#just fascinating

[philcollinsenjoyer]

(SPOILERS) tashi and patrick's relationship is like mesmerizing they are like the same person going in exactly different directions they're the prodigies who ruined their tennis careers by trying too hard for tashi and not trying hard enough for Patrick while art rose above them and tashi resents him for it and tries to live his victories through him while patrick resents how it has brought them apart from each other but when they're together they're equals and they can see deep inside each other like patrick said which is what tashi hates and loves that they know that ultimately they're both losers and she can't face it

[theamazingian]

legend has it, that if you pay $6 to purchase this badge for someone, they legally have to open commissions

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I observed a fascinating example of differing ontology on the local level today

the nearest zoo to me recently put their two-headed snake back on exhibit, which of course made the local news (who doesn’t want to see a two-headed snake, right?)

this was initially announced in a long explanatory post on the zoo’s Facebook page, in which staff used the pronoun “he” for the snake, presumably because it is one unit of snake with one evident set of genitalia.

but when the local news station covered the announcement, it used the pronoun “they,” presumably because the snake has two brains sending sometimes conflicting neural signals, even if it is one unit of snake.

if the case were human, suppose a set of conjoined twins, I would also say “they” because two brains equals two souls.

But for a snake, which has no soul, I am certainly more inclined to say “he”, or at least follow the example of the zoo.

[klanceogies]

found a fic that i read when i was 14 or 15 years old and the bookmark is taking me the fuck out

[townhulls]

also re: that post, absolutely fascinated by the implication that having a low score means you have low standards. i’m one of the pickiest people i know when it comes to fic. even indented paragraphs are enough to get me to swear off an author forever. but i am also a person of Taste and, more importantly, not a prude

[yesterdayiwrote]

It always astounds me that there’s people on this website who don’t like reading people psychoanalysing their blorbos…

[returning-spring]

what's funny about the prompt lists is how you can clearly see what tropes ppl love for certain ships. like vegaspete have the most prompts for "bdsm" and "magic/monsters" but kinnporsche have the most for stuff like "orgasm control." magic/monsters is a popular trope for kimchay too

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[bookshelfpassageway]

yknow i dont go here but sometimes i gotta go: seriously respect clowns. they have the worst pop culture representation in the world and also the best most thorough honor code. they're just here to be silly little guys who bring joy and are very conscientious about doing so responsibly. let them to their merriment in peace you dont hafta take potshots. i dont go here but like maybe i should, you all seem super chill

[koko-mochi]

Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

[steampunkforever]

Fascinated by this one Instagram account run by a girl who got divorced young and decided to make a career as a cottagecore divorce influencer out of it apparently

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

why does this have so many 20s options? great question! 🤷‍♀️ i'm gonna stick with it, though. it feels right to me.

[phantomrose96]

Actually the funniest part of the entire James Somerton debacle is the response his cowriter Nick gave. For context, Hbomberguy talks a bit about Nick as a cowriter, and there is not any strong evidence implicating Nick of also plagiarizing, so Hbomberguy takes the angle of "Nick is probably not (also) responsible for the plagiarism".

Nick's response?

To claim he could not be part of the plagiarism, because he does not read. And does not do research...

SOURCE: I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube - YouTube, video essay by Todd in the Shadows.

The second screen cap is maybe a tongue-in-cheek joke... but bold choice when everyone's eyes are on you to respond to serious allegations. And this screencap doesn't include the other wishy-washy statements, pre-video, from Nick saying to the effect of "I write based on vibes. I come up with an idea and ruminate on it." For research videos. For educational videos about queer history and queer media culture.

Adds flavor to the Todd video, which goes through two-dozen examples of Somerton videos which just claim... provably factually incorrect bullshit.

This guy is a writer. An author. You could not waterboard "I don't read" out of me if I were aiming to launch a writing career.

Beating the plagiarism allegations by confidently asserting you suck too bad to ever get that far.