#what I didn’t say

[ri-notafan]

Let people look dumb and admit to harmless mistakes without shaming them

I was at a casual get together and we were commenting on the desserts the host had. Someone asked if we’ve ever made them before and one person said they tried but it didn’t turn out. Me and this gal were like, ‘ah, we know what happened, you didn’t _____’.

And then I, the commiserator that I am, went ‘yeah, that was my mistake too once, but at least you didn’t have [misconception of what the dessert was and therefore did two things wrong and not one], like I did’.

And the gal was just like: ‘maybe don’t say that in public’.

?????

It wasn’t a terrible mistake. It wasn’t embarrassing and it was never made a big deal when it happened. It was logical for the information that I presented. I never said what age I was when making the mistake. I also wasn’t saying I’d make the same mistake now or that it wasn’t a mistake at all. And it came up only after I’ve already admitting I knew what else went wrong for the main thing.

Let people admit they made an inconsequential mistake without shame. Let people get it wrong. Let them present themselves as a person who is fine with not being fucking perfect.

[ri-notafan]

I complained about tuition and my sister hits me with ‘shoulda gone into the military, they’d pay for it’—learning is a natural thing that I don’t want to risk my life for in order to have the opportunity ma’am. You got trauma, assault, harassment, and possibly cancer. Miss me with that.

[tuttle-did-it]

David Tennant for Prime Minister, please.

edit- Since this is getting so much attention, edited to include descriptions of screenshots.

This woman has lost her fucking mind.

Jo, are you okay?

[chloesimaginationthings]

How Jax found Gangle’s figure collection in TADC,,

[carrotcakecrumble]

Men with a little social power and fame try not to commit heinous crimes against women challenge

[keferon]

Biblically accurate Blurr~

Blurr's Spotlight was actually the very first Transformers comic I ever read. I remember looking at the first pages and being like, holy shit, dude why are you so ugly?? Ahahjcmgmg

[lilislegacy]

annabeth whatever your middle name is chase. do not think you got away with that comment

[shehzadi]

israel should just give up at this point hamas is literally receiving letters of gratitude from the israeli hostages they’ve released

(via RNN telegram)

[apostaterevolutionary]

Okay can I be a bitter Anders fan for like. Just 2 minutes here lmao

Cause bioware released some game stats for veilguard and apparently 72% of players redeemed Solas which is like. Okay yeah the game kinda pushes you towards that. But when I think of all the shit I used to have to put up with just for enjoying Anders like at all and…

(This is not me being anti-Solas, I do not care if you love or hate him, but I am gonna say what he’s done is like. Objectively worse than literally every other companion so lmao. And that’s fine! You can still enjoy him! I’m not saying you can’t and it’s important to me that people understand that! I’m just saying he did in fact do objectively morally worse things in game than Anders did and I don’t think that’s really debatable. And I can’t really make my point here without saying that but I do want to make it clear this is not some moral condemnation of Solas enjoyers cause it’s not)

Getting anon hate on the regular, being told “oh you’re allowed to like Anders as long as you regularly talk about how much he sucks”, people gleefully describing how much fun they have killing him ON your posts about the fact that you like him, the devs making jokes about shitty fates for him when fans asked innocent questions about him, the absolute audacity of his writer to say half the shit she did in interviews (about bisexuality and mental illness, most critically), and then being beaten over the head again in inquisition about how Anders is the worst character to ever exist and there’s no redemption for terrorists who lie to you one time in the entire game and he deserves death or worse and that’s it

And now… 72% of people are down to redeem the guy who lies to you for 2 games straight and who did a lot of questionable things that includes creating the fucking blight and. Like. I guess I’m glad that Solas fans can live in a world where they aren’t constantly harassed and can give their ship like. A pretty damn good ending all things considered. And that the devs love Solas and actually give the option for that happy ending and have characters go to bat for Solas throughout the game and the most annoying thing they have to see are people making scrambled egg memes. I would not wish anyone to have to deal with the shit Anders fans had to put up with back then cause it sucked. It really sucked. And I’m glad it’s not being repeated with a different character, if nothing else

But like. Man there really is a difference when the writers actually like the character who does the thing, huh

[marisatomay]

I truly believe one of the most important things you can teach a person in school is how to analyze literature and art and movies so you know how to look at a work of art and place it both in its time and ours. To empathize with the artists behind it as they were and not as we are now. To recognize the ways in which humanity has grown or the connective tissue between us and the past. But mostly so I never have to see someone call a movie or its dialogue “cliche” or “stereotypical” when the cliche to which they’re referring was either quite literally invented or at least popularized by the movie they just watched.

[firelilysky]

Zukka Week Day Five: Zuko Joins the Gaang Early | Gay/Bi Awakening

[ri-notafan]

Omg I really want to shake my sister

[can-a-tuna-fish]

Give him $25 and he will come home with a bag full of food that hasn’t seen the light of day since the early 90’s.

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

Instead of the “Jason vs Percy” rivalry we should have gotten Annabeth vs. Jason but instead of a fight for power it’s them having a battle of autism cause their special interests were Greek myths vs Roman myths.

Jason calls a Greek god by their Roman name and Annabeth pops up out of nowhere and goes “erm, actually”

The 7 is talking about some landmark and Annabeth and Jason start arguing about which pantheon it was dedicated to.

“It’s amazing right? It was dedicated to Athena.” “Erm, it was actually built for Mars…”

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike and Michael meet their younger selves..

[slfcare]

the most difficult thing about growing as a person socially, as in getting out of your shell and noticing that you are, is that there will still be times when it doesn’t feel like you’ve grown at all! times when you can’t really connect with anyone around you, times when you fail to enter into an existing conversation, times when you say the wrong thing (or nothing at all when in hindsight you probably should’ve). but that’s also kind of the best thing, because that’s the thing that helps you realize that sometimes, it’s not you or your lack of skills or any shortcoming. sometimes certain environments just aren’t for you and certain people aren’t your people, and that’s okay. that’s human. it’s okay to not feel the progress you have made all the time.