Antisocial Anarchy

Anti-social life in a nutshell. From an asexual and asocial canadian twenty-something we get complete and utter randomness. Here I post pretty much anything that catches my eye or whatever I'm obsessed with at the moment; random musings, memes, nerdiness, cats, and other weird stuff I like.

[gaycism]

Why is this so funny to me

[what-even-is-thiss]

This man is a mainstream celebrity

[commandtower-solring-go]

Friend posted this to facebook unironically. What the fuck

[commandtower-solring-go]

HIS LEFT AND RIGHT SIDE ARE ENTIRELY EXPOSED. QUICK, VAX THe BASTARD

[andmyvape-deactivated20260103]

Takin the shot boss

[guerrillatech]

[overdramaticntrue]

ughhhhhhhh im trying to take over the world but my incessant need to make anagrams of my top secret plans keeps giving me away

[bidaubadeadieu]

other anagrams of delta-omicron:

MORON CITADEL

CILANTRO MODE

CONDOM RETAIL

MOONLIT CEDAR

LORD MEAT COIN

RENT ACID LOOM

ACNE MOLD RIOT

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

guess the op of that tweet lives in the moron citadel

[brofligate]

I'm watching Pingu right now and wow how did I forget that Pingu once tried to recreate the Tower of Babel.

[brofligate]

Would love to hear the Vatican's opinions on this.

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

they are animals, and thus free of sin. In fact, doctrinally, animals give glory to God merely by existing so. Pingu’s fine

[brofligate]

But by creating a tower tall enough to reach God's kingdom, would they achieve sin?

[oblivionofthewise-deactivated20]

"At one famous trial in Autun, France, in 1522, some rats were charged with feloniously eating and wantonly destroying the province's barley crop and so were ordered to appear in court. “ if rats can commit crimes, penguins can sin

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

That’s French courts though. France is a perversion of every law, moral, or truth known to man or heaven.

[doggendoodle]

[afloweroutofstone]

[discoursedrome]

gonna get into heaven by using crispr to simulate the dna of a good christian, thereby fooling god

[boopednose]

God: unexpected item in bagging area!

[eskewcity]

People will be like “oh I love gay podcast characters” but won’t even listen to the ROOTS (welcome to nightvale)

[eskewcity]

nothing like hearing this on the very first episode of the show and knowing shit was about to go down

[eskewcity]

there’s something about reading the tags on this post that really gets to me because so many people are talking about how this podcast was their first exposure to a gay character that wasn’t played off as a joke and instead how powerful it was to see Cecil completely unshakable in his immediate love for Carlos. some people even talked about how they used to listen to this with their parents and how their parents actually became more understanding for their own coming out because of it. I know it’s a podcast that most of us listened to when we were 13 and haven’t caught up to in years and but it’s really refreshing to see how much that representation meant to people then and still now :)

[evilkitten3]

it was also one of the first times i’d seen a jewish character whose jewishness was only used as a joke in explicitly jewish contexts. like not that “hey i don’t worship christmas trees” or “haha circumcision” or something.

the joke is never “haha cecil’s jewish” the jokes were an ancient chant being similar to one he learned in torah school and his mom covering up all the mirrors even though, as far as we know, no one had actually died yet.

he’s explicitly gay and jewish and neither of those things are ever mocked.

[cancerously]

Oh hey, I have something to add to this. So when I was in college I majored in a cross of sociology and media studies, which effectly lead me to studying fandom, identity, and how what we love defines us. I started in 2011 so you can imagine when Night Vale was getting big I was smack in the middle of the everything, and as a fan I was approaching it through the lens of my thesis and studies.

I ended up doing an entire final on this and including it within my work, but the long story short on this one is that Night Vale does particularly, specifically well because Cecil’s queerness is the most mundane part of the show. In the first 2-3 episodes, we are introduced to: - A floating sentient glow cloud - 5 headed multicolored dragon running for mayor - The weather report is music for no apparent reason - A portal that hocks dinosaurs into the school gym, a “minor inconvenience” - That our MC is gay Now out of those five, Cecil being gay is the only thing that exists in the real world, and therefore automatically becomes the most relatable. Effectively, the usage of the fantastical as mundane makes our fantastical, to the story, mundane. The key aspect of Night Vale is that sensationalizing the queers would actively make the story worse. And it set such a good fucking precedent for queer people in fantasy, horror, just about anything- the queerness becomes the relatable aspect, and it was Night Vale. So y’know. Yeah, go back and give it a listen, now that it’s coming up on 10 years old. And think about how far we’ve come.

[tooquirkytolose]

Have you heard the tale of the queen of thieves?

[unbotheredmuse]

[timemachineyeah]

People who think this planet was created for humans to be ours are so wild to me

[timemachineyeah]

70% of the planets surface is undrinkable uninhabitable death water that sharks love. How is that a human-centric design.

[fetus-cakes]

the earth was created for various types of crabs

[wheresanegg-blog]

there was a period on 4chan a few years back where someone allegedly figured out how to embed some sort of virus file in an image, which was this image of hirohiko araki eating a donut. if you saved the image it would put a screamer on your computer. i think the virus code in the image was blocked immediately so the original image couldn’t be posted anymore but people didn’t know that so it eventually spun out of control and whenever someone posted this image (the clean version) people would freak out because they thought just viewing the image would destroy their computer. even today looking at jojo’s bizarre adventure author hirohiko araki enjoying baked goods gives me a brief fight or flight response.

[sonypraystation]

literal cursed image

[marmozets]

[mindblowingfactz]

There is a method of growing rhubarb known as “forcing” where the plant grows in complete darkness and is tended to in candlelight. It grows so quickly during this process that you can hear it grow. [1, 2]

[silent-calling]

Thanks! I hate it.

[dannysphototherapy]

What kind of horror movie shit is this?

[yourladyindank]

P l a n t

[selkramazed]

I didn’t think it was possible to make a torture chamber for plants and yet

[zeedikay]

Anyways, here’s a soundcloud link of forced rhubarb:

https://soundcloud.com/rhubarb-rhubarb-rhubarb/a-mass-of-popping-rhubarb

[association-of-free-people]

[glass-galleons-anchored]

Who tf figured that out though?!?

[uncle-beanbag]

The British.

They ran out of ways to torture people so they invented ways to torture plants.

[nightbringer24]

I’m trying to look up the history, since bean said it was the British, and he’s right since it was first done in 1817 in the Chelsea Physic Garden, originally named the Apothecaries Garden in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries for plants for medicinal uses, which rhubarb was used for as well.

As for the why… I think it was just one of those old things of “why not?”.

[nightbringer24]

I found a website that describes it, and it is interesting.

Especially this part:

Specifically, it’s noted that rhubarb thrives in cold, wet weather which, jokey stereotypes aside, is pretty much what the weather is like in Britain for several months of the year. In addition, it’s noted that rhubarb grows especially well in nitrogen rich soil which is also quite handily found in abundance in Britain.

This all brings us to the whole candlelit harvesting thing. At some point, farmers realised that rhubarb’s trademark tartness could be eliminated if the plant was grown in the dark at a certain stage, and that the act of doing this actually made the stalks of the plant taste sweet, negating the need for sugar to be added to dishes containing it.

With this information in hand, farmers quickly developed and subsequently refined the process of growing rhubarb in the dark. For example, it was eventually realised that rhubarb could be “forced” to grow by subjecting an immature plant to frost, which nobody had ever really tried before since frost is normally a death sentence for many plants. However, with rhubarb, this merely, as one rhubarb expert notes, “makes the rhubarb crown break its winter dormancy and stimulate the conversion of starch stored in the rhubarb crown to glucose”.

Normally this glucose is used by the entire plant during growth. However, by putting the rhubarb in total darkness at a certain stage, the leaves of plant will be anaemic and wilted, resulting in all of that delicious glucose being left in the plant’s stalk, hence why rhubarb grown in this manner is so much sweeter than rhubarb grown via more traditional means.

Naturally, once this was discovered, farmers began growing rhubarb in specially constructed “forcing sheds” which were kept in total darkness and kept warm by whatever means they had available. Prior to this, the rhubarb was and still is simply left in a field for around two years to allow the roots to grow while periodically being covered in nitrogen rich fertiliser.  In the 18th century, the fertiliser used was mostly manure and something known as shoddy (essentially discarded woolen fibres) sourced from wool manufacturers. Today, however, farmers mostly use manure which in addition to being cheap and plentiful, stops thieves stealing the rhubarb.

[dapenguinninja]

oh fuck that soundcloud link. imagine hearing this in the dead of night

[conspiring-limabean]

some of my favorite soundcloud comments

[crittizen]

google tilts the browser if you google askew

[1995lahaine]

he was literally deciding what pronunciation of lies to go with while they were rolling

[albertserra]

tom holland: this is it. this is my break as a serious actor

robert: the LAAAs?

[tikkety-tok]

Bringing country back 😌

[autisticexpression]

Nature is healing

[whitepeopletwitter]

[tio-trile]

I’ve always thought that the Chinese witcher novels have hands down the prettiest covers. The first 2 books also includes an illustrated bestiary at the end! I’ve never seen a compilation that includes Lady of the Lake so I want to post a set with all seven books. Illustrations by @navar-notch https://www.artstation.com/navar