Only allowed out on Sundays

A variety of things, approved by a ginger

[stay-the-knight]

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[wirvaa]

[processes]

minimalist pencil sketches of cats by Shou Xin (手訫)

substack

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[jewish-joy]

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

[jewish-joy]

I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

So Theodora's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I'm genuinely cackling, an anon accused me of being a proshipper, I was like "I'm not, I'm a ship and let ship type of person." But they called me a proshipper for using the following argument which is why I'm actually writing this because I think this is the place where this type of sentiment is appreciated:

"Censorship should not be accepted because when you ban one word at what point does it stop? At what point does it stop being about morality and start being about control? Censorship means giving the government power it should not have over it's people. Once the government bans one word how soon until they ban freedom of speech all together? How much longer till they rewrite history because the law forces the populace to hold their tongues? Censorship means throwing yourself down the path to Fascism. You do not live in a free country if you not free to use your tongue or write whatever please."

And if believing in those words makes me a proshipper, fine. I accept it. I'd rather be part of the group of "bad" people then the group of "good" people trying to edge us closer to fascism.

I’m saying this with respect, by definition, being anti censorship and anti harassment is proship. that’s why I am proship.

and your stance—regarding “ship and let ship” and censorship—is exactly what being proship means. but whether or not you’ll use the label is entirely up to you.

so many people think proship means “liking dark and taboo ships” but that’s not the case. while people who are proship can enjoy dark and taboo ships, the only definition of proship is:

“ship and let ship. your kink is not my kink and that’s okay. don’t like don’t read. censorship is bad. harassment is bad. fiction is not reality. thoughtcrimes are not real. I may not like the things you enjoy in fiction, hell, I may even find them disgusting, but I will never shame, harass or try to take away your rights to create and consume whatever you want, as long as it’s fiction and you’re not harming anyone in real life, I will just mind my own business and curate my own internet experience by muting, blocking, or scrolling past things I don’t want to see.”

proship is not “bad people”. we are just normal people who are against censorship, against harassment. normal people who can separate fiction from reality.

[lurkinginnernarrator]

Shen Yuan is literally the epitome of liking a bad story and spending hours pacing back and forth going 'but what IF it WAS good?' and despairing over How It Is Not

[booksandchainmail]

#my wife recently spent 45 minutes telling me and our other wife how she doesn't like this book becauss she's so annoyed with sqq#she loves binghe and believes that he is Valid. she just thinks sqq is the stupidest motherfucker ever to draw breath.#specifically she said that if the book was just binghe she'd probably love it.#and at the end of this 45 minute tirade i just went 'some big sqq energy there babe'#and she yelled 'I KNOW' and stomped off#easily one of the funniest conversations I've maybe ever had (tags via @words-writ-in-starlight)

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[penny-anna]

Everyone needs to stop saying death of the author when what they mean is separating the art from the artist. Like FR stop it.

[penny-anna]

I know it's mainly just ignorance of what the term means but I do wonder if this happens in part bcos 'death of the author' sounds so dramatic like oh this author is dead to me, I don't care about them anymore. Whereas 'separating the art from the artist' is a lot more neutral and well. In CERTAIN CASES it is kind of immediately apparent that you cannot.

[penny-anna]

TO REITERATE:

Death of the Author is a term coined by Roland Barthes for his essay of the same name in 1967.

In brief: death of the author is the concept that analysis of a work of art should not be focused on the artist's intent; the artist's intended reading of their own work is just A reading and no more valid than anyone else's.

A good straightforward example of this in practice is the response to Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary. Weir is adamant that his work contains no politics but I would say that PHM is pretty clearly a story about climate change.

You can apply death of the author to any work of fiction and it has nothing to do with whether the author is a good or bad person.

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[amethystfox-15]

Aaaawwwwwwwwwww! My heart gahh!💜💜💜

[ayeforscotland]

It appears that all parties with the exception of Restore are not going to entertain Farage’s media circus.

Count Binface - it is your time. People of Clacton, please do the funniest fucking thing that’s happened in UK politics for a while.

[ayeforscotland]

Shitposting at its finest.

[memeuplift]

[pearlo]

there’s very few things that drive me up the wall in fandom as much as this weird new assumption that fandom is primarily a space for younger people that older folks are only accepted into in a trial basis if they promise to centralize and accommodate younger fans, and further, anything else is creepy and predatory. IT’S OKAY FOR ADULTS TO PRODUCE CONTENT FOR OTHER ADULTS.

[deputychairman]

if I have to read “women in their 30s” used as an insult one more time I swear I’ll - step away from that user and just hang out with the other grownups who consistently create good content because I’m also an adult and too busy comparing car insurance to fight with teenagers on the internet, but goddAMMIT I’ll be annoyed

[teaboot]

I’ve been in this hole since yall lil shits were three apples tall and I’ll die in this hole too

[warcrimesimulator]

[anexperimentallife]

[caxycreations]

This isn't very hard when you know some of the most genius strategies in human history were incredibly stupid, circumstantial events that led to victory by sheer luck of that strategy working.

Case in point: Tsun Zu's rival defended a city with 10 men against Tsun's army of hundreds by disarming his own soldiers, dressing them in plain clothes, INVITING Tsun's army to come in, and it only worked because Tsun knew the guy was an ambush master and thought "if we attack the city he's inviting us into, we will die." and left without even trying ON THE BASIS OF HIS RIVAL'S REPUTATION AND NOTHING MORE

Another example: Tsun Zu, on being told his soliders were out of arrows during a battle against a city across a river from them, had his men craft scarecrows, put them on a boat, send it out on a line, leave it there for half an hour, then pull it back in and used the arrows the enemy had fired at the boat to restock their own ammunition. It only worked because it was foggy and the enemy couldn't tell the difference between the scarecrows and actual soldiers.

Stupid things like that work INCREDIBLY WELL if the circumstances favor them, so you really don't need to come up with some multi-layered, Shikamaru-esque strategy. You just need to come up with a strategy you like for the characters involved, then write the circumstances (weather, environment, individuals involved) to favor it enough that it works.

[ariaste]

Even better cheatsheet: Study history, steal liberally. Those genius plays listed above? Free for the taking, and I guarantee 99% of your audience will have never heard of them.

True genius is simply in knowing how the guy before you did it.