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Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

vampfuneralprye

crafty-butch

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

ravenfleesfire

Fictional country: average fantasy

Fictional small town in the middle of nowhere in real country: par for the course in any genre

Fictional major city in real country: standard fair, but it's usually clearly based on a real city

Fictional suburb of real major city in real country: strange but I can see the application

Real major city in fictional country: Chicago can be anywhere you dream of

thememedaddy

freebasegod

taking salvia and becoming a discord music bot for 15 years

fluff-e-boy

Need to be taken apart and reassembled like a broken watch . Not in a sex way I just think they should put my joints together right this time

primarybufferpanel

Ohhh the fantasy of all your bones being put into one of those ultrasonic cleaning baths they use for jewelry. All the pain coming clouding out like dirt. Then carefully reassembled and joints oiled and then it would all just work perfectly and painlessly...

Like, I know that's not what's wrong with me but I think we should try just to be sure

plaguedocboi

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

sacred-portal

goldcrescent

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

goldcrescent

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

justgivemeabookplease

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

fitzchivalry

i-am-a-fish

every time you make art of any kind, a stat that is not visible to the player goes up. also, this is the most important stat in the game

ledogeishere

does singing in the shower count as art

i-am-a-fish

does a strong as fuck ice mummy have ice powers

the-quietestmela

does writing fanfiction count as art

i-am-a-fish

don't make me say the mummy thing again

ofallingstar

Whisper of the Heart (1995)

oidial

bappy saturday!!!!

hwhehehehsgehe have a good bappy. NOT LATE. not late....

fidelcostco

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

mushroom-soup-is-my-religion

organicmatter

Otters at the Oregon zoo I saw on my birthday, one is sucking on the others ear

boringkate

Violence broke out last night during the filming of my new game show "What's That Sound?" when a contestant took offence to his first ten audio recordings all sharing the answer "a horse dildo slipping out of a femboy's butthole."

I want to be clear that they weren't ALL going to be of the same thing. Nobody was "trolling" him. The recordings were randomly chosen. This kind of thing just happens sometimes when random number generators decide how to sort things. If he had kept playing then he would have found his thirteenth recording to have instead been of "femboy fisting."

boringkate

That was a shitpost, but then I went and made it real anyways.

Let me know if you'd be into playing a more complete version of this lol.