the gum under the desk

not to be taken seriously {20+she/her}             I enjoy lots of things. maybe too many. that's for you to decide and me to cry about

[peppermintphd]

Hard of hearing or deaf but the media doesn't have subtitles? Here are some ways to get them anyways 👇

🍿 Watching a movie? There could be subtitles unsupported by your service.

Check out https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/subs to find them! There's browser extensions to add them

How about other media? Many use live captions

🍎 iOS/Mac: Accessibility > Live Captions

🤖 Select Androids: 2nd volume button, controls, "live captions"

🐧Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.sapples.LiveCaptions

🪟 Windows: Start > All apps > Accessibility > Live captions

[whitager]

do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

[bramcrackerswrites]

I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it

[redstonedust]

gameshow voice: is it gay subtext or are the writers just so catastrophically bad at writing female characters that the only relationships in the entire story that feel human are the ones between the men.

[bootleg-nessie]

I FUCKING LOVE INFORMATION!!! I WANT TO LEARN EVERY THING AND KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!! I WANT TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING SBOUT LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING!!!!!! I AM UTTERLY CONSUMED BY MY THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eternalgaylord]

collecting tweets

[kunosoura]

I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes

[kunosoura]

“Why were you on Mad At Me island” because at the time I was mad at you and yet our friendship has weathered that without trouble

[tiredragedemon]

I went to Mad At You island because my feelings are my problem. I needed to stomp down the beach until I could sit and watch the sunrise. I built a sandcastle and did some thinking. Then I boarded the good ship You Matter To Me and sailed it all the way to meet you on the Let’s Talk Shore of I Love You Island.

[badjokesbyjeff]

A man walks into confession and says “forgive me Father, for I have sinned.” 

“Go on, my son.” The priest replies.

“I have taken the Lord’s name in vain and used profanity.”

“Tell me more about this my son.”

The man says “I was playing a par four this past weekend. I shanked the tee shot to the left and into the woods.”

“I see.” The Priest says. “And this is when you used profanity and took the Lord’s name in vain?” he asks.

“No. Not then. The second shot I overshot the fairway and the ball went into tall grass and settled behind a rock.”

“Ah.” Says the Priest. “Then you took the Lord’s name in vain and used profanity.”

“No.” The man says again. “The third shot hooked back over, hit the ball washing station, bounced off a branch and somehow landed on the green just a foot from the cup.”

The Priest pauses for a second.

“Jesus Christ, don’t tell me you missed the fucking putt.”

[peppermintphd]

Debussy is such an insane surname bc can you imagine becoming a well-renowned artist and 300 years later some asshole changes the meaning of your name to be "pink hairy testicles"

[mouseycometz]

If Transformers One gets a sequel, I’m personally praying that they don’t turn Starscream into a joke.

He’s a beast in this movie.

[penny-anna]

This is how it seems to work:

Transformers Cartoon: this is Firetruck Steve he turns into a Firetruck wee woo wee woo

Transformers Comics: Firetruck Steve struggles with drug addiction due to his crushing guilt at not having saved more people from the flames

Transformers Fandom: Firetruck Steve must be held accountable for his war crimes

[gaymattsharp]

when the objectively bad person has traumatic and honestly reasonable reasons for why theyre like that but it doesnt excuse their actions and only serves to make them more tragic as a character

[scottiequeen]

[negativepeanuthoarder]

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[phantomrose96]

I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.

[phantomrose96]

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[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[stele3]

I had to get used to this with my wife. She has parents that were very supportive of her emotional well-being as a kid, and thus cries easily because she was never shamed for it.

Don’t shame people for showing their emotions. I get it, I do: my instinct when someone cries is to freak out because a) in my family the only way you were allowed to cry was if you were Really Badly Hurt, so seeing someone else cry sets off alarms in my head and b) my other instinct is to stop her from crying before Someone Else Sees, because they’ll be angry and mock her for it. But that’s my shit! I gotta deal with that! Her crying is lovely and wonderful because it means she feels safe enough in the world and with me to express those emotions.

(ALSO: if you are like me and just Can’t Fucking Cry, even when you’re really upset, you gotta find other ways to communicate that to someone who is used to crying. Because like, they’re used to people crying as an indicator of upset, and if they don’t see that, they’re maybe not gonna know that you are! I’ve gotten in the habit of saying aloud, “if I could cry, I would be crying right now.”)

[the-sacred-now]

I'm sure others have made the point by now but also: being calm and respectful about someone crying is also the perfect counterspell to performative/manipulative crying anyway.

If someone is in the middle of an argument and they start crying as an involuntary stress response, they'll probably be pretty relieved to be respectfully asked, "Do you need a moment to collect yourself?"

If they were seeking a fawn-response or an "automatic argument end/win," they're not getting it, but in a respectful way they'd have to really work to feel victimized about.

And if the truth is (as is so common) somewhere in between, it gives them a chance to step back sort their shit out--which is not a gift offered by either "I gotta make them stop crying (fawn version)" or "I gotta make them stop crying (angry version)"

[starcreaming]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the symbol for Christian followers is sheep? Like I get Jesus is titled as a shepherd but like c’mon, calling yourself sheep is wild

[desolationlesbian]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is not untalented but he shouldn't be making billion dollar disney movies or whatever. This guy should be in a garage making deeply earnest but unpolished rap opera concept albums and posting them online for a niche fanbase of no more than 100,000 too-online theatre nerds. Hiring him to make forgettable paint-by-numbers radio friendly disney princess pop is trying to raise devil's pupfish in captivity. You have to stop giving him money and let him go make cringe in his natural habitat or you're never going to get anything good.