#Wikipedia article

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

A poem I wrote in celebration of disability culture / the curb cut effect

A Good Fit

For some, the world fits like a tailored suit. They trust that they can slip into a room And that the space will drape so easily Their shoulders hardly feel the weight at all. And every sentence seamlessly unfurls Its meaning to their minds without a snag. As best they can recall, there’s been no need To notice where the edges don’t quite match, Or where there is a tangle, or a pinch.

Except for us, the patterns do not fit. So, carefully, we thread our way between, Each cutting knots, and fixing jagged seams With homemade shears and needles that we find. Thus, stitch by stitch, we fashion our own lives. We shift the space. They notice that, and frown, And tug their collars with itchy discontent. But when they come upon the trails that we have blazed, They’ll find a world made graceful through our craft.

[altijd-november]

not to be icarus but wtf the sun is so cool

[calimariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

HEY, GUESS WHAT?

YOU CAN'T BE MAD AT ME FOR JUST LINKING A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE, RIGHT?

jesus christ this is stupidly dramatic

Anyway, fuck you guys.

Go to hell.

I don't give a shit if you don't think it's realistic.

You just have too much faith in the government.

Once again, if you don't like what I talk about, fucking block me.

And I'm right for being concerned about Project 2025.

I am not going to explain this.

If you disagree, leave me alone. I don't need to hear it.

Apparently you can't voice your concern and/or fear about something that could directly effect you on the internet!

How wonderful.

[selenedistress]

Thank you Wikipedia article about Norwegian mountain Skrim! This was much helpful!

[emma-is-swaggy-and-epic]

WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE FOR NONE PIZZA WITH LEFT BEEF!?!?!??!

[beritall]

Daily reminder that Wikipedia is in fact NOT in need of your cash, because it has no shortage of money to maintain the site whatsoever. If you donate something they WILL NOT leave you alone for at least the next few years. You probably get less spam ordering a scientology booklet.

There's no problem with fundraising but pretending your site can no longer operate (ad-free) if you don't give money now is misleading and pretty darn lame.

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[gemstone-gynoid]

[rixareth]

As requested, I have examined my fondness for terrible characters, and I have concluded that I like them because they're terrible and I'm not sorry.

[aerodumb]

I like this image very much, this is one of the best things they could have used for scale

[thesilvershire]

I’m reading the Wikipedia page for high-fives (you know, like you do) and I’m losing it over this part

Look at the misery in this last pic. The absolute sorrow. Their friendship has been shattered and will never recover.

I think this has some serious meme potential

[ninyard]

Neil Josten, born Nathaniel Wesninski

[dicerollai]

Search result for "Ripley's"

[jonathantaylor]

would anyone care for a little history lesson?

[ratuszarsenal]

so there's this thing which I've dubbed academic fiction, where I write a long, precise academic paper, confirming to your citation model of choice and everything, except every single thing in there is made up. anyway if I made a zine that was a pretend-academic journal full of only that would anyone be interested in reading it

[the-owl-tree]

I know you said it as a joke but please, tell us more about the Au where Longtail is a mutated ferret, does he do the weasel war dance

he absolutely has to now