emotional masochism

Hiding from silliness allegations

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i m;iss when u could touch a tv and feel its fur

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The tags on this post lmfaoooo

gems from the tags: round 2

sorry to the sad tumblr girlies but the real cunt is in the room containing these 4

new SuperWhoLock just dropped

#we joke that the first room is a bloodbath#but you couldn't pay me to sit in on the second room#there's mental illness in that room so complex it's only perceivable by shrimp  (via @moorishflower​)

This is the Sea saying you don't belong here. Go home land lubber...

I am screaming look at these photos

Cut scene of Crowley sleeping on a WALL in his PAJAMAS (HE WEARS PAJAMAS ((AND BLACK SILK ONES AT THAT)))

(From the Script book) He DOES wake up a mess and he DOES clean up instantly (WE WERE ROBBED OF MESSY HAIR CROWLEY)

CONCEPT ART FOR CROWLEYS BEDROOM

I CANT

In so many universes that bed has seen so many unspeakable things.

Black Friday is such a joke nowadays. “Don’t miss out on 30% off” don’t piss me the fuck off. People used to hit each other over the head for a microwave that’s how low the prices were. People literally died. We used to be a country

fox in snow

If my understanding is correct, the term "frag" originates from Vietnam war times, and it did have to do with frag grenades. Specifically, disgruntled conscripts attempting to kill their superiors feigning misaimed grenade throws.

The way it arrived to competitive multiplayer gaming was during the development of Doom, wherein purposeful friendly fire kills in co-op mode were called "frags" informally, and through metonymy it came to mean kills in PvP modes.

oops my special interest has been activated

'fragging' is the colloquialism for troops attacking their superiors in the vietnam war (not just officers, but just as often NCOs or even just peers they disliked). it was called that because it would typically be done with fragmentation grenade, but not usually during a battle or anything. that wasn't exactly very reliable, plus it didn't exactly leave you with an isolated target

rather, it was the use of fragmentation grenades *on base*; your classic fragging consisted of rolling a fragmentation grenade under the door into the latrines at night after your target went in. this was enabled by the fact that firebases (the typical field base used by americans in the vietnam war) would have crates of fragmentation grenades easily accessible, as the response to hearing something rattle against the barbed wire at night was to simply throw a grenade at it and wait until morning to see if you got anything rather than risk being lured out. so it was a very good anonymous tool for assassinations.

the scale and fear of fragging had an enormous cultural effect on the united states. in the military, it contributed to degrading morale and a variety of programs to counter it, including the first-ever anonymous tip phone line for soldiers to complain about officers. the realization that soldiers would simply kill their superiors if pushed seriously degraded effectiveness in a war where the primary tactic was to go out into the bush and deliberately pick fights. its a huge part of why the US military switched to a volunteer model.

when stories of fragging made it home, it was an immense culture shock for midcentury america, and cemented itself into the news and media. through the 70s and 80s, there was a *lot* of US media about the Vietnam War. the stuff in the 70s was largely extremely critical and extremely cynical, largely made by people who opposed the war, but in the reagan era you saw an uptick in war action movies which... while not typically set in the Vietnam War, were largely concerned with refighting and 'winning' it in the narrative, creating big, stupid action movies like the rambo sequels

this sort of dumbass action movies, along with heavy metal and the satanic panic, heavily influence early first person shooter games. Kevin Cloud, one of the artists on the original Doom, used 'frag' as a term to distinguish killing players from killing Doom's monsters. Doom was built as a single player game first, a cooperative game second, and a multiplayer versus game third, so the language of 'you fragged X' was ported from the cooperative game (where it was used to indicate you'd killed a friendly, idiot) into the multiplayer deathmatch.

from there, it made it to Quake and Unreal, the big arena shooters of the late 90s, and remained the term pretty much until all First Person Shooters were subsumed into the increasingly military-propaganda-y Call of Duty games post Modern Warfare. i have no proof of this, but i suspect it was a term that CoD wanted nothing to do with as they became increasingly reliant on connections to the military-industrial complex, so the term was carefully kept out of marketing and slowly killed it among gamers.

it still persists in places, though. my understanding is that in modern Counter-Strike's community, people still talk about 'frags', which confuses a lot of new people!

The Crowns - (2023)

⭐Stars and Fire 🔥

you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is

I saw a picture of my mom last week and did a double take because we both realized how similar we look. skinny white anime girls are not real women but your mom is. I promise you look like a real woman

Shoutouts to the funniest possible tags on this post

Got permanently banned from a subreddit for saying law enforcement shooting someone dead in the street was still a bad thing even when the victim was a violent right-wing fanatic.

Gotta say, I did not expect that to be such a controversial statement. So repeating it here: law enforcement shouldn't kill people. Even violent assholes have a right to be taken in alive, and it's a failure of practice and policy when someone is killed in the process of an arrest.

But, see, authoritarianism is great when it's targeting the bad people. What makes a person bad? Well, the fact that I say they are, obviously. What do you mean that's exactly the same logic as conservatives use to justify police brutality? We're only targeting the bad people, like child molesters and rapists (please ignore the long and well-recorded history of queer people and people of colour being accused of child molestation and rape, why do you not just trust the notion that being accused of a certain crime means the police can shoot you?)

I ship this ship because:

STAR

honestly if you're surprised b'tzelem exists it's cause you've dehumanized israelis to the point you see them as some sort of bloodthirsty hivemind

like of course there are israeli leftist and human rights orgs. there are plenty of americans speaking out against america's crimes so why wouldn't there be israelis speaking out against israel's?

honestly i'm actually just pleasantly surprised that people are even listening to b'tzelem instead of discounting it because it's israeli, so that's how low the bar is i guess.

and this btw is what i mean when i talk about antisemitism in the movement and the way israelis are dehumanized. yet every single time i speak about it, i get people in my notes yelling at me assuming i support gaza being bombed. even when i've never once said or implied that. but the automatic assumption is that if you speak up for israelis or even just jews you want 10,000 dead gazans. y'all are unhinged.