I never figured out what to put here

over and over again it comes down to the fact that fanfiction is most people's only exposure to amateur writing

'so there's this website where literally anyone can post fiction they've written whenever they want and - get this! - a lot of it is bad' yeah no shit. what would you expect?

"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url

Genuinely I think most people have no idea how much the early internet thought exposing people to the worst images they could find was the height of comedy. Part of this is the flattening of the internet and the destruction of kid-centered spaces online, but the adult spaces tended to have a lot of hazing that involved videos and images of heinous stuff. Rickrolling is delightful.

3. you can also pretend you’re a deep sea predator pretending to be aquatic plant life drifting in the currents to attract prey

Kids today need to learn how to pull the evil taffy.

4. Brush away the spiderwebs in the vast and mysterious crypt you're exploring

@putting-swears-back-in-images would you do the honors?

YOUR TELLING ME THEY USED GOD AS A BASKETBALL?

I actually think the god wanted to be a basketball as a form of enrichment but yeah

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

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this is the only funny addition to this post