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people make jokes about how people who weren’t allowed to watch spongebob as a kid are always talking about how they weren’t allowed to watch spongebob but as one of the aforementioned people who wasn’t allowed to watch spongebob my insight on the matter is: you would not BELIEVE the amount of times spongebob comes up in normal adult conversations. i don’t often think about him of my own accord but people reference him and i have to say. what? and they say. it’s from spongebob?? and i say. oh i never watched spongebob. and they say why? and i say. i wasn’t allowed to. and then a few weeks later it happens again

There has never been a cruelty-free post

it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.

im the fakest idgafer youll ever meet. im so chalant. i care more than i can put into words

Everyone except me is wrong about The Character

And my beloved mutual who fills a sort of "scheming advisor" role in my opinions about The Character

hating the catcher in the rye is actually very understandable. nothing happens and it’s miserable and if the narrative voice annoys you you will not have any fun. but people who shit on it don’t say that they just make up a holden caulfield to get mad at

like first of all it's a book about sexual violence. so jot that down. but even on a level of text-not-subtext, holden caulfield calling other people phonies and fakes is not because he’s some hipster who thinks he’s the only #real person on earth it's because he’s a teenager who has learned from incredible trauma (the death of his eleven-year-old brother with cancer + implied CSA) that the world is often hard and cruel and nobody protects kids. and yet every adult around him and half his peers are pretending this isn’t true and spitting out empty platitudes and doing nothing to soften or reduce any of that cruelty. literally nobody is trying to make it easier or protect anyone, or at least if they're trying they're not succeeding. but when you are a teenager with no rights you can't call bullshit so he just has to nod and thank people for their meaningless cliches about life as they fail to do anything to make anything better for anyone. because being a teenager sucks and nobody cares what you think or how much it hurts! bitch! i’d be a judgy little dickhead too! i was!

"i get a little bit genghis khan" was such a strange and delightful thing to say in a pop song

no matter how bad things are going at least you aren't watching instagram reels right now

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

This reminds me of the blood river in Antarctica. For like a century scientists had no clue why this river looked like, acted like, and felt exactly like blood. Turns out it’s just really high in iron.

Blood Falls isn't just high in iron, it's the byproducts of extremophile bacteria that have been isolated under a glacier in a iron- and sulfur-rich anoxic brine for the past 5 million years.

i am just moved by everything now. i'm porous and everything gets inside me