This Just In: I Don't Know What I'm Doing Anymore

Name: KatieAge:22 Location: rural Iowa Blog type: meh Fandoms: Steven Universe, Star Vs. the Forces of Evil, Gravity Falls, Amazing World of Gumball, or most cartoons actually. If If anybody looks this far: I'm white Questioning (everyday) And I post what I think is right. I try not to post anything offensive or triggering. If something needs to be tagged I'll do it. On any post about racism, sexism, or any other -ism, I'm not trying to hide who I am so much, as I want to pass the information on. If this isn't right for the people the post pertains too, PLEASE TELL ME. I'm still learning and I'd hate to cause someone more pain

[memewhore]

[velvet74sub]

[catchymemes]

[wilwheaton]

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[mysharona1987]

Know a distraction when you see one.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[official-lucifers-child]

this gave me an ungodly amount of serotonin and i have never even watched phineas and ferb

[dmnfox]

Everytime I see this I will reblog it. 

[manga-gamer]

I didn't have sound on, and I still knew

[carnivoreofthesea]

Doctor doof looks so gosh dang happy about seeing his nemesis be real

[iamnmbr3]

talking to normal people is so hard bc it’s like

Me: omg I love that marvel character so much! 

Normal Person: oh so you like the mcu?

Me: no. fuck marvel. I hate them with a burning passion

Normal Person: ?????? but isn’t that a marvel character? 

[iamnmbr3]

@snapcracklepop-myjoints​ you. you get it. 

[evilkitten3]

i don’t even like blorbo i like what blorbo could have been if blorbo had had competent writers

[jonaldronaldrolkientolkien]

I like the secret, good, blorbo that lives in my head

[fieldbears]

I like the good, secret blorbo that only exists in the stories of a handful of Ao3 writers

[alarajrogers]

I really wish AO3 writers would write my blorbo

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Fellow epileptics, I have some fantastic news for you. There’s an add-on that makes the internet safer for us. It’s called Epilepsy Blocker. The creator had me test it out, give feedback, he made adjustments, and it works great. It may even help those with migraine disorders that are triggered by the same thing that messes with those of use with photosensitive epilepsy (mine is a case of being absurdly sensitive).

This is the only add-on I’ve encountered made specifically for those of us with epilepsy. It’s not a well known add-on, but I hope to see that change.

[thepoisonroom]

lmao get wreckt

[thepoisonroom]

if you attended one of these schools with partial financial aid as an undergrad you could be eligible to sign on as a potential plaintiff on the case! fill out the form here!

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[theconcealedweapon]

Poor people are shamed or criminalized for panhandling, living with parents, sleeping in public, selling drugs, or performing sex work, none of which involve relying on government.

Meanwhile, rich people rely on government all the time. They lobby for policies that benefit them. They own patents to destroy competition and allow them to price gouge or plan obsolescence. They rely on police to protect their property so they don't have to hire their own private security. They use prison labor to save money on labor costs. They profit from wars.

It's almost as if poor people are hated for being poor and not for relying on government.

[0x1-deactivated20220826]

the way "lockdown" means "keep going to work but no seeing your friends allowed" instead of "stop working here's some UBI and free food and rent is suspended indefinitely as we employ highly-paid workers with proper PPE and unlimited PTO to work on massive infrastructural improvements to indoor ventilation systems across the country. all vaccine patents have been nullified btw"

[galahadwilder]

If Batman and Spider-Man switched rogues galleries none of their villains would last more than ten minutes against the new enemy

[galahadwilder]

Batman takes down all of Spider-Man’s villains with ruthless efficiency and preparation

Batman’s villains are all like “TAKE ME SERIOUSLY DAMMIT” and Spider-Man is like “No 😜”

[azuzulira]

The Joker would have an intense hatred for Spider-Man because Spider-Man is actually funny

[galahadwilder]

That was the exact thought process behind this post

[severalowls]

I really do dislike the Net Zero Information joke because having your assumptions challenged is the entire basis of science and learning even if the end result only confirms what you already knew. No experience is without value.

[severalowls]

Unfortunately yes this includes confirming the size of john lennons buttcrack

[lastvalyrian]

Science means that sometimes. Sometimes you just gotta. It means that sometimes you just gotta. take a crack at it

[lmaonade]

i hate how much a third monitor would improve my general workflow bc even two monitors is too much i wish i could be happy with one lmao

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

In your attempt to make the internet a more "friendly" place you made it more sterile and boring than ever

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

Oh wait this is the wrong post lol

[lmaonade]

i was like god damn what did i do

[k-eke]

Poyo

[crinosg]

She tried to call Bayonetta but Kirby got to the phone first.

Lady Dimitirescu: Kirby, KIBRY, HONEY, Could you, COULD YOU PUT YOUR MOM ON THE PHONE PLEASE?

[skiplo-wave]

He just wants chat with his auntie for a sec

[thestuffedalligator]

The main thing I get from Dylan Hollis cooking old recipes is this:

Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are great, and I suspect it’s because they were made by someone with limited resources. But they found a way to make something good, maybe even something fantastic with those limited resources, and they wanted to write it down and share with their friends so that they could also make something out of saltines and potatoes. Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are written down and shared in love.

The recipes you should fear come from the 1950s and 1960s, which I’m pretty sure are written down and shared as a form of McCarthyism.

[jackironsides]

I strongly suspect that the rise in horrifying recipes in the 50s, 60s and 70s is that this is when recipes were being used as advertising. Whether or not the recipe was tasty or even palatable at all was a secondary concern at best to if it could convince a housewife to buy more Chlorox Brand Lard™️ to try it out.

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

Interestingly, there has been a resurgence of that exact phenomenon, which perhaps you’ve seen: viral cooking media Meme recipes of unfamiliar origin? Videos of impossible recipes or trick editing? “Life Hacks”? I bet these will be the Horrifying Sixties Recipes of tomorrow, because they are also made to sell attention rather than to inform.

[thatsnicebutimmarried]

At this point, I would like to remind you all of Ann Reardon, and her youtube channel “How to Cook That” where she not only debunks and explains the trickery behind all those “viral baking hacks” but also provides ways to ACTUALLY make those things where possible, as well as a numberbof other delightful recipes, and often has her willing husband taste test the internet’s culinary monstrosities. She’s the hero we need so 50 years from now another Dylan Hollis won’t destroy his microwave or his face trying to make “ ‘this easy 2 ingredient microwave caramel!!!’ that comes to us from 2021 from the channel ‘5 Minute Crafts’.”

[heywriters]

Reardon is also a vocal advocate against Youtube, Tiktok, and Facebook allowing (and borderline encouraging) dangerous videos to become so viral on their platforms. She frequently cites incidents where people were hospitalized, marred for life, killed, poisoned, or accidentally burnt down their homes attempting to recreate tacky clickbait recipes and crafts.

And, like Dylan Hollis, she too recreates incredibly old recipes (usually 100yrs or more) while adding educational background to the reasons a recipe calls for this or that weird ingredient/technique. She also makes clickbait-like videos herself like "Giant Snickers Bar!" or "Holographic Chocolate!" only when you click you get EXACTLY what was advertised. She WILL show you how to make a Minecraft cake or a giant Kit-Kat or a sweet gift from an old snack package. Because Ann Reardon is a professional, wonderful person who believes the world should be better.

[natalieironside]

Every James Bond movie is like

M:  “We did a good job stopping the Russians from doing [thing the United States literally did in real life], but now some bad guys have got their hands on a laser beam that’ll blow your dick clean off.  You gotta stop ‘em before they de-dick the entire world in like 5 minutes.”

James Bond:  “Well that sounds … ridiculous.”

***

Moneypenny:  “James Bond, you must have sex with me.”

James Bond:  “Oh, alright.”

M:  “James Bond please do not have sex with my secretary in front of my door I am begging you for this”

***

James Bond, in the center of town, through a megaphone:  “HEY!  IT’S ME, THE JAMESBOND SECRET AGENT MAN!  I AM HERE TO DO SECRET SPY THINGS BUT I’M ASPOSED TO BE UNDERCOVER SO DON’T TELL NOBODY!”

***

Girl:  “Hello, my name is Sexy Bigtits and I am definitely not evil.”

James Bond:  “That is a very suggestive name.  You should make sex with me.”

Girl:  “No.”

James Bond:  “… pwease? 🥺“

Girl:  “Oh, alright.”  [Time passes]  “So I actually was evil but your dick turned me good.  Now I will die.”

***

Mr. Bad:  “Now, James Bond, I will demonstrate my laser beam that blows your dick clean off by using it to blow your dick clean off.”

James Bond:  “Actually you will not because at the beginning of the movie I picked up a Chekhov’s Gizmo that is perfect for protecting my dick from this exact specific situation”

Mr. Bad:  “Aw, beans.”

****

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