Warp Forged TARDIS

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[citizen-of-the-fandom]

been reading a lot of those "humans are from a death planet" alien stories and I had the funniest thought.

Imagine an alien crew watching the human who just singlehandedly saved their entire ship or overpowered a bully or something like that, endurance this and persistence hunters that, got a broken arm and was like "ow" and then continued functioning while offhandedly mentioning something about adrenaline, and then--

the human accidentally hits their shin on something and collapses like a wet paper towel

[theprofessional-amateur]

Me when I contact IT and tell them yes I restarted and followed any instructions I could but computer still angry and IT says they are escalating this because it is an actual issue: I am getting a good grade in service desk ticket. Something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

Link to post

[sorin-sunchild]

Humans are space oddities because most aliens can't understand why they're afraid of what they're afraid of.

Alien #1: So it approached the Afhd'tggfh without perceiving any threat, despite the size and presence of biological weaponry?

Alien #2: The human wished to make physical contact. It seemed to have confused the beast with an Earth creature called a 'pup-ee'.

Alien #1: Yet it shrieked and became violent at the sight of ambassador Tcktcktck?

Alien #2: Yes! It would have been an intergalactic incident if the ambassador did not have such good humour, xik had come across humans before and understood xiks likeness to a 'speye'der' was startling to most humans.

Alien #1: For what reason? The human is many times larger and could easily vanquish or run from such a foe.

Alien #2: The human could not explain.

Alien #1: -deep sigh-

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[cloverchameleon]

[fairyable]

link to a free pdf of the workbook referenced above (2016 version)

[fruitsoftheweb]

[dzamie]

[ironfoot-72]

Wow, are you sure that adds anything useful?

[dzamie]

I’m not here to be useful, I’m here for my own entertainment. Part of that is thinking about furry porn.

[cryptiddies]

[imelsen]

Thinking about people who smile when they're angry and how aliens would react to that. See, most humans will say smile = happiness, but then sometimes smiles mean "I'm about to punch you". So imagine an alien is having an argument with a human and the human just. Smiles. And it's so weird because Why is this human happy right now? And then said alien is reminded that humans are, indeed, predators and guess what predators do before they're about to kill you? They bare their teeth.

[ouroborosorder]

boss makes a dollar i make a dime that's why i work at the us mint

[grimeclown]

hi I work at the treasury and my boss really liked this post

[thecalloffantasy]

Aliens spend years laughing at humans for seeing faces in everything. Trees, coats on chairs, random shadows, the pattern on a wall. They chalk it up to an overactive imagination and a brain that desperately wants everything to have eyes.

Then humans start spotting predators, ambushes, and hidden creatures in complete darkness before any of the aliens can detect them.

Apparently, when a human says, "That shadow has a face," the correct response is no longer, "You're imagining things."

It's, "Everyone stop moving."

From then on, every expedition into the unknown includes one very confused human whose official job description is simply: See if the darkness looks like it's looking back.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

lately my kids have been playing Baby Knife, which consists of somebody acting as a baby with knife hands chasing people while going "baby knife baby knife" over and over. is this a thing or are they just insane

[moveslikekeithrichards]

we have a new teacher this year who has never had kindergarten before & she rounded em all up & told em No Baby Knife and No Zombies and idk how to tell her that 1. all kindergarten recess games boil down to Give Birth And Kill Each Other and 2. the absurd vaguely inappropriate games they make up are usually better than when they try to play an Actual game like soccer

[moveslikekeithrichards]

Baby Knife is straightforward. theres a baby knife. baby knife chases you. thats about it. when they try to play Real Sports every single child is playing by a different set of rules unbeknownst to the others and none of them are playing by the Actual rules. everybody is mad at everybody else and running up to tell on their colleagues for cheating every 3 minutes. this doesnt happen when they play Baby Knife

[kedreeva]

if no one's said it, it's normal. It's just Tag with flavor. Tag is boring so you gotta add imagination.

Our baby knife as kids was Raptor Tag. Raptors hunt in packs so the person who was "it" had to run around pretending to be a velociraptor and to tag people they had to actually tackle them and "eat" them for 5 full seconds (others could come to the rescue and save them in that time, but risked getting eaten too or instead if the raptor switched targets). Eaten players then became raptors, until the whole pack was teamwork-hunting the last wily or lucky kid. There were no winning survivors- the game was won as a group once everyone was a raptor.

[gallusrostromegalus]

My kindergarten played "wolves" where a pack of 4-12 children, usually all the girls, would try to chase down and "kill" the deer (usually me)

I was bulled extensively in elementary school, but 1. Mostly by my teachers and 2. Not during this, because we ALL had PBS Nature and as Deer, I was allowed to gouge, kick, bite, keep running even after being grabbed, or body-check the larger children into the picnic tables and other architecture.

You know, for realism.

In point of fact, I was usually The Deer because I was the best at evading/ not going down without a fight, whereas most boys would just start crying or tattle, which is no fun at all.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We were incredibly boring. We played "murder ball" which was just Capture the Flag over the whole school grounds (outdoors only) and violence was permitted using the ball.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#We played Leeches (people run past you and you grab their legs and make them fall)#And Roadkill (body-slam your friends to the ground)#The teachers did not like these games

Your school would've loved Get Down, Mr President

[earhartsease]

we had British Bulldogs which was where one line of kids had to get past another line of kids (and vice versa) and violence was expected, much like we imagine dodgeball to be

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I just watched somebody watch Doctor Horrible on youtube (do not judge my cringe viewing choices) and I'm crying, this guy cannot understand the ending. He calls it "bizarre" and "doesn't get it". He kept talking about how Doctor Horrible should resurrect Penny with mad science and become a hero and watched the credits expecting a bonus scene with a true ending in it because he could not comprehend the extremely fitting and well-placed stock-standard tragic ending. Man does not comprehend the idea of a tragedy. You can dislike Dr Horrible's ending (if you have no taste) but how do you not understand it? It is. Such a comprehensible story. It is not subtle or twist heavy. There are zero points of confusion.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Dude had decided so hard that he was watching Megamind that deviations from the plot of Megamind simply did not compute.

[the-falling-eagle]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#he has fallen for the propaganda that the 'good guy' always gets the girl in the end#and cannot comprehend the fact that Billy could have HAD the girl he wanted if he just stopped deciding he needed to be something he wasn't#he destroyed her with his actions in an attempt to impress her but it was never really about her#he never saw her as a person only a prize to be 'earned' and that's why he lost her#it's been years since I watched it but I'm pretty sure she liked Billy just fine and only went to Captain Hammer when Billy rejected her#or at least was clueless that she was interested/flirting#but yeah people that claim Penny was unfairly fridged Do Not Get It the whole POINT is that Billy destroyed his own happiness

No, Billy never rejected her and she met and started dating Captain Hammer mere minutes after meeting Billy. But Billy, now that he was finally talking to her as a person instead of creepily watching her from across the laundromat, quickly developed a friendly rapport with Penny that had the potential for friendship or romance, while her relationship with Captain Hammer quickly soured because he's a self-obsessed manchild. She was very clearly fed up with Hammer by the time of the homeless shelter opening and probably would've dumped him very soon after. Had Billy just let things run their course, he would've come out of the situation with a good friend and/or girlfriend, depending on how romantically compatible they turned out to be.

What Billy did instead was to stop hanging out with her or with any of his other friends, because he was too busy working on his death Ray to get revenge on Captain Hammer. Both Captain Hammer and Billy were treating Penny as a prize in their slap fight and Billy could've come down to Earth but he didn't. He chose his pride over human connection. He decided that he could get his revenge on the guy who had "stolen" "his girl" and become a notable supervillain in one swoop, and devoted his efforts to that instead.

And he succeeded. And all it cost him was a single Penny.

[bat-in-the-machine]

There's also the fact that the epilogue makes Penny's death about everyone except Penny herself ("World Mourns Whats-Her-Name"), so it's not just Billy falling prey to his own flaws, but a whole systemic thing. There was no way for that story to end any way other than it did because of the people and setting.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#dr horrible's sing along blog#dr horrible discussion/analysis in the year 2025?? I'm thriving

I don't think it counts as analysis to just summarise the plot. Dr Horrible is a fun story with fantastic music that still holds up surprisingly well today despite the shifts in nerd culture (except for one rather unfortunate use of an ableist slur that certainly wouldn't have made it to screen if it were written today) but it's a little difficult to really analyse unless you're putting together a lesson for a Filmmaking 101 course or something, there's not a whole lot to really dig into that isn't just right there on the screen. It is not a story that contains multitudes. Very single tude story.

[rhapsodybenny]

It’s also 42 minutes, and on YouTube. Here it is:

[thebiballerina]

The Power of Leverage

Hey, so many of you are familiar with fix-it fanfiction, the superglue which holds together the hearts canon has shattered, right? Well, I have a point to make. As of right now (1-28-2020), there are 6,659 fanfictions in the Leverage category on AO3. You know how many of those are fix-it fics? 25. A measly 0.38% of Leverage fanfiction is tagged as fix-it. For comparison, 2.20% of MCU fanfiction and 1.25% of Supernatural fanfiction are fix-its.

So yeah, Leverage is so amazing that hardly anything needs to be fixed. But we already knew that. No, it gets better. Of those 25 fix-it fanfictions, 16 (64%) of them are actually fix-its for OTHER fandoms. Leverage has been used in fix-its for White Collar, The Walking Dead, Coupling (UK), The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Kings, Person of Interest, Pacific Rim, Once Upon a Time, The Losers, Merlin, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the actual 2016 US election (yeah, that).

The point here, being, not only is Leverage’s own canon one of the most perfect to grace television, it is so brilliant that it can literally bust in and fix everyone else’s canon as well.

[krakenartificer]

The bit about fixing other fandoms literally made me laugh out loud. Maybe more of a cackle. I love this show so much

[waywren]

Parker: *to the heartbroken or otherwise traumatised characters of other franchises* You are suffering under a tremendous weight. We provide… leverage.

[no-stabbing-wednesdays]

Eliot busting in to fix your canon

[depsidase]

[smokeydabear420422]

[viking369]

And no, I'm not being intolerant, you're being a shitwit.

[tim-official]

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

[tim-official]

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

[bobcat-pie]

[angelasscribbles]

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