There Is No Model for Reason

Ventoren Legacy, on Star Forge. Star Wars. Whovian, Browncoat, SPN Family. Narnian. Joe, INTJ, cis, he/him, mixed black/white, polyam, queer, equality activist. Six Minutes of Under The Covers Missionary Disappointment. Lonbri Dondge.

[dykeselfcest]

the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family

[1dietcokeinacan]

Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making

[masterofbirds]

man remember like 14 years ago when i was like "oh i should prep one of my characters to be a ruler of a faction, and guilds should line up with factions within factions" and everyone was like "nah your characters aren't ever gonna be that special, stop trying to write a mary sue" and now there's like 50 billion alliance commanders because star wars tells archetypal stories and we are about to enter a warring states period like the warlords era of the new republic where the republic is trying to re-form and the empire is splintering into a thousand tiny emperors controlling individual planets and sectors and that's the history of where jedi lords come from and why the valley of the jedi is there in the distant future pepperidge farm remembers

[killldeer]

well and truly losing it over Mat and Egwene’s parting interaction during Lord of Chaos

this is, if I recall correctly, the last time they will be face to face until they’re standing on the Field of Merrilor. Which means this is the second to last time, ever, that they will see each other. And Mat uses it to leverage the commanding officers of the entire Band to make a very public display of deference to Egwene – even though he personally can’t quite believe she’s really been raised to the Seat – because he cannot stand to see her colleagues treat her with such blatant disrespect.

And then when he asks why Egwene’s even seeing him off in the first place, though she can’t publically tell him everything she very pointedly tells him that she still considers him a friend, and to stay out of trouble in the same way she would if they were back in Emond’s Field. Despite Mat’s indignation at this in the moment, on a reread you can almost feel the horrors that await Mat in Ebou Dar looming over the narrative even before you consider that Egwene’s had a ton of very symbolically-laden Dreams about Mat’s future; and so to me this reads as a very earnest, almost anxious warning to take caution. An indirect apology for sending him off like this, and a hope that he comes back safely. I am going to start crying

[shrine-of-the-exoletus]

"All things considered," Really? ALL things? You're telling me you thought about every thing?

[shrine-of-the-exoletus]

So I guess you thought about us kissing? Stepping forward, shoving me against the wall, pinning my hands above my head, and moving in on my mouth before I could react? You considered that, huh?

[brightlotusmoon]

[lovethygoalie]

REALLY GOOD PICTURE

[leviathan-supersystem]

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

[leviathan-supersystem]

happy 10 year anniversary!

[august--and-everything-after]

[headspace-hotel]

This post.

This fucking post.

It is in some ways, the only piece of evidence I have that there was a time Before.

[astarlingdiscovery]

looks at you upsidedownly

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

'the wheel of time is bioessentialist' is it really? or is every instance of a character thinking people of x gender are like y included to show their limited and flawed perspective and contrasted within the narrative with a counterfactual instance of the observed trait being purely human and not gendered?

why are we taking the unreliable narrators at their word?

[json-derulo]

the past three weeks in a row, partner has gone to chipotle and been served by the same employee who, in bold defiance of the testimony of his own eyes and ears, ardently refuses to believe carnitas exist

[json-derulo]

partner: “Hi, could I please have a bowl with white rice, black beans, and carnitas?”

employee (completely blank expression): “No.”

partner (autistic) (socialscript.exe encountered an unhandled exception) : “…Uh. Um. Sorry?”

employee: “We don’t have that.”

partner (wondering if perhaps he put too much of the authentic accent on the word and that’s what’s throwing the guy): “You don’t have…(pronouncing it whiter) carnitas?”

employee (face still unreadable): “No.”

partner (looking at the near-full hotel pan of perfectly normal carnitas in its usual place on the other side of the glass) (noticing this employee looks unfamiliar) (maybe he’s a new guy that just started five minutes ago with no training?) : “The…pork?” (pointing at it)

employee: “We don’t have pork.”

partner (beginning to wonder if he’s the one that’s losing it) (desperately looks to the menu on the wall behind the employee) (the menu lists carnitas as a protein option) (the word “carnitas” is not crossed out or taped over or otherwise adulterated) (carnitas have been on the standard menu since at least 2016) : “Okay. Um. Are you…sure?”

other employee working the toppings part of the line (familiar) (have seen her before) (she has cool earrings): *gives the new guy a strange look, nudges him aside, and scoops the carnitas onto partner’s bowl before continuing with the other toppings*

Repeat conversation again the next week. And the next. Same guy. If it’s a bit, no one is laughing, including the employee.

[json-derulo]

theories I’ve considered:

- the employee keeps very strictly kosher/halal/vegan and refuses to handle pork (understandable, I respect that, but if you’re gonna work at a place that serves pork I do kinda feel like when someone orders it you’ve just gotta tap in a coworker to do it for you)

- someone did something gross to the carnitas and the employee is trying to warn people not to order it (??? throw it out then? also, three weeks in a row???)

- the employee is a space alien who views humans as so similar to pigs that for us to eat them is tantamount to cannibalism

[json-derulo]

- the employee is the lead in a kdrama romance about a pampered, clueless chaebol heir who is sent by his father to work in the company’s restaurants for a year in order to prove he’s ready to take over as CEO. he’s dumb as rocks but they can’t fire him or even correct him that harshly due to the power gradient. partner is just a minor reoccurring character, and the interaction is kept the same from week to week to highlight the development of the relationship between the employee and his love interest with the cool earrings (even if the restaurant is literally a fully-branded Chipotle, that’s somehow still not enough product placement for me to believe this is a real kdrama)

[json-derulo]

After reviewing again with partner, evidently I forgot a detail that set this week’s carnitas denial dance apart from the others.

partner (well aware of what he’s getting into with this guy now): “Hi. Could I please have a bowl with white rice, black beans, and pork?”

employee: “We don’t have pork.”

partner (demonstrating a level of patience only a public school teacher could have): *points at the pan of carnitas* “Could I please just have some of that?”

employee (after several slow, confused blinks): *points at the same pan* “That’s steak.”

partner (looking at the hotel pan they’re both pointing at) (it is filled with shredded meat of a pale beige color) (at the other end of the row of pans is another pan containing dark brown, lightly charred meat chopped into small pieces): “Okay.” *deciding he’s willing to play in this fantasy space if it gets the job done, he points at the first pan again* Then could I please have the steak?”

employee: *starts to reach for the pan at the other end containing the actual steak*

partner: "Oh—no, sorry, this one please?" *points at the first pan containing the carnitas*

employee: *blinks, then just walks away and starts helping the next customer in line, leaving partner's bowl unfinished*

other employee with cool earrings: *rolls her eyes at new employee, takes partner’s bowl, and fills it with carnitas herself*

new theories:

- the employee is a bridge troll who will only dole out his delectable carnitas to those who prove themselves worthy by correctly answering his riddles three

- the employee is stoned out of his mind at all times on a specific strain of weed that totally erases the concept of pork from his memory and awareness

[json-derulo]

since she definitely doesn't get paid enough to explain

People of tumblr: What IS his deal?

pearl-clutching space alien aghast at paracannibalism

dank kush of deporkening

one chipotle employee always lies, the other only tells the truth

was a pig farmer in a past life until his archnemesis (partner) stole them

just doesn't like pork and thinks no one else should eat it either

bridge troll

clueless chaebol heir in a kdrama

extremely strict kosher/halal/vegan

a bat sneezed in the carnitas and he's trying to prevent the next global pandemi

purposely trained wrong as a joke a lá Wimp Lo from Kung Pow: Enter The Fist

he's just so committed to this unfunny bit that he's willing to risk it all

Voting ended onJan 30

[json-derulo]

Oh, and lest anyone think this is his fault: Partner is, to paraphrase ex-wife guy John Mulaney, the kind of person who would find a way to apologize to someone who spilled hot soup in his lap. Especially if they work in food service. He’s not doing anything to provoke this other than standing there with the enviable natural 3B ringlet curls of an angel. If he weren’t ordering the carnitas on my behalf, he almost certainly would’ve just given up at the very first “we don’t have that” and pivoted to chicken (or whatever the Carnitas Despot would allow him to have) with a smile and a nod, never to ask for pork again

It’s worth noting that this is also the scene of his close encounter with three other Chipotle cryptids a few months ago. So maybe it's just the Sunnydale High School of fast casual texmex establishments

[all-mammal-creechur]

Masked Shrew Sorex fontinalis

A common shrew found in Alaska, Canada, and the northern United States. They eat insects, worms, snails, small rodents, salamanders, and seeds. Due to its high metabolism, the masked shrew can eat three times its weight a day. The shrew has to eat almost constantly, because they can only survive a few hours without food Their metabolism drops when they are at rest.

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[bowelfly]

monkifies your shrew

[masterofbirds]

LOGALOGALOGALOGALOG

[spale-vosver]

[kinkshame-puncher-666]

Reblog this to ease the back pain of the person you reblogged it from

[rohirric-hunter]

We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, "An army can't fight if the soldiers aren't eating," but I'm reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, "You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete," so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything

[stavarosthearcane]

If someone has to write to tell you not to do something that seems blatantly obvious there were almost certainly multiple people who have done that thing. Possibly repeatedly. With expensive or infuriating consequences.

Never underestimate how stupid people can be about anything.

[sandmandaddy69]

[qualitysigns]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

[lovely-v]

I’m gonna propose “I guess you haven’t read the silmarillion then :/” as a default response to anyone not understanding a reference to something obscure. even if it’s not remotely Tolkien related. I want to build up a perception that perhaps the sum total of human knowledge is contained in the silmarillion

[lovely-v]

[luna-azzurra]

Being a writer is wild because one minute you’re convinced you’re a genius and the next you’re googling ‘synonyms for walk’ like you’ve never used language before.