Manestream Things

At least they get to choose the job instead of being forced to work in a factory under threat of death

You think people get to choose their jobs under capitalism? Lmaoooo. Tell that to the people making minimum wage at Wal-Mart so they don't starve to death.

They choose to work that minimum wage job instead of working in a field that pays more.

Oh fuck it’s been that easy the whole time???? I’m choosing to be the CEO of Amazon sorry Jeff get the fuck out of my new office

Fuck capitalism

Can I take a second to address something? “At least they get to choose the job instead of being forced to work in a factory under threat of death” What the hell does that mean? No, really, what does that even mean? Are you suggesting that jobs are inherently better if you chose to work them? That, by virtue of having made the choice to work it yourself, it is automatically less arduous or draining?  AAAHAHAHAHAHA You precious little lamb. Never change. Discounting the few exceptions of people who genuinely enjoy their job for the task that it is, jobs SUCK. They suck if you chose them, and they suck if they choose you. Depending upon the perspective you decide to have, one could even argue that people having their jobs chosen for them will give them someone to despise and blame any misfortunes on. If you actively “pick” a job and then find out said job actually blows baby chunks, that’s pretty much on you for picking it.  But enough about hypotheticals. How about an objectively “glass half full” take on the concept of having a job chosen for you. At the very least, you’ll never have to worry about where your next mortgage payment will come from. Your next car payment, your next utility bill, your next trunk-full of groceries. You’re GUARANTEED a job; a PAYING job. Ideally with at least a bare minimum of safety and considerations for the human element. The government isn’t going to force you to do a job that’s likely going to kill you anyway. They’d quickly lose all of their citizens! And that’s if NO ONE incites a full-blown revolution/coup through it all.  This is all, of course, a bit fantastical in comparison to reality, but it shouldn’t be far off from the truth either. It is BAFFLING how intelligent most people consider themselves to be while simultaneously putting zero thought into the hypotheticals of the policies they oppose. I’m a fucking idiot and I managed to produce a sound argument for something I’m not even invested in. “I don’t want to do something if it’s something the government tells me to do!” You obey the fucking laws, don’t you? There you go, actually! Imagine that! A law which mandates that everyone of legal age must be given a job! There’d be no homelessness, no shortage of staffing so your prissy little pussy-ass doesn’t have to wait so long in line at the Wal-Mart, everyone would be a productive member of society, drugs might not be so much of a problem, maybe the poverty line would even diminish some! Wouldn’t that be the fucking tits? But no, the moment your norm gets challenged, you immediately scream and piss AALLL over it. You want to know why? Because, for a lot of people, we all want our kids to have it better than we did, but ONLY if they suffer like you suffered too! Fuck you, you backwards-ass hypocritical waste of perfectly good oxygen. I don’t NEED to walk over the damn coals just because you justified your suffering by making it out to be some kind of rite of passage.  “But that’s not FAAIIIIR! I had to do it like that!!” Well, I’m sorry that you’re such a fuck-wit that you didn’t stop to question the WHY. And, granted, maybe there just wasn’t a better way at the time. But there is now, and I will feel exactly zero shame in taking advantage of opportunities that are possible now and weren’t back in your day. It’s called moving forward. This is what “wanting more for my kid” looks like; genuinely! If you got a problem with that, then you’re just parroting the same bullshit cop-out your parents threw out like table scraps to escape any sense of shame for not having done what they could to actually make good on that promise.  Screaming into a mostly empty box here, but fuck me is this irritating...

Extremely City white people are so fucking weird they see a pic of a deer and theyre like “its an Old God, tell me the wisdom of the trees Forest Lord … wow this is just like game of thrones” its a deer. Its a fucking stupid idiot animal it doesnt know shit

Yes deer are dumb panicky dinguses in real life, but sometimes a picture will capture one looking all majestic and we just… want to believe…

who says the old gods aren’t stupid animals who are so hormonally addled they’d try to fight a tree

@librariansheart for your enjoyment

@thegreenchapel

THERE’S NO MUSIC ON THIS I FEEL CHEATED

Aye, but artwork of all kinds has always influenced reality. If you think writing and reality are mutually exclusive, explain the presence of great works. Just in the same way that Hollywood has led so many to believe that automobiles will explode like five pounds of C4, writing will always have the inherent ability to “normalize” something. Most people take things at face value when consuming their entertainment.  By all means, write dark content. I am a huge fan of stories that exist in and explore grey morals. But! I would personally advise that you be careful in how you execute and portray a concept. Having a plot that, for example, focuses on Stockholm Syndrome is totally fine. Just don’t give it a good outcome. Good outcomes to objectively dark acts is just the same as saying that the act is acceptable and positive.  Understand that people will romanticize whatever they want, and will believe whatever to be normal if it suits their fancy or goes uncontested. Contest it... with consequences. Consequences are the in-story method of telling the reader that the cause of the effect was bad. That’s all that is important. If it goes over the reader’s head even after that, it’s their own damn fault.

The first funny bitch was Cain, who straight up lied to God after killing his brother.

He killed his yonger brother in cold blood because he was jealous of him. There is in no way anything funny about this. No hesitation just poped a rock over his turned head, droped his body over the edged and tried to lie to god about what he did. FUCK YALL CRAZIES!!!

oh are those the receipts, Cain is problematic now?

Cainceled 

Isn’t it funny how self-proclaimed god-fearing people get all uppity about taking the bible seriously, but so few of them will lift a damn finger against the blatant killing and general oppression a large portion of the police have done? I can’t be the only one who immediately saw parallels between the story of Cain and Abel, and the outright brutal shit that’s happened this year. Jealousy or no, cold-blooded murder is cold-blooded fucking murder. It shouldn’t need to be spelled out to anyone. Yeah, it’s shitting on the joke a little, but man, fuck 2020.

When Adam bit the apple he did it because he trusted Eve. Because he loved her. Adam bit into the apple because the woman he loved told him to, no matter what God said. No matter the rules of heaven. What’s heaven to a woman’s love anyway? What’s God to your wife? The first sins of humanity, were trusting others. Eve trusted a snake, Adam trusted Eve, and I trust you. Maybe that’s a sin, just like the first couple. Maybe everyone’s right about us and we’re sinners and we offend God. But like I said, what’s God to a woman’s love anyway? What has heaven got that I can’t find sitting next to you on a cool autumn morning?

I understand and appreciate what you’re going for here... but this is not the best example of your message. In the narrative of Adam and Eve, and their expulsion from Eden, Adam was present with Eve when the snake encouraged her to take the fruit. I would therefore propose that Adam ate the fruit Eve gave him for the same reason Eve took the fruit to begin with; the snake assured them that God would not kill them and that they would become closer to God with the knowledge they would gain from the fruit. Even if Adam did it simply because Eve told him to out of supposed trust, it is little more than blind faith. I am reminded of the saying, “If someone jumps off a cliff(presumably without safety), are you going to follow them?” God’s punishment for the three in the narrative was less about the fact that they disobeyed his rule and more about the fact that they refused to take responsibility for the fact that they did disobey him, regardless of their intentions. There’s also the moment before that in which Adam tries to act like he hadn’t done something wrong, and then subsequently tries the bullshit excuse that it was God’s fault Adam broke the rule because God made Eve, who gave him the fruit.  What is God in comparison to your SO? Two fundamentally different things. Your SO(hopefully) gives you a kind of love in which God would not, and may bear children whom(also hopefully) would give you another type of love God would not. Optimally, some things are discovered and learned along the way. God, however, is meant to be the arbiter of heaven; a place any self-described “good” person would want to go to rather than hell. There’s a lot of nuance to be found here in reality but, ideally, it should be considered that an SO is temporary and heaven/hell is generally accepted to be forever after. Your SO could be completely subservient, meet or exceed every expectation, and give the best blowies in the world; I don’t know that it is logical(even by the unconventional dictations of love) to pick an ever after of endless torture for love. If being with your love is cause for eternal damnation, you either need a new god or you need to seriously take a step back and evaluate exactly why the punishment would be warranted. And you probably need to stop taking relationship advise from movies. According to the narrative of Adam and Eve, the first sins of humanity were lying and shifting blame. Adam’s decision to blindly trust both Eve and the snake were the first poor decisions of humanity. To trust is not a sin; lying is. He should have asked God why the fruit was forbidden so that he could fundamentally understand the reason for the prohibition, thus becoming better equipped to either reject the offered fruit or at least make an informed decision. God shouldn’t have needed to be asked such a question to give his reason, whatever the reason may have been. There was a lot of failures on all fronts there, those are just the most immediate to come to mind. I could not rightly tell you what heaven has as perks which can be compared to the love and presence of an SO. I could tell you that they are two fundamentally different goals, and it is not impossible to have both. In fact, ideally, one should have both. Were one to not have good-aligned virtues while having an SO, something needs to change and it’s certainly not God’s responsibility when it’s not hard to understand why something is good or bad. There are a lot of shades of grey, yes. So long as your intentions are good, AND you are prepared to accept the responsibilities of any ill effects and repercussions your chosen path may lead you to, God should not find you wanting.  OP’s moral is a simple one to understand and doesn’t need an analogous narrative tacked onto it. Anyone can love anyone, but that is not the world we live in currently. Our world is dark and grim and strange, as reality often is. When you find love - honest, healthy love - you should not forsake it or take it for granted. Love is a privilege of, as I’m sure many would agree, the highest order. If it is good and balanced, pure and unconditional, and God were to say that it is wrong and offensive, then God needs to shut the fuck up and mind his own business. Assuming that God is righteous, good, and just, however, were he so inclined to speak up against it, it may be worth the time and effort to step back and evaluate why. Hell, ASK why. A situation such as this often needs the consideration of an outside opinion, one of which God should be able to provide in detail. 

You know, agreed. I can get that. When the relationship started to form between Starlight and Trixie, I knew it was bad but I also kind of felt like they deserved each other. Neither of them are good friends to have, and I certainly wouldn’t give them the time of day despite whatever good they managed to achieve.  HOWEVER. Road to Friendship really changed my stance of “they’re two assholes that deserve each other.” One could have expected that behavior from a self-centered Trixie(and I REALLY wish they would have capitalized on the personality type and how to properly handle prodding it over to something less self-centered). Starlight had no excuse for pawning off Trixie’s worldly possessions and then retain the audacity to act like it was a fucking favor. She knew better. No “should have known better”, she fucking knew better. With a father like hers’, Starlight should have known a thing or two about having elements of her life controlled. After having handled a stressed familial bond between Celestia and Luna, she should have had some decent knowledge on how to better handle an antagonistic, salty girlfriend.  KNOWING how cramped and minimalist in design Trixie’s wagon is, common sense should have kicked in at least a little bit, and it wouldn’t have taken much problem-solving at all to go look the thing up and down and say, “Hey, there’s definitely not enough space in here for both of us to be comfortable. But your roof is almost completely flat! A nice chest with a good-quality lock would fit up there perfectly as a temporary fix for an issue that won’t last longer than a week, and all it would need is a little bit of shimming. Maybe I could even see if Applejack has the time to build and mount a nice little storage platform up there for one such chest. How does that sound?” In five seconds of casual thinking, she could have solved half of their problems before they could even become problems! I never thought it would have happened, but I actually felt bad for Trixie. Really bad.  To possess the particular brand of spite required to sell off someone else’s shit without their knowledge or consent just because they are infuriating at times... is disgusting. It was an atrocious “fuck you, got mine” act of such an uncaring degree that I feel like Starlight got let off the hook far, far, FAR sooner and easier than anyone ever should have, let alone Fascist Pony Karen. It shouldn’t have gone that far. Period. If the team behind the show(specifically those behind Starlight Glimmer) wanted people to like and forgive Starlight, they really shouldn’t have made the crap that she pulled so damned egregious. She shouldn’t have taken literally every reaction to anything instantly up to 11. She has no concept of a measured response, despite plenty of interpersonal lessons holding measured responses as a key pillar of virtue. Jfc. Get me off the Glimmer Express.

normalize not having sex until you feel comfortable :) normalize not having sex until you meet the right person :) no matter your age! :) i mean it! in your teens! your 20s! your 30s! :) also normalize these things without automatically tying them to some kind of religious or abstinence-based reasoning :) 

Sex is important. Sex is fun, and relaxing. Sex is NOT something you should be prioritizing to an extent of which it becomes a major deciding factor of your personal life.  Anyone can be good at the sex. Not anyone can healthily share a house with you. Related pro tip: Know someone you really want to pursue a relationship with? Masturbate. If those feelings go away for a while when you’re done, you were just horny. 

favorite part of the witcher is seeing all these self-identified heterosexual men on twitter thirsting over henry cavill.  put henry cavill in tight leather pants and suddenly a lot of men are learning something about themselves

I’m honestly not even surprised by this revelation

I remember this other thread where someone described him as “whatever the opposite of ‘he cleans up well’ is”.

He scruffs up nicely!

He scruffs up nicely

Geralt is the mythical 10 of men. He is an unapologetic jaded asshole with the moral compass of a decent human being. There is nothing better.

It’s called a queerplatonic partner.

Oh you mean like having friends?

No that’s something different. I am firm on the idea of a platonic date. Friends is just people you don’t hate as much. Platonic peeps are actually people you care about.

These people have never had any friends ever

Or maybe… y'all hate aromantic people having their own terms

This mocking. Mocking is joking around. This is blatantly making fun of, and trying to erase the terms aro people have made for themselves.

“I know you don’t agree with the buzzword I already used, but what if I tried…MORE buzzwords?”

From a traditional standpoint, this is idiocy on so many levels. Thinking about it a little bit deeper, is it any fucking wonder that people are confused on what a friend actually is? Every social platform ever lets you make “friends” by the drove at the press of a button, and hundreds of these “friends” are people they will never talk to. In that context, yeah, I can see people misconstruing friends as “people I hate a little less than most”. Maybe I’m thinking a little too deeply on it, or maybe not deep enough. I dunno. Sounds like a pretty good assessment to me, though.

This is to damn adorable not to reblog! <3 <3 <3

tfw your teasing becomes hopelessly invalidated when the though of the subject alone makes the other person swoon. XD

YAS!

Helpful to know,I can’t focus worth a damn right now @u@

I mean, if I could throw in my hat for a second, Yes, Cozy Glow should have been handled entirely differently because she’s a child. No, she does not have complete understanding of what she’s actually doing. She’s 8. She’s still getting a grasp on what consequences are, much less the grey areas of concepts and ideology. Her grasp on the gravity of her actions are functionally zero. She may understand that it’s bad, and she may understand that her actions would call for reactions she would find undesirable, but that’s only the tip of the ice berg. She doesn’t understand why it’s bad beyond the obvious and immediate “whining” of everyone else around her. A child literally cannot imagine, fathom, nor understand that the level of aggression she practices on others is damaging and even traumatizing. With any luck, she doesn’t even know what trauma is like to experience. There’s a reason bullying is so damn hard to battle. Kids are still intellectually handicapped because their brain hasn’t developed the processing centers which handles these things in a fully developed brain. But, forgiving all of that for a moment because it’s a cartoon and not a human being. Giving this “lesson” as many breaks as one possibly could while still only just standing within the boundaries of the grey area right before the Horrendously Fucking Awful zone... where the hell are Cozy Glow’s parents/legal guardians? You know, those two(typically) individuals - usually married - who are legally obligated to and responsible(in every sense of the word) for the upbringing of their “I had sex” trophy. Ideally to teach them right and wrong, but at the very least provide them with food, shelter, and an acceptable minimum of living conditions. The ones who are supposed to enroll said child in school at a legally-agreed-upon age. A school that must be recognized by a school board as being adequate with competent staff prepared to teach the bare fucking minimum it takes to learn how to function within the world around them. Of which Twilight’s school was not, as it solely focused on learning how to interpersonal relationship better. Something that, applying human logic and understanding to it once more, a child her age could not possibly understand by the longest stretch of the imagination of the furthest-reaching parallel universe. Not even if her life depended upon it(you could say they got that part right at least, but just because they could do it doesn’t mean they should have) You’re objectively and utterly wrong, darkwee009; a child is entirely incapable of understanding the full scope of their actions in the immediate world around them. Cozy Glow literally and legally should not have been dealt such severe and absolute punishment when she can barely understand the crime beyond, “You’re just mad because I did it”. Her parents should have suffered that. Or, at the very least, gelded so they couldn’t screw up another developing child, and then placed on a publicly accessible list of people you should never trust your kid to be with unsupervised. You see, there’s this thing called a measured response, something that the show stopped referencing after about season 6. It’s a very self-evident concept for a fully developed brain, punishments should fit the crime. But! And follow me on this one, there’s nuance. An adult is perfectly capable of the rationale required to understand every facet of why stealing, say, a candy bar is not an ideal route. A child cannot understand most of those same facets. All they know is that candy bars are awesome and “that guy said money is optional” or “money is stupid because no one ever seems to have any of it.” And before you go, “Theft and killing are two completely different levels of crime,” let me drop a little nugget of information on ya. A nice little pearl you can rely upon for the rest of your life. Ready? You’ll want to write this down. CHILDREN DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT And if that’s the limp-handed argument you want to die defending, then you’re missing the point. The point is that children are physically incapable of understanding the full scope of their actions. They don’t know what nuance is, or a measured response, or priorities, things worth doing, things not worth doing - these aren’t things people are capable of learning until somewhere in their teens, much less actually ever learn them. Hell, pre-teens are still trying to wrap their damn head around the fact that the world is bigger than the city they live in. With their parents! Their legally responsible parents! Who fucking know better! Cozy Glow should’ve been taken to a team of doctors, therapists, and psychiatrists who could at least understand and attempt to unfuck that kid’s mind after her daddy left it behind in the greasy restaurant bathroom of a run-down city full of jaded assholes. Cozy doesn’t need a permanent jail cell, she needs fucking professional help, along with many of the other characters in the show.  I don’t know what happened after about season 5, but suddenly someone got a massive fucking erection for mentally damaged characters. It’s like the person writing pre-season 4 Fluttershy was told to leave buttershush alone, and their immediate response was that they’ll just make their own canon characters, but with blackjack and hookers. Chrysalis had a mental breakdown, Luna masochistically tortured herself every night, Pinkie Pie literally goes full-blown, near-suicidal depression on the lightest fucking critique of something she likes obnoxiously loudly and unendingly. Starlight, Tempest, Sunburst, the list goes on and on. It’s like someone saw that Lesson Zero was pretty entertaining and thought, “People must think crippling mental disorders and complete breakdowns are really fucking funny!”, bent it over, and rammed it right into goddamn eleven. That isn’t funny or interesting, it’s sad and depressing because someone thought that A) these were good aspects to center in a lesson, and B) that their target audience of children and maladjusted reprobates could understand that lesson even if it had been well-executed inside of 22 minutes(try not to get too worked-up by a hyperbole there, big guy). TL;DR: Fuck you, children are handled differently for scientifically explainable reasons. Your series finale bosses were miserable excuses for villains and no one felt good about what happened. If you think Cozy Glow “got more than she deserved”, don’t have kids, you’ll never handle them in any way remotely close to the realm of properly. @darkwee009 So you can’t use the “chicken shit” defense like it actually means anything more than what it is; a thought-terminating cliche. It’s not even a good one.

I was already aware of the trans reading of Matrix and all that, but the pill colors having REAL WORLD PARALLELS that reinforce that reading is completely new to me and absolutely blows my mind, holy shit.

No shit? Well, the level of inference on that one was god-tier subtle, I never saw it like that. And I doubt the majority of the viewership did.  Then again, those movies came out when I was about 10 years old... I might have to rewatch them now.

This is too good to not reblog XD