i'm at a concert thingy and the bands don't start for another 2 hours, but they have the stage set up and are letting people come up and do karaoke. this family just went up w their kids to belt out cartoon songs and when they held the mic up for the baby to try, it babbled cutely for a sec and then grabbed on and unleashed one of those horrible piercing baby SCREAMS at the top of their little baby lungs and i'm pretty sure wiped out the first 3 rows of people lmao

one of the bands sampled the baby shriek and added it to their songs

it's extremely not good to listen to

escapism is a privilege actually

i don’t participate in fandom to “escape.” i think fandoms are toxic bc they’re riddled with the same problems that plague larger society. it’s only a “safe bubble” and a “site of refuge” for people who decide to leave their empathy & critical thinking faculties at the door when they enter these spaces

oh it’s a “safe space”? from what? at whose expense? i don’t CARE if i ruin your fun or “enjoyment” bc you shouldn’t BE “enjoying” half of the things you so uncritically enjoy anyway. it’s easy to dismiss people’s misgivings and criticisms bc YOU’RE not the one affected by this content. “give people the benefit of the doubt”? they don’t DESERVE benefit of the doubt. things like racism & p*dophilia & transphobia get entrenched in society precisely BECAUSE people let their media manifestations slide. “just let people enjoy things”? what “things”? nobody’s actually stopping you from doing or feeling anything, you just feel threatened, bc deep down you feel guilty. why don’t you ask yourself why

oops

wouldn't this classify as "company scrip"? aka highly fucking illegal?

yes, yes it is.

How did a company manage to make scrip even worse by making it cringe on top of evil?

Almond by Won Pyung Sohn

"I have almonds inside me. So do you. So do those you love and those you hate. No one can feel them. You just know they are there. This story is in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me."

“Too much honesty hurts others — which I had memorized over and over so that it was stuck in my brain.”

“Books took me to places I could never go otherwise. They shared the confessions of people I’d never met and lives I’d never witnessed. The emotions I could never feel, and the events I hadn’t experienced could all be found in those volumes. They were completely different by nature from TV shows or movies.”

"how do you just know this" is a question I get asked a lot, because I tend to be someone who can contribute unusual facts or insight on whatever topic a casual conversation turns to, and I never know how to answer because "I pay attention" sounds rude and isn't super actionable. but that is really it, I just take an active interest when I encounter something curious or unusual.

like recently one of my friends linked me a funny paragraph from a very badly written erotic novel. it was so bad that I thought "I wonder if this is real", so we looked up the book it was from and learned it was a vintage horny housewife type story by someone who wrote a lot of shitty cheap porn back in the 80s, all of which now seems to be completely out of print.

in the course of googling the author, I discovered that one of their works had been cited in a 2004 court case over a prisoner's right to keep erotic novels in his personal library after the prison confiscated them. a bit more googling turned up the case details in a legal database. the guy had received the books by mail and kept them, among others, in his cell. the prison seized them, citing a policy against prisoners having pornography. his lawyers argued that 1. erotic novels are distinct from pornography because they have artistic and expressive content beyond the depiction of sex acts, and 2. since he received them by mail they are therefore protected under his constitutional right to freely access non-disruptive information from outside the prison. I don't know if he got his books back, but he won his case.

then we googled the defendant and found out he was in prison for helping a woman to drug and murder his boss (who she lived with), mutilate the body with acid and dump him in a ravine.

anyway my point is, take an interest. that's how you learn weird stuff.

A guy was walking through the woods, and finds a lamp on the ground, he picks it up and rubs it and a genie comes out.

The dude goes “Whoa! A Genie!” And the genie looking really bored is like, “Alright go ahead, you got 2 wishes..”

The dudes like, “Only 2? I thought everyone gets 3? What kind of bullshit genie are you?”

And the genie says, “Look in your pants.” And the guy does and says “Holy crap! My dick is huge!” And the genie says,“Yeah, I’ve been doing this a loooooooong time.”

how can you tell

Somebody made a Steam game where you can really play the fake games from those mobile game ads

it was the katamari devs btw

just 2seok making yoongi smile so big 🥹 cr for and to @namchyoon

Let Them Say Fuck, Finals

Well, we did our best. Congratulations, Nani!

Second place is still a great outcome, and I can think of no more deserving candidate to lose to. Besides, is there anything more authentically Candace than getting within a whisker of victory, and having it snatched away right at the end?

This was great fun, thanks for hosting it, @let-them-say-fuck-tournament. (I am kind of glad it's over though, because I think I sunk-cost-fallacied myself into putting way too much effort into this).

This also means the only tournament that Candace has won without her brothers so far is still the tournament about being the biggest failure, and I do find that hilarious.

sex ed taught me that cigarettes are bad and never look at a cigarette and cigarettes WILL kill you and they forgot to teach me what a period was

goddamn

as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.

every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.

until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.

imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet

WHAT

Look I get that we all want to relate to one another. I really do. But seeing people on my post about how shitty it is to exist as a visibly deformed & disabled person in public say things like "that's why i don't stim in public" or "that's why i'm scared to bring my cane in public" is just... You're missing the point.

Some of us cannot mask our disabilities. You can simply not stim if you can supress it in the first place. You can leave your cane at home if you're doing that already in the first place. A knee brace doesn't make you look like a "freak". You do appear abled otherwise.

I cannot. Many people I know cannot. I can't just "hide" my deformities and abnormal gait or convulsions to appear abled. I *need* my crutches everywhere I go. I can't supress my tics. Full-time wheelchair users exist. High support needs autistics exist. Schizospecs who cannot mask exist. People with William's Sydrome, Down's Syndrome and various obvious deformities exist. Little people. People with severe chemical burns or otherwise or scarring. People with Parkinson's, Tourette's, Huntington's, Cerebral Palsy, every disabled person who looks "abnormal".

We can't just "turn it off" like you. People WILL stare at us. Point their fingers at us. We have no power. They used to put us into freakshows. Not you. Not you who can hide your disability to "appear normal". That post was not for you to "relate to". I and many people are sick of many invisibly disabled people claiming they "want to look disabled" so they'd be "taken more seriously". It's not an invitation of you to declare you leaving your mobility aid at home or shit like that. It's not the damn same.

#I need bloopers reels