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Matt McCreary

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Charles Goeller (1901 – 1955)

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average cis conception of gender is roughly equivalent to "every single liquid is either type O+ blood or cold-pressed peanut oil." and you're like "are there not perhaps a handful of exceptions" & they get so mad they start funding nazi militias

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Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

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whatever is going on here

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Saitô Shôshû

Snail and Poem by Buson from the series Postcards of Haikai Poetry (Haikai ehagaki) 「蝸牛やその角文字のにじりがき　蕪村」　俳諧絵葉書　夏の部より dede mushi ya sono tsuno moji no nijirigaki

With his horns

a snail slowly scrawls

a hesitant letter

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Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

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watch this. this is literally what love is.

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English added by me :)

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I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

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if you die at work in your work uniform the angels will still come down from heaven on all fours and scoop up your soul in their strong jaws like a dog to a tennis ball, but the taste and smell of the circumstances of your death muddles their brain receptors' abilities to distinguish what you are from an inanimate object. so when they go back to the pearly gates they often speed right past afterlife orientation to find a spot to bury you in next to their favorite halo shaped frizbees and toys. and due to the immaculate construction of heaven, being trapped will not feel terrible, but you will not be able to physically dig yourself out. the afterlife orientation committee likely won't even notice you never showed up because your death circumstances makes your name look like easily ignorable filler text at first glance on the rsvp sheet. such is the nature of things.

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The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

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Hey, this isn't to start an argument but may I know where in the Mahabharatha does Krishna partake in slavery?

He gifts several people hundreds and thousands of women/maids/"servants" at various points in the epic. I cannot give you exact citations off the top of my head but it happens whenever he visits a kingdom or someone is having some sort of party/gathering/yagya. Maybe I'll make a gigantic spreadsheet about it one day.

-Mod S

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fuck i forgot to share that one photo of two dudes making out on the floor at a punk concert in yugoslavia with one of the top comments being: this isn't homosexuality, they're just drunk and the mood struck them

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later