there's always a lighthouse

I'm Beth --or Bethany if you prefer. I'm your average college student making my way in the world. I reblog whatever I find amusing (in one way or another). I speak English (poorly) and French (conversationally). Follow me if you enjoy random musings. Suivez-moi et je vous aimerai toujours.

[thewingedwolf]

do you think the catholic church effectively utilized wokeness by funneling money into the colonization and rape of the americas after issuing the doctrine of discovery which effectively legalized the subjugation of indigenous peoples?

[captainjonnitkessler]

The Catholic Church is very woke as long as you ignore its stances on gay people, trans people, women's rights, gender equality, child sexual abuse, antisemitism, racism . . .

But hey, they pay lip service to how cool it is to be poor and humble (ignore the fact that the church is one of the richest organizations on Earth), they eventually stopped torturing people for having different religions or making scientific discoveries that contradicted the bible, and the last pope implied that maybe all gay people aren't all baby-murdering predators hellbent on bringing about the downfall of Western civilization.

See? Woke!

[captainjonnitkessler]

I really need to find out who wrote the scene where Grace is putting on the hazmat suit, knocks his glasses awry, and instinctively reaches up to fix them only to knock his hand against the helmet

For one thing it's just a very good, funny split-second gag. For another, as someone who wears glasses and occasionally needs to wear a blast suit at work, I need to thank them for the incredibly realistic representation

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

After school care pulled me aside about my child dropping an f-bomb “without remorse” and I put on my concerned face and nodded a bunch.

Apparently he was building something with a younger kid “who really looks up to him and is just starting to make friends” and said “Hey, you’re really fucking good at this.” which is, in my estimation, really a parenting victory.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I absolutely failed at doing this:

[magicratfingers]

may this energy find me

[magicratfingers]

oh well i guess ill just be fat and hot

[magicratfingers]

guess ill be fat and hot and hot

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[helenvaughans]

holy shit this is going to lead to sooo many lawsuits lmao

[mariacallous]

#tbh if you’re dumb enough to give openai your bank account info you deserve everything that’s coming to you

[qqueenofhades]

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[intercal]

leaving a bad review of The Art of War on Amazon so my enemies don't buy it

[theunsubtleknife]

Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years

[bonediggercharleston]

Hey guys, what if *puts the most horrifying mindblowing concept into your head with about 15 pages*

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[mattymouse16]

The best magicians don't reveal their tricks.

[abyssaldyke]

It's spring now which means the kids in my city have started drawing hopscotches on the sidewalk and as a rule I do every hopscotch I see because 1. Use it or lose it (ability to scotch) and 2. If a child got down on the hardscrabble streets of Boston Massachusetts to draw a scotch the least I can do is use it, but in doing the hopscotches, I've learned that about 50% of them are the typical 8-10 step scotch and the other 50% are. Somewhat avant-garde. And of course I'm not vetting the entire scotch before I start it so sometimes it's like haha 8 steps woo! Childlike whimsy! And sometimes they're 20 steps or 30 or they've got a section with three squares instead of two where you have to do a little Charleston to step on all three, or, memorably, FORTY one foot squares. A full BLOCK of jumping on one foot but I'm no quitter so once I've started Jigsaw Junior's fuckin hopscotch gauntlet I'm there til the end just a daily pot smoker in her thirties jumping kasa-obake style through an affluent suburb while some little proto-kennedy watches from his bedroom window rubbing his sadistic little third grade hands together and cackling. It's amazing. I love spring.

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[t4timekeeper]

seeing discourse about “foreign films” is really funny when you’re not american

[t4timekeeper]

i saw a foreign film the other day. have you heard of Jurassic Park

[b33tl3b0y]

homunculus let out into the yard for a few minutes of recreational getting thrown from the roof time

[preheville]

people on here make ocs and they're mostly men and they ship characters and they're always men and they have favourite characters and they're always men but sometimes they say the men are like women not trans ones though because that would be guh-ross and harsh the vibe of the #fandomspace and they write fanfiction about men and talk about how complicated and #deeplywritten their male favs are and they'll watch movies and tv shows with mostly male casts in every way that matters and not question it because well what do you want them to do about it and they don't even care that that's what they're doing to them it's pure coincidence they always like the male characters better it's pure chance that women are only interesting as yaoi cheerleaders and actually when they write female characters as yaoi cheerleaders they're doing them a favour because they were just so poorly written in the source material it's the charitable thing to do men men men men men men men and if you say anything about it well you're being a killjoy you're being no fun you're being homophobic you're being a misandrist god what is it about women right what is it about women always trying to ruin our fun? why do they care so much? they're just women. who wants to think about women at all.

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

[spitelesss]

if you sneeze without covering your mouth on public transit then you deserve *pauses to consider my convictions regarding punitive justice* *nods head resolutely* the death penalty