[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

ffxiv dialogues that make me feel like i am being punched in the throat:

The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.

…but if such things were possible, you wouldn’t have a broken shield, now would you?

In your darkest hour, in the blackest night…think of me…and I will be with you. Always. For where else could I go? Who else could I love but you?

Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should.

At journey’s end, an opportunistic thief makes off with the hero’s prize. A paltry way to end a chapter, I concede.

I would ask her about her next adventure. And if she should wish me to be a part of it, oh… how happy it would make me.

Tell me… If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it?

The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I’ve gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand 

This demon is undeniably deserving of death. Make no mistake. To cut them down would be just and proper. The act of a goodly person─and that is just what you are. I can see that.

In the end, he chose mercy. He chose love, and I was undone.

And when it hurts so much your heart feels fit to burst, let it burst. Let it burst, and fill up again with your love for them. And never, ever forget.

[geek-ramblings]

A+ example of how the media manipulates people for clicks and anger engagement.

[racistspiderman]

More women

[sevey6]

Thank god they decided to make more

[somesaypoetry]

Wow

Dolly Parton has really been hard at work

[cumbacon]

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

[ichikun]

[the-son-of-hell]

The tags fucking one shotted me

[nick-is-kinda-dum]

Damn she really musta been working 9 to 5 to make those women

[alphedhel]

What a way to make a living.

[themonkeysnameisjack]

so when Zuko joins the Gaang and this happens:

he’s probably freaked out (rightfully so) but in the back of his mind he’s probably also thinking “worst comes to worst, I could probably fight her” until:

this happens and he’s like:

and immediately starts reevaluating every bender he’s ever met, thinking of every time Katara totally could’ve killed him, and is forever grateful that she has morals lol

bonus post war convo between Zuko and Azula:

[manaphy]

wow I didn’t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered

[hobopoppins]

OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.

I work at a concession stand in an ice rink. We sell a bunch of chocolate bars and snacks and shit including Kinder Surprise eggs.

So one day this woman comes up to the counter with her two little kids, a girl who’s probably about 6 or 7 and a little boy, maybe 3 or 4. The mom asks what they want, the little girl points at the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if she wanted the white or the pink egg. She said pink. The little boy pointed to the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if he wanted the white or the pink egg. He said pink. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LIKE I OPENED THE GATES OF HELL. The mom absolutely FLIPPED and was like “YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE PINK EGG IT’S ONLY FOR GIRLS. YOU CAN GET THE WHITE ONE OR NOTHING AT ALL”. The little boy looked at his mom and said “But I want the same as ______ (whatever the sister’s name was)”. The mom completely ignored him and turned to me and gave me a death glare. “He can have the white egg.”

I had to give a little boy a white egg when he wanted the pink so that he could be the same as his big sister and he started crying. The mom just reiterated that the pink egg was for girls and told him that boys don’t cry.

And this is why we shouldn’t gender fucking chocolate eggs.

[jen-kollic]

This is actually a relatively new thing, originally Kinder Eggs were all white like the ones on the left. I don’t know at what point they decided to make ‘girl’s’ Kinder Eggs, but I do not like it.

[its-jolls]

Holy shit do not even get me started on how moms constantly police their sons’ masculinity. I’ve seen mothers do it WAY more often than fathers.

I used to work at a bakery that specialized in creating custom cakes. We had this feature where we could print out any image off the computer and put it on a cake (with rice paper). One day this lady comes in and asks for an image we had of the baby Sesame Street characters. They’re all together with cake and confetti, and she asks, “Oh, well since it’s a boy, can you please change all of the little pink confettis into blue confetti? I mean, he’s a boy, you know.”

Confetti.

The fucking confetti.

It barely covered 5% of the image.

Another instance was when a lady asked me for an image of four superheroes to put on her son’s cake because her son was turning four. She admitted to not knowing any superheroes, so I offered the most obvious choice—The Fantastic Four. I pulled up a picture of them and she goes, “Oh no no, we can’t have that. Let’s do another one.” Confused, I pulled up a Justice League one with Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman. Again, she said no. I asked her if she needed anything specific (she didn’t know superheroes, why was she so picky?), and she just said, “Oh, it’s just that he’s a boy, you know? We can’t have a girl superhero on his cake.”

I nearly lost my shit. I did temporarily lose my customer service face and ask why, women have been superheroes all the time, Wonder Woman is iconic, etc etc and she was like, “It’s just that my son has been playing with Barbie dolls lately and I really don’t want him to end up… well, you know.”

This shit has got to stop. When you teach boys that certain things are only for girls, you’re limiting them and you’re teaching them that girls or “girly things” are bad. If you want gender equality as an adult, you better make DAMN sure that you’re teaching the same thing to your kids.

[jen-kollic]

So this woman did not want her son to turn out ‘you know’ and her plan for that was to get him a cake with spandex-clad manly men AND ONLY MEN on it? I don’t think she thought that one through too well…

[aphony-cree]

in sociology class we were talking about gender being assigned to objects and one of the male students started saying how forward thinking he is because he buys his daughter sports equipment and “boy toys”. I asked if he’d do the same if he had a son and he said “Of course I’d buy my son sports equipment”. I clarified “No, would you buy him dolls and other toys that are thought of as being for girls”. He turned around and didn’t answer.

Parents will pat themselves on the back for letting their little girls play baseball but a little boy with a Barbie is still considered an affront to society

[theceejay]

I work at Walt Disney World in the Star Wars area, we sell lightsabers obviously. One day this kid walks up to the counter with his parents and asks to see Mace Windy's lightsaber. I grab it for him, show him how to turn it on, and he does. Unshockingly it lights up purple. The dad doesn't seem to care and neither does the mom at this point.

He looks at a couple other lightsabers (the only other one I remember is Luke's), and then decides he wants Mace's. The mom gets angry at this point. Saying "you can't have the purple one, what about this one it was green?" The dad didn't seem to care and in fact said stuff along the lines of "just let him get what he wants." They fought about it for a few minutes during which time I had reiterated about how Mace has the only purple lightsaber and HE was a very powerful Jedi (because to her the gender of the wielder mattered).

She asked me which one was my favorite and I said Mace Windu. Because it is actually my favorite one we had at the time because 1) purple is my favorite color and 2) I like the gold accents it has. But ALSO I would have said his either way just to spite her.

I think they did end up getting him the Mace Windu one after quite some time, but it's something I see a lot at work. Even back when I worked in regular merchandise if a little boy wanted Minnie instead of Mickey anything it was almost always an issue. Which I never quite understood because if you wanna get technical it was usually plush they'd be sleeping with and if the parents are so concerned about sexuality or something then wouldn't it be worse for your son to sleep with a female plush as opposed to a male one? Not saying I agree at all but their logic is so dumb it's hard to make sense of it.

[siquetumismo]

[bogleech]

This is it. The one true limit. This is the worst thing I've ever seen someone do to someone else that was still funny.

[angelicguy]

they better have microwaved that watermelon

[mattefier-deactivated20221118]

[realshinjiikari]

Her amygdala just detonated like a block of c4

[singingfrogs]

[ahraeyah]

This is my favorite meme on the internet. More compilations please.

[sen-thebootbimbo]

Sometimes humans are just. Good.

[tylerposey]

HENRY GOLDING Attitude — Dennis Leupold (2020)

[worsethanmyotherblog]

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

me when the next motherfucker says we’re all in this together

[thestumpyone]

Look I’m not a big fan of high school musical either but this seems like a bit much

[jaubaius]

Graphics glitch makes for entertaining weather report…🔊 🔊

[fenix-minerva]

[catgirl-kaiju]

Animorphs into myself

[the-august-one]

“Animorphs into myself”

[kiwicum-deactivated20251101]

I need someone to make decisions for me. I can't do this

[kingofthehilltoday]

HOLY. SHIT.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[daring-greatly]

Side note on this: all those college conservatives saying liberal professors are shutting them down because of their conservative ideas and refusing to hear otherwise? In my experience the “shut down” is just being asked to DEFEND their position for the first time and not accepting shitty half thought out “proofs” that fall apart on their own.

[the-library-alcove]

Derek Black, son of a Grand Wizad of the KKK, broke free of White Nationalism because of this very effect.

[scarlet-rosepetals]

This right here is why it’s so important that college education not be locked behind a giant shitty paywall. The fact that only kids who come from money are given access to spaces that teach and encourage critical thinking isn’t a fucking coincidence

[throwbackblr]

[y2kluv]

[anxietyproblem]

[kingofthehilltoday]