Helio's Kitsch Cabinet

Helio's not robots side-blog. SFW. I'm Helio (~30, he/they, queer, Jewish) and I write things in my spare time. I block blank blogs and antisemites. Follows/likes from heliopauseentertainments Icon by coffeestress

[undeadcrimson]

You need to love Jewish people and make them feel like their presence is wanted and appreciated instead of threatening and uncomfortable. Btw

[invisible-goats]

saw an ad outside a local restaurant that said "have a star-crossed dinner this valentine's day"

do...do people not know being star-crossed is bad?

"come here and have a dinner that's cursed by fate"

[3liza]

everone in the replies going "no it isnt" and "ive never heard it used that way before" take a look around at what and who you are surrounding yourself with. ignorance is contagious, never just assume you know the actual literal meaning of anything, look it up

[mylordshesacactus]

Hey so I'm gonna be very very honest here.

And this is going to make a lot of people very angry to hear.

But a lot of y'all on this website are truly deeply genuinely never going to be capable of any kind of real narrative analysis--and I don't mean 'being right all the time' I mean 'meaningfully engaging with the text in any way'--

Because you are, fundamentally, incapable of comprehending that writers usually do things on purpose.

[mylordshesacactus]

The themes are there on...purpose.

The match cuts were meticulously designed and put there to communicate something.

The VA's delivery of a line was being directed. Inflection and tone change the meaning of dialogue. This is intentional. There are entire teams of people shaping those choices and deciding which take to use based on what works best for the story.

Information is being revealed in a specific order, on purpose, to craft an emotional arc and guide the audience's understanding.

A character's romantic preferences are only, and SHOULD only be, their primary motivation if the genre is romance. That is why there is a genre called that. Most stories are other genres.

Creators who dislike a character generally give them LESS attention, MORE boring storylines, and LESS screentime.

Sometimes curtains are just blue. But if the shot composition or written narration takes time to HIGHLIGHT, especially more than once, that the curtains are blue, then the blueness of the curtains is by definition narratively important.

"Cite your sources" is not a witch's curse that banishes People With Different Opinions to the shadowrealm of Being Wrong. Someone making points that challenge your perceptions, while including screenshots and explicit examples, cannot be dismissed with "cite your sources" because they are literally doing that. Don't @ me on this one I've seen shit in the wars, y'all.

Failing to understand these things WILL bar you from ever really engaging with or understanding any narrative more complicated than Paw Patrol for the rest of your life.

I am very sorry if that makes you angry.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Not letting @griseldagimpel's tags fade away:

[catilinas]

friendly reminder that [the most cherrypicked interpretation of the text possible] <3

[tboy-cock]

"if you take testosterone youll look like your DAD!! DO YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE YOUR DAD?!! YOULL LOOK LIKE A GROSS UGLY MAN YOULL LOOK LIKE YOUR DAD!" nope! adopted💖

[tboy-cock]

shoutout to the guys saying "my dad is awesome itll be cool if i look like him" but especially shoutout to the guys saying "i will/do look like my dad on t and i am making him suffer for it. he is evil and he HATES that i look like him. im like him but better" yall have a powerful aura

[sickbitterandcoveredinglitter]

I don’t think healthy people every really get chronic illness.

I have a friend I know from when we were both 6. She is the only person living nearby and so she saw me go from walking through limping to wheelchair on a daily basis. I keep her updated on my health even tho we rarely hang out anymore. She was gonna come over yesterday and I had to cancel. She asked if I can’t hang out later that day. When I said i won’t feel better later, that if I feel that bad in the morning later will only get worse she got annoyed and “joked” that I’m just finding excuses. And I was surprised, she knows all about me being disabled after all? So, a bit taken aback, I told her it’s a normal thing for me.

“But you got the diagnosis now, aren’t you better?? I thought you’ll get better now”

She was honestly surprised and it made me realize a thing. They don’t get it. They don’t get that getting diagnosed only equals benefits like welfare or parking spot for us, and sometimes better pain meds but that is just like pushing luck. That it’s a forever thing. That that one day we felt good a week ago was just a bright spot and doesn’t mean we won’t need our aids anymore, cause chronic illness is not linear and will make a great comeback in next four hours, and the next good day is planned on when we’re 70. Cause when abled people are sick, they get better. And our illness is just an excuse for them. And when we say we will never get better they think we’re being dramatic and pessimistic. And I don’t think they’ll ever get it, cause to get it you need to live it. And I want my friends to stay healthy and not go through hell.

[sickbitterandcoveredinglitter]

This is definitely okay to reblog and abled people are encouraged to reblog cause maybe it’ll help others understand

[sickbitterandcoveredinglitter]

Hello it’s me Lexa and this post is relevant again as I just had the Legit Same Talk with someone and I exhausted my number of fucks to give

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

[desolationlesbian]

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

[literallymechanical]

I love when a poster tries to convince people they know what they're talking about by presenting bare-minimum academic credentials and nothing else. It's giving nothing.

[nagi-kirima-style-cateran]

Like sure I get that bachelor’s degrees aren’t shit, but I’ve gotten published in pop science publications talking about fields that have nothing to do with my degree. I know a linguist who’s written several articles about physics, a physicist who’s written about biology, and a my grandmother worked in computer science with a degree in American studies.

Understanding most topics on a surface level or even a bit deeper is just reading and doing math.

[literallymechanical]

Least trustworthy pop science writer?

Linguist writing about physics

Physicist writing about biology

Voting ended onJul 18

[literallymechanical]

[literallymechanical]

A new challenger appears!!!

Least trustworthy poster (revised)

Linguistics major posting about physics

Physics major posting about biology

Psychology major posting about psychology

Remaining time: 4 hours 1 minute

[patheticprogrammingperson]

The typewronger <- new device for fucking things up real bad

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Claude

[bedupolker]

people who are like "but with universal healthcare you'll have to pay taxes!!! Up to 8%!!!" Are so funny. Like as opposed to the 16% of my gross paycheck that goes to private insurance, that won't cover shit unless i call my insurance company, then my doctor, then my pharmacy, then my doctor again because theyre pretty sure insurance got approved then my insurance company because they didn't get the letter, then my doctor again, then the pharmacy again, and then the copay i still am on the hook for.

[commoner64]

Sometimes I hate being Jewish on the internet, because people will accidentally say dogwhistles, and you can't call it out because it makes the situation too awkward and you gotta just take it

[maimonideznuts]

I just point it out. I've given up caring about relationships with anyone who isn't my husband, cat or dog.

I figure that if their ego is so fragile that being told a word or phrase carries water for hate, will break the friendship, then they weren't actually my friend on account of not respecting me enough to listen, and so let the facade break. It only hid the unpleasant nature behind it.

Losing a friendship sucks, but trying to maintain/rescue a friendship that wasn't worth saving sucks worse.

[smokeys-house]

So how much longer are we gonna pretend "higher than normal call volume" is a thing that exists. I think its normal call volume actually and you just arent hiring enough people. I think if you experience higher than normal for a very long time its no longer higher than normal its just normal and youve failed to adjust accordingly

[creekfiend]

there is this really specific thing that very Online women of a certain age (mostly older millennials and younger gen x in my experience) who are married to a man will do where they will refer to their husbands as "Mr. (Part of My Username)"

so like if the username is something like "dancingwithbears" they'll refer to their husband as "Mr. Bears"

i think it is extremely charming

[hollowedskin]

I would love to do that but I've been informed by the committee that calling him Mr. Skin is deeply upsetting.

[snissel7]

It's like how my childhood friend Freddie's parents are, naturally, Mr. and Mrs. Freddie

[nudityandnerdery]

Beautiful, no notes. (Found it on Facebook, tracked it back to Reddit)

[pinemartendiaries]

jumblr friends, would you say that your family culture includes either or both of the following?

conversational overlapping*

propensity for casual debate**

my family does both of these things

my family does neither of these things

goy button/secret fifth answer/i'm bald

Voting ended onAug 1

*conversational overlap is a cooperative tool where 2+ people speak at the same time in a non-competitive way. e.g., anticipating the end of a sentence and "finishing" for the other person to show that you understand

**by this, i mean that debate may occur frequently in family conversations in a way that feels fun, productive, and even playful (as opposed to being antagonistic or frustrating). this doesn't mean that your family never has stressful debates, of course!

context: i've noticed that both of these traits, which i have, can cause conflict with non-jewish friends unless i carefully moderate my speech. i've noticed these same traits in a few jewish peers. curious where you all stand!

[rems-rambles]

Disability is not a dirty word. Me calling myself disabled is not me insulting myself. I am using a word that describes the fact I am not able-bodied.