stay alive and be ready to fight

Michelle 22 she/they

[biomaterial]

new kind of guy dropped

[satyriconmp3]

[mrfylke2001]

[mctreeleth]

I was trying to explain to my sister-in-law that I simply cannot turn on my car headlights if anyone is looking at me and she thought I was crazy.

[razzleberryjam]

Literally nothing more embarrassing than tying your shoes in public like oh look at me I'm a 5 year old because I couldn't tie my shoes tight enough to last a walk through the kroger

[official-lucifers-child]

are y’all okay

[thatqueerchoirkid]

no

[valtsv]

do you celebrate valentines day?

[huffylemon]

[curseworm]

actually i never experience negative consequences due to procrastination. i am occasionally blighted by god for unknowable reasons though

[focsle]

I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

[c3nric-deactivated20220627]

I’m sorry to hear about your scalp.

[focsle]

Okay I must clear this up more concretely since this has gone far beyond my circle of folks who have the context of Why This Is Actually Funny, because there are thousands of people here who are like ‘kids are so rude, kids are so evil, I hate kids’ when…

1) Kids are little humans and they’re learning and they should be treated as little humans who are learning. Don’t be a dick to kids. Adults who are assholes to kids is such a bad look, and kids remember that shit.

2) This particular child was being SO earnest and ‘except for you’ was said not as an insult but like ‘oh…you’re the last one left 😢’.

I dress like this everyone:

[ID: image of a person wearing a puffy 18th century shirt, waistcoat, and cravat.]

Thank u, goodnight.

[shanastoryteller]

wish there was a non rude way to be like “I understand your criticism, I don’t even necessarily disagree with it, but I am doing these things on purpose, because I like them and I want to, and therefore your opinion has no value, because you might think me painting a room entirely pink is tacky, but I did it on purpose”

[unyanizedcatboys]

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[julykings]

steadily recognizing that i’m allowed to exist in public spaces and not feel embarrassed about it… can you believe i used to feel weird about/too inadequate to sit on a bench in a public space. it’s ok. you’re allowed to be. just be. just sit on a bench. it’s ok

[what-even-is-thiss]

The trick to getting to this point is to just think of yourself as an extra in a movie.

I used to be so self conscious about existing in public but I’ve slowly realized that if I just saw some random fat guy in the background of a movie I probably wouldn’t even think about him.

This is why I’ve come to describing myself as just some guy. I’m just some guy! Nobody gets mad at just some guy for reading a nutrition label in the grocery store. He’s just some dude. He’s a part of The Public. The Masses. The Customers. That’s what this place was made for!

[guerrillatech]

[tomasorban]

[fuzzypetal]

Shoutout to giant trees!!!!

[falseinnocencereturns]

[gaycism]

op's redemption arc was nice though

[papapuffv2-deactivated20220628]

This was a nice progression of character development

[punk-jaskier]

"I don't talk like that in real life" stood out to me in this. Because I think a LOT of the people who get attacked for mean posts on the internet and are suddenly confused and defensive are probably pretty nice people irl. (Not everyone obviously, some people do truely suck but that's not the point I'm making)

The internet has fostered and developed a culture of "being needlessly mean is funny". No one is immune to it, even genuinely nice people. Unfortunately, the internet has also bred a culture of the "I was just trying to be funny!!!" defense instead of doing what this guy did and going "huh, maybe I was wrong if so many people are pissed".

Be like this guy, own up if/when you fall for the easy internet trap of "being mean for laughs" and try to see the world from someone else's perspective.

[thegenderal]

[aerospace-agenda]

I am reminded of an xkcd...

[angeltiddies]

reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about

[invaderxan]

academic conferences

[lesbianralzarek]

it's so funny how half of us are like "food is sacred and the kitchen is holy ground. to break bread with others is inherently sacrament" and the other half of us are like "my villain origin story is someone looked at me when i was in the kitchen"

[livefromtheloam]

If I love you, I will cook for you. If you want me to continue to love and cook for you, stay out of my kitchen.

[anthonycrowleymoved]

me, your friendly neighborhood villain apologist: zuko was never evil he was just 16

like yeah i know he gets a bonkers good redemption arc but like. he didn’t actually need one because if you give a teenage boy a ship and tell the people on it to listen to him the least you can expect is some attempted murder. that’s not on him at that point

[the-turtleduck-pond]

I’m honestly dumbstruck because I can tell you at 16 if you gave me a ship, a crew, a wise old man, and a mission to kidnap someone I gotta tell you.

I’d be down for it. I’d probably have gone further.

[the-turtleduck-pond]

Wait, this originally happened when he was 13 and I’ll tell you that 13 year old me would have committed atrocities.

[sapphicq]

13yo me would’ve taken the free boat and straight up become a pirate and the fact that Zuko didn’t is really the biggest plot twist in avatar

[the-turtleduck-pond]

AU where Zuko just becomes a pirate.

[sapphicq]

He still sees the light blast and goes to the South Pole but instead of trying to capture aang he rolls up in his free boat like ‘get in losers we’re going to kill my dad’

[the-turtleduck-pond]

Yes, this. I like this.

[roseverdict]

aang: who??? are you???

zuko: exiled son of the fire lord. did these two get you up to speed?

sokka: wait you’re WHAT-?!

katara: what do you mean, YOU’RE THE EXILED SON OF THE-?!

aang: i mean, mostly???

zuko: excellent. i reiterate, get in losers we’re going to kill my dad

[the-cheesemonger13]

aang: i’m personally not up for murder

katara: I AM! your dad is the reason my mom is dead

zuko: i like the enthusiasm. avatar, you can be moral support

sokka: i’d like to hit the loserlord at least one (1) time with my boomerang if possible

zuko: i’ll allow it on the condition that you hit my sister as well

sokka: deal

[theterriblethingabouttulio]

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still can’t recognize the differences between platonic, romantic, sexual, mentor-student, and familial relationships, both in fiction and reality, and it really shows

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still think there’s only one type of love and it really shows

[writersblockandapotoftea]

Didn’t the greeks have five words for love? 

[scottishhellhound]

They actually had 7

Eros: sexual love

Philia: deep friendship

Storge: love between parents and children

Ludus: playful love

Agape: love for everyone/selfless love

Pragma: longstanding love

Philautia: love of self

Here’s a link that goes more in depth into what each one meant.

[orion-the-gatherer]

In honor of Valentine’s Day