"I don't like the Jack Harkness test because it means it's okay to fuck Scooby Doo"

yes that's the entire damn point of the Harkness test. The Harkness Test doesn't exist to say you have to fuck Scooby Doo. The Harkness Test exists to say that it is morally/ethically fine for someone to want to fuck Scooby Doo, because Scooby Doo can give informed consent and communicate as such.

the reason you don't like it is because none of you are self-aware enough to realize how incredibly fucking puritan all of you are when it comes to fucking

Tumblr being free is humanity's greatest error.

Then pay me 20$ if you feel so strongly about it

Tumblr is a free website where I am paid $20

Hey tagger are you aware of the existence of any IRL dogs who speak fluent English and solve mysteries? Just curious.

I’m pretty sure the Harkness test is intended for monsters/aliens, not sapient animals.

just a thought.

You are fundamentally incorrect, it is intended for fictional scenarios which could not happen in real life. It is the kink equivalent of The Bechdel Test. It is proposing the absolute minimum of what is needed to ensure that the kink is #nonproblematic: Is it old enough to grant informed consent, and does it have the capability to communicate that informed consent clearly to its partners? If it fits both of these criteria, it passes the JHT and is ethically fine, though thinking it's gross or not liking it is still totally fine--it isn't saying "It's ethical so therefore you're a bad person if you dislike it. It is saying It's ethical and so therefore you should not base your disliking it in the framework of morality and ethics.

Basing your disgust of sexual fetishes and kinks in morality is fundamentally a Puritan concept: It creates the idea of wrongsex, and it justifies a framework of punishment due to perceived moral high ground. It says "You are a better person than someone who wants to fuck Scooby Doo for whatever reason, because that person is inherently morally disgusting for wanting that".

Basing your disgust of sexual fetishes and kinks in a personal dislike is fundamentally the correct ethical response: "I am not a better person for not wanting to fuck Scooby Doo for whatever reason, and someone else would not be a bad person if they wanted to fuck Scooby Doo for whatever reason".

You say that it isn't for "sapient animals", and I fully agree! Regular degular nonhuman animals cannot give an informed consent to us, be it through body language or power dynamics baked into the species difference! There's also the fundamental question of "Is this body language clear because of informed consent or because of biological nature", which is always "No, if it cannot not want to consent, it is your responsibility to ensure that its boundaries are not crossed while it holds impaired judgement".

But Scooby Doo isn't a sapient animal. Scooby Doo is a fully grown Great Dane, yes, but he speaks fluent-if-accented conversational English. He's also clearly intelligent enough to use that ability to solve criminal investigations, which gives him the ability to offer that consent in a clearly communicated way, ie human language.

That's it. I don't wanna fuck Scooby Doo. I think the concept itself is innately hilarious, because of all the things you think are sexy, you landed on the cartoon mystery-solver dog. And I chose him for this example of what passing the Harkness Test can look like explicitly because he was the most incendiary take I could think of. He is an emblem of "Just because you hate it doesn't make it immoral" in this context. It forces you to confront the possibility that you hate certain kinks because you think you have a moral high ground, and why that morality-based justification is completely false and ethically unsound. But it lets you keep your own personal boundaries--something passing the Harkness test doesn't require your approval or even your neutrality. You can totally loathe it. But you have to loathe it the same way you loathe a type of food: There is no good or bad involved. It's just not for you.

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

General rule of thumb for positive self-talk: If it entertains you, it helps!

The fact that this joke is from the very first episode (which aired in January 1997) is messing with me.

Tumblr Code.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: ”17 cocks”

always reblog tumblr identification

this post makes me want to gouge my eyes out

im laughins so hard who changed it

WHO TF EDITED THE SHOELACE POST

No seriously the edit function has been gone for years who did this

i bet none of you were ready to see this image in HD

This video has permanently changed my vocabulary so I need you all to see it

i know it's an example of me taking idioms too literally, but the phrase "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" never fails to make me imagine something like when that lion in madagascar starts hallucinating all his friends as slabs of steak

me when i have a hammer in my hand if i'm being fully honest

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

"Pair of aliens that are definitely a gay couple even though we're not going to explicitly say so, one half of which is voiced by Kevin McDonald" really was a cartoon character dynamic niche in the early 2000s huh.

Things that would fix the internet immediately:

I was a pretty weird outcasted child so one of the greatest wonders of my adult life has been realizing that you can just go someplace and meet some people and casually make some friends, and they might not be in your life forever but you can hang out for a while, and then you can go somewhere else and do it again, and again, if it doesn’t work out no biggie, etc.

Also there’s no point in your life where the window on making friends just closes. You’re never going to hit an age where that’s that, you’re done making friends, you’ll never make another one again. Seems pretty academic but honestly I think it would have saved younger-me (and particularly university-aged me) a lot of stress and worry if someone had just sat me down and told me this.

marvel’s dedication to portraying j jonah jameson as a complex three dimensional character with likeable traits and sympathetic qualities is really funny cuz it’s led to the creation of a character who unfailingly stands for truth and integrity in journalism except for this one specific dude he is absolutely convinced is putting chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay

my town drug dealer shared this on facebook im cryigng 

why in the world are you friends with your town drug dealer?…

beucuase i buy drugs from him 

LOL. And you put his name on there, you tryna get him caught ?

Hello yes police there is a drug dealer i saw on the internet.his name is joe.   

certified iconic post

I think when they made rouge the bat they just had the concept of "what if we took one of our trademark funny little guys and just made one of them cunty as fuck"

Congratulations on making me fucking wheeze

Breaking bad = Undertale

Better call Saul = Deltarune

call me OSHA the way i’m demanding a railing

once again i have been written up by HR

what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮

The pursuit for photorealism in games is a fruitless endeavor that only results in bloated file sizes that take too much space

mario is a woman and just really butch

Humans lay eggs in the pokemon universe