#I'm astonished.

[torchickentacos]

I just met the rarest type of person on earth- a best buy employee who helped me without trying to sell me stuff that I didn't need.

[betweentheheavesofstorm]

the year is 2024. I am watching The X Files 1x08 with my blissfully offline boyfriend. We reach the scene where, in confinement, Mulder and Scully examine each other's backs for alien marks. My boyfriend, who has never seen the show before, makes an amused noise and utters a strong contender for understatement of the year:

"I'm guessing there's fanfiction about these two"

[soracities]

i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking......to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that........when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!

[foldingfittedsheets]

Hands down one of my worst experiences in high school was when the seniors decided to extort the entire school by using tactics that were banned by the UN to get them to pay for the senior party! If that sounds like a wild sentiment stay tuned because this shit got crazy.

I was living in Arizona at the time and I was a freshman. Our campus was largely open air, with walks between class room buildings and some covered outdoor tables. Our event began with a morning announcement. The seniors were collecting donations for the senior party, and when they reached their goal, their fundraising method would stop.

Their fundraising method:

To pipe the entire schools speakers with "If You're Happy and You Know It" on loop. To this day, I cannot hear this song without experiencing a degree of rage and madness that is frankly alarming. One of the worst parts of the entire thing was that the recording they chose had the female singer do a little clap and say "Yay-ha-hey," at the end. So it wasn't just the song, it was this awful little cooldown stinger at the end.

If this sounds a lot like psychological torture you'd be extremely correct! This practice has been banned in some countries, but the good old US hasn't ruled it a human rights violation, and what a fun silly way to raise money, that definitely wasn't damaging to adolescent psyches!

Every morning for 15 minutes before school began, every passing period, every lunch, and after school for another 15 minutes they blasted that fucking song on unceasing repeat through every speaker in the school. Everyone found different ways of coping with this and mine was to observe my classmates descent into madness and categorize the stages.

The first stage was almost completely consistent, and it was a smug almost exasperated eye rolling phase. Often accompanied by derisive comments about the song or the tactic, this phase was extremely mildly annoyed. Most people figured it would blow over soon, and no one anticipated this continuing for a week and a half, creating a miasma of fraught tension.

The second phase was elevated annoyance, starting to snap and be less amused characterized this level of irritation. People would try to cover their ears or put on headphones, humming aggressively to block out the syrupy repulsive children's performer with her loathsome little clap. This phase had people picking their absolute least favorite part of the song. Her inflection on certain words, her timing between verses. I think it's pretty clear already which part I hated most.

The next phase was a bounce back out to absurdity. It became funny how annoying it was and people would sing along as if to challenge the song's authority over their psyche. This paired exceptionally poorly with people in phase two as they'd often lash out at the people giving more voice to their hell.

The fourth phase was a dead-eyed madness. People would stare straight ahead and their lips would silently mouth the familiar words. The song had pounded its way into their very soul and was inextricably linked to auditory output. They often didn't even realize if they began chanting along.

The fifth and final phase was pure uncut pubescent rage. Kids would scream, attack each other, and in a truly epic end to the event hurl a cafeteria chair with such force at the speaker in the cafeteria to irreparably damage the sound system.

The seniors got funding for a party, but some of it had to go to repair the damages, which were substantial.

[claudia-lioncourt]

If you were the last vampire on Earth... it would be enough. You and me. Me and you.

[empirenowmp3]

FINALLY critiquing the jedi? the same jedi that have been bashed and hated and blamed for their own genocide for the past twenty years? the same jedi that are still hated because hating them apparently gives you a moral high ground or something? "finally showing the perspective of dark-side users" we've been having that perspective since the OT. or did vader and palpatine mean nothing to you? the amount of dark user pov episodes in tcw we've had? maul, dooku, savage, ventress? IS THE ACOLYTE THE FIRST STAR WARS SHOW SOME OF Y'ALL ARE WATCHING?

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

The prevalence of male violence means that the chances of a woman telling the truth about a man hurting her is INFINITELY more likely than the chances of her lying, but people will still believe the man over her

[vagueconfusion]

halfway through the newest episode of misfits and magic and hit with the reminder that Evan gave K his shirt in the last episode to wear and they're probably still wearing it

[mmikmmik]

At the end of Mouthwashing, when Jimmy takes Curly's own leg and tries to feed it to him... it's kind of funny in a very dark comedy way because, like, there are three fresh corpses right there. Why don't you eat Swansea? But it does make sense. I mean, even putting aside whether or not Jimmy fully understands that the crew are corpses. Because Jimmy is trying to put Curly back in the captain zone. He wants to make Curly responsible for the situation again. He wants Curly to be the one who takes care of the crew, especially Jimmy, and makes sacrifices, especially for Jimmy. It's like when he imagines Curly agreeing they're both responsible and making up with him, and convinces himself in the final scene that he ultimately was Curly's friend and ally. Even when Jimmy is convincing himself he's taking care of Curly and fixing things, he's projecting a character onto Curly that meets all of Jimmy's needs. Of course he wants Curly to be the provider, even from Curly's own flesh.

[cangrellesteponme]

seb doodles ft. things i've actually said once more

[ask-spiderpool]

He’s so dear to me, so i had to give him the maximum honor a character can have;  to draw them doing some kind of gymnastics

i really hope you like it, i had to learn how to really use tumblr for this ..

Submitted by @carnelianeye

[respectthepetty]

Was I just supposed to find out on my own that Nun, one of the protestor in The World Remembers from The Eclipse

IS WHINING JAO?!

And now Jumper?!

And was I just supposed to realize that Cher from Wandee Goodday

Was FM from Ai Long Nhai?!

I love these two in any and every form.

[fiona-fififi]

"Why doesn't their side call out the bad behavior they accuse us of??"

Because they've blocked all the crazies on their side and aren't seeing it. Just like you're not seeing all the bullshit on your side because you've blocked all the crazies over there, too.

Also, they ARE calling it out. You just have everyone on the other side blocked, so you aren't seeing the callouts.

Like jesus fucking christ, can we stop generalizing giant portions of fandom based on the behavior of the worst fucking people in them?? Because I promise you, whether you are seeing it or not, there are really fucking shitty people in ALL corners of fandom.

[agir1ukn0w]

why in the hell has no one brought up this glaring similarity...

[r-18g]

(boy) ryona... (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)

[bethanythebogwitch]

Look at the little baby sharks!

They're being bred at the New England Aquarium. There were two species: One was the epaulette shark and I don't remember the other.