Gimme a Hummus Burrito

At the end of this I’ll take the least favorite of each and run em against each other. It’ll be fun.

hes literally so torturable??

people always say that internet spaces are americanised because the users are majority americans.

and i do always wonder how much of that is "there are actually a majority of usamericans" and how much is "usamerican cultural markers are a default for many online spaces, and non usamericans are often indistinguishable from usamericans unless you're actively looking".

so here's an incredibly unscientific poll reblog for reach or whatever

It has come to my attention that some of you have never seen what I firmly believe to be the greatest music video of all time: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. It is the perfect marriage of a galactically bombastic power ballad and a writhing mass of 1980s video clichés, thrown into the path of a wind machine and blasted down a moodily lit corridor into the realm of legend.

In case you’re wondering what the heck they were thinking of when they made it, I remember Bonnie once explaining on TV that it’s about the dreams of a headmaster’s daughter, hence all the boys in (and out of) uniform. In retrospect, the whole shebang is quite fascinatingly female gaze-y, and I’m pretty sure it was a major formative influence on my pubescent imagination.

Like yeah they're taken from their families and subjected to horrific extensive surgeries/indoctrination beginning at a very young age, this is true. But the entire process takes years, so even though it starts at 11-12 years old, they have to wait until around 15 for the surgeries to take before they begin training and then they only graduate from the neophyte stage to become true Astartes with interface ports and shit around 18. So all of the Astartes we're seeing are fully grown, we're not seeing 13 year olds who just happen to appear fully grown, as some people seem to think.

The definition of a child soldier is anyone recruited for war under the age of 18, for sure, but I do feel like the term doesn't really accurately reflect the Astartes process; real world child soldiers like in the Congo are being recruited AND thrown into war high out of their minds on amphetamines at like 9, they're not entered into an almost decade long process first.

You know what it is like, though? The K-Pop idol recruitment and training system.

It aligns perfectly: taken away from their families when they're recruited as young as 10-12, put through a grueling training and preparation process, not everyone graduates from the training process but if you do it's around 18 years old, then you "ascend" to idol status and are exploited as a sentient product until your body gives out. Plus it's widely regarded as a dream come true for aspirants, but the reality is pretty much just indentured servitude where you aren't really allowed a life or sense of personhood outside of your job.

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The story behind this photo is that John Jurasek, (aka Reviewbrah), a YouTube food reviewer known for dressing in formal attire, was reviewing Red Bull's summer Kiwi Twist flavor, when his cat, Willie, jumped up and confidently laid down in front of him.