What The Dog Doin’?

free 🇸🇩 advanced age i know “sit” and “speak” but i’m not very good at “stay” and i’m always trying not to shake url is the sound of being hit by a train according to Corey Feldman in Stand by Me. “he/him but like in the way where you see a dog across the street and ur like ‘look at him go’ not he/him like a man”; i.e. genderqueer but “they” doesn’t fit me (Penny dragon by iguanamouth.tumblr.com, used with permission).

[el-smacko]

Whatever man, Western religion sucks. The majority of Christians in the US are fake as fuck. I don’t even have the energy anymore to argue the Bible at people who can’t read it even in English or convince the people alienated by their hatred that the Bible is still ancient literature worth studying even if it isn’t fucking magic. It contains fossilized tropes from as early as the second millennium BCE that still influence our culture today, but fuck it. Most of its fans in the US are toxic about it. Worst fanbase of any media, anywhere, ever. I get that. It’s fucking off-putting and I don’t blame you for just avoiding it. But “Christianity” in America is going to face a reckoning even if there is no God.

[el-smacko]

Let’s see. Iran’s government is conservative. The United States’ government is conservative.

And the US is also bombing Iran unprovoked and funding a genocide and instigating regime changes and starving people with blockades and embargoes and profiting from slavery and war and is single-handedly keeping the world hurtling toward climate disaster because its entire economy and domestic infrastructure and economic preeminence depends on oil.

So really they’re the same.

[komsomolka]

marjane satrapi is jr rowling for pretentious art lovers. why are you refusing to acknowledge that french woman used the clout she got (also why do you think she got propped up in the first place if not for aligning with western interests to destroy anti imperialist government in iran) to spread imperialist zionist propaganda and lend her support to islamophobic policies in france just because you liked her works (which is also reactionary propaganda at closer inspection) as a teen? grow tf up and stop supporting imperialist running dogs posing as intellectuals.

[ddeck]

i cannot overstate how good it feels to watch older movies where the actors were still allowed to look kinda weird and not be conventionally attractive. like it is genuinely healing

[el-smacko]

And act in the same room together on a real set or on location

[el-smacko]

It is a myth that the US ever planned on invading Japan in any scenario, they really just wanted to use their new toy and keep the USSR from entering the Pacific Theater.

But conservatives and liberals alike generally believe that myth wholeheartedly.

And for all the talk about this war ending Iran’s nuclear program, they do not have, and lack the capability to develop, a nuclear weapon.

So if the US military is in fact stocking up on potassium iodide and Prussian blue, it is because they are seriously considering reifying the nuclear trolley problem in Iran.

And honestly? This admin is dumb enough to do it.

[el-smacko]

Idk dude maybe it’s because I’m not on SSRIs anymore but the gore of Invincible was too much for me.

And something about it within the context of the show is bothering me in a way I’m having trouble articulating.

Like have I not seen enough of the show (2 episodes) or is it basically a kids show (in emotional depth, dialogue, humor, complexity) with adult language and gore? I mean, that’s these new darker comics in a nutshell, right? Children could easily digest the show if not for the gore and even then if they play video games at all it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.

And, okay, I don’t want to sound like a puritan or anything, I just think maybe something might be wrong with a media environment where a child-level cartoon (I know it’s an “adult cartoon” but it is also American, so) can more easily show a woman having her neck snapped and vomiting blood down her own back than that same woman’s bare chest.

Like I’m not treading new ground here by saying that we are extremely permissible toward extreme violence on bodies but very restrictive toward neutrally showing what those bodies look like, much less showing them in pleasure!

No limits on violence but harsh limits on pleasure is such an incredibly Evangelical Protestant ethic for media to have, it’s weird that hyper-violence is seen as somehow transgressive.

[el-smacko]

Spent seven years completely unstable from really hardcore meds (that didn’t work) that made me gain at one point 100 pounds but I had the capacity to create and be spiritual. Now I’m working full time (for the equivalent of part time pay for someone my age) on no meds with no creativity or spiritual life. I spend most of my time awake at a job that isn’t even paying me overtime to work a federal holiday tomorrow. I no longer have health insurance so I can’t be poorly treated again even if I wanted to be. I’ve alienated away most of my friends with erratic and abrasive behavior and have no community where I currently live, or on this or any site. What few friendly people I know where I live I cannot freely be myself around. I rarely feel anything besides fucking tired. I don’t even know what I’m doing here. Venting I guess.

[el-smacko]

A fucking mature content label are you serious there are no notes

[el-smacko]

“The Myth of the Troubled and Scorned Vietnam Veteran”

Eric T. Dean Jr.

Journal of American Studies

Vol. 26, No. 1 (Apr., 1992), pp. 59-74 (16 pages)

Published By: Cambridge University Press

(read free with a free jstor account)

[el-smacko]

Spent seven years completely unstable from really hardcore meds (that didn’t work) that made me gain at one point 100 pounds but I had the capacity to create and be spiritual. Now I’m working full time (for the equivalent of part time pay for someone my age) on no meds with no creativity or spiritual life. I spend most of my time awake at a job that isn’t even paying me overtime to work a federal holiday tomorrow. I no longer have health insurance so I can’t be poorly treated again even if I wanted to be. I’ve alienated away most of my friends with erratic and abrasive behavior and have no community where I currently live, or on this or any site. What few friendly people I know where I live I cannot freely be myself around. I rarely feel anything besides fucking tired. I don’t even know what I’m doing here. Venting I guess.

[savrenim]

......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all

[savrenim]

YOU. YOU SEE MY VISION.

[ospreyonthemoon]

People: exposure to the fae realms makes you weak and sickly. Because of the fae

The fae: wow wow wow i LOVE uranium!!!! We should put it ALLLL over our land!!! This won't cause problems!

[el-smacko]

Struggling to figure out how to incorporate the fact that anything atomically heavier than iron had to have been made by a supernova.

[psshaw]

[lilifred]

everyone's talking about the ibs/autism haha funny comparison thing while I'm still stuck on the concept that hamsters exist in the wild. like naturally

tf do you mean they're a wild creature. you find those ankle-biters at the pet store

[psshaw]

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

[thesecretuncle]

Shit. This dude knows an extreme amount about a niche subject. Crazy what you can accomplish when you have treatment resistant IBS

[psshaw]

I want it on record that I shit mostly normal.

[el-smacko]

Genuinely how have we not made an “autistic enterocolitis” joke yet

[el-smacko]

Like what do you even say about this shit anymore. We abandoned progress for profit but at least we have purposefully bad phones and sports to gamble on and the white lady eugenicists love. Honestly these people make a big smoking crater seem too good for us.

[mia-n-ceetee]

Changing the relationship status to "Stalemate"

[mia-n-ceetee]

Changing the relationship status to "Uneasy truce"

[mia-n-ceetee]

Changing the relationship status to "Mutually assured destruction"

[mollyjames]

I do tend to be suspicious of art that really lauds and worships the idea of being an artist. Like yes, art is cool, I think it's valuable, there's a reason I make it. But let's not get overly self congratulatory here

[mollyjames]

I think it's okay to love what you do, and even celebrate that. But there's a line that gets crossed sometimes where the art goes... "unlike all of those stupid people, who just dont get it." And it's like... hey... who are you making this for, exactly?

[tallspookylady]

reminds me of that "artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, mattresses are our canvas" post or however that goes. always makes me laugh

[trans-seraphim]

also relevant

[el-smacko]

evidence

[el-smacko]

Just an incredible feeling to come with all of the facts, references, translation acumen, and knowledge of the history of theology/OT textual hypothesis in a conversation and end it with “but I don’t think you’re wrong because I don’t think that’s how this all works” and have them say “but I do and you’re wrong.” Fuck conservative Christianity. Mental poison.

[lakewinnipeg]

need

[psi-hate]

[el-smacko]

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

[el-smacko]

Found out recently blackpowder weapons are exempt from restrictions on firearm possession by felons and just aren’t regulated like guns in general (serial numbers, acquisition bureaucracy)