Meh

goddammit, the hyperfixation is back again

[meglyman]

Oh my god the fucking Onion

[luna-azzurra]

Desire should make your characters a little stupid. Otherwise what are we even doing here.

[liberate-women-now]

Since 2005, there are more registered female drivers than males and for the past 30 years male drivers account for 70% of all fatal car accidents.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[a-wild-embubble]

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

[luggifer4]

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[strawberry-crocodile]

me whenever I see posts about how canon is shit and can be discarded

[strawberry-crocodile]

re: everyone stomping their feet and loudly whining in the notes

[masochistrights]

dom who sticks their fingers down your throat, asks you a question, and laughs when you try to answer

[astral-logistics-assn]

Yes, yes, the dentist.  We’ve all been there.

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[escuerzoresucitado]

[parkchanwoohoo]

"Shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove" was meant to be a joke about needless posturing in preemptive defense against a hypothetical bad faith crowd, but I fear it's pmuch now a lifestyle

[earlploddington]

Shaking my head but catching the cameras eye and giving a sick grin nobody in the scene notices so you know i have evil intentions

[parkchanwoohoo]

[fourcorpsmen]

The old me was afraid of living. The real me lives with her fear, you bug-headed !$#%@.

[l00106]

absolute trinity x prime 👾

[saint-father113]

°•.

Please forgive me

This is the final drawing, yeah.

[the-one-piece-is-real-istic]

Orange Town: Real world AU edition

[the-one-piece-is-real-istic]

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

[wheup]

I love the thought of Grace and Rocky slowly figuring out what's an 'alien' thing and what's a 'them' thing. It's mentioned a couple times in the book and it's so fun, because these are two people who have been pushed to their absolute limit both physically and mentally, in unbelievably horrific situations, and they are. the only living example of their respective species. for several years in Rocky's case and probably decades if not forever in Grace's.

Like, Grace thinking that all Eridians are very physically busy because of their brain structure driving them to engage with multiple different lines of thought or even conversation at once only to find out when they get to Erid that Rocky is just the most tightly wound ball of nerves anyone has ever met and if he doesn't have something to do with his hands he gets anxious.

Rocky thinking it's very normal for humans to have large gaps in their memory and/or occasionally dissociate for several minutes at a time and come back crying, then hearing the nannybot mention 'potential amnestic side effects' one day and falling down a WebMd rabbit hole that ends with a very high pitched scolding.

Grace finding out that for all his badgering, Rocky actually sleeps and eats as little as physically possible for a functional Eridian, a habit he picked up out of mingled fear and practicality as the only remaining crew aboard in case of emergency.

Both of them getting much better at reading each other and much worse at lying once they've established what's a normal quirk for the species and what's an alarming stress response. Nobody likes this. Interspecies trauma exchange. So many stones are thrown in this glass biodome.

[projectorthus]

Not lovers or friends but a secret third thing (they play Catan together and Stratt pretends she's not preparing Grace for a one way trip to space)

[rusababy]

sex ed needs to mention aromanticism and asexuality in depth or else it sucks as sex ed

[rusababy]

no one off mentions. i mean IN DEPTH. discuss amatonormativity, compulsory sexuality, non romantic and non sexual intimacy, love being morally neutral

[rusababy]

stop giving kids sex and romance as their only possible way to be social and intimate as well as assuming they all want and prioritize only that, these babies are too lonely for that

[oldmanpusspuss]

I can't watch a television show until a demon possesses me and compels me to do it