The Metaphor Is the Message

Stuff from Ross Bennett. Not the stand-up comic or the fashion designer, but a different one.

[rossbennett]

Mathematics

Mathematics is a game where you win by finding new rules.

[winsaykophum]

do i have to read 1-1983 to understand 1984

[rossbennett]

You can skip Spielberg’s “1941.”

Also Howard The Duck.

[yourlocalcriminologist]

Me: I read Dostoevsky for the plot! ✨🪓🩸

The plot: *greasy men being psychologically tormented by their sins while looking absolutely hot during manic episodes*

[rossbennett]

“You’ll have to forgive my sister, Professor. She learned her etiquette reading Chekhov.”

[winsaykophum]

5moyd 31/12/2022

[funnytwittertweets]

[rossbennett]

God, I want to see a Lars von Trier muppet movie! Maybe even a two-volume movie.

[winsaykophum]

GUYS WHO KEEPS INDEXING GAY SHIPS ON WIKTIONARY

[rossbennett]

Without even thinking about it, “Homer” just popped into my head. And now I’ve got Achilles-Patroclus fiction in my head.

[vensosaurus]

[pointnclick]

I don't trust anyone. I'm a bad ass lone wolf *eats food someone else grew* *crosses bridge someone else designed and trusts it not to fall* *crosses street in front of 70000lb vehicle cuz there's white lines on the ground telling it to yield*

[robottko]

“this pillow works better if your a back sleeper” bitch I’m a rotisserie chicken sleeper I don’t stop turning until sleep rips me forcefully from this world

[rossbennett]

You’ve got to wake up.

You’ve got to get up and start the day.

You’ve got to find a reason to get up.

[rossbennett]

It’s been much too long.

The strings don’t feel a thing, but you can feel it in your fingers. Your feelings are betrayed by your fingers.

Give me a fighting chance and I’ll make it good.

There’s no fear as persistent as worry, and nothing as sleepless as night when it won’t leave your head. Close your eyes and it only get clearer. Pour it a double and it asks you to dance till it’s scraping you off of the floor.

Give me your wrecked and lonely. Give me your hopes and cold. Lend me your wrecked and war-torn and we’ll be a beacon of we don’t care.

[hopesforsuckers]

write 'maybe' in the tags and put the first tag that comes with it

[sharingwritingprompts]

Long dead philosophers are reanimated to fight crime, but they end up just marathoning episodes of their favorite TV show.

[rossbennett]

I think this pretty much describes my tumblr dashboard.

[rossbennett]

[fluorescentnova]

We had to write a Mini Comic for my Illustration Class so I did mine based on The Frog and The Scorpion. Hopefully you all know the story! 

But if you don’t know the story… In the original the scorpion stings the frog in the middle of the river. When the frog asks “why” the scorpion says “it’s in my nature” and they both die. I like my ending more.

Done with watercolor and pen and ink nib.

[notallfay]

I always thought this story was fucked up, even when I heard it as a very young child. I even got put in the naughty corner, and a star next to my name crossed off for questioning it.

This story is so much better, and I like it’s message much more.

[neil-gaiman]

Hello, Mr. Gaiman. I am planning to write a modern re-telling of The Divine Comedy. Following in Dante's footsteps, the protagonist would obviously be a self-insert. Now, in the original, Dante was guided through Hell by his favourite poet Virgil. Keeping with that, I thought that my guide should be my favourite writer, i.e. you. How would you feel about your likeness being used in a story like this?

Just fine… although, shouldn’t it be someone who is dead?

[rossbennett]

If someone has the power to appear in falafel, being a living guide through Hell shouldn’t be beyond credible.

[animalrates]

[nutheadgee-deactivated20190314]

We as the human race don’t deserve dogs.

[rossbennett]

Never presume it was humans who invented the Jacuzzi.