#// this is for the memes it's a joke i'm joking

[mymangamemes]

Him: You're my sun!

Me: Okay, but now it's night.

Him:

From The Not-so-mad Princess by TENCENT Animations & Comics

[lazysoulwriter]

finally us. - paul mescal.

requests are still open! check this out and send me something!

AND; feeling like SHIT. be ready this girl is WRITING!

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You haven't seen Paul in over two months. Sure, you talked almost every day—texting, calling, sending each other stupid memes—but it wasn’t the same as having him here, right in front of you. And now, finally, he was.

Sprawled out on your couch, one arm draped over the backrest, his socked feet propped up on your coffee table like he owned the place. The two of you were "watching" a movie, though neither of you had looked at the screen in at least twenty minutes. The tension was thick. The kind of tension that had always been there but had never been addressed because, well… you were best friends. And best friends didn’t ruin everything by making out.

Except.

Paul shifts beside you, stretching his arms with an exaggerated yawn before letting one fall casually behind your shoulders.

"Really?" You arch a brow at him. "You're pulling the classic yawn and arm around the shoulders move? What are we, in a rom-com from 2005?"

He grins, dimples on full display. "Listen, if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

You roll your eyes but don’t move away. You don’t want to.

A few more beats of silence. The movie drones on in the background, some dramatic orchestral score building, but the real tension is right here. Between you and Paul. His fingers skim your shoulder lightly, tracing nonsense patterns. You swallow hard.

"Paul—"

"God, I can't do this anymore," he blurts out suddenly, turning to you so quickly it makes you flinch. "I can't keep pretending I'm fine just being your friend. I mean, I am fine, I love being your friend, but I also—bloody hell, this is coming out all wrong." He exhales sharply, running a hand through his already messy hair. "I want to kiss you. Have wanted to kiss you for ages. And if I don't do it right now, I think I might actually explode."

Your heart stutters in your chest. You should say something. Make a joke, maybe. Laugh it off. But instead, you just whisper, "Then do it."

And he does.

One second, you’re sitting there, barely breathing, and the next, his lips are on yours, his hands cradling your face like you’re the most precious thing in the world. It’s desperate and sweet all at once, like he’s been holding this in for years (which, let’s be honest, he has).

When you finally pull apart, slightly breathless, Paul’s forehead rests against yours. He chuckles, a little giddy.

"Well," he says, "that went better than expected."

You laugh, nudging his nose with yours. "Yeah?"

"Yeah." He grins. "So… can we do that again?"

"Paul, if you don’t kiss me again in the next five seconds, I might actually explode."

"Christ, I love you," he mutters before pulling you right back in.

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[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

I have to admit I used to roll my eyes at people getting mad at memes based on alt-righters because most of them were satirical but I'm realizing the most irony poisoned anti-voting types did keep making "open the schools" type jokes and maybe yeah we gotta just...say "you're losers and not funny" and stop trying to clown on them

[t0mies-b0dy]

No because rant under the cut, I'm pissed off and high.

I need to remind you mfs - LUIGI MANGIONE IS INNOCENT!!

At this point, the jokes and memes are starting to look like people believing that they got the right man WHEN THEY DIDN'T!

QUIT SAYING, EVEN IF JOKINGLY, THAT LUIGI MANGIONE IS THE UHC SHOOTER BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO LAND A POTENTIALLY INNOCENT MAN IN CAPITAL JAIL!

THE PRESS AND POLICE DON'T SEE THESE JOKES AND MEMES AS JOKES AND MEMES, THEY SEE IT AS PEOPLE FALLING FOR A NARRATIVE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY FALSE! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE MULTIPLE INCONSISTENCIES IN THIS NARRATIVE, DO YOU FORGET THIS WHOLE THING IS THE POLICE SETTING UP A FALL GUY, WHO MAY BE COMPLETELY INNOCENT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO ADMIT THAT THE REAL SHOOTER GOT AWAY.

CUT IT OUT FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK

NEW INFO ABOUT THE MOTION THAT LUIGI’S PA LAWYER, TOM DICKEY, RECENTLY FILED ABOUT THE UNLAWFULLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE:

from r/FreeLuigi

[bellamyroselia]

Considering just how big of a meme the whole "It's been 3000 years" is, I'm surprised that I haven't seen a single joke about Az causing the Pokemon equivalent of the Late Bronze Age collapse.

You know, the whole societal collapse around 3000 years ago, not too far away from when the Trojan war was supposedly fought... That.

[glitter-stained]

So in highschool we had a year with mandatory philosophy classes and I have to admit to a bit of cultural blindness because that was so important to my development of my worldview that I completely forgot philosophy isn't maths or language and has no reason to be mandatory everywhere. I say this because I had a hard shock coming in here and seeing people talk about how "it's evident and everybody knows that Bruce/Cass is right and we shouldn't be killing no matter what" -and to be clear, this isn't a criticism of Bruce or Cass or anybody who agrees with them, this is a completely understandable position that has been defended by plenty of people smarter than me over the years. (It's also not about Jason, because Jason is notoriously bad at behaving along his morals which is great in a character but bad for the debate). It's just that, there are also a whole bunch of people smarter than me who disagree and think killing a mass murderer is fine if it prevents millions of death.

The question is : are morals determined by rules that suffice themselves that actions are inherently right or wrong, or are morals determined by the intended consequence of the actions? (Deontology VS Consequentialism with the most famous subtype of consequentialism being utilitarianism). (I would like to add that there are other options and nuances here, it's a false dichotomy, but these positions are the most famous in the debate). I guess what surprised me is that the trolley dilemma is a famous meme, so I was like well if people are making jokes about the most famous debate in moral philosophy, that probably means they know what's going on with the debate.

Anyway, yes it's perfectly understandable to agree with the notion that murder is always morally condemnable but not everyone agrees with that idea. Just check out, uh, recent events.

I mean, maybe I'm understanding things wrong and people are saying this because they are so into deontology that they think it's evidently the superior option and anyone who likes utilitarianism or something else is dumb, but I also would rather assume people to be unaware than patronizing and mean so I don't prefer that hypothesis.

[gattmammon]

Actually besides my mild lamenting about Robert Evans* in the tags I wanna talk about the fucking Internet Historian because he is my Roman Empire

*I still think he is mostly reliable, my sticking point is a piece of misinfo about italian history that has become somewhat widespread in american leftist circle for which i think hes patient 0, because he used a source without properly vetting it against others is my guess. Also he counts as a youtuber because BtB is on YouTube as well now.

I remember Internet Historian's videos being constantly pushed on me by the algorithm all the time so I ended up watching his History of 4chan video (that was the subject I can't remember the title) and it was just...

Look I was THERE when 4chan did all the things he described. "Pool closed because of AIDS" wasn't an innocent catchphrase to popularise a fundraiser. It was a racist and homophobic "joke". Most importantly, IH fails to mention that one of the reasons why 4channers got pushed away from site to site was because THEY KEPT POSTING HORRIBLE SHIT, from racism to CP. Especially the fucking CP - im not talking just about "loli" drawn content either, altho that was EXTREMELY common. /b and then 4chan were the origin of the NAMBLA "joke" (pedobear). One of their most famous memes (the "Internet police") came from a video of them harassing a VERY YOUNG child (middle school age IIRC) about posting CP of herself.

Hell there are videos of 4channers doing blackface IN Internet Historian's video. It was so clearly an alt-righter who knew full well 4chan was a cesspool but was trying to build himself and his cohorts mainstream cred.

To me it's clear that the videos about Internet history where the only ones on which IH did any actual original work in order to make alt-right channers look good and everything else was just bonus fluff. I'm sure if I sat down I could pinpoint exactly what writeup he plagiarised for the Costa Concordia vid that the algorithm showed down everyone's throat for months. And it worked perfectly well - people picked up those "fluff" videos and since they were good (because they were plagiarised) they assumed the other videos (the ones where he was straight up fucking lying) were also good. I suspect people just didn't watch those other videos, they just watched the cave one and the Costa Concordia one.

I'm so pissed because sooooo many people including commentators who act all left-wing now were all buddy with him and making collabs and quoting his videos as fact and it made me feel legitimately fucking insane. I was like have I dreamed the entire rise of the alt-right in the last twenty years. Am I going to die in a week do I have a brain tumor. But no it was just people not doing the bare minimum of research.

popular YouTube channels are great and informative until they make a video about a topic you're informed on and then the house of cards comes crashing down as you realize how utterly wrong they are about most things

[jinmepark]

Every now and then I'm catch up by the fact that cartman is canonically a fundashi and reads yaoi

[theaceofarrows]

[fyeah-tmnt]

Yes i'm part of the LGBT

Leenage Gutant Binja Turtles

[ema-sahdmadhi]

"It seems you've had quite a life..." - Ema Skye, 6-5 Day 1 Investigation

[souvenir116]

So, someone tweeted this on f1twt:

And quotes made me lose it:

🥺🥺

[whyissupernaturaltrending]

November 5, 2024 - it's been four years since the destiel meme was born.

Supernatural continues trending as expected. At the time of writing this post, it's not appearing as a main tag but instead, 'destiel' is trending right under 'us politics.'

Because even if Supernatural isn't trending, it still is.

As shown below the cut.

[pushspacetocontinue]

"Heh, I, I suppose you, you are," Russell said, with a small smile of his own then, "And I, I guess it, it just goes to show that, that you've, you've got the skills."

He briefly wondered if it would go from endearing to annoying at some point, before Russell quickly told himself not to think about that. This was an evening for them to enjoy.

"Heh, well, I'm, I'm glad I, I can be, be some, some kinda gauge to, to how it's working," Russell joked. He fell into a small silence himself for a moment, just to take everything in.

This was so wonderful.

"Heh, I, I think it's, it's just as well that, that we, we don't really know the, the names people picked, or, or the sky would be, be filled with memes," Russell said, "And, and I think the stars are, are just as perfect as, as they are with-without that."

But then his eyes brightened a bit at the positive answer, and he moved so he could wrap his arms around Lucien as carefully as he could.

"Just, just good to, to hear it out loud," Russell then gently said, once he was certain they were both comfortable like that, "Not, not often I, heh, I get to, heh, be, be the big spoon."

He really hoped that sounded funny.

Lucien had the most content grin as he stretched like a cat. It was always nice when his skill was recognized.

"I'm a fae, am I not?" he chuckled, "I find it quite endearing and I honestly can't get enough of it."

It also wasn't all that difficult to do, but he wouldn't say that out loud. He let out a sigh, shutting his eyes for a moment to enjoy the silence and smells of the forest.

He had missed this.

"It's quite fascinating, even more with my limited knowledge of the topic." he replied, "I heard you can even pay to name stars yourself. I can only imagine the kind of outlandish names and stories that have been attached to them."

He found the concept so typically human and completely disrespectful towards the stars themselves. But at the same time, he supposed it was mostly harmless.

Lucien tilted his head at the question, before turning to fully face Russell. "Of course I'd like that. Hold me, you big dork."

[thesaintofpatience]

Here's the thing about all the memes John uses in TLT. Sure, Jod is horny for the 2010s, but I can't believe that after 10,000 years he hasn't bothered to get down with any fresh new material. Never mind a myriad of human culture developing its own linguistic quirks - I'm betting the original Canaan House 16 had plenty of time to come up with some of their own. For example:

Skeleton construct #230 (Scotty Boneman) and skeleton construct #39 (Grunkulous Prime) and their long-running feud

Excessively anatomical descriptions for normal actions e.g 'don't you elevate your supercilium at me, Valancy. Stop oscillating your cephalon in my direction.'

Responding to one of John's unfathomable inside-joke references with a solemn nod and intoning the words 'glumpus glumpus' to acknowledge Divine and Unknowable Wisdom

Forgotten objects that may or may not have been sex toys (Cyrus and Valancy's nude portraits are a continuation of this)

[pointing at a picture of any animal that no longer exists] 'What kind of dog was this?'

Necromantically juicing up your muscles to insane proportions before e.g opening a jar, turning a key, writing down a note

Referring to any distasteful outfit as a 'sex ward'

'or as they say on the Eighth: if in doubt, slut it up' (Mercy and Cristabel do not approve of this one)

Tendon loving care

Convincing one another of fictitious new slang from the other Houses.

[after summoning a bone construct/flesh monster/skeleton army] I can never get the nose right

How many of your own joints can you dislocate mid-conversation before somebody notices

Wearing your lyctoral cape any way except in the way that it was intended to be worn

And, of course:

Lyctor? I hardly know 'er!

[madame-helen]