#stupid takes

[hecat-draw]

i think one of the stupidiest take i've ever seen on zutara is that makorra is the zutara ship and that it showcase why they wouldn't have worked . Like, they aren't anything alike .

[afterthefuneral]

I just saw someone say that BJBJ is a cheap knockoff of the musical. My question to this person is were they born this stupid or did they have to work on it?

[kittenfangirl20]

Just when I think that Team Green can’t get any dumber, they go an prove me wrong.

[shadowqueenjude]

"I want to see the Archeron sisters together and happy! I don't want Elain to leave Night!"

Babes...there's something called...

Travel.

Ever heard of it?

Sometimes, you need to leave a place to stretch your wings. My mother left her family in India to pursue an education in the United States. You gonna say my mom and her dad split up just because they don't live within a block from each other?💀

I haven't even begun to speak about the DISASTROUS political consequences Elriel would have. ELRIEL would cut off Elain from her family. Az too.

[fester-jester]

Shut the fuck up

[cdr2002]

Tired of gun nut Star Trek fans trying to push this “the Borg can’t adapt to bullets” narrative to shove their precious guns into Trek as the supposed Kryptonite of a big bad.

What part of “they will adapt” do you morons not understand.

[newwavesylviaplath]

ok real ask what are ur opinions on ahs coven

oh god. i go back and forth on it a lot cuz on one hand it's very funny and for sure the most lighthearted ahs season out there. plus we got my number one ahs girlie of all time, miss misty day, literal love of my life- but on the other hand im a diehard emma roberts anti (besides chanel oberlin ofc) and i genuinely cannot stand madison montgomery. don't get me wrong- she hilarious and the season would not be half as good without her BUT i still fucking hate her omfg.. also i can't think abt kyle for too long or i get really sad. it's like crazy how not only was his character so sad but also the writers literally did not give a shit abt his storyline like they forgot abt him halfway through and sucked all the life out of him. it really felt like they added his SA to make his character deeper and then halfway through they just got bored. so tbh i kind of have beef with coven even though cordelia foxx is probably my fave sarah paulson character. and also im a myrtle snow stan.

[ineffable-hyperfixation]

Stupid Gomens take of the day:

Even when heavily intoxicated Crowley never loses the Scottish accent (in fact it gets significantly worse) therefore I declare that Crowley's natural accent is Scottish, but he uses English because that's what his Angel settled on

[buckieduckie2]

before i knew how bottom surgery worked i thought they just kept a bunch of penises and vaginas in a jar and had them swap each other out

[unhingedmarvelandclassicwhobuff]

Holy fuck, this might actually be the dumbest Wanda take I’ve ever seen (not the worst, but the dumbest), and that’s saying a LOT. This is so stupid I won’t even dignify it with a breakdown.

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Oh, who am I kidding? Of course I’ll break it down:

1. this is not how Dreamwalking works, and to my knowledge not how the Darkhold works in any branch of reality.

2. if our Wanda really did somehow take over 838-Wanda’s body, then who were we seeing remorsefully destroy Wundagore?

3. everything about this theory fundamentally contradicts who Wanda is. She is not a selfish monster, and it took the Darkhold to make her into one. The real Wanda would never, and I mean NEVER steal the body and life of one of her other selves.

4. even if I were to entertain the possibility that Wanda did this, then why the hell would she steal the life of the Wanda whose life she just ruined?

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

I guess the Haitian slaves, American colonists in 1776, the French during the 1790s, the Bolsheviks, the Union strikers who gave you a five day week, the Civil Rights leaders, the Black Panthers, the United Farmworker Chicanos, the members of AIM, Native Americans who opposed colonization, the American Red Guard, the Young Lords, the Young Patriots, the Kanaka Maoli group, Nelson Mandela and other anti Apartheid leaders, the drivers of the De-Nazification Movement in Germany, and EVERY FUCKING ANTI COLONIALISM INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT ON EARTH should have just shut up and let the status quo of society remained

@brainstatic This has honestly got to be the worst most neoliberal take I’ve ever read. Read a history book, literally any book. You should honestly change your name to @lackofbrainstatic

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

[stemmmm]

gotta hand it to him, he is a cutie in that prison uniform

[guiiay]

yeah... yeah

[inbabylontheywept]

I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn't really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be

a). I needed to watch that car and

b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.

It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn't really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It'd been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I'd basically written it off as nonsense.

Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should've just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.

So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn't empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I'd probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.

She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn't warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn't know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?

And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:

"Because it was foretold."

And I can't tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there's not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.

I'm still kind of digesting this myself, actually.