I don't know what to tell you my dude

I write, total fandom geek. happy to talk, or to write for you. or post really weird things. Love TMNT (no tcest), Marvel, Voltron, HP, PJO, Steven Universe. Semi all over the place. hello new friend

[albertserra]

Pick up a book read a Wikipedia article watch a documentary anything please please please

[curseworm]

‘faith-based’ hospitals that use religious doctrine to decide whether to provide care to patients should be illegal not joking not exaggerating i think all of them should be seized by the government immediately and converted into public hospitals

[fernlom]

Yooo it’s me, an actual pastor, and I gotta say that I fully agree here. If your religious doctrine allows you to refuse medical assistance for someone else than your doctrine is wrong

[robotpussy]

people on here will say we need to dismantle white supremacist beauty standards by calling anything that doesn't fit it "weird" and "fucked up"

[robotpussy]

"we need to appreciate weird and fucked up features more" actually those features aren't fucked up they're extremely beautiful and I'm not stupid enough to continue to call them ugly to get my point across

[robotpussy]

yes it's racist and antisemitic to say this too because I've said this a million times but all of the time "ugly features" are just the ones non white people and jewish people have idgaf if you're white and you claim to like weird stuff stop calling jewish and nonwhite features weird, off-putting and fucked up

[doberbutts]

Anyway with anti-sodomy laws back on the discussion table I'm going to repeat that you can personally be squicked out by the consensual sex someone else has, but saying that their consensual sex between willing, active, adult participants should be illegal and is indicative of some sort of moral failing is L I T E R A L L Y a major facet in extreme homophobia and absolutely has gotten people killed.

You don't have to like their business but as long as everyone involved in the encounter is saying yes, it's also really not your business.

This is the precident you are helping further by digging your heels in and saying 'but I think it's gross and makes them bad people'. This is what happened last time that was the reasoning for law, and what is being threatened to happen again.

[doberbutts]

"but Jaz, how would they enforce it"

Easily.

People would report you to the police for any hint of it. Whether real or imagined. You held hands with someone of the same sex. Someone started a rumor that they saw you kissing. You bought a sex toy and the vendor automatically reported you. You clicked a web page or picked up a magazine that had a different suspected deviant on it and the shop owner or internet service provider automatically reported you. You had certain mannerisms. You hung out to much with a specific friend. You seemed too close to a family member. Literally anything.

In some cases people would literally peep through windows, listen at the door, even wait across the street for your guest to come over and then call the police to kick the door down and catch the two of you in the act.

Never forget that the Stonewall riot was started by one such raid where police stormed a gay bar looking to arrest as many "sodomy" and "public indecency" suspects as possible.

That's how. By encouraging people to barge into other people's private, consensual sex lives and make reports to the authorities. By encouraging people to lay traps so unsuspecting gay people could stumble into them. By encouraging people to stalk and harass anyone who showed any sign of 'being a pervert' in the name of 'protecting neighborhoods from predators'. By weaponizing the real concern for predatory behavior against people who were engaging in consensual intimacy in a way they happened to not like.

By doing exactly what I've been continuously saying is bad behavior that has gotten countless LGBT people jailed and killed.

We're not turning this against our own community. Homophobes and transphobes have already made it plenty clear they don't care how good or respectable we are, they just want us all dead.

[doberbutts]

"but Jaz, you're trans, certainly the homophobic and transphobic lawmakers will consider it straight sex and you won't be affected"

Except more than one trans man throughout history has been arrested, tried, and punished for sodomy because the police read him as male and even once it was discovered that he was what we'd now call transgender, it was determined that the sex he was having still counted as deviant and thus still counted as a moral failing.

I do not have sex in a manner that can produce children. I don't like sex that can produce children. I refuse to ever do it again. And at some point, if these protections get repealed, that means my neck's also on the chopping block.

You really think there's logic to this besides people pearl-clutching at their homophobia and transphobia in order to justify this bullshit?

[supermariomamafucker]

what is that thing

[supermariomamafucker]

what is that thing

[radiofreederry]

[welpnotagain]

[hawkofkrypton]

She-Hulk:

MCU She-Hulk

cowards

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[acethena]

By the way I don’t give a shit if this was your childhood. This game is antisemitic as fuck.

[msaprildaniels]

In the new Hogwarts game, you're a young wizard investigating the menace of a secret Goblin plot to destroy wizards.

[maykitz]

i slept for 8 hours but i still need to say one more thing about david cage: the unbelievable arrogance of him saying detroit human is the game that "proved games didn't have to be about killing people" is that his idea of killing people 'but morally complex' is that he invents a scenario in which killing that person is obviously, obviously wrong but then rigs the situation through a qte and/or missing and misleading information, so that he can reveal their hidden "depth" afterwards and tut-tut shame you if you did kill them (or like, the qte did because you didn't know what to pick lol). and even then, if you kill someone it literally never matters in the end anyway. and that's not how you set up your players to think about a difficult ethical question, it's how you make them reload an earlier save to make the obvious only good choice now that they finally have all the info. IF they're trying for a perfect good score anyway- that's the other dumb presumption he makes.

like, that chapter where you investigate a customer getting killed at an android sex club, when you find the one who did it, she and a second bot attack you first. there's a drawn out fight scene where they don't pull any punches and you finally get prompted in a qte to shoot or spare the one attacking you, as she's lunging at you. that's the deep morally grey decision lol. which you have to make in 2 seconds. and ofc, if you don't shoot, she reveals to you that it was all self defense against a violent customer and that they are in love and hate being rented for sex and just want to be free together. how evil you'd have been if you shot this poor couple ): (sidenote: he used this exact same backstory for the male main character's love interest in the same game because that's one of the 3 plots he has for female characters)

meanwhile if you fail this fight and they beat your ass, they will also explain the same motives, and you get the option to shoot them in the back afterwards. and that's still a hilariously simple good vs evil moral decision but at the very least you can actually make this one with all the information given to you, and no cagesque "your attacker was actually innocent and justified 🥺🥺" reveal that comes afterwards to pretend like the decision was actually complex at all. heavy rain pulled it equally stupidly, where you also play a cop and you and your partner break into an innocent man's home, harass and assault him, and then you must answer the difficult question of whether it's justified to shoot him dead for trying to defend himself against the violent home invaders that you are. once again in a qte where he appears to be maybe, possibly preparing an attack- which ofc is revealed afterwards to not actually be the case. murdering that guy has absolutely no influence on the rest of the game either way. that's just how subtle and complex it is.

anyway back to detroit: in the cop bot's chapter 'last chance', he must figure out where the android resistance is hidden within a time limit or he's game over. if you shot those two at the club, their damaged bodies will be on display at the police station, one dead, one barely functioning. among other ways to solve the puzzle, you now have the option to yank out and puppeteer the dead one's head to her distressed and barely conscious girlfriend to trick her into revealing the location. he'll then drop the head on the floor and kill her as she's freaking out about it. this won't move you towards a bad ending or lock you out of a good ending about how androids deserve human rights (and neither does shooting them in the first place- even if you did it after hearing their story). because complex morality and subtle themes and stuff. like, are they or aren't they people, david?

[byjove]

I’ve seen this new trend of girls posting videos like “I hate my boyfriend for bringing all of his stupid boy things into our apartment when we moved in together 🙄” and then pictures of his hot wheels collection or a Halloween skeleton or an extremely cool pirate flag. Give him to me you do not deserve him.

[throwbackjoe]

Buckle up, folks. I’ve got a lot to say on this…

I’m not one of those guys who subscribes to the “Man Cave” idea. That theory that once you’re in a relationship, you’re required to forfeit 99% of your own home and be grateful to have one room in which you can be yourself and have your own possessions on display. I think if you’re in a relationship, you have a right to make your home reflect your personality and interests as much your partner does. I’ve run into a couple of instances where a woman thinking a man has no right to his own possessions has not gone over so well and it was hysterical.

I once knew a guy who worked in the telemarketing department of a company I worked at. One Friday night after work, he told me about how he ended up breaking up with his girlfriend.

This guy was like me, very clean and orderly and liked things a certain way but he wasn’t volatile about it or anything. He and his girlfriend decide to have a weekend sleepover at his house, a trial run in his mind for moving in together. She showed up and the red flags sprang up immediately. “Where’s your bag?” he asks. “For a weekend? I don’t need one.” she says. His mind reels. “So you’re not gonna change clothes…or shower…or brush your teeth…?” “No. Why would I do that in just a couple of days?” He tries to be okay about it but then she starts “cooking” and the kitchen looks like a war zone. Then there’s the fact that her B.O. seems to get stronger by the hour.

The last straw comes towards the end of the weekend when she walks around his place, eyes his Elvis Presley memorabilia collection and says “If I lived here, all this Elvis shit would get set out for trash, I’m not wasting space on all that.” When it finally comes time for her to go back home, she says “This was fun! Can’t wait to do it again.” “Yeah, about that…” and he dumped her in his own driveway.

He said if he had to choose between hygiene and an Elvis collection he’s built for years and her, he’s gonna be happier being single, cleaner and having his collectibles around than he would be with her.

Another instance happened when I had a garage sale and one of the things I was selling was a talking football player action figure from the 90s that someone had bought me under the presumption that because I was boy, I was into sports (I was not). The action figure was brand new in the box because that was how little I cared about playing with it despite my mother’s best attempts. A woman shows up, sees the action figure and loses her shit.

“Oh God, I am so sick of seeing these! My husband has the whole set and all I want to do is throw them in the trash!” A guy at the sale overhears this and says “Well, I’m sure your husband has a list of things that he’d like to get rid of that you’re partial to but he doesn’t say anything because that’s the give and take of being in a relationship” She blows him off and says “I should be the one to decide what goes in the house and what he can buy, THAT is how marriage works for ME.” The guy changes his argument. “Maybe on your husband’s list of shit that needs to go, you should be at the top of the list…” Everyone else at the garage sale (including me) was now watching silently and wondering when the throw down would happen…

“What did you say?”, she asks him a bit taken back. “I said if I was him, I wouldn’t take that shit that somehow being married to you means forfeiture of my belongings and personality and substituting it all for your bullshit. I’d sooner throw you out than my action figures.” After picking her jaw up off my driveway, the woman hurumphs and storms back to her car. I high-five the guy for making an excellent point after she leaves.

I have a lot of collectibles myself and am currently in the creative habit of going through my childhood Power Rangers and Pokémon toys and putting the ones I absolutely want to keep in shadow boxes and hanging them on the wall as conversation pieces and selling the rest.

I have Funko Pops. I have lunchboxes. I have special edition magazines and comic books in floater frames on the wall. I have more books than I have time to count or read. I have tub after tub of Halloween and Christmas decorations because that’s my favorite time of year. I would never throw all of this stuff away because I’ve purged plenty already and kept what I wanted to keep. It’s all a reflection of my personality and my story. If someone came into my life and said our life together would mean giving all of this up and doing what he wanted, I would consider that a toxic situation and I would end it before I got in too deep.

Men, gay or straight, can find themselves in toxic, abusive relationships, this is not a phenomenon only experienced by women. It just seems that way because men, especially straight men, rarely speak up about it and mistakenly settle on what they assume is some unchangable default result of being in a relationship. It’s not.

I would never move in with someone and tell them to throw everything out that has been a part of them or spoken to who they are in order to make room for me. I am all about organizing and making a space feel cozy, functional and fun and would go out of my way to make sure we both had space for our things and our personalities and stories. One does not have to overshadow or overpower the other in order to make a relationship between two people work.

So, the next time someone says “It’s me or the Star Wars action figures on that one shelf that aren’t bothering anyone but I hate that that shelf isn’t all about me anyway” say “May The Force not hit you in the ass on the way out” as you show them the door.

[rudjedet]

My dad broke up with the girlfriend he had when he was 20ish because she said “the motorcycle goes or I go”. And not because she genuinely didn’t like motorcycles, no! Because a friend of hers told her bf to get rid of the bike or lose her, and that guy choose the girl. Dad’s ex saw it as a power play she could pull on my dad as well. He turned her out on the spot.

[digdeepergravedigger09]

I used to think guys just didn’t have any interests?? Or hobbies?? Because of all those images of homes where the wife designs everything and there’s basically no touch of the husband there anywhere, and how it was implied that that’s “normal”.

[cookingwithroxy]

I just reblogged this but then I thought and I just have to make this addition?

Yeah, that last comment, that’s how fucked up our society has gotten, because men have to conceal or hide or at best get ONE room to put their stuff in, and even then it’s treated as terrible and regressive and should not be allowed. The ‘Man Cave’ aka the one space in a person’s house where they’re allowed to express themselves and their hobbies and it’s treated as a terrible thing because he’s ‘excluding’ his wife from it, while the things that are in there are NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE ELSE.

We have allowed people to brainwash us into two dumb ideas, one that men are expected to give up everything that they love for their significant others, and the second that it’s a burden on women that they have to determine how everything is in the household. Because that is also how it is in so many cases.

[skepticsub]

Felt this meme would be important here.

[ranpoismyblorbo]

The meme is perfect here and this thread as a whole makes me realise how screwed up society is and also how happy I am to not be living in such a household

[armedjoy]

[sculptingsuccess]

Look we all want a robo dog but if you kill someone with a sledgehammer to steal theirs, they are going to find you. There's no way a 75k$ dog doesn't have gps

[wotsukai-leftlmao]

we are killing the dog

[purplealchemist]

NO.

ALL DOGS ARE PRECIOUS.

Even robot ones.

[perigeeprincess]

its not a dog, its a machine used and designed for police surveillance and the entire reason they made it dog shaped is so idiots like you would go "awwww robot dog how precious" instead of seeing them as the oppressive tools they are.

we're killing the fucking dog

[bluelivesaintshit]

[tangent101]

That's not a robot dog.

It's a four-legged robot spider.

[riotouseaterofflesh]

It is not a dog, a spider, a chicken, a horse, a fish, a tick, a mosquito, a tapeworm or a baby

It is a weapon

There is nothing morally wrong about breaking weapons that are hurting people for any reason other than to prevent those people from hurting others worse

[roach-works]

the dog robots are fully capable of hurting people, and badly. failsafes that would prevent that have not been installed. the police are deploying a thing out in public that can maim anyone who touches it wrong.

look, when i was a kid i was passionately in love with the idea of robots--that humans would one day create another sort of intelligence to share our world with-- and believed very firmly that we should respect and protect all our robot friends from the start, so there would be no violent humans-against-robots revolution or anything.

anyway it turns out that the people trying to keep end-stage capitalism running are really banking on us feeling more love for the robots than for the kind of people they're going to be using the robots to oppress.

so like. maybe lets all agree right now that if a robot is being used to hurt a person, you need to smash the fucking robot. they're going to make the robots really cute. they're going to show us so many movies about how much robots need to be loved. and then they are going to use robots to hurt people.

let's try not to fall for it, okay?

[raphmike]

I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS

[heritage-post]

date of origin: December 24th, 2015

[kidgrimm]

[unpretty]

i turned on the light in the dining room but Tubby had been sleeping in a chair and it woke her up and she was Not Pleased

[unpretty]

[unpretty]

yes

however we recently got her a new ceramic fountain that better suits her aesthetic

and her own fainting couch

but she still prefers a good lap whenever possible

[flawlessglamazon]

[burning-mind]

@unpretty what is Ms. Tubby’s full name if it is not Tubby?

[unpretty]

Tubbitha

[royallyanxious]

reblog for  Tubbitha

[maxheimer-feral]

a princess.

[solitarelee]

It’s so fucking weird to see Tubby on my dash from just like a random unrelated blog I follow. That’s just my best friends’ cat. I commissioned a plate painted with her likeness.

[unpretty]

[unpretty]

i appreciate why you would make this assumption but i was working part-time retail when i made these posts, i just spent a lot of time at thrift stores and was willing to spend my entire paycheck to have matched fainting couches for me and my cat

[thiscatiscalled]

This (exceedingly spoiled (complimentary)) cat is called Tubby.

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

important!!!

transcript:

A person with a somewhat masculine voice says in a higher pitched tone, “Blue hair is weird!” They then change their voice to their regular tone, and say, “I’m gonna teach you this how I would teach a child. I don’t know your life story, but for the sake of making this an educational video, I’m gonna use stereotypes, so only take what resonates with you.

One child is born in a seemingly functional, to their awareness, loving family, while the other is getting quite the opposite. You can’t choose that you’re born with it, so you’re put out in this world and the majority of your peers are like you, and the majority of your teachers, parents and authority are like you, and the majority of the media out there is showing people like you. So all of the kids that are not depicted by this media feel erased and different immediately from the time they’re born, how they are born. You may feel too feminine as a boy, too masculine as a girl, like you’re in the wrong body, like you don’t think exactly neurotypically as everyone else, you’re too thin, you’re too thick, you’re too dark, you’re not dark enough. Kids like this immediately understand the struggle of not being accepted by the majority, and if it’s not the peers doing it, keep in mind they have the same authority and media only depicting the majority of one type of person.

So both the outcasts and the masses are gonna ask the same question of how do I fit into society, and the majority of the authority and media is gonna be saying things like “God is the answer,” “man marries woman,” “girls are this way, boys this way.” You have a set amount of rules that if you have no reason to question, you’re not gonna disagree with. But when this world has taught you it’s not for people like you, you’re gonna ask, “why is it that way?” which brings us to, “who is teaching us this?” Oh, people from this era or earlier, who’s making this stuff, people in this era or earlier, “Let me do my research on who taught them that stuff.”

A common flaw with human beings is that they accept societal norms that are only in place for a little bit over their lifetime because they never lived to see a reason to question it. When you are born in a world that’s seemingly against you, you have reason to research why these traditions are in place, and you say, “Wow, if I happened to be born in the 1900s, pink was for boys and blue was for girls, and cheerleading is for boys and heels are for men, and the bible was changed to be anti-gay”. It’s almost like what we are taught is unreliable and not inherently factual, and in the time this was being taught, no one in the masses was disagreeing.

Everyone’s born in a box, but we weren’t all born with default settings, so we learned that humans can express themselves however they want. The way you think that only natural hair colors is normal, or how you dress is the right way, or blue hair automatically makes you weird, or pronouns equals liberal, that is taught to you. If this existed in the 1900s, this would be awesome [he points at blue hair], and this would just be english language [he points at pronouns]. When you’re wildly accepted by the masses, I see why you wouldn’t want to step down, you’re at the top of the pyramid. But the reason that we dye our hair blue is that the only people that wildly accepted us are other people who weren’t afraid of being different.

Now listen, maybe you just like authentically being a part of the masses, maybe your true self likes this stuff, that’s fine. But you also have to acknowledge that you were taught to avoid anything that would get you bullied or a negative reaction by the masses. So therefore, who’s really the top of the pyramid? [He flips the pyramid drawing upside-down].”

End transcript.

[petri808]

[felcemartello]

This post is a perfect example of how proficiency in a language doesn’t mean you have to understand everything native speakers say, since what the fuck does this even mean

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He funged the tokens, I don’t know how much simpler it can get.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It occurs to me that some people might actually want an explanation so here’s the cliff notes: --

- Money, and most forms of currency, is fungible. This just means that any piece of it is interchangeable without changing value -- one dollar is one dollar, whether it is represented by a fresh new dollar bill or an old wrinkled dollar bill or a record kept in a ledger or a record in a computer. Being fungible is one of the core things necessary for a currency to work as a currency (alongside other things such as ‘being recognised as currency by others’ and ‘the value being backed by something that can ensure reasonable stability, like a stable government’). If you’re currency isn’t fungible, then it isn’t currency -- you’re not buying with it, you’re bartering. So that’s what the “fungible” part means.

- People trade with non currency stuff all the time. People trade in favours, faith, and small numbers of resources that someone else needs more. When people trade in large value items, they usually estimate a value for the item; people might trade in high value artworks, for example. This is a pretty common thing for rich people to do as you can cook books in all kinds of ways through the trade value of unique items with no obvious parallels. Who’s gonna tell you your numbers are wrong, after all?

- NFTs -- non fungible tokens -- are the latest fad by cryptobros who are a) trying to imitate the unregulated illegal trading of the rich without understanding it, or b) running scams that bank on the idea that other cryptobros don’t understand it. They’ve basically taken cryptocurrency and made it non fungible. Cryptocurrency is ‘mined’ by making computers do really, really complicated math, and the math gets more complicated the more of it is ‘mined’. It has to be like this to keep it rare and combat inflation. But, while each bitcoin will have a different ‘serial number’ the same as each US dollar note does, bitcoin are fungible -- one bitcoin has the same value as another bitcoin. (Users frequently ‘tumble’ their cryptocurrency -- swap it with each other in a complicated, automated fashion -- to launder it.) NFTs are instead URLs, and their gimmick is that each one is different! And can be worth a different amount! You can’t just swap them; they’re non-fungible!

- To convince people that the URL is worth something, they put a ‘unique’ digitally generated picture there. These are hilariously ugly. Confused cryptobros who don’t really understand NFTs tend to become convinced that what they bought is that picture, and they ‘own’ it in some way that’s deeper and more entrenched that’s just like, commissioning art. This is quite funny because you can really upset a lot of them by ‘stealing’ their NFT (copying the picture).

- What this dude has done is not just copy-paste a bunch of NFT pictures (lots of people are doing that), but decrypted the URLs. The actual thing that’s been bought. This is extremely impressive and also completely pointless, but computer people love doing pointless things just to prove that they can be done. It doesn’t achieve anything, but it’s bound to tick off the NFT people, which is always funny.

[weaver-z]

So I found the letter that the Animorphs author and trans ally K. A. Applegate wrote after the series ended and I’m FLOORED

I mean

[frenchroasted]

You want something even crazier? Animorphs ended in May 2001.  She didn’t know what was coming, but damn if she didn’t give her readers a much needed dose of reality about the horrors of war right before we were really going to need it.

[becuzitisbitter]

If you enjoy easily-digestible sci fi, and can get your hands on the animorphs books, I really recommend it. They’re fucking great and thoughtful in a lot of ways you might not have picked up on as a kid. I’ve read the first dozen or so books over the last couple of years and they’ve literally changed the way I look at the world.

[impling]

Not to butt in since the series came along when I was in high school and thus a bit after my time, but I am a librarian and as such I am ALL ABOUT matching people to the books they need in whatever format is available.. You can download the entire series. It’s free.

Applegate’s statement on the piracy subject is quoted from an AMA here for those that have moral issues with it. for those that don’t want to click, she says: “We do not take them down. Or ask for them to be taken down. I think once the books are available to buy—paper or e—it would be nice if people who could afford it would buy. (our kids have very expensive tastes. You know: food and whatnot.) But for years they’ve been unavailable except by ‘pirated’ means. These men and women kept the series alive. They kept the books available. So no, we did NOT take these books down.”

Go forth, and read.