Language is Arbitrary and I Hate It

cami, 25, she/her, disaster bi, lady brain

[chadhulk]

I have mixed thoughts on sex work. I love sex, but I hate work!

[kybercrystalgems]

“Yeah, we hate seeing you work too!”

[burglarsonarceny]

how does this post keep getting better

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

i never want tumblr to end. this website is like the internet equivalent of a huge mall where you can run around and do whatever you want and there are no laws

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

no laws? the fuck? i wanna be on the website you’re on. my experience of tumblr is that if you break even a minor law you get executed publicly 

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

However you are allowed to steal stuff, and if you don’t support shoplifting, you’re transphobic. 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

feanorus rex i am not transphobic and i dont steal anything. i dont appreciate libel on here

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

I was joking. The tumblr ‘shoplifting fandom,’ (Yes, that is a real thing) says that people who don’t support stealing are transphobic bc trans people need to steal makeup to live. 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

Simply Don’t appreciate any of whatever you just said to me. Don’t “joke” or whatever you call it here again. Now… godbye

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

you’ve never heard of the tumblr shoplifting fandom? or their ridiculous justifications? 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

^ exactly what i expected. dont feed the Tumblr Trolls people.

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

The tumblr shoplifting fandom isn’t smth I agree with, but it does exist. (Source 1) (Source 2) (Source 3)  (Source 4)

Here’s a post making the “anti shoplifting= transphobia claim

Your original post mentioned a mall, so I thought of the lifting fandom, and decide to reblog with a satirical comment.

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

i got juice in my mouse and i cant click the links

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

Jezebel.com:

rebrn.com:

The Daily Dot

Knowyourmeme:

The ‘anti lifting= transphobic post:

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

pictures wont load i think my internet is slow. can you reblog again and type out the text from the articles/posts yourself

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

yeah, the first one says, “It’s too bad that you accused someone of fabricating the tumblr shoplifting fandom, she went and found sources and you panicked and invented progressively more ridiculous excuses.” 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

^ so again you prove my point…

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

it seems pretty convenient that you can’t access any of my sources. just search ‘#shoplifting fandom,’ on here, or is your ability to search some how broken too? 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

i dont know why you would say it is convenient. im the one with the mouse with juice in it. it is very inconvenient for me

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

how are you clicking on anything if your mouse is broken? 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

spare mouse

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

then click on the links i provided? or search, ‘#shoplifting fandom’ on tumblr?? 

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

hm… not a bad idea… can you post the links again though? my spare mouse does have working clickers but its scroll wheel is totally fried (milk accident) and i can’t scroll up to the links

[comrade-kirby-deactivated202009]

The tumblr shoplifting fandom isn’t smth I agree with, but it does exist. (Source 1) (Source 2) (Source 3)  (Source 4)

Here’s a post making the “anti shoplifting= transphobia claim

Your original post mentioned a mall, so I thought of the lifting fandom, and decide to reblog with a satirical comment.

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

i just spilled some olive oil (extra virgin of course, i wouldn’t settle for anything else) on my spare mouse and the clickers just stopped working. could you post some screenshots of those articles or something

[metamorphosick]

What the fuck “I spilled olive oil”

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

yeah, i use the good stuff. mock me for it all you like.

[sacred-portal]

[cherryberg]

[a-sentient-cup]

[pyrobot1cs]

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

[houseofcucci]

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

[beggars-opera]

I'm personally after the white whale that took my leg

[loubuttons]

I also want the whale that took this guys leg

[beggars-opera]

Not amab or afab, but a secret third thing. Hmm what could we call it

[tucsonfog]

i fear the battle is lost at this point but i still flinch every time i see "gay panic" used as a cute positive phrase. Like let's go on say wikipedia.org for a second and try typing that one in folks

[auckie]

What if you poked me in the chest and your finger broke through like you were cracking into a rotted plank of wood and dust came out and I just crumpled into nothing and my spores got into your nose

[kelleysroom-deactivated20200511]

I would not hang out with you again that's for sure!

[auckie]

Well there you have it!

[charl0ttan]

executive dysfunction is literally like. ive had a random dollar on my floor for two weeks and i dont know when ill fit it in my schedule to pick it up. people dont realize this

[charl0ttan]

picked up the doler👍

[magpiesketchins]

Inspirational

[bobacupcake]

who keeps breaking into my freezer and replacing the trays full of little water with ice cubes

[circusclownproductions]

“Can I be mean for a second” I would not care if you killed the bitch in front of me. Now what’s bothering you queen

[depsidase]

[chekhovs-slinky]

“We didn’t have all this autism when I was a kid”

Yea, you had changelings and demonic possession and “brats” and “back talk”, and kids that were “not all there”, your aunt who’s “crazy”, and your second cousin no one ever talks about cuz he’s “special”, and if you’re fucking lucky, your elder uncle who lives a nice quiet life with his 70 lego sets and writes grocery stores about changing the light bulbs cuz they’re too harsh.

[fridakahloblvd]

not to put this user on blast, but ohmygod this may be the funniest thing i’ve ever seen 😭😭

[willgrahamscock]

[theebbestboy]

[a-sentient-cup]

[virtualgirladvance]

[garbuge]

my family wasn't this strict, but in some sects of buddhism you're not allowed to eat the "five pungent vegetables", onions garlic shallots leeks and umm chives i think, really any of those kind of vegetables. probably some monk ages ago was tired of onion farts stinking up the temple. anyways, one time my brother made a soup using all five of them. he said, "one sip of this, and you'll be reincarnated as a flea."

[butchstrahd]

[victusinveritas]

[razielim]

oh i'm going to misusle and straight up fuckle this knowledge so badly

[capacity2]

Everyone thinks they’re radicalized these days. Well start blowing shit up then

[sun-almighty-wukong]

im this economy?

[mr-deep-downer]

you’re this economy? what the fuck man

[ahordeofmandrills]

There he is! He’s the economy! He’s why it all sucks! Get his ass

[gridmaster5000-deactivated20241]

why is privacy so eroded. I get treated like a nutcase if I say no, I don't want strange companies taking pictures of my home and putting them online for maps or whatever. I don't want to be in the background of your tiktok, and I think it's weirder for you to assume I'm okay with it than it is for me to politely ask you to refilm it so my face isn't in the frame. I don't enjoy handing my employer a list of every online account I have and feeling under surveillance when I'm just shit posting or sharing pictures of my cats or garden harvest. I don't want to hear your private calls on speaker on the bus, esp when the person on the line doesn't know you're broadcasting their words to strangers. I don't want an algorithm guessing what will piss me off the most so I spend more time online, engaging with shit I don't want to see or hear out of outrage. I don't want any of this. it's total ass.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[cheesegeek]

omg