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[old-skyguy]

It should be illegal to require a driver's license for a job that has nothing to do with driving. This is bullshit.

[old-skyguy]

You can’t make me choose between Tenna ships they are all SO GOOD

[old-skyguy]

the magnus archives: statement of dipshit mcidiot regarding some spooky happenings that absolutely without a doubt did not actually happen. recording by jonathan sims. i hate my fucking job.

malevolent: OARTHUR HIDE THE CORPSE IN THE CLOSET. SHOOT THIS MAN IN THE HEAD. MOVE OARTHUR MOVE!! [soft piano music] LEFT!! THE OTHER LEFT OARTHUR!!!!! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

[old-skyguy]

Alright kids say it with me

My thoughts don’t make me a bad person

My feelings don’t make me a bad person

My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it

Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions

The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions

There’s no such thing as a thought crime

thank u

[old-skyguy]

Sometimes you see tma fanarts and if you don't know the podcast you'd think it's an office romcom about a librarian with gender dysphoria and a love for vintage aesthetics who finally masters the courage to dress how they feel and find support from their workmates: a nerd with a crush the size of the sun, a bisexual disaster, and the Only Sane One™ who, for some reason looks like a different person in every fanart.

There's also the creepy Victorian slut boss who seems awfully invested in Jon's coming out journey, and a very gender door.

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Hey I have really strong opinions about this by the way.

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this is racist on its own but i think what always gets me about these types of posts is (and i realize this is a very surface level observation but) you never see people on here say "western live-action dramas are the high school girls in underwear medium" people will critique riverdale or pretty little liars or supernatural or the such individually but the issue is almost always attributed to the specific piece of media or the writers and not the medium as a whole despite the fact that a large amount of these examples do in fact do the same things people constantly act like are unique flaws of anime (misogyny, sexualization of high school characters, romanticization of underage characters getting with overage ones, ect.) it's all just very blatant

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Paint the roses red.

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I am well aware that I am not the first person to say this but conservative talking points are genuinely baffling to me. Specifically "THE CHILDREN ARE IDENTIFYING AS CATS!! IN SCHOOL!!!" and as someone who has a preschool age sibling I can tell you that yes yes they are. She is meowing and purring and brushing up against me and curling up in my lap and scratching at her favorite blanket. That's just kinda something they do man idk what to tell you.

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terfs would lose their minds if they were exposed to 2000s-2010s "a girl can do anything a boy can do, including beating them at sports" messaging like why are you all acting like nobody has ever said this and that it's radical to think that women aren't inherently worse at things. open your mind. read some feminist theory. touch some grass. the most basic banal middle-class white woman feminism of the 2010s looks fucking radical and visionary compared to the misogynistic victimization complex y'all are peddling

[old-skyguy]

cruntch.

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Doing that Eldritch Woo Hoo! Give it to that skeleton Cthulhu style.

Get goopy with it freaks.

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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Ok so I've been watching a streamer I like play TWDG Season one for the first time in like 2 years or so and I really remember disliking Larry and Lilly a lot more than I do now. And I'm watching the stream after it was edited down so maybe I missed some context but I don't think Larry's AS bad as I remembered him and I genuinely kinda feel for Lilly rn.

Like I remember thinking Larry was just some racist asshat (and again maybe he is, I don't remember much and I might be missing out on some clips that give more credence to that) and like it's not cool that he punched us and tried to leave us for dead in the pharmacy after we went through all that trouble to save him and get him his meds, but the reason he GIVES us for not trusting us and wanting us to stay away from Lilly is that he knows what we did before the walkers invaded and honestly?? If I found out this person everyone else was kinda getting along with during a really vulnerable time was the same guy I saw in the news for killing his wife and a senator, I would be pretty distrustful as well. And genuinely, even though I still didn't like him, I always thought helping him was the right thing to do as far back as my first playthrough because I sympathized with him. Being seen as a liability during a time where you're especially susceptible to just dropping dead at any moment because of a disability or medical problem you can't control has gotta be really scary and I really don't think anyone deserves to be treated like that.

As for Lilly, she's really not that bad in season 1. I'm only partway through episode 2 right now but she was just looking out for her dad in episode one and in episode 2, she's just really stressed with having to feed a whole compound of people. The argument with her and Kenny I really could go either way, because yeah. They did put her in charge of the food. They were fine with her distributing it. It's not a matter of power tripping with her, it's that for the past 3 months, she's had this one specific responsibility. She's not "in charge" of the group, but she does take initiative a lot and is kind of assertive about her opinions on how things should go. And she was right to be mad about bringing in more mouths to feed unprompted! Do I think she could've handled it better? Yeah. Do I think that it was reasonable to have that visceral of a reaction after they brought in more people when she was already stressed about food? Yeah. Do I think that they probably should have assured her more that they weren't there to stay and they were just gonna patch the guy up and go from there? Yeah. Do I think they had TIME to do that? Do I think that would've been realistic? Absolutely the fuck not! I also agree with Larry, that she shouldn't just run the place, but she doesn't?? She really doesn't. Again, she might be more assertive about her opinions, but there's nothing to show us that she WAS acting like a dictator. And she gives away what little "power" she has VERY willingly and without prompting to Lee just to try to put the player in her shoes. That was honestly just Kenny being stressed too and it kinda warping his perspective of the situation, which I can respect, he's only looking out for his family after all.

Really I've only seen this sorta outright hate for them both in fandom spaces, and I think it's mostly to do with the fact Larry's an old white guy from the south (which it might be reasonable to assume he's racist at first because of the way he acts towards us but y'know. Like I said earlier.) and Lilly's just as grumpy and aggressive as Larry is and directly opposes Kenny several times (most people's favorite character) so I think a lot of people who outright despise them just miss a lot of subtext. Lilly was never meant to be hated, she was just kind of rude and stressed, and Larry is. Well, Larry. To be fair, he IS really annoying and definitely a fucking conservative. And ultimately, I will always side with Kenny and the rest of the group, but I really think the hate they both get is just a LITTLE overblown.

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Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

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made him into a real boy. i dont like him

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I sit down across a table from someone. their hair is damp and they are visibly trembling. I say "okay. go again: what's your problem with consumerism and mass production." they pause for a long time. they break into a cold sweat. I raise a single eyebrow. "it's..." they begin, unsure of themself. "it's just... these stupid, silly girls are so shallow and obsessed with their image, they need to fit in with the trends and one up each other, they're such vacuous mindless consumers with no deeper sense of art or spirituality or independence--oh fuck" they stop as I have once again splashed them with a large bucket of ice water for the fifteenth time in a row.