everyone on this website on the 21st of september
you’re not gonna believe the gas station i drove by today
@hamsahandprint hands ownership of this post to you
STOP BEING FUNNIER THAN ME ON MY OWN POST
This is actually very normal human behavior. It's just that most people (in the USA) think "Jesus strengthens me" instead of "I am a pikmin, dandori time"
This is literally why stories and fantasy are so useful to humans. We cannot tackle every mundane challenge with enthusiasm, and facing against profoundly daunting tasks can be deeply demoralizing, and you don’t get to feel cool or heroic for filing 400 pieces of paperwork.
We arm ourselves with stories and fantasy, so that the laundry can become a charming hurdle to overcome, and the daunting stack of bills is the leviathan we the brave knights must slay.
Humans have always been like this. So many cultures have stories or mythology or even rituals about literally embodying another being better suited to the challenge one currently faces.
Stories are armor. Stories are fuel.
your man doesn’t have the mental strength to caramelize onions
maplebungus
your man thinks it takes 5-10 minutes to caramelize onions
hozey-nevergoingtochurch
Who’s fucking carmelizing onions?
Have you sociopaths forgotten that apples exist?
do you think caramelizing onions is putting caramel on onions
your man thinks caramelizing onions is putting caramel on onions
Alisa Shea, ‘A Feminine Touch’, 2021 Watercolour on paper, 35 x 50cm
What the fuck do you mean watercolour on paper
btw. being kink positive means ALL kinks even the ones you think are "immoral" or whatever the fuck. "but what about-" especially that one. no sex act between consenting adults is immoral actually. kill the cop in your brain.
of course that doesn't mean you have to be comfortable with every kink. it's fine to have limits for your own personal stuff. but if you judge people based on what they do with their consenting partners, I cannot stress this enough, you are being a bad person.
Steps to judge if a sex/kink thing is okay:
1. are all involved parties adults? (including planned observers)
2. did all involved parties give informed consent while able to give consent meaningfully (including uncoerced)?
3. did the actions stay within the bounds of said consent, not adding on new things while someone was unable to meaningfully consent?
if yes to all three: IT'S FINE
if it passes all three conditions and you still think it's morally wrong: you're judging based on your own sense of disgust, not any reasonable moral framework!
if you are trying to say "okay but what if...": did you read what i just fucking said??
you don't have to like it. you don't have to interact with it. you don't have to look at it. but you do have to tolerate it and not condemn its practice based on your personal feelings!
bringing this post back with my lovely gf's addition in case any of y'all haven't seen it yet
Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.
Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.
Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I’m trying to tell you that I’m evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!
Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
this is one of my favorite posts
"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:
The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:
"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/
Happy one year anniversary to the best day in fandom history
(Should clarify this image is not mine and if anyone can find the source please tell me!!)
EDIT: here's the original!
Made my friend a dashboard lizard for his birthday. He so chunky in the middle and i love him.
Only shooting stars break the mold 🌠
We lost a legend today
Remember that "three items from the store to make the cashier most uncomfortable" meme? Apparently I accidentally found a winning combo tonight at the corner store, one of the usual clerks shot me a really weird look when I was checking out with these
Jimmy Budgett
Wasted away again in Meageritaville
This especially irritates me when people say it about kids.
I've learned in the past 4 years that many adults don't actually teach their kids shit about being a human being. What adults see as "common knowledge" they just expect their kids to know, then punish the kid when they don't.
It leads to a lot of mental and emotional distress for child and parent, and by extension teachers or any other adult responsible for the child.
Kids need a lot of attention to develop and grow and be the best they can be, and I don't understand why that's such a hard concept. You want your kid to verbally tell you what's wrong, you have to give him the language tools to express themselves.
You want your kid to clean up after themselves, teach them how to fold clothes, where to put them, how to sort clean from dirty.
Kids don't know how to do these things inherently.
This especially
irritates me when people
say it about kids.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Who wants to be narrative foils together
With tongue
No YouTuber will ever top the phrase "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese."
"A California-themed amusement park in the already California-themed California" is also a banger and comes from the same channel.
How quickly we forget "You would have to pay an industrial engineer to create a complex computer simulation of a theme park populated with agents, all with unique preferences, riding attractions of varying capacities in order to compare and contrast wait times, number of rides ridden, and other factors with and without a virtual queue system just to get to the bottom of this incredibly niche curiosity" followed immediately by
