#nick rants

[finefeatheredfabler]

Just finished reading Tender is the Flesh and went looking for fellow readers to talk about it with and all I can find are idiots on reddit who rate the book badly because they don't think it's a good horror novel. Media literacy is truly dead, istfg. The whole point is NOT just to argue against the meat industry, it is VERY obviously a metaphor for capitalism and how it directly causes human suffering AND the destruction of the natural world and how, no matter how much you may try not to be, you WILL be complicit in some way.

The extent of how much you are complicit relies solely upon your own choices in response to your existence within the capitalist hellscape we're born into.

The MC has several chances to redeem himself and fails again and again, subliminally blaming his trauma for the choices that he makes rather than recognizing his role in perpetuating human cruelty and enforcing a system that reduces human beings to numbers.

I am astonished and disappointed at how many people missed the blatant message of this book because "hurr durr horror novel not scary."

[nick-stuff]

Yelling my favorite lyrics with my friends surrounded by people who also loved twenty one pilots healed me, I really needed to cry and yell from the top of my lungs since the end of last year

[pumpernickel-simswood]

I'm on season seven, episode four of Once Upon A Time and are you absolutely kidding me!? They're dragging Up into this!? For part of how much of a "good man" Rumple is?! Screw all the way off! Jfc.

[dilfweyoun]

yall ever smile/grin/laugh too much in one day that your head HURTS so bad you want to stop any form of positive emotion for the next week? same

tho i'd like to add on, it's mostly because i have TMJ (temporomandibular joint) and some days are worse than others :^)

[tem-pissed-in-a-t-pot]

jgfghfghfghfhgf 

I found a bunch of old pictures of me with long hair and tbh now I want long hair again 

 but I barely pass as it is and I don't want to give my stepmom an excuse to believe that me being trans was just a phase

what's worse is, tbh....sometimes, like now, I'm.... not only okay with being seen as a girl, I actively miss it 

 what am I 

 I thought I got through this questioning phase

[beartasticnick]

You know what still bugs me? The fact that both the Horde and the Alliance helped all four of the Legion allied races and then, when doing islands, it's like those races forgot that they were helped by who they're up against.

Like, the nightborne? Would none of them ever feel bad about fighting night elves? There's a chance that they have like, a night elf distant cousin that wasn't in Suramar during all that legion shit. I get that Tyrande was a bitch for no reason to Thalyssra but still, other nightborne would be hesitant to just outright hate the Alliance.

And like, the highmountain tauren seemed to accept all the help they could get, whether it be from the Horde or Alliance. I feel they too would be hesitant to fight the Alliance since they were so helpful during the legion stuff, and they seem like more of a "only fight with reason" type of race.

Even the lightforged draenei were helped by both the Horde and the Alliance and I guess since they're technically draenei, they'll be drawn more towards the Alliance where their non-lightforged brethren are. But still, the Horde helped them too, so I feel they'd be slightly less hesitant but enough to kinda think about the fighting.

I guess I can see why the void elves chose the Alliance since the blood elves were like "bad void magic we don't trust you even though you're showing that you can control it and ignore the whispers" which confused me but at the same time it makes sense. But still, Alleria grew up in Silvermoon and they were like "fuck you and your void get out" which is extremely heartbreaking.

Idk I just feel like Blizzard should've thought about how they'd feel rather than like: The Alliance helps the nightborne, especially if your character is a night elf, then all of a sudden they're fighting in an island scenario and the nightborne go "Alliance dogs! Let's kill them!"

It just makes me think like, "But... you're fighting the same people that helped you take back your city... why u like this all of a sudden?"

Maybe I'm over thinking this but idk. It just bugs me how sudden it was.

[savage-styles]

People in films and TV shows are so weird with their phone etiquette.  They just hang up mid conversation after saying something completely nonsensical or open ended without saying good bye, all the time.  The weirdest part is how the person who’s being hung up on doesn’t seem even the slightest big put off or surprised by this. 

It’s always like...

Character A:  *phone rings, looks around like it’s coming from the ceiling and finally finds their phone at the bottom of their purse* ....Helen?

Character B:  No, it’s not Helen.  Who’s Helen?

Character A:  Oh...never mind. Sorry.  Hi.  

Character B:  I was calling because Becky needs a cake for her daughter’s birthday and I’m panicking.

Character:  A:  So pick up a cake.

Character B:  I can’t just pick up a cake!  Oh my god!  This is so bad! Rubber tires do NOT make good candles, Frida!  *hangs up*

Character A:  *sits there with the phone to her ear, expressionless and slowly pulls the phone to her ear length*

Me:  WTF?

[finefeatheredfabler]

"It's the fans' fault the devs got fired by EA" LMAO get fucked, that is not how that works, but sure, blame the fans and not the shitty mismanagement of a wildly unethical company.