#but it's bad scoob

[antianakin]

I have seen more than one person discussing how Codywan fic can be a minefield for anti-Jedi BS, but I have found that post-ROTJ fic involving the Jedi in any way shape or form is a much worse minefield. My luck in this arena is nonexistent y'all.

[meiloorun-notthefruit]

The Scooby gang are friends. The Scooby gang are BEST FRIENDS. THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH. THEY TRAVEL AROUND SOLVING MYSTERIES FOR AS LONG AS THEY CAN BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PASSION FOR IT AND BECAUSE IT MEANS THEY GET TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER. THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS.

They don’t hate each other. Maybe they get annoyed and cause they’re together all the time it might get a bit much sometimes but at the end of the day, they really deeply care about each other. They live out of a van most of the time and are on the road constantly out of CHOICE. TOGETHER. for crying out loud.

They are four teenagers and a Great Dane. They’re a family.

[bookshelfpassageway]

the only Minecraft movie I will acknowledge is Minecraft Story Mode full gameplay no commentary 1080p

does anyone remember Minecraft Story Mode, that was really self indulgently fun actually

[tubesock86]

the girls

[saltpepperbeard]

thinking about these 21 frames btw. if you even care.

[raayllum]

me, for seasons: wow, i sure am glad that rayla's name was probably just chosen because of "ray of light" works well for a moonshadow elf because of easy light/dark moon shit. yeah, her name also means "female sheep," which would make me nervous given how sacrificial she is, particularly because of the portrait in the high mage office, but i know it's the first one and they've confirmed the picture was just a random placeholder that stuck. i'm sure season five will address her core issues of sacrifice, rather than just allowing her to take a big step forward in asking for help, so that i don't have to worry going into season six about her doing something big, dumb, and self-sacrificial. i'm sure it'll all work out. it's not like she's a sacrificial lamb or anything—

less than fifteen minutes into S5:

me:

[wizzard890]

Hello! I'm someone who really enjoys makeup, but has recently in the past few years begun to view makeup and the makeup industry more broadly as something that is really detrimental to women. You seem to be in somewhat of the same position, and I admire your thoughts, so I was curious how you reconcile those positions or if you feel the need to reconcile them at all? Please ignore this ask if it's intrusive or weird lol

You can't reconcile them. You really can't. The beauty industry exists to churn out propaganda, inventing flaws and offering us fixes for a price, before moving on to the new (usually opposite, so you don't already have the tools) trend.

I'm in my thirties, I've seen the beauty industry turn into a nightmarish hydra that I never could have imagined as a teenager. The speed with which people create and zero in on new physical nitpicks, the ubiquity of filters and plastic surgery, that skincare (literally unless you have a specific ailment, a soft cleanser and nothing else will do you just fine) has become a lunatic self-flagellation in the name of some kind of nebulous Purity, just the endless chasing and chasing and chasing of that new thing that new miracle bottle, whatever will finally make you less disgusting for living in a human body. It's rancid. But it’s always been like this. Just slower.

And it's important to be intellectually honest about all this. The reason we think we look better with our lips a certain color, or our skin being a certain texture is because beauty culture has spent hundreds of years and trillions of dollars rotting our brains. None of this is real. You know that you find the people you love the most attractive when they're comfortable and bare faced and being themselves. Contour would change literally nothing about your feelings in that moment.

I enjoy makeup. I like gold eyeliner and deep berry lipsticks and a stain of blush. Why? Because I also have brain rot, and think I look Better with it on. You can't dismantle the entire wretched apparatus on your own, but you can be clear with yourself about why you believe what you believe. As my wife pointed out when I talked to her about this ask, even saying "I just like to decorate my face" doesn't hold water. You don't know what you natively like to do with your face, when it comes to beauty. You've spent your whole life marinating in propaganda. It gets into everything.

Due to my Ancient Years, I am no longer expected to be Young And Hot, which means I don't put on makeup on to run errands, and I don't feel like a full face is necessary to see friends or get dinner on a weeknight. I've started trying to treat makeup like I'd treat a pair of high heels: sometimes it's nice to feel dressed up, and in some environments heels are part of the dress code. Sometimes you wear heels to show your partner that you put in extra effort for them, or to make sure someone knows you took an occasion seriously.

Tellingly, heels also exist to fix a "failure" in your appearance.

It's like finding smoking sexy. Smoking kills you, unambiguously. And yet....it's hard not to feel like you'd be cooler if you had a cigarette in your hand. No one is immune to the manipulations of propaganda. But it is propaganda, plain and simple, and we shouldn't twist ourselves in knots to defend the lies it tells us, or try to make them ~praxis~. Beauty culture is exactly the same.

[andoutofharm]

chronic people pleasers when they ask someone to change something about their behavior instead of ignoring it and hoping they realize it bothers u

[schweety]

anyways.....

[nanaluvbug]

(why do brains do this???) remember to take breaks, friends

[antianakin]

Shin is one of the LEAST original characters I've ever seen in my LIFE, she is literally just Darth Maul in a feminine skin suit. They both have no personality, they barely speak, they've got the "crazy eyes," they get abandoned by their Dark master and then get immediately defeated by their narrative foil and have to run off to be the leader of a group of an inferior criminal organization they do not care about at all just to give themselves an army. There's NOTHING about Shin that is in any way original, it's almost funny. She just happens to be female instead of male and a different species.

[lacefuneral]

in other news. my health network and my insurance are fighting over what my gender is

[novemberthewriter]

yurrr bout to listen to this while i work out

[grislyintentions]

[I have patience, I can wait until I get home to try and pull for clorinde when her banner drops. BUT THE PARASITES THE DEMONS IN ME are contemplating redownloading genshin on my phone so i can pull at work the moment she drops.]

[raayllum]

One day he could bring death and destruction raining down on all of us. But for now he's so little! / I'll destroy all of you if I have to!

[menlove]

me like why am I feeling so anxious and bad and scared rn. remembers that I had abt 500 mg of caffeine today when usually I consume much less 🧍‍♂️