...that joy might come at last...

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(Yes really "pimped out" is 37 years old I was surprised too)

(Actually a lot of this list surprised me)

(I'm as old as the Kuiper Belt)

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

well i added my contribution : )

The memes here come from the following chains, starting from the bottom right:

This current chain with 35 layers before this.

This chain with 27 layers. By @cerbi-my-babyyyyy

This other chain with 35 layers. By @gay-girl-thing

This particular chain with 28 layers. By @thewintercavalier

Another chain with 27 layers. By @be-gay-cause-crime

This particular chain with 29 layers. By @theforgowolf

Yet another chain with 27 layers. By @thefirstjackal

And this last chain with 29 layers, yet again. @memermemedout

“in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this”

Instead, the meme, itself, is steadily growing to be 20 pages long. And now, I’m reminded of something else. So I’m going to add another layer.

::ahem::

Anyway, with Samhain this week she’s getting super excited to have her first ever Silent Feast (or Dumb Supper) and asked me what food I’ll be putting out for my ancestors and I just started laughing. Like bestie, you just saw the mess I went through living with my parents for the last two months. I’m not laying out food for the people who raised them.

She paused for a moment then went, “yeah, no, I see where you’re coming from….”

Me: the great time honored tradition of laying in bed and watching the Addams Family with my dog.

So please go get some lettuce or spinach or spring mix, because I made sure the packaging was cut perfectly just for you, and getting good nutritious food helps a lot when you don't feel like yourself.

And while you're at it, know this:

I'm not just being cutesy when I say that. I've seen this post many times, and sometimes when I'm having a bad night at work and want to kick everything to the curb, I think "but I need to stay up for the scared people, I can't just leave them alone" and it helps.

A) you do end up getting things done anyway because yeah it hurts but also you gotta live your life and you can get used to almost anything

B) you can get used to almost anything so you actually often can get things done anyway. Maybe not as fast or as easily, maybe not the same number of things, but you can still do things.

C) people will try to give you medals for this and it's kinda annoying and flattering at the same time

D) unless they start giving themselves shit for not doing stuff at which point it's just frustrating because like. Sure yeah you don't have my excuse to procrastinate or whatever but also: life is hard on this planet for pretty much everyone just don't be an asshole to people trying their best and that includes yourself

E) everyone is trying their best. Always. If they look like they aren't then it's because you can't see what they're struggling with/where their blindspots are. (Note: some people's blindspots make them assholes. Their best in that case might be pretty shitty but that's an ideology thing not an effort thing).

F) but also that's also why lazy is a great word to edit out of everyone's vocabulary. Chances are the person is resting or saving their energy for something that they value more. If the latter is in conflict with what you need them to do, then the real argument is about their priorities, not their effort.

G) I have to remind myself of this too because if I'm too well rested I lowkey forget about being disabled but if I don't pace myself properly I remember Really Quickly.

The government doesn’t need a trial in order to get permission to punish Luigi Mangione for having committed a murder. They need a trial to determine if he committed a murder.

The reason that secret ICE deportations are so incredibly alarming is not that they didn’t get permission to deport people who were here illegally. It’s that they deported people without actually taking the legal steps needed to figure out if they were here illegally.

The problem with the summary executions happening in Gaza right now is not that Hamas didn’t get Israeli permission to execute guilty people. It’s that they did not hold trials at all, and therefore do not know whether those people are guilty of capital crimes.

These are just three examples, but the list goes on. You can’t prove guilt without facts, and you can’t determine facts without a fair and impartial fact finding process, ie. a trial.

Beyond the "this is an important term that people need to understand better" part, and the "everyone deserves equal protection under the law, and is innocent until proven guilty" part, there's another component that I think really matters.

But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job

But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.

G-d knows there have been far too many suffering and dead children in the past two years, starting with those slaughtered on Oct 7, and this ceasefire is a blessing for all the innocents who have been hurt. And G-d knows it's been heartbreaking and infuriating, how so many of our former allies have torn off their tolerant masks and shown the depths of their antisemitism and bigotry.

Guy died in captivity from wounds that were not treated. He was 26 when he died.

Assessments say Bipin was murdered by Hamas while in captivity. He was 23 when murdered.

Two other hostages have been identified, though their names are being kept private.

(His Honor Harrington and LOTR fics are also amazing, for the record - honestly those plus the AWAU are basically my top 4 fic universes ever - and I think that, like the AWAU, you can still enjoy them deeply even if you're not too familiar with the original works.)

Hope you're well!

Oh, I love Bracketyjack's work; I read even the fic in fandoms I don't know anything about!

Tobe and Ciri would also become the best of friends, as would Peachblossom, Hoshi, Alder, Roach, and New Roach.

Geralt would have zero compunction about scolding Mithros. Sakuyo would grin in delight at finding another sensible mortal.

Yen and Alanna would bond over being powerful mages who tease their leige lords relentlessly.

Jonathan would try to complain good-naturedly to Geralt about vassals who seem to enjoy annoying their lords by how often they end up rearranging their nation (to everyone's benefit bar slavers and bandits and monstrous men), side-eying Kel all the while. Geralt would "hm" at him.

Marlene would eye Yuki's pickles with cheerful greed.

Neal would quietly beg Jaskier for poetry lessons.

The trainees (especially any girls) would beg Kel for glaive lessons.

My first thought would be the traditional hairstyles of falleras in Valencia, Spain, though in that case the point seems to involve showing off just how MANY combs, pins, and clips you can get in on the action.

Speaking of hairpins, there are also the potential variety of 3,000-year-old Celtic pin styles to think about.

https://youtu.be/pv8m_cQscbQ?si=hYIm3OqHBKGzJuG6