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[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[marisatomay]

To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: “you miss a lot of a movie when you don’t watch it”

[roseroyalty-moving]

when u touch an unaware cat and they make that small surprised sound reblog if u agree

[roseroyalty-moving]

[antieverythingism]

Beautiful decorated Fez tap by Coffee Bliss on Flickr.

[miamaimania]

soldrelax SS23 ꩜ VHS display cap debugs digital nostalgia

[a-tangled-mermaid]

Sigh. At least I have this.

[loveridden1999]

we need more pusssy eating agenda on tv #eatpussy2026

[lucyleviathantv]

pjackk's corpse has washed up upon the shore rusted and covered in seaweed

[lucyleviathantv]

they pushed his corpse back out to sea

[sreegs]

turning a big dial taht says "pjackk is banned" on it and constantly looking for approval like a contestant on the price is right

[suturesque]

vodun day, 2020 benin. julio sacristan

[couriernewvegas]

[thiswasachoice]

This is a spreadsheet from Old Kingdom Egypt, written about 4500 years ago. It was part of the diary and logbook of Merer, an inspector responsible for the transportation of materials to Giza for the construction of Khufu's pyramid. There's something beautiful about the organization here, how his rows and columns would fit in just as well in Excel as any modern spreadsheet of delivery records. Across the yawning gulf of ages, we're united by this mundane and incredibly human task. I love reading things like this. They remind me of the fundamental similarity of humans across time. They were no less intelligent or skilled than we, and oftentimes had to be moreso, to account for the many technological aids they lacked.

I often hear people talk about how showing a smartphone to a medieval peasant would shock him, but I want to show Merer Excel. I think pivot tables would make him cry tears of joy.

[mossycakes]

we cant talk here. pictochat. room c.

[northshorewave]

I feel like Seattle replaced San Francisco at some point in the last ten years as a metonym for the gayest American city. San Francisco's got too much other shit going on anymore.

[max1461]

NPI licensing outside a downward-entailing environment! Some dialects have this. Is it everywhere or just in the scope of too much?

Hey OP, would you find this sentence grammatical:

"San Francisco's got a lot of other shit going on anymore"?

How about this one:

"San Francisco's got shit going on anymore"?

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

[cannibalcaprine]

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

[tgirl-subway-the-dark-ages]

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

[cue-jay]

[msstinkalot]

I'd rather have a nothing burger over a nothing nothing

[cannibalchicken]

[zluty-spendlik]

[geeseareassholes]

[vastwinterskies]

how am I supposed to go to the supermarket without cavalry support