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gay and existenial dread

@thegaygrimreaper

as you do

hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.

bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end up building communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because that’s what humans do. that’s what they DO!!!

This reminds me of a really great video by Sarah Zedig where the second half is her going off on apocalyptic, grimdark shows such as The Walking Dead as a ‘libertarian power fantasy where their dogshit ideology is never wrong’ and I’ve never forgotten it.

At its core, the edgelord trope that society would “break down” into violence the instant the cops stop answering the phones is a myth built on cynical belief that humans are - at their core - violent, selfish, cruel animals that are only kept in line with the violent enforcement of “law and order.”

Hell, it’s a myth built atop another myth that the police - the legitimate purveyors of state violence - are even competent at all!

Considering their abysmal track record for actually solving crimes and observed reluctance to put themselves in harm’s way, there’s hardly a case to be made that they are actively keeping society from descending into chaos. And if you think that’s woke anti-police nonsense, bear in mind that once, when the cops in New York did a work “slowdown”, crime went down.

Because see, there’s a second half to the apocalyptic “breakdown of society” myth, the one that appeals to a certain group of people. It’s the part where, now that society has become the State of Nature, the truly strong, independent, well-armed men of action have carte blanche to “restore order” with brutal, justified violence.

Apocalyptic movies are a popular genre because it takes the standard Hollywood power fantasy and gives it an adrenaline shot of compatible politics: libertarian, every man for himself, Übermensch crap. As it depicts the end of the world, with all the pornographic spectacle of chaos and human cruelty, it tells its audience that you won’t succumb when the rest those dumb, weak masses perish. Whether it’s zombies, plague, climate disaster, or solar flares making our cellphones stop working, you specifically (yes you, Kyle!) will rise above it.

And when it does, the strong and rugged will survive and start over. Make things how they “used to be.” Presumably a nice, pure, uncomplicated world suspiciously absent of all those “weak” folks that had been muddying the waters and getting in the way, before. The ones that had prevented the naturally strong men from reaching their true potential in the Old World.

To the people that truly buy into this garbage power fantasy, the inevitable apocalyptic collapse isn’t something to be feared, but prepared for.

They’re looking forward to it.

…that last line struck a nerve like an icepick to the skull

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[ID: Three tweets in a thread from Twitter user @ socpens. Tweet 1: "put ur foot down if someone's apology has an "if" or "but" in it it aint real dont accept that shit they should do better". Tweet 2: "ive made many shitty apologies and as I get older I realize it costs literally nothing to just apologize in a way that doesn't minimize the other person's emotions and also accepts an amount of responsibility. If and but are ways of deflecting that". Tweet 3: "like instead of saying "im sorry if you interpreted it that way" just say "im sorry, I should have worded it differently, that's not how I wanted to come across", you are not making the other person the problem and you're not making yourself the devil either. Its just mistake" /End ID]

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Hi pls reblog this version with the image ID added instead thanks !

There are three elements to a full apology:

First, saying sorry for the initial hurt that you committed.

Second, showing that you understand how you hurt them (through poor wording or whathaveyou).

Third, promising not to commit that harm again.

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

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I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.

I fucking love him

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jdillustratesnonsense

i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it 

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iamtypinglike98madmen

He also jabs racists in the eye!

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I love the justice grandpa of fists

I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.

He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.

Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!

He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!

Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.

He said fuck the police!

He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.

He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.

He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.

You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!

And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.

I have a new role model

😍

“justice grandpa of fists”

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arquus-malvaceae

It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.

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mummified-priest

Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited

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Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.

we need him more than ever…

sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content: 

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He’s a hero, our Everett.

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Just found out there were live action Everett True shorts (silent films, though, so the outbursts were largely body language)

Reblogging to always have it to hand. :)

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mamacastiel

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

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no one tell him

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greeedybastard

Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.

March 15 again and here we go…

Maybe it's my own fault for not checking the news

UK folks, listen, it's time for you to unify to destroy the UK once and for all. Scotland & Wales, do everything to declare independence, Ireland, become one again, English people, get rid of those nobles treating you like dirt. Overwelm them, get your freedom back. Others gov cannot support you, but the people are. The EU is waiting for you, folks.

Now, excusez-moi, but I'm going to prepare myself for my brother saying that British are happy to not have heat if the King gets a great ceremony.

okay interesting detail. In Second Skin, Garak says he hasn’t left DS9 in the last three years (excepting the excursion to Bajor during ‘Cardassians’). And yet! There are at least two instances prior to this in which the civilian population were evacuated from the station. (He is talking to Julian as well during this conversation, who doesn’t contradict him, implying that he can confirm Garak did not leave during these occasions.)

1) s2e03 The Siege: We know there isn’t enough space for everyone to evacuate on the runabouts but non-Bajorans are given first priority as they’re in the most danger. It’s unclear exactly where all the Bajoran civilians go?? But when the militia lands, they scan the station and find no lifesigns, including Kira and Li. They’re unable to scan through the access conduit walls however and flood them with anesthezine gas to try to force the crew out. Perhaps Garak built himself a scan proof saferoom somewhere??

2) s2e04 Invasive Procedures: There’s a plasma storm! Everyone but a skeleton crew (plus Quark who apparently volunteered to stay and help) has been evacuated to Bajor. Garak has presumably done the same as Quark? There’s a scene towards the beginning where Julian pops into Ops, all giddy about how pretty the storm is and Sisko confirms with him that he secured the Promenade. Maybe he and Garak worked together on that, then held hands to watch the storm for a bit and afterwards Garak went to lie down for a nap while everything went down in Quark’s and the Infirmary?

to be fair to garak i don’t think mandatory evacuations really count in the context of their conversation, but it is really funny to imagine garak napping in a corner during invasive procedures

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this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

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oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

For the record, this is not just shitty for anyone who needs wheels to get around.

This would be HELL for my cane.

I don't use forearm crutches, but I suspect it would also be hell for that type of mobility device.

Same for walkers.

Same for anyone with limited vision.

Almost every single instance of hostile architecture meant to gentrify a place or keep out "undesirables" ends up hurting disabled folks too.

And that's intentional. Because disabled folks absolutely fall under the "needs extra time/care", unless the companies can get away with it

Wtf is the problem with skateboards to begin with

Skateboards let people have fun outside without spending money (except occasionally on upgrading the board). Oh, and some people just hate teens congregating for any reason.

Adults complain that "kids never go outside nowadays", meanwhile the reason is because adults would harass them whenever they do.

Hey so this post is actually extremely inaccurate.

Thanks to a follower of mine pointing it out it was discovered/shown that those latticeworks are actually for water retention placed in key parts of the park, Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City. They are not meant as walkways and as can be shown in the above picture there are clearly accessible pathways which are the actual paths.

While hostile architecture is always very much a thing to be on the lookout for, sadly sometimes we just gotta remember the ancient texts:

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Reblogging because I'm fairly certain I blogged this previously and the new info ABSOLUTELY needs to be shared! We really need MORE architecture like this in concrete jungles to help allow water to return to the ground instead of into the sewer system.

deeply weird that you can realize "oh actually this socially constructed gender fits my internal identity better than the socially constructed gender I was assigned by default" and people will be like "no u can't do that, you've got the wrong organs"

bitch I am BARLEY USING THEM

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Don’t take them for grainted.

That joke was pretty wheat

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So so corny...

Let's hops we can do better

rebageling this post for everyone

Rye are we like this

Amaizeing

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All because of one mis-spelt word.

respectfulmemes
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avoidantknife

I feel like a mom on facebook reblogging this but I genuinely like it. I want to make this into a full size poster and put it in my 3rd grade classroom but I’m 20 yrs old and not a teacher

p1ss

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

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balalaikaboss

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

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sirtroyofbaker

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

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Welcome to tumblr, here’s your complimentary demon stoplight

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idk where that post is that talks about the casualness of queer love just existing in public but the feeling of hearing a woman say 'my wife' or some guy saying 'my boyfriend' while telling a story and it being nonchalant and not needing elaboration is something i cannot decribe because that was not common ten years ago

anyway I'm watching the news and the guy news anchor is talking Live about how bad the flight cancelations due to weather are and telling a story about how him and His Husband were stuck at an airport for a while and I am filled with love

by talos this can’t be happening is a mandela effect because the actual phrase is by the gods this can’t be happening and i’ve never heard anyone say the former in game

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disgruntledmenshevikjohnmulaney

by talos this can’t be happening

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cyriakharris

the phrase by talos this can’t be happening is actually from a rupaul roleplay blog who left their husband in a cage with no food and water for a few weeks and the husband died sorry to be the spoil sport but it does have an origin and it is a very tumblr origin in nature

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Here’s the post they’re referring to for context

Oh. Skyrim husband.