Awkward Blonde Gaylien

"it bit me" <- current favorite thing to say when I am injured by an inanimate object

Huh, I just say "I was attacked"

“but what about separating the art from the artist” buddy. listen to me. joanne kathleen rowling is relevant for one reason and one reason only—she wrote harry potter. that’s why she’s famous. that is the bedrock of her fucking platform. jk rowling is the harry potter lady and harry potter is the jk rowling guy. this is not the same thing as listening to a song on repeat even though the keyboardist was an asshole, or reading a novel by some dude who sucked ideological shit in the 1800s. jk rowling has a hate platform right now, today, and she sustains it off of harry potter bucks. u will forgive me if i am unwilling to advertise for her

Creator that is Very Much Living and Profiting from their creation is different from Creator Who Is Long Dead/Creator Who Was One Part Of The Thing.

Sometimes you gotta pick a cat up just to set them back down somewhere nearby. Remind them who calls the shots in your house. Oh you thought you were lying on the floor? Dead wrong fool you're standing on the couch cushion now staring up at me waiting for an explanation. You'll never get it. I'm gone. I'm walking away. I'm already in the next room before you can so much as mutter a confused "meow." later son. you're reexamining your place in the universe all by yourself. Consider my power in a empty living room

me: why are the pillows always so fucked up

my cat:

This looks like a painting with like the composition and lighting

And now it is :)

college bully girl: you're such a teacher's pet

kinky nerdy college girl: how did you know?

"hey op what does this mean?"

it means I think my sociology professor is hot and I want her to pull me around on a leash!

"you pay more for boujee products because they are made with love and care by small workshops uwu"

steal everything that isn't nailed down come back later with a crowbar

FUN FACT

Many designer brand names make their big designer labels and their affordable lines BOTH in fast fashion sweatshops with similar quality of labor, pay, and other detrimental factors. One of the major differences, of course?

The price they charge you, the consumer, for the finished product.

Paying more for a name brand doesn't free you from fast fashion, because fast fashion is not a consumer issue. It is an industry level failure.

The other thing so-called ‘prestige brands’ will do is bring in workers from countries where labor is cheap (like China) to places like France and Italy, pay them garbage wages, treat them like shit, and slap a ‘made in Italy’ label on the product to sell it for thousands.

Article on the topic from 2018. Similar to the exploitation of U.S. immigrant ag workers, basically.

It's like how "Made in U.S." can mean made with prison slave labor. Or how a chocolate company can advertise their chocolate as sustainably sourced, except this is a self-determined label and may or may not exclude the use of child slave labor. Or how you can boycott a company but still end up giving them money because it turns out they also own dozens of other brands.

These problems really need a government regulation solution, not a consumer solution.

"Is it normal to-" Doesn't matter. Do it weird if it isn't hurting anyone

yeah.

Bringing back this meme of old. Friends help friends kick down nasty telephone poles.

This whole thread is cool and wholesome.

something they have control over!!! yes!!!!!!!

My number one tip for straight men (I mean, it could conceivably work for other genders and sexualities, but you’d have to adjust it quite a bit) is: inagine they’re a man.

Imagine that you just randomly told some bloke in a pub that he has beautiful eyes.

That you walked up behind your coworker Jim and started caressing his neck and shoulders while talking to him about the budget.

That you just sent a large and unexplained bouquet of flowers to Darren in Accounting.

That instead of complimenting a coworker on her breasts, you complimented him on his dick.

Does the action now seem weird? Uncomfortable? Do you no longer want to do it now that it isn’t directed at somebody you are sexually attracted to?

That strongly suggests that your action has a sexual aspect to it and therefore probably counts as sexual harassment!

I have a large, colorful tattoo on one arm. I’ve had multiple strange men cross a room to tell me how awesome it is, frequently while I’m at work, and it has never made me uncomfortable.

A couple of weeks ago, someone yelled out a car at me ‘I FUCKING LOVE YOUR BOOTS’, which was awesome.

It’s just… it’s really not hard to compliment people in a way that isn’t creepy, if your goal is actually to compliment them and not to slide a ‘btw I’m thinking about fucking you’ under the radar.

Good advice! Applicable in many ways…..

This is actually pretty good! 

one time i bought some raspberry leaf tea for a friend who was pregnant, and when i happened to run into her with her boyfriend later and met him for the first time, he guessed who i was.

when asked how, he said that i “look like someone who would bring you tea”.

that weird, sweet compliment has stuck with me for years.

[ID: a two-panel comic titled "everybody on earth HUSH", by mysillycomics. In the first panel, one person stands with an unfocused gaze surrounded by stress lines, saying, "gghhhhhh". A second person approaches them with sweat drops on their face asking, "hey are you okay? What's wrong?"

In the second panel, the stressed person looks up and puts on a mild expression, saying, "oh yeah I'm just overstimulated as all hell and I'm trying really hard not to become the biggest bitch in the whole world." End ID]

In Super Mario 64, it is actually possible to climb to the roof of Big Boo's Haunt from outside and fight the Big Boo on the balcony without going through the mansion, by performing eight immensely precise wall jumps.

Since every single one of the wall jumps is frame-perfect and requires an extremely specific direction to be held on the Control Stick, this has not yet been performed by a human player, and currently requires tool-assisted input to perform.

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AI HAS UNLEASHED HIM

Big Boo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hmm I believe it. The physics are just like that.

Profiles in Villainy

The Oogie Boogie

A denizen of the otherworldly Halloween Town, The Oogie Boogie is a retched creature composed of a burlap sack filled with all manner of insects, snakes and other gross stuff.  He used to be the lord of his own holiday, Bug Day, but lost it through neglect and his obsession for gambling.  As such he moved to Halloween Town and has since then plotted to take over the holiday as his own.

Unlike the majority of the other residents of Halloween Town, Oogie Boogie does not believe that Halloween should be a fun holiday, filled with sweets, treats, thrills and glee.  Rather he feels Halloween should be terrifying, wicked and harmful; that it should be a day in which humans are scared into respects and revering the creatures of the night.  

After Jack Skellington kidnaps Santa Claus in a foolhardy attempt to make Christmas a more Halloween-like holiday, Oogie Boogie sizes on the opportunity as a power grab.  Oogie takes Santa and subjects him to all manner of torture.  His master plan is to make Christmas the most terrifying holiday of them all.  

Fortunately, Jack Skellington is able to rescue Santa Claus and the Oogie Boogie is defeated when a thread is pulled from his sack-like form, causing all the bugs within him to spill out and dissipate.  Jack and Santa then work together so to save Christmas.  

Actor/signer Ken Page provides the voice for The Oogie Boogie with the monster first appearing in the 1993 animated feature film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.  

A FIEND

Huh I always thought Jack just had an existential crisis and was tired of doing the exact same thing every year.

So, upon discovering Christmas, wanted to give that a go but did not quite get it BC he only understood holidays through the lens of Halloween, thus he unintentionally made Christmas spooky which led to further despair for jack when it all went wrong.