[1111angelgirl1111]

gloomy midwest winter

[palpatinesuggestion]

do it.

[sailermoon]

“I’ll just rest my eyes” is the biggest lie you’re going straight to snorkmimimi land

[whenthegoldrays]

“I’m going to sleep” is the biggest lie I’m going to stare at my ceiling for the next three hours

[comradebestie]

i wanna see a production of hamlet where he’s just. scared. so scared all the time. scared of losing his family, scared of his uncles anger, scared of his mom’s disapproval, scared of dying, scared of living. i wanna see him played as a terrified kid who’s eyes go wide with horror when he’s told the blade was poisoned. the whole play he’s putting off doing anything not because he’s unsure, but more because he’s scared of the consequences. what would his mom think?? what would his god think?? what would his best friend think of him if he went through with the revenge??? i want him to die with tears running down his face, holding horatio’s wrist with painful desperation to live while horatio cradles his head. i wanna see hamlet scared.

[website-com]

guys the consequences of inaction are noooootttt enough to motivate meeee

[songbird-is-crying]

ok hamlet. sure. just you wait.

[silverpolish]

heard they’re making it easier tomorrow. not sure if it’s true, but don’t you wanna find out?

[xekstrin]

Why do American comics have this thing where they seem to emphasize way too many random words that don’t make any sense and I spend the whole time reading up and down in a lilting mental voice

[weboftime]

IN THE DAYS OF HAND-LETTERING AND POOR PRINTING, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE LETTERING EASY TO READ, SO IT WAS DONE IN UPPERCASE LETTERS. THIS TENDED TO MAKE THE TEXT HARD TO READ. SMALL PUNCTUATION MARKS WERE HARD TO SEE, IF THEY PRINTED AT ALL.

LETTERERS – THOSE UNSUNG HEROES – LEARNED THAT BY VARYING THE WEIGHT OF THE TEXT AND USING EXCLAMATION POINTS AND DOUBLE-DASHES, THEY COULD MAKE THE COMICS EASIER TO READ, WHILE EXPRESSING EMPHASIS TO ENHANCE THE ACTION-PACKED DIALOGUE! 

IN THE HANDS OF A GOOD WRITER AND LETTERER TEAM, THE EMPHASIZED WORDS ARE NOT RANDOM, BUT INSTEAD WORDS THAT WOULD BE STRESSED IN NATURAL SPEECH. THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE STRESS CAN CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE SENTENCE! 

YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT COMIC BOOK LETTERING GRAMMAR HERE!!

[brokenbalder-deactivated2014012]

[comrade-babygirl-deactivated201]

Please keep this circulating. Cops are getting more and more brazen, know your rights!

[hello-imaliveandwandwell]

good to know

[notsocolourblind]

Reblogging every time this goes past

[fuckingradfems]

I had to learn my rights the hard way…read this, study it, memorize it, this is insanely valuable information.

[kurhanchyk]

there is only one empire in the world and it is baklava empire

[kurhanchyk]

our glorious baklavastan

[lesbianshewolf-deactivated20250]

[bootleg-nessie]

Idk who needs to hear this, but your man 100% wants a sword, he just doesn’t want to be the type of person that buys them for himself. Get your boyfriend a sword for his birthday

[polibry]

Idk who needs to hear this, but your girl 100% wants a sword, she just doesn’t want to be the type of person that buys them for herself. Get your girlfriend a sword for her birthday

[vevader3]

Sending this to the gf

[senatortedcruz]

[lisbonsteresa]

summer thunderstorms are one of the most romantic things in the world, actually

[ashstfu]

i havent laid down on the grass in a while. maybe that is what’s wrong with me

[thenyanguardparty]

"we just call the planets the names of the gods romans associated them with out of tradition/convention" yeah sure true

"those planets are literally the gods we just simply found out that they're very round and not particularly intelligent and that the myths about them are mostly wrong" keep talking

[thenyanguardparty]

it's like how just because sun worshippers thought the sun was a god doesn't mean the sun isn't still the sun if you think about it

[thenyanguardparty]

*time travelling back to the republic* "so yeah we actually send some funky machines to look at mars, I'll explain how later don't worry antonius, and it turns out he's like a big ball of rock. sorry idk how he fathered the ancestral founders of your city but yeah big old stone orb"

[qweerhet]

honestly, why is the only language we have for sexual trauma that of rape and assault? there are so many kinds of sexual trauma that are done a genuine disservice by trying to grapple with them using the language of rape.

there's "i consented to this for self-destructive reasons," there's "i didn't know what i was consenting to because i didn't have enough experience to tell that i would be upset by this thing," there's "i initiated something that i now regret," there's dozens, even hundreds, of sexual situations that are traumatic and that need community support and care and some real trauma work to heal from, that just aren't accurately described by the language we have to discuss rape.

and like, trying to shoehorn them in under the umbrella of rape and assault often does a disservice to the victims trying to heal--trying to cast a sexual partner as a malicious perpetrator retroactively is often really psychologically damaging to someone who is experiencing a complex trauma around an experience they consented to, especially when the trauma victim themselves initiated the experience.

[qweerhet]

i also think there's a counterintuitive thing where the pressure to label every traumatic or even just upsetting sexual experience as rape actually increases the amount of uncomfortable sexual situations a lot of us subject ourselves to--not to get personal or anything, but like, when i was deep in the depths of that kind of thinking, i had significantly more sexual encounters, on the regular, that left me stressed or depressed.

i was averse to safewording, because in my mind, "being upset during sex" was a "sign" of being raped, and i knew that i wasn't being raped and didn't want to put the responsibility for my discomfort on my sex partners. so i just... didn't safeword, and didn't talk about being uncomfortable when i was, because i didn't want to jumpstart the I Am Being Sexually Assaulted narrative when i didn't feel like it fit my experiences.

this also fed into my pure-O OCD tendencies--sex would constantly devolve into a mental obsession over "am i happy? do i feel comfortable? if i feel uncomfortable, i'm being assaulted. do i feel like i'm being assaulted?" just like. obsessing, on loop, over and over again. i highly doubt this would have affected someone who doesn't have pre-existing trauma and obsessive compulsions nearly as strongly, but i think it's important to illustrate that this sort of thing harms people with pre-existing sexual trauma more than anyone else.

i have now learned that i can express discomfort and genuine upset during sex and it does not need to be about me being sexually assaulted specifically, and this has reduced the number of sexual situations i am uncomfortable in on the regular down to zero!

[prokopetz]

I need sci fi fans to please be normal about the Three Laws of Robotics. These are not a serious proposal about AI ethics – they're a narrative logic puzzle created to facilitate writing detective stories about robots. They're the sort of thing you'd invent to annoy Daniel Craig if you made a movie where Benoit Blanc goes to space.

[prokopetz]

A couple of folks have commented that the Three Laws are like the Prime Directive in Star Trek, but that's not really it.

The problem with Star Trek's Prime Directive is that half the time the shows are genuinely trying to take it seriously and crashing face-first into its moral inadequacy.

The Three Laws of Robotics, conversely, are explicitly designed to fail. Their storytelling function is to create verbal logic puzzles with tangible consequences.

When a robot in an Asimovian detective story manages to twist "a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" around into something horrifying by playing semantic games with the definition of the word "human", that's not trying to make a profound statement about the nature of humanity – it's presenting a puzzle-box for the reader to solve, and challenging them to figure out how the robot did it before the detective does.

[crabgirlfriend]

“WTNV walked so [insert whatever media] could run” no. WTNV did not walk, it was fucking running marathons while other media was crawling on the ground gasping for air. it’s still running and the world needs to catch up