your most charlie brown coded mutual

Dez, they/them, 27, queerplatonic

[bettedavisgf]

colin mochrie and ryan stiles were kind of the original old man yaoi. to me

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[ariesrin]

I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

[exitwound]

Girl you need to get out of bed faster than this

[lesbianredpanda]

I'm giving it all she's got boss

[redstonedust]

the most important thing to know about the UK isnt the tea or the baked beans or whatever. its that mr brightside has been charting on the uk top 100 for 475 weeks, or about 9 years straight. sometimes it just randomly rises up to the top 40 for no reason. the grip that song has on our souls should be studied.

[redstonedust]

one time me and my coworkers were locked out of our storage building in the rain and we somehow ended up in an extremely passionate group rendition of mr brightside. like 30 people belting our hearts out, rain dripping down our faces. in my heart that is how this song should be ideally experienced tbh.

[its-g00se]

i thought this was exaggeration

[punkrock-bottom]

It’s still going strong btw at 505 weeks

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[flowerbleedme]

Me: I'll have the waffles

Waiter: Would you like whipped cream on that?

Me: hold on sorry

(takes out phone)

(opens Tumblr)

(creates new post)

(types "she whip me until I cream")

(posts)

(puts phone away)

Me: Sorry. Yes please

[dragongirlbunny]

not going to lie it really pisses me off that people in the west continue to bring up tiananmen square while glazing over kent state, dapl, BLM2020, ICE today, etc. etc. like one the one hand i should lower my standards considering the political awareness of the median usamerican but on the other hand how do you not see the hypocrisy in that you have to go back forty goddamn years to pull a "CHINA BAD UPVOTES PLZ" when the USA is doing the same or worse at this very moment.

[dragongirlbunny]

"look i made tanks in a line its just like china" - 47,285 upvotes

meanwhile bringing up literally any of the dozens of usamerican atrocities unprompted in a gaming forum will get your post removed almost immediately for not being relevant

[dragongirlbunny]

if i made a post on may 28th every year on random gaming reddits "respecting the victims"* of the trail of tears i'd get banned in a heartbeat

*lets be real they don't care abt the victims they just want to have a China Bad circlejerk

[minmos]

kfc mobile app automatically put in my order under the name Nasty Ned and i cant change it can someone kill me expeditiously please

[minmos]

ITWONT LET ME CHANGE IT

[crimson-constellations]

this takes place early in zuko’s reign while he’s still trying to figure out what’s the person he needs to be for his people and sokka really goes there and says “they don’t need you do be anything but yourself”

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[frankencain]

very important addition (via @growingsad)

[dumnslut]

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[luceliamercury-deactivated20260]

Tumblr actively hunts down and deletes legit trans womens blogs as a policy but encourages and cultivates porn bots that use stolen trans sex worker's content. This is propaganda and affects how we're viewed by other users, makes our own tags unusable for us, is unfathomably transmisogynistic, and reveals a lot about how staff views us. Our bodies are a commodity that they want on their website, but our words are not welcome.

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.

[fantasmadelaciudad]

like this shouldnt be possible.

[sillyspirit]

Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts

Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up

[finnslay]

happy pride month to Hen and Karen Wilson

[wowwforever]

I hate that ‘bad dream’ just means ‘nightmare’ instead of ‘shitty quality dream.’ I had a bad dream last night. It wasn’t scary it just didn’t make a lot of narrative sense