Stop tagging me to fight your arguments for you.

I love how the Electro's immediately began a corporate work environment, that they now hate.

when u accidentally click a link so u dont release the mouse and kind of slowly drag away from the link. threat avoided. citizens safe. for now.

“You mean my sword of Elvish-make? Nice try at diverting the blame, Galadriel, but your call-out post is being published as we speak.”

I hate when people criticize magical girl anime for having long transformation scenes. "so the enemies just wait for them?" have you ever considered that something can be beautiful without needing to serve a purpose or make sense in a literal scenario 💔

Happy battle girl things Thursday

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

When I see Breaking Bad memes and people making jokes like "lol if only they had universal healthcare" I get it, but I always just go:

And, like, by the end of season 2 or so he has more money than he could ever hope to need.

But by then it's the power he's drunk on.

anyone who acts like there's some kind of implicit understanding or sisterhood between all women is straight up lying

i made this post specifically about a friend of mine, so let me say this: if you want to be a girl, but feel like you can't because you would never be comfortable in The Club of Womanhood, don't worry! feeling like an alienated little weirdo who will never Get what other girls seem to pick up naturally is in fact an extremely Girl experience

I'd add "rich" and correct "white" to "majority race" because women like this exist regardless of country or culture.

Yoko Ono was the Japanese equivalent. She grew up with very rich parents and went to private schools. She also believed herself to be oppressed because she was a woman when in reality she was privileged and a horrible person overall.

India calls women like that "Lavanya from South Delhi." South Delhi is very insular and rich and its residents are known for trying desperately to ape Americans as depicted by Hollywood movies. They are also seen making very shallow "girlboss feminist" takes on social media.

The song Gangnam Style was a parody about rich, shallow Girlbosses. The Gangnam district of Seoul is a rich area populated almost entirely by plastic surgeons.

ARIEL NEEDS LEGS

I was gonna make Emmy draw this but she said no so I drew it myself.

I’ve never drawn a comic before!

edit: WATCH IN MOTION COMIC FORM

Happy 9th birthday to this post specifically.

“the end goal of fiction is (of course) to collectively identify and consume only the good things. good stories make you a good person and bad stories make you a bad person” you guys literally sound like the 2nd grade teacher who told my mom not to let me read the golden compass

not to swing the bat 360°, but i’ve seen a lot of weird, condescending nonsense on the other side of this as well

look, the end goal of strong literacy skills isn’t to have perfect taste and be right all the time. i frequently enjoy things that have objective flaws. i frequently fail to enjoy things that most people would consider flawless. sometimes, i fall for propaganda. sometimes, something makes me uncomfortable, or confused, and i have to pause to figure out why. that’s life!

the more comfortable you are navigating the relationship between what a story wants to say, what it is saying, and how that affects you, the easier your life will be. you are free to criticize the things you love and celebrate the existence of the things you hate.

i say this with all the compassion of a person who went through years of therapy for OCD—your gut reactions do not define you, and you don’t have to worry about The Bad Media turning you evil

btw I know ppl on this site go on abt mutuals but if you are someone that shows up in my notes regularly who I don't follow, I do notice and I am fond of you and if you reblog something from me I do think "YES I have pleased the follower with good taste"

once again I am saying that the belief that there is a profound Male Loneliness that is so much deeper than anything women are capable of feeling is part of why so many women are giving up on trying to form connections with them. you can’t constantly imply that women have neurotic baby brains incapable of feeling real human emotion and then seriously still wonder why it’s difficult for us to want to be around you. major loneliness is a human emotion, it does not belong to either sex, and this idea that women get constant praise as soon as we leave the house therefore we don’t know what it’s like to be lonely is fucking delusional. so many of us are deeply lonely too, but guess what? it’s not called a loneliness epidemic for us, we’re just called crazy cat ladies who don’t have any worth as people.

you do not own loneliness and suffering, nobody does, and thinking you’re the only ones who feel the way you do is further contributing to your emotional isolation.

While I don’t disagree. I think this sort of thing is a reaction to the fact that many women make these exact sort of claims all time time - that women experience depths of emotions that men cannot understand, this is actually just casually accepted as fact by many people.

In fact quite a few replies to this post say exactly that!

Yep.

What I think does actually happen is that men who are lonely are brushed off and told there is no problem and they're just crying manipulative man tears, so much so that some of them probably think women don't have the capacity to feel. Nah they're just bitches bro

Similarly, some men who just do not experience the level or frequency of investment or vulnerability that many women do will just say they're crazy or dramatic and not respect that they're feeling strong feelings about shit they care about

It's called empathy and respect, some folks do not have it

Sadly many people have no empathy. Even more sadly, they have no sense of smell either. If they did they may realize what pieces of shit they are.

You got me with that second bit 😂

It’s funny, because pretty much every FtM trans I’ve seen who talks about their experience, the first thing they mention is how lonely mens’ lives are. A woman’s profoundly lonely is a guy’s baseline.

There was that feminist who lived as a man for over a year and went into an insane depression over it, so obviously there's a difference. It just has nothing to do with capability of emotion and everything to do with people choosing to treat you like you're subhuman

women cannot be held responsible for the fact that a lot of male culture only allows vulnerability and bonding with their friends about 3-6 drinks in. women cannot be expected to teach socialization and social graces to men who have no interest in learning.

it's unfortunate that a lot of male socialization is isolatory, but beyond having their sons join sports teams and clubs to make sure they have friends, women can't fix men's culture. Men have to be willing to risk vulnerability and risk social rejection in a bid to find their "tribe"- I know plenty who have done this successfully, without becoming the sad "cuck" that incels and masculinity obsessed men imply fear of when a woman brings up this subject to them.

this being a more common experience for men, definitely in puritan cultures like america, does not mean women can't also fall through the cracks of socialization and also find themselves in the same deeply isolated and socially lost state. frankly with social media I think more are becoming like that, since it's so easy to be poorly socialized amd keep reinforcing your poor socialization with online echo chambers

You are a prime example of the problem I was just discussing. Congrats on signing up to be exhibit A of "folks who don't have empathy or respect"

They aren't broken and you're not responsible for fixing them; nobody fucking asked lol.

If you think not actively being an alienating piece of shit to men (the thing explicitly being discussed here) is fully equivalent to undertaking a mission to train men like dogs till they emote like women and socialize like women, and fix all of their problems for them, you're the problem.

Or you're making shit up in order to complain.

lmfao "don't blame women for problems in men's society they can't fix, but don't assume the causes and outcomes of such isolation can't also be found among women" = "I hate men"

I understand that when one is engaged strongly in a subject reading can become difficult, but saying men's current emotionally empty society is causing male isolation doesn't actually say that men are broken or need to be "trained like dogs". Nor does it imply that they should be made to be women; if you think men in their natural state aren't empathetic or emotionally engaged, I don't know what to say to you chief. You may notice I prioritize men finding a solution amongst themselves particularly because of people who would take any solution I propose and say "well we're not women like you, that won't work for us".

if the word that's setting you off is "socialized", I'm sorry to break it to you but we're all socialized, ie taught to be tolerable to each other. If you still started crying whenever someone got a birthday cake on their birthday and you didn't, you wouldn't have friends. If you only ever talked about yourself and not others, you wouldn't either. If you always assumed everyone was out to get you, you wouldn't either. the lessons get more complicated as you get older. they're hard to learn sometimes, which is why it helps to have friends who you can vent to who will kindly point out your errors. through this process of mutual toleration, we learn to bond and develop deeper relationships.

from what I have seen, this process of "friendship" works the same between men and women.

You can't have a healthy society or a single healthy human life where the same sex are your friends and the opposite sex more or less ignore you or treat you like trash. That's not how that works. Most women are not out here having no fulfilling female relationships; neither are most men deprived of meaningful male contact. That was never, EVER the larger issue and was not, at any point, being discussed here.

Does that mean it's the job of women to train men like dogs to behave better? No, psycho. It's the job of men and women to treat men and women as human beings with basic respect. Go back to kindergarten until you get that through your head and stop inventing ways to justify poor treatment and blame others for issues they're not causing themselves.

Congratulations on making me out as the enemy by putting words into my mouth! I'm sure it feels lovely.

Go reread my posts until you have the "empathy" to hear what I'm actually saying, and not what the stick figure ebil feminisms version of me in your head says.

You literally came onto a post discussing the existence of male loneliness and started saying absolutely wack shit about fault and blame and acting like we demanded for women to "fix it"

Try shutting the fuck up when you don't understand what is being discussed if you don't want your inane bullshit to be called what it is

Does it count if I'm all for gun ownership but prefer the Canadian way of doing it, as opposed to, well, the American Wild West interpretation? There's the adage "Every gun owner knows anothe gun owner they quietly thinks shouldn't have a gun" and I've found that to be true in my experience lol

No, that doesn't count. The second amendment says "shall not be infringed"

you'd think an intelligent person would know that the "Wild West" they keep trying to conjure up is a fantasy created by Hollywood to sell cowboy movies in the 60s and 70s.

The 2A question got way easier to answer when I tried asking myself if the government should have the right to prevent me from defending my life/safety/property.

i will try to make this life as beautiful as i can no matter what happens