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[guy who has been holding an insane amount of tension in his body for a week straight] bro why do I feel so awful
Reblogging this three times in a row? Take a deep breath and take care of yourself!
Turns out thst I am in fact a suspension bridge.
Oops.
Very fascinating type of person i have seen at least twice on tumblr is someone who wants to travel back in time and kill Jesus to stop Christianity in its tracks and therefore prevent the colonization of the Americas, Atlantic slave trade, etc. Like. I don’t think killing him is gonna stop Christianity. In fact, it famously did not.
i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.
What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?
It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.
My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂
I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.
I remember the oil shortage of the late '70s, though mostly from my parents complaining about gas prices. If you want something I definitely perceived as news, it's the hostage crisis. I was *very* aware of my surroundings--I didn't turn 5 till the end of 1980.
Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.
I like that other ducks don’t sound like that in the Disney toon universe. Donald Duck is just weird.
isn’t it official (EU) lore that Chewbacca is less intelligible than other wookiees because he has a speech impediment (everyone say thank you Timothy Zahn)
You have it backwards, actually. There is a Zahn character, a Wookie with a speech impediment, who is able to speak fluent Basic *because* of his impediment.
"My family thinks because im a leftist it means im radical but like whats radical about that? I just want everyone to hug, no bad things to happen, free healthcare and be nice to everyone" - the coldest, rudest most judgemental person you know.
Yeah. This. It's the refusal to acknowledge that the world is messy and complicated, that tradeoffs are a thing, and that people can disagree in good faith. Because only a Bad Person could possibly disagree with "healthcare and hugs."
Goofy ass Vulcan x Human shipping idea
So the human likes horror movies although they aren't able to sleep for a week afterwards. The Vulcan feels nothing from watching horror movies because "It is just a movie. It is not real, and actually, it is very improbable that this would ever occur." The Vulcan is also fascinated by the Human's tendency to watch horror movies because they choose to scare themselves. The Human is losing sleep and becoming extremely jumpy which is not good for their job, health, psyche, and frankly the peace of mind of the Vulcan. So the Vulcan proposes watching the movies together, as well as having sleep overs so that the Human can rest, and it works way too well. The human can work through their extensive watch list. And the Vulcan ends up liking the company, the shared bonding experience, and getting a heated bed in a cold spaceship.
So queues the shenanigans of: "I was able to obtain physical media of the classic earth horror movie you have yet to watch. Would you require a 'movie buddy' for this viewing as well?" "Man, you are a real one you know? So your quarters at 1800?" "Yes. I look forward to our endeavors."
The Vulcan is in fact afraid of the Alien movies (which are by Trek standards plausible) and ends up needing cuddles to calm down (he doesn't put it that way).
Why is george w bush there?
To let you know the destination time.
"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same." --Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance
The thing about the goon app is that goons fall into exactly two categories: either they are your buddies or they are Blackwater. If you are a normal person who needs goons like a drug dealer or someone with a stalker you call your buddies and your buddies roll up with whatever equipment they got. If you are wealthy you have no real friends so you have to call Mr Prince. Almost all of the time the goons are matched to the situation because your buddies are perforce people who get into the same sort of situations you do. There is no middle ground except these Baudrillardian simulacra of goons to be hired by Instagram celebrities and other types of internet pod person. They aren't real goons like yes there are guys there but you can't trust them if there's a real threat but there isn't one so it doesn't matter. The app only appears to be outside the dichotomy if you make the mistake of thinking the hired goons are real.
The term "goon" is undergoing rapid mutation and I thought for a second you meant a very different sort of app
why was 91 a hopeful time aside from winning that time around? I can smell it now, see the paint on all the scenery begin to peel. the sick has reached the blood. the only question the world asks itself instead of sleep is whether empires with nukes will die quietly twice. [and no Russia doesn't count. it's a wretched little simulacrum, wearing its father's old clothes to pretend his body isn't rotting on the couch]
I’m not quite old enough to give a good answer; that was the year reading “clicked” for me but I was chewing through the Chronicles of Narnia, children’s encyclopedias, and Ranger Rick rather than newspapers and news magazines.
Anyone old enough for an answer plz reblog.
Ninety-one was a hopeful time because the Cold War was over and its instigator, the Soviet Union, had fallen. No one except a few newly-discredited communists thought of the US as an empire--what we led was a voluntary alliance of free nations (with a few leashed petty fascists running nations where the people had stupidly tried to let the USSR or the PRC put its yoke on them). We expected the petty fascists to be kicked to the curb indirectly (loss of US support) or directly (by being invaded and dethroned, as in the Gulf War--except that the idiots at the UN demanded we leave Saddam in power). After that we'd all have a peace dividend.
And no, no one thinks of it that way any more, not even Republicans, because it completely failed to happen like that. Republicans just blame the UN--that was the beginning of real power for the "UN is the Antichrist's kingdom" faction.
used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic
Also the new linguistic quirk of just saying “it was 2020” as like. The full end of a story. You say “it was 2020” and everyone knows what you mean.
“I was going to get my masters degree but then it was 2020, so yeah”
“I was cast in a play and then it was 2020”
“my boyfriend proposed but then it was 2020”
ever since i finished reading worm ive been rotating other superhero media around in my brain within the parahumans framework
stuff like how syndrome from the incredibles isn't "powerless" at all, what are you talking about, that's literally the most obvious stereotypical tinker of all time!
anyway i reiterate that worm is very good but at the cost of making every other media with superpowers in it look bad in comparison
like ill see a skit about how [insert superpower] makes no sense and i can't help myself from mentally going "IT'S THE MANTON EFFECT YOU IDIOT THIS IS BASIC STUFF" and it kinda takes the fun out of it yknow
Question, because it’s driving me INSANE!
Do we ever find out Cordelia Frost’s powers? I can’t remember them ever being shown in “Generation X”?
Honestly it’s weird how much writers ignore this character- you would think they’d explore her more!
I can't find anything about her powers beyond the Frosts all being immune to each others' powers, like the Summers brothers. That's not proof but all the Frosts except Emma are of quite recent vintage (relatively speaking, of course).
There's a creationist arguing that since recorded history began roughly 6000 years ago, that backs up the Young Earth Creationist narrative... just because the figures near enough line up.
And he's another fucking Baptist too!!!!
What sort of water are they being baptized in? Forget the chemicals in the water than turns the frogs gay, I want to know what turns these people into whatever they are!
Haha can you believe I was raised in one of those churches?
What makes them nuts is being indoctrinated from their earliest days to believe in literal biblical interpretation and young earth and so on. They believe it because they're deluded or have deluded themselves into it.
The real tragedy is that they force it onto their children by isolating them (homeschool). This is why I have such a distaste for homeschooling and think it should be stringently controlled, and also why I am so suspect towards people who homeschool.
The bit that gets me with the whole thing, is the sheer bad logic of everything involved.
So many times that I've seen these guys talk, they always have to use some... MASSIVELY extra-Biblical concept: a concept that is decidedly not in the Bible or even talked about by anyone more theologically informed than them, to try and say the Earth is 6000 years old, and yet looks to be billions of years old.
The two big ones are "God created the Earth 6000 years ago but put in embedded age and history (aka fake age and history) to make it LOOK billions of years old" and "Time ran faster for a period of those 6000 years before a certain point then it slowed down to as we know it is".
Which I respect less than the guys who just go "Science and history is wrong, the Bible is right on all things".
Baptists are also traditionally teetotalers and prohibitionists, and to this day use grape juice instead of wine for communion. This is obviously insane if you think about it for like two seconds.
To put it mildly, they pretty much just believe in whatever thing the loudest and most popular and politically-appealing preacher is saying. They don't actually care about what is in the Bible or what Jesus did or said. They care about what they've been told is correct Baptist belief.
Oh yeah, I've seen the grape juice thing. Embedded Age guy said Jesus turned the water into grape juice not wine, despite him taking EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE BIBLE WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.
I don't even think some of these guys believe in something a preacher said. I think they see themselves as THE authority on the Bible and no-one else. I seem to remember Embedded Age saying that if Jesus came down and told him he was reading the Bible wrong, he'd essentially tell him to piss off. So... proper casual blasphemy there.
“Why does this insular group believe this dumb thing? They must be be-”
Group psychology. It’s always group psychology. People love their in groups and having an outgroup enemy. They’ll assemble mythologies that flatter their identity as part of their group.
Across every political faction, weird religion (or lack of religion), subculture or fandom, people will revert to these types of things. It’s human nature.
Uh, do any Protestants actually use wine in communion? I always figured that half the reason the evangelicals stuck to grape juice was just being cheap tbh.
There’s an old joke about a pastor responding to someone arguing about prohibition with him by mentioning that Jesus’ first miracle was turning water into wine with, “I have always been very embarrassed about that” or “Jesus made a mistake”.
No, a great many Evangelicals stopped using wine because of Prohibition--or more accurately, because they had decided to back Prohibition and wanted to look completely morally consistent.
Also, those little cups some of them have? They're an anti-pandemic measure. Not for COVID, but for cholera or the Spanish flu. But don't bring that up.
Oh that makes so much sense.
In the Churches of Christ, we have "one-cuppers" who believe it's contrary to Scripture to use more than one cup. I realized when I was a teen that by their reasoning, not only did you need one cup for the entirety of the world, it had to be the Holy Grail.
Also, some of them are Arians. My grandfather was an elder, and got lots of newsletters and bulletins from different congregations. One was from a one-cupper church, and it contained an article about how Jesus was *not* God, he was the Son of God.
