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Current fandom pet peeve is the widespread misconception and use of the word deadpan. It's not a tone of voice; it's a style of delivery used for humor; it's a type of joke. Anyway, driving me nuts how many authors are using deadpan when they actually mean flat or nonplussed.
#fandom I'm judging you#afaik it refers to#flintlock guns which have priming pans#a small amount of fine gunpowder#in the flash pan#then ignites the main charge#do you get a small sizzle pop#before the loud bag#if you forget the primer#the pan is dead#do you're waiting for the bang#which doesn't come#deadpan delivery is when you#make an absurd comment#sound so sincere#that there's a delay#before your audience#realizes it's a joke
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need a hardened respectful fujo to sit down with james mcavoy and discuss cherik with him insteada this peanut gallery cause if i have to hear people laugh about a gay ship one more time i just might eat rocks
#xmen#cherik#snap chats#get him OUT OF THERE PLEASE#im glad he still provided like. GENUINE quick thoughts and highlighted their love and vulnerability and them 'bridging a gap'#i WILL be taking his comment on them cuddling and running to my tablet with it later but thats not the point#there's a point that maybe just the absurdity of the thought of Evil Villain Magneto and Good Guy Professor X being in love is the comedy#i however will not be trusting like that. the REALNESS of it all IS Evil Villain Magneto and Good Guy Professor X being in love#DESPITE their rivalry and differences because in the end they still want the same thing and still love each other#the vulnerability these men can find within each other despite feeling so isolated from the world around them...#guys theyre making me sick amidst my rant i gotta stop thinking about them before i go off#point is if they just let james lock in for like half an hour id trust him to elaborate on that well#he's already done so a bit in other interviews please just let him submit a thesis vlaekjvkaelj#he been the headrunner of cherik since first class dropped id trust his thoughts with my life really#ok bye im gonna cope witht e fact i got class in like two hours#at least speak no evil comes out tomorrow ..... might watch it with my family ..... lol ....
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“Do you condemn Hamas?”
Hamas is a resistance movement, and the notion that they are an existential terrorist threat is propaganda to justify the genocide of Palestinians.
#I have zionists in my inbox and instead of giving air to their ignorant and hateful comments I will make my stance on hamas known here#the west has a monopoly on the definition of terrorism#Hamas is merely a product of this brutal Israeli occupation#on the resistance fighters#I will not condemn resistance fighters#this is a reactionary force#ofc they would’ve been radicalised they have no other choice#they have had everything taken away from them#free gaza#gaza#palestine#free palestine#rafah#all eyes on rafah#hamas as terrorists is absurd Israeli propaganda. Hamas fight back to resist the occupation and brutal treatment of Palestinians#israeli occupation#israel#boycott israel
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i just saw someone call ffxiii overrated like? what?? it's literally one of the most hated games in the franchise wym "overrated" 😭
#they've gotta be butthurt it got 3 games#also saw someone whine about how it shouldn't get a remaster bc ''other ff games deserve a chance'' and i was baffled#xiii and xi are the only mainline ff games that aren't on modern consoles what are you talking about!!!!!!!#i shouldn't be reading random men's comments on ffxiii omg it just makes me peeved lmao#final fantasy xiii#i gotta ramble real quick abt how we don't have a remaster yet actually#it bugs me when people act as if it's because ffxiii was some huge embarrassment for square and that they want to bury it#when it actually sold super well#and lightning became one of the most iconic protags in the whole franchise#not to mention that xiii got TWO SEQUELS that ALSO sold well#AND the combat system has influenced modern ff titles#square doesn't hate xiii omfg get real#but that does make it even more absurd that it doesn't have a remaster yet#some people think it doesn't need one since it still looks so damn good#but it's not really about that lol it's about accessibility and letting it reach a new audience (the pc port is too broken seriously)#something tells me it's because the crystal tools engine was so much of a pain to work with but idk they haven't really explained anything#either way it just annoys me when people claim xiii doesn't deserve a remaster bc ''no one likes it'' when that really isn't true#and calling it overrated is beyond insane
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...I know people in this day and age think any collaborative effort can fix things, often despite reality (ex. the MULTIPLE tumblr blackout protests over the last like 10 years across different owners of tumblr that didn’t change shit),
but I think going out of your way to buy things from tumblr en masse as a “well then they’ll be profitable and won’t have to change things to resemble profitable sites!” as if the CEO/higher ups are personally going to see this and not AT MOST just go “oh we made money, sick, Anyway.” is just. the most naive and frankly 5-year-old level of problem solving unrealistic idea if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. People are just so blinded by naive optimism it’s painful.
Staff isn’t going to see your purchases and go on a full redemption arc and restore porn in spite of payment systems’ massive stigma against it or Apple’s restrictions and never ever try to mimic Twitter or TikTok again, or whatever the fuck you’re expecting, they’ll keep focusing on shit tweaks that resemble other sites because those are what keep investors who think they know tech and user wants hooked and they think new people from other sites will come over for that instead of the fact these people are typically escaping those kinds of features.
Staff isn’t your friend, their vying for support like they’re your buddy who is hitting hard times and has been here holding your hand all these years is deliberate corporate marketing, they’re an arm of a corporation that spits in the face of LGBTQ+ people and especially black people for daring to post about themselves while touting themselves as The Queer Site! A diverse site! Look at this AMA we’re doing with someone about Black History Month! and you’re doing nobody a service when you’re unintentionally rewarding a service for getting worse because they will not know nor care about your motives, they just care that they got money and will continue making it worse regardless of you. They’re a corporation, not a small business ran by 10 people who are trying their best. People throwing money at Staff already encourages them, let alone when you buy into the weird parasocial shit they try with us which will continue as they see success with that method.
Like the mere idea of everyone buying the crabs to gift to make the site profitable is just unrealistic (especially in this economy with such terrible inflation and in NA there are issues with the weather and fires, on a site that mostly consists of groups of people who are typically low income or unable to work???), it feels very much like the gofundme pages people set up to raise money for celebrities who have debts who will be fine regardless and definitely don’t need your help. Corporations and CEOs are not your friends, they never will be. They do not care about you and they’re not some poor uwu victim of circumstance.
TL;DR half-assed blackouts aimed at companies that don’t care (that I have seen over and over) and “cr*b day” type efforts are incredibly dumb and will change nothing, and they will not change anything, just encourage them since they see they’re making money during their current marketing schemes, if they notice at all. You pitying them like they’re a poor innocent person is exactly what the corporation wants.
If you want to make a difference give that money to an artist or lgbtq+ people who basically get flagged as mature for Existing, or people who get their posts flagged for criticizing the site, or something, someone who gets screwed over by this site on the regular. It will do far more good than that whackadoo type pipe dream and sit down and think for a second, please.
#I normally would not care but this is like. absurd levels of Not Thinking At All#grown adults saw that post about this and went Yeah!!!!!!#how the fuck did someone go ''we should ALL buy crabs to give tumblr money!'' as a solution to shit corporate decisions and it get as big#as it did. Do you guys THINK#or does staff really have it wrapped around your parasocialized finger with humanizing them like a suffering entity who is so so poor#vena vents#not art#And that's a good faith interpretation that the person who suggested the crab thing aren't friends with a staff member or are one or some#shit#we've seen people on or know staff doing some shit to subdue criticisms (especially by trans and black people). I don't trust that#That as a thing that mysteriously gets slapped everywhere on here makes me narrow my eyes#Apparently judging by others comments about it the OP suggesting it is also a pr*lifer and a lot of the people boosting it are bigots so.#enjoy supporting a cause ran by people who want you dead ig
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this isnt specifically a trans guy problem but i love how often i encounter commentary on media representations from this incredibly specific genre of trans guy who is like "no real trans man is effeminate or nonpassing and if he is he certainly doesn't want to look that way. all of us think ryan gosling is aspirational. every single one. it's incredibly unrealistic to think that a trans guy would want to look trans, because i personally don't want to." like the No Fun Allowed Brigade. why are there so many of these guys
#i do get his complaint that it isnt accurate to the technology of the world. i GUESS.#but the idea of like 'well no real trans guy would want them' is patently absurd#i want top surgery and when i have scars from it i am going to be proud of them as proof of my body being what i want it to be#and bc i like being trans#i guess im not a real boy now :(#he addresses in the comments that he realized not everybody feels as he does about surgery scars but i think hes covering his ass#bc if he was like 'well some people are ok with their scars' then it wouldnt make sense as a criticism of their inclusion to begin with#(also really funny that hes like 'well i dont really have chest dysphoria enough for surgery but if i DID and DID get surgery')#(so like....youre basing your opinion on a series of hypotheticals that dont apply to you and still trying to speak with authority ??)
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Oh how i love to post really mean comments on youtube but then delete them because then i wont stop thinking about it and getting so anxious about it. Anyways I REALLY FUCKING HATE YOU ROBERT SAPOLSKI. Shuddup ur stupid man who happened to get degrees and be a teacher at a good school bc u could absorb information and regurgitate it back. Other than that your insight is poor and literally said damning misinformed things in that first video i ever saw from you TO A CLASS OF STUDENTS THAT ALSO GOT POSTED TO THE SCHOOLS OFFICIAL YOUTUBE. I hate you i hate you i hate you. ON EVERY NANOANSTRUM OF MY BEING. Hate... hATE!
#i was gonna give the “no free will” take a chance just so i could fall asleep but his reasonings were extremely absurd#i was like what the hell.. and then as i was gonna leave a comment i found out it was robert LIKE NO WAY. HIM?? MAKES SENSE#he literally stopped me from sleeping bc now im wide awake fuck that guy
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things you shouldn't say if you wanna claim the moral high ground.
(context being me pointing at that, yes, what susan sarandon said was actually antisemitic, which got me, like, 4+ paragraphs rife with false claims and Even More Antisemitism in response, apparently meant to be directed at me? bc they somehow assumed the only reason anyone would point out antisemitism is if they're a white jewish zionist. makes you think!)
#'maybe for once let Black and brown people speak about our oppression without claiming to share in it'#when all the while i'm a wholeass born and bred negro? an angry black woman if you will. unprecedented i know#i missed screenshotting 'white jews gave me trauma so i only follow antizionist jews n jews of color so i don't actually become antisemitic#and that comment has since been deleted bc that's incredibly indefensible. but you can probably still see my comment responding to that#(which is another thing. imagine using an ongoing tragedy and making it about Yourself. and you're in your 30s)#anyway! this place is a freakshow. and i'm not blotting out the person's name bc fuck 'em. that's on them and their bigotry#this was equal parts irritating and absurd. at least i'm posting this shit at 1 in the AM so it annoys less people on my dash#but i just needed this on record. like did you do it? did you fight the racism? did you win activism? should i clap?#rambles#antisemitism
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I'm not done listening to the Alex Hirsch interviews but god it just reminds me both of how much I miss this show and how much I appreciate the love and care that went into it. I love listening to him talk about the characters with a frankness and care that shows how much he values them being three dimensional beings.
#notably his answer about mabel in lost legends i thought was strong of like#yeah were going to give her a story that shes flawed in thats the point of a story#i still dont *love* dont dimension it bc i think it doesnt completely hit what theyre aiming for#the Mabels Fault is so weirdly pointed and bizarre#and her apology at the end is like. eh. bad. it needs another draft i think it needs more space to be explored.#ive been thinking a *lot* about 'mabel hatred' as i think about the show again#i do need to rewatch the show before i make a long comment on it#and how much of it began from people being frustrated that she was continually denied a proper episode where she was allowed to be wrong#in an interesting way#love god in particular is. weird.#and last mabelcorn felt like the beginning of an arc that didnt really happen#like that she was always untouchable in a sense#and that argument was co opted by people who were just unbelievably cruel to her and completely unreasonable#let me be clear: mabel hatred is overblown and absurd and i hate it s omuch#but i also dont like it when people put her on a pedestal of Perfect Unflawed Glitter Goddess#while also being like wow look at the depth of dipper#if youre going to say mabel cant be selfish because shes 12 you also cant say dipper has depth bc by that logic hes also 12#anyway im sure someone will misinterpret these tags thats why theyre in the tags#mary blabs
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I rejected my offer for one of my universities so here's a short written piece I never submitted to them on the topic of antiquity:
In the modern era, antiquity maintains relevant to our cultural debates, sparking controversy across Western academia. Society trusts that we are both individually and collectively an accumulation of past influences, but in a post-Christian Western sphere it is impossible not to question that belief. By killing God, we destroyed the traditional justification for why Western society runs the way it does. It is therefore out of necessity that we treat the period known as antiquity with the same intellectualism as modern art or history because we agree that our current societies are “enclitic (Johnson)” of the period. With this agreement that antiquity is relevant in mind, the question then is why?
One reason is that many modern academics perceive history as cyclical. “[Ancient] Roman issues are our [contemporary] issues (Beard),” and thus repeatability defines the discourse surrounding recent history. In a post-Cold War world, we have watched many nations rise and fall along the same trend, watched history distort itself into smaller cycles to accommodate the rapid acceleration of progress. If history is, in fact, repeating itself, then we can justify our obsession with antiquity; Understanding the cycle might mitigate its disastrous outcomes. Perhaps we can prevent the death of modern Western culture if we define the fall of ancient civilisations as an avoidable set of circumstances, rather than an inevitability.
A counterclaim to this theory is that hindsight bias informs our perception of history’s cyclicality, and the age of antiquity is not a model for the future, but rather a way to understand our current cultural identity. This rebuttal has its own issues, primarily in the insistence that all art is multi-interpretational. “Pluralism (Rijser)” damages the classical “canon (Rijser)” by re-evaluating whether our selection is a true representation of the period and classical culture at all, which calls our own cultural beliefs into question. However, this same pluralism allows antiquity to continue thriving in the modern cultural sphere. Upon re-examination, certain artefacts have an undeniable pull for Western scholars, continue to be taught in schools, and survive the test of time because people at each stage of revival saw in it what our academics see in it today.
Overall, antiquity remains important to Western culture as the fruit of re-interpretation proves the essential foundation these ancient civilisations provide us with. Without these periods of early democracy, liberty, and law, modern academics and society would define itself very differently.
#tried to give this a once over before I posted it but tbh it makes my brain hurt#just some thoughts. idk where the fuck my sources list is but if anyone is interested just comment and i'll exert myself and find#it amongst the heaps of absurd drafts on my onedrive#also this was already 200 words over the limit. kind of just gave up on reducing it because it already feels incredibly reductive#pics are from pinterest#studyblr#history studyblr#history#ancient art#ancient history#antiquity
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this is the canon ss claim to be? sasuke with both of his arms? 😭
#pathetic.#this is the only comment i’ll make about all this because it’s SO ABSURD#it’s not enough that that huge x reader fanfic contradicts the hell outta the manga but omg that’s such a basic fact#and they can’t even get that right#ramblings
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It´s not actually funny, but every now and again I’ll remember sanderson going ”Dalinar wasn't too sad about that” in regards to becoming an orphan and just burst out laughing
#I’m not over it#its such an absurd comment to make#everyone else is angsting about their dead parents#not here
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during tonight's yyh watch my mom asked "is hiei gonna be my favorite?" (her current fav's kurama, which i probably should have seen coming). i said that when first discussing watching this with her and my dad, i was immediately like oh she's gonna LOVE kuwabara. not necessarily kuwa = favorite but she'll love him. and she was like i do but he's too stupid to be my favorite 💀💀💀 like. damn
#i HARD gravitate towards stupid characters so maybe that's a me thing but like. too stupid to be your favorite? my sweet boy kuwabara??#he's not brainless or anything he's thoughtful and has his clever moments he's just.. a little dumb. most of the time <3#anyway she likes kurama bc he's the calm voice of reason but he does NOT fuck around and yk what i can respect that#but like... don't be mean to him :(( not to kuwabara...#yyh#also we got another kuwabara's in love with yusuke comment fuck yeah#idk why but it makes me feel so validated hearing that. it's like it's basically canon to me now. absurd
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dude we have credit card tipping at work now and I did not realize how OFFENDED people would be
#2 people made comments about it already and like. wanted to have a full conversation about it with me#yes sir that really is absurd that the little screen is asking if youd like to give me $1. I should be paying YOU so I can make your drinks
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Had THE funniest dream last night
#i was roommates with this couple who for some reason decided they were going to bone directly outside the house#like on the front porch more or less#except they were really worried about being seen? so i was kind of keeping a lookout for them#pretty much as soon as they.. began; a legolas cosplayer appeared complete with a camera crew#OH THAT WAS THE THING! my roommates were filming themselves but it was just on a mounted tripod#so i just opened the window and said ‘uhhh do you guys have a camera crew?’ and they looked around and screamed#had to run inside naked from the waist down. i was laughing and laughing#for some reason my next move was to post about this on tumblr but it got no notes and i was impatient so i posted about it on facebook#and TONS of people liked it immediately and then were sharing it and long story short it went viral#and there were random people in the comments saying like ‘oh this is so obviously fake’ and ‘why does she sound so unconcerned?’#because why would i be concerned?? gay sex is legal.. having it where other people can see isn’t exactly legal but they got inside quickly#and the legolas cosplayer and his camera crew didn’t exactly seem traumatised. they just looked confused if anything#also i’d written it in kind of a sarcastic and funny tone to be entertaining because it was honestly an absurd situation#why i would’ve posted this to FACEBOOK where most of my friends are my elderly relatives; ex-coworkers and high school people i don’t know#anyway that was my dream. two guys i vaguely know had four-second sex on my front porch; saw a legolas cosplayer; screamed and ran inside#OH and the other part of my dream was one of my mutuals on here (who i have only spoken to via prev tags) for some reason had my mobile#number and kept trying to call me#i had them in my phone just as their tumblr url even though they have a name and i know it? and for some reason i kept panicking#and rejecting the call and then coming up with spurious reasons for doing so#even though this person was extremely chill about it and was like ‘oh we can just talk another time!’#it made NO sense. i would absolutely speak to this person on the phone if i got the chance#but also why would i give them my number? and why would they be calling me from the states??#anyway. if you need me i’m going to make breakfast and go to pilates#personal
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Imagine an internet where being bi and trans is not seen as the cuntenserven itabsolutely is, but as 'bad luck'
#things that occur in yt comments#thats so absurd to me and it makes me so happy to Be in this place where. we're all bi and trans#quip
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