alastor and Blitz get along: “Probably not, Blitz is a lot ”
-If Alastor would genuinely get attached to someone else who’s not Niffty who would it be: “Not answer that one”
#HazbinHotel
THINGS WE DID DO:
Built This City
Shot the Sheriff
THINGS WE DIDN'T DO:
Start The Fire
Shoot the Deputy
THINGS WE WANT TO DO:
Break Free
Hold Your Hand
THINGS WE WILL DO:
Rock You
Survive
Anything for Love
THINGS WE WON’T DO:
Take It
Get Fooled Again
Talk About Bruno
Back Down
Stop Believin’
That
THINGS WE CAN’T DO:
Get No Satisfaction
Make You Love Me
Fight This Feeling
THINGS WE WILL NEVER DO:
Get Back Together (Like, ever)
Give You Up
Let You Down
Run Around
Desert You
Make You Cry
Say Goodbye
Tell A Lie
Hurt You
I absolutely fell in love with @TonyxsteveStony’s AU, so I just had to make Radioapple meet their deer and goat counterparts ^^
I had so much fun drawing these silly guys!!!
#AUFgiveaway2026#radioapple
In less than a month, four voices connected to completely different generations of animation, anime and gaming have gone quiet. But the characters they gave life to never will. 🕊️
• Mike McFarland was far more than the voice of Master Roshi, Jean Kirstein and Buggy the Clown. As an ADR director, writer and producer, he helped shape the English-language sound of anime including Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball and Attack on Titan. His influence was often heard even when his own voice wasn’t.
• Peter Cullen became something incredibly rare: a performer whose voice became inseparable from a hero. For more than four decades, Optimus Prime carried Cullen’s strength, dignity and warmth, inspired by his brother’s advice to be “strong enough to be gentle.” He also gave generations the wonderfully gloomy Eeyore.
• Tim Curry could make almost any character unforgettable. Beyond Rocky Horror, IT and Clue, his voice work gave us Nigel Thornberry, an Emmy-winning Captain Hook, and Chancellor Palpatine. Few performers could make a character sound hilarious, sinister and completely larger-than-life quite like him.
• And Hayden Panettiere reached audiences from childhood onward, voicing Dot in A Bug’s Life and Kairi in Kingdom Hearts before becoming the face and voice of Sam in Until Dawn. Her career crossed television, film, animation and gaming, giving different generations completely different reasons to remember her.
Four very different performers. Four voices attached to characters millions grew up with. The microphones may be silent now, but press play, start a game or revisit an old episode, and they’re right there again. ❤️
Healthy people sometimes look at someone with chronic illness and think:
“You didn’t even do anything today.
Why are you so exhausted?”
Because you’re measuring activity.
We’re measuring cost.
Imagine waking up every morning with $100 worth of energy.
A shower costs you $3.
Getting dressed costs $2.
Driving somewhere costs $5.
You barely notice the withdrawals because there’s plenty in the account.
Now imagine waking up with $20.
The shower still costs $3.
Getting dressed still costs $2.
The drive still costs $5.
Except now, before lunch, half your account is gone.
That’s chronic illness.
We’re not lazy.
We’re budgeting.
Sometimes we skip the shower because we need those $3 to make dinner.
Sometimes we cancel plans because we’ve already spent tomorrow’s money.
Sometimes you see us sitting perfectly still and assume we’re doing nothing.
No.
We’re trying not to go into overdraft.
And the cruelest part?
People with $100 in the bank keep giving financial advice to people trying to survive on $20.
You cannot judge someone’s spending when you have no idea what their balance was when they woke up.
We say goodbye to another legend today 🕊️
Mike McFarland, the veteran voice actor, ADR director, scriptwriter and producer, has passed away at 56. For generations of anime fans, he was especially known as the original Funimation English voice of Master Roshi in Dragon Ball, alongside major roles in Attack on Titan, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul and Fullmetal Alchemist.
Some of his most memorable characters included:
• Master Roshi — Dragon Ball
• Jean Kirstein — Attack on Titan
• Buggy the Clown — One Piece
• Koutarou Amon — Tokyo Ghoul
• Jean Havoc — Fullmetal Alchemist / Brotherhood
• Gordon Agrippa — Black Clover
• Mashirao Ojiro — My Hero Academia
• Carnage Kabuto — One-Punch Man
• Teppei Sugo — Psycho-Pass
• Yajirobe — Dragon Ball
• Ectoplasm — My Hero Academia
• Ryoji “Ranka” Fujioka — Ouran High School Host Club
• Cain Nightroad — Trinity Blood
His influence also extended far beyond the microphone. McFarland directed English dubs for major productions including Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball, the Rebuild of Evangelion films, Summer Wars and Wolf Children, helping shape how an entire generation experienced anime in English.
Rest in peace, Mike McFarland. From Master Roshi and Buggy to Jean Kirstein, his voice and work behind the scenes became part of countless anime memories. 🕊️
i just saw the words "grandma get off of ao3" look. ao3 was created nearly 20 years ago. grandma CREATED ao3. grandma created ffnet. grandma wrote spirk (k/s if you like. or even. the premise) fanfic. have some fucking respect for grandma.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸