i was going to copy out the tags but that's a huge unreadable wall of hashtags so i'm just going to retell the whole thing and everyone's going to have to be cool about not screenshotting it to either of the apps my coworkers use (facebook and tiktok)

so anyway not long after i got this job i'm sitting in the break room eating my onigiri bento and playing animal crossing when my boss walks in and gets his lunch out of the fridge. he pours himself a drink (a combination of fanta and dollar store fruit punch from concentrate) in his 30 oz maid in manhattan promotional mcdonald's cup (one of a very large stack of 30 oz mcdonald's cups he keeps in his office), sits down, reaches into his lunchbox (which has a pharmaceutical company logo on it because his wife got it as free promo swag at the hospital), and pulls out a single whole raw sweet potato. he then spends what feels like ten minutes slowly sawing through the sweet potato with a tiny plastic butter knife (unclear if it is also from mcdonald's) while i frantically google for the release date of jennifer lopez romantic comedy maid in manhattan (2002).

i cannot confirm whether he ate the other half of the potato later because i changed the time i take my lunch break so we wouldn't overlap anymore

fucking xavier renegade angel-ass game lol

data is such a bitch

He seriously said “fuck around and find out”.

Data is great because he’s such a cold bastard (affectionately!) in this moments.

Like, in The Most Toys, the guy who kidnapped him has just murdered one of Data’s friends with a weapon designed to hurt horribly while it kills you. Data has the weapon, and is aiming it at the kidnapper. The kidnapper is like “bullshit, you can’t kill, you’re a robot. You’re not even sad or angry I killed that woman, you have no emotions.”

And data is like “logically if I let you live, you will go on to kill more people, so by killing you now the total number of hurt people will be lowered. Eat trolley problem, bitch.”

And the kidnapper looks terrified for a moment, then relieved because the Enterprise shows up right then and teleports Data away. Data reappears on the Enterprise, and says “Thanks for saving me. This is an illegal weapon. Please lock it up”. Riker goes “hey the transporter detected a power surge while we were bringing you over here, did you fire this thing at that fucker?” and Data just goes “hmm. Perhaps the transporter beam interfered with the device.” and walks out, while Riker makes this face:

One single republican decided to base his vote on a reasonable evaluation of available data and it quite possibly improved thousands of lives. I hope maybe in my lifetime I’ll see an America where that isn’t shocking for a politician to do, and maybe one in which people’s entire well being doesn’t come down to just one extra guy having a shred of decency.

something very charming about “I don’t really know what’s going on here but I don’t think it’s my problem” as a response to the anti-trans hysteria

the problem with bocchi at this point is that it became so popular that some people like it for the wrong reasons. there’s people watching bocchi who aren’t gay autistic girlies. that’s not right. this show is for gay autistic girlies

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode

amazing

Why were they empty?

they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing

the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny

It should be more than a 1% tax rate though. I want it to be 100%. Torture them.

something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.

I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie

Honestly we could use an influx of people actually commenting. The hostility against speaking above a low mutter was starting to get kind of weird. Like yeah tag talk is great but so many of the "hello, newcomers!" posts straight up say to NEVER comment, like...what? It's making this place feel empty and quiet even though the userbase is climbing, and having that as a norm makes it so a disproportionate amount of comments are left by people who either actively want to be annoying or are socially oblivious, instead of people who...want to particulate in their community. I've definitely noticed an increase recently of people constricting discussion to tags in ways that pretty much deadend conversation, like by chattily responding to conversation starters from my tags in their own tags instead of by copying my tags and responding.

Between how super long posts don't get blockquote-constricted into invisibility anymore AND how the new site settings mean people see tags on their posts unless they go out of their way not to instead of the other way around... Why are we living like this. It's lonely! Let's talk to each other!

Honestly I'm trying to train myself to comment more. I often feel uncomfy to say smth bc english isn't my first language and even if I understand stuff just fine I still have problems with jokes and off hand comments bc I think I'm not funny

Self esteem issues while being ANONYMOUS on the CLOWN WEBSITE fml

@cesspitoflove if you speak English as a second language, even imperfectly, you speak one more language than a lot of the people you think might be judging you (and most of them aren’t). Share your thoughts with us. ❤️

replies are super annoying to navigate and tags are for subtext or private commentary or asides. comments are visible participation in an idea or a conversation, and you can always ignore one you don’t like and reblog from an earlier instance. i’m really glad reddit expats will be raising the noise level around here.

Suddenly remembered an “encyclopedia of science fiction” I had as a child, I don’t remember if that was its exact title, but it was a little paperback printed in the 60′s or early 70′s, and I’m not looking for the book itself but I just remembered it had an entry on a thing called a “moon bug” which it described as a moon-dwelling arthropod “shaped like a duck.” This is a wonderful concept but the thing is this book was an encyclopedia of other, existing science fiction things. It detailed things from monster movies, novels and even every famous piece of technology in the original Star Trek, but it did not give sources. For anything. Not even the obvious like the Star Trek ones, I just knew that’s where “klingons” and “vulcans” were from. Where is the moon bug from then?! Where was there a bug shaped like a duck that lives on the moon?!?! Any “encyclopedia of science fiction” I find on google is a bigger book with fully color illustrations, this only had a few black and white drawings every 20 or 30 pages. None of those drawings were accurate anyway (I remember a “triffid” drawn like a gooey blob of moss) probably to skirt copyright problems.

The only one that comes to mind is maybe the 1979 one? I have a faint memory of reading it!

The moon bug might be a Selenite? They’re described with beaks, and this rendition is vaguely duck shaped

looks like that encyclopedia is a whole different book, but even though I’d have expected the one I remember to still use the name “selenite” I’m going to just pretend it meant the selenites so it doesn’t keep me awake at night. I am also reblogging because that specific illustration of a selenite is so precious that I’m also going to pretend the story does not end with all life on the moon going extinct

Looks like it’s the Science Fiction Handbook for Readers and Writers!

On page 175:

Holy shit good job and I’m glad I wasn’t just crazy. However I did not remember that it did technically give a source and that source is “Fiction.” gee thanks for that clarification George S. Elrick it sure helps

I’m reading through the archive.org upload and my child self definitely did not appreciate what a MASSIVE pole this guy had up his ass?!?

“Bug-eyed monsters no longer appear in science fiction, having been cast into the intellectual dustbin along with mad scientists”……I actually do remember not liking this sentence back then. Can I actually put this quote somewhere in the Mortasheen RPG manual. ……..Wait is he also comparing them to basically racist caricatures of the hypothetical real aliens we haven’t met????

“It is to laugh!” epic BURRRN bro you fucking WRECKED that zoological freak that scoops up free-floating molecules the way whales scoop up krill

This extended rant about how fantasy is for dumb babies and primitive barbarians or something even though he drew such a sick ass titty snake

Oh there’s the selenites but also George I have to disagree because what *I* heard is that maybe nothing, by human standards, is uglier than your mom

I found the triffid and this is not what triffids look like OR behave like. For someone so uptight about sexy ladies and monsters he sure did like drawing them together. Not all of his anecdotes are intellectually masturbatory though! Some of them are legit interesting observations about the genre! And then others are like kind of normal statements where you know what he was trying to say but the way he says them are insane:

Stamets' Boss 😌

(Article Link)

Field promote that bug immediately

reblog for a larger sample size because I’m so curious

after my friends expressed horror watching professional hockey player nathan mackinnon spray suncreen straight in the face, i'm actually curious...

something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.

I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie

i used to hate “meta” films and tv shows because i had never seen it done competently but now that i’ve done a module on metafiction for my degree i actually think we’re not seeing meta get utilised to nearly enough of its potential. we could have films where an acknowledgement or confrontation of the fact that these are characters moving through the motions of a predetermined storyline could be used to thrill or to horrify, a feeling of being watched *back*, but instead the general concensus seems to be that 4th wall breaks can only be funny :( i thought deadpool was fun on my first watch but in hindsight i hate the effect that movie had on popular cinema

too often we’re seeing “meta” moments onscreen written by people with a contempt for storytelling and a desire to make fun of and undermine the art form. we need meta jokes written by someone with a passion for the craft. we need more films made by people who read books

“no polyamory at pride” is some chronic no bitches shit. that’s got to be made up. no gay person would say that they’d have no fucking friends

Tips For People Coming Over From Reddit

Do you think Horse Christ was nailed to a big Horseshoe?

Was there a council of Neighcea? A clopistant reformation? Did horse polymaths pour over ancient texts in the Bagghdad (bagg like the horse) house of wisdom? Do horse rabbi use yad with a little hoof on the end?

when youre a kid learning the word "penultimate" is like a drug

A very, very gentle reminder that "prev tags" is now completely useless, bc you can no longer click back thru the reblog chain and see the prev tags. You can see the reblog in front of you, and you can find the original post - by itself, completely devoid of context - but you can't click thru to the previous reblog. This is apparently intentional, since I literally emailed support about it - being able to click back thru the reblog chain and being able to see the source post in context on op's blog are fundamental parts of the user experience imo and I am pissed - and their response was basically like yeah we meant to do that but if you want to talk about it you can go to our WIP blog, where the ask is literally only open one day a week and we will completely ignore you.

Obscure Webcomic - Round 1-H

O Human Star - Finished

Dolmistaska - Ongoing

Cat person lives in a weird mall the size of three cities. Even weirder things happen in aforementioned weird mall.

so i voted "neither" and scrolled past. the scrolled back up and decided to read the first few pages of O Human Star. then read the whole thing in basically one sitting (during a time block I was supposed to be using to prepare for a job interview, oops). It's really good and now was the exact right time for me to read it (emotionally, not in terms of Adult Responsibilities™️).

Tonally, reminiscent of El Goonish Shive at its most emotionally mature. Stylistically, very well-structured, planned and contained. Draws on influences ranging from Ursula LeGuin to the Oz books and makes good use of them. HIGHLY recommend