Lasgalendil

girl help they're taking my fave's extremely thin veneer of swaggering overconfidence at face value

I am glad this has made the rounds. Some people feel a dense misunderstanding or misinterpretation concerning gentrification, and I think it helps to hear a description/explanation of what gentrification is from those who are both affected by it and educated by the culture from which it hails. I and many others enjoy some of the delights of gentrification while simultaneously having their livelihoods threatened by it. 

I’m getting really irritated with “people have always been people” type posts where 90% of examples come from ancient Rome or medieval Europe and use this to act like the way people act in Cultures That Trace Their Cultural Histories From Rome And Medieval Europe are universal. Doubly so when it’s exclusively about city life in these time periods and places. People were people even when they did Kula rings in 19th century Papua New Guinea and lived in Hohokam courtyard group settings in 10th century Arizona and herded cows in 11th century Zimbabwe and didn’t have pizza or newspapers or birth control or lewd graffiti. Why are your examples of the universality of humanity only interested in what people were doing in the Bronze/Iron Age Mediterranean and medieval Europe. Learn about the Mesoamerican ballgame and Brithawon’s shitty pots and the egalitarian infrastructure of the Indus Valley Civilization and the lovingly fired and kept children’s pottery in 15th century New Mexico and gambling games played in Nevada 12,000 years ago as a method of social levelling and all the wild stuff Shihuangdi did. And then learn about how they thought about things very differently than you do too, and that’s okay.

girl who’s never gonna get out of her hometown

bruce springsteen

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

Taylor Swift does this

no she doesn’t

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

his wisdom was "get the hell out of my field"