bastille has done more for the queer community by just making all of their love songs about "you" instead of specifying a gender than taylor swift has in all of her discography. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
this post is VERY funny bc it has a fuck ton of likes and like. two reblogs. the fear of the wrath of the swifties is VISCERAL.
Big fan of the new royal portrait.
this is surreal to me
in case anyone wants to cheat on their wife
There's this perception on here among neurodivergent people that neurotypical social behaviour is all fake and arbitrary. That it's a cruel, baseless game played to "weed out" ND people or to cause pain and complicate things on purpose.
This is wrong. All of those social rules and nuances ARE communication. Sorry if this is rude but it's not the NTs' fault if things don't gel- the gap goes both ways. Just because communication doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean it's random or purposeless. Remember this post?
Every interaction in an NT conversation has purpose, and communicates something, and I don't understand why nobody ever explains this to ND people. There's information on basic stuff like facial expressions, but never what any of it actually means.
Small talk about the weather isn't about the weather. It's about how nice it is to be around the people you're talking to, or feeling out their understanding of the world, or just saying that you're both present and people and you're being people together. It's not literal. The words are, but the broad scope isn't.
A conversation is not just an exchange of words, it's an exchange of acknowledgement, attention, and emotional understanding. Of course it confuses people when their part in that exchange is met with flat affect or unembelished words. It's like looking in a mirror and not seeing your reflection.
IM FULLY LOSING IT FALIN LEARNS ABOUT THEIR MONSTER EATING ADVENTURES AND IMMEDIATELY IS LIKE "so what about fish-people? :3" AND LAIOS JUST "no the party didnt let me :<"
this right after they feed her red dragon meat whilst she is still unaware that her new body is.. made of dragon meat.... and laios is like "eh its probably fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
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to me the funniest part of Laios is a character is the fact that he's genuinely really good at what he does. it would be one thing if he was just a monster geek in a way other people find really offputting, but he can also bisect something twice his size in a single blow
in this way, like so many others, he and marcille are secretly The Same
dungeon meshi has the Mob Psycho Sauce where it's funny even when its serious and serious even when its funny. like, this is a hilarious thing about laios — but also ties into the fundamental logic of the story.
Laois is not good at what he does AND a monster geek. he is good at what he does BECAUSE he is a monster geek. in dungeon meshi, survival in the dungeon isn't due to physical strength or dnd-style party balance or asskicking ability or Willpower. the narrative takes great pains to show that it is respect, knowledge and love of a place that gives one the ability to survive and thrive in that place. that's why we see people like Kabru's party, who are clearly very skilled warriors in their own right, look like absolute CLOWNS in their encounters with dungeon dangers that are barely a hiccup for laois's party
Like, Laois can't bisect something twice his size in a single blow because he's a Strong Cool Protagonist, but because all the things he's fighting are things he deeply loves, respects, and is autistically insane about enough to know their weaknesses. the special interest that makes him a weirdo on the surface makes the dungeon his natural habitat.
That last fucking sentence.
actually no both of those goddamn sources are either paywalled over any way to read the paper (looking at you, NYT; here's an archive link) or just don't contain any source at all, so here's the actual published article (Fleming 2024). It, unlike the NYT reporting, is fucking open source and free to access, so that source should be easily accessible to anyone.
Following someone you supposedly hate to their alts is so bizarre. This James Somerton stuff feels like Chris-chan but for leftists. Doing lolcow but wokely
Don't get it twisted the dude seems like a real weed. Frustrating and upsetting corner of the internet where people just churn content out at the expense of others. But dude has been catapulted into the sun. What's the point on spreading an account where he's posting nudes and talking about Disney. Find something better to do with your time before cringe-watching becomes your hobby.
do you think they would find each other in any universe
THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.
fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper
update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen
Here's a picture of her, by the way
And her super supportive wife
The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.
FUCK YOU
BY GOD’S LIGHT I SMITE YOU
The real saw trap is reading an incredibly wrong take about your blorbo and seeing that it’s actually very popular
And I’m not even talking about headcanons or creative writing, but misunderstanding the source material so hard that it’s not even the same character anymore
the funny thing is that i don't think younger people - and i mean those under the age of 40 - really have a grasp on how many of today's issues can be tied back to a disastrous reagan policy:
this is just what i could come up with in a relatively short time and i did not even live under this man's presidency. the level at which ronald reagan has broken the united states truly can't be overstated.
A couple of these started earlier (before Nixon, for-profit health insurance was not allowed, and Nixon also started the war on drugs specifically to target minorities and anti-war activists), but Reagan doubled down on them and made them even worse. It was the difference between sliding down the side of a hill and jumping off a cliff.
All my homies hate Reagan
I’ll say it once again: since Reagan, we’ve had three separate times when the Democratic Party has had simultaneous control of the Presidency, the House, and the Senate. Yet all the things Reagan did have remained largely intact. This is because the Democratic Party is under the control of people who admire Reagan and think he was a great guy — every Democratic Presidential nominee starting with Bill Clinton has been a pro-corporate, pro-military neoliberal. (And yes, this includes Obama, who very publicly praised Reagan, and Biden, who basically wants to be Reagan.) If you want Reagan’s influence undone, it is not enough to hate Reagan, you have to hate the people who think he was a positive influence, too — which de facto means both major political parties.
Anyway.
Murph couldn't even be mad at me if I rolled up to the function with this on a t-shirt.
