I'm not really required to have an opinion

on anything but I do. and imma post it here

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

"oil my pan" i yell at myself quietly, over and over, because it's mid 2026 and every recipe is a recession recipe now

[so-many-ocs]

immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

watching parks and rec for the first time and maybe i'm too old now, or too into politics, or the world has just gone downhill since it came out because it's not funny anymore it's factual people really are that unreasonable and stupid at meetings, government officials are that incompetent and adamant on not doing their fucking jobs and leslie has my own dumb idealism and mommy issues i really just don't want to confront right now idk

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

raw live reaction to watching brick for the first time:

-5 mins in, i already hate this guy, think he doesn't deserve her and i'm glad she's apparently leaving him (afaik from the trailer and vibes). she's only had two lines of dialogue

-idk if my first impulse would have been to just start poking holes in my walls but what do I know i'm not an architect

-damn this may not be the best movie to watch while staying on an airbnb alone for the first time

-grandpa you are so badass

-idk where this is going but it feels so much like a videogame. escenarios and obstacles that load just when you move to the next level, dude with bat, dude with gun, dude in drugs with surprisingly good reflexes, queer young lady who becomes the whole reason i keep playing at some point, sexy girl who has not contributed much so far, and The Brains

-grandpa no :(

-they really made the most suspicious, untrustworthy guy the bad guy? alright i guess

-queer girl no :(

-it's really them and their scotch tape against the forces of evil huh bc i don't believe for a second that furry landlord doesn't have a drawer full of handcuffs somewhere

-as someone who likes to code, that was soo satisfying

-oh so that's how he losts his hands-

-now he's going to shoot himself isn't he yep there he goes

-"that's love" girl didn't deny he's an idiot

-is this the end of scotch tape supremacy?

-letting go of that axe a little too soon for not being sure the world outside is not burning right now

-well... that's fucked up

-main takeaway: when your wife tells you to leave your job and go on a road trip, you do just that

[regentium-deactivated20220608]

yes i AM built to be cuddled and kissed!!!!!!!! absolutely nobody was asking!!!!!!!!!!! but i am informing you all anyway!!!!!!!!!!

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

USA is Panem this, USA is Gilead that, you guys WISH even in Panem, in the poorest district of the country whose greatest entertainment event comes from betting on teenagers' battle royale, people have guaranteed housing.

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

+even in Gilead they have walkable cities you guys is this a joke

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

at this point it would be easier if someone just made a list of "celebrities that were on the big bang theory and haven't been found to be terrible people→downright criminals yet" so we can keep a close eye on them

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

this ALWAYS happens to me with Serbia. i'm always like my boy i know you're the problem i just can't prove it yet

[woman-respecter]

🇷🇸?

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

omg this is the funniest misunderstanding so

i meant SERBIA the mexican rock band that's pretty much just music to cry to, not Serbia the actual country:

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

love it when girls are a little bit ashamed and a little bit annoyed while mentioning their bfs. like gorgeous don't force yourself i don't want to hear about him either

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

this ALWAYS happens to me with Serbia. i'm always like my boy i know you're the problem i just can't prove it yet

[moleshow]

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

USA is Panem this, USA is Gilead that, you guys WISH even in Panem, in the poorest district of the country whose greatest entertainment event comes from betting on teenagers' battle royale, people have guaranteed housing.

[fuckyeahasexual]

Idk if this is the right place to ask but as someone who has been awarded the AAA package ive been thinking a lot about genderfuckery and what that means for labels of attractions. So my question is what does the sapphic label entail? (Anyone but men, anyone but cis men?) Does it require attraction? Does any other queer label necessitate attraction on some level (sans gender specific ones)?

Sorry this started out as a specific question about the sapphic label and then i realized i had a more existebtial question of if gender fuckary then what are labels. Anywayy any thoughts are appreciated!

It's kinda made up, man. I come down hard on "do whatever you want forever," in no small part because every time I've just engaged with good faith with someone with an unusual label, I've been rewarded. Definitions are helpful for describing the most common or average experience of people who use them, but you'll never be able to define away all the fuzzy edge cases, especially when gender fuckery comes into play. If a label feels right, there's probably a good reason for it.

[lifebeingpolywannabe]

This. Is. Art

[clemperium]

The thing about the Drama that I have a hard time coming to terms with is the reason why Emma didn't go and commit the shooting. Everyone goes with the most uncharitable interpretation of those events; as if she didn't do it because she would no longer be "the first" one to do it in her town.

The movie shows how the shooting impacted the students at Emma's school, and Emma had to sit and take in all the reactions of those around her. The pain it caused others, how shameful it is to do such a thing, the weight of real life taken. Her not going through with it read to me less as a disappointment, and more as a wake-up call.

Before the shooting happened, her view of such events was glamorized play pretend. She was trying to make a "cool" sounding manifesto putting on silly makeup and clothes. After it happened, she was face-to-face with the real consequences that would have on the people around her, and she chose not to go through with her plan.

Charlie's interpretation of this event was the MOST uncharitable possible interpretation of how things went down and idk why his viewpoint is the one taken in this scenario.

[sugar-petals]

zendaya is old hollywood personified: the return of the god-like movie star. we’ll still talk about her decades from now because honest to god? no one has a more impressive run. z is playing the whole industry like a violin. queen was swinging from the ceiling right into zac efron’s shook ass face, had bruno mars serenading her pathetically, was kissed by hunter schafer and jacob elordi, bisexualized two tennis players, married actual spider man, was mugler’s muse, stunned the met gala, bagged a pattinson wedding movie, became nolan’s athena, and had enough game to be cracking lisan al gaib all across the whole damn desert. call her tashi duncan the way zendaya scores. playing 3D chess since the beginning y’all this is generational range

[tzthrowbacks]

oh emma💔

[blissandbless]

He should have suffered a little bit more before that ending I am sorry 😔, and he needed a better slap too, not that kinky one 🤣 a Tashi level slap.

[pixiesklove]

Totally agree. The ending suited the story, but damn, Charlie doesn't really face the full weight of what he did. And that's the heartbreak of it and also kinda the human experience

[blissandbless]

Exactly, I understand the bigger picture and the humanity the movie is trying to convey. There's a good reason they kept emphasizing Emma's empathy, double empathy even 😂, but Charlie to me went out of line. It's not just the cheating part, I think he never really embraced who she was, maybe he was not given the time to within the story considering they had 1 week before the wedding. It seems to me that the opinion of others mattered to him way more than anything else. His willingness to make excuses on her behalf and to portray her as a victim to his friends felt like he was ashamed. I would have liked some alone time for Emma, and some self awareness for Charlie during that time. He should have been left alone at that diner to self reflect, then maybe bumping into each a few months later where they first met with Charlie offering to start over. That would have been my preferred ending. Emma was just too nice.

[ilovetomdaya]

This!!!! All of this!!! Even Charlies speech at the wedding was messed up. He didn't truly 100% understand Emma. The fact that he cheated on her not long before their wedding is so, so messed up. I just love this movie. Emma is so gorgeous and she deserves better.

[whoreiorcats]

I appreciate The Drama’s stance that in the USA it doesn’t take any kind of special psychopath to become a mass shooter. It’s essentially encouraged with no barrier to entry and the only thing that takes Emma down that road is like a few bad years. A moderate level of bullying and isolation. The only thing that pulls her out is like, a few good friends. A club.

She wants to kill people because like she’s bored and lonely. That’s genuinely it. And she sees no real irony or falsehood in her becoming a gun control activist because it’s as genuine as the first thing.

She really does seem to be immediately past that. She’s over it. It wasn’t about hurting people, it was about looking cool and having an impact on others. Being an activist fills the same role in her life.

It’s still terrifying that it was that close. As Charlie points out, if there are thousands of mass shootings a year, how many people in this country are there who wanted to or almost did but didn’t go through with it? No one at her school knew, except, like, didn’t they?

Everyone who grew up in the age of mass school shootings felt like it could be them next, any day, any time, maybe anyone. It became baked into our routines and casual consciousness. It’s all just happenstance that it wasn’t us, specifically. It’s pure luck.