Sam's Dribble Drabbles

dancer, writer, book lover, music fanatic, aspiring keyboardist (I think)

[demilypyro]

the gang talking about the digital circus finale

the amazing digital censored file

[arlo-mike]

claim your badge here

[luckynumber-8]

...barely

[ikimaru]

added the Jax and Pomni one and here's all of them!! 🫶

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[comicaurora]

tumblr I swear to god if your ads on mobile keep opening popup webpages because my FINGER touched them while I was SCROLLING because they are SO BIG that they FILL THE SCREEN AS I SCROLL PAST THEM I am going to MANIFEST SNAKES IN YOUR WALLS

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[luckynumber-8]

oh this is glorious

[nurse-offical]

TAG GAME GUYS

think of a caracter with the same beginning letter as the beginning of ur account name

me first

nancy (from fancy nancy)

@da-police-offical @paranoia-offical @evilpineapple-offical @illegaldoctor--offical @isopod-offical @purple-morphsuit-guy-offical @supervillain-offical @sketchy-doctor-offical @somebody-offical @bill-cipher-offical @mabel-pines-offical @laciffo-natas @mean-girl-offical i think this is everyone i know

(open tags x)

[riddlemethis5373]

R for.....ROACH!!

Free tags plus tagging these people!

@gary-le-rochas @whentheangelsweep @knowledge-of-the-stars @wayward-victorian-man @decorakidd

[wayward-victorian-man]

William Murderface. I genuinely don't know how I feel about him, tbh.

Tags:

@badmufz1ns @puppet-string @draagsdaughter @localcelestialcreature62 and whoever else wants to hop on idk

[localcelestialcreature62]

HER. LYDIA DEETZ. I like the cartoon version of her more tho. Her relationship is BJ is less.. weird there.

@rayyanishere1

@left-lateral-incisor

@greenbunny7

@chaseerr0rcode

@cameforstuff

@tinfoil-jones

@consumerofshorthomies

@willapines618thesecond

@tigersharktheautisticseawing

@nico-the-overlord

@lunathetunaaa

@car9723-t

@hellohellohellohellohello3579

etc etc

[willapines618thesecond]

uh

WILLIM AFTON

hehe

open tags! would tag specific ppl but I'm tired rn lol

[peskybird87]

PIERS PIERS PIERS PIERS !!!!!

Tagsss -

@yakitako @attemptedartist + anyone else who wants to join ! =-]

[attemptedartist]

uhhh hmmmmmm oh right ALEC HARDY !!! :]

he's such a creature

uhhh

@anyablossom @fullmentalcritter @funk32517 @anglptera @t0nn1x @cartoonboingsfx

+ anyone else who wants to that i forgot !!

[t0nn1x]

My first thought was Timmy Turner and my second was Thundercracker, gang who wants a new crack ship (platonic)

No pressure tags — @androgynouschaosfury @renbugs-copper-crown @xx-icaruss-wings-offcal-xx @jjay-mess & company :3

[androgynouschaosfury]

Amelia bedelia

Yea I dunno that was the first thought so.

Tags! @radfr0g @rysi0m1mic @nonbinary-dinosaur7 @efrftfrc @honorarycrashout

[nonbinary-dinosaur7]

My first thought was Nardole :/

Uuuuh @sodiumvaporss @gay-stardrake anyone else?? idk who to tag gjnkrfgjnk

[sodiumvaporss]

was just looking at gravity falls stuff so my first thought was stan haha

@conspiracy--of--ravens and @frenpanda and anyone else who sees this :)

[conspiracy--of--ravens]

ok the only character i can think of that starts with c is catra so we'll go with that

@starry-knighted @dialupdragon @moldybee get tagged

[starry-knighted]

yay taggggs!

um um steve probably doesn't count and the only character coming to mind is simon lewis so i will say him

@luckynumber-8 hi friend hi

[luckynumber-8]

AGH lemme see

LUTE!!! Lute my queen from Hazbin Hotel 🖤🖤🖤

Gravity is the best song from S2 and I will die on that hill

@elsa-fogen and @kame-artist tag you're it!!

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Voting ended onJun 6

[arcanasland]

is anybody talking about the Arthur Eddington easter egg and the fact that he was also a gay man obsessed with stars and played by david tennant?

[alastorsart]

Rosie holds him… but he holds...you😈😎

Realized I’d never drawn him solo as a human… how dare I?😆❤️

[luckynumber-8]

holy shit he's fantastic

hold me back

[artsekey]

I post on Reddit. Someone says it’s AI. I tell them it is not. They say, “sure, buddy”.

I post on Reddit. “AI slop,” they comment. “and if it isn’t, it’s bad, mediocre writing.”

“No, I am not a bad writer.” I have the audacity to say. “Writing is part of what I do professionally. I get paid to do this.”

Someone else posts on Reddit. A chat from Bumble, where a man has the gall to use the unnatural em-dash. “No one uses the em-dash,” they say. It’s a trope at this point, I know. “The hypen is much more common. I don’t know where to even find the em-dash. Plus, he said you were “elite”. No one would say that.”

“The hypen isn’t grammatically correct.” I tell them, looking over the chat log. It’s a real person on the other side, their personality obfuscated by the nerves that come with reaching out on a dating app. There’s subtle humor, missing punctuation. Still, 100 people condemn it as AI. It’s more feasible to them that someone would edit those human elements back in manually than type it themselves.

I post on Reddit. I tell them my writing keeps being called AI slop. They say it is, it is. Use fewer periods. Capitalize less. Ignore the rules. A real person wouldn’t write like that. A real person wouldn’t use those words, or say it like that. I’m a real person. I can’t prove it to them.

Someone, finally, says that the tone of my post matches how some books are written. That maybe it would be good for those who doubt that the writing is man-made to read more man-made books.

“You think we don’t read?” They ask. Then something more incendiary: “You think you’re better than us?”

And, hey? Bad news, babes. This isn’t hyperbole. This is all real shit that has happened in the last week.

What the fuck is going on???

[luckynumber-8]

I will only be separated from my one true love - the em-dash - on pain of death. AI WRITES LIKE WRITERS. NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. HOW MANY CONCRETE BLOCKS WILL IT TAKE TO DRILL THIS THROUGH PEOPLE'S THICK EMPTY SKULLS.

[crowley-anthony]

#just ineffable husbands things (x|x|x) thank you aziraphale and crowley for everything❤️

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

""" i can't believe crowley chose the universe over aziraphale""" you can't believe that the SERPENT OF EDEN chose to give humanity free will??? AGAIN???

[fruitomens]

[luckynumber-8]

ok THIS though. one of my favorite parts if the finale (among the highs and the lows) is that we got to see who Crowley would have been if he would have always been that starry-eyed lover of the skies. he's so sunny and happy and it's beautiful

[thatweirdthingoverthere]

(Spoilers for Good Omens 3)

I know. I know it's a beautiful ending and the writer in me sees the greater message and the beauty of that ending and the new beginning.

The lizard-headed brainrotted fan in me, that smashed their faces together and said "now kiss" in my head, is still screaming in despair though.

[starry-knighted]

"nothing burger" what about. the everything bagel.

[luckynumber-8]

don't forget their cousin, the very average and entirely overlooked glazed doughnut

[gleafer]

Crowley.

Crowley.

Crowley.

How’s my mascara?

[luckynumber-8]

crying laughing