Schmooples the Second

sorry i have to go stare at images of that guy. yeah it’s gonna be all day.

clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

I fucking hate this "capitalism is when you make money, the more money you make, the more capitalism it is" mindset people have gotten. No, an artist selling their own work is not them engaging in capitalism, it's literally a worker owning their own means of production.

Remember capitalism is someone profiting off of someone else's labor though owning capital. It is not simply the act of profiting at all.

Same when people blame 'capitalism' for stuff that's like... commerce. And issues with commerce that have existed longer than capitalism has. We've been trading for a lot longer than we've had capitalism.

stop saying super mutants dont fuck. stop saying super mutants dont fuck. you think your clever? clever with your little factoids? you dont know dick from drywall. if you keep being this wrong about fallout lore i'll kill you

- The Master, Fallout (1995)

Gale of Waterdeep

The way the light makes his hair seem greyer is really lovely. It makes him look older, when he spent a significant amount of time believing he'd not have a future.

she has a flower for you!

here is her matching otter friend!

One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.

huh.. never thought of it like that

But, what if the male character isn’t sexist? I meam…their fictional sure but…I’m not sure how to phrase this

Its not a question of the character themselves- its how the writers are portraying them. The way this trope plays out, the whole moment revolves around the woman looking foolish for assuming that there is sexism happening. She is characterized as being irrational, jumping to conclusions, even insecure. While the dude is characterized as the calm, rational one.

It is a trope that specifically works by taking a woman standing up to sexism and saying “haha it wasnt actually sexist at all! Isnt calling out sexism foolish and silly. Thats what you get for assuming that men are sexist!”

I have the same reaction with homophobic jokes set up like this. Like the whole “you can’t marry a woman”, “why bc you think its wrong” “no we haven’t found you the right dress yet silly!” Or stuff along those lines.

It feels like someone setting up to punch you and then you duck and the person goes “haha, i wasn’t gonna punch you at all, why would you duck? You shouldnt just assume someone’s gonna deck you because they have their fists up.”

saw someone once describe those kinds of “jokes” as winding up they’re going to punch you and then laughing when you flinch.

[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

"I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me" is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

vibes tbh

#the shitpost calligrapher is still alive??#tbh I thought they deactivated a while ago

WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK IM DEAD IM JUST ON HOLIDAY I *HAVE* INTERNET!!!

Sometimes I can still hear them post…

Cherry blossom axolotl 🌸

you don't like mourning dove? hwoo hoo hoo hoo?

I’m taking his boon every time

you know what really gets my goat?

el chupacabra

I’m sorry!? What?!

Whoa, chupacabra’s a millennial?