#jackassery

[gorgon-heap]

taking advantage of the free blaze to show off my beautiful and normal looking cat

[jackass-noir]

i have a very good evrart claire impression

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

OMG!!! Hwy 18 was a NIGHTMARE!!!

It didn't need paving but somebody decided to repave it ANYWAY ---only it wasn't completely paved.

It was only half paved.

I thought we were stopped here in traffic because of a wreck or something. It turned out after this point the highway was torn up

There were no lines painted for the lanes. There wasn't even any kind of marker to tell you where the center of the lane was. There were no shoulders to pull over on. All the speed limit signs were covered up so people were just driving whatever they felt like. A lot of the stretches was nothing but black gravel. There weren't even reflectors on the guardrails so if you got too far over to the side you risk smashing into one!!

I absolutely can drive without painted lines on the highway to tell me if I am in the right spot or not. Not only that the lines give me something to focus on in areas where there is nothing to look at whatsoever.

AND I WENT THROUGH ALL THIS AFTER HAVING MY EYES DIALATED!!!

It was like 50 miles of Terror!!!!

At least I had a good check up with the eye doctor again and finally got my glaucoma meds filled.

[gorgon-heap]

[Image ID: A reply from massivelimestonecube. It reads as follows:

thank god. i was worried we had run out of new crimes to commit

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the city where we live doesn't allow public barbecues so my brother fucking welded a grill to a handcart and now hosts "chill and grill sessions" where he sends all his friends his live location so they can hunt him down on their bikes with sausages in their backpacks while he carts it around evading the police like some sort of barbecue vigilante, grilling on the run. i have never been prouder of him

[ohthisisgonnasuck]

idc who you are, if your pet [of more than a year] is unmanageable, I have SO MUCH LESS respect for you. if you can't take care of this creature that wholly depends on you, you're the asshole. end. of. story.

[kintatsujo]

my parents had this idea that if we were allowed to have certain things in our rooms we'd never come back out

namely, for the purposes of the point I'm trying to make, my dad actively tried to keep me from having a computer in my room when I was an adult already

and it was like, when I went ahead and bought my first laptop anyway because I was sick of the arguing about it and I had money, one of the other things I did was set up a cheap TV Kiddo could watch dvds on, and a chair that Invid could sit in instead of the bunk bed, even though there was barely space to do that

because confining to my room wasn't because I had things to do in there, it was because Dad had a way of making shared spaces feel like they only belonged to him and you weren't actually allowed in there if you didn't want to engage in His Activities

plus like, if you want a gal to get art finished more quickly staring over her shoulder at the screen isn't going to help

point being if you don't want your kids to skitter off to their rooms every time you're spending time in the living room maybe don't have a rule that Dad has sole custody of the remote control and maybe don't spring chores on them every single time you see them doing "quiet" activities in your presence

[thewhizzyhead]

WAIT I WANNA BRING UP ANOTHER THING ABOUT HOW BULLYING IS ADDRESSED IN NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE. one thing I really liked about how Max is shown as a bully is his talk with Pete at the Pasqualli's parking lot. When Pete tries to stand up to Max, Max pushes him down and emphasizes that Pete isn't a loser because of his own qualities - rather, Pete is a loser because Max simply said so.

Of course we can attribute this to Max's god complex but I think that this point in particular is less than often really brought up in teen-centered media featuring bullying: that bullying exists not because of nerdy behavior or whatever the fuck, but because bullies will it into being. And to have a BULLY of all people say that out loud - to have the main villain point out the root of their behavior without showing any kind of shame whatsoever - showcases just how much of a menace Max is.

[gorgon-heap]

sharing my two favorite neck stretches that my pt gave me:

chin crunches (image below is called ‘cervical chin tuck’):

1) place a rolled towel behind your head, right where the top of your neck meets your skull (so the back of your head)

2) tuck your chin towards your chest (its less about tilting your head down like you’re looking down at your feet. try thinking about pushing your chin down towards the towel as much as you can, kind of like how op’s comic looks!)

3) aim for 2 sets of 10 crunches

it’s a weird motion to get used it. i largely feel it in the muscles between my shoulder blades. this stretch has also helped me be more aware of my posture.

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upper trap/neck stretch:

1) while sitting, tuck one hand under your leg

2) use your other hand to gently tilt your head to one side

3) hold for 30 seconds. repeat on the other side

(to focus the stretch on the back of your neck, while your head is tilted, turn and look at your arm pit. the gentle stretch you’re feeling should to one side of the back of your neck)

For some reason I'm still trying to watch my posture to avoid becoming a vulture.

I should just embrace it at this point. I've already mastered eating horribly and vomiting when threatened, so all I have left to figure out is flight and I'm good. I mean, it can't be that hard if *pigeons* can do it.

[mxtxfanatic]

Hi! If you don't mind me asking:

What does mxtx says about jc's character? Like some jc stans claim that she has said he has a knife tounge and tofu heart, (I don't believe it still) is it true? I don't know where to find her interviews, so I asked you instead:)

Thank you 💕

MXTX speaks on Jiang Cheng’s character in two places that I know: the old version of the postscript of the novel (absent from the official 7seas release) and an interview from before she left socials.

In the postscript, she only has this to say about Jiang Cheng:

Everyone should know what Jiang Cheng’s keyword is without me saying it. In the beginning, I thought with with XY’s [Xue Yang] existence, Jiang Cheng’s negative energy would definitely seem skimpy. Who knew he became the ultimate superstar of the comment section? Compared to him, XY was almost a poor, has-been idol. Only now and then would someone decide to drag him out again. Of course, in the end, under the combined PDA attacks of WWX and LWJ, the past and present superstars were obliterated.

And in this interview, she goes more in-depth. Sidenote: while I appreciate the interview for what it, I do not appreciate the ways in which they insert their own opinions about how they think MXTX should feel about Jiang Cheng into the actual interview commentary, and it shows how much of a bias even the interviewer had towards his character to have asked so many leading questions in an attempt to get a positive response out of her about him.

Anyways, here's some expansion by @jiangwanyinscatmom on the nuance of what mxtx meant by “not heinous/evil” that was lost in translation here and some more re-translation (still of the same interview as above):

墨香铜臭：本性不是特别坏，但是有人要讨厌他的话，那也没办法。因为你讨不讨厌一个人，也是……也是自己的问题。

He is not a 坏 (basically spoiled broken, corrupt) person by nature, but if someone wants to dislike him, there is nothing I can do about it. Because whether you dislike someone or not is also... your own choice.

MXTX's answer about why Jiang Cheng never could marry and how she sees him as a character (parenthesis section for jiangwanyinscatmom's own translation notes):

墨香铜臭：就性格比较差劲吧，谈了几个，吹了。 (He just has an 差劲 (average/lame/disappointing, let down) temperament, he dated several times but they were all failures) 墨香铜臭：我眼中的江澄……我眼中的江澄，就……其实没怎么样，我写文还是比较客观的。我看他……我看他就、就像是在看一个作品。 女主持：如果让大大本人来介绍江澄这个人的话，你会怎么介绍他？ 墨香铜臭：我觉得他是一个负能量比较……重……的人。 女主持：这么简单吗？ 墨香铜臭：对，负能量比较重，但是也不是个、也不是个十恶不赦的人吧。对。 MXTX: In my eyes, Jiang Cheng... In my eyes, Jiang Cheng is... Actually, it's nothing special. I am relatively objective when writing. When I look at him... When I look at him, it's like looking at a work of art. Female host: If you were to introduce Jiang Cheng, how would you introduce him? MXTX: I think he is a person with a lot of negative energy... Female host: Is it that simple? MXTX: Yes, he has a lot of negative energy, but he is not a heinous person. Yes.

In short: MXTX describes Jiang Cheng as a character that is filled with negativity and unable to date, but he is not inherently evil nor to the point of being irredeemable. He is a product of the story and fulfills the role he was created to fulfill in the plot. He's not a good person, not overtly and not secretly. That's it.

[handweavers]

sorry it's still so funny that crypto and nfts like exploded and died after all that nonsense pyramid scheme scam shit and superbowl ads and bitcoin mining rigs ruining everything including the environment and it was all for nothing, it didn't change the world it didn't revolutionize anything it was all a complete scam and what remains of it still is. like blockchain tech isn't going anywhere it's probably going to exist in some capacity for the foreseeable future and crypto in general still exists (and existed before it became mainstream popular) but the vast majority of nfts, cryptocurrencies, etc are completely and utterly worthless now, shut down services, crashed markets and exchanges, etc. the only sad things are the people left holding the bag whose lives were ruined bc they got sucked into the scam and there's no justice or recompense + the sheer amt of environmental damage caused by this whole thing

[crucnch-no-more-braincell]

It's so confusing seeing posts that're just like "hey guys don't do this thing because it's unkind" (like idk talking shit on someone's positivity post abt. Whatever fandom they're in idk. Or purposely leaving rude/hateful comments on someone's fic etc)

And then some jackass replies "heh...but this is the internet...i'm so smart because i'm telling you that you're a whimp if you can't handle people being mean to you and you shouldn't be on the internet then...i'm so sigma" (okay that last part is a joke but i think it conveys the tone pretty well.)

They're just so smug and rude and it's like ???

Why do you feel the need to announce on someone's post "hey i'm an asshole who has no joy in their life so i'm gonna be rude to you on a post that's literally about people like me"

Are people not allowed to try to cultivate a positive internet space? Like congrats you've pointed out the obvious; it's the internet. We fucking know. But we are also human and humans typically like being kind and positive to one another and maybe you'd really fucking improve if you'd just try this kindness thing out. Yknow?

[gorgon-heap]

shadow the hedgehog transgender allegory

[jackass-noir]

based on this post

[the-cimmerians]

any friend group can be a cult if you really believe in yourself (or another single member of the friend group like really a lot probably too much)

[wisdomshoes]

holy shit jax definitely somehow pushed kaufmo to abstraction, thats why he was hiding it, denying it and distracting from it. would explain why it seems like it came off as a surprise to everyone, he didnt just go insane for no reason. he feels guilty, which would ALSO EXPLAIN why he didnt attend the funeral. im a fucking genius

[carlando]

listen i’m self aware enough to know when my driver is being an jackass. but he’s my jackass. and i love him