Sam's Dribble Drabbles

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

think of a caracter with the same beginning letter as the beginning of ur account name

me first

nancy (from fancy nancy)

@da-police-offical @paranoia-offical @evilpineapple-offical @illegaldoctor--offical @isopod-offical @purple-morphsuit-guy-offical @supervillain-offical @sketchy-doctor-offical @somebody-offical @bill-cipher-offical @mabel-pines-offical @laciffo-natas @mean-girl-offical i think this is everyone i know

Free tags plus tagging these people!

William Murderface. I genuinely don't know how I feel about him, tbh.

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HER. LYDIA DEETZ. I like the cartoon version of her more tho. Her relationship is BJ is less.. weird there.

@rayyanishere1

@left-lateral-incisor

@greenbunny7

@chaseerr0rcode

@cameforstuff

@tinfoil-jones

@consumerofshorthomies

@willapines618thesecond

@tigersharktheautisticseawing

@nico-the-overlord

@lunathetunaaa

@car9723-t

@hellohellohellohellohello3579

WILLIM AFTON

hehe

PIERS PIERS PIERS PIERS !!!!!

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he's such a creature

uhhh

@anyablossom @fullmentalcritter @funk32517 @anglptera @t0nn1x @cartoonboingsfx

Yea I dunno that was the first thought so.

um um steve probably doesn't count and the only character coming to mind is simon lewis so i will say him

LUTE!!! Lute my queen from Hazbin Hotel 🖤🖤🖤

Gravity is the best song from S2 and I will die on that hill

Realized I’d never drawn him solo as a human… how dare I?😆❤️

I post on Reddit. “AI slop,” they comment. “and if it isn’t, it’s bad, mediocre writing.”

“No, I am not a bad writer.” I have the audacity to say. “Writing is part of what I do professionally. I get paid to do this.”

Someone else posts on Reddit. A chat from Bumble, where a man has the gall to use the unnatural em-dash. “No one uses the em-dash,” they say. It’s a trope at this point, I know. “The hypen is much more common. I don’t know where to even find the em-dash. Plus, he said you were “elite”. No one would say that.”

“The hypen isn’t grammatically correct.” I tell them, looking over the chat log. It’s a real person on the other side, their personality obfuscated by the nerves that come with reaching out on a dating app. There’s subtle humor, missing punctuation. Still, 100 people condemn it as AI. It’s more feasible to them that someone would edit those human elements back in manually than type it themselves.

I post on Reddit. I tell them my writing keeps being called AI slop. They say it is, it is. Use fewer periods. Capitalize less. Ignore the rules. A real person wouldn’t write like that. A real person wouldn’t use those words, or say it like that. I’m a real person. I can’t prove it to them.

Someone, finally, says that the tone of my post matches how some books are written. That maybe it would be good for those who doubt that the writing is man-made to read more man-made books.

“You think we don’t read?” They ask. Then something more incendiary: “You think you’re better than us?”

And, hey? Bad news, babes. This isn’t hyperbole. This is all real shit that has happened in the last week.

I know. I know it's a beautiful ending and the writer in me sees the greater message and the beauty of that ending and the new beginning.

Crowley.

Crowley.

Crowley.