TO HOLD AND BE HELD IN THE SILENCE

AJAX | 30 | HE/HIM | 🌹@viatoraether🌹 | icon by justadog on bsky! | 💉 06/03/2024

[bloodbornekart]

[samsketchbook]

Your Beautiful Plesiosaur ( Cloud Color )

[samsketchbook]

Your Beautiful Plesiosaur ( Cloud Color )

[zipsunz]

i trust you two more than anything

[filmnoirsbian]

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

[filmnoirsbian]

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

[filmnoirsbian]

I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

gshsjb

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[valtsv]

please don't take this as me trying to sound ungrateful but you're being kind of irritatingly machievallian about this whole self-sacrifice scheme

[thelovingend-deactivated2025073]

[clmntne]

imagine being markiplier and you make a movie you spend three years on it and you cause a fake blood shortage and when the movie comes out people love it and rave about it but like with any other movie or media it fades from being the main talk of the town and it moves to something else. two months later a different movie comes out and is in theaters for a while and it’s trending. ah, here’s the new movie that everyone’s talking about. oh cool it’s ryan gosling’s film. looks good. one month into this new movie’s theater run iron lung begins trending again. huh. interesting wonder what’s up. maybe people are desperate for the dvd release? no. they’re drawing you making out scary with ryan gosling. your movie starts trending again and has gotten a new round of fans that never would’ve watched it otherwise. all because you and ryan gosling are both hot and both starred in movies released in close proximity that have parallel themes. and people decided to make yaoi of you. and your dick is definitely being drawn on patreon for $5 a month by someone who has never seen your dick

meanwhile. imagine being ryan gosling and finding out who markiplier is because you encountered art of yourself making out with him. and your dick is also being drawn on patreon

[painstarrr]

been really busy with work so i had myself a little farcille to wind down

[charlataninred]

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

[girlnumbers]

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

Vampire horses? I don't remember anything else

[everything-but-the-not-natural]

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[amnesiaguy]

so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[rlyehtaxidermist]

essentially every core premise of the whole language movement has been tested and rejected by both qualitative and quantitative research, but that won't stop them because they can't fucking read