Kheru posts random Things

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

i think everyone needs to see this

Checking out the state of duolingo as I do sometimes. The optional end of chapter tests have words in them that weren’t covered in the lessons for some reason.

like whoopie goldberg said I don’t want somebody in my house

we are NOT bringing 4chan incel terminology to this site, take that "foid" out of your post and go wash your blog out with soap

one of my favorite lines from harrow the ninth is “love is a revenant” which comes from ianthe tridentarius of all people, who only TWO PAGES earlier also says “your fist is so big and my butthole is so small”

looking at pictures of rare animals not native to the region you live in really reminds you the world is vast and cool and there is a lot to love

elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews

if you adopt two dogs who are littermates, they will team up on you to undermine your authority. if you adopt two cats that are littermates, they will constantly try to narc on each other to you

For nearly five hundred years, my people, Black people, have been abused and tortured and treated like less than animals, and still we cry. We make room for grief, we make space for it because if we do not cry, if we don't moan with the sorrow of it, it will literally kill us. And I'm sure other people of color know this, that bottling it up and ignoring it, is not a solution. You have to feel it. The shame of being associated with such an evil, imperialist empire; the guilt of our relative comfort in america being financed by the extraction of labor in the global south; the horror, the helplessness, the overwhelming grief that comes from seeing countless dead men, women and children, people who look like your family destroyed by the american empire. There's no way around it. The only way out is through, and you're gonna have to break down to build it back up.