When In Rome

[shamebats]

Eventually the US will just be governed by a congress of old men in hospital beds being kept in a limbo state between life & death indefinitely, their bodies slowly rotting.

[shamebats]

Most people who say they want a "village" really want socialism/a social welfare state, but they're Americans so they can't just say that.

[shamebats]

I wish people were as scared of getting into a car accident as they are of being true crime'd. Maybe then they wouldn't be on their phones while driving.

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[poetrylesbian]

[poetrylesbian]

[thomasmomwell]

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

everyone post your biggest hear me outs my friend just showed me two conventionally attractive white men in a row i need to teach him what a real hear me out is

[gardenofeden5457]

.world's largest excavator- nay, world's largest vehicle- the bagger 288

.also, scale reference! just the wheel is 70 feet in diameter

[ceruinus]

'here's a real hear me out' >>posts world's most conventionally attractive piece of machinery

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[grumfy]

just learned that my friend’s sister likes to learn what cologne her boyfriends’ dads wear and then buy it and layer it with her perfume when they’re having sex to create a Freudian effect. omg

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

[firestorm09890]

[frankbelloriley]

[blumineck]

I’ve got a lot of Thoughts(tm) about The Odyssey at the moment, but damnit Blum I’m an archer, not a film critic, so here’s something in my lane!

[evidently-endless]

the odyssey (2026)

[notbecauseofvictories]

also I just read a LinkedIn post that suggested that young men shouldn't be hired for important business roles because studies show 26% are addicted to some form of betting/gambling site---therefore, giving them access to material that will determine stock prices is an insider trading hazard for any business. I'm not saying it's a good argument, and I wouldn't be too surprised if the author was doing something tongue-in-cheek ala Modest Proposal.....but I would be fascinated to see where "actually, young men are too emotional and prone to spending money frivolously, let's hire that female candidate instead" would take us as a society.

[frottinq]

Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

[wlw-whump]

I'm a BIG fan of low ranking characters suddenly thrust into a position of authority they're unprepared for. a young princess, too far down the line of succession to merit any training, forced onto the throne when her whole family dies in one attack. a lowly technician on a team who finds themself the defacto leader when a mission goes wrong and every single person above them is captured or killed. a group of strangers comes together for survival, and the only person with any assertiveness gets assigned a leadership role, even though they have no special skills. do these characters rise to the challenge and lead their respective groups to victory? do they crash and burn under the pressure so hard no one ever trusts them again? do they massively restructure their whole society because any system that puts them in charge can't be doing things right?