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#the way people have said 'oh but spending so much time in the dark world is making it so she wont fix her situation'#... explain to me how the fuck a teenager is supposed to 'fix' the fact that she has an abusive family.#the options are either a) run away entirely which is clearly not actually an option#or b) what. tell an adult?#... WHICH adult??#which adult has both the power to help her and also has proved themselves to be worthy of trust. answer quickly.#the closest is toriel who clearly (by accident and no fault of her own) JUST made Susie uncomfortable LITERALLY LAST NIGHT#in a situation thats implied to have reminded susie of her traumatic situation. susie doesnt even feel comfortable talking to her at the-#-festival. shes not gonna be telling toriel.#what the fuck else was toriel even gonna do anyway besides like let susie sleep over. which would also not materially change her situation-#-more than the dark world except maybe she'd get breakfast. but again susies not gonna be doing that rn.#what else. alphys is afraid of susie. undynes a cop and also kidnapped.#carol Actively Dislikes susie and is heavily implied to be an antagonist.#the fuck is susie supposed to do here. magically get a new family??#i think thats putting a LOT of responsibility on a teenager that JUST found out people can like her less than a week ago#it is not a teenager's responsibility to save themselves from abuse. we would like to believe its as easy as telling a trusted adult#unfortunately a trusted adult with the power to actually change things is not always there

Also she’s still leaving to go to the festival and stuff, she isn’t denying that the Light World exists! She isn’t doing anything bad that harms her

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This has the same energy as the guy in Australia who decided that landlords needed to provide prospective renters references from their former tenants, and I fucking love it.

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

'A popular fanfic author stopped updating her fic because she said that the stress of being constantly falsely accused of using AI was a witch hunt and it was destroying her mental health to the extent that she needed to take a break from writing, leading to multiple online discussions defending her and debates about AI accusations and how You Can't Really Tell So Leave Her Alone, and then someone realised that there were Claude coding artefacts in her fics and that it was a super pervasive problem in that particular fandom, proven definitively by looking at the source coding of each work on AO3, and she denied it for a bit but then ultimately admitted that oopsie, she had been using genAI all along, and then she deleted all of her fics off AO3 and people got mad because they were being denied access to their favourite fics, even though they now knew definitively that they were genAI slop, and then it turned out that she'd actually stopped updating the fic on AO3 in the first place because she'd been shopping it around to agents and editors as an original work with the serial numbers filed off, and she'd been in conversations with a publisher which ultimately got dropped because she'd lied to them about her AI use' oh cool, so we're in Hell, then

Let me be clear: if you use AI to write fanfic, paticularly if you do so in the hopes of snapping up a tradpub deal off the basis of the popularity of your worthless slop, then you are an absolute grade A ding-dong, and may the vengeful spirits of our beloved Spirk Elders haunt you via the medium of perpetual papercuts forevermore.

I am unaware of who this is referring to and feel like a small fishing boat that just saw the dorsal fin of Leviathan off the starboard bow

That is so extremely valid, and truly I wish that I had not myself plunged into the depths and seen the truth of the Leviathan (a gigantic plastic fish effigy that's broken off a derelict Fish & Chip shop and washed into the Atlantic: a harbinger of doom in its own synthetic tongue)

So many lessons in fandom and life boil down to make your own works for love of the game, don't go looking for ways to be an asshole to people, don't lie when people ask you something that challenges you to be better, and don't fucking cheat.

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

saw a post the other day mocking the idea that anyone could do a transfem reading of disney’s mulan and like. fr? you can’t imagine that someone could read transfem themes into a story about a girl whose attempts at femininity are an embarrassment to her family, who adopts a masculine identity out of shame and filial piety, loses peer and institutional respect and is rejected by her friends when her gender is revealed, but is then ultimately embraced and accepted and supported as a woman on her own terms? you can’t imagine someone relating to that?

DO NOT DOWNLOAD TUMBLR it will install a virus on your device called tumblr

I won't ever get over the removal of headphone jacks, or micro sd slots, or cd drives. I won't. Fuck everyone and everything

of course i love seeing people pushing back on the stereotype of ancient rome as this noble and glorious marble white cradle of civilization but very often it just goes too far into this equally wrong way of thinking when people start to paint ancient rome as this uniquely evil culture that's not only uniquely evil by itself but also is like a progenitor of Everything Wrong with modern society. people literally think if it wasn't for ancient rome we would have no patriarchy or slavery or colonialism. which is like. Okay so you don't know anything about any ancient culture whatsoever

I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.