clever punny title

28. they/them

[guerrillatech]

[furaffu-deactivated20180313]

can the united states just chill for one day

[hennypendergrass-deactivated201]

bitch the USA hasn’t chilled since fuck boy Chris sailed his ass here by mistake

[vedajuno]

been mainlining mythbusters episodes while i work on art stuff and this bit where they attempt to test sneakily entering a building through the air ducts caught me deliriously off guard

[tofu-bento-box]

[Video Transcript:

[FUNKY MUSIC]

Narrator: Now remember, the aim is to make a silent entry into the secret facility.

Adam, off-screen: Jamie, are you ready?

Jamie, off-screen: Yeah, I’m ready.

Adam: Start the timer, Grant.

Grant: Timer starting in three, two, one.

Adam: Go, Jamie!

[UNIMAGINABLY LOUD BANG]

[EVERYONE LAUGHING]

Adam: Why, Thor, the god of Thunder, is trying to enter my building!

[SECOND LOUD BANG]

[ADAM CACKLING]

Tory: Somebody needs to check that air conditioner.

Transcript ends.]

[byekansas]

No thanks.

[lovely-v]

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

[lovely-v]

It’s like. When I was told to “just be yourself” as a kid I thought it was a passive thing. Like oh easy I just have to sit here and be myself. but the reason so many people think that “being yourself” is bullshit advice is because you actually have to make active choices to do this and it WILL make your life way more fun. You have to wear t-shirts of bands that were popular ten years ago because you like them. You have to do your hair in a way that you find cute or comfortable even if it’s “so nineties”. If your friend says a food you enjoy is gross to them, you can’t be afraid to admit you casually disagree. You have to do hobbies that you’re interested in even if you’re bad at them and you cant feel like you have to get good at something before you tell people it’s an activity you do. You have to read manga and comic books in public and get piercings your relatives think are unattractive. You don’t have to tell people you dislike that you dislike them, but you don’t have to give them your time and attention either. You have to rewatch that kids show you’re nostalgic for even if you’re in your 30s. You have to change your name if you hate it, even if only a few close friends can know. You have to get fun girly drinks at the bar. You have to order hot chocolate when you don’t like coffee and black coffee when you don’t like sweet things. I am still bad at practicing this but it is the only way to make it all tolerable.

[rozenkingdom]

The more you do this, the more your anxiety about this will LOWER. The less stress you'll feel. The happier you will be.

But you have to CHOOSE to do this.

Every time.

Every day.

Be yourself.

[justgirlythings]

We finally did it, y’all! We’re married 💍

[justgirlythings]

I’m so grateful for all of you. Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected this outpouring of love after our wedding. We have seen so many positive comments, little teenage me would be pinching herself.

We see you, we love you, and we appreciate you beyond words. Thank you for making this even more special for us than it already was 🤍

[afeelgoodblog]

[undeadhousewife]

These notes are sending me

[sarahseeandersen]

[filmnoirsbian]

Fighting for my life trying to find a phone or tablet with a headphone jack. Fighting for my life trying to find a laptop with a cd rom. Fighting for my life trying to get more than one usb port or, god forbid, an hdmi. Fighting for my life trying to find any electronics that haven't been streamlined into flimsy chastity belts with the structural integrity of a sopping sheet of paper which require me to buy 3 extra devices (each with their own separate charging requirements) all because some silicon valley jackass somewhere decided holes were a bad thing.

[peachiime-deactivated20240731]

wdym an average platonic bond cant be deep and meaningful do none of you remember the power of friendship

[peachiime-deactivated20240731]

i have trust in the people.

[thedemonsurfer]

[ectochoir]

I am having the worst gay fever I’ve had in months, maybe years. My eyes are watering, I can’t stop sniffling, even the meds aren’t helping. Surely, I will soon perish.

[ectochoir]

oh god damn it. HAY. HAY fever.

[ectochoir]

stOP INVESTING IN THIS. 😭 let me make my gay little typos in PEACE…

[ectochoir]

[animentality]

[delicious-trash-tree]

This info needs to be out there, it turned the tide against cryptocurrency in the public eye it might fit so too

[ganondorf]

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

[jaimeroyalrobertson-deactivated]

i hope it's okay to add this because i think it hits the nail directly on the head

[dsudis]

Honestly, it's like picking up a book and saying "I know all these words, I can type, I could have written this" like there's no middle step between the technical ability and the finished work.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

[reallysaltygarden]

If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.

[ID: Gif image from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.

Wikipedia screenshot containing the following:

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors' demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]

Hope the ID helps, it's my first time writing one.

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

Excerpts from “See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See” by Jess Hill

Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the "Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society") on Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drug use.

And he wrote "Barn, Serier, Samhälle" (Children, Comics, Society), basically the Swedish version of "Seduction of the Innocent"; an infamous anti-comics book by Fredric Wertham that led to the Comics Code Authority.

Bejerot described comic books as a "significant mental hygiene and cultural problem that concerns us all."

This is the man who coined the phrase "Stockholm syndrome", guys.

[architeuthisducks-blog]

Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

[mythid-cryptid]

can't keep that in the tags

[ladyshinga]

[bludgeoner]

[goqmir]

when the polycule gets all their ashes dyed and layered on top of each other in a whimsically-shaped container