heyo

come talk at me nerds. she/her, 30+ years old, 13+ year old account. ... Oh god I've been here too long.

[prokopetz]

Braving the sorceress' tower with sword in hand, but it turns out I've wandered into an Arthurian milieu, so instead of subjecting me to humiliating and vaguely kinky transformations she just exploits a technicality in some long-forgotten oath of honour to send me on an incredibly inconvenient quest. I don't know why I keep swearing those.

[pomrania]

#signs unclear if this is still a kink thing

[bloggingboutburgers]

We're getting there little by little, sure. But it's a road.

Anyway happy international asexuality day back to work I go

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

[retquits]

she hugs her own foot like it’s a stuffed animal i’m gonna throw up

[cambriancutie]

i dont think "goonbait" designs are wrong or immoral i think characters (lady characters) should be allowed to be sexy. but i DO think theres something to be said if all your male characters unremarkable or weird blobs and all ur ladies are boob queens, thats just classic sexism and you should be criticized

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of people were raised being told that things are bad with no explanation as to why they’re bad and I don’t think I know enough about psychology to make any big statements about that

but anyways I think a lot of people see cheating on your partner as bad because they were just told that sex outside of your partner is bad or something but really cheating on your partner is bad because you had an agreement based on trust with them and you broke that trust so like why should they trust you with anything else now

[what-even-is-thiss]

The thing about taboos related to sex as well is that there’s a lot of diseases that can be transmitted through sex and in a world without condoms or antibiotics or super effective birth control it kind of makes sense to discourage people from sleeping around a lot because like. Abstinence only sex education is stupid but if you choose abstinence for yourself it is in fact very effective at preventing disease and pregnancy.

And if you have sex with someone other than your partner without telling them, well, then you’ve just exposed them to whatever diseases that other person might’ve been exposed to. That’s a risk they didn’t consent to.

But see explaining this to people makes too much sense I guess. Instead a lot of people are just like “sex bad” with no elaboration as to why they might be telling you that.

[power-handmaiden]

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.

[hikikomoricomplex]

I see we’ve reached the “blame your failures on communist subterfuge” phase of the AI business plan

[hikikomoricomplex]

The AI business plan, for reference:

1. Promise everything.

2. Piss off everyone.

3. Deliver nothing.

4. Blame asians?

[periodcostumefantasylover]

The Princess Bride 4k

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Young Hero Sent On A Quest meets other young heroes also sent on various quests—only to discover they're all being used as free child labor by the same flaky wizard as a scam to collect magical artifacts.

the Young Heroes' collective new "Quest" is now to Unionize.....

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

actually this is funnier if there are multiple wizards involved. the 12-year-olds combine their knowledge and realize the wizards are operating as a unified corporate entity...so then of course they have to go on a Quest To Meet The Monarch to ask the Crown to rule on this previously undeclared power bloc. which in a feudal fantasy world causes all sorts of political intrigue! none of it good

so then we've got corporate executive wizards facing off against royal anti-monopoly legal teams. meanwhile the aforementioned 12-year-olds are standing by pissed off and chewing popcorn (and hoarding undeclared magical artifacts they may or may not collectively vote to use as ammunition to fuel a revolutionary uprising). the!! possibilities!!!!!!

[wearesorcerer]

@theoutcastrogue

[sparrowlucero]

the animation discourse last week was about how all the big indie shows ex. murder drones, digital circus, hazbin hotel, knights of guinevere, lackdaisy, whatever, are Like That because their creators only take influence from things like gravity falls and steven universe and never seek out any other form of media, which is a really funny accusation if you've actually seen like, any of these shows at all

[sparrowlucero]

yeah the thing is I just don't agree with that and think it's a pretty shallow if not outright incorrect criticism of these shows; they flatly wear the influence from things outside of children's cartoons on their sleeves and have premises or themes that are clearly aimed towards an adult audience regardless of swearing (do any of these even have a lot of swearing outside of hazbin hotel?). it's hard not to notice that this is a criticism that you only commonly see aimed at animated shows rather than similar live action genre comedies with quirky dialogue, ala good omens or what we do in the shadows or the good place or pushing daisies or whatever; the adultness of these things is never interrogated in the same way at all, there's a kind of inherent dismissal of animation as a medium here that doesn't allow any space for that broad genre of show to exist in adult animation unquestioned.

[bedupolker]

Storytime with Granny

(Feat. An extremely abridged version of this folk tale)

[queenaegon]

is that song actually character-coded or is your brain a character-shaped hammer looking for lyrics to nail down somewhere

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve seen people try to talk about Protestant guilt or whatever but the problem with trying to define that is “Protestant” is just kind of a bag filled with vaguely non Catholic blobs and some of them are sort of Catholic anyways

[what-even-is-thiss]

I saw someone saying that Protestant guilt is feeling bad for feeling pleasure and I was like what in the Calvinist puritan nonsense are you talking about I have never once felt bad about pleasure as long as it’s not hurting anyone. If God didn’t want me to enjoy life then why make life so enjoyable?

[what-even-is-thiss]

I don’t think that everyone should try to be an expert on types of Christianity or whatever like that would be rediculous but it’s pretty clear sometimes when someone’s entire understanding of the religion comes from the fact that they met a conservative Baptist once or something.

[deaddogbrain]

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

[deaddogbrain]

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

[lumsel]

Despite it all I can't hate solarpunk. It's caramel-apple sweet-simplistic, a desire for a greater world on one simple axis without grappling with any kind of political reality. You can chip at its ankles but unfortunately it will still be kind of awesome epicsauce at its heart. Sometimes you really do need to just cut past all the hard-nosed realism, get back to the kid looking up at you with those big blubbering eyes saying "what if everyone was nice to eachother?" That kid does not know an ant's arse about the real world or how it works, but they're still 1000 times more correct than all of us trying to explain why it can't be done. You can't lose sight of the stupid, hopeless dream. You can't lose sight of it. Otherwise you turn into a dickhead.

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

[jeffgerstmann]

I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.

Gilman Louie - Wikipedia

[waterloggeddaughter]

Gonna start leaving unsolicited comments about how I actually DONT shave my bush for sensory purposes