Those questions that are like “is it cheating? 🤔 is it cheating in a box? Is it cheating wearing socks?” get me cause it really makes it clear how a lot of people just aren’t communicating their personal boundaries & betting on some universal truth of what’s right and wrong. And then like 90% of people acting like that are deeply insecure so you end up with those people who are like “is it morally okay if you even fucking look at another person or should I kill them”
I think it’s possible to be healthily monogamous but a lot of you are fucking weird about it. I myself am not even interested in dating right now I’m just watching all of this with opera glasses. Call me crazy but I think the reason cheating is bad is because it’s a breach of trust & the terms you already agreed on for your relationship & not like. Because you’re each other’s property. Maybe try talking to each other idk
Honestly the best part of being a barista was charging cops for their drinks. They’re so used to getting free shit so it was SOOOOO good for them to pull up to the window and for me to be like “$6.47 :)” and them to make this whole elaborate display of slowly pulling their wallet out and handing their card over bc they weren’t expecting to pay. I’d charge you double if I could, oink oink bitch
it’s important to me that people know the original “he would not fucking say that” was in response to a tiktok where someone said eric cartman would thank you for asking for his pronouns. Like it just doesn’t hit the same without context.
everytime someone uses “he would not fucking say that” for something he would absolutely fucking say given slightly different circumstances or has already fucking said i immediately become indignant cause you can’t waste a joke like this on mild characterisation nitpicks. sorry. it has to be on par with Any Pronouns Cartman.
today I met an autistic transmasc dude who had a special interest in evil mad scientists, and he had NEVER seen reanimator. he hadn’t even heard of it. couldn’t believe my ears. like brother this film was made specifically for you i think
Every time I hear of something as delightful as this, I think of this comic
Just hours before the start of Eid al-Fitr celebrations, while children anxiously awaited the morning festivities, the Israeli army massacred the Abu Yousef family in the Nuseirat central Gaza Strip , resulting in the killing of at least 13 civilians most of them children.
“Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they’re 15” this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
i just love your blog so so much thank you for sharing these wonderful little creachures i cant believe im on the same planet at the same time as these little creachures
no you know what I’m going to scream about the stuff I talked about in the tags of this post publicly
I’m tired of the well-meaning “don’t feel bad if your work only gets 20 notes your genius is what counts and do it for you!” bullshit. I’ve had a good handful of friends who have straight up DEACTIVATED in recent months because their work was not getting reblogged AT ALL. No, it wasn’t from lack of not being well-liked, no it wasn’t from lack of trying to make sure it was getting out there to the people they knew would engage with it. It was because no matter how much they were praised privately for their work, when push came to shove, absolutely NOBODY reblogged it and gave it the audience that it was due, and I’m tired of people shoving the “unsung genius” narrative as an excuse for it. Nothing excuses that. And the boop event really proved that.
because I know given the opportunity, indiscriminately pressing a button (sometimes 10 thousand times, as I did) is not beyond this website’s capability. y'all loved doing that. and look at what it wrought. nothing but love and affection and happiness. just from a couple of quick clicks of a little paw button. sure. nobody knew who you booped but the other person (which is how likes used to work on this website, btw). there was an element of anonymity to it. but that is kind of the core of this website that no other social media platform still has: the ability to be anonymous. and hyper-curating a blog on here like you might on twitter or instagram to project an image is simply not viable. and hey. you wanna know a secret: literally nobody cares what you post or whether it goes with the “theme” of your blog or not. yeah. I know. CRAZY concept in this day and age. but literally. I myself have reblogged things that have had nothing to do with whatever I am currently fixated by and you know what happened to my follower count? not a damn thing. in fact, I actively try to reblog things specifically BECAUSE it’s my friends who made them (even though I’m not always good at KEEPING UP WITH HOW MUCH THEY POST @prismatica-the-strange will NEVER GO UNRECOGNIZED by me).
And you know what fucking sucks? I have to deal with this too. surprise right? you ever wonder why I reblog fics or art I post like 20 times the day that I post them? do you ever wonder why I ask about tag lists and beg for asks all the time? IT’S BECAUSE EVEN I GET LIKE. 5 LIKES ON THE THINGS I POST. AND THE REST OF THE REBLOGS ARE MINE SO I CAN MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE WHAT I MAKE GET TO SEE IT. and I say that knowing that I’m certainly not an unpopular blog, or an unpopular writer. I know that people love the stories that I create. Hell, half of the people that I’ve talked to about lady terror have told me that they consider her to be canon (AND EVEN SOME!! THOUGHT SHE WAS!!! WITHOUT EVEN HAVING WATCHED THE SHOW! WHICH IS STILL SO SO WILD TO ME!!!) But especially in the last 4 years (which really dates this phenomenon), my posts, no matter how well received they’ve been amongst people I’ve talked to about them directly, I still go into the notes and at least half (often more than half) are MY reblogs to make sure people saw what I posted. and it happens every single time, and I can’t tell you how much it crushes me considering that it used to be that I would be able to post it only once, and people would reblog it sometimes even HUNDREDS of times.
It’s not about popularity. it never has been. it’s not about anxiety. or shifting website cultures. even if you lurk, the simple fact is, that if you want people to keep making what you love. you have to reblog. your theme won’t suffer because you reblogged a fanfiction that you really admire. your posting won’t be ruined because you reblogged some fanart from someone in a different fandom. really. I promise. and if people do unfollow you for that? who needs em. followers come and go but you should NEVER have to cater to them. on this website it has ALWAYS been the other way around. lean into it. make it yours. put stuff you ACTUALLY WANT to be seen and that you love and appreciate on your blog. no matter how old it is, how new it is, no matter how niche or off-theme it is.
so please. if you really want to show your appreciation for someone’s work? you reblog. it’s really as easy as that. check the tags. add some when you reblog if you like. but please for the love of god reblog. it’s as easy as booping and even more rewarding for the people who you reblog from. if you want to let someone know that their work is genius and appreciate it? show it. reblog. then DM them if you’re too nervous to say what you want to say but not in a public forum. but for christ’s sake. REBLOG.
Hey I’m abt to talk abt religious child abuse so if you’re not up for that keep scrolling
Not to be That Guy ™ yet again but the tag “trainupachild” is a reference to a fundamentalist Christian parenting book that basically recommends beating your child for basically everything and has resulted in child death.
That kid isn’t doing that bc he’s just organically come about this great love for god—he’s doing that because literally dramatic displays of “grace”, ESPECIALLY PUBLICLY in ways that can bring their guardians praise, is one of the few things that will give him a positive response from his guardians
like I get it—we wanna dunk on the mom for being obnoxious, but knowing exactly what that tag means has me absolutely nauseous
Train Up A Child advises parents to use plastic tubes to beat them with because they are less likely to leave marks that might lead to CPS calls. It also says belts and branches are good for places that can’t be seen but does caution to use a “willowy” branch if the child is under the age of one.
Yes, they advocate for hitting infants with sticks
reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney
Unfriendly reminder that while you’re busy mourning the loss of your childs old gender, claiming you need to mourn the death of your son/daughter, there’s a group of boys/girls/enbies scrambling to take your kid clothes shopping, snatching up the chance to take those “first” experiences from you forever. Your sons first fishing trip is gonna be with his best bros, your daughters first makeover is going to be with her girl friends, your kids first camping trip out as themselves is gonna be with the besties. Good luck getting those bonding experiences back. While you’re busy trying to guilt-trip your kid with your weird manufactured parental trauma, there’s a whole community ready to take your place as the better family.
this is very much characteristic of a subset of autistic traits that some have and others dont, and some non-autistics have: its called Pervasive Drive for Autonomy (PDA), and basically means that it’s very hard to follow directions if you don’t see the purpose behind them, its mostly seen in children, since children are so tightly controlled without a reasonable purpose.
“i draw fat people!” and then it’s a skinny person with maybe 2 extra pounds on their stomach and thicker thighs and nothing else. Actually get out of my fucking house. I’ll kill us both
sorry i started thinking about an artblog i used to follow who started bragging about drawing fat people and when they got an anon that essentially boiled down to “where?” they pointed to 2 of their posts and it was literally just this and it still makes me so angry. Please actually stop talking forever. You’ve lost the right. You’re going away
(From their Getting Started page, for people who hate phone calls: “Calling on evenings and weekends with the intent of leaving a voicemail is still a great way to make your voice heard. Congressional offices are usually open during normal business hours in their local time zone.”)
what do you guys think the relationship between NASA and the US military is
Its so fucking funny when usamericans criticize the Soviet space program for being “too connected with the military” as if NASA didn’t have 16 arms in every single MIC corporation and the military like the whole reason the space shuttle BECAME that big was because the military REALLY wanted something that could capture and deploy satellites.
for some extra laughs, because the usa was absolutely MALDING after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, guess what fucking motto they used for their guy.
the first free man in space
oh look who it is on the bottom of this propaganda poster!
I had to mentally send myself a reaction image the other day. I ran up the stairs on all fours, said to myself “i’m such a locationpilled scampercel” and then perfectly envisioned this image
what’s important to note and missing from the “headline” tweet is that they simultaneously constructed additional good public transit to the public transit already in the city (bus rapid transit, train stations). Just removing highway alone isn’t going to make traffic better, the bigger part of the story is that they improved public transportation. And the current mayor wants to do more - cyclist lanes and reinstate a tram system
Welcome to the Protestant Work Ethic where if you are not working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.
heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”
and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work environment I don’t know what will
The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he’s a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can’t make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that’s all audiences want.
I was recently informed by a science professor I know that journals do not publish papers that don’t yield interesting results, and while I understand that journals would rather publish your paper on how you cured cancer than all the things you tried that didn’t, I am ENRAGED by this idea.
If you don’t publish the experiments that didn’t yield interesting results, people are going to waste time repeating them because when they look in the database and see nothing published on them, they’re going to assume the experiment hasn’t been done???
And then my professor told me that scientists just “assume that if the experiment would be relatively easy to set up, but there’s nothing published on it, that means someone has already done it with no significant results.” WHAT? That means we could be assuming that important experiments have been done just because they seem to be too easy???
Not to mention that this also encourages people to fudge results towards significance for career advancement because no one wants to spend YEARS on a project they don’t get any credit for.
This convention of the culture is DELAYING scientific progress, I guarantee it. Please let me be financially successful enough that I can start my own journal for publishing experiments with no significant results. I AM ANGRY AT THIS INEFFICIENCY.
the downside to harassing a cat constantly is that you run out of ways to bother them. so sure she’s “well socialized” but how am i supposed to get revenge when she is being SO so annoying?
