don't be what they made you

luca

[ttpds]

not even allowed to push someone now in this perfect world sorry to all the perfect brothers and sisters out there

[urie]

rpf is so serious to me. except not the way some of you do it. but its so serious. dead serious. not like youre thinking though. in a different way than that. still completely serious though

[theweight]

[p4nishers]

name 5 things you'll never see again 4 people you're depriving yourself of touching 3 laughs you'd recognize in any room 2 smells that remind you of the childhood you can't recall and the 1 mouth you'll never taste

[p4nishers]

I think what people are missing when having this conversation about ariana grande's ED is that an eating disorder will haunt your life for years. the conversation isn't about commenting on her body and the fucking tour happening oh my god it's about the irreparable damage a disorder like that can cause. and little girls, teenage girls are seeing her body and they don't understand that achieving a body like that WILL cause damage to their psyche. bc an eating disorder is not a diet. its a parasite in your brain, its poison in the body and not having the necessary conversations about it will lead to actual starvation, don't you people get it? and the most worrying part is that ariana grande is not the only one, she's not the exception in hollywood but the model. everyone is skin and fucking bones in the entertainment industry and it's affecting not just little girls and womens minds but boys minds too! everywhere you look it's calorie deficit this, protein goal that, and it's all part of the same shit. society is at the point where everyone can comment on everyone's body and everyone always is thinking about their body and a society like that breeds eating disordered children, it breeds this world wide sickness in the mind and the body and its killing us. literally. so no i dont think the ariana conversation can be shut down just bc ppl are talking about her body in a concerned way. infact if the conversation gets shut down at this point in time that'll have serious consequences

[bibblesaysgayrights]

btw i read monstrous regiment and i think it's one of the best discworld books i've read so far. it can be read simultaneously as a commentary on misogyny and differing standards based on gender and war AND a possibly unintentional exploration of transmasc experiences. like one of the characters has expressed as male literally most of his life and went back to his family as a man, which is both a really good commentary on how differently men and women are treated and how the standards for 'gross habits' are vastly different for men than for women but also it is literally someone who's been presenting masc their whole life finally returning to their family as themself.

ALSO it handled the female characters so well!! most pieces of media that have women in positions of power make them good and moral, but monstrous regiment treats them as people, who, when in an environment surrounded by stupid masculine ideals and having to conform to those, will fall into the same stupid patterns!! it treats women as people who can be utterly stupid, belligerent and hardheaded and it was so refreshing.

also the jokes are really good, it's an entertaining read and presents all those topics (including the utter devastation that was brings, the propaganda used to coerce people into fighting, which are both REALLY heavy things!!) in a way that is easily comprehended and keeps your attention.

terry pratchett was such a good fucking writer istg

[monsterblogging]

You seriously should read Discworld, it is likely to rewire your brain in good ways

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

rpf isn’t enough i need a sex tape

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

rpf isn’t enough i need a sex tape

[and-then-the-dragons-arrived]

It occurred to me today that if Terry Pratchett was still around, we'd have a brilliant book about AI by now.

They would build a new machine standing next to HEX and HEX would be... not jealous, of course, why would you think a machine would be jealous? But still HEX would randomly start responding to someone who would spend more time with that new machine.

I'm 100% positive that Dibbler would be mass-printing generated bad romance novels and selling them for profit. All of them would have titles like "A Necklace of Pearls and Flowers" or "A Menace of Dragons and Swords", depending on the audience.

People would buy dis-organisers with new features and the imps would give VASTLY inaccurate answers ("No, dragons don't breathe fire, this is a myth, you are safe!") that would put them in danger - and yet would still refuse to get rid of them. (Maybe Dibbler would sell those advanced dis-organisers, too, sounds like something for him.)

The Watch would have their hands full saving people from said danger. Vimes would never trust this new invention and would get extremely angry at anyone suggesting he bought one, too.

Dwarves would be very anxious because, as our dear Blackboard Monitor already knows, Words Are Important. And if those words come from gods know where, that's really bad. I can actually see the plot where they can actually team up with Blackboard Monitor to destroy those "machine" words at the end.

All that generated rubbish would put L-Space in the danger of collapsing. Because there are books that no one should have written.

[p4nishers]

ryland said he's a side sleeper but after rocky left him he slept on his back with his hands on his chest to imitate the pressure he'd feel if rocky was sleeping there oh okay fine

[p4nishers]

i do think in this political climate its inescapable and necessary to read or reread books like night watch. because i reread it specifically for the uprising i was able to focus on how political it actually is and it astounds me, it really does, that terry wrote this in 2003 and which such anger too. i teared up many times during this particular reread bc its so accurate, too accurate to our current world order and that fucking sucks. i was so angry reading it this time bc the unmentionables are literally ICE and lord winder is all the insane world leaders and ppl finally tried to do smth about them in the book and it lead to Nothing. actually, it lead to snapcase, who in some ways is worse than winder. and that hurts, deep in my chest, it really does. and what hurts more is vimes in this book. this has always been my favorite version of him, but god. i never really got the importance of his role in it all. he's able to stay kind and sane throughout all of the atrocities even as he's reliving it for the second time. its so so soooo important to me how hard he fights against the beast. the circumstances give him an opportunity, and in a way demand him to be ruthless and he still doesn't give in. he doesn't kill until absolutely necessary, he protects the innocent the weak and even the stupid and he does it lawfully and he does it while trying to teach his younger self to be a good person. he doesn't lose his humanity in the darkest of times and doesn't succumb to the beast bc what he was was not the beast. because if you become the beast people like carcer win. ok ill stop before i start sobbing on the street but yeah even seven rereads cant dull night watch's light

[brunhielda]

Lord Snapcase was worse.

But without the Glorious 25th, there is no Vetinari.

There is no guild system.

There is no Vimes with a memory of what being a copper is SUPPOSED TO BE when an upstart kid shows up to remind him.

There is no foundation for a world where you can arrest a king.

Snapcase is worse the Winder. But a world without the Revolution, without TRYING, is even worse.

[p4nishers]

i do think in this political climate its inescapable and necessary to read or reread books like night watch. because i reread it specifically for the uprising i was able to focus on how political it actually is and it astounds me, it really does, that terry wrote this in 2003 and which such anger too. i teared up many times during this particular reread bc its so accurate, too accurate to our current world order and that fucking sucks. i was so angry reading it this time bc the unmentionables are literally ICE and lord winder is all the insane world leaders and ppl finally tried to do smth about them in the book and it lead to Nothing. actually, it lead to snapcase, who in some ways is worse than winder. and that hurts, deep in my chest, it really does. and what hurts more is vimes in this book. this has always been my favorite version of him, but god. i never really got the importance of his role in it all. he's able to stay kind and sane throughout all of the atrocities even as he's reliving it for the second time. its so so soooo important to me how hard he fights against the beast. the circumstances give him an opportunity, and in a way demand him to be ruthless and he still doesn't give in. he doesn't kill until absolutely necessary, he protects the innocent the weak and even the stupid and he does it lawfully and he does it while trying to teach his younger self to be a good person. he doesn't lose his humanity in the darkest of times and doesn't succumb to the beast bc what he was was not the beast. because if you become the beast people like carcer win. ok ill stop before i start sobbing on the street but yeah even seven rereads cant dull night watch's light

[p4nishers]

i miss terry pratchett so much i feel like a toxic ex i literally cant get over him

[butt-rice]

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

[awesomebutunpractical]

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

[p4nishers]

ppl shipping strattland was so predictable to me its genuinely boring. can we move on now