friends and/or mutuals:

if you saw the retroshare post the other day and were like "y'know that does sound cool actually" and installed it and now you need people to add, message me (here or on some other platform, whatever you prefer) so we can exchange ids

if you saw the retroshare post and didn't think that at the time but knowing i'm going to use it has convinced you to also use it, go download and install it and then message me &c&c

if you didn't see the retroshare post and are wondering "what is this and why do i care": it's a sorta decentralized peer to peer social network thingy. idk they explain it better on their site i think. if you decide to try it, this paragraph ends the same way as the last two did

I think it’s incredibly fucked how capitalism discourages learning for learning’s sake. People will have interests they’ve spent years researching then say it’s “useless knowledge” bc it didn’t go towards a college degree and isn’t part of their job. Learning is never useless! Your brain is growing and developing throughout your whole life! People would never have epiphanies or sudden lightening strikes of creativity if they weren’t learning new things! That goes double for topics like science, politics, and history, which inform your understanding of the world you live in!

This one is arguably very personal because I have no idea if other aros feel the same – but I've seen too many stories about a character being rejected where the person doing the rejecting is (accidentally or not) implied to be some sort of "bad guy" or "the one who has it easier", so I guess I had an itch to show my side.

Aromantic people and alloromantic people have such different views on what "true love" is that it's not about one or the other being "in the wrong" – it's just one big compatibility issue. All I can say is – as an aromantic, being confessed to romantically IS what leaves me heartbroken, for such reasons. Hopefully there will be a broader understanding of this in the future.

i dont know if @wolfertinger666 will be okay with me trying to doodle his beautiful boy Salem as a medieval manuscript bunny with a blood red sword and shield in his paws but here goes nothing!!! he is salem and he's a happy boy!!!

PAWESOME

Tumblr culture is coming up with the horniest hypothetical scenario you've ever heard of, then proceeding to describe it in a register normally reserved for explaining the premises of Bugs Bunny sketches.

I need a bad bitch in my life so we can hit each other with oversized mallets and throw sticks of dynamite at each other

Ultimately, it's not that I think fiction can't shape people's perceptions and actions, it's that there's never room for the concept of critical engagement in the discussion, at least in the sense that I mean it. When tumblr people say "critical engagement" they typically mean something at most a couple steps short of "book-burning," but it's obvious to me that it is possible to enjoy a work of fiction while repudiating the values that inform it, and that in fact engaging with works can allow for more effective critique of the values expressed within them. I'm much more able to argue against, say, G.K. Chesterton's theory of history and blind glorification of war now that I've actually read him than I would be if I just knew in some very general sense that he was a Christian conservative.

Moreover, the literary fuck/marry/kill game that the benighted denizens of this website like to play obscures the importance of engaging critically even with texts and value sets that are generally in the right. Very few people are right about everything, and even aside from that it's worth recognizing bad arguments for good ideas.

Ironically, this all-or-nothing attitude toward media analysis may well have done a good deal to stifle criticism of Harry Potter. It's not as if telling a story about a conflict with righteous normies and the less Neville Chamberlain-esque of the powers that be arrayed against an insidious yet surprisingly powerful cabal of freaks and perverts just abruptly started to have conservative and authoritarian overtones when Rowling got into transphobia, but it and a lot of other pretty legitimate criticisms didn't really get much traction on here until then.

gang I need your help I have a phrase I really want to catch on and it’s calling any secret or invisible struggle you have a “fight with a gorilla” like the onion article. if they can have cinnamon roll catch on this can too. “yeah she told me about it, I had no idea, sounds like a real fight with a gorilla” “sorry man I can’t come I’ve really been fighting the gorilla lately” do you see the vision

for those uninformed

folks i appreciate the effort but it looks like this will not breach containment and the phrase will not catch on. looks like this cause has to be my own personal gorilla to fight

to any teenagers reading this i just wanna say that you're right. homework is bullshit, not accepting late work is bullshit, tardies are bullshit, having to ask to use the goddamn bathroom is bullshit. any adult who tells you differently is either lying or doesnt remember how much it sucked

you know what im actually just gonna block anyone who whines in the tags about how it's actually totally reasonable to tell kids they aren't allowed to take a piss

"the 5th celebrity you have saved on your phone -" you and i live in vastly different worlds

friends and/or mutuals:

if you saw the retroshare post the other day and were like "y'know that does sound cool actually" and installed it and now you need people to add, message me (here or on some other platform, whatever you prefer) so we can exchange ids

if you saw the retroshare post and didn't think that at the time but knowing i'm going to use it has convinced you to also use it, go download and install it and then message me &c&c

if you didn't see the retroshare post and are wondering "what is this and why do i care": it's a sorta decentralized peer to peer social network thingy. idk they explain it better on their site i think. if you decide to try it, this paragraph ends the same way as the last two did

That people use the phrase "irredeemable media" in apparent seriousness is a good chuckle in itself, but I especially love the titles people pick. Yeah when I think of the most evil messages in stories I definitely turn first to wizard school, an anime with debatably anti-semitic overtones, and a kids' show about alien rocks that didn't dispose of its antagonists in a sufficiently bloodthirsty way.

Some people really need to be Ludovico'd with The Turner Diaries or at least Left Behind so they can see what real evil looks like.

"the three dots on the side" call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu

im gonna say it now so everyone in my notes stops arguing over this. meatballs menu is three dots side-by-side. kebab menu is three dots up and down. bento menu is an array of 9 dots in a square shape. hamburger menu is three lines horizontally. Yes there are others but none of them are nearly as prevalent so i dont care enough to list them. goot bye

Literally what they're called btw this post isn't a bit

learned something new today and drew this as a study for myself, thanks!

We swerved into a punchline to keep the post light, but to be genuine for a second: We can let girls become boys too, that's a fine thing.