#make an absurd comment

[kkglinka]

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.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

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

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

“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.

[akimojo]

i just saw someone call ffxiii overrated like? what?? it's literally one of the most hated games in the franchise wym "overrated" 😭

[venacoeurva]

...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.

[smileinyourface73]

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!

[nero-neptune]

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!)

[cosmicpines]

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.

[bunnyhopbooks]

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.   

[sasukesun]

this is the canon ss claim to be? sasuke with both of his arms? 😭

[shouldprobablybereading]

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

[skrunksthatwunk]

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

[teravoltage]

dude we have credit card tipping at work now and I did not realize how OFFENDED people would be

[fingertipsmp3]

Had THE funniest dream last night

[i-am-a-hog]

Imagine an internet where being bi and trans is not seen as the cuntenserven itabsolutely is, but as 'bad luck'

[fragmentedblade]

"The person responded that it is true that Xianzhou people like large and strong pets, but there are also those who love petite and delicate ones. Now that he saw the sparkle in my eyes, he expected that I must be the latter"