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logically I Know it's an irrational thought to have but it still irritates me to no end when stuff that's super popular gets the exact intended emotional reaction out of me

me, with tears in my eyes: how will I ever recover. I fell for it, like some kind of The Masses

Stuff that is popular is popular because it speaks to a wide range of people and experiences. You do not need to feel ashamed of being one of those people or having those experiences.

you actually need to let it burn you up so bad inside that you fake your death, assume a new identity solely to swear revenge on the responsible family, find their young scion, become their closest friend and confidant by being the only person their age who truly listens, have sex with him, betray and kill him, fake your death again, get into a fistfight with a 15 year old, maybe fake your death one more time when things are looking bleak

What I've come to understand about modern conservatism is that literally everything else takes a backseat to white supremacist patriarchy. So it doesn't matter, say, what values a movie actually embeds; if it has people of colour or women in the "wrong" roles, it's woke. It's not about ideas, it's about race and gender hierarchy.

This is also why these people act like The Orville is the "anti-woke" alternative to Nu Trek. The Orville is not remotely anti-woke; but the captain is a white guy. That's what matters.

The Orville even has one of the best points made in anything Star Trek related when it points out that its replicators only managed to make a post-scarcity utopia because they abolished capitalism first. That’s a good few billion miles away from anti-woke.

it doesnt make sense that a penis would get bigger if yoiu jerk it off youre literally compressing it. go crumple a can rn and tell me its bigger im not buying this narrative

Okay So .. This is What Casual Misandry Looks Like Everybody

im trying to go pro if anyone has any tips

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

Hi my name is Ozy'mandias, King of Kings and I have two vast and trunkless legs of stone and a frown and wrinkled lip and a lot of people tell me I look like the Younger Memnon (a/n if you don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm a statue but my visage is shattered and lies half sunk on the sand. I’m also a colossal wreck, and I stand in the desert of an antique land where I’ve been for a really long time (I’m ancient). I’m a lifeless thing (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly the passions the sculptor read and stamped on me, which yet survive. I love sculptors and I get all my expressions from there. For example today I was wearing a sneer of cold command and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was standing in the desert. The lone and level sands were boundless and bare, which I was very happy about. A lot of mighty looked upon my works and despaired. I put my middle finger up at them.

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!