#you fucking neanderthal

[sumi-sprite]

@prinx-quail When he says no pickle, he means NO PICKLE!!!!!

Can't get good cafeteria service during a breach, it seems (all the more cuddle time with smokin' hot tatted up host)

Fiddling around with my artsyle and I lowkey love this version..

[hedgehog-png]

[spicyraeman]

If you make mouth noises within 5 ft of me I am legally allowed to throttle you

[iamthepulta]

*crawls onto dash like an axolotl*

i- i am alone. back home. writing time.

[monsterfucker69420]

rereading h2g2 and remembering that zaphod is 200 years old

like ok gramps is out here serving arcturan megacunt

[montythehumancrow]

I'M GAY WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?? NOT THINK ABOUT A SEXY MAN KISSING ME??

[pisscreant]

Did the Pale begin specifically with the appearance of homo sapiens or just hominids in general? Could denisovans and neanderthals also grow Pale or only their homo sapien hybrid children?

[freshfromhell]

the amount of content ppl create for their fics on here is so bananas 😭 mood boards, banners, manips, gifs, VIDEOS? like i'm losing it over here bc i literally come on here, dick around, get distracted by memes, become overstimulated, and then disappear back into the real world for like a week or two lmao.

anyways, guys, i've been feeling like i'm neglecting everyone who follows me for MANIA content, so i am now trying my hand at making a moodboard/banner post and like.......... uuummmm........................... hm.

[aphroditesblues]

pleas god teach fb marketplace people how to read pls and ty

[honeyjawz]

stupid idiot fucking shitfart , .

Instagram deleted my fucking account

[theneanderthal]

*regardless of gender or genitalia

[sincetheducksleft]

S3E6 "University": Sympathetic characters and intergenerational trauma

Tracee burning her son with a cigarette because her mother held her hand on the stove is like the entire fucking thesis of this show, even more so because it specifically undercuts Tracee as one of the most straightforwardly sympathetic characters we've seen.

(800 words; spoilers for all of season 3)

I'm currently rewatching The Sopranos with my mom, and one of the first things she mentioned (not as a complaint, just as an observation) is that there really are no purely sympathetic characters on the show. By the end of the first episode we've seen our main character commit acts of extreme violence -- but it would be misguided to say we're supposed to root against him, because the mafia-aligned characters who oppose him are usually just as bad, if not worse.

Rather, I think The Sopranos is supposed to make us question what makes a character sympathetic or villainous, and how this relies on narrative, perspective, and arc (or the lack thereof).

Tracee enters this episode as something close to a purely sympathetic character -- a single mother, presumably a former teen mom, baking bread to thank Tony for helping her son. It's a specifically feminine/domestic act, both motherly and naive, that also positions Danny (the son) as a priority in her life. She almost represents the mother figure that was so missing from Tony's life, except that we're also supposed to see her as a naive child, making her tragic instead.

Speaking of tragic, we find out quickly that she's in a relationship with Ralph, which stops your fucking heart if you've been paying attention and know he's straight up violently insane. (Not to say that the escalation of his behavior in this episode isn't supposed to surprise us -- just that it's an escalation of existing behavior, not an introduction of a new trait to his character).

But right as we find out Tracee is pregnant, presumably setting us up for the tragedy of her death (which, yes, is exactly what ends up happening), we also find out that Tracee has a history of abusing her son to the point that a social worker got involved. And we also find out, in the exact same breath, that the social worker and Tracee herself believe she burned her son with cigarettes because her mother held her hand on the stove when she was little.

It's such a perfect parallel to the overall theme of intergenerational trauma and the cycle of abuse and dysfunction, and also to Tony specifically as a product of his own father, and it completely undercuts the simplistic, arguably stereotypical depiction of a helplessly naive little girl we've seen in Tracee.

Although she's generally being used as a highly feminine, mother-adjacent victim in the context of Tony's story, there's another story out there (Danny's story) where she's the abusive parent who fucks him up for life, and another where she's an abused child whose mother fucks her up for life. She's both a source of pain and someone forced to absorb pain, and it's like a perfect microcosm of how the human condition is portrayed on The Sopranos.

Every character has the potential to be a main character, every character has depth and complexity that is revealing of the human condition. Everyone has the potential to be sympathetic or villainous, and how we see them in this story relies heavily on how they're used in a narrative sense, but if there's a truth at the heart of that narrative it's that everyone is both.

Even Ralph has his moment of sympathy in this episode, reminding us (again) that he had to drop out of school in 11th grade. Unlike Tony, Ralph actually was forced into this life.

And it's just so fucking typical that Tracee, who's apparently just starting to gain some insight into why she abuses her son and starting to do better, would have her story abruptly ended as a minor plot point in the story of some other asshole's unresolved issues and childhood trauma.

Tracee's story may be profound and revealing, but that doesn't mean it will be told in full. That life will treat her like more than a side character, that the people around us care about our own narrative satisfaction. That's not how The Sopranos works because it's not how life works.

It's not a profoundly meaningful tragedy that leaves us reeling at the end of this episode. Rather, it's the fact that Tracee's story ends abruptly, in the middle, without resolution or satisfaction, that leaves us empty and cold. Wondering what the fuck just happened to Tracee, and what the fuck is going to happen to us in our own lives, and whether we'll get a chance to put meaning to it before the big nothing.

Everyone we meet has enough depth and complexity and narrative power to be a main character, to have their story told in full with an arc and a meaning and a true profundity of purpose, and most of them never are.

[snoopykissgone]

ohhhhh ok so thats why u ship with implied gay males

So u wereeee trying to brake check me. Cool. Eat shit and die.

[hislittleraincloud]

I do like the play on "n0t it" quite a lot. But I appreciate your point of view. It's just my personal outlook on life and not something I'd advocate to my own students, though it's also fair to point out that maybe I'm never really "n0t" a teacher -- the balance between career and calling and all that.

"It's just my personal outlook on life" says the dude who took a big (public) shit on the youthful enthusiasm for learning.

I don't know how to further spell it out for you because you're really not taking accountability for what you said in that reblog. The OP who posted that?

SHE IS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD.

YOU'RE 40.

MAN THE FUCK UP, APOLOGIZE, AND DO NOT EVER FUCKING TELL A YOUNG GIRL/YOUNG GIRLS THAT THEIR ENTHUSIASM AND THIRST FOR LIFE "is horrible way to live -- I don't recommend it. Remember that this all ends in death, and everything you've gained will disappear."

BEWARE, all young teacher crushers: This one/"nickn0t" actually does just want to get into your panties, because Hell, why encourage your mind to learn anything when he doesn't care about that. Why bother when he and can just [daydream about, write creepy letters about] 🪱ing his way into your 😺

[theloonatic]

Whit The Fuck r you on about you absolute headcase

[the-heaminator]

lil anthropology heam is going absolutely feral at the moment.