Little place of profound non sense

Aro/ace 23 feels like a new level of adulting unlocked To the topic adulting, this is gentle adulting, only a few hours a day, always being kind to my clueless dumbass self. The rest of the time, Tis a foul reeking gremlin cave, my goblin brain showing off my sparkly rock collections (posts). Enjoy?

[fantome-sans-opera]

No one ever writes empaths as villains when they should be perfect for it.

They feel burdened by everyone else, forcing some degree of isolation and can drive one insane too. Our own feelings are hard to deal with, let alone others.

An incentive to just shut down any emotion ?

No. Let them always feel, all the pain they inflict, all the bad and the good because that's the price to their villainy.

Let the empath make someone feel all the lain they inflicted in revenge. Make them take away all joy. Make them scramble emotions so badly in a victim they only cry of joy and laugh when they are sad.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

what ao3 would look like with ads. no, you do not want this. support ao3 because it’s one of the last few places on the internet that is not tainted by capitalism bullshit. support ao3 because it’s one of the last few places on the internet that is genuinely about the connection between audiences, artists, their works and the love/passion artists have for what they do

[alhyastarain]

this is giving me nightmares. the more i look the worse it gets. ai summary. verify your name. make $ with ao3. i wanna kms (no that last one's not on the screenshot but it should, and clicking it should light the whole site on fire)

[poorlemons]

Memory Wipes

[ziziziziboom]

16-year-old Danny Phantom (member of the Justice League Dark) approaches 25-year-old Red Robin.

Danny: Would you like to go on a date?

Tim: I'm sorry, you flatter me, but I think you're too young for me.

Danny: Sorry for the confusion, it wasn't a date with me, but with my gentleman.

Tim: your knight?

Danny: Yes! Technically, he's an adult, so there wouldn't be any problems!

Tim: Technically? How old is he?

Danny: Um... How old is Halloween?

Tim: ...

Danny: Look, I know it's weird, but he's been alone for a long time, and he really loves the way you psychologically terrorize your criminals and how cool you look doing it!

Tim: um...

Danny: And if you don't like it, you'll have a favor from me, you can ask me for anything.

Tim: Whatever I want?

Danny: Whatever you want.

Tim: Deal.

Danny: Great! Fright Knight will come looking for you tomorrow night! Good luck, bye!

Danny disappears.

Jason, who observed the entire interaction: Tim... Did you really just agree to go on a date with a guy who's over three thousand years old?

Tim: Sure, you heard Danny, the guy hasn't been on a date in a long time. I'll get that favor from the king of infinite kingdoms by the end of the night, you'll see.

After the date with Fright Knight.

Tim enters the Batcave: ...

Jason: How did your date go? How bad was it?

Tim: I have two pieces of news, one good and one bad. Which would you like to hear first?

Jason: The bad new?

Tim: I won't be able to get that favor from Danny.

Jason: And the good new?

Tim: I got a boyfriend

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[datasnake]

Other examples of “blamed for things their copycats did” include Watchmen (blamed for the gritty antihero comics of the 90s) and Madoka Magica (blamed for excessively edgy and grimdark magical girl shows).

[fictionadventurer]

Four years on, and I think you might be the first person to add this type of comment to this post. After receiving so many comments that are like “THG is nowhere near on the level of LotR” or “THG didn’t invent YA dystopia”, it’s so refreshing to see someone understand exactly what I meant by framing THG as “a work blamed for its copycats”, and expand on it with examples that I didn’t know about.

It’s so rare to get an original comment on this post. Thank you so much.

[spoopdeedoop]

petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

[spoopdeedoop]

in hindsight, pitching something that would be deemed a fair bit strange by some standards to a site teeming with already incredibly strange people was a mistake. apologies tumblr users i’d forgotten where i was

[sacred-portal]

[cherryberg]

[a-sentient-cup]

[pyrobot1cs]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

every time i encounter the phrase "inspired by the muse" my mental image is of a lady in a toga holding a gun to her hostage's head btw

[fantome-sans-opera]

That's how writing feels like ngl

[sunflowerlovergirl]

[hatesaltrat]

The road to the childrens’ hospital

@swedishfalcon-actual

[enchantingsorceress]

I hope this joke outlives the context that made it, leaving future generations baffled.

[bob-artist]

Crimetober 1-9

Because birds are criminals.

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

Turns out my boyfriend has never heard of Bigfoot so all this time he's just assumed I've been running a foot fetish blog and apparently just accepted that without question

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

Please god no, not this one

[segamascott]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[zoi-no-miko]

SPIDERS GEORG ON ONE MILLION CREEP GUYS

[yallstar]

“average tumblr post has 1 million notes” factoid actualy just statistical error. average tumblr post has 2 notes from committed mutuals. Spiders Georg, who lives in our hearts & gets parodied over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[doubly-magic]

PSA

EVERYONE BE CAREFUL. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN PHISHING SITE (first link)

(the link is purple bc i clicked on it to get the link w/o special characters to report to various phising page report places).

the page leads to what appears to be the normal archive page, w/ the popup about the privacy policy & everything, with the url https://xn--iao3-lw4b.ws/media DO NOT LOG IN. THEY ARE HERE TO STEAL YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS. LOOK AT URLS BEFORE ENTERING ANY PERSONAL INFO.

STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET GUYS!!

please reblog to spread this warning!!

[weaver-z]

It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

[breadcunt]

Why would they speak spanish in europe

[weaver-z]

Spain.......

[princeofnerds]

[queer-cosette]

I love how tumblr is full of people who aren’t afraid to hang around on the bottom rung of the moron ladder. You make me feel better about every stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life including the time I glued fake moustaches to my eyebrows.

[bloodstained-butterfly]

are we gonna skip past port o' rico

[michaelrotonal]

reblog if you think math doesn't deserve all that hate

[sabertoothwalrus]

for those who don’t remember, “mole interest” was an experiment I did 2 years ago because I wanted to test what causes tags to go trending on tumblr. My hypothesis was that all it takes is one (1) post blowing up in an established tag to make the entire tag trend.

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

So, in the name of science, I ask you to reblog just this post. Let’s put the mole interest effect to the test.