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Harley: Apparently I verbally abused some girls

Tony: Why!? What happened!

Harley: They realised I was gay and they were all like "oh my god you're gay? That's so cute! You can be my gay bestie! Slay queen!" So I may have told them to stop harassing me because I'm gay and that it's a hate crime and that I'm not their gay bestie because nobody fucking likes them anyway.

Tony: ...

Peter: It was bad

Harley: Yeah, well I wanted to say "shut the fuck up Amelia! I'm not your gay bestie! Don't fucking call me cute! We're not friends! And you look so much like a man that I'd probably fuck you if you were half decent looking!" But I didn't

Tony: Okay, now that seems a tad uncalled for

Harley: Okay, I'm sorry, that was too far. I just have a lot of pent up rage.

Peter: It's true, we played dodgeball and now the whole school is scared of him

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

I think it’s that in a world of glossy minimalism and status symbols, Tumblr has decided to sell whimsy.

The history of corporate propaganda.

'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.

Like, I was just thinking about my music and thinking "why is some music for parties and some isn't?" And like... Because nt parties are for dancing and awkward social interactions that nd people will never feel comfortable in. What if instead of converting the church gymnasium into a dumb dance floor with massive loudspeakers and the little punch bowl table on the side and only playing music that manages to be the worst of both PG-rated and Too Loud™ what if you just fill it with chairs and tables and lots of dumb activities and books and stim toys maybe and invite all your auties and ADHDers and OCDrs and every other kind of diverse neurotype and everyone would just vibe while you play relaxing and not-so-dancy, dumb-romancy music since most of them will not be dancing (not that nobody will dance, they can still do that if they want.)

Further, I think they had a good base to start his bicuriousity in season 4 (with mr. Munson) when Robin said “you date a bunch of girls but still have no idea what you’re looking for” and later when Dustin said “maybe if you spent less time looking for a girlfriend and more time looking for Eddie…”. The signs could’ve all been there for Steddie.

He could’ve had google eyes when he saw Eddie’s big hair and soft eyes. Instead they set him up to be with Nancy, which feels cheap to both their characters and frankly makes Steve look like he’s only into Nancy because he’s clearly desperate for a conventionally attractive girl.

Like, we see them trying to bond a few times, and they are STRUGGLING because they have absolutely no common interest. Whenever they talk, we get gems like Eddie quoting the lord of the rings or mentioning Ozzy to a very confused Steve. They both think that the other is cool but they can’t SAY IT because they basically speak two different languages. It’s a nerd/goth and jock/prep desperately attempting communication, it’s awkwardly wholesome in the best way.

But THEN as soon as it’s about DUSTIN, these two just fucking click and shift full soulmates mode. Dustin does something a little weird or vaguely annoying, and suddenly Steve and Eddie get possessed by an old married couple that has been together for 35 years but also divorced 7 times and keep getting back together to raise their son. Dustin will just breathe, and suddenly Steve "the king" Harrington and Eddie "the freak" Munson are fucking drift compatible out nowhere like "this kid needs to keep his ego in check" "IT’S HIS TONE RIGHT???" or "Henderson you are a butthead" "oh I conclure" or even "Henderson is not possessed is he?" "Oh no he is just deranged"