#but there isn't

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

sleepy an comfy and so nice an warm an time enough for pain tomorrow but rn there is none

[skiddlecat]

sighs. i miss mermaid world by crowdstar. i miss her a lot. ill be back. (walks into the ocean)

[dish-licker]

Um????? Nobody warned me that Across the Spiderverse is just the first half of a two part movie?? Urghh....

[iwonderwh0]

Is there a name for dynamic that is not friendship nor romance nor enemies nor anything else really, but just something completely unique?

Like Amanda and Connor

I don't ship them, but there is some romantic component to their dynamic although it's not enough to classify them this way. They're not exactly enemies or colleges too. I don't want them together or anything, but I just want their relationships explored in their complexity. What would such type of relationships be called? If I wanted to read something like that, what would be the tag?

[knifegremliin]

so unfair that we have to live in a world where befriending wild animals is harmful to them :(

[alex51324]

I mean, I understand where they're coming from--I also would like to conduct my life without reference to gender--but every time the subject comes up, I remember how in middle school this one Black kid, who was kind of a class cutup, announced one day that he wanted to go by a nickname which also happens to be a racial slur. (A semi-obscure one, not the N-word, if it matters. I don't think I need to say what it was for the story to make sense.)

And our white teacher was like, "No, if that's what you want your friends to call you, that's your business, but as a teacher I cannot call you that, because to anyone who doesn't know that's what you wanted, I'm calling a student a racial slur, and I'll get fired."

Which, you know.

I work in education now too, and if I ever have a student tell me it goes by it/its pronouns, my plan is to go directly to HR, ask them what they want me to do, and not leave until they put it in writing. Then I'm going to follow those instructions to the letter--and probably carry around a copy in my wallet.

Because I don't want to go viral as "the teacher who called a trans student 'it.'"

It's fine if you want your friends to call you that, but if you ask someone in a position of authority or a public figure--someone who could get fired/cancelled for calling you what most people consider a slur--then I'm sorry, but you're putting them in a very difficult position.

can we please be fucking nice to it/its users

[planefood]

When was the last time you ate something green and NO GREEN M&M'S DON'T COUNT

[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[toonstarterz]

I found out japanese fans are calling this the "american comic book-style marcille"

i'm WHEEZING LMAO

[antennatoheaven]

[singinginthecar]

south africa was banned in the olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 & 1992. a total of 8 times. for 28 years they didn't set foot in the olympics. you know why? apartheid. apparently the olympics disagreed with the apartheid regime in south africa. russia & belarus aren't allowed to take part in the olympics this year. you know why? because of their involvement in the war in ukraine. several countries throughout history haven't been allowed to participate in the olympics because of various reason from their involvement in war to human rights abuses. now if the olympics aren't blind to all that... why in the world are they blind to what israel has been doing to gaza for the past 10 months? why is a genocidal apartheid nation allowed to participate in the olympics when any other country in its place would've been banned?

[tagedeszorns]

This machine kills AI

[pangur-and-grim]

he's reeeally pushing his luck

[httyd-art-requests]

He's doing very important research

( @caps-clever-girl thank you for the hilarious tags, I giggled out loud when I saw them)

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