#its like a parody at this point

[benevolenterrancy]

~ Extremely Unwilling Magical Protagonists Attempt To Outrun The Plot And Not Fucking Die ~

(@takofukkatsumi this tag is from a while ago but it hasn't left my brain -- L-Space got very weird all of a sudden)

[valtsv]

if you're going to plagiarize other people's work you should at least make sure that it doesn't suck. like don't get me wrong plagiarism is shitty regardless but at least if you get called out for stealing something actually good you can still say you have good taste if nothing else. but if you plagiarize something that sucks well then that's just embarrassing for you.

[kingwaino]

i have done...an absolute deep dive into blues and folk music tonight. it was 100% one of those blink and three hours have passed type of deals. worth it though.

[nomsfaultau]

Young Tommy Innit he was just 15 When robbers pointed a very strange machine (A gun) His runes designed to get a monstrous king

They gonna catch 'em all, SCP Foundation

When it didn't quite work, robbers, they don’t quit, But then Tommy took a look inside of it (The barrel of a gun) There was a great red flash, everything just changed, Robber organs got all rearranged!

When he first woke, anomalized He had perfect hair, and glowin' red eyes. He could walk through wars, watch them all, go die, He was much more unique than the other guys! (no one was happy about this)

And the Foundation knew what they had to do, They had to stop all the Skips that were comin' through, They’re here to fight for me and you!

[kirbyddd]

[lollytea]

The amount of POV tiktoks I see making fun of Pick Me/Not Like Other Girls is insane. Like "haha imagine being this desperate for male validation"

*throws together a 20 second skit that is near identical to the thousands of other 20 second skits because mocking these girls is what's trendy right now and you are also desperate for validation of some kind*

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I watched Ani BEFORE I was a star wars fan and loved it because I love starkid

Now that star wars has consumed my brain I’m scared for what this musical will do to me the next time I watch it

[eclipsecrowned]

watching the bestie have away with words to express what i also feel but stumble over trying to say re: rep in an adaption.

[tanadrin]

Honestly what you said about corporal punishment made me wonder about amputation in, say, Saudi Arabia. Like, do they put comparable amounts of administrative thought into what ultimately resembles, in effect, Michael Madsen sawing a captive's ear off with a razor?

I don't know about Saudi Arabia, but I do seem to recall that if a victim or a victim's family chooses the lex talionis option in Iran, medical professionals get dragged into amputating the limb (or even in one case, extracting the eye). It's merciful in a way--obviously if you're going to cut off someone's limb, doing it in sterile conditions under anaesthetic is better than not--but it also feels like a parody of medicine, dragooning doctors into explicitly causing someone distress that is supposed to last for the rest of their lives.

The psychology of executioners and torturers is complex--people will, at the end of the day, find a rationale that lets them exist within the system they work in and also sleep at night, if they can--but needless to say, I think it is very rarely good for someone or their worldview to have to normalize inflicting a high degree of suffering for its own sake as acceptable in any context.

[spectralpooch]

an underrated funny bit from a christmas carol is when the ghost of christmas future is taking scrooge around to see everyone's reactions to the death of this unnamed guy (later revealed to be himself ofc), and it turns out that pretty much no one cares. scrooge, increasingly distressed, is like, "can you please show me someone who feels any emotion about this person dying?"

so the spirit takes him to the home of this family. the husband walks up to his wife like, "babe. youre never gonna believe this. that old asshole who we owed an insane of money to just died" and theyre both like YAAAAAAY THIS IS GREAT!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

this bit is like. darkly funny but also so poignant:

[...] and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.

[pinazee]

Ooo wait i got a new one!

[sapphygolucky]

the manifestation of my anxiety that i use as a reminder to be kinder to myself: hey if we die and get reborn we could see our own fanfic on the internet and probably not even know. it's not super likely and wed need to die right now because all the stuff we're into would be super old by our next life but

me, white knuckling my plushie: hey sweetie could you lighten up

[hi-there-buddies]

Me: Man I really hate what Dragon Ball Z Abridged did to Dragon Ball’s image

Also Me: *Watches every episode of abridged and HFIL until I’m crying of laughter*

[bison-appreciation-club]

sometimes i think about my grandmother's american friend who was talking about songs that made her feel proud to be american, and the example that she gave was born in the usa by bruce springsteen

[scarletanpan]

Fully watched a 5 hr video recapping the velma show in great detail bc all the other vids went into just how cringe the first few episodes was and didn't think I'd come out with an appreciation for autistic-coded Fred in the older shows. I remember watching them as a kid and thinking how funny it was that he seemed clueless but then would get so excited when very specific things came up that he would have extensive knowledge abt and it would always help the case. And he would infodump sometimes and everyone would just stare at him for being a nerd. Intentional or not I love it