#you know what though

[vvitchering]

My only nonspoilery thought about the new venom movie is that I have never really minded that the Venom movies are Bad Movies until now. I really wish this one had been a good movie.

[red-might-be-dead]

i love seeing posts that are like “OMG?? CRUMBSS 😍😍😍😍” and it’s like a 0.5 second clip of one guy saying half of the other guys name by accident

[vague-bisexual-crimes]

IN AN OTHERWISE MEDIOCRE EXISTENCE, WE CHOOSE TO FEEL PASSION!!!!!!!!!!:$;&@/@9,7?8;8:&/!:!;!;!;!!!/&39(9(9/92&

[hislittleraincloud]

I am always goddamn right but in this case I was too generous

lookit the little Pop Tart, the little ass who blurred out Johnna and Georgie (first cap is me making my educated guess to the OP's age):

Acutally, yes, every fucking average teen in this fandom is like whatever I'm thinking.

This child turned 14 this year. She hasn't a fucking clue, and she's learning from shitty people online. Actually no: She's being groomed by others to behave like a little fucker who blurs out Georgie and Johnna's faces because they're supportive friends of White. Groomed to believe that it SHOULD BE VERY EASY for castmates to just drop a dude because of accusations like that. Any older person who encourages this shit is grooming/encouraging her to be that way, and to act as a child younger than her does [by blurring or scratching our things they don't like and want to go away/cause pain towards].

These kids have barely had the time to forge adolescent friendships and deal with real world/in-person hormonal drama, let alone be able to fucking dictate to an actress who doesn't give two fucks about them who she should and shouldn't associate with. They're so lost in the early stages of their adolescent-to-adult identities that they're submerging themselves in this impersonal online shit that's screwing with the way they'll function in the future with actual fleshy cowboy and blood people.

Maybe some just want to feel useful or important. That sense of belonging to groups is critical in your teen years (unless you're like me/are generally a lone wolf loner...there wasn't exactly a group of Old Man loving people I could hang out with).

But this ain't it, babies. 💩

I get it, their social development was fucked by COVID lockdown. But this child was born in 2011. Gen Alpha. She was only 11 fucking years old when Wenclair became a thing. What 11-year-old do you know goes all in on a lesbian ship in fandom? I know kids can be fucked, but these are kids being literally being groomed into thinking that it's okay to shit on good people, and groomed into thinking that it's okay to hardcore ship real people. And people call me the pedo or groomer because of my fiction (like those fucking freak antis on TikTok) while I'm sitting here trying to teach the kid (before I knew she was a kid/see tags) ACTUAL right from wrong before she ends up stupid as shit.

Here's my take: These babies shouldn't be online congregating with strangers until they're at least 16. Fandoms of teen shows aren't generally kid friendly since fandom is where everyone goes to fuck.

ANHANAHNAHANHNANBUT TOR, 16 IS A CH —

Shut the fuck up. Yes, I'm one of those freaks who doesn't think 16 is a child anymore. Because it is adolescence, i.e. that stage in life that everyone on the anti side wants to erase from the human experience. It isn't even about sex or fucking. Learning to become a functional adult begins in that stage of adolescence, or at least that's how it was for us old fucks who didn't have the internet to distract and then shape us into little socially disturbed monsters who behave like toddlers up through their 20s and 30s like some of y'all.

Sixteen was the age of driver's permits and the taste of the kind of adult freedom you'll have soon enough; the 16 to 21 block of adolescent life flies by (you won't think so now, but once you get to be old af, you'll get it). Sixteen now just seems like...I dunno, to me it sounds like a self-imposed Hell of being trapped in one's own fantasies instead of going out there and living them.

And holy shit, the stuff I read that's being written by young women to complete strangers about complete strangers holds the rancid equivalence to the type of shit I see and hear from young men whose hobbies have also shifted online to where they just sit there and blow shit up in COD. I stg, if I had the power Musk is abusing right now, I'd shut off their internet and send my army of armored Cybertrucks to take them to a National Park to go outside/go camping for month with others (lolz, in Earth AU, I am Musk and everything is free kittens/puppies/rainbows and the Jemma people are taken and dumped on Epstein Island to fend for themselves).

Maybe it's a good thing that Z's aren't meeting and breeding though. It's only going to get worse because Alpha ain't looking like it's an improvement. Gen X fucked up, but yanno...every generation is fucked up because humans are fucked up, and the tech devolution has made it easier for bad information to hurt others.

Anyway, I can't wait for them to grow up, but I'm wary of what they're growing into.

[probablygayattorneys]

So, I have this fun little thing called ‘catastrophic insomnia’ which means even if I do all the things you’re supposed to do, I put my phone away seven hours before bed, I do yoga, I do nothing in my bedroom except sleep… I will still not sleep well, if at all. It’s not my fault, it’s just the way my body was made, which means I get access to the good stuff in order to sleep, and a fun thing about some controlled substances, at least the ones I take, is that there is a real clear moment where the it goes from “it’s kicking in” to “I have no memory of this the next morning.”

Yesterday was one of those days while I was DMing a friend. See if you can catch where the heel turn was.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I abandoned academia about 7 years ago. I have an MA in history and was teaching adjunct classes for peanuts with no benefits or anything of the like and no guarantee of a job when the semester was done. One summer after the 2nd summer session ended I put in for a job in construction specifically dirt moving (building roads) due to needing the money and haven't looked back ever since. Im currently a heavy equipment operator and foreman. I make more money annually than a tenure track professor makes at the college I was at; the benefits are great with a 401k and health insurance; I still get 3 months off out of the year due to weather (in northern North America you can't do effective dirt work in the winter) and an added bonus of when I'm off the clock at 5:30 pm or during the weekends I'm off. There's no students or students parents to deal with after hours, no tests to grade, no papers to work on, no lectures to write, no faculty meetings or "mixers" etc... Maybe take some of the time between semesters to try something different, you never know you may find it works out to be something you enjoy more. If not I'm sure academia will still be there to go back to.

A lot of people tend to bring up the embarrassingly low pay of college professors as if this were a rhetorical slam dunk but generally people trying to be academics are well aware that it doesn't pay well and despite this poor payment there is still an amazing surplus of people who want to do academic work for the number of postings available (the low wages are therefore no mystery); I make more doing ____ isn't inherently compelling. I would make as much as a low-level draftsman as I can expect to make starting out at most colleges with a tenure track position.

I think if I wanted to chase money I would try to find something that would involve less time outdoors in the summer. I also don't think I would fit in well with the people who do that for a living, having done some blue collar work in the past I don't really want to live the Frasier-in-Cheers life of being reminded I'm a faggot for having a PhD and enjoying reading

In fact I went to academia in part to escape that. If I were the kind of person who was happy punching the clock for a decent wage I would still be doing that, but it bores me to death

It occurs to me however that the spirit in which this is written is less " do construction" than it is "there are other good things to do and what you might like may surprise you," which is a point well taken, but I do not think I have the luxury of too much experimentation at this point as I am in my mid-30s with much student loan debt and many dependents

I think my next thing kind of has to be my thing

famous last words

[yunyin]

1. But can I add, if you pick a color, do you often pair it with another, and if so, which?

1. what is your favorite color to work with?

I answered the regular question with pink, and my favorite combo with pink is probably yellow. I think they look really nice together!

I feel like most of the time I don't tend to do art exploring color palettes though, cuz I'm usually drawing established characters who already have built in color schemes. (At least, the stuff I'm posting here is mostly that.)

I think in practice the color combo I use most are reds and purples, because purple tends to be in the shadows I use and I love red.

[tayloralison]

That little scoot: when the gynecologist says “just a little further down” I AM SO SORRY🫣

HJFHDJSKHFJKS

[fox-bright]

I am never going to be able to leave Reddit.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[gongyussy]

deepthroating a gun without breaking eye contact...... he put his entire gongyussy into that | SQUID GAME 2

+ the video because the sound he makes when he puts the gun in his mouth? [redacted]

update: he improvised that. the man really said i'll go full slut.

[jabberwick]

Human Bill Cipher

(Based on Alex Hirsch's "canon" design)

And just to be clear, writing dissertations at me justifying why he should instead be a conventionally attractive twink will involuntarily cause me to draw him with even fewer teeth.

[chloesimaginationthings]

This goes out to poppy playtime pianosaurus enjoyers

[technically-human]

Simp

[ahsokalegend]

One of my favorite choices the Apothecary Diaries made was making the Emperor a “normal guy” (as far as I know as an anime-only). He’s not evil. He’s not hindering Mao Mao’s journey. He respects the concubines.

If anything his lack of autonomy and presence as the most powerful person in the country further enhances the show’s themes of working within the confines of class and gender inequality.

The previous emperor was a horrible, horrible pervert. Okay, then this emperor only weds women of age… Until he’s forced to take his father’s precious wife due to politics. The current emperor reasonably avoids her.

Eunuchs exist? Bam! now the surgery is outlawed, but this will create a reduction in male labor around the palace.

The emperor clearly favors few women. Well, now he must recognize a concubine with a powerful politician father playing the system.

He supports Mao Mao toeing the line of social expectations for women, but hasn’t removed the law against women preparing medicine. It makes one think, if he wanted to, could he make the change at all? For every two steps forward, he’s forced to take one step back.

In this universe even the Emperor is limited by social pressure and the expectations of his station. His life and that of his children is out of his control, and if that isn’t such a compelling piece of world building I don’t know what is.

If that’s how the author twists the narrative of the Emperor you better believe her female characters dealing with women’s issues in this society are even better written.