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i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

yesornopolls

Would you consider the hate for AI at the moment “excessive”?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 12 hours

thespermdonorstorylineisstupid

carlithiel

The X-Files + Scully’s Darkness Falls Jacket

delightfullyvague

(source)

badbloodalltheway

Still my favorite X-Files post on this whole damn site.

shubbabang

$fractally blog's avatar$

fractally

don't worry about me when I say this but I think in a way being hunted for sport would be a relief. my nervous system would be like, wow. finally, a proportional reaction

we-are-making-it-up-as-we-go

Dean when he was in Purgatory

aroaessidhe

Lirael peered into the distance, unable to see anything moving. The grey light and flatness of the river made it hard to work out distances, and she had no idea whether the First Gate was as close as it sounded. She knew it was marked by a veil of mist, and she couldn’t see it.

📷lion_nessphotography (edits by me) // lirael cosplay /insta / tiktok

ghiblin

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ハウルの動く城 2004, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

captofthelaney

howl's moving castle (2004) dir. hayao miyazaki

collemblogging

everyone loves a classic! (vitronura giselae)

collemblogging

adding the photo I took of this animal with my phone, for posterity

headspace-hotel

Minuscule Beast

wowdanascully

Scully + “when she gets computer reflection light on her glasses” {requested by anonymous}

orpheuslament

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

astrodael

aropride

masterqifrey

read-marx-and-lenin

Why are so many completely inane things/media banned in China?

Because Western media equivocates "not selected for mass distribution" with "banned" in an effort to portray the Chinese government as more censorial than it actually is. For example, the 2018 release of the Disney movie "Christopher Robin" was claimed by Western news outlets to have been banned in China and speculated to be related to social media sites in China banning far-right memes using Winnie the Pooh as a stand-in for Xi Jinping.

However, the idea that the movie was banned comes from a distortion of how the film industry works in China. Put simply, China places a limit on how many foreign films can be distributed in Chinese movie theaters per year, and foreign film companies will bid for access to these coveted slots. Films that make the cut are able to earn their foreign rights holders per-ticket sales in China. All other foreign films must be sold to Chinese distributors for a flat fee, making them far less profitable.

Disney simply did not choose to bid for a slot for "Christopher Robin", prioritizing other films for release in China that year. It wasn't banned, it wasn't censored, it was just not one of the few dozen foreign films to appear in Chinese theaters in 2018. But because the West wanted to make folks think Winnie the Pooh was being banned in China, they turned a relatively uneventful business decision on the part of Disney into an example of "ridiculous Chinese censorship".

inbabylontheywept

there is a stripper pole in my attic. i saw it in a dumpster one day, and i went, shit, this is exactly the kind of thing my wife would want. and i didnt really want it in the house, what with it being a used stripper pole lightly seasoned with dumpster juice, but i mentally decided that if she were to see it and ask for it, i would say she could have it, and then sure enough, later that evening, she went soooo baaaaaaaabs there's this thing by the dumpster and i want it but i get it if you don't want it in the house but i have to show it to you- and i went, no you dont, you can have the pole, and that was the most surprised i have ever made her look. even compared to the day when i proposed to her, which she was prepared enough that we both knew she would say yes, and she could also get her hair done up and have a cute outfit, but not so prepared that she was not fucking flabbergasted by the 12 empty decoy ringboxes i sprung on her. i handed her so many decoy ring boxes that day. still one of the funniest things i've ever done to her.

anyway we like pacing around together and ranting in the attic but sometimes instead of pacing one of us will just hang on the pole and spin, and the other person will watch on the beanbag, which makes for these really goofy conversations where the person on the bag will say something that gets the other persons goat, such as, hypothetically, that xylophones do not belong in rock music, and then the other person will go on a tirade about this, but they'll actually only be facing the Hot Take Speaker half of the time, what because of the pole, so the response will sound something like

I can't believe

you would even suggest such

a stupid opinion. You've

been to a Danny Elfman

concert! How can you

have heard Oingo Boingo

live and say with a straight face

that they alone do not justify

rock and roll xylophones

and then that person will continue until they get too dizzy, then they'll get off the pole, and by unspoken agreement, the person on the bag will get up and trade places with them to deliver their rebuttal while also spinning and it just creates this sort of crazy strip-court lawyers debating absolute nonsense for no reason kind of vibe that frankly just really does it for us.

i don't really have any marriage advice for this i guess its just a look at what being married can look like. i thought that being married would involve a lot more stuff like carving the turkey, or barbecuing, or watching the sunset, and if id known how much time it would involve arguing for xylphones in rock music while spinning upside down i might have prepared for it a little differently.