Then Perish

[weaver-z]

Drain all of my blood and refill my veins with only this video

[weaver-z]

Valid responses to this post:

- “This was effervescent”

- “This was evanescent”

- “This is Naruto and Sasuke”

- “They’re a throuple now”

[therehavebeenstranger]

i talk my shit but do you guys remember being 12 and in 2008 and you heard viva la vida by coldplay for the first time and you were like fuck this is so powerful. i'm going to kick the ass of god

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

What horrifying new social rules are the kids inventing now

[dor-min]

you can't just kidnap people and force them to play DnD

[probablybadrpgideas]

or can you

[mikheevanora-deactivated2025062]

okay...

[carygrantsbeard]

[valtsv]

taking off a mask to reveal what lies beneath as a romantic gesture is overdone, and besides i want to see the romantic or even platonic potential of protecting someone's identity beneath the mask, without any expectation of ever being allowed to see what's under it. picking it up and holding it gently to their face when it's knocked off and they're in danger of being exposed, without trying to catch a glimpse of what they "really" look like under there. throwing yourself in front of them to hide them from view while they put themselves back together without taking advantage or looking back to see what you're protecting. learning to read them by body language, tone of voice, and behaviour so well that you never need to see their face to feel like you know and understand them.

[valtsv]

and needless to say. the mask stays on during sex.

[kuttithevangu]

Walter White would never pay for Jesse’s top surgery but he would call him a week into recovery and ask for help lifting a 100-pound sack of something highly illegal

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

One of the many things that I now think is brilliant about one piece is just. Everything about zoro basically. SO fucking funny to take the trope of the badass swordmaster who uses an extra sword when he’s Seriously fighting, except he’s already a dual wielder all the time because rule of cool, so how does he hold the extra sword? In his mouth of course.

The sword comes with tragic backstory and he Holds It In His Mouth.

[not-a-newt]

Sjhjkkjjjkj, "I can't believe I drew this." [source]

[kittykatninja321]

to be fair to that twink aren’t we all getting fucked on the senate floor?

[kittykatninja321]

Context

[velocitations]

too many movies have been ruined by not casting ugly people

[beadyeyes]

[deep-state-partisan]

[prokopetz]

Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

[prokopetz]

“Yes, in the balance of consideration this person’s behaviour could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.”

[n0seferatu]

big pharma will try to sell u $20 cold medicine like spicy ramen doesnt cost like a dollar a pack and orgasms are free

[n0seferatu]

damn british people cant cum..... this is so sad.......

[n0seferatu]

big chemist will try to sell you £20 paracetamol like beans dont cost like a quid a can and havin a wank costs fock all

[liarsblade]

Angus: what is, that sound you and Mae are making in the next room

Gregg: dw about it baby :)

Angus: okay

Angus: yay?

[liarsblade]

Gregg: what's going on with the economy

Angus after twenty agonizing minutes of typing and deleting texts as he decides whether he's really going to explain it or not: don't worry about it

Gregg: OKAY 😁

Gregg: yayyyyyyyyy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[liarsblade]

Bea: so to be clear, in the end, you did not explain to him what a recession is?

Angus: i just couldn't do it Bea. I just didn't have the heart for it.

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

[depizan]

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.