“the children are just saying things that don’t make sense and acting like they’re funny jokes” it’s called lolsorandom humor and it’s a time-honored youth tradition. be cool
fucking hell i forget that some people violently hate polyamory and are way too proud of admitting it :/
“if my partner suggested polyamory i would kill them and then myself” what happened to being respectful? do you not hear how shitty that is to say ??? whats fucking wrong with people
responses to a “what would you do if your partner suggested polyamory?” poll. what the fuck.
Hey pals, this kind of behavior is a huge red flag. Translate this threat to simple English: “I would punish my partner with emotional and physical violence (or the threat of it) simply for asking a question I don’t like.”
This is manipulation and abuse. The polyamory thing is so incredibly beside the point – if they will threaten to punish you for asking one question they don’t like, then chances are they will threaten/punish you for asking any question they don’t like.
It might not always be physically violent: Someone breaking down into hysterics every time you try to communicate your needs/wants/idle hypothetical curiosities, to the point where you feel afraid to start a good-faith conversation about your relationship because they will blame you for causing their feelings – thatis still manipulation and abuse.
If you feel like there’s no “right way” to advocate for your own needs without causing a catastrophic meltdown in your partner, or if you are afraid of your partner’s patterns of emotional response in any way, that is a symptom of manipulation and abuse. If you feel like you have to be constantly hyper-vigilant about every word you say for fear of hurting them, that is a symptom of manipulation and abuse.
Get out or get help. You are not the bad guy. You are not the bad guy. You are not the bad guy. You are not obligated to stay with someone who has threatened you, threatened themselves as a way of controlling your behavior, or otherwise made you afraid like this. YOU ARE NOT THE BAD GUY. YOU’RE NOT.
If you are in this situation, please consider telling a friend, a trusted mentor, a parent, a therapist, etc about what’s happening. There may be resources in your country for domestic violence services to help you get out if you need to leave and feel like you can’t. (Also please note that although I have used the word “partner” here, you can replace that word with any other word (“friend”, “boss”, “parent”, whatever) and the point still stands.)
Finally, if you are one of the people who answered something like the above screenshots? Friend, this is a come-to-jesus moment, because that is NOT an appropriate way to handle an upsetting conversation. You’re allowed to be upset; you’re allowed to dislike a question; you’re allowed to excuse yourself to another room and cry for a while. It is okay to have big, hurt, scared feelings. It is NOT okay to control someone’s behavior via threats of violence, even if they are threats of violence against yourself. It is NOT okay to browbeat your partner into compliance and silence with your unregulated emotional displays. I really hope you sit with this quietly and think about it.
last week i was chatting with one of my coworkers about the restaurants in the area and he mentioned there’s a place with amazing churros that he orders lunch from sometimes and i kinda laughed and said i’ve never had a churro but i’ve always wanted to try one because they look so fantastically decadent and i kinda joked that it’s on my bucket list because every time i walk by a place that sells churros i think i should buy one but then i don’t
i just came back to my desk after feeling really frustrated by an instrument in the lab that broke and ruined my data for the day, and found a churro wrapped in tinfoil with a sticky note on it that said “bucket list: ☑️ churro” and i’m
i’m seriously gonna cry i had such a shit day all of my data got so fucked up and i had to spend like an hour reformatting my excel sheet but this simple kind gesture made the whole day less bad
last week i was chatting with one of my coworkers about the restaurants in the area and he mentioned there’s a place with amazing churros that he orders lunch from sometimes and i kinda laughed and said i’ve never had a churro but i’ve always wanted to try one because they look so fantastically decadent and i kinda joked that it’s on my bucket list because every time i walk by a place that sells churros i think i should buy one but then i don’t
i just came back to my desk after feeling really frustrated by an instrument in the lab that broke and ruined my data for the day, and found a churro wrapped in tinfoil with a sticky note on it that said “bucket list: ☑️ churro” and i’m
i’m seriously gonna cry i had such a shit day all of my data got so fucked up and i had to spend like an hour reformatting my excel sheet but this simple kind gesture made the whole day less bad
I’m sorry I can’t remember who on my dash said they were going to have a ton of spoiled food because of the hurricane.
If you have any kind of home insurance (owner or renter) there is likely a clause to cover spoiled food in the event of a power outage or disaster. It’s generally between $200 and $500 and often no questions asked about the food itself. But you do have to call them and request it.
If you know anyone who’s having this trouble please tag them in on this.
to add onto this, if you’re receiving food stamps, the government will also give you a refund of your money for that month if you call and tell them. you will probably have to provide evidence in some form, but it’s not too hard.
fascinating how multiple of my friends have explicitly avoided using the singular “they” for themselves because they (haha) associate it with getting degendered by people who are uncomfortable with the way they present (usually women). people were handed “this is a gender neutral word for when you don’t know someone” and very quickly turned it into “this is a word i’m allowed to use instead of she/her'ing a trans woman”
95% of the comments on this post are people from across the gender spectrum going “YES EXACTLY people will they/them me when I have explicitly told them to use (any other pronoun)!” and then like 5% people going “uhhhh if you dont know someones pronouns you should they/them them” like NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
Just for reference for future tournaments if they happen, if I want to submit a character from a book that doesn’t have official art, can I also submit my own drawing of them?
The only reason I don’t use fanart is cause I don’t like using it without permission. So if the artist themself is the one submitting it then it’s fine. And that applies to characters this season too. I’m still taking image submissions for characters that don’t have images.
In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks ‘What year is this?!?’ they’re always treated like they’re being weird for asking.
When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?’ people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.’ and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.’
And if you ask 'And what month??’ people won’t judge you, they’ll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!’ and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?’
That is a great point. Especially if you time travel to a period of Big Historical Events, when everybody’s looking a little wild about the eyes.
“Hey, what month is it?”
“January already, can you believe it? I swear I was just at Pompeii, but no one’s going there again.”
In the same vein:
Stumbling into a diner and asking “What town is this” isn’t weird, the workers will think you’re on a road trip
If you ask them “Where’s the nearest Nano Deck?” they’ll assume it’s a shop they’ve never heard of and say “Sorry, I don’t know where any of those are”
Going into a store and telling a cashier “I need pods for my comm device” will just get you a “Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?”
I think the problem is that people who create sci-fi movies have never had to work customer service jobs
my mom just had a 7cm brain tumor removed and since she’s woken up she’s been talking nonstop about this dream she had about going to an art gallery full of colourful paintings by a ‘homosexual artist’ named klimsdorf who was ethereal and wise, both young and old… at first she was convinced he was a real person but after failing to find him online she’s accepted he was a figment of her subconscious mind and is now determined to bring him to life via painting his portrait herself. she’s 67 and has never drawn in her life. and now this. blorbo from her tumor
Had to not only boot windows back up after months but upgrade to 11 for a job and ugh oogh pleh hold my hand aauuuugh this is not a healthy environment for the animal
Reminder under this post that pirating D&D5e materials does little to nothing to harm wotc and the only way to combat their stranglehold on the industry is to play anything else at all
it’s not beaten out of you, you literally do still have them, you just don’t recognize them. when you feel really antsy and distractible, like you want to Do Something but can’t decide what? that’s zoomies! you want to exercise!
The first rule of blacksmithing is “don’t fuck the little giant power hammer”. Yes, everyone wants to. Yes, everyone knows that it looks and behaves exactly like you would expect a giant cast-iron robot girl from the 1910’s who was explicitly built to fuck you to death would look like. Yes, it is indeed the single most fuckable piece of industrial equipment ever manufactured. But you absolutely cannot fuck it.
I’d treat her so right, everyone is always like “I want the power hammer to fuck me to death,” but what about her needs, what about her pleasure?
i’d make sure her twin v-belts were always fresh. i’d touch up every little chip of paint. I’d feed her white hot mild steel bar stock every single day. she deserves the world, and i wanna watch her crush it into billets.
Laika, can we talk to you for a second? I want to make sure we’re clear on the intent here in our project to “Get people to stop trying to fuck the power hammer.” People are getting some mixed signals from your recent comments.
and all the workers will go on strike forever and the stocks will lie dead and bleeding in the streets and the white house will sink into the ocean and everybody who owns a business will be nailed to telephone poles fifteen, twenty, one hundred thousand feet high as a great multitude of black birds pick their corpses apart piece by piece, limb by limb, until nothing remains, and their blood will melt into yhe ground far below which was created by god, just as the telephone poles were made from a tree created by god, just as their souls which go down to hell were created by god, just as the black birds which picked their courpses apart were created by god, and where was god. or whatever they said
So much of what society treats as a joke is just mocking disability. Their idea of lazy is a disabled person trying to survive, whether that be living with their parents as an adult or using pre prepared food. Cringe culture is based entirely around mocking neurodivergent people and their interests. Symptoms and characteristics of disability such as urgency issues, drooling, tremors, tics, strabismus and speech impediments are used as cheap punchlines.
In children’s tv shows disabled characters such as those with speech impediments are treated as a joke, with symptoms of disability being portrayed as synonymous to stupid.
This idea is being taught from a young age in the media and it’s engrained into our language and culture. This goes beyond jokes, it contributes to the alienation of people with disabilities.
Once you start noticing these things you realise how constant and normalised it is.
Reducing an entire person to a punchline is wrong. Using a disability symptom as an insult is wrong. It’s disturbing how normalised it is to not treat people with basic decency and respect.
