#baffling to me

[menlove]

people who call paul ugly..... it's just so. where are you.

[rooolt]

most unrealistic part about npmd is that 1) all of these teenagers know the name of the mayor of their town and 2) him being the mayor brings his daughter any amount of notoriety or popularity

[andrew-the-lego-maniac-mandrew]

I DESPISE, modern day media discussion especially when it comes to romance plots. Just a few years ago, if an author spent the whole story hinting at the main boy and girl charaters being in love and didn't have them get together at the end. Everyone would agree, that it was lame, and pointless, and bad writing. But, NOW? You get a billion self proclaimed "media literacy gods" jumping you for accusing the author of such a thing and gaslighting you into thinking it was "deep and subversive storytelling about how the girl/boy gets over their crush!" When there were absolutely 0 scenes where this happens or is even hinted at being a theme. All of it is just cope done to try and absolve writers for weak storytelling decisions and it annoys me.

[cloudbatcave]

Every day I marvel that some people only want happy endings to stories. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with happy endings. I’ve enjoyed plenty.

But dear god, I cannot imagine subsisting on those alone. I cannot imagine a diet of only dessert and sweetness.

I cannot imagine never wanting to feel something raw and awful and terrifying because sometimes that’s how you know you’re alive.

[twobeesornottwobees]

sometimes i forget that other people aren't as decided on their politics as i am because when joe biden endorsed kamala harris and all the democrats came out of the woodwork to do the same my first thought was "you could put a dead dog on the ballot and as long as his name is Dead Dog (D) i will still vote for him over literally any republican but especially THAT republican, y'all do not gotta try this hard"

[fangsforfags]

i dont get how ppl have kids right out of high school. like ur willingly getting pregnant while barely being out of high school??? huh???

[arcenergy]

not to sound like a corporate shill but the Plane Company seems like a cool place to work because i Like Airplanes

[kurokoros]

I’m... I’m sorry what??? I’m so late to this news, but first of all Netflix you already attempted a live action Death Note in 2017 and it was absolute garbage that was mocked by the entire anime community. And second of all you’re going to be giving it to the Duffer brothers, who have been shit at developing characters and creating and writing compelling mysteries for the last two seasons of their debut show?

[durn3h]

Why is it that for a period of like 2000+ years, everyone just took greek philosophers as the final authority on everything? Like, yeah lots of these guys were absolutely brilliant, but pretty much all of their thoughts were just ideas and thought experiments, often built off of incorrect information obtained from some other thinker that was viewed as an authoritative source of truth. They did plenty of mixing and matching with their own knowledge and that of other civilization and there was lots of debate and differing ideas amongst their philosophers, but once they more or less fell out of power, their thoughts became the end all be all of western civilization in philosophy, religion, history, and science all the way until well into the Enlightenment and still hold massive sway to this day

[fictionobsession]

“Let him have a little power 🥺🥺🥺 by domming” uh subs aren’t powerless? Astarion can find he likes both things, and have enough trust to try both things with Tav. If your sub is powerless then that’s not being a Dom, that’s abuse.

…………………ohhhh so you have no idea what you’re talking about and just want to be mad that other people have opinions, cool cool cool, won’t be answering more of these then thank you 👍🏻

[mtreebeardiles]

I don’t think I ever appreciated how hard the fandom skews to gerbus vakarabus like I know I was years late to the party but what 😂

[onionjuggler]

Wearing perfume really is one of the most inconsiderate things you can do

[applejee]

saw the “you can file your taxes for free!” post for americans and. it is insane that is not the default. i just log on to the ATO and click a few buttons to say yea this is the case maybe i made some donations. and it’s done. it’s just a government website you don’t have to pay

[static-void]

also it was funny bc I was talking to my brother bc I was confused due to like. all 3 of the Odd Ones (ryoji, aigis, and elizabeth) seemingly having interest in the protagonist & he was like "well I mean. you're showing care and compassion to people who've never really gotten that of course they're going to be attracted to him" & i was. confused

of course I'm being friendly why wouldn't I be friendly. They're clearly unsure and need some form of reassurance so like. of course? I'm going to be nice and talk them through it? who do you think I am.

[greelin]

people when trauma victims act traumatized especially in a way that is unpalatable to them because it involves lashing out and unpredictable moods and having boundary issues rather than just being demure, sad, and consumable

[sidcrosbrainworms]

today’s ao3 experience