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The Ikea biphobia couch is the funniest thing that's ever happened. We found it gang. Nothing will ever top it in terms of being funny.

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twilight princess funniest zelda game ever made

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one of the reoccurring minor plots is that a 3 year old with the mental capacity of an adult is trying to abolish capitalism in the big city. there's a yeti couple living in an abandoned mansion and the guy yeti is like 10 times the size of and more visibly monstrous than the girl yet they made him a malewife. you can collect insects for a little girl that is insane about them and gives you strange and off-putting dialogue about each bug everytime you give her one and practically threatens you if you try to leave her home without giving her bugs she doesn't have yet. one of the modes of transportation in this game is being shot out of a giant canon by a depressed clown and landing on your feet with no injuries. there's a spaghetti western style minigame where the objective is to talk to 20 different cats. a chicken attempts to flirt with link. they made tingle into a sexyman caricature.

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i completely forgot about ooccoo while making this post. this fucking thing:

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and, of course, her son too

loreleywrites

Every time someone says that Twilight Princess is too grimdark and serious, I want to point them to this post. It’s a very silly game.

shetheyslain

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

isuggestrevolution

good suggestion

velvetvexations

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

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So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

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Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

assortedinsanities

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.

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anarchistmemedistro

*a breathtakingly powerful statement even today, three quarters of a century later

fuckthisshit-ugh

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

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liking a straight woman’s critique of a straight man’s misogynistic video and then taking back my like at the end when she tries to make a joke abt him being gay #lol we’re never getting out of here like we’re neverrrrrr getting out of here why are gay ppl driving the bus all of a sudden

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& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

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The earrings, worn by Zendaya at The Odyssey press tour, are believed to be 2,000-3,000 years old and come at a time when the US is bombing

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."

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Anyway another thing about restorative/reformative justice models is that they'll never fully live up to their stated ideals in a system that's otherwise built to enable abuse and create imbalanced power dynamics.

That's why you can't just roughly slap "we should simply forgive people! :D" onto the existing system and expect it to work out. These issues are actually complicated.

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You can't just Principle Of Reform And Restorative Justice your way out of a situation where someone has a history of abusing a position of power that they're still in.

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You can, in fact, simultaneously acknowledge these two things:

Punitive models of incarceration have worse rates of recidivism than reformist models, and arbitrary enforcement of "tough on crime" laws is a major component of the continued oppression of, for example, Black people in the US

Sometimes there's a person who's got too much power and influence, uses that power to do enormous amounts of harm, and could regain power through their influence if stripped of power. You have to solve that problem, and sometimes the only viable solution is going to be to put them in a cell and throw away the key. In most cases right now, this doesn't even happen to begin with, and so on the few occasions where it does happen, it can't be a priority to attempt to reform those people in particular.

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Oh, and also:

Discussions of alternatives to carceral justice are serious political theory that this website treats like a proxy war for fandom nonsense. As such, it's worth pointing out that the answer to the question "should you be obligated to continue supporting an e-celeb who's done harm?" is "there is literally no situation where you, as a private individual simply using the Internet, are morally obligated to go out of your way to interact with any e-celeb in any way whatsoever."

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individualism is killing us all you are not the main character of your own little movie you are literally just some guy

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Reason #173 why I choose to believe The Hidden World isn't canon: we were robbed of Hiccup being a competent, respected chief.

In the books, Hiccup doesn't want to be the chief or king, but he recognises that no one else (not even his Dad) will do The Right Thing in that position. So he steps up and takes the responsibility, not because he wants it but because it's the right thing to do.

Hiccup in the shows/films also doesn't want to be chief. RTTE and HTTYD2 make it clear that Hiccup would much rather just wander. He wants to explore, to discover, to learn - but in RTTE when Stoick points out that they're stronger together and he needs to start taking more responsibility, he does the right thing (but not the thing he wants to do) and returns to Berk to learn how to be chief.

In HTTYD2, he is clearly resisting, preferring to be exploring and avoiding taking responsibility. BUT when shit hits the fan and Stoick dies, Hiccup steps into the gap. 'A chief protects his own.' He puts aside his own feelings and saves Berk, then accepts the mantle of chief when it's offered to him, despite clearly still dealing with his grief.

AND THEN. We get to THW. I know it's only been a year, but Hiccup seems to have learned NOTHING. He's still flitting around, desperate to be out exploring. He's still longing for adventure, longing to be in the sky and on the move rather than grounded in his village.

And that's his character! I love that about Hiccup! But there is something extremely powerful about a leader doing the right thing even when it's hard. THW Hiccup doesn't do this.

He takes no responsibility for the issues on Berk, like the overpopulation and overcrowding. He dismisses the issue, doesn't want to talk about it (RTTE Hiccup would never).

He lures Grimmel to his house to hear what he says rather than just stopping/capturing him.

He makes an impulsive decision to lead his people away from their home of generations. It's also selfish - HE wants to find the Hidden World, so he uproots literally their entire way to life to find it, with no regard for how anyone else would feel about this.

When they get to New Berk, no one really respects him. We see no evidence of Hiccup leading or being listened to. He has no plan beyond 'find the Hidden World'. He's not thinking about his people ('protecting his own'). He's only thinking about himself and Toothless.

Even the decision to send the dragons to the Hidden World feels like a decision a weak leader would make. RTTE/HTTYD2-Hiccup would fight for the world he wants to see. THW Hiccup just lets it slip through his fingers because it's hard.

It's maddening. Hiccup was set up to be a GOOD CHIEF. We didn't even get a Hiccup desperately trying to do the right thing and getting it wrong. All we got was a child.

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as a teen, i was constantly harassed by adults enforcing ''dress codes'' on me. I very much experienced this as sexual harassment. I think this is one of many cases where people would more easily understand this as sexual harassment if I described it as if it happened to an adult.

imagine being on your lunch break, and your supervisor comes over to your table, tells you to stand up in front of everyone. they draw everyone's attention to your thighs. they tell you that you have broken the dress code because of the length of your shorts. they tell you to go change (so you do not get the rest of your lunch break). they do this every single day at lunch. every day. so you read the whole dress code front and back, and you choose your clothing carefully to not break it. you bring a cloth tape measure with you to work because they will not believe you. this time when your supervisor tells you that you're breaking dress code, you pull out your tape measure and show that you are within the limit. your supervisor says "I bet you wouldn't want me to bring you to the boss and let him measure it, would you?" it's clearly a threat: if you don't obey then you will be put alone in a room with your boss and he will touch your thighs. you don't know how to respond. you're taken out of lunch again.

this was my experience at school. replace supervisor with "teacher" and boss with "principal." this was sexual harassment. fuck dress codes.