FiM's Wild Hellsite Posts

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[justalurkr]

Xitter ate the tweet this is from, but Tim Bender posted it

On what the male loneliness epidemic is really about. Given actual alternatives, women are opting tf OUT of "traditional roles".

Edited to add found the tweet

[assignedmale]

[greelin]

gonna be fucked up for a moment and say that idgaf when a parental figure apologizes for shit like. a decade after the fact. like you did nigh-irreparable damage to me during my developmental years and changed the way i see the world (and myself) and interact with every other human being alive. But cool that you are “sorry”. Now.

[greelin]

you want forgiveness? Damn that’s crazy. anyways

[microsff]

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

[nullen-void]

The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.

It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.

[wheup]

Project hail mary is very much an 'I would die for you' story, but it is also, crucially, an 'I would live for you' story.

I would spend four years awake in a tiny spaceship with you to make sure you get home safe, I would build an atmosphere for myself so i can work on your ship with you, I would suffer starvation on an unfamiliar planet for years to stay alive with you, I would gather every one of the most brilliant scientists and engineers on my planet to keep you alive, I would turn back for you, I would take you the rest of the way.

They would sacrifice their lives for each other in a heartbeat, and if they live, they will struggle through all of the messy painful healing they need to because they love each other, and they love being alive together.

[assignedmale]

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I know this is literally impossible without making the Patagotitan/Argentinosaurus huge or the Bee Hummingbird smaller than a lego stud, but I still dream of an accurate dinosaur toy line that includes birds where everything is to scale with each other. it's the dream, okay. I want to put a tiny lego stud sized bee hummingbird toy on top of a titanosaur head. it's the damn dream.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

like. I'm aware of the problem in my idea. I'm very aware. I want it anyway. I desire the chaos. I desire the educational tool this would be. I demand the insanity.

[delgado-master]

If a bee hummingbird is 5mm, argentinosaurus would be 3 meters big :)

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I do not in fact see a problem with this

[prokopetz]

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

[romanceyourdemons]

the great thing about the wuxia genre is you can start a sect called the Evil Blood Cult in a place called Demon Mountain that’s a volcano full of poison and you all wear crazy gothic black and red hanfu and practice Sinister Backstabber Style kung fu and like. that’s not a deterrent to prospective disciples. do all that and a fuckton of bright eyed youngsters will still show up at your door and say hello i would like to join the demon mountain evil blood cult where do i sign up?

[deep-green-existentialist]

Lockheed Martin was at my college's job fair

[teathattast]

[teathattast]

[punkitt-is-here]

starlight glimmer the intern

[calidotgov-deactivated20240108]

congratulations piracy

[livefromtheloam]

Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

[commandtower-solring-go]

Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

[geekysteven]

[teaboot]

Fun fact! Both the music and the font in that ad were incorrectly sourced and did not provide compensation to the creators

[punkitt-is-here]

been watching my little pony with my boyfriend again

[arkyn-99]

There’s a reason I really like ‘humans are space orcs’ or ‘space far’ ect stories. Across both sci-fi and fantasy humans are often just the default ‘plain’ race. And that feels kind of reductive to both humans and aliens. It makes us feel kind of pointless and it makes aliens just feel like human+. So I really like this genre because it explores humans as something different with their own strengths.

That being said I’m now running into the opposite problem where I’m getting tired of reading stories where humans are just like overpowered gods compared to every other species.

I wanna read stories where we interact with creatures with completely different strengths and weaknesses than us. Stories that acknowledge the evolutionary path humans went on and explore how that makes us different from creatures that evolved from a different path.

Like we evolved from tree dwelling primates, we are likely a lot more comfortable climbing than say a species that evolved from a burrowing animal who would be more comfortable in enclosed spaces than us.

Or the human endurance, we evolved to be persistent pursuit hunters. It’s where our sweat comes from, it’s part of our thermal regulation that allowed our ancestors to run/walk for miles after their prey. We likely have way more endurance than any creature that evolved from an ambush predator but they might be faster or stronger.

Or going back to our hunting methods we also evolved to use projectiles. Like our brains and arms literally evolved to throw with distance, power, and accuracy. Us having athletes that can throw a ball at over 90 mph would be insane to a species without that adaptation. Maybe we even developed projectiles earlier in our civilization than other species. But they likely have their own sport based on something we might not even be able to do.

There are so many cool features that we can have different than other species. And there are so many features other species could potentially have that would be awesome to us. Like imagine the dexterity of something that evolved from a cephalopod. Or the agility from something that evolved from a feline.

Basically, I don’t want one side, human or alien to be overpowered. I want them to look at each other and both be amazed at what the other can do.

[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

[mxjackparker]

When someone is behaving erratically or unusually in public, this does not automatically make them a threat.

If you sit next to the person on the bus who you see as spasming and twitching... most of the time they'll continue to move the same way they were with no ill intent to you. It's not dangerous, it's tourettes/stimming/cerebral palsy symptoms.

If you chat to the homeless man yelling to himself outside the shops... most of the time you'll learn why he's upset, have a chat that makes him feel less alone, and he won't want your help or will calm down because he's been acknowledged.

If you check on the woman moaning and writhing in her seat on the train... most of the time you'll find she's hungover or in withdrawal or suffering from a chronic medical problem, and you can offer support that could make her feel better or save her life.

Most people aren't out to get you. Not everything about a person's behaviour is intentional or directed at you. Strange does not equal threatening.