here i am

Looking back on it the funniest part of the super bowl is that everyone was so busy being racist that they failed to notice that not a single performer was straight with the exception of Bad Bunny who’s already gone on record basically saying “I’m straight at the moment but things change idk ask me again tomorrow”

this is a quick appreciation post for my mutuals who have my actual real life address and have never sent a hitman to my door to assassinate me you all are real ones

there's always a concern about learning to speak naturally and conversationally in one's target language and avoiding sounding bookish and literary because it may come off as stilted because nobody talks like that in real life . which makes sense . but also i do regularly say shit like "so unto thee i turn my ire , pointed sharp like a lance" and "vitriol begets vitriol when will you learn" in english so well , maybe not too out of place i talk like that in tagalog too ,

The Wheelchair Fallacy: when someone understandably upset about being persecuted tries to get across that they are upset about being persecuted by saying "you wouldn't say this about [other marginalised group], would you?" when people very much do say that about the other marginalised group. for example: stop saying rude things to cane users; you wouldn't say [rude thing people regularly say to both cane and wheelchair users] to wheelchair users, would you?

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

Mulder's got a point

knew this woman who used to be a gay man and when he was a gay man he liked ‘ironically’ referring to himself as she/her and so when he came out as a woman he decided the next logical step was to also switch his pronouns to he/him.

okay so we all understand that sexual attraction doesn't always lead to sex. are we ready to consider that romantic attraction doesn't always lead to romance.

and i dont mean this in a "its for your own good we dont date" way, or a "they got turned down and are still friends" way, i mean it in a "there is romantic attraction present but the one experiencing it doesnt want to do anything with it" way. am i making sense. are you hearing the words im saying. it wont fucking kill you if you dont act on it. like obviously you should probably communicate it someday but you dont have to let it dictate you or consume you. its just a feeling.

Can I add that you don’t have to communicate it? If you need to personally, then by all means. But it’s also okay to just feel it as long as you feel it and then let it pass. Attraction comes in many flavors and sometimes it’s just something to feel inside yourself and that’s okay.

My favorite human ritual is the unspoken rule that if you enjoyed a concert, you must clap without stopping at the end (if you were seated, you may rise to express further respect). The musician will bow, then exit the stage, but you must keep clapping. The musician must return and act surprised, bow again, then exit once more, and you continue to clap. Then, the musician will return and play one or two extra numbers (you stop clapping during the music) and at the end after they leave for the last time, you can clap as long as you wish but the musician will not return. It’s just such a cute song and dance. I've been to shows where the musician expects it (to the point that i could see their timer backstage that indicated how much time they had left for the show and they bowed for the first time with 20 minutes to spare) so they just go through the motion of pretending to end the show but the extra number is completely planned and we all expect it. Everyone in the audience is in on it but we all just do it anyway because it’s like a conversation were the audience and the musician are saying Thank You to each other over and over. Makes me feel some type of way

thank you so much adblockers. thank you. I love you. thank you so much

i like how the mature content label is just completely fucking useless now

Sharing wired earphone is a lost art.

pistachios are a classic "two bowls" kind of snack

cherries. edamame. peanuts. What's snacktime without a tasty lil sorting project?

When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.