Ramblings

Ramblings.

[samshepard]

also saw some post earlier today about how gen z isn't doing cults anymore. That's simply not true. It's simply not true. There are actually more cults than ever and they are on the discord app. You don't understand. They are doing struggle sessions in fandom discourds

[samshepard]

the reason that OP claimed there were no gen z cults was because there's no cheap real estate to have a compound on anymore which is such an annoying ass bsky.app millennial take like I can hear you smirking behind your latte. No. "second location" is an outdated model. people figured out how to leave all the time back then. Now your phone is the second location and leaving your Phone Cult is so much harder

[captainlordauditor]

Some cults I know have lots of gen z members, off the top of my head

redpill incels

their worse cousin, blackpilled incels

Zizians

Rationalism in general

extreme political movements in general (both the right and the purity culture obsessed, pro revolution left)

fandom purity culture

I know this isn't the focus of this post but it's important. There are scads and scads of well established cults like Mormonism, Quiverfull, etc, which are established enough to be seen as regular religions instead of high control groups. Many of these cults encourage their members to have a lot of kids, so while you may mostly hear from the people who left, for each one there's easily a dozen more who didn't leave. I know people my age (20s) who were raised in these cults and have siblings who are still invested in the cult.

[the-haiku-bot]

Some cults I know have

lots of gen z members, off

the top of my head

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[lizardlicks]

"Wellness" influencers. "Beauty" influencers. "Fitness" influencers. "Finance" influencers. If they're on social media telling you they have secrets only they've unlocked and they're your only salvation, that only the few truly brilliant people can see their vision, that they're the only one holding the keys to the future you've been dreaming of, all you have to do is leave behind any friends or family that contradicts them, don't question, stop thinking for yourself, do everything they say, all for the low low price of your happiness-- they're a cult leader.

[datsderbunnyblog]

I love the dynamic in the Discworld fandom on this site, I think it's mainly because there are a lot of dormant fans, if you will, who've read and loved the books for years but haven't engaged much recently, who sort of reappear whenever a fun post is doing the rounds. It's fantastic. We get the cozy small fandom vibe without the screaming matches, but also get the popular posts from time to time, y'know?

[datsderbunnyblog]

YEP. In fact for some people it’s Emotions Day right now.

[datsderbunnyblog]

To everyone tagging and commenting with some variation of “Oh, I almost forgot that it’s tomorrow!”

“Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days...”

That’s so very meta of you.

[datsderbunnyblog]

IT'S EMOTIONS DAY TOMORROW

[datsderbunnyblog]

#oh I need to read enough discworld to understand what emotions day is

For anyone who's confused today, I won't spoil/explain what the 25th of May is in the Discworld fandom, because I think a big part of what's special about it is the way the plot unfolds in the book.

What I will explain though is that it'll make sense when you reach a book called Night Watch, which is the 29th book in the overall series and the 6th book in the City Watch subseries. If you haven't got that far yet, just take your time and enjoy the series! If you want to start with the City Watch stories then the first book you should check out is Guards! Guards!

And have fun!

[datsderbunnyblog]

It's that time of year where this post appears again like Reg Shoe digging his way out of his own grave

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[aemelia]

you're forty-five years old // #shaneweek // day four // favourite trait: pissiness

[totearup]

One day Ilya learns that a Pike is a kind of fish and it's all over for Hayden after that. "Yes Trout? What did you say?" "Bass is on the phone and would like to know if we can babysit his children." "Hello children, this will be your coach for hockey camp, Mr Tilapia."

[sztupy]

[nadoripeter]

Ez megoldódott.

[psychotic-gerard]

x

[kiragecko]

[Image of text saying,

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

End ID.]

[jesterlesbian]

KSENIA DANIELA KHARLAMOVA as Svetlana Vetrova in HEATED RIVALRY (2025)

Svetlana + outfits

[careysattheonsenagain]

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[texasbama]

Heated Rivalry | 1.06 'The Cottage'

[wykart]

what do you mean my disability disables my abilities? what the fuck

[sublunagh]

HEATED RIVALRY | Sveta & Ilya

[hollanov-ann]

I adore them

[multishipperpirateking]

"average gay hockey situationship lasts 2 years" factoid actualy just statistical error. average gay hockey situationship lasts 4 months. hollanovs georg, who took 9 years to say the word boyfriend, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[thisdamnedwierdinternet]

The women of Heated Rivalry are the true MVPs, fight me.

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[murderbotched]