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I think one of the most damaging ideologies towards children is the conviction that having children isn’t a calling but a moral obligation.

Not to be a crazy radical or anything, but children deserve to be deeply wanted by their parents.

Children shouldn’t be a “stage” in life that everyone is obligated to fulfill; childrearing is not for everyone. More importantly, children shouldn’t be state-enforced punishments for “irresponsible” sexual behavior.

Children are people with thoughts and feelings just like the rest of us. They are conscious of the way people treat them. And they can certainly tell when they are unwanted and/or resented.

[ID: tumblr tags. they are: #reblog #i also dont think its enough to want a child. i think you need to want a teenager and an adult too #my mom wanted a baby. when i was too old to pronounce spaghetti wrong and let her put me in church dresses she was done with me #my dad wanted a person. he wanted a baby a child a tween a teen and an adult #my dad wanted to watch a person happen. which was different. /end ID.]

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Boosting all of the above signal.

Pour one out for all the stories you'll never find again, that you barely remember in totality, but that left an impression on you that you'll never forget.

The short stories from standardized tests that you only had a few minutes to read, but those minutes will last a lifetime.

The books on the library display shelf you used to occupy time until your mom could come pick you up from school.

The graphic novel you picked up when you were first getting into comics and could never find again.

The single lines or themes from stories you otherwise don't remember, save for the one thing that you saw and internalized as a new part of your personality.

Let's pour one out for the books that built us, even if we never could find them again, and couldn't of we wanted to.

Lois buys Clark a "Not to say I'm Superman but Superman and I have never been seen together in the same room" shirt because it's the funniest thing she's ever seen and Clark wears it because it's also the funniest thing he's ever seen. They are made for each other.

Superman has a shirt that’s identical except it says “Not to say I’m Clark Kent but Clark Kent and I have never been seen together in the same room” and he wears it as Superman to acknowledge the popular meme that he, the godlike alien, and that random reporter from Kansas are the same person. The internet think he’s the funniest person on Earth. Bruce hates him with his whole being because STILL NOBODY GUESSES HIS SECRET IDENTITY even though he’s WEARING a SHIRT that SAYS IT RIGHT THERE

Who let this post pass 10k

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This is Extremely Funny, and also, an excellent point about the alternatives to centralized production that exist now, which weren't as readily available or widely popular last time.

Video games, subscribing directly to creators, etc are all way easier now than in 2008.

The studios seem to think they have enough leverage to outlast this strike,but that's absurd in a world where we've been watching them cancel popular, well written shows for only making a huge profit and being wildly popular, instead of making All The Profit Ever and hypnotizing an entire population into slavering obsession.

But they have poor reputations, about to get poorer thanks to social media, and alternative entertainments are more widespread than ever.

I hope WGA gets everything they ask for and more.

Adding this to the "coming back later after I finish my current book" pile. Because I have thoughts.

If animal crossing can carry so many people through the hardest part of quarantine, TOTK doesn’t even have to be good to keep me more entertained than whatever sack of shit they’re gonna pump out without unioned writers.

acting like folks won’t pick up pokemon Go or Jurassic Park Alive again now that the weather is nice.

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fights I would pay to see: sigmund “everyone is attracted to someone” freud vs John “sexual desire is evil and cereal can and will fix it” Kellogg

Asked my mom who both has a MA in psychology and currently works for Kellogg’s to weigh in for the hell of it

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enemies to lovers 500K slowburn

I dreamt that I accidentally befriended a rat that lived in my home. It was a friendly rat and it would bring me little gifts, but it was still a wild rat and it was still a biohazard and its family was still infesting my home. I didn’t feel right betraying its trust after having forged an inter species friendship with it but I still had to do SOMETHING.

I logged onto Rat Facebook, which was exactly like regular Facebook but only for rats and accessible only via a miniature phone, and saw that my rat friend was a girl who had apparently announced they we were engaged. My notifications were all from hundreds of her relatives welcoming me into the family and wanting to get to know me better. They all thought I was rich and would provide for all of them so the fact that I wasn’t even the same species was just kind of glossed over.

I was horrified, obviously, because I did not want to marry a rat but I didn’t want to break her heart or murder her family, either. I told my friends and family and everyone agreed that while it was unfortunate for me, the leverage and influence I would gain among Ratfolk could be the key to solving many social and ecological issues; if I were accepted into their Rat Ways I might be able to make rodenticides obsolete, not to mention commanding an expansive espionage network unparalleled by human technology.

Anyway I was pressured into an awkward political marriage with a rat and became a Rat By Marriage. At least it was a girl rat?

I assure you that my political marriage to the rat was homosexual in nature

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did i even tell you guys how i pretended to know how to play an instrument for three years and only two people ever figured it out.

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i don't mean i was like. telling people i could play guitar, i mean i was sitting in band class holding a french horn to my lips and looking at the music and not understanding any of it or knowing how to play a single note. for 3 years.

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the two people who knew were my best friend who knew i was too stupid to play such a complicated instrument and the only other hornist in my section who had to desperately cover for me because he knew i had blackmail material on him. i only came clean this year in my senior speech and to this day people still call me mellophony and the no hit wonder.

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i had no reason not to come clean. i could have easily admitted i didn't know how to play music anfd just quit the band. i did not. i in fact joined marching band and pretended not only that i could play music, but also that i knew where my dots were. i did not. i simply got in lines and shapes with everyone else. and i got away with it too.

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I JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING THAT MAKES THIS SO MUCH FUNNIER AND I DOUBT ANYONE WILL SEE THIS BUT. i actually did learn how to play one single song on mellophone. it was louie louie. the issue is, my horn line had a tradition of playing that one upside down, and hitting the keys with our thumbs. i couldn't see the lyre. that is the only song i ever learned how to play and i can't play it upright and i can't read the sheet music. godbless

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Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a student at the University of Malaga, Spain. (2022)

socks used to cheat on civil service exams, Qing Dynasty China

I feel like you should get an automatic pass if you've put this much effort into cheating

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Testing is just so arbitrary. These types of cheats show more useful skill than passing a test the "right way" does.

I cheat at work all the time. I have a reputation of "knowing everything". I don't, though.

"How do I do x?" "One moment please. *uses the same company search engine they have access to* Here's an internal site that should have everything you need." "Wow, you must have a lot of bookmarks!"

Knowing how to find and retrieve information is a lot more useful than memorizing it.

Great, you've memorized that this 3rd party polling tool has these features. But the client wants to use it in a way that's not described on the brochure. Can you figure out how to apply that info to their request, or since you memorized it, are you just going to say it can't be done?

Cheating in the way described isn't just physical effort. You're assessing what information is most relevant to your goal, because your space is limited. That requires understanding the material well enough to know what's important and what isn't, on a test comprised of questions that you have no insight into.

You've basically utilized an efficient note taking process that's usable on the fly, inobtrusively.

I was a great student who didn't cheat. Do you know how long it took me to learn that skill? It wasn't until well after college. It's a lot more valuable than the underlying information is!

When I taught video production, the first thing I did was throw out the tests from the curriculum. It's useless. I replaced them with practical testing: "create this thing in your project" "make this happen to the thing you created", etc.

They could use the book, the internet, anything. Because they weren't going to find the answers directly. They could look up the concept and see how someone else did it to a completely different type of video. And then apply it to what they're doing. Like most editors do on the job.

The current concept of testing and cheating is completely broken.

This guy gets it.

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there's still a week left for the funniest possible thing to happen (charles dying before the coronation) like to charge reblog to cast or whatever

There's a reason the state starts by going after the people you refuse to respect

Fuckin iowa jesus christ. And fucking republicans in general

Please notice that the wording they use has shifted from "marriage between one man and one woman" to "marriage between one male and one female". This is not a coincidence. GCs and terfs have no excuse to not see the blood on their hands.

Daily reminder that bioessentialism is a fantasy.

it is universally the funniest thing on earth when you make a post and someone you have never met before tries to bug you about whether your post was secretly a coded message about some insular online discourse you have never heard of. you could say like "people should stop throwing rocks at birds" and an hour later someone will reply like "i cant tell for sure but i think op is vagueposting about k*rkn1ps... disappointing tbh :/" GIRL WHAT?????

i have become a victim of tumblr pvp.

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if you rb pls tag where your from and which ones you did! i live in texas and we did fire, tornado, shooter, and nuclear (there is a nuclear power plant near where i grew up and the plan was to hide under our desks and clench)

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he’s going to end up being assassinated by the mouse before they install their own moderate puppet government I think

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everyone in the tags who seems to think this could be a fair fight and they could bite each other’s dicks off…..you do not understand the power Disney holds over Florida. The Disney corporation is a god and Ron DeSantis is just a little man in a suit. $75 BILLION ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT ON CENTRAL FLORIDA. Most countries have a GDP less than that. A HALF A MILLION JOBS DEPENDENT ON THE TOURISM INDUSTRY CREATED BY DISNEY. and I don’t say this because I like Disney I say this because it is fucking terrifying. Disney has the power to bring about a Mad Max level societal collapse in Florida.

Evil on evil violence

They say judas is in hell because he betrayed jesus but thats actualy a misconception, that was gods plan and so he didnt do anything wrong. Judas however IS in hell because god thinks he made his son gay

You cant fucking do this to me

Star Trek + Social Commentary (context in the captions)

This is the reason star trek exists. This is why it is important. Without this there is no point of making it, you can add all the flashing lights and CG explosions and half naked women you like but without this, right here, you are not making Star Trek.

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Tate u are a locked tomb enjoyer and poetry understander do you know how the metre works in the Noniad im rereading Harrow and im DREADFUL at following metre unless it's assonance rhyming

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HI YES the noniad my best friend the noniad! it is in dactylic enneameter! which as it is used in harrow means every line has nine feet, and each foot can be either a dactyl (— u u) or a spondee (— —), except for the last two in each line which are always — u u | — x (— is a stressed syllable, u is unstressed, and x can be either).

e.g.

I am the | Emperor's | Hand; do | not thou per|sist in this | combat; | matchless am | I with the | long blade—

— u u | — u u | — — | — u u | — u u | — — | — u u | — u u | — —

there is also Often (but not always. but definitely enough that i noticed it) a diaeresis (word ending coinciding with foot ending) after the sixth foot which is. very funny to me. because dactylic enneameter is Not A Thing That Anyone Really Writes In Ever, but dactylic hexameter is the metre of greek and latin epic poetry and tamsyn muir and classics We Know About This. so the sixth foot diaereses + a noticeable number of lines having spondees in the sixth foot means that those lines read like lines of dactylic hexameter with like. an extra bit tagged on at the end. to me. but maybe i have just read too much dactylic hexameter idk

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Grunkle Stan and Iroh are two cartoon characters who really lean into their “weird old man” shtick, but if you do the math I don’t think either of them are over 60

not even thirty yet and I already find the weird old man niche appealing, so I can’t blame ‘em

oh absolutely same. i’m about the same age as you but i’m already rounding up

Iroh discovered that if you lean into the Old Man thing people will treat you as wise and knowing and also strange and eccentric as is desirable.

Grunkle Stan discovered that if you lean into the OId Man thing people will stop asking questions like “Didn’t you used to look and act different” and “Are you actually the legal owner of this establishment?”, though I firmly believe it started as an attempt to get a senior discount.