as a person with brown hair and a CDL,

i'm like if a woman used to work for pizza hut

[entomologistologist]

hi. i am a woman in my 20s who really really really loves a cartoon you probably have never heard of called dex hamilton: alien entomologist and another cartoon you probably have heard of called south park.

the guy in my pfp is a character from dex hamilton alien entomologist named zap monagan, and i used to believe that i was him up until a couple years ago. he is my all-time favorite character and my fictional companion for life. the main objective of my life is to generate experiences from which to draw upon for imagining zap's whole entire life story.

i have a foul, disgusting english degree and i live in an apartment with a wonderful pal of mine. i used to write novels, and maybe someday i'll resume that.

dni if you're a super big meanie who cackles sadistically while you knowingly commit evil acts for selfish reasons.

[grfn-btbtas]

[cartoon-lizard]

[hbmmaster]

[cacopheny]

the older I get the more I relate to Bert

[apricops]

just be yourself and don’t care about what other people think! Why would you care about what other people think about you?

(DISCLAIMER: what other people think about you will determine every aspect of your support network, your ability to get housing and employment, the quality of your medical care, how you are treated by the legal system, and how likely people will be to sic the police on you for violating social norms.)

[apricops]

hey, listen, I get where you’re coming from but I don’t think this one is capitalism’s fault. I really don’t think capitalism is responsible for the general concept of social ostracism. We can’t just use capitalism to mean “bad thing-ism” we gotta remember that some words mean things

[polygoddess]

I think this one is capitalism *and* colonialism.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

colonialism also didn't invent social ostracism I'm sorry

[bisquid]

I feel like capitalism is at least partially responsible for how whether or not you're 'likeable' enough to be employed dictates whether or not you have a roof over your head or food in the fridge. Like, yeah social ostracism isn't new or unique to capitalism, but I do think modern capitalism in particular has simplified the line between 'how others perceive you' and 'how likely you are to be/become homeless/arrested/institutionalised/fired/killed 'in self defence'/deported/etc'

[apricops]

In David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, he talks about a subgroup of Inuit people who lived in “primitive communism.” Everything was shared. If you asked someone for it, they gave it to you, no questions asked. They refused to even see it as ‘gifts’ or charity, it was just what you were supposed to do in your community, with one hunter famously saying “by gifts, you make dogs out of men.”

Then Graeber shared another story from the group - once there was a member of the group who got on everyone’s nerves by asking the hunters for all of their best cuts of meat every time they returned with their haul. So one day the hunters invited him along on a seal hunting trip and then abandoned him on a raft in the Arctic ocean to die of exposure.

Social ostracism has existed before capitalism and it will outlive capitalism. Sometimes capitalism has even gone against social ostracism, like the famous example of the Sears and Roebuck magazine - the massive company could offer uniform products with uniform prices, which was a godsend for rural Black people because they could finally buy things for once in their lives without ludicrous markups from the local shopkeepers in their community!

PEOPLE WHO ARE DISLIKED BY THE COMMUNITY HAVE ALWAYS STRUGGLED TO LIVE AND IT WAS NOT LESS OF A PROBLEM BACK WHEN SOCIETY WAS ORIENTED AROUND SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE BECAUSE OF FUCKING COURSE IT WASN’T!

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[kragehund-est]

bad news, euclid fans! i just disproved his assertation that parallel lines don't intersect for their entire infinite length. i walked along them for approximately 8.6 x 10⁸ km and you know what i found? that's right, a tangle.

they don't touch for the rest of their infinite length though, i did check. in both directions.

[tuxankhamun]

i'm sorry that's my fault i was walking along that stretch earlier and accidentally tripped and tangled them up and i couldn't get them untangled and i thought no one would notice i'm so sorry

[slunch]

if you think about it the porn ban was like a boulder falling into a narrow tidal inlet and closing off everything inside it, letting strange new things emerge over time

[missmentelle]

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

[realifedreamgirl]

a reminder.

[askrenardfoxx-deactivated201812]

This. I have so many friends and fans around me that put too much emphasis on achieving by a certain age, believing they’re a failure because they haven’t achieved anything or don’t even know what they want yet. We all figure things out in our own timelines and our own ways. I’ve done little notable in my life and am only now at 30 going to college to try and better myself. And that’s okay with me even if it takes me long after that to find what I want to do in life. Enjoy life now and let things come naturally for you

[conjunx]

Whats up everybody lol

[owa-tagoo-siam]

[dogpuppy]

[segamascott]

[targetedknowledge]

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[senatortedcruz]

[isuggestkillingyourself]

[tactfulsaboteur]

[psybomb]

Every time I see that last pic, I have to note that the funniest line is the one immediately after the highlight

[beardedmrbean]