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@comicreliefmorlock
"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url
Rickrolling is deceptive, but it's among the most harmless forms of deception available
in other words, it may tell a lie, but it will never tell a lie and hurt you
Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable
Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.
i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling
Mid-Year Book Freakout 2026
Number of books you've read so far:
110 for the year so far (I haven't looked at how many I had in the previous three years; I've only been tracking books read since 2023)
Best book you've read so far in 2026:
HNG. Okay, so I read a lot so I'll have to narrow this down:
NOVEL: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo {A Malaysian author who is on my "will read whatever you put out" list because I've read three of her novels and all three slapped}
SHORT STORY COLLECTION: (TIE) We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle & Arrival by Ted Chiang
NONFICTION: (TIE) White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo & The Highest Law in the Land by Jessica Pishko
HISTORICAL FICTION (?): From Peasant to Emperor: The Life of Liu Bang by Victor Cunrui Xiong [Not only did the sheer absurdity of history amuse me (history is so gd funny when you actually get to learning the small details) but the way this was written? A gift. Like⌠GENUINELY a gift. Absolutely loved it.]
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Good House by Tananarive Due You Weren't Meant To Be Human by Andrew Joseph White Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams
Best sequel you've read so far in 2026:
Honestly, none. I've gotten so sick of series that I have to be REALLY interested to touch it. I did enjoy Dungeon Crawler Carl so I do have the sequel in ebook, but I haven't started it yet.
New release you haven't read yet but want to:
Probably American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee -- I read Pachinko and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I'll pick up something she's written, but I do MOSTLY dig around in previous release years to find books I've missed.
Most anticipated release for the second half of the year:
None, tbh. I've got so many books published before 2026 that I have on my TBR Table (and in my Thriftbooks wishlist) that I'm not really gnashing my teeth for new books.
Biggest surprise favorite new author (debut or new to you):
Sayaka Murata -- I really enjoyed Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings, so I'm aiming to pick up her third. Also Kylie Lee Baker didn't disappoint with Japanese Gothic (and I fucking LOVE Bat-Eater And Other Names for Cora Zeng) so whenever she puts out another book I'll snag it.
Book that made you cry:
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (I was a wet mess after this one)
Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received):
Bad Space Vol. 2 by Scott Base
Discover Bad Space â a dark sci-fi comic by Scott Base. Existential humor, exclusive artwork, and cosmic absurdity in a bold hardcover editi
Book that made you happy:
Skin & Bones by RenĂŠe Watson Duma Key by Stephen King (a reread obviously, I read on average 2 King novels a month) Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
I don't NEED to read any, but I DO have an entire TBR Table (I call it my book cellar because I'm acquiring books that will age sweetly on the table and be perfectly ready when the Time To Read That ONE Book Comes) that is aging and requires attention. I'm currently reading God's Monsters by Esther Hamori (and enjoying it!)
Tagged by: @tlbodine
Tagging: @oh-yeah-no, @candycryptids (I KNOW YOU READ <3) and anyone else who wants to TALK SOME BOOK
me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly
me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It
Yep, some here
The facial expressions of everyone trying not to lose it are killing me
This is painfully American
Americans be like it is totally normal for an entire stadium (including military members) to stand at attention while a fast food clown mascot sings the national anthem
when we say "it is functionally impossible to parody Americans in a way that will actually insult them" this is the sort of thing you're up against. is your sick burn funnier than corporation burger clown sing national anthem baseball game? no?? of course it isn't.
in retrospect it's pretty funny that the most used computer port for many years just completely sucked shit to the point of there being normie memes about it
we as a society lived like this for years and years
I mean when your biggest tech issue is "takes an extra 10 seconds (at most) to plug in if you're not paying attention" that's pretty good! Imagine if you had a printer and the printer's biggest problem was that the paper took a few tries to insert into the tray. You'd want to fuck that printer.
I'd want to fuck that printer.
Helluva Boss Mission: Weeaboo-boo as textposts. This is now my favourite HB short in existence lol
Find my other memes here!
The "Voicememo Guy" discourse on TikTok has taught me the following things:
The straights aren't okay
It's likely that none of the young, straight people talking about this are having good sex.
People sure do like to project their stuff onto strangers.
Okay @syntheros-artemidos, this is the rundown in as neutral a way I can write it:
A man and a woman went on a date. The man says on the first date that sexual compatibility is a priority for him, and that he's interested in having sex early on. The woman says she doesn't know if that's what she wants.
Apparently things went well enough though for the two to plan a second date, which is apparently to happen at her home.
Since the woman said she wasn't sure if she wanted to be physically intimate, he feels like he's getting mixed signals being invited over, so he sends her a voice memo. In the voice memo, he reiterates that he wants to have sex, and that if she's not interested in that he doesn't see the point of continuing. He says it's okay if that's not what she wants, and if that's the case they shouldn't keep seeing each other.
Then, the woman shared the voice memo with a friend, and the friend uploaded that voice memo to the internet.
Because nothing is allowed to be private in the modern panopticon.
There are two prevailing interpretations of this situation.
One, which is the one I tend to agree with, is that he got mixed messages, made his wants clear, and sent them to her when there was physical distance so she wouldn't feel pressure to not turn him down. It was literally just a potential second date and they started as strangers, so he was pretty much saying "hey, we shouldn't waste each other's time if we don't want the same thing." She clearly didn't, and beyond the weird need to violate his privacy, it was the optimal outcome for these two people to just part ways.
Like was he the smoothest when he said what he said? No. But it was a pretty straight forward. I should note that this is the interpretation that most queer creators seem to be going with too.
Because, uh, the second interpretation is kind of wild.
You see, the other group of people think he was being entitled asking for sex. That somehow, him leaving the voice mail is an act of coercion (even though he has no power over her and there is no implied threat of violence -- since he was making sure he talked about it while he was literally nowhere near her). Also, people are wildly claiming that if he got her to say yes to sex in a text that somehow it would be considered consent in a legal case in case he raped her. Which is, y'know, not how consent works.
(I honestly think a lot of people were projecting their own trauma onto things)
There are also a bunch of people effectively shaming him for wanting to have a casual sexual relationship at all, and that somehow there was something wrong with him for not wanting the same thing that she wanted. People saying that folks looking for hookups shouldn't be using dating apps (as if someone looking for a romantic relationship might not be prioritizing sex too). Mostly just a bunch of puritan culture weirdness, and some people wanting to date for the performance of dating over the desire to find a compatible partner, etc.
And it's been going on for a couple of days.
Honestly, it's ridiculous.
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There's something about lazily studying Mandarin Chinese that's made language learning seem far more approachable. It would be cool to be fluent one day, but I've always been clear with myself that I don't have an actual goal with this besides maintaining a streak in my language app for a certain amount of days. I can quit whenever I want, which is remarkably good at making me not quit. Sometimes I have days where I study Chinese for hours because I'm having a good time, but mostly I'm lazily plucking at this language for sometimes literally a one minute a day. After a year of doing that, even though Chinese is so difficult and different from English, it turns out I can still get from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing slightly more than nothing in a pretty short period. An incredible jump in knowledge with not that much work. In fact, the gap between English and Chinese is so vast that microscopic progress feels incredible. When I have to write out literally any pinyin by memory, and I get 75% of the letters and none of the tones correct, I feel like a genius. Today I almost spelled éłäšäź/yÄŤnyuèhuĂŹ correctly on my first try, and I wanted to call everyone over to see how I effortlessly nailed two-thirds of it.
It's much more encouraging than any of the "easier" languages I've studied. My primary emotion when studying Spanish was embarrassment that I was still so bad at Spanish. Meanwhile, now I'm like, "If I can suck at Chinese, I can suck at anything," which is very inspirational because doing something really, really badly means that you are in fact doing it. I saw an ad for Hebrew language learning course and had the realization that I could probably get really, really, really, really bad at Hebrew in what, a couple months? The thought made me very excited. I could get horrendous at any language in a couple months. I could get horrendous at anything. With a little time and not that much effort, I could nail two-thirds of shooting a basketball. The sky's the limit, but if you don't care about getting all the way up there, one inch off the ground can still be pretty impressive.
Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:
Fiction is not reality.
You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.
No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.
No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.
You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.
Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.
The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.
Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.
Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.
You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.
I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where yâall lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was âhetslopââthis person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually donât think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post thatâs been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that theyâd need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldnât have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of yâall are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. itâs not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.
on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of yâall NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think thatâs actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think youâre no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldnât kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human
from twitter user deejaygeejaygee
it just gets better
and better
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Ffs. I hate the Beatles
This young coyote was playing around in the dirt, digging and jumping around until he finally found the prize- a tissue or something đ. It was almost dark, so a little challenging getting the shots. Los Angeles County, June 2026.
Coyote | Shannon Sommer
