Been here far too long lads

Hey I'm Marine, I'm in my mid 20s, I'm English and I'm a Lesbian. They/them. There will be swearing on this blog.

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[charl0ttan]

im glad we're in the internet backwaters i think if dove chocolate or something replied to my post i would just keep reporting them for terorism again and again and again

[thyrell]

joe biden should do another stimulus check where the ira sends me a lox bagel. with cream cheese please

[thyrell]

irs.

[efoxgirl]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[incogniito]

I see that town in my restless dreams..

[catasters]

[fairycosmos]

no one is coming to save you its true its true someone might be coming to hang outttttttttt though. someday

[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this

[dilophosaurid]

Its actually insane how often people replace their cars. You should be able to get one vehicle and use it for at LEAST ten years, if not 30 or more. Im serious. AND it should be socially normal.

[atomicwrongs]

I also ☝️ think it's important to tell the difference between "the author's barely-disguised fetish" and "the audience member's unrealised kink that they're projecting onto the author because seeing a character tied up is making them feel funny in their Audience Member Parts"

[skautism]

[tazri]

Last month I caught Covid, and right at the start of my symptoms I saw this post. For the next 8ish days, I was HAUNTED by this song. It played on a loop in my head for hours. I would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat singing “…mixed with Zach Galifianakis” as it bounced around in my virus-addled brain. It was literally inescapable.

Anyway as soon as that ended, the Morbin Time memes started so you can imagine how that went for me, who would be deliriously sick for another 5 days.

[tazri]

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post, Zach Galifianakis still haunts me in my fucking dreams like the predator

[willgrahamscock]

Your pronouns sound like someone clearing their throat

you guys find new ways to hate crime every day

[willgrahamscock]

[willgrahamscock]

my gender is now canceled everyone stop perceiving it

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[katharkness]

In a sense, it doesn’t matter how ridiculous it sounds to think Pepsi would genuinely honour that. Pepsi said that they would, therefore they have to, or else they’re guilty of false advertising. Companies can’t be allowed to say whatever they want in adverts, and when asked to pony up pull “it was just a joke, bro”. To use a slightly less ridiculous example, Fallout 76. One of the preorder editions can with a canvas backpack. But when they finally shipped, the durable canvas backpacks somehow became flimsy nylon. Complaints to publisher Bethesda got the response that the canvas version advertised was a prototype that was too expensive to make, so they handed out the cheap imitations instead. It took like two years in the courts for Bethesda to give people what they actually pay for. And they won because advertising law says you have to deliver on what you promise, even if it’s a Harrier jet. Introducing any level of “it’s just a joke” makes that effectively meaningless.

[rostekhorn]

I think this story is missing something that gives a lot of context to the ad and the way people reacted to it: the 1989 Pepsi barter deal.

Basically: Pepsi had worked very hard for years to break into the Soviet market, but since rubles couldn't be spent outside the USSR, they had to use a barter system instead. Originally the deal was "we give you Pepsi to sell in the USSR, you give us vodka to sell in the U.S. of A." Problem was, the vodka never sold as well in the West as the Pepsi did in the East, and after the anti-Soviet boycotts of the eighties, vodka sales really started to sink.

So, by 1989, the Soviets found something else to give Pepsi in exchange for its soda: warships! Now, those were old, outdated, rusting, largely useless warships. And Pepsi wasn't using them, they were just the middleman, immediately reselling them to a Norwegian scrap company. And of course, when the USSR dissolved in 1991, so did the trade deal. Still, the story was just too good to ignore, and Pepsi became famously known for a while as the multinational that had briefly had its own navy! Not true in any meaningful sense, but technically correct, and we all know what kind of correct that is.

Bottom line: if, in 1996, not even a decade after the warships-for-soda deal, you saw an ad telling you "Pepsi has a jet fighter to sell!" it wasn't, in fact, as obviously insane as you'd think. Pepsi did have a recent record of acquiring and then re-selling complex weapons systems. Which makes their lawyer's defense of "Your Honor, it was just a joke, bro!" even more inappropriate.

[luimnigh]

I keep sewing this post go around my dash, and there's one thing it keeps missing:

Pepsi won the case. They were able to prove in court that the offer was clearly not serious and it was ruled they didn't have to provide the jet. "It's a joke bro" is in fact a winning defense.

Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc. - Wikipedia

[moon-meerkat]

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

[fangtastic-bastard]

"Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing."

I find this passage from the Mary Oliver essay "Staying Alive" very poignant and true.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

comic by Art Spiegelman & Maurice Sendak of the two of them discussing childhood

[bertopflop]

measure twice cut- well no go measure again because you forgot

[penandinkprincess]

so wildly obnoxious when you agree with the starting point of someone's stance only for them to hard turn into things you DON'T agree with and now you have to defend the thing that was originally annoying you

"too many authors in the current market are focusing on selling 'spice' instead of telling interesting stories"

"oh yeah, i agree. i started reading one that i heard a lot about and it just wasn't-"

"and it's all of these women reading their fucking mommy porn out in public like FREAKS"

*through gritted teeth* "people should be allowed to read whatever they want, and actually these books should be left alone and you should shut up about it"

[literaryroses]

[dacuala]

why is trespassing not allowed. like i just want to look

[kosmogrl]

Dont blame yourself for not having known a lesson only time could teach