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don't let this flop. monty python watchers what phrases have had the most impact on your lexicon. for me it's "what's all this then" and "other than that, perfectly normal"
"...It got better."
THIS. IS AN EX-PARROT.
And there was much rejoicing (said in a flat monotone).
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge
Five thou shalt not count...
René Descartes was a drunken fart; "I drink, therefore I am"
sorry this and forgive me that and I am not worthy 🙄
also And there was much rejoicing. yaaay.
Hitsugaya Toshiro | Bleach TYBW Cour 4 Ep. 03 "Blood of my bone"
settings > wound > my wound > reopen
do not forget this
the part of adulthood that no one ever warns you about is the amount of surfaces you need to acquire to put your things and trinkets on
it turns out that making big positive changes in your life is great but it also forces you to reckon with the years you spent not really living and makes you feel like you're carrying the corpse of a 20 year old girl on your back
the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists
we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting
IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly
Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.
CAST NOW
we're over halfway through 2026. what are everyone's most beloved books of the year so far?
I’m like a missing person standing in front of their own missing persons poster.
still so funny to me that gross has another meaning besides icky and is used seriously all the time. your gross annual income. your disgusting nasty amount of money you earn the whole year. pathetic
no post has ever altered my brain chemistry as much as "can only you see the time being?"
in case you're not familiar:
did not register this last line as "lo!" for a solid few seconds. maybe you didn't either
Saw the trailer for dog stars, what’s our guess on the percentage likelihood that the Qualley-Antonoff divorce is downstream of her snuggling all up on Jake Elordis chest and going “oh, yeah, it’s fun when the man is taller than me and also handsome and kind”
one weird thing about me is that despite being a shy guy, I always kinda root for the “Chad” type over the quirky smart guy with a “good personality”. Other than like Back to the Future where they make him just outright awful, obviously
idk what this means, really, but I figured it had to do with the idea that I could imagine myself as handsome and athletic, but couldn’t ever imagine a world where I had charisma and witticisms at the ready.
Also because in my own high school years, the nerdy guys high on their own sense of intelligence were the ones who really gave me a hard time, the dumb handsome jocks either mostly ignored me or tried to give me advice on how to be more like them. This advice wasn’t always kind, and often hurt my feelings, but it was ultimately well intentioned. The kid who flexed his SAT score as his only achievement would make racist jokes about my ethnic background and got pissed as hell when I out scored him without really caring about the test.
anyway, Elordi and Alexander Skarsgård are my “this is what I’d look like if I was actor handsome” dudes, and I gotta root for my guys. Clint Eastwood too, although I’ve also heard he was a very smooth talker, some people have it going every direction lol
there’s a sort of moralism often present in the quirky smart guy gets the hot girl narratives that I resent and find sometimes implicitly disturbing… like if the hot guy hooks up with the hot girl it’s just expected assortative mating but if the quirky smart guy gets the girl it’s often portrayed as her being a Reward or a Trophy in a way that carries a lot of weight with proving that the universe is Just… also idk if this is related or just a quirk of my experiences but in my experience the guys who are dangerous are less likely to be the confident cute dudes and more the less confident guys who project all these expectations on you, usually without even telling you, and then rage when you don’t comply with their fantasies. Because your refusal to like them back when often they don’t even communicate that they like you is interpreted as proof of a Hateful and Wrong Universe. Idk
True, there's definitely a weird moralistic component to the whole "now she's put aside her shallowness to see his Inner Value" angle, or alternately the implication that having her as a girlfriend makes him into a cool guy by association, which heavily shades into her being a Trophy to show that he was a good protagonist.
I think there's a possibility that you could split the hair and have it framed as "he stepped his game up and became who he always wanted to be (the kind of guy that cool hot people like having around)", but the line between that and "a girl is a reward for a successful training montage" is super thin and most writers couldn't handle it well. Compounded by the fact that a lot of writers seem to be shy quirky (and also mean/annoying) guys who didn't want to change at all, but just wanted the Hot Girls to acknowledge them exactly as they were.
less confident guys who project all these expectations on you, usually without even telling you, and then rage when you don’t comply with their fantasies.
It's not just you, I've definitely seen this happen. Fortunately for myself, I don't have to carry the guilt of having done that. My saving grace, so to speak, was that I'm great at self-loathing, so I'd just blame my own inadequacies for being rejected, and just beat myself up for not meeting the standard. Not healthy, but at least I never did the whole resentful "oh, woe is me, these shallow bitches like guys who are hot and sociable" routine. I just kinda idolized the hot sociable guys and resented myself for my own issues. Doing better these days, also shoutout to overly forward women, only reason I turned out even a little normal as a teen/college guy. Because my dumb anxious ass was not picking up hints or shooting his shot.
Not gonna get into this because it's too dark and I'd rather not relive it, but I can confirm that of my female friends who were assaulted in college, every perpetrator was either a pseud humanities major or a stereotypical CS wannabe evil genius type. And my extended social circle had a decent number of kinesiology/PT/whatever type jocks and actual smart humanities guys, so it's not entirely a sample size thing.
So like, "associative mating" is just another word for "trophy or reward"; you are in some way better than other people and therefore deserve to get the girl for being attractive. If you let yourself go after your high school jock years, well, maybe you don't deserve that hot wife anymore.
There are some components of physical attractiveness that don't require effort but a lot of them do.
Look, in media fantasies of romance have two psychological components, which are "That person loves me because of all the effort I put in" and "That person loves me even though I don't deserve it" and you'll get both of those in various mixes catering to both genders.
How many romance books aimed at women involve a protagonist who thinks of herself as mousy and unremarkable but is swept off her feet by a handsome, charismatic rich guy with a troubled past? Because as an outsider it seems like a lot of them.
Any romantic fantasy that leans heavily into "They love me even though I don't deserve it" is based on the expectation that the audience is projecting themselves into the protagonist, and viewing the love interest as a fantasy figure, and so of course if you instead project yourself onto the fantasy love interest you're going to go "Why does (s)he like that schlub?"
Well, because the fantasy is "I might end up in a world of romance and excitement even though I'm a schlub."
Meanwhile, maybe this changed but like... Nerds used to really love Conan and shit like that. The enormous body-builder who gets women because he's impossibly tough and charismatic is a constant figure in science fiction and fantasy, I would say just as much as the nerd who gets the girl through cunning and brains over brawn. These are just two sides of the "they love me because I deserve it" coin.
Like, personally I think the real difference is merely just general quality, if you are a better writer the protagonist is likeable enough that people of both sexes will root for them.
For example, like, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig were both pretty sexy as James Bond, but I've seen plenty of knock-off spy movies from the 60s where men who were more or less as fit and handsome as Sean Connery go through the same motions of effortlessly dispatching bad guys with judo skill and bedding sexy foreign spies and just come off as the least sexy men imaginable.
I know I should control this reflex but every time I read a "rural people aren't stupid: here are their real concerns" I give it a fair shake and their real concerns are stupid as fuck. oh my god they're worried about solar panels? the ones the government pays them to put up as a subsidy to cushion their agricultural business? and they seem to believe, somehow, that the urban centres are being subsidised by the regions? that urban centres don't have solar or power plants or, sin of sins, transmission lines?
Flower girls by Camille Fourcade
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
Like to charge, reblog to cast?
I actually do genuinely love when people make sincere angst art of children's shows. The depth people create in the things they carry close to their heart always inspires me. Like yknow what? What if it WAS that deep. And even deeper. Take my hand. Let me explore this topic with you
