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[puppygirllaika]

I've been down in the emoticon labs digging through unicode to create the newest of new emoticons. Here are my latest results:

:þ <- tongue out (new, improved)

:ƕ <- snake tongue

:ƪ <- licking my chops

:Ɋ <- hey check it out i can lick the tip of my nose

:ƺ <- horny excited but also having a mental crisis

:ɝ <- silly (drooling)

:Ȝ <- silly (stoned)

:ȸ <- misunderstanding with the body modder when i asked for a split tongue and got it hamburger style instead

:ṙ <- i'm dissatisfied (also i have a mole on my left cheek)

:ɞ <- okay but why do you need to see the back of my throat?

;ɷ; <- sorry, i'm trying not to gag, it's been a while since i've done this. No, sorry, i can't open any wider.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

the disabled girlfriend just received $30 on ko-fi and would like to buy you dinner exactly once while feeling extremely smug about getting to "treat you" before you go back to paying for basically everything.

[parasitoidism]

Okay.

[atelier-tamamoland]

"you cannot have a category of person that stops being a person or everyone that someone wants to get rid of is going to end up being put in that category" and other really fucking obvious and basic observations that everyone ignores in favor of putting people they want to get rid of into a category they think makes them stop being a person

[finalhorsegirl]

obsessed with this stupid shirt i found at goodwill the other day

[semusepsu]

Imagine talking to someone about something and they say, "oh yeah my buddy mehmed was talking about that, he said XYZ" and you're like, oh i don't think i know mehmed and they go yeah, here he is and show you a picture on their phone of the mechanical turk.

[virtualgirladvance]

[demilypyro]

gameoverse seems fun enough. but the cynical feminist in me can't help herself. all the male characters are like, cartoon blobs, which is contrasted strongly by the two major female characters in this pilot, both of whom are hour-glass shaped humanoid women who spend most of their screentime in swimsuits. and like that's not an outright dealbreaker but i *am* staring into the camera with my eyebrows raised.

[demilypyro]

idk i'm getting really tired of this "connecticut clark and malfina" type shit where male characters get to be Silly Abstract Little Guys but women have to be women shaped. it's this male-as-default thing that i hate where you don't need to add anything to a character design to imply male-ness but the woman better have wide hips and booba or else yknow like idk it's not outright Offensive but it is tiring

[another-cliche-title]

how it feels seeing a woman depicted in any media

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[drakensberg-blog]

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

[poupon]

how dare you say we piss on the poor

[sparrow-va]

all hail the 1 million note Piss Post

[organicmatter]

guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!

[chinesewednesday]

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

[self-loving-vampire]

One pitfall when trying to analyze fantasy settings based on real world history is ignoring all of the worldbuilding implications the magic has, and I notice some posts here are maybe a bit over-eager about sharing such information to the point where they fall into it.

For example, posts saying that fantasy settings where gender equality and queer people are normalized are unrealistic because in real life the child mortality rate was very high and etc.

Except they're talking about a story is not set in Real Life Medieval Europe but in a world with versatile healing magic made accessible even to the poor to some degree through church charity or government public health institutions, and even spells or magical items that can instantly and completely transition someone.

Or that one post that was going around about how expecting the demon army to surrender after the defeat of the demon king is "great man theory" but in pretty much all fantasy settings that have such a thing as a demon king he's usually a demigod who can legitimately solo armies, is physically near-invulnerable, and obliterate entire cities.

Killing the demon king in such a setting would be less like assassinating the president and more like erasing the enemy's nuclear weapons. It's actually credible that the balance of power might start to shift from there even ignoring the effects on morale.

If you ignore stuff like that you might actually be engaging with the setting less than the rationalist fanfic writers.

[dre759]

I’m so worried that the United States will launch a decapitation strike very soon against the Cuban government. What with the recent DOJ plans to indict Raul Castro. It could turn out even worse than the attack on Venezuela earlier this year.

Solidarity to the Cuban people. Their ability to resist and build is so admirable.

[dre759]

The blockade affects all spheres of national life. It will go down in history as one of the most immoral actions that one nation has undertaken against another, this time in a sustained manner for more than a half-century, harassing millions of people who were not even born when the events used as pretexts occurred. That the Cuban people have known how to resist and emerge victorious from this challenge will also go down in history…

Why do they keep it, then? … The real reason is not to be found in the past but in the future. It does not lie in our social system's weaknesses but in its virtues. The U.S. blockade seeks to prevent the unfolding of the enormous possibilities of developing the economy, culture, and social life under socialism. Deep down, they compliment us by keeping the blockade, although they will never admit it. They know, or at least intuit, the potential of socialism. A country that makes its material wealth grow based on the education and spiritual wealth of its people and on the equity that derives from social ownership of the means of production and distributive justice would be too clear evidence that the solutions to the problems facing humanity today are not on the path of capitalism nor in the subordination to the interests of the developed capitalist countries. Thus, they need to show that our system "does not work," hence the blockade.

-Agustín Lage Dávila, The Knowledge Economy and Socialism: Science and Society in Cuba Pgs. 278-279

[stjohnstarling]

I watch a lot of old movies that nobody cares about any more, and this ends up filling in a lot of gaps in my cultural awareness. You would think knowing more about the world would make me more confident in my understanding of it, but you would be wrong.

The Barefoot Contessa (1954) is the life story of a poor Spanish woman who rises up to become one of the most famous actresses in the world. The movie does not bother to give her character traits beyond that she loves to have sex and also that she loves to run around barefoot (the fetishistic connotations are inescapable). She falls in love with a count and ultimately marries him. The big twist at the end of the movie is that her new husband had his dick blown off in the war and so they can't have sex (because, tragically, he never learned how to do hand stuff). Then he murders her for having an affair.

In 1978, Ina Garten bought a specialty food store that, for some unfathomable reason, someone had already named The Barefoot Contessa after this movie, which in 1999 became the title of her bestselling cookbook, which was then followed by a popular Food Network show. Now all of us need to deal with there being a TV cooking show called The Barefoot Contessa as part of the background radiation of our lives.

None of that makes any sense, and I am forced once more to confront the total lack of meaning in the world. It fills me with a terrifying sense of freedom.