Short Victory

Daken/23/FTM(he/him) Naruto cured my depression and so can you.

[linnison]

[lizardsfromspace]

"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably

[miyuliart]

Some of my favourite horror tropes

[mewmewdoppio]

This is how Mob found out btw

[boethiah]

had a fucking experience just now

[boethiah]

playing skyrim. feel something cold on my foot. cats dropped a frog on my foot. ok. pick up the frog, bring the frog outside. hold hand out near plant so frog can jump into plant. frog doesn’t jump into plant. second frog jumps into my hand. i’m just standing there with two frogs in my hand. shake hand. frogs fall into plant. go inside. resume skyrim. alright.

[imsoglitter]

I don't "struggle with same-sex attraction" I'm actually very good at it

[ravenkinnie]

I'm never deleting tiktok

[hiamigoman]

[icarus-suraki]

Happy Easter.

[mariautistic]

We declined your card because we hate you

[studentlifeproblems]

[girlblocker]

rip but ONLY to people who died committing to the bit

[becuzitisbitter]

You fucking wish the author was dead. The author is on twitter

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[three--rings]

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

[lyricwritesprose]

Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary.  And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it.  I’m not going to participate in this system.  If that means I go to Hell, so be it.  Going to Hell now.”

(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature.  Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too.  Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.”  Interesting guy.  Sorry for the long parenthetical.)

Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.

And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.

[qwertyu858]

Also, there is not that much of racial slurs. Like those guys are making it sound like its just “n-word” bombs from start to finish while, yeah they are a bunch of racial slurs but not at that point.

[sharper-and-bigger]

These people would spontaneously combust if they watched Blazing Saddles

[sixpenceee]

Perception of gravity in different celestial bodies | source

[philomonstrum]

Sun what the fuck

[supershyskye]

Pluto just gives it a lil boop

[classically-lit-memes4u]

defend my thesis? like with a sword?

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

Unpopular opinion but an adult still living at home with their birth family doesn’t owe you an explanation for why they’re living there. 

It could be an illness/disability they have that’s not fully visible. Maybe they want to be around to care for their aging parents. Maybe the rents in their area are so disgustingly, astronomically high that it really doesn’t make sense for them to move out. Maybe they just don’t trust strangers enough to move into shared accommodation. No matter what it is, it’s not your business. 

[smwh-ores]

Maybe they actually have good parents who have consistently provided them with a loving, supportive and stable home life & they want them there. I feel like a lot of this backlash against ppl who still live with their parents are alot of ppl just projecting bc staying with their parents past 18 wasn’t even an option

[charlesoberonn]

“I wish ancient people preserved their writing and artifacts better” I write in electronic signals on a piece of hardware that can’t retain its efficacy for more than a few decades.

[charlesoberonn]

Time to laser-print my entire blog on titanium plates and bury them underground.

[mrbeefgnaw]

brb etching my one-star yelp review of the sheet metal supplier that sold us shitty copper on a granite slab

[alexisthenedd]

We are never going to give this guy a fucking break are we

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

Ea-nasir knows what he did.

[mctreeleth]

But more importantly, WE know what he did. Because it got written down in some rocks.

[prokopetz]

The funny part is that clay tablets are supposed to be ephemeral. When you’re done with them you just soak them in water, smooth them out, and re-use them for a different message. They weren’t meant to be any more permanent than an email.

The only reason we still have that particular clay tablet is because a. Ea-nasir was a huge weirdo who collected all of his hate mail, and b. his house later burned down, and coincidentally did so at exactly the right temperature to bake the collected tablets into pottery rather than destroying them.

It’s basically the equivalent of an email getting inscribed onto a steel plate by accident.