#violent times

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C. Show

[feralchaton]

I must have been dreaming

[1introvertedsage]

… In violent times You shouldn't have to sell your soul In black and white They really, really ought to know

… Those one track minds That took you for a working boy Kiss them goodbye You shouldn't have to jump for joy You shouldn't have to jump for joy

[moocowmoocow]

Dollar signs Almost lost it chasing dollar signs Know the cost but I forgot the price Of buying my lie

[possamble]

oh they super understood the assignment this time holy shit

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[1000-year-old-virgin]

St. Vincent - Violent Times

[notrobinsomethingworse]

Batman: Hm

Robin, grinning: that means he’s happy.

Tied up goon who’s spent the last two hours being chased and the last five being talked at by a twelve year old with no pants: Can you let me go?

Robin: I dunno let me check.

Robin: Hey B-man can we let this guy go?

Bruce: Hm.

Robin: He says no.

Bruce: Hmm.

Goon: What does that mean?

Robin, slow grin travels across his face: It means I can kick your ass.

[bioethicists]

this is going to sound simplistic + i promise you it's not: stop following people whose entire schtick is being cruel or fighting with others online. even if the ppl deserve it! even if it's not a ~problematic~ cruelty! even if you agree with all of that blog's opinions!

it's one thing if someone snaps back when provoked or posts the occasional "get a load of this guy". nobody needs to play up respectability for people who haven't given them respect in return. but if someone's online identity centers around being needlessly mean for laughs + they're constantly seeking out socially acceptable, easy targets for petty cruelty, that's a red flag. there's a huge difference between not taking shit/cracking a joke + mocking others as your several-hours-a-day hobby.

especially if, when they are inevitably in the wrong + mocking someone mercilessly to their 50k followers over something petty goes south (shocking!), they become extremely defensive or block everyone or play the victim or dismiss it as "well, how was i supposed to know they were autistic? i'm autistic + i don't meow in public" or whatever.

this isn't a "well i knew all along" post bcuz nobody should be shamed for being in the dark about something like this but many of the popular bloggers who have later been exposed for serious harassment or abuse should not have shocked us. if someone's blog is 90% shit like "you should light yourself on fire because you watch x anime" or "look at this so-called lesbian bitch + her ugly fucking boyfriend at a kink convention- it's giving drowned rats", should it really shock you that they are also being cruel or abusive in less internet-acceptable ways? if they've already shown you that they get a such a thrill out of being vicious that they do it daily + are regularly rewarded with thousands of followers?

[curioscurio]

I'm rewatching Steven Universe and I will never forgive Fandom for what it did to her

[akanemnon]

At least buy them dinner first before you lore dump all over the place

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[heehoocoffee]

Only you is fucking CRAZY

[lotus-pear]

i love you royal trio (minus akechi)

[mebssann]

bby girlifies your 50+ year old sad man

[shotmrmiller]

Imagine Ghost helping you jerk him off, like he puts his hand over yours

this is one of those virgin/inexperienced reader thoughts cuz all ya gotta do is ask how to get a man off (because you fear accidentally ripping someone's foreskin off) and gross, slimy ghost is gonna hit you with an "lemme show ya how t'do it" but you'd expected a video or something, not him getting real snug on your bed with his cock already out in the open and you've gotta bite down on your tongue to keep from asking him if it's normal that it just sits on his thigh like that.

and just when you're nervously fidgeting at the end of the bed he tells you to get closer. "too far away, how are ya gonna learn anythin' bein' tha' far away?"

omg he's grabbing your hand and spitting on your clammy palm before encouraging (his own hand tight over yours) you to wrap your fingers firmly around his thicker base and you're sweating bullets at this point. (that your fingertips aren't even close to touching is making your head spin.)

you don't want to stare at what's in your hand, hot and heavy, don't want to look out the window because then you'll seem bored or dismissive, cant look at him because his stare is unnerving-

but then a rather pointed sucking of his teeth while his hand tips your head up by the chin solves that issue for you.

not gonna learn a thing if ya not lookin'.

(you reckon you aren't going to learn anything anyway because he's making sure your eyes stay latched onto his instead of the study guide that's now leaking wet, sticky and warm.)