we justifiably give Biden a lot of shit but I think "at least 3" is the funniest possible response to some right wing dipshit asking you how many genders there are

wait it gets better

always so touching and vibrant when you remember people a hundred years ago had profound lives full of fun and love

my great grandparents met because they were both telephonist-telegraphists and they used to communicate in spoken morse code so that their kids wouldn’t understand the dirty jokes they were saying. And my great-aunt was telling me the other day about how her father would sit with his kids during stormy nights and hug them as they looked out the window and he pointed out how beautiful the lightning was. Because he didn’t want them to be afraid. It isn’t far away but it’s easy to forget that people are people are people

isn’t it cool that we still take silly pictures where we pretend to put our baby niece for sale or where we pretend to officiate a funeral on the beach? I think that’s neat

In one of my family’s old photo albums from around the 1910’s-20’s there’s a picture of a dog sitting on a chair and wearing a hat.

I just think the old guard turning into a Greek chorus/witches of Macbeth is one of the best features of this season. They are so good and funny.

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves

THE FINALE. YOU DID THIS.

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what in God's name happened over here

Literally heard a convo at the library where a guy was telling a girl that he’s an omega and the girl telling him that she’s a beta, and my mind just did not automatically connect the context to fraternity pledge classes at all and I just whispered to myself “what the fuck?? What the fuck??”

a comedy of errors

king of saying things that dont mean anything and then leaving

we need more representation in media for people who are just dogshit at improvising snappy one liners. too many characters these days can come up with the smartest funniest thing to say in any given situation with zero rehearsal or hesitation and it's just not realistic. we need more guys who say shit like "yeah, well, um, how about you, uh, suck my dick?"

we need more characters who get hit with a one liner and instead of responding smugly with one of their own they're just like "kill yourself"

"oh you think that liking animated kids movies as an adult is cringe? don't you know some people are AUTISTIC" you know you can just like a movie, right? why are u wrangling a completely reasonable defense of your taste into mental health advocacy?? it doesn't fit

GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick

this is legendary because you as you go you see the photo itself and you’re “oh this is some symbolic / surrealist art” and then the TITLE hits you like a shotgun shell

if succession was made just a few years earlier we would have seen seen shit like an animatic of shiv roy singing The Room Where It Happens from Hamilton

I barely hold any stock Succession predictions at this point, but for the record...

The full votes come in, and Mencken hasn’t won. ATN loses an absolute behemoth of credibility and share price, maybe being the killing blow to company. The culture war blows up; one half of the country convinced it’s a conspiracy by the radical left, the other half that the election was won by the Democrats. Logan’s will comes back and - this is the longshot that everyone’s considered but not everyone believes - Greg is named the successor, the last Roy in the family business at the time of Logan’s death, who curried just enough goodwill to be in the right paperwork at the right time.

Two men vying for a burning country, and four Roys vying for a burning throne. Who’s to say what happens after it, it gets too messy to really guess. I can see Matsson getting out of it well despite India: Tech’s cultural reckoning is for another time, another satire, maybe? But personally, I don’t see the Roys’ story ending in much more than ashes, a lot of America with it.

I know it’s big call and a lot of people don’t like it, but I’m still holding strong on Greg being a major player here who actually has some stake the throne or something similar. If it was a straight satire, this would be the obvious case- it’s NOT a straight satire, but it stills holds a lot of weight. I’m officially staking some fan cred on it: Greg the Egg is going to hatch.

In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.

being autistic is beautiful and then you're afraid of abandonment because your brain has picked up on the exact patterns that signal another loss and then you step outside and there are patterns in the sky in the grass in every touch and every laugh. someone looks at you and there is a shift in their gaze to tell you "i know you're wrong. you are something wrong." something between pity and embarrassment and you want to rip it out of your body for a second and then you listen to music and the euphoria makes it all worth it because they could never experience this joy. you're sky-high. you look in the mirror and your eyes appear inexplicably vacant and then you read about how so many autistic kids are cleverer than everyone else as children and then the opposite afterwards. at a certain age you equalise. you grow sharper teeth and you bite off more than you can chew and you chew it all anyway. there's spring in the air and your brain functions like a scattergraph and when you think about it hard enough it's impossible not to fall in love. if you're an alien you're a lovely one. one day you fall in love and you know it's more intense than it should be but you love her anyway, knowing how it will end. are you invented for grief? are you invented for love, with which comes grief?

truthfully being autistic puts a gun full of love to your head. i will always be a little bit more alone than everyone else but the shades of green seperate into a spectrum of feeling and this schematic of an engine is a poem to progress and every song i love is a holy hymn and when your brain is a scattergraph, once you love something, you love everything. you're more alone than everyone else and the least lonely creature on earth, even in isolation.