somehow still kicking it on this hellsite

[bigfan1811]

“this meeting could’ve been a email” except its “this esoteric children’s punishment could’ve been a normal conversation with them”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh so it was just straightup embezzlement. Fantastic, I was hoping it was.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#yeah as an accountant I was curious to see if they would address it in the bts#and then they did and it was...this#wow

So much of what these guys do is "it's only illegal if he sues us"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS IN GAME CHANGER

Embezzlement. Keep up.

[impossiblepackage]

this episode proved that Sam Reich is one of the easiest to murder people in the whole world. You get ONE person he knows on board and the man is toast. He’ll hop in the back of your van instantly like “ooh I wonder what silly little trick they have planned for me!” Brennan Lee Mulligan could have put this dude in a saw trap and he’d walk in smiling.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If my timeline is right, Elaine was planning this while she had a secret camera in their home. "I'm an honest person" (was conspiring against her husband in at least two separate simultaneous plots)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#what the fuck#im so out of the loop here i thought that was just some sorta game show

Yeah it is a game show

[everydaygremlin]

is the game in this case psychological torment?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Most of the time yeah

[gaytanic-panic]

[homunculus-argument]

Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury".

[nongunktional]

when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

[nongunktional]

to all the men out there not getting laid: try less hard to get laid and try more hard to be an enjoyable and relaxing presence

[subaru-copilot]

looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

[teaboot]

Surely these circumstances will improve with additional shame

[opiumvampire]

this one. fuck this poem.

[mompleaser]

i wanted to share this not to come off as corrective but because i actually think it really adds to the text to know that not only is it not from a poem, but that there’s a fuller version of this quote that is just as good. and it’s actually really good advice on how to a write emotion without becoming sentimental. james hall, the interviewer, is himself a poet worth looking into if you’re unfamiliar.

James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the poems. Can you talk about how you construct a poem’s emotion without letting that emotion subsume the poem? What tools are available to a poet to mitigate emotion successfully?

Richard Siken: I didn’t see it as risking anything, and I suppose the tool for mitigating emotion is undercutting, but I’ll try to answer the question sideways: Even if you don’t believe in God, you have to believe in narrative. Things happen, one after another, world without end. Just because you’re self-aware doesn’t mean you can change what’s happening. Eventually someone is going to break your heart. Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking “I am falling to the floor crying” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it—you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well and when you’re having sex with your next lover on this very floor they will also notice that you didn’t paint it very well and they will think less of you for it. And then you think “Is that sentence too long?” And then you have to hold the  contradictions of sobbing uncontrollably and wondering about grammar in your head at the same time. I think if you are true to the entire experience, not just the sad part, you don’t risk sentimentality because you’re not overloading the experience with fake, melodramatic feeling. I also hear that whispering helps.

here’s to everyone who looked for this in crush and was confused because it isn’t there. the original interview is kind of hard to source nowadays because of how often it’s misattributed: https://web.archive.org/web/20060501211545/http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/GCIssues/gc18.1%20folder/18.1%20Samples/18.1IntSiken(Hall).html

[bintro]

[spiraledfaun]

so anyway, thought crimes aren't real, roleplaying in kink is literally just "sexy pretend" (actual sex optional), porn and smut are okay actually, and kink fucking belongs at Pride

stop recycling puritanical bullshit and stop encouraging the Morality Police

[spiraledfaun]

im not arguing with 13 year olds about this

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[fairycosmos]

i feel like ive missed out on so much in life. i wish i had been born different. there’s so much grief in this feeling

[powerbottomblake]

i think when we used to point out that a story didn't need a sex scene what we meant was "this story reduces its women to mere sex objects and gives them no interiority so the sex scenes are gratuitous and geared towards the male gaze" it wasn't the sex that bothered us per se it was the objectification of female characters while givig them little to no consequence to the overall story but nowadays people mean "sex is icky and gross and has no merit to ever be portrayed in our arts which should be good and pure and never ever make ME feel discomfort" and it's like. i bet a bowl of unfrosted flakes looks real good to you rn

[flamingbluepanda]

Taskmaster is legitimately the best show ever like. Five comedians compete for zero money and minimal prestige, which means they're all there to have fun and cause chaos and you can tell that theyre all enjoying it. The two hosts have a weird psychosocial bdsm dynamic and they make it everyone's problem and they both actively consent to it and enjoy it. They have fancy chairs and a house on a golf course that get destroyed regularly. Everyone embarrasses themselves and has a great time doing it. The host whos the "sub" and regularly gets verbally and at times physically abused by every single person on the show organizes everything including a large portion of the abuse. They put every single episode for free on youtube along with lots of bonus content so that every single person can watch it. They have a ton of memes and references and Easter eggs hidden all around but it doesnt limit your enjoyment if you miss something. You find yourself rooting for a special little guy but its equally fun when your special little guy looses. You can pop it on in the background and tune in when you see something funny and laugh but it also makes great background noise. They even have a cow.

[fizzfags]

how it feels to wash your hair and brush your teeth and have clean clothes on

[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

ooooo you wanna take a shower so bad

[vampireopossum]

[cock-holliday]

wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??

[cock-holliday]

"naked" he was in underwear and boots. "assaulted" but most papers say he "charged at" the cops, while others claim he punched a cop, yet nothing conclusive out. Some papers speculate mental health concerns but nothing is beyond speculation. "drug use" accusations are being taken at face value EXCEPT by TeenVogue quoting Reuters:

Lil Nas X Says He's "Going to Be OK" After His Recent Arrest

The artist has been charged with four felony counts after an incident involving police.

Reuters reports that police said they suspected the artist was using drugs when he was arrested, and a judge mandated he attend an outpatient drug rehabilitation program as a condition of his release from jail. Lil Nas X's lawyer, Christy O'Connor, told the judge that there was no evidence of drug use, per Reuters, calling the incident an aberration “in an otherwise productive life.”

From the linked Reuters article:

He was accused of assaulting the officers who were trying to take him into custody, injuring three of them.

Damn, didn't know he was a skinny ass John Wick. It's almost like the most sensationalized lies about a situation being told by COPS are being reprinted as truth despite apparently zero evidence, testing, or accounts besides from the cops who assaulted him, and EVERYONE is treating this like some moral failing from Lil Nas X or a joke, and not a traumatic brutalization on a person that presented no danger to anyone.

Fuck the cops and fuck each racist and homophobic paper for their drivel, INCLUDING queer papers backtracking on their support.

[klapollo]

the way being a taylor swift fan has kind of become metabolized as this inherent trait of womanhood is very bizarre

[klapollo]

"pov all the women in your zoom meeting talking about taylor's engagement" "check on the women in your life this is a big day" it's just all so myopic, and it's less to do with taylor herself or her music and more with this neverending (and currently thriving) obsession with gender norms, with girl stuff/boy stuff, with redefining being a #girl or woman as baking cookies and pink bows and obsession with men. and im not even gonna start on the infantilization of this talking point that women universally arent gonna be able to focus on anything, including work and school and chores, today bc a celebrity is engaged. just a girl, etc.

[the-bar-sinister]

Look, pal, when I say "fanfiction does not have the cultural reach to be able to change social perceptions of controversial topics"

what I mean is "if Game of Thrones could not manage to normalize incest, a handful of shipcest fics on AO3 with 50 kudos each sure aren't going to manage to normalize it!"

And you know that. In your heart you know it.

[the-bar-sinister]

"Well, what if a shipcest fanfiction got SO popular that-"

What if the world was made of pudding.