#mindboggled

[lesharl-eclair]

i, personally, am unable to speak

[ticklet0d]

I just finished the Tomodachi Game and WHAT JUST HAPPENED-

[st-mchn]

So I was speaking to one of my relatives a few days ago. She’s a conservative sexist racist homophobe who likes to push my buttons, and she was telling me (for the millionth time) that “maybe you feel uncomfortable at family gatherings because you’re just too sensitive?” (Referring to me not wanting to hear disgusting bigoted shit over family dinner). So I was just like okay whatever, and was about to end the conversation when she said “And I bet you just loved that email we got from so-and-so the other day” and I was like “what email?” And she said “that ‘happy women’s day’ stuff - I bet you hated that since it was only for women and not all those other not binary people”

And I was like …are you talking about international women’s day wtf WHY would I have an issue with that?” And she just doubled down on it like “well its only for women and not for men or transgenders, I thought you HATED that kind of thing, arent you a big feminist?”

Like yeah? She knows I’m a feminist who objects to the word “bitch” and doesnt believe in marriage. They’ve all made fun of me for looking like a mean unfeminine stereotype of a feminist. Yet this ultra-sexist normie woman really thought that I’d have an issue with the concept of international women’s day. As if the feminist position on international women’s day is “it’s bad bc its ONLY for women”. Like even the most uninformed unfeminist women on the planet apparently now believe that feminism is not for women. This woman was alive through the feminist battles of the 70s and 80s… she should be at least familiar with the feminist agenda. But apparently the negative perception of modern feminism has managed to change from “man haters” to “needs to have women and men involved in everything equally or its BAD” I just……?

[souplups]

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[gesslen]

אני אולי לא 🎼👌💯 מושלם, אבל כשזה מגיע לטעות 🙈💥😬 ולהחליק בטעות עם גיל 🦕🦖☄️ ההכחדה מתדפקת על הדלת כמו ג'ו ביידן או דונלד טראמפ, אני בעצם ה- 🎨‍👨‍🎼 🎨👩‍🎨 פיקאסו של חוסר מושג.

[uraniumnm333]

ngl i feel like every night is just a sleepover w polysho. like i've already made a post ab the eepies and how they shnork mimimi but like. id imagine that they sit around in a lil circle n play truth or dare, spin the bottle ect ect ect. but none of them know how to play spin the bottle and it ends up just seeing how hard they can spin the bottle so they can see how long itll spin. also emu and tsukasa jump on da bed. emu does it bc it's just an action she does n it makes her happy. helps her let out energy. and tsukasa sees this and offers to do it w her so they. just hold each others hands n jump on da bed. nene lays on the floor lookin at the sky and everyone else just joins her instead. they'er like a little hive mind i swear. one of them climbs a tree ??? better b prepared bc here comes everyone

[tawna]

idgaf about rumble shutting down but man it sucks that these designs by nicholas kole will never be in-game now ):

[crabtacean]

mindboggle 2024 and some other thing i made yesterday

[multbasa]

The Sonic community has an issue with calling every relationship a "sibling" relationship when the relationship is literally just friendship or companionship.

Like, I don't even know if a lot of people really understand what it is like to grow up with siblings by the way they slap the label on everything.

Take it from me: I'm an identical twin, so for my entire life from even before birth I was sharing a space with my twin. As adults, we have chilled out considerably and I consider her my closest connection now, but there was a LOT of growing pains with a lot of fighting before that.

There were times that we didn't even want anything to do with each other which was difficult because other people kind of treated us as a match set. The point is that we sorted out our differences and conflicts because we had to since we shared a home and even shared a room for many many years. People see us now as insanely close but they never saw the biting, hitting, yelling and tears that preceded that.

For people around the same age, I would consider a sibling bond as those who sorted out their differences in time.

As for siblings with larger age gaps, there's a bit of a different dynamic. Sometimes older siblings have to act as parents to their little siblings for instance, but there is still a difference between them and a simple friendship or companionship.

Yes, there are siblings out there who never really had much conflict growing up, but it is more likely than not to have conflict due to the situation of sharing a space for many years. There isn't often much opportunity to have time apart when you have to share a home.

So to me, a good sibling bond is one built on past tension that has resolved simply due to time. We laugh about our past spats because we see them as insignificant now and sometimes we can't even remember what the conflict was in the first place.

Even if a friendship or companionship appears similar in shape to a sibling bond, that doesn't mean that it is a sibling bond. There will always be overlap among good platonic and sibling relationships simply because they are not romantic.

It's fine to hold headcanons about characters where you consider them like family to each other, but it is absolutely unacceptable to go around imposing that headcanon on others who see the relationship differently. You have all the control you need to curate your online experience through blocking people or content you don't want to see and simply not engaging with it. To do otherwise and whine at people minding their business is incredibly infantile, and I have to wonder if those who do this have nothing important going on in their lives.

Even for stuff that really rubs me the wrong way like "twincest", I don't engage with people who post content like that because I just do not want to see it and I have more going on in my life to spend time obsessing over it. Yes, I find it gross, but I can avoid it so I don't have to see it. I'm sure people who are getting twisted over ships that aren't even incest can learn to curate their online experience so they simply don't engage with or even see what they don't like.

[kwyw]

To this day, 9 years later, Taylor still honors this moment with her girl. 😍

[cavityinmybrain]

anti endos are circling back around to fakeclaiming more systems with CDDs, the ones they said they were trying to protect

[yeoldenews]

Hi! It seems like fireworks and firecrackers were a very common item in Santa letters, to the extent that they’re often thrown in at the end along with fruit like a ‘default’ Santa gift. If you know, why and when did fireworks stop being a go-to present for kids to ask from Santa?

This is actually something I keep meaning to dig into more.

It was almost exclusively a Southern practice (particularly in the Deep South), but was so universal there that it's honestly more unusual for Southern kids to NOT ask for fireworks than to ask for them. I'm not sure if there were cultural aspects to this or was just because it makes more sense to give them where it's actually warm enough to shoot them off.

They seem to have been given primarily as a stocking-stuffers, as they are almost always listed alongside the standard fruit, nuts and candy.

From what I've seen, requests for fireworks dropped off sharply in the early 60s, though I as of yet haven't found any convincing reason as to why.

That's a bit early to coincide with the general shift away from little boys asking for firearms, which seems (from my observations at least) to be largely correlated with the advent of video games in the 70s and 80s.

It's possible it may have been a natural result of child safety standards evolving beyond the 'sure, give your six-year-old explosives, what's the worst that could happen?' that seems to have been the dominant attitude for the first half of the 20th century.

If anyone from the South has any insight on this I'd love to hear it.

[mortysmith]

MORTYENTHUSIAST MORTHENTHUSIAST HOW ARE WE FEELING ABOUT THE RECENT EPISODE 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

ohhhhhhh my fucking gooooooodddddddddddddd this episode was so fucking insane

i love how it's littered with implications of morty's perceived relationship with rick. for example when they first get out of the hole and morty is crying and rick immediately goes to snap a picture. like it speaks volumes that morty imagines this to be rick's initial reaction, vs the ending where rick genuinely does check up on him.

i'm also a huge fan of that initial argument they have in the garage, where rick calls morty out on being afraid of getting replaced, and morty flat out denies it or tries to refute it, but when rick and diane actually leave for their date morty straight up admits it. "you nailed it! my worst nightmare! i'd like to leave the hole now?" he knew that his fear, at least one of them, was him getting shoved aside, but he's definitely picked up some of that emotional repression from rick!!!!!!

im also fascinated by the conversation morty has with the hole guy, because i feel like it implies that morty is also deeply afraid of being dumb, naive, and that rick's nihilistic outlook on life is the correct way to perceive the world. there's also a moment in their conversation where the hole guy reveals that he just wants to suck up all of rick's fear, and morty says "can't the hole just let me go then? sounds like i dont matter," to which the hole guy immediately says "you don't!" showing that morty is also deeply afraid of being nothing more than some kind of tool, a means to the end that is rick.

another moment that killed me dead a little bit was when morty says that he's afraid of being responsible for rick's sadness, which is so grotesquely sad to me, because holy shit, rick's abuse runs so deep that morty is Hole-Level Scared of being in any way responsible for rick's sadness.

the last three minutes are obviously the peak of this episode and kind of this season, because it is just sooo miserable how morty's most crippling fear is proven right. even if only vaguely, there's still that underlying "he did not and would not do this for me" idea that is now confirmed for morty, and i am just. So excited to see how this character arc is continues

[rickybaby]

Ricciardo hopes RB finds a hole to explain tough British GP

“Hopefully there's a big hole in my car that I haven't see yet, and that's the reason why we're really slow,” admitted the 35-year-old. “My engineer asked me where, what am I missing? What do I need? And I felt like I was saying, like, the balance and stuff was actually okay, feel like we're just lacking load,” Ricciardo explained. “That's why, when I heard the laptimes of the others, I was quite confused because I did the lap, and the lap felt pretty clean – a few little things, but felt decent. “So probably my explanation [is] we're lacking a bit of load.

Did they drop a spanner in his gearbox in a hurry? Actually, scratch that - a spanner in his gearbox makes him go faster.

[pjharvey-moved]

my whitegirl take is i think white people on here dismissing rap music about violence made by rappers from places with heavy gang violence, poverty, and that are constantly victimized by police brutality reminds me a LOT of white men like anthony fantano dismissing music by fiona apple and pj harvey etc for graphically talking about violence against women. like the common thread here is people with privilege are made uncomfortable by marginalized people talking about their own experiences. kendrick lamar is literally from compton lmao, his dad was a former gang hustler, and his family relied on food stamps growing up and was intermittently homeless. like if you think he’s “romanticizing violence” by rapping about his own experiences or that other black rap artists from similar backgrounds are doing the same you’re straight up a racist.

[liittleemiixeer]

do you think he'd let Luna kiss his moles? they're so strategically placed it makes my head spin... I need a scene where I kiss all his beauty marks