weatherboy (derogatory)

a slut for anaphora [she/her]

[godaweful]

rulette 2 is just demi and anna playing and slowly ruining sam's life with their chaos and then josh ruben in his own personal saw trap

[ivyandbranch]

Get a Library Card even if you never use it

[official-library-posts]

official library post

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[manuciruja]

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[peniswizard69]

The genders in Nona's apartment are insane, you got a woman in a dead man's body, a dead man in a woman's body, the planet Earth in a woman's body, and Camilla's normal

[bee-syrup-now]

i got the call of cthulhu crpg the other day because it was on sale for like $2, and it's just made me want to play the ttrpg even more

…and also reminded me how Not Cut Out for horror i am by myself

[pocket-deer-belly]

i think onceler and vriska present a dichotomy.

A man can do whatever he wants, be an outright terrible hostile person, be comically evil, but as long as he shakes it off by being kinda quirky and has some vague cover that some of the things he did aren't 100% his choice, people love him. people sexualize him. people think he's funny and quirky and "complicated" even if he really really isn't.

A woman can be sincerely complicated. She can do all those same terrible things, but even if her narrative justifies why her moral code is the way that it is, even if she demonstrates some capacity for regret and even change, even if the narrative is purposefully trying to accomplish greater commentary with her character, she's still subject to infinite endless discourse about why she's terrible even if she's placed in a story with blatantly worse men.

[dysphoria-things]

is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?

[dysphoria-things]

this is a part of the problem

[dysphoria-things]

you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.

but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!

you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”

[pocket-deer-belly]

the more i think about it the more transfeminine homestuck becomes. like our 2 "male" leads at the beginning of the story both have some narrative about their guardian figures either literally forcing or otherwise coercing them to perform a version of manhood that is violent and fucking sucks. Most of the male characters in homestuck in some way tie masculinity or success to their capacity to do violence and the narrative tells you it's desctructive and/or feels terrible. Every part of Dave's whole deal is telling you that his idea of manhood isn't his own, it's a farce he constructed to protect himself from the violent image of manhood his brother is trying to shape him into being, and the narrative tells you he sucks at being this violent person. i'm actually shocked people look at dave and thought "yeah he chose to be a boy" cause every part of his character is telling you his manhood is a performative farce that he both fails to perform correctly according to even his own mental image of it and hates performing.

[pocket-deer-belly]

i'm a transfem dave strider truther. they don't have to be a boy. she can be a girl, even

[moive]

All of the entry items represent certain challenges or themes. Dave's involves waiting for a ridiculously inaccessible and stubbornly guarded egg to hatch, which is a challenge that relates to patience. What does this ""mean""? You, the studious reader, will have to crunch the numbers on that.

- Andrew Hussie in Homestuck's Author commentary.

[weirdprophetess]

Average Harrow the Ninth reading experience

First read: Bitch what the fuck is this character talking about

Subsequent reread(s): Ohhhh the Implications.

[redacted-metallum]

Dealing with fruit flies makes me sympathetic to how the theory of spontaneous generation held on for as long as it did. Where the hell did you little shits come from. Get out of my fruit

[chibibiblr]

>Be the nice girl

Another monster girl stands in her very festive room. And of course, this girl's name is... hey, wait what are you doing? >Enter name against the narrator's wishes

Kringle Fucker??? What's wrong with you, look you made her sad. >Enter her ACTUALL name

There ya go, look at that smile. Why would you ever do anything to make this sweet girl upset? Anyways, >PROCEED

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[detectivehole]

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[self-loving-vampire]

[sailatina2-deactivated20251222]

So the impression im getting from descriptions of hrt is, imagine you're watching a show or movie that has perfectly fine animation. Not bad at all, perfectly passable and you're willing to watch the whole way through. Then suddenly, half way in, the animation is so much better. The shadows so much more detailed, the lighting so much more vibrant, the characters so much more alive. You wonder, how the hell were you ever ok with the previous animation?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I can't remember where I first heard it, but here's a joke that's lived rent free in my head for years:

two friends, a Jew and a Christian, are talking about holiday customs.

the Jew says "on Rosh Hashanah, it's traditional to blow the shofar 30 times"

the Christian looks at him awkwardly and says "wow. all we give our chauffeur on Christmas is a bottle of wine."

[dragon-in-a-fez]

shana tova everyone

[dragon-in-a-fez]

really enjoying the fact that people have said "this too is Torah", "y'all need Jesus", and "by Allah you people are dogs" in the notes. I hit the Abrahamic tumblr trifecta

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Torah-Jesus-Allah! Rosh Hashanah!🎵

[gaytanic-panic]

credit: @homuncuIus101