When you understand that kids and teenagers being salty about literary symbolic analysis comes from a very real place of annoyance and frustration at some teachers for being over-bearing and pretentious in their projecting of symbolism onto every facet of a story but you also understand that literary analysis and critical thinking in regards to symbolism is extremely important and deserves to be not only taught in schools, but actively used by writers when examining their own work to see if they might have used symbolism unintentionally and to make sure that they are using symbolism effectively:
When you understand that a lot of the reaction against literary symbolism is because we don’t educate about symbolism as a communication form (people have historically used x symbol to mean y) and instead is taught as a fact (x symbol means y) so it strips analysis of any relevance to the world or other texts AND we don’t teach tropes/archetypes/genres from a young age so students are being exposed to literary analysis for the first time as 13-16 year olds and rightfully feel like it’s been made up
hey, quick serious post because apparently people need to learn this because this is the second time i’ve gotten an anon like this
yes, it is weird to randomly accuse strangers of having a fetish
yes, it is weird that some of you think the only reason someone would draw a fat person in a positive light is because of a fetish
yes, it is weird that you are making assumptions about how i treat real fat people based on the assumption of me having a fat fetish that i do not have
literally if you’re one of the people who sent one of those anons, what you’re doing is not only really fucking strange and invasive but also shows you cannot imagine fatness being portrayed positively without immediately assuming it Has to be sexual in nature. and if you can’t realize that that assumption is immediately more harmful to actual fat people than a fetish you imagined someone has then you don’t actually care about fat people like you’ve convinced yourself you do. leave me the fuck alone and do better.
Ah yes of course, like the all you can eat shrimp was simply too generous sounded like a fucking dumb explanation
Also their largest shareholder, a seafood distributor, maneuvered things so they became the sole supplier of breaded shrimp for the chain. Think of how much breaded shrimp Red Lobster buys.
One of the other fun tricks of private equity firms is to charge the company to be managed by them. Imagine if your boss charged you literal actual dollars to be managed by them.
It’s kinda funny how often people think there are machinations behind the scenes, but as long as there’s a good joke, they don’t look further. A big chain doesn’t go bankrupt because of a single $11 million loss due to a shrimp promotion. (Also, btw, they were forced to make that losing promotion permanent instead of time limited.)
ok so I had some stupid bitch say my “give the girl a snout” post is promoting beastiality(?) which is huh and I go to their blog and yeah their a trans exclusive bigot the jokes wrote themselves…
Ah yes of course, like the all you can eat shrimp was simply too generous sounded like a fucking dumb explanation
Also their largest shareholder, a seafood distributor, maneuvered things so they became the sole supplier of breaded shrimp for the chain. Think of how much breaded shrimp Red Lobster buys.
One of the other fun tricks of private equity firms is to charge the company to be managed by them. Imagine if your boss charged you literal actual dollars to be managed by them.
It’s kinda funny how often people think there are machinations behind the scenes, but as long as there’s a good joke, they don’t look further. A big chain doesn’t go bankrupt because of a single $11 million loss due to a shrimp promotion. (Also, btw, they were forced to make that losing promotion permanent instead of time limited.)
Markiplier made a video where he gave us all a deep voyage into his psyche by telling us which of the pokemon he’s fuck. God bless this man and all who sail in him. https://youtu.be/gys9oDZj-MY
Also, if you’re not a furry you might not know that his brother Tom is a very famous furry artist. I don’t know if this fact helps explain anything.
[Image description: A four panel comic with Kabosu-chan, the Shiba Inu, with a halo and Death in the form of a Grim Reaper.
Death: It is time to go.
Kabosu: Was I a good doge?
Death: No.
Death: I’m told you were the much best, many no forget, very wow, so dog, such good girl.
In between the panels in magenta Comic Sans font is: Rest in Peace, Kabosu (2005 to 2024). The comic text with unconventional grammar is also in colorful Comic Sans font to allude to the Doge meme that bore Kabosu’s face. /end ID]
At some point, someone is going to die because they followed an AI’s advice, the companies involved are going to get sued and laws will be passed making companies criminally liable for this kind of abject misinformation, at which point this entire sub-industry will evaporate. It would be nice if that happened before somebody dies, but probably not.
The precedent has already been set in the Air Canada AI case - companies will be held legally responsible for AIs that lie to their customers. Any smart company should get out of this bullshit before they’re dragged through the courts, not after.
if i were in charge of star wars i would end the last movie witth yoda reading the story out of a big book and he gives a little chuckle and says “happened, none of that did.” and then he gets out of his truck and waddles into walmart
Theres a novel by Poul Anderson called The High Crusade, which has an alien spacecraft land in rural England in 1345 during the Hundred Year’s War. The local baron has been raising an army to help King Edward against the French, and immediately assumes this must be some kind of enemy trick.
In a way, he’s correct: the aliens are scouts for a brutal and repressive interstellar empire, which has dominated numerous planets through their devastating technology.
Unfortunately, this reliance on advanced weapons means they’ve completely forgotten all forms of melee combat and Sir Roger of Tourneville leads his militia to defeat the aliens easily.
They spare a single enemy, forcing him to fly the ship at spearpoint. They intend to raid behind enemy lines, capture the king of France to end the war, and then go onward to reclaim the Holy Land using the same tactic.
In an attempt to outwit the knights, the alien pilot actually travels to the nearest Imperial planet, where he expects the occupying military forces to save him.
I won’t spoil the details, but the knights accept this as a challenge and declare the launch of the “high crusade”.
That last picture is so stupidly badass I might tattoo that next to my dick cause it ain’t getting any better after that
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My dad told me a Queen Elizabeth x 9/11 combo joke but idk if it works in English
It goes something like this
Q: Why can’t Americans play chess against the British anymore?
A: Because the British are missing the queen and the Americans are missing two towers (rooks).
To whoever unfollowed me for this: I didn’t even come up with the joke myself, you should unfollow my dad instead.
As a part of the Chess Fandom™️ and also from a colonized country, this was the first image I saw the day the Queen died on my whatsapp chess club group:
so what youre gonna wanna do is crush the garlic and ginger instead of just slicing it ok, it releases more of those good flavors. yoshi is going to eat me and turn me into an egg now, i love you. remember everything i taught you
The clown show on twitter rn: people shocked and upset that J. Sawyer, a director of Fallout New Vegas and creator of characters such as Arcade Gannon, supports socialism.
@destroyhorse I can vividly picture them all on his twitter with IRL horse-blinders on, only selectively viewing his posts about video games like
Does anyone have that meme that goes “don’t fuck with us Fallout fans, we blindly worship the concepts our game criticizes”
I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping
1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer
2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung
3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)
4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK
5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money
Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you’re gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.
It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it
I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping
1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer
2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung
3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)
4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK
5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money
Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you’re gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.
It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it
People who have spent the last few years crying about how “THE WOKE IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS” are incredibly funny in a country with the Pledge of Allegiance
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 feel like I watched a somewhat different movie…
That’s actually not an inaccurate reading of the book, except that his victims are only maimed or humiliated, not actually killed. (Verucca Salt and her parents are publicly covered in garbage, Mike Teevee is overcorrected in the stretching machine to counteract being shrunk and ends up a skinny giant, Violet Beauregarde is permanently dyed purple, and Augustus Gloop is squeezed out thin IIRC.) And the sequel bears this out, although he actually does kill aliens there — the mauled but left alive characters are Charlie’s grandparents (some of them are turned into babies, while one of them is so de-aged that she is un-birthed, then super-aged to become a sort of living mummy). And the whole point of the exercise is that he was looking for somebody to take over from him and keep the tradition alive, apparently.
