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Erika. Is Fandom Old. Black AF. Looking for a New Fandom to Obsess over.

[carolinaknowswhy]

gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

[carolinaknowswhy]

girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor

[crafting-and-tea]

Jokes can normalize things that you find unacceptable or annoying very, very easily. If you and your friends consistently joke about girlmath and girlmoney when you spend money on something unwise or irresponsible, it'll eventually just become a thing you say while spending money on something unwise or irresponsible. It'll stop being a joke.

Eventually, it might something you say to JUSTIFY spending money on something unwise or irresponsible. You're just a girl, you can't be expected to do anything more than girlmath, people shouldn't bug you about what you spend money on. If that happens, you'll have accepted the absurd logic that was supposed to make the joke funny as regular logic. On some level, you'll have accepted the idea that you are intellectually inferior due to your gender.

Be very fucking careful with the ideas behind the things you joke about.

[charyou-tree]

[bisexualbaker]

Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!

[bisexualbaker]

If Tumblr is still here next July 19th, I fully expect this post to obliterate my activity feed.

[wondersmith-and-sons]

Which of the following moments in British politics was funniest?

David Cameron allegedly fucking a pig (2015)

Theresa May Brexit deal sees worst parliamentary defeat of any British PM (2019)

Dominic Cummings' social distancing scandal is named #Cumgate (2021)

Matt "Eat Out to Help Out" Hancock caught having affair with his aide (2021)

MP resignations reach critical mass under Boris Johnson (2022)

The Queen dies 2 days after meeting Liz Truss (2022)

Liz Truss who doesn't outlast head of lettuce (2022)

Nigel Farage has to run in by-election against Count Binhead (2026)

I'm American and I never read news from outside of my country

Something else entirely (I'll tell you in the tags)

Voting ended onJul 19

Note: don't let your recency bias decide this, actually think back to what was the objectively funniest time on the internet.

[queenrikki]

Y’all are wrong. The pig fucking has been delighting me for years.

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[scottandhiskind]

You joke, but this is actually their long-term plan

[helenvaughans]

[creatingblackcharacters]

This is what I meant by how a lot of white supremacy is projection.

"I feel like my penis/my Manhood as a symbol is smaller than Black man's" becomes "Black men have oversized penises and are sexually insatiable beasts."

"I am sexually attracted to, fetishizing, and feel entitled to Black women's bodies" becomes "well she's asking for it, look at how she looks, Black women are always more openly sexual."

"I am afraid of approaching Black men" becomes "Black men are a threat."

"I am afraid of approaching Black women" becomes "Black women are always angry."

"I am not smart enough/not qualifed enough/can't beat my white counterparts professionally" becomes "DEI and affirmative action are letting those Blacks steal my position in school/jobs!"

Your own fears and insecurities about yourself somehow become a reflection of my humanity, when it had nothing to do with anything. And somehow enough people think that and now it's systemic instead of the made up nonsense it always was. Ijeoma Oluo called it mediocrity, James Baldwin called racism the white man's problem, and they remain correct.

[nooneinnportant]

[cosmerelists]

The Shallan & Wit Podcast Presents: Is It Yuri?

Shallan feature requested by anon256 :)

[Item #7 contains WAT Spoilers!]

Shallan & Wit have had two podcasts before: One on cryptids and one one on conspiracy theories. Now for a third, equally fantastic podcast topic: Is It Yuri?

1. Introduction

Shallan: Wit, it's time to do a podcast about me. Wit: I'm on board! What would you like to focus on, fellow podcaster Shallan? Shallan: Let's examine moments from my life and ask the all-important question: Was It Yuri? Wit: Do we have criteria for juding? Shallan: Yes. Shallan: Pure vibes. Wit: Let's do it!

2. Jasnah soulcasting poison out of Shallan's veins

Shallan: Once, when I had ingested poison, Jasnah soulcast that poison out of my veins while I was dying. Shallan: She saved my life. Wit: But...was that yuri? Shallan: Oh, absolutely. Shallan: The intimacy! Her power flowing through my veins! Me, unconscious on the floor and at her mercy! Shallan: Aside from the whole "nearly dying" thing--very hot. Wit: Some listeners would claim that the nearly dying thing makes it hotter. Shallan: ...And they're not wrong, honestly.

3. The Santhid

Wit: Shallan, a listener has called in asking about the time you went deep underwater to gaze into the eye of the santhid. Shallan: ...Our podcast is live? Wit: Ignoring that. Wit: Was it yuri? Shallan: Well....gazng into the single eye of a giant woman would be yuri. Shallan: But was the santhid a woman? Wit: What does your heart say? Shallan: I remember the magnificence. I remember the intelligence. I remember the giant-ness. Shallan: My heart says yes. My moment with the santhid was yuri. Wit: Good enough for me!

4. The Stick

Wit: Shallan, I'm going to ask you a difficult, personal question. Wit: When the stick refused to become fire.... Was that yuri? Shallan: What? No! Shallan: That stupid stick doesn't DESERVE to be yuri! Wit: I seem to have touched a nerve.

5. Alters

Wit: We have another caller! Shallan: (But how though) Wit: "Shallan, is having alters yuri for you?" Shallan: Oh, hmmm.... Shallan: Having alters is not inherently yuri. Shallan: In my case, I do have one alter who explicitly expresses my attraction for women and another modeled explicitly on the hottest woman I know (Jasnah). Shallan: So, uh, yeah. Yuri. Wit: Impeccable logic, I'd say.

6. Murder [Contains WAT spoilers!]

Shallan: Wit, I'm thinking about murder. Wit: As one does. Shallan: I've killed a few people in my day, and I know the people want to know if those murders were also yuri. Wit: They do. Shallan: Killing my mother? Not yuri, obviously. Killing my father? Also not yuri. Shallan: Killing Tyn? Yuri. Killing Iyatil? Yuri. Wit: So...it's yuri to kill a woman you're not related to? Shallan: Only if there's something homoerotic already in the relationship. Wit: So you think it would be possible for you to kill a woman in a yuri-less manner? Shallan: I do. Shallan: Maybe....someday.

7. The Chasm Adventure

Wit: Shallan, was it yuri for you to be swallowed up by the chasms on the Shattered Plains when you fell into them with Kaladin? Shallan: It was. Shallan: For me. And also for Kaladin. Wit: Expand on that? Shallan: No.

8. Fighting Re-Shephir

Shallan: This one is so obvious that I'm a little embarrassed to even mention it. Wit: Shallan, please. If you or I could be embarrassed, we wouldn't be doing these podcasts. Shallan: Good point. Shallan: Yes, it was obviously yuri when I fought Re-Shephir. Shallan: I pressed into her. She pressed into me. We got into each other's minds. Shadow tentacles were involved. Shallan: Like, it's so obviously yuri it's almost not yuri, you know? Wit: Somehow, I do.

9. Marrying Adolin

Shallan: Although controversial--yes. Marrying Adolin was yuri. Wit: Oooh, I got this one! Wit: Is it because Jasnah, wanting to keep you in the family, arranged a marriage between you and her cousin, in a sort of gay-replacement-fantasy? Shallan: What? No! Shallan: We're just both queer, Adolin and I. We love each other in a queer way. Shallan: That too is yuri. Wit: ... Wit: Well I suppose I can't argue with that.

[enki2]

[hylianengineer]

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

[copperbadge]

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

[charaznablespeteevee]

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[birdthena]

reblog to remind prev they're not a bother and their presence is wanted <3

[lunardelphox]

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!!

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[byjove]

Without fail, every time a woman is talking about how she does not want to have children and never wants to be pregnant and how medical professionals, romantic interests and family members keep trying to bulldoze her decision and keep expecting her to change her mind because motherhood is something that is expected of all women and it is abhorrent to think a woman could not desire it, a random mother spawns in the comments to be like “Well, actually, you never know! I didn’t want children and then I got pregnant and I realized I love being a mama and I have five little babies now! Could happen to you! 🥰”

Sister, keep that to yourself or make your own goddamn post, you are ignoring that woman’s central concern and belittling her, you don’t even think you’re doing it. Formerly childfree women who ended up having children and loving it are like detransitioners in the sense that there is nothing inherently wrong with changing your mind about having children or realizing you were mistaken about your gender identity but immediately weaponizing your indecision to tell people that the barriers to healthcare and the violations of their bodily autonomy and the way society ignores that person’s wishes is actually okay because you were wrong. Some people do know themselves.

[probuccalfat]

ted bundy was dumb as hell jeffrey dahmer was dumb as hell dennis rader was dumb as hell every serial killer was dumb as hell. dumb and stupid. stupid and dumb.

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[nightonblogmountain]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Defending a Black female character from a piece of media I may or may not even consume, no matter what she does, because I know of the racist, misogynistic double standard that her actions would be perceived differently to the audience if she were a white man. Name the character, go:

[queenrikki]

i was just thinking about the time jump between book 5 and 6 of the Stormlight Archive and I know that Sanderson said it will be "10 or 15 years" but I am going to lean towards 10 because, well, the Stormlight Archive is the "10" series. Everything important comes in 10s so I'm gonna go with 10 years passing between books.