This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

Zoozve, my beloved

"...we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club..."

This is my favorite line.

I have learned so many things from this.

@dduane - one for you!

It's a fabulous thing, isn't it! :)

As usual, science is busy being not only weirder and more interesting than we imagine, but weirder and more interesting than we can imagine.

I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.

There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.

I love me some good action and Intrigue.

Also love major character death and comedy in my fics!

(But I am down for sex too)

It can be whatever you want it to be. It can have smut. or no smut. It can be fluffly or dark. It can be funny or sad. It can have romance, or NO ROMANCE AT ALL. It can have action or just being the thoughts of a character after a certain event (or about their feelings, or whatever). It can be long or short.

It can be about a character, or several characters, or whatever you want.

It’s the writer who decides. AND WHATEVER THEY WILL DECIDE WILL BE GOOD.

I don't write smut fics, I don't like smut fics, and smut does absolutely nothing for my demisexual ass. When I go looking for fics, I look for things with good characterization or longfics (which is another thing that people do not seem to like). When I write fics, that's the shit I like to write.

Fics don't need smut to be good. Hell, fics don't need romance to be good. They just need to entertain either the writer, or the audience they are specifically catering to.

I hope this cat didnt kill any of those birds .

wow you actually found a practical use for that reaction image

holy shit

I shaped my cat into a supervillain

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Sometimes I still hear my voice

#like...why use this baby word when you can just say how you feel about it

Found this in the original post tags and I just... SIGH

Here’s the thing, anon. Squick isn’t just ‘I don’t like this’, it’s ‘I think this is gross and it makes me deeply uncomfortable but I pass no judgement on those who enjoy it, because I acknowledge that everyone is different and those same people may have the same visceral reaction some of the things I enjoy’ and was originally made popular in the kink community.

So yeah, if you want to say that every time you come across a trope or whatever you find icky then go ahead, say that every time.

Also, this term dates back to Usenet in the early nineties, so sure, go off.

This frustrates me so much because squicks and triggers are fundamentally different things and as someone with PTSD, the distinction is super useful!

Squicks are things I find personally gross but may not be gross to someone else. They don’t upset me or provoke my PTSD, they simply do not pop my corn. Example: Omegaverse. I don’t like it, it makes me uncomfortable and I’m not going to read it, but if you like it, you do you.

Triggers are things which directly provoke my PTSD. This means that my triggers may seem completely normal and innocuous to someone else, because my triggers are so personal and intrinsically linked to a specific event in my life. My reactions to these triggers can include panic attacks and flashbacks to this traumatic event. Sometimes being triggered can affect me for several hours or even days.

Describing something as either a squick or a trigger allows me easily establish the difference in my potential reaction to something without having to go into painful detail about why bodily fluids might make me back button quickly but poker games might leave me a crying wreck. 

Making this distinction, and having a specific word for something that is not your slice of pie, but also not an actual psychological trigger, is also REALLY important for making sure that the word “trigger” can retain its original, specific, purposeful, and collectively understood clinical meaning (both inside and outside online fannish communities).

If we encourage everyone to lump things that just make them slightly uncomfortable or simply aren’t to their taste in under the word “trigger”, it actually dilutes the meaning of the word. It makes it harder for us all to, for the most part, collectively agree on and understand what exactly is being described when the word gets used.

And that destruction of shared precise definitions is a problem! It is really useful to have the communal language to be able to clearly and quickly delineate between “this grosses me out, no thanks” and “this is going to set off a trauma episode, rattle my brain, and probably throw off the rest of my day/week as a result” while also maintaining your privacy, and to know that you will be understood in what you are saying. Not having it is actually detrimental to the effort of making our communities safe and navigable for people living with trauma. Which is a goal that is much more important to me, personally, than the idea of not being “cutesy” (a word which in this case which sounds a lot like it’s being used as a euphemism for “cringe”).

(Also, one has to wonder if people told Shakespeare he was being childish when he made up entirely new words that are still widely used in the English language today...... 🤔)

My understanding is that “squick” was also created to avoid using more judgmental terms like “gross” or “disturbing”--like yeah, I do find X kink gross or disturbing, but that’s my personal feeling, not an objective fact about the world, and if I’m explaining to my friend who is super into X that I’d prefer they leave it out of the story they’re writing me in the fic exchange, I want to use politer language!

“Squick” does sound silly, like onomatopoeia, but I think that’s part of its role--it’s a word that defuses if, again, you’re saying something squicks you in front of an audience that may include its connoisseurs. When I say I’m squicked, I’m clearly not getting onto a high horse of dignity and moral righteousness. At the same time I’m not being so indirect for the sake of politeness--”oh, it’s not my favorite thing, I’m not sure it works for me, I haven’t found a fic about it that clicks for me”--that someone could misunderstand how much I do not want to see it.

And, to reiterate, it is a grown up word made by grown up nerds in the 90s so if you think it was somehow born on and limited to Tumblr I'm going to need you to actually do some fandom history research before you ever speak authoritatively again about anything fandom-related or adjacent.

I love and deeply miss the term “squick” and really want to see it brought back. It allows dislike for its own sake and without judgement. It’s polite, gentle, and has an air of “you do you.” A squick is not a trigger. Triggers are related to trauma. You’re allowed to not like things and not have them related to anything other than just finding them unpleasant. And that aversion can be strong! That’s okay! I really don’t like watersports. Like, gag-reflex levels of aversion, but it’s not triggering. I just really don’t like it.  I feel like we’ve lost the right/ability to just... quietly not like things and move on with our lives. Not everything is for everyone, and you don’t need a reason to not like something. Just politely and quietly excuse yourself. No need to draw attention, and if someone asks you why you just say, “No, it squicks me out.” No judgement. No narrative necessary. 

There is a sad trend of trying to make everything you personally dislike morally reprehensible in some way to justify your dislike of it. You're allowed to just not like something for no real reason. You do not have to justify why you dislike something, and the word "squick" is perfect for that. It say "look I really really don't like this thing, but it's ok if you do" and that is useful.

I think the biggest problem is that a lot of these kids are VERY into the whole fandom purity culture thing, so they actually DO want to make it out to be morally reprehensible, and they DON'T think it's ok that other ppl might be into it.

Cheerfully using “squick” since 1992, because it means a specific thing and other words do not mean that thing.

Very much SAME.

actually it's worse than that, Biden didn't say that when MLK was in jail in 1963 -- he said it a full 14 years later in 1977, while arguing against integration as a senator in formal hearings

he then had the gall in more recent years to claim he was arrested while "defending civil rights," which I guess he was counting on no one fact checking because there's no record of that and it obviously runs counter to the fact he literally fought against people's civil rights

he even repeated the claim last week, this time changing his story to not an arrest but just being brought home. no record of it, no one left alive to verify any of his very blatant lies

(sorry for using CNN, it popped up first when doing a search to find a report on it)

it was at a hearing about elementary school buses

I don't like him for many reasons either, but I voted for him the first time, and I'll vote for him again because I understand how our elections work: you vote for the lesser evil. Always. If you hate Biden and think he's fucking things up or have fucked up in the past, just you wait and see what Trump will do if he winds up back in office. And voting for a third-party candidate or not voting as protest are basically a vote for Trump.

So what you're voting for is either the status quo, or regression. It sucks, but so does our political system. Hold your nose and do the right thing. And ignore the obvious trolls/Russian plants/porn accounts telling you both parties are the same, or both candidates are the same. We went through this shit with Clinton in 2016 and look at what disaster we got as president.

Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

Good points. Wait what was that first thing

obsessed with what's happening on twitter rn

Yea, he belongs here

For context, @neil-gaiman has NOTHING to do with the new LOTR series

It’s been hilarious watching this unfold...  :)

I've never enjoyed being yelled at more.

Bringing this back from 2022. Unlike Neil Gaiman, who won't be bringing back LotR The Rings of Power.

Darn, those Harry Potter movies of his were such abominations, too. Don't even get me started about his novel Persuasion, nothing like Pride and Prejudice, I was terribly disappointed.

In retrospect perhaps Elon Musk should have come to me for advice on how to fail to buy Twitter. I would have told him to try harder.

please elaborate in tags :)

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.

This reminds me of that global warming comic, like

“Adults in fandoms”? “Furries”? Fuck this OP’s attitude. It’s damn hypocritical to say “people should be accepting” and then categorize a bunch of fairly typical things as “weird”. It’s a very narrow-minded point of view for somebody who is trying to shout from their internet armchair about how we all should be nice and accepting. You should be accepting of people that you feel are weird because it’s the right thing to do. At a base level you are supposed to treat other people with the same amount of respect. Whether they are on the spectrum or neurotypical should have very little to do with it. Like, give the OP a participation trophy for trying, but they missed the mark.

And jesus fucking christ don’t be like this OP, who is obviously quite young and doesn’t seem to understand that 1. being weird does not mean you are autistic, 2. being typical and “normal” does not mean you are not on the spectrum and 3. eventually past your teen years you do get to a point in society where you don’t give a crap whether anybody is weird or not. Yeah, there’s cringe culture, but a lot of that stems from youthful ignorance and lack of empathy. It’s almost like a different, evolved form of bullying, and while some people will be judgy like that their whole lives, quite a few people will work at their jobs and ride the bus and go grocery shopping and be too damn busy to do anything but briefly smile at the guy Naruto running down the sidewalk.

I believe that op was trying to say that those things/traits (picky eaters,furries, Naruto running, adults living at home, adults in fandoms, etc) are seen as weird by society , not that they themselves view them as weird or inherently make someone neurodivergrbt

No, I'm still pretty sure it comes from a place of ignorance. If you look in the comments, I'm not the only person who thinks this. Their examples suck. Do people have issues with adults who geek out over The Sandman or 35-year-olds that live with their parents? Sure, but those same people who have those issues are the kinds of people who are shitheads that aren't accepting in the first place. They do not apply to society at large. It's like saying the queer-hating, catholic-hating, Chick Tract-toting wing of evangelical Christianity speaks for all Christians, when they most certainly do not.

okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something

Had the egg AND had the doll that would cry at random times.

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If you ever wanted to know what LARPing is like, this photo captures it beautifully.

Exclusive: Discworld TTRPG in the works by studio behind Fallout wargames

Modiphius, the studio responsible for tabletop adaptations of Star Trek, Fallout, and more, is working on a Discworld TTRPG.

Having secured the rights to the beloved series with an agreement from the late author Sir Terry Pratchett's estate, Modiphius is already at work on a Discworld roleplaying game "around the city of Ankh-Morpork and the wider Disc." This will hit Kickstarter later in the year.

Read more here.