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Cosmic Funnies
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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will byers stan first human second
trying on a metaphor
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Xuebing Du
Not today Justin
bliss lane
Claire Keane
Misplaced Lens Cap
we're not kids anymore.
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@themockturtlesoup
I have a mental list of things people compare women with, you know, in stead of considering them human beings capable of rational thoughts.
So far on my list:
Car
Lock
Shoe
Treasure chest (that one's been kinda flattering, ngl. Small victories)
Ham sandwich
Fish
Sticky tape
A rose
I heard this metaphor growing up, and in my case, it backfired supremely, because I went out into my neighbor’s backyard where a rose bush w
A hotel mattress
To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.
If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determination…. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examples….
ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.
Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.
Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.
Elizabeth, attempting to climb out the window: but I don't want to get married!
Mrs Bennet: stay where you are, young lady!
The only reason I can forgive Darcy for thinking our sweet Jane an opportunistic, money-hungry social climber is because her own mother treats all her daughters like opportunistic, money-hungry social climbers.
The Recloseted Lesbian. Watch What You Say
"Why aren't you getting married?"
"I don't want to."
"But you have to. What will people say?"
"I don't know, mother. They remained pretty quiet when you married an emotionally and financially abusive man, when your sister married a paedophile, when your other daughter married a wife-beater. I really don't know what they'll say."
Comic #329: Dumb reasons to have kids #1 - Website links: Here! I have had some genuinely stupid reasons for having children leveled at me but this one… hooo… this one my whole family’s existence disproves! I am ending a long line of wanderlust ladies skipping all over the commonwealth & that’s just fine! Let ppl live their own lives🐻🚫👶
im so fucking serious when i say that no one is crueler to visibly disabled people than girlies with blue wolfcuts and sharp eyeliner wearing hundred dollar sweaters from shein.
like. there's a weird misconception that it's old people, but i have never once had an issue with anyone over the age of, like, 55. they are fine with me muttering to myself or making weird faces or not hearing them the first five times they call my name. that's not a problem for them. when my brother goes out with a cane, they're the ones who compliment it, and tell him the spikes and ribbons are a cute addition.
yesterday this pink haired girl in the bathroom told me that i needed to stay away from movie theaters if i was going to act like a schizo. ten minutes later an 80 year old woman complimented me on my bright red hearing aids and said she wished she had that confidence when she got hers.
anyways to the anon who just said that maybe i shouldn't be in public spaces. thank you for proving my point
a very important addition.
ok this post was originally about psychosis and plurality, but this is also a really good addition.
I am sorry to derail the post, but as an Asian living in Europe, it's the younger generation that scares me. Old people are either chill or politely ignore the big fat elephant in the room, but teens will go out of their way to spit at you or beat you up for daring to go shopping and make a tiktok about it.
Do you have any headcanons about how Vetinari ended up taking power?
Actually yes I do!
I wrote a fic about his first day in power that vaguely referenced this and while I don't have like, a fully fleshed out story, there are a few bits and pieces that I sort of bodged together from things in the books and what I personally find entertaining about him as a character:
There's a bit in Soul Music which says that there was a rat plague in Ankh-Morpork shortly before Vetinari came to power, and that his solution was "tax the rat farms". It's unclear in context whether this means he suggested it at the end of Snapcase's time in power or if it was one of the first things he did after he became Patrician. I've just gone ahead and assumed that the rat plague was the last straw for Snapcase and that actually having a good suggestion was one of the reasons Vetinari was in people's minds as a replacement
That then leads us to ask, well, what on earth was he doing there? He's been in power a fair while even by Guards Guards but chronologically must still only be in his early 40s by then, to have been in his late teens in the 30-years-ago bits of Night Watch (and he can't be older than that, because it's made fairly clear that he's in the Guild equivalent of secondary school at that time, and Vimes knows that the two of them are approximately the same age). Given his canonically hilariously long list of postgrad qualifications, he probably went straight from Assassins Guild grad school to the Oblong Office, more or less. Conclusion: he was the fucking INTERN. (or possibly working as a clerk, but calling him the intern is at least 500% funnier)
Given the running joke about him being this weird posh dude who doesn't seem like a threat until you remember where he was educated, I would imagine that his whole "ah capital jolly good here I go getting slang wrong again" bullshit started here. We know that among the Ankh-Morpork elite, pretending to be stupider than you really are is something that can both keep you safe and help you get away with a lot, because we see Vetinari and Vimes and Sybil do it. So this is where he got his practice. Bertie Wooster the FUCK out of your working day, quietly get on with the things that need to be done while nobody's looking, and nobody will realise because they just think you're Madam's weird nephew with the shit beard and the puppy
So, bearing all that in mind, picture this:
Snapcase is dead. The important people (at least, the people who think themselves important) converge on the palace. In a small room off the Oblong Office is a young man steadily working through a large pile of paperwork. Oh, yes, that's Madam's nephew, you know... Havelock, isn't it? They ask if he knows what's happened, and he says no, he has no idea, he's just been working his way through all these regulations, and gosh, they really are very dull. And... well... nobody else is here. And nobody else seems to understand the filing system, or the rest of the staff, or anything really. But he does.
This guy's had a few good ideas when he's been doing the minutes at various meetings, that makes him a plausible candidate surely? And he's so young, so he's going to need a lot of guidance from helpful, experienced folks, right? How useful. He's just smart enough not to be an obvious puppet. Very handy indeed.
And the cream of Ankh-Morpork society being what they are (truly the cream- rich and thick) they don't realise until it's far too late that this lanky goth weirdo they'd thought would do their bidding knows everything about everyone and he's been quietly furious about the result of the Glorious 25th for over a decade. And, whoops, they'd somehow forgotten that he didn't spend all of that time on Guild postgraduate courses doing resits. Oh dear. And now he's their boss.
You know, I may be reaching for straws here, but it feels like STP saw real like politicians who promised to uphold justice, eradicate poverty or corruption, and build a more equitable society as their election promises then became the puppet in the hands of powers who wanted to maintain the status quo, and he wanted to write this obscure man who came to power because he had shown all the promises of being a good puppet and ended up being Vetinari.
Never have I ever thought my brain would pick up the difference of 1°, let alone be angry about it.
Funny to realize that all of this tips to sabotage a company in 1944 are now the rock solid foundation and process for most of the modern companies. Think i’m going to spam this to everyone.
I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test
I’m in the last 47.33%
I shouldn’t have taken that test
Am I fucking stupid LMAO
cool. cool cool cool.
im- im an english major i hate it here
The only thing being a native English speaker has done for me: let me guess things accurately!
English is not my mother language so this is higher than I expected it to be already LMAO
This is so funny when you consider English isn’t my mother language either and I literally chose half of the words randomly😭
I are a riter
Like Cory I are also a riter. But I bet Cory dun it fasterer.
the age polls i’ve seen suck. so i made one that sucks different but less.
under 12
13-15
16-18
19-23
24-27
28-34
35-47
48-63
64-74
75+
this doesn’t have a fake answer and i know earnest polls get reblogged less. but uh…… what if i ask nicely.
I think we should approach flat earthers with "actually, a vastly more common and alarming misconception is not that the Earth is a sphere, but that the Sun is a sphere. That’s a lie. The Sun is actually a tube, and you’re only ever seeing one end of the tube"
DON'T LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS
I think the massive point Flat-earthers always ignore, albeit in addition to the even more obvious scientific evidence, is that no one has yet made any attempt to monetize this so-called edge of the Earth.
I mean, people have tried to sell anything and everything, right? Human rights to human beings. From God to plots on the Moon. You can have your wedding in Hawaii despite pleas from the native Hawaiians, leave your used toilet paper on Mount Everest, bother penguins in Antarctica, or shoot animals in Africa. Someone saw the very primal urge of pack-bonding by grooming each other in homo sapiens and decided to sell plastic back scratchers. Then where is your 4 days-3 nights breakfast-included premium honeymoon package to the edge of the Earth? Your restaurant chains all around the flat earth where you can eat your fries while watching the great waterfall or the icewall? Why isn't the newspaper full of stories of influencers casually falling off into the space after going too close to the edge despite being warned by the veteran tour guide?
If no one tried to sell it, it probably doesn't exist.
a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features
do you get it or do you not know anything
more examples that people keep getting upset with me for not adding
That’s just how black cats be
Any questions?
I am going to be honest. Now that literal adoptees are coming out with the abuse and trauma they underwent at the hand of their adoptive parents, adoption doesn't seem like the rainbows and bubbles garden party depicted in literature. Especially for children of colours, overseas adoptees, neurodivergent children, or children born with disabilities or medical conditions. So adoption is not the "benefits everyone" alternative we were led to believe.
I'm going through the Wodehouse tag in tumblr, and I can't find much else apart from Bertie and Jeeves. How shocking!
Anyway, may I tempt you to dabble into light chicanry? Chase your anarchist old hen so you can jump headfirst into love. Arrange for your future father-in-law to almost meet an early watery demise so you can save his life and your image.
Let us read together "The Love Among the Chicken " by Sir P. G. Wodehouse.
