Benny_Not_Benjamin

19 He/Him

[naaglaya]

Walking out of The Odyssey having enjoyed it and seeing it have rave reviews on Letterboxd and then logging onto tumblr and seeing all the criticism:

[thedamreader]

Rick Riordan really spent 5 books accidentally writing the best character to ever exist and then spent another 20 trying to convince us he wasn’t that great

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

[anarchistmemedistro]

62 8

[technofeudalism]

[g00burr]

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

[anarchistmemedistro]

no i’m afraid it’s even worse than that. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

[the-haiku-bot]

The Rodeo Rule:

you only have to do it

for the first time once.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[one-1-eye]

[manny-jacinto]

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026) dir. Daniel Cretton

[benny-not-benjamin]

I never understand why people who make these like re-grade everything. Is it supposed to make it look better? Like movies are already color graded so they look a certain way. You’re literally changing the shot from what the director and colorist decided the best possible look is based on THEIR creative vision for THEIR movie.

[theconcealedweapon]

"Being transgender is a mental illness."

Then treat it like a mental illness.

People with mental illnesses are people and deserve to be treated as people.

Children are very much capable of having mental illnesses.

Using medication to treat a mental illness is normal, even for children. If a medication for depression, which is a mental illness, reduced suicidality as much as transitioning does, it would be considered a miracle.

It's not "grooming" to mention the existence of mental illnesses to a child.

It's not "recruiting" to refuse to bully someone who has a mental illness.

You don't actually consider being transgender a mental illness. You're just using "mental illness" as a synonym for "okay to dehumanize".

[gretchensinister]

Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them. -The opening paragraph to My Immortal, posted 20 years ago today

[dduane]

...Somehow I missed this anniversary. I feel vaguely negligent.

[the-haiku-bot]

…Somehow I missed this

anniversary. I feel

vaguely negligent.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[homunculus-argument]

A tiny alien spaceship lands onto the park bench next to you. An alien steps out, asking to be taken to your leader. You tell the alien that it's not really that simple, despite of how it appears humans are mostly quite self-governing. Like yeah the whole social contract is there and all, but nobody's really the boss of you. You do as you please and the reason you won't go on a rampage killing and eating people is because you simply do not want to do that. There's authorities and leaders, nominally, but if one of them appeared right here and ordered you to do something, you would tell them to fuck off. Human society is more like a fungi network, really.

Deeming this nonsensical, the alien turns to the pigeons, and asks to be taken to their leader. They eat it.

[maskrosfe]

Pink hair AND pronouns. There's no one quite like him!

[assiraphales]

PERSONALLY I like that the strawhats are preoccupied with their dreams ambitions and sailing the seas w their friends and don’t think romance is narratively necessary, but it’s legitimately so funny how oda was like “the old generation of pirates? biggest fucking sluts you’ve ever seen”

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[homunculus-argument]

I wanted to make a post about how "desire is the root of all suffering" is bullshit because I never suffer as much as I do when I don't want to do or have anything, and I'm so bored that I'll start chewing my limbs off, but them I understood that wait, that's the state where I want to want something, and that's twice the suffering. Damn, you got me.

[dogpuppy]

[benny-not-benjamin]

This would work on me. If I was in NYC rn I would be getting on the ferry as we speak.

[pointnclick]

Unbelievable

[dogpuppy]