#definitely not based on real life

[eccentrichumanbeing69]

Remus would accidentally end up flirting with Sirius because he was masking by reflecting his behaviours

[legobiwan]

Apropos of nothing, here's my personal headcanon in regards to Mario and Luigi's surname.

Now, it's been generally announced and accepted that the brothers' last name is "Mario," shackling them with the somewhat awkward full names of "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario." My take on this is that the family's original last name was "Marianetti" (likely coming from the more common "Marinetti"). This name was changed to "Marionetti" when the boys' grandmother came over from Italy. (A common occurrence in record keeping at immigration at the time. Someone probably had bad handwriting and smudged a pencil stroke somewhere. It happened in my family for sure).

In Brooklyn, their father went by the last name "Marionetti," which ended up shortened to just "Mario," as oftentimes he would be addressed by his surname only. (Think, "Hey, Mario! Get over here!" as opposed to "Hey, Marionetti! Get over here!")

So, the boys are born and get their names. (Their father's middle name was Mario, and so our Mario, being the oldest, inherits his father's middle name as his first name. Luigi's name maybe comes from the middle name of some uncle who is long out of the picture).

So we have "Mario Marionetti" and "Luigi Marionetti." Which, their surname being a mouthful, gets shortened to "Mario" more often than not, just like their father. And thus we end up with "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario," culminating in the "Mario Brothers."

[novelconcepts]

It really frees up so much mental real estate when you start thinking of sex as just: a thing people sometimes do. Some people are super into it! Some aren't! It's for fun! It's for intimacy! It's the deepest connection some people will ever feel and totally meaningless to others! It's hot! It's boring! It helps some people sleep! It exists as an exciting construct solely in fantasy for others! What it isn't is some complicated moral ground that needs to be fought against at every turn. It's just A Thing. Which means people who have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are all worth the same. Which means stories that have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are worth the same, too. Smut isn't less valuable than "clean" stories. People who have a high "body count" aren't less valuable than those who have never had sex at all. It's just A Thing. Making peace with sex as just A Thing that is natural to consentingly have or not have, want or not want, really is a great adjustment to your brainspace.

[bambiraptorx]

not to be a romance hater on main but why do they have to put kissing in movies

[irrationallyexcited]

an essential read for many 911 fans at the moment

tldr:

"...it might help to remember that ships don’t have to be canon in order to be transformative and meaningful on both a personal and cultural level. Look at Star Trek’s Kirk/Spock: that ship never became canon, but it remains one of the most compelling ships ever created, and within canon it gave us one of pop culture’s most enduring symbols of love — their hands touching through the glass.

Henry Jenkins famously said that queer fanfiction "is what happens when you take away the glass." And, sure, it’s increasingly possible that savvy creators might go ahead and take away the glass for us. But that doesn’t negate the power of fans being able to do it on their own, without anyone’s help.

Shipping is exciting, fun, and often a progressive and empowering experience. And if a ship ultimately becomes canon, so much the better. But when shipping becomes an ideology, tantamount to a religion, it makes a story’s creators pretty much tantamount to gods. In essence, even though that level of shipping may grow out of a wish to maintain parity with creators, it’s ultimately de-empowering to fans, making them dependent on creators for validation.

But fans are validated through their love for the source material; they’ve never needed more than that. Turning that source material into a game to be won only turns all involved players into winners and losers.

And when that happens, sooner or later, we all lose."

[adhderall]

its fucked up i dont even actually think i look THAT bad but then i remember how people have actually treated me and it's like. oh right to most people i am actually extremely hideous and meant to be avoided like the plague.

"ugly ppl can get laid!!!" yeah maybe ugly straights (or bis) bc getting with the opposite sex is easy as fuck. and with gay guys it's kinda a mixed bag but also even if its not The Beauty Standard there's still a niche for fat hairy guys and etc. and even ugly ogreish dudes.

but then the lesbians/bis who claim to ~looove fat butches~ are literally just posturing. or at best like them only if they're extremely charismatic and etc. aka basically you can be ugly or awkward/unwell but not both...... :/ like literally unless you're like in the realm or vicinity of conventionally attractive you're fucked unless you get insanely lucky. and maaaaaybe this wasn't the case like 20-30+ years ago but it sure as hell is now

"but most of the ppl on this website are virgins arent they" sure but theyre like 18 or some shit not in their mid-20s lmao so it's not the same

also this isnt even just about sex this is about the fact that ive never even had a relationship and nobody has ever had a crush on me or been attracted to me in any way. all of these are normal ass universal human experiences of course I'm going to fucking feel like im some sort of exceptionally ugly freak when i lack basic fundamental human experiences.... like if youre going to be like "UGH INCELPOSTING AGAIN STFU ((fuck you btw this is my blog i do what i want including bitching and moaning)) IT'S NOT EVEN THAT BAD OR IMPORTANT ((always said by people who've never been in this position btw. so like of course it's easy for you to say that))" at least consider THAT aspect smfh. it goes deeper

[starstruckodysseys]

i am loving jennifer drips pfp era but sometimes i forget i changed it so ill look at a post and go “woah this goes hard i wonder who posted it” and it turns out it was me. a month ago

[vulpinesaint]

my thesis statement will of course always be that the angels + demons in good omens are aspec (and nonbinary) but crowley specifically was so aromantic this season. man who goes "oh, romance? yeah, i know how that works. practically an expert. i've picked up so much from the way that people talk about it and represent it in media. i know all the perfect steps to execute romance. it has nothing to do with personhood and feelings; there's a certain list of requirements, certain steps that you take, certain subjective prerequisites to be fulfilled, and then you'll have romance. easy. simple." when he has no idea how romance actually works because it's never been something that was accessible or valuable to him. the general conventions for love seem so simple from the outside when you pick up an idea of it through cultural osmosis but not any real experience or investment in the idea. maggie and nina come in to tell him that he can't be messing with people's love lives because it's serious and personal but how should he know? when you're outside of it and don't even realize that you're outside of it, romance is just a thing that happens. and it seems so simple...

[averlym]

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[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

do you ever think about how batman AND spider-man would be considered villains by MHA standards

[vintageot5]

Writing really is just

Me: wow, this is….bad. Really bad.

Me, looking at it again 2 hours later: ….okay that’s good actually

Me, 2 hours after that: nope, nope, I was right the first time

Me the next day: …….unless

Me the day after that: how is it that I’ve written good stuff as a less skilled writer but this is such garbage

Me, 2 hours later: holy shit this is poetic genius I’m a genius

Me the next day: okay no I’m scrapping this whole thing

Me 2 hours after that: …….goddamnit fine FINE I’ll finish it

Me that night: okay hot garbage! Hottest of hot garbage wow it’s horrible I’m never looking at this again

Me 2 days later: I am a god and this is my magnum opus. I will share it with my friends

The moment I share it with my friends: suddenly I have eagle eye vision and see twenty new things wrong or repetitive or unoriginal or typos and actually I was right all those other times when I said it was bad-

My friends: why is your writing so good

Me: *screaming inside trying to decide whether I agree or disagree and the answer is “yeah”* thank you

[giantkillerjack]

The cool thing about a horror movie that takes place in a mental hospital and, shockingly, actually turns out to be on the side of mentally ill people is that it avoids all the common disgusting pitfalls of mocking, demonizing, and infantilizing mentally ill people.

The downside is

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[It's much scarier.]

[chapel-of-rizztual]

Do you think Dew threw up the first time he tried to suck dick because he was trying to show off??

[secondbeatsongs]

regarding this post (which is now unrebloggable even though I somehow just reblogged it?) I do think that there was something compelling about older AI art

I miss when it was just neuralblender-type stuff - nothing was really recognizable, and it made for some fun images! like:

"Destroy who you are for who you can become"

"Consume me, you metal beast of my own making"

(this is a Scooby Doo quote btw)

"I"ll take care of you."

"It's rotten work."

"Not to me. Not if it's you."

"After the storm, I see again a weasel"

and, my favorite one:

"We're not lost; we're on an adventure!"

this sort of thing was really fun to mess around with! there are still copyright issues ofc - AI should only train on art from people who've opted-in, or stuff from the public domain - but the vagueness of these images is somewhat transformative, and they're never going to look exactly like whatever art they trained on.

and hey, half the fun was just seeing what exactly it did with things like, say...the entire 13th chapter of Twilight

[offthewall1979]

my review of Moonwalk: hot mess. ★★★.

[sysig]

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