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From a state hearing in Texas
you arrive at work (hungry, as usual) excited for more under-tarp sex with your work husband only to find that he's not there. when you ask your boss about it he berates you. you talk to your only remaining work friend about it, but he blames you for not being able to be with his not-work wife and then kills himself. you decide to seek out the treasure map hidden by your other dead work friend. the treasure is your work husband's not-work wife, who is currently trapped in work hell. you're trying to memorize the directions in your darkened office (no work is being done). and then elon musk walks in
and he's your dad
Burt... bye.
ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on
using your phone in a movie theater is a symptom of long covid
the defense of being on your phone in a movie theater is who cares? by your own admission, you should be paying attention to the movie. so why do you care what other people are doing? you’re meant to be paying attention to the movie.
according to a random cake item illusen has relatives which means: embarrassing mom
"to get treatment for adhd you (person with untreated adhd) need to schedule and then show up for several appointments" is the kind of shit the greek gods would inflict on a guy who ate his son
when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”
no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson peak were brainwashed by guillermo del toro into believing that incest and violence are cool and awesome. sorry
Horrifying that this pearl-clutching over horror actually being dark is unironically becoming A Thing…
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Write the problematic thing. Make people uncomfortable. Create art!
The tags are actually mine, and I need you all to know when I said "girl," I actually meant "young woman of 23 years old," and the brainrot was so deep she tried to get us all to sit down as a class and vote as to whether or not we thought the designated reading with its dark themes were appropriate reading for a classroom.
For a Gothic Horror Literature class at university level.
There was not a single person in that room under the age of 20. We were all adults, mere months away from graduating with our bachelor degrees, and this person felt comfortable trying to police us and the class contents like we were five.
Needless to say, we did not participate in a vote. Nor did the professor call her stupid to her face, no matter how much she might have wanted to. Instead, she invited anyone who felt uncomfortable to drop the class. Bafflingly, the student who complained didn't leave, but she made damn sure to let us know during every class discussion that she didn't agree with the morality of the texts.
And this wasn't recent. This was over 15 years ago, long before TikTok, so this was home-brewed idiocy likely strained through the puritanical discourse of some LiveJournal flamewar.
Basically, what I'm getting at is 'what's old is new again.'
The only difference is now everyone's got access to the Internet via the smartphone in their pocket, and they're making their ignorance everyone else's problem on a much larger scale.
I didn't post a link to it on my blog because the podcast doesn't have a text transcript on the Webpage, but this last Sunday (12 October, 2024) I listened to the radio show With Good Reason.
And in an interview on the history of horror movies, German Studies Professor Jenny Taylor, of William and Mary College, pointed out [paraphrasing from here on out] that the genre of horror movie was invented by filmmakers in the Wiemar Republic, as the society came to terms with the horrors of losing the First World War ...
And there were no horror movies made in Nazi Germany, because authoritarian regimes hate it when people take the time to examine their anxieties. And that when the horror genre starts to die out, that's a sign that the country's democracy is in trouble.
When zionism was founded you can literally trace herzl and Ben gurion and his companions speaking about the "voluntary" and "involuntary" transfer of the "fellahin" or the Palestinians. They begin their "transfer" committees (because ethnic cleansing was not a term back then) to argue and talk in depth about whether to buy their movement to Iraq and send memos to the United States articulating that "voluntary" transfer plan. You can pinpoint when ben gurion gets frustrated and talks of forced transfer being the only way to make a jewish majority state. All this said about palestinians and our inferiority and that we must be "uprooted" from the land. We understand zionism as it is in action not your arbitrary conceptions of what it could be "despite its history"
You read this book and all the bullshit about "nakba was tragic but that was war and there was never a plan to intentionally force out palestinians" collapses. Ben Gurion and his crew endlessly planned our "transfer"
I'll never forget reading about one zionist leader who traipsed around the country side and found that it was all settled by palestinians and at the end of his observations he wrote "uproot them all" no differently than the "right wing" politicians like smotrich and Ben gvir that liberal zionists assure you is not the israel they know
o/ my family is from Tantura, one of the northern coastal towns which the zionist roving armed militias massacred in 1948 at what's often named the "start" of the Nakba. The alexondri brigade came, following the commands of Ben Gurion, and spontaneously massacred as much of our village as they could. There was not a fight or battle for the village. They simply came into our town, rounded up every man or boy they could get their hands on, lined them up on the beach, and began executing them. Others raped anybody they felt like as their friends shot anybody who tried to stop them. People tried to flee and they shot who they could too to try to ensure we didn't move elsewhere in Palestine. Out of the 1,250 person town, just one pile on the beach consisted of 250 dead. They forced us to stay and wait, at gunpoint.
Because, they had a plan to ensure we wouldn't stay in Palestine. They force-marched us, Trail of Tears style, to a distant zionist settler colony.
They had film crews from MGM, the American movie company, already on site. They had busses prepared at the ready. They recorded a stupid little media moment, "helping the refugees from the violence move to safety 😔", as they forced us to board their busses.
And without telling anybody anything, they drove those busses of captives as far as they could. Out of the Levant. And they dumped us in random distant cities.
My grandma & grandpa, both children at the time, were both dumped in Baghdad, Iraq. My father was born there.
My grandma, like many other survivors of it, refused to talk about what she experienced those few days. She took what she saw to the grave. It took serious investigation by my dad for us to find somebody else who was there and could talk about it. It took an Israeli settler doing interviews of those alexondri brigade brigands, decades later, for us to hear more of their plans. Turns out that media crew was brought back to our town for them to film a fake little fighting video, throwing grenades into & getting into gunfights with empty houses. Sound familiar? The settler who did that research was turned into a pariah and tortured to "confess" he made up all those interviews, which he recanted the instant he was no longer being tortured.
To this day it is hard to find Palestinian cultural heritage from the area we're from. Because they deliberately sent us as far as they could to random spaces, we weren't part of the same areas of super dense Palestinian refugees like in Jordan & Lebanon. So Much of what we do have preserved is from the southern & Central regions. For example, as I learn tatreez, I'm trying to get access to early pictures of my grandma, because that's the only way I'll be able to learn what tatreez motifs & thobe constructions were worn in Tantura.
The whole thing was very deliberate and premeditated. You kill a person, but you genocide a people-- and they came equipped with American and British support, and with the commands of their own leaders echoing in their ears, to commit a genocide.
There's this thing Laura Jane Grace says in her book talking about how she dresses that really stuck with me
I don't want to have to be hyper fem 24/7 i want to keep wearing what i like i don't wanna trade in one set of restrictive gender norms keeping me from expressing who i really am for another.
One psychologist here asked a trans woman I know "Why are you not wearing a skirt?"
The psychologist herself was not wearing a skirt either.
This happens to disabled people too btw "why are you not sad? why don't you look in pain? Why did you do x or y if it is so bad for you? Why don't you take all the many precautions 24/7?"
This is not a coincidence.
ENGLISH TEACHER (2024) 1.02 — "Powderpuff"
every few months a new marvel yaoi ive never heard of before pops up and every few months i think of this post;
i got that dog in me
they probably cant love me back in a human or even mammalian sense, but my goldfish with their smooth pea-sized brain have learned to trust that i will make them better when they are sick. i feel like crying about this often
Maybe Princess the tarantula never had anything resembling what we as humans know as emotions, but she still came out of her burrow and up to the glass when we’d talk to her and used to stare at the drawing I’d tape to her terrarium. Maybe she couldn’t even comprehend what we were, but she knew we were there to take care of her. And even if she never showed that sort of curiosity or trust we’d still love her.
Idk if Munchie the praying mantis felt love for me, but I do know he trusted me enough to climb onto my hand when offered and was comfortable with allowing me to carry him places despite me being absolutely massive in comparison to him. So that's close enough in my book.
Can I please have a cappuccino but with oat milk and a big pump of sugarfree chocolate syrup and... Lol I remember your stupid ass from 2,300 years ago. We were living in seleucis on the tigris river during the same span of summers... do you rememver a red ibis bird with beautiful plumes? Yeah U were a sort of dull brown goat that didn't train and dint make milk or kids. Yeah? No? Eventually the Zoroastrian homesteaders who owned you started feeding you contaminated barley to try and kill you lol. Maybe you remember the ergotism? Anyway. also I want one of these 🫵stupid little breads in the case