(should be at the club)

sici (22) anthropology, bisexuality, and the seattle mariners/sf giants

[lakevida]

i always convince myself i dont sound that weird and then i go out in the world and get involved in anything longer than transactional small talk and its like ohhh thats right ive only been hanging out with gay people who speak in riddles

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

reading Alchemised and Algospeak at the same time is crazy because I really thought I could have told you which one would piss me off more but alas. it's Algospeak. SenLinYu may be a fanfic writer who scrubbed off the serial numbers to go trabpub but Adam Aleksic insists on calling himself an influencer and it turns out I do respect that less.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

update yeah he said that. I'm gonna kill this dude

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I guess if nothing else this did drill pretty directly to the most grating thing about his book (as someone not familiar with any of his tiktok work), which is his tendency to point out linguistic trends he's noticed with absolutely no political analysis attached at all

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

so anyway that's a DNF for Algospeak l m a o

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing is that it felt so half-baked from the jump because Aleksic would be saying things like "yeah influencers who have or can approximate American or British accents (as long as they're the most "correct" and palatable American or British accents) do way better than any other content, so a lot of people stop using their native accents and try to sound more Western" and you the reader think okay well that's horrifying but Aleksic as the author just goes "isn't that interesting? well anyway, moving on!" like yeah man it is interesting, in a really awful way. would you like to comment on it at all?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

for the record Aleksic was already on thin ice with me from the first page of Algospeak because he decided to start as incendiary as possible by talking about the word "unalive" and making the case that it's just the inevitable result of The Youth making up new words and anyone upset about it is being needlessly reactionary. the broader implications of The Youth growing up accustomed to censoring conversations about "sensitive topics" so severely that it bleeds into their real life communication was not interesting to him

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and for the record yes I did note that he added that he personally doesn't think anyone should be using the r slur but that's kind of a wiener caveat to add when you've already lent alleged academic credence to the notion that it's basically inevitable that it will become mainstream because nobody even remembers that it's supposed to be ableist anyway. Adam Aleksic is a few years younger than me, so maybe he missed the PSA series where people were reminded that using "gay" in a derogatory manner is bad even if you're not specifically insulting a gay person, but it really doesn't seem like that hard of a concept to grasp.

[legitimately]

need a full body massage a margarita 400mg of ibuprofen a plate of brownies at least an hour in a jacuzzi and 20,000 dollars cash

[log6]

you think so much. You could think about a door for a hundred years and it would stay closed.

[ouroborosorder]

honestly I hate “can you pet the dog?!?” not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of “can you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loop” and that very quickly fell away to being “well now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or they’re going to get letters”

[ouroborosorder]

One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any “click button to see cute animation” would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet

[catgirldragon]

[sistertaxon]

[theythembobdylan]

this is my one wild and precious life fucckkkkkkk fuckkkkkk fucckcckkkkkkk

[yrbutchgf]

i love showering it's literally like... im clean now! lol. and i no longer have mental illnesses

[animentality]

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

new top contender

[gawdland]

"divorced the wife today. Probably wont get the kids. Drank beer that was 300 caIs. Gonna go yell at minorities on facebook."

#oldmanblogging #this is an old man blog #this is what makes us old men #the big lebowski #hell is a middle aged man #male testeria #man interrupted #humbert #nickleback #im just a man

[evnw-deactivated20230112]

Honestly? Today is Wednesday and tomorrow is Thursday ☕️💯

[kosmogrl]

let them cook

[byjove]

Maybe I don’t have anxiety. Maybe I’m so scared all the time on account of it all being so scary.

[2colde]

how having to do work at your job feels

[furryprovocateur]

Fork found in Bathroom #Mystery #Unexplained

[ishimarukiyotaka]

literally the worst way of ending a series is “all the survivors are happily straight married with tons and tons of babies!” 

[ishimarukiyotaka]

people still getting mad at this post i made in 2014 so I will add here. in 2026. that the point of this post isn’t “happy endings bad” its when the story’s only way to imagine a happy ending is a heterosexual nuclear family for everyone.

[probuccalfat]

ugly people fuck all the time they’ve been fucking since the dawn of time so if you’re ugly and you’re not fucking that’s kind of on you

[probuccalfat]

i’m actually gonna argue that ugly people fuck the most