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He/Him | Three possums in a trenchcoat | My unorganized pile of neat things

[victusinveritas]

[brbgensokyo]

[eidetictelekinetic]

Mutual pining is great, but you know what's even better? Mutual pining where they're both fully aware the feelings are requited, they just can't do anything about it for other reasons. Or maybe they technically could but they've had to choose not to, because of The Circumstances.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[taraxippos]

[natizilda-posts]

What an insult to brazilian comic book character Ms. Rock

"Have some respect, Bidu! This is my family! Stone Dad, Gravel Mom, Slab Uncle, Boulder Cousin and Pebble Cousin!"

"My bad!"

[parkchanwoohoo]

[riku-usi]

🎏アルキゴイ

[clannfearrunt]

Crying and wailing over this adorable fucking robber fly that was at work today incredibly ridiculously cute animal. Sentient teddy bear. SO well behaved as I took it outside and took one million photos. Sending it a billion trillion kisses in its general direction I love you so much babyfly

[clannfearrunt]

We’ve got an ID, the Golden-Tailed Beebandit!!!!!! Mallophora fautrix!! One QUADRILLION kisses in its general direction!!!

[misidentifying-animals-in-posts]

VERY dangerous bee, with a big stinger probably, wouldn’t want to mess with it

[pudulogy]

[devotedriven-deactivated2025112]

I think we should skip the flirting and go straight to psychological codependence.

[shocotate]

I broke a ramune bottle to get the marble out for my dragon.

[wickedwonderlandd]

The dragons face never changes, but I still feel like he looks happier in the 2nd pic 🥺

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

The orb delights him

[thezabajabajungle]

Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'

Groove-Billed Ani

Hoatzin

Pheasant Coucal

[domesticationsyndrome]

My university has this urban legend that students who flunk their course are turned into cats and join the large groups of semi-feral cats that inhabit the campus.

In the past couple months there have been these posters around the main building in a kind of analog-horror story with creepy visuals talking about missing students and the transformation with an email attached so I obviously messaged them with a feral cat picture and today they've answered.

I've been summoned to "witness" Thursday, wish me luck :)

[domesticationsyndrome]

All the posters under read more, English translations in image description.

The missing students

They are all from made up courses and their numbers tell the year they've enrolled in, Julia has been studying since 2019, Dante since 2018 and Victoria since 2017

Other creepy posters

These were the only posters for about a week, during that time I sent the email a picture I took of a University cat with a black and white filter over it.

More creepy posters

These ones came later, with more of a recruitment-type language

Last Warning

Something that is intriguing about all of these postes is that they have been authorized by the university, something that most posters done by students can't really get. A friend told me the authorization is fake which seems more probable, but this is something curious nonetheless. Because of the authorization none have been taken down so far.

[domesticationsyndrome]

Tumblr ate the continuation I made but Sunday I opened my inbox and woah and behold

The invitation

So the saga continues

[domesticationsyndrome]

Turns out it was the really cool final project of @tinhocaa, who got approved and so did not turn into a cat

[domesticationsyndrome]

They also made clay cat figurines to distribute around campus with the email inside, tho I did not find any

[tinhocaa]

HEY!!

So, I had no Idea someone had made a post about this here

But yes!! I made this! It’s my graphic design graduation thesis on urban legends, ARGs and alternative storytelling.

I’m really glad the project made its way here, and thank you so much @domesticationsyndrome for making this masterpost with all the posters and lore!!

[tamamita]

Still the funniest fake leak

[savedgame]

Counter:

Ability: baby killer

[skittybot]

English to Japanese translation of the second image (from left to right):

“EAT UP THIS BULLSHIT!”

“Mega Klinklang Y Species: Pokemon Type: Steel/Electric/Drago Ability: Baby Killer Height: 96.0 m Weight: 616.0 kg”

“This image isn’t properly edited, and it’s still going to fool you!”

“Pokemon Y Klinklangknight”

“I’m making money and neither of us knows more than two words of Japanese!”

[melia-antifa-archive-deactivate]

The best part about the Baby Killer leak is how it’s so infamous that the latest season of the anime actually referenced it.

[byjove]

idioms are always funnier in languages you do not understand, especially when a native speaker is struggling to explain and actively digesting how ridiculous it is in real time

[pansyfemme]

i still feel kinda wasteful for getting rid of my big naturals. dont get me wrong i am happy as hell they are gone, every day with them felt like i was imprisoned in my own body but like i had H cups. H cups. someone out there would have loved having those. and i just let mine get turned into ash. just one boob could have been split between several people and they’d all still have decent sized chests. i know it doesn’t work like that but man why couldnt i have just donated them to charity or something

[bloodonmybarbieshirt]

One day tiddy venmo will be real. And we will all distribute the tiddy freely, and we will all be happier for it

[star-angel-selkie]

too many people think fascism is just evil for evil's sake when its actually comfort and justification for your biases, so when they get seduced by it they deny being fascist because they dont see themselves as evil.