livin la vida loca

carrie, she/her, lesbian, 20s

[brucespringsteencomments]

[thestuffedalligator]

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

[perkymcbadsuit]

[hypokeimena]

image description: margaret atwood's poem "siren song". text reads:

This is the one song everyone / would like to learn: the song / that is irresistible:

the song that forces men / to leap overboard in squadrons / even though they see the beached skulls

the song nobody knows / because everyone who has heard it / is dead, and the others can't remember.

Shall I tell you the secret / and if I do, will you get me / out of this bird suit?

I don't enjoy it here / squatting on this island / looking picturesque and mythical

with these two feathery maniacs, / I don't enjoy singing / this trio, fatal and valuable.

I will tell this secret to you, / to you, only to you. / Come closer. This song

is a cry for help: Help me! / Only you, only you can, / you are unique

at last. Alas, / it is a boring song / but it works every time. /end description

[emwheezie]

A life without collecting trinkets is no life at all

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[lucydacusgirl]

I need Gillian Flynn to write another novel please Gillian I need evil depressing nihilistic heterofatalism to live

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[i-am-a-fish]

I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

[hotvampireadjacent]

[princesskuragina]

Pride and crime and war and punishment and sense and peace and prejudice and sensibility

[poedameronsgirlfriend]

[sidekick-syndrome]

Whenever I see Moon Knight fake panels out in the wild, I like to cite the original panel as a sort of party trick, as someone who has read every Moon Knight comic. So here they are! (Except for the one from the TV show, since that's not a panel LOL).

She-Hulk Vol 4 (2022), Issue #5

Marc Spector: Moon Knight Vol 1 (1989)m Issue #50 (Do not recommend! This comic sucks!)

Solo Avengers (1987), Issue #3

The Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 (1963), Issue #220

The Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 (1963), Issue #356

West Coast Avengers Vol 2 (1985), issue #23

West Coast Avengers Vol 2 (1985), issue #21

Vengeance of the Moon Knight Vol 1 (2009), Issue #5

Punisher Vol 12 (2018), Issue #14 (this one is real!)

Moon Knight Vol 5 (2006), Issue #23

Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again (2017), Issue #3

Have a bonus real panel from Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again that's kinda funny.

Moon Knight Vol 7 (2014), Issue #14

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

It’s so funny how like. Spock is queer bc of the subtext, the Otherness inextricable from his character, meanwhile William Shatner was handed the straightest man of all time on paper and fumbled the bag bc he couldn’t stop giving Leonard Nimoy fuck-me eyes and now he lives in a bi Kirk hell of his own devising, forever enduring the conshatquences of his shactions

[livelaughlothcat]

Wesley Crusher as a character is just so fascinating to me. He’s a child prodigy genius with no friends. A weird god-like time travelling alien starts stalking him when he’s fifteen. Because of this alien he ends up with a job on the federation’s flagship as a teenager. Over the next four seasons everyone proceeds to act like it’s completely normal that he works there now and no one ever questions the child labour of it all. The only people he’s close to are at minimum twice his age. He got the death penalty for stepping on a flower bed. He got stabbed through the chest and fully died once. His mother leaves him to be raised by their coworkers for a year when he’s just sixteen. He accidentally created new life while doing a science project one time. He technically failed his academy entrance exams twice but Picard still made him a full ensign anyway just because he felt like it. He was at the helm during the Borg attack and has to live with the fact that if they hadn’t found a last minute way out of that shit he would’ve crashed the Enterprise into the Borg ship and killed everyone on board. His last episode as a main before he goes off to the academy is about him nearly dying of dehydration in a cave and the whole time he’s just going “actually, I think I’m the luckiest boy in the whole wide world”. He finally makes some friends his own age and then he accidentally but recklessly helps cause the death of one of them. He participates in a cover-up to try and hide this but then he’s found out, gets held back a year at school and looses pretty much everything he’d been working for since he was fifteen. He burns out, becomes severely depressed and isolates himself from everything. He goes on a stereotype of a Native American Vision Quest, decides to drop out of uni and helps incite an uprising against the federation. It’s at this moment when he’s at his absolute lowest that the aforementioned weird god-like time travelling alien turns up and convinces him to leave behind everything he’s ever known to also become a weird god-like time traveller. This is framed as the correct choice for him to make. I didn’t even list half of the crazy traumatising shit that happened to that boy. About 95% of the stuff that happened to him is never addressed and the other 5% is only ever addressed briefly as they try to convince us that Wesley is fine, actually

[thaumasilva]

star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home

[cantotallyeven]

Why would I want to go home?

[jmtorres]

unfortunately, several admirals will be called into rule on whether you can be permitted to stay here without screwing up the timestream, and if after their deliberations they decide to grant you political asylum then unfortunately you will die in a tragic accident in the last three minutes of the episode.

[certifiedpurpledumbass]

charles xavier told me the brotherhood of evil mutants keep killing his xmen so i asked how many xmen he has and he said he just goes to the school for gifted youngsters and gets a new xman afterwards so i said it just sounds like hes feeding mutants to the leftist infighting war and then scott summers started crying

[wifeswarmacademy]

[dogpuppy]