#and was appropriately horrified

[itsdappleagain]

why is carmen wearing that

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thank you @jackie-shitposts for sending me the post that inspired this. and both you and @emily-prentits for helping me see the light of making six different trauma shirts <3

more versions under the cut because i couldnt pick just one traumatic moment. tell me which one is your favorite

[trashogram]

Saw a comment of someone saying “it’s not Stolas’s fault. He didn’t mean to cheat.” And I fell down a hole again.

[clonerightsagenda]

Contemplating it and I think the reason I've always been fond of ghosts over vampires, werewolves, and other stock paranormal entities is because ghosts, at their core, represent Not Getting Over It. They're grudges. They've defied natural laws in order to continue being a bitch about it. No I'm not going to move on. I'm going to make you look at what killed me. I'm going to keep you up at night. Even if they're not actively hostile ghosts are, by their very nature, Haters. Forget biting people in a horny way, if I had to pick an undead fate you will find me in the basement screaming.

[crabussy]

IS ANYONE ELSE FEELING KIND TODAY!!! IS ANYONE ELSE FEELING GENEROUS TOWARDS OTHER PEOPLE!!! IS ANYBODY ELSE BEING KIND AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EVEN WHEN ITS HARD!!! IS ANYONE ELSE ASSUMING THE BEST OF OTHERS INTENTIONS AND RESPONDING IN KIND!!!! CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

[mixelation]

the funniest take on "deidara is minato's oops baby" is actually one where

minato lives au where he survived the kyuubi attack but naruto and kushina didn't (this is still a comedy i promise)

minato doesn't find out about deidara until he's already a teenaged missing-nin

bc minato lost his family, he's EXTREMELY invested in being a Good Dad to this kid he just found out about

even if he's a screaming s-rank teenaged missing-nin

imagine you're deidara and you're just trying to make art but the fucking yellow flash is obsessed with you

minato: (teleports behind you) hey, son, i think we need to have a conversation about--

deidara who thought he was safe thirty feet in the air on a bird: (SCREAMING)

[groundbreakingdot872]

do you- do you think Arthur climbs out the lake like he gets out of bed every morning

completely unfazed, groaning and whining and splashing water at Merlin for being cruel to him at 5 in the morning, while poor Merlins standing there *flabbergasted* at the new development but also somehow unsurprised

[alithographica]

…….alright so something I’m not sure I’ve mentioned here is that I teach scientific illustration at a local university and tonight one of my students came up to me after lecture and asked if I was the one who drew the wing shapes image (it was in my About Me intro slides last week)

They’ve had it in their phone camera roll since like 6th grade and my fucking life flashed before my eyes because oh god that math does check out doesn’t it

[dyrewrites]

Yesterday, my son learned a lesson about YouTube censoring the hard way.

He wanted to play Fear and Hunger. Now, he knew what it was, and what happens in it (awful, awful happens).

What he didn't know, because of censoring, is how graphic it is.

I warned him of what's in it, and how it doesn't hide anything, and that he is making this decision himself and I'll not be held accountable if he is traumatize by it.

Took about half an hour before I saw him again.

"I was raped by a monster...it called it a 'stinger', it was not a stinger. I don't know what I just played and my character's ass is bleeding."

I feel I should admit that I was writing something at the time that made my first (mumbled) response less than appropriate, "well yeah, thing that size going in there dry."

"What."

"Nothing, I shouldn't have said that. Did it show the whole thing, or just a cut to the aftermath?"

"No, no, what about the dry."

Brief explanation of lubricants leading to pinched up muppet face, "Yeah I didn't need that."

"You might someday. Now did it show the whole thing or cut?"

"Whole thing."

"Want to talk about it...or need a hug?"

He took the hug. "I'm...going to go play with my toys."

He wants to play it again. Probably will too. Because it is a fascinating game that absolutely wallows in topics most shy from and I encourage his playing it. Learning he chooses the altruistic options in the face of all that horror is terribly sweet.

But he was shaken.

My point in sharing this is two-fold, 'Fear and Hunger' does not mess around please play it at your own peril. Also, maybe censoring everything to the point where minors think an expressly 'adult' and trauma-laden game is just 'edgy and dark' isn't a great idea.

Maybe, if we're going to stream and review severely messed up video games, we should be able to show what makes it messed up.

So people have a better idea beyond, "oh, my favorite youtube guy played it, must be fun."

--

(edit) he's uninstalling it, "I don't think this is my kind of game, I'd rather play Chrono Trigger." <- you have no idea how happy that statement made me.

[eldragon-x]

Literally everytime someone first watches Revolutionary Girl Utena they're like "I didn't expect this show to be so funny" like fuuuuck dude it has a false reputation of being a romance when it should have a false reputation of being a comedy. Any illusion of it being a romance is shattered the moment you finish episode one and see that Anthy's fucked up circumstances will skew any relationship anyone will attempt to form with her. But a comedy? Yeah it's got comedy. The Student Council Arc has plenty of funny episodes. The Black Rose Arc got Cowbell of Happiness. Even the fucking Akio Ohtori Arc got the Nanami egg episode. The only arc that has zero funny episodes is the Apocalypse Arc and that's the last six episodes. what the fuck

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is I am definitely not happy or chill in the Immediate Sense lately but I am, big picture, so fucking happy with the person I am.

It's like. My brain was made by and for consistent trauma and since that trauma stopped about 5-7 years ago, it is incredible what the amount of resilience and cleverness and flexibility and thoughtfulness I developed to survive can do when it's not being all spent on surviving. like I had a hundred ton weight on me so I had to get REALLY STRONG to stay in the same place and not get 100% crushed, and when that weight came off I found I can use the strength it used to take to stand up and I can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

I was talking to my mum the other day and she said, "you've got the 'fuck it' energy at 30 that most women don't find until their fifties at least" and I'm like yeah man. Imagine how unstoppable I'll be in 20 years.

[brittanias]

i just got blocked by this weirdo (who from what i understand is p big in the good omens fandom?) for daring to say that i think it’s nice david and georgia seem happy in their marriage. y’all do nothing but speedrun misogyny and say some of the most vile shit imaginable, and if anyone says anything about it you claim they’re being homophobic against david and michael??? somehow??? like baby let me be the first to say i am gay AND a rpf enjoyer and i truly believe this to be huge fucking freak behaviour. get well soon!

[ethmaron]

chat it cannot get any worse

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Sometimes, it's the little nonsensical annoyances...

There are definitely more important things than this going on, and I'm not going to do much good by pointing it out, but I might as well express the thoughts so I can try to lay them to rest.

This:

...is absurd. Some Taiwanese venture capitalist asshole was annoyed that some white business assholes in Quebec are remixing boba tea, which he loves, and is his culture, and cannot be improved without due deference to its originators. To address his grievance, perhaps he'd like to fund some more authentic boba tea, made by the folks in the image above.

Depending on their personal behaviour and business practices, which I am not aware of, I wish all the boba tea makers the best. I love boba tea and NO, MORE BOBA TEA PLACES WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE THAN I HAVE FINGERS IS NOT ENOUGH. I NEED MORE!

Fuck, I want boba tea.

But I digress. To experience offence in this particular fashion over this particular item, you need to stop learning and switch off your brain at the point where Taiwan invented the boba tea. Where did the tea and tapioca, and milk and sugar come from? Don't worry about it. We gotta stop right here, or this story will get real complex, and I'm not comfortable with that level of complexity, so let's pass our judgment and say no more about it. Boba tea belongs to Taiwan!

Chat, ya gotta realize, mainland China was not interested in diluting its tea with so much milk and sugar that it doesn't taste like tea anymore. That would've been kookie-dooks. The British Empire had to steal it and fuck it up. Then Taiwan stole it back and fucked it up more (according to Wikipedia, via the Dutch in the 17th century). And tapioca is a staple starch from the Americas. "Refined into a juice, gelled into cute little pearls, and served with tea and sugar" is not an Indigenous American serving suggestion. I don't see Taiwan adding a label to every boba tea giving due deference to cassava-loving Americans, nor expressing humility about their use of it not being an improvement.

It's not that I need Taiwan to do this. I just want to see this train of thought followed to its logical conclusion. If you're saying these assholes in Quebec shouldn't be fucking with Taiwan's boba tea, you're also saying those assholes in Taiwan shouldn't have fucked with America's tapioca - and that's terrible. Of COURSE they should've fucked with the tapioca, it is delicious! And if it turns out it's more delicious with fizzies or liquor in it, we're gonna drink that, too, no matter who came up with it. This is how food works. Copying the good ideas off a nearby culture is not evil, not in and of itself. Butter-chicken pizza is not evil, it is spectacular.

I want my boba tea. I don't need a label specifying that it resulted from an intersection of five separate colonizing empires (China, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan), the colonization of Taiwan, mass political imprisonments and executions, and the genocide of the Americas. It's very interesting to know that, but mentioning it right when I'm about to slork up my tea would make me choke - pointlessly, I think. Everything is like that. The machine I'm using to write this is like that, the clothes I wear are like that, the language I speak is like that. Nothing is without sin. It can't be put back the way it was, all we can do is try to mitigate it as best we can.

Is refusing to fund some guys with new tea additives because they wounded your nationalist pride (which seems to exist in somewhat of a context-free void) anything more than Neo-liberal capitalist wanking behaviour? Maybe the Chinese-American company will do better and the Quebecois one won't, but that's not justice for any of the injured parties, that's just marketing. Buying shit is not an effective means of reparations or political speech. There is no ethical boba tea under capitalism. I don't have the spoons to research and consume the Least Problematic Beverage, and if you do, I think they'd be better spent on literally anything else.

Mr. Dragon's Den, I have a brick you can use. Go damage property like a real protester or just sit down and drink your tea. Feel free to appropriate whatever cultures you prefer for your toppings.

[sketching-shark]

Ough, found this scene in the 1986 Journey to the West adaptation particularly interesting because it was one of the few if not the only time in this series where Tang Sanzang sounds genuinely upset with Zhu Bajie.

And yeah given what happened to the monk's dad and especially to his mom you can understand why :(

[mad-hunts]

lbr, johann would be fascinated with barton’s mask and compliment him on how well preserved it is.

❝ holy shit. i almost gave up hope with this stupid card, but it seems like someone is just my type, ❞ barton let out a loud incredulous laugh upon seeing that ALL of the boxes for this card were ticked. he was almost tempted to ask if johann was lying about some of them, but what would he really have to gain from that besides... his favor, i guess you could say? and the other didn't really seem like the type to try to manipulate him. at least, in this way. barton honestly was kind of speechless — he hadn't really planned for someone to be perfectly compatible with him, so what the hell was he supposed to do now?

marriage. that was the only solution.

[braisedhoney]

Everyone seems to be simping for your Narrator or wanting to beat him up. But I think he looks like an old dad. I want to go yard sale-ing with him. Find some uranium glassware or smth

this is hilarious. hell yeah anon, go hunting for some neat vintage objects with him!! maybe if you dug around you could find some old video game consoles and he'll end up rambling about the progress being made in The Field of Video Gaming (as if he actually knows all that much about it... he's a dork lmaoo.)