I don't understand how this site works

happy valentine’s day (you can also pinpoint the moment I gave up clearing and just decided to leave this as sketches)

Been a while since I’ve done pokemon with gen 2 colour palette. But here’s some randomly generated mons with just that!

Felt like drawing some Hollow Knight ocs interacting

Roa (Volcarona) and Cammie belong to me

Gamble, Friend, and Claw belong to @doodledrawsthings

Silece belongs to @raptor-lucid

Les belongs to @mebi-byte

i think popular media culture is poisoned in the following ways:

(picks up microphone) goro akechi is hated very little for the character he is and moreso for the things he stands for.

part of the reason goro akechi is such a vilified character despite being a very common anime trope of young/child hitmen/villains is because he's heavily gay-coded in a series that, to this day, is heavily homophobic and transphobic, and has many homophobic and transphobic fans. if goro was a woman or was written as straight, he would be just as popular and loved as any other character of his trope, something that has been literally stated by those who actively hate goro (yes, i have screenshots for that).

furthermore, smt fans (and really, anime fans in general) seem to have very little to no grasp on how abuse works, or even outright hate abused characters for not being the buff, womanizing 'man's man' of the week cishet men look for in anime. this is why shido, his abuser, is also seen as not at fault - and, furthermore, why rapist-murderer adachi is so popular among goro haters despite ALSO not having a good motivation for murder.

finally, in a more specific example, goro is the only character in persona 5 who actively wishes to ruin his abuser - this doesn't make him a bad person, it makes him a survivor. that's how we feel, oftentimes, and that anger never really goes away. this does tie in to my second point, but generally speaking i feel its telling that NONE of the other thieves are vilified for their anger - not ryuji or ann, who wished to kill kamoshida. not yusuke, who, in a fit of anger, wished misfortune on madarame. not haru, who openly sympathizes with goro for his anger at how the world has treated him. only goro, the strongest gay-coded character and the only one to harbor such a strong anger (and a well-deserved one, at that.)

this all stems from the inherent lack of understanding of abuse victims, and, paratially, the cishetmormativity of anime fans that, to this day, runs rampant. welcome to my ted FUCKING talk

This, omfg so much this. It is such blatant homophobia and bpdphobia that it's not even funny. People get hate mail and death threats over this shit because people think it's acceptable to hate people like him, meanwhile those of us irl with the same disorders/symptoms get to see how much people hate even depictions of people like us.

(picks up microphone) goro akechi is hated very little for the character he is and moreso for the things he stands for.

part of the reason goro akechi is such a vilified character despite being a very common anime trope of young/child hitmen/villains is because he's heavily gay-coded in a series that, to this day, is heavily homophobic and transphobic, and has many homophobic and transphobic fans. if goro was a woman or was written as straight, he would be just as popular and loved as any other character of his trope, something that has been literally stated by those who actively hate goro (yes, i have screenshots for that).

furthermore, smt fans (and really, anime fans in general) seem to have very little to no grasp on how abuse works, or even outright hate abused characters for not being the buff, womanizing 'man's man' of the week cishet men look for in anime. this is why shido, his abuser, is also seen as not at fault - and, furthermore, why rapist-murderer adachi is so popular among goro haters despite ALSO not having a good motivation for murder.

finally, in a more specific example, goro is the only character in persona 5 who actively wishes to ruin his abuser - this doesn't make him a bad person, it makes him a survivor. that's how we feel, oftentimes, and that anger never really goes away. this does tie in to my second point, but generally speaking i feel its telling that NONE of the other thieves are vilified for their anger - not ryuji or ann, who wished to kill kamoshida. not yusuke, who, in a fit of anger, wished misfortune on madarame. not haru, who openly sympathizes with goro for his anger at how the world has treated him. only goro, the strongest gay-coded character and the only one to harbor such a strong anger (and a well-deserved one, at that.)

this all stems from the inherent lack of understanding of abuse victims, and, paratially, the cishetmormativity of anime fans that, to this day, runs rampant. welcome to my ted FUCKING talk

Junpei: Oh yeah, I lied to my wife to try and impress her when we were gettin’ to know each other, she kidnapped me, threatened my life, tried to kill me and my friends. Oh, and she used to kill people, or at least heavily involved with killing people. But y’know, shit was complicated back then, and I couldn’t hold it against her too much. But yeah no, we’re totally great now! Couldn’t be happier, man!

Akira: You. You get it.

So while this whole “who is worst Chris? Chris Pratt” stuff is going on. I think it’s also important to talk about Best Chris. And it’s Chris Eccleston.

Reblogging and adding these tags because I didn't know that and it makes the "lots of planets have a north" scene hit different!

how can economics majors be poor. like bro just look at your notes

this is unironically what some econ profs think

There is a Jewish story about a wealthy man who came to his rabbi and said “I have decided to build an orphanage, can you put me in touch with the relevant people”  

The rabbi was delighted to do it, and introduced the man to some charities.  After a few weeks, the man came back to the rabbi.

“I have decided not to build the orphanage,” he said.  “I realised that I was only doing it because I wanted to be admired as a philanthropist, my motives were selfish.”

The rabbi answered, “do you think the orphans will care what your motives were?  Build the orphanage!”

this... makes a very good point.

According to ongoing studies into happiness in the psych department at Berkeley, making yourself happy by making other people happy is how it’s meant to work

I'm losing it over this AITA thread

Here's the kitty

Get rid of the whole wife

I find myself getting less and less ambitious the older I get.

When I was graduating high school I wanted to do great things and be super famous and change the world.  Now I just want to hang out and not bother anybody.

“Where do you see yourself in 5 years” just chilling hopefully

The pandemic decimated workers so hard that there literally isn't enough longshoreman to unload boats which is leading to an internal collapse of the supply chain. It seems that ignoring covid because only 1% of people die was a completely idiotic and downright homocidal idea that has done nothing but kill laborers and ruin the economy.

Because of all the mass death, labor is seeing a surge in its power, but at what cost truly. I hope w/ the coming wave of strikes there is finally some grappling with the fact that millions of people senselessly died so that the ruling class could continue exploiting poor workers. There wasn't any sacrifice, this was mass murder.

Not just mass death, also mass disabling. Someone who works in an office at a desk is going to have a more manageable time returning even with reduced lung capacity and stamina than someone in intensely physical jobs like being a long shoreman. I keep seeing people saying that the 600,000+ dead aren’t coming back to the labor market, which is true. But it leaves out a vast number of people who aren’t dead and are also never coming back to work.

Guy who tells a lot of personal stories but the more he does it the more you realize they're all plots from different episodes of the simpsons

You call him out on it but he has photographs proving every single thing he said is true

You realize someone working on the simpsons has been plagiarizing this guy's oddly eventful personal life for the last 30 years

@pastelhooman 😩😩😩😩 your Roleswap Asoryuu piece gave me a vision

Early Simpsons episodes said FUCK blue lives

every so often i remember pog stands for pomegranate orange guava and i am struck down by the sheer strength of the butterfly effect

1. Haleakala Dairy creates a juice of passion fruit (not pomegranate, my bad), orange, and guava and calls it “P.O.G.”

2. A game involving milk bottle caps pops up in the 70s, haleakala makes their lids collectable to play that game with the “POG” label

3. Game gets very popular in the 90s, gets called “pogs” based on the og caps (primarily) used having “POG” on them

4. Streamer Ryan Gutierre makes funny haha exaggerated faces in 2010

5. In 2011, same guy releases a video called “Pogs Championship”

6. PogChamp emoji is created, short for the “Pogs Championship’ video, and its used to signify excitement (also sometimes “Play Of the Game” since it shares an acronym)

its all fruit

Just to finish the “PogChamp” narrative because it’s kinda interesting:

7. After skyrocketing, in use upon the release of Overwatch in 2016 (which utilised the term “Play Of the Game”), “PogChamp” would eventually become shortened by Twitch users to “pog” (and then “poggers”), escaping into the lexicon of the wider internet around 2019.

8. On January 6th, 2021 Gutierre has a ’milkshake duck’ moment by stoking unrest in response to the US Capitol Hill riots.

9. The same day, Twitch removes the emote from their platform.

10. In an effort to distance “pog” from Gutierre, Twitch has the PogChamp emote display a rotation of faces similar to the original before selecting a permanent replacement in the form of a… Komodo dragon?

Whether or not the term “pog”/“poggers” will outlive their association with Gutierre is to be seen. Perhaps pog will once again fade into relative obscurity only to be inexplicably revived by Gen Alpha following another utterly unpredictable series of events.