most annoying breed of author is actually someone who doesn’t respect a genre and sets out to subvert it.

I don’t think you’re ‘subverting’ anything just by stripping a genre of its classic modes of storytelling, sorry. yeah, you could just admit you thought that that specific subset of storytelling had nothing useful to say. you should probably shut up while you’re at it too, yeah.

When you subvert something, you should be peeling its layers back to examine it on a deeper level. If you're just going to chuck the whole thing out and stare at a bare workbench then why are we here. You're not saying anything. Why set it up in the first place.

im about to start screaming

me messaging a casual acquaintance: hello, how are you?

me messaging a best friend w/zero lead-in:

Baymax in the new Baymax! show buying pads for a girl who got her first period and getting help from people, including a trans man.

Some people are really mad about this, when he is literally a health care robot interested in people's physical and emotional needs.

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

Same energy as this post

get drinked

NOOOOOO

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job

gshsjb

I dreamed I made this meme so I had to make it in real life.

[ID: a photo of several orange tabby cats lying on the ground in a pile, with white bold text over it reading: "there's been a terrible spill / at the Garfield factory". End ID]

I showed my dad this meme and he didn’t even laugh. What a rip off.

3500 years ago a bunch of people decided to build a tower to the sky and now I have to worry about keeping up my Duolingo streak

why would you blame the people reaching for heaven instead of the god who cursed them

add that one to the list, boys

You're right and you should say it

my condolences to the op of that usamericans dont put their country when writing out their addresses post. the notes are sooooo funny

i think we should start the celsius vs. fahrenheit discourse again

its like performance art. mwah

SEVENTH GRADE???? SEVENTH?????? 12-13 YEAR OLDS DON'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES????????????????

HELLO????? YOU WHAT????

PLEASE say sike. please god i want this to be a very elaborate joke so badly. does it not just come up in general? like casually from adults in your life?

I think it depends on where in the US you live, I grew up like an hour from the Canadian border, and the Main route from Quebec to the only good beach in the North East goes through my hometown, so knowing about Canada was a thing. Formal education where we talked about current events was 4th-5th grade. (I didn’t think England was an actual place that still existed until around then. Little me thought everyone died because of Plague and only the Pilgrims who came to to US survived. Little me was kinda stupid)

ITT: people around the world discover the effects of half of America’s politicians waging an actual decades-long policy war against public education

here is seal cancan, my thesis film, completed at last!

(please do click on the source to watch it on youtube if you want to see it in full quality)

My mom went to high school with this guy and showed me this Facebook post of his and if I were not already happily married……………..

the thing is i don't even really disagree with the premise "people who are really into alt fashion oftentimes aren't actually particularly interesting people" but then when they drop the "actually the true unique weirdos are the adults who read YA fiction and manga" part suddenly it becomes clear they were throwing stones from within the glassest house imaginable

[image: a screenshot of tags on AO3 which read “Oh No Oh Woe Canon Slipped In The Shower And I Am The Grieving Widow With An Inheritance,”]

thinkin bout him (leonard nimoy)

like… he chased down jack kennedy to demand his cab fare… he paid to see a therapist once a week just to speak to her in yiddish bc he didn’t want to fall out of practice… he defined science fiction television thru a character that nobody thought people would like… he made people like spock thru his sheer dedication to building him up as a genuine and organic character… he did a photography project and released a book of photographs to appreciate fat women’s bodies… he could perform shakespeare in yiddish… he wrote “we are all children / needing and wanting / each other’s / comfort and / understanding / we are all children / searching for love”… he just got it, man, he just understood… i miss him

On Twitter he invited ppl to consider him their honorary grandpa and would tell everyone often that he loved his honorary grandkids.