Baby Slut Riker

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

My tepid take of the day is that people's inability to distinguish run-on sentences from long and complex sentences is a sign of anti-intellectualism.

A run-on sentence is a sentence that is grammatically wrong, in most cases because two clauses have been incorrectly connected. Basically anyone who reads a lot of amateur fiction or pro fiction with low editing standards will have seen these before and they are often immediately apparent since they just sound very off. 'Susie saw the house it was pretty' is a run-on sentence despite being very short. It's grammatically wrong despite being short. These sentences are also often wrong because they connect unrelated pieces of information inappropriately together, which is confusing or unclear, whereas a sentence simply being long is not.

And the reason I think this is anti-intellectualism instead of just kind of annoying is because people keep criticising perfectly legible texts as 'confusing' and 'full of run-on sentences' while I am constantly bombarded with weird slop that is somehow both grammatically frequently wrong and grammatically deeply simplistic in an unpleasant and confusing manner.

like if the milk MUST be in a bag for whatever reason, at least put a spigot on it like a bag of wine or those emergency water bags

We really had it right in the 40s with the milk man stuff

AND you could fuck the milk man!!!

As an aro who has been abused by those who loved me, I want to see more love as horror. Love as suffocation. Love as violence. I don’t want to hear “if they really loved you they wouldn’t have—” as if love is some pure force, some inherent good. Show me love that is evil. Love that is haunting. Love that is poison dressed up as a cure.

i have a friend in his 50s who doesn't give a fuck about pokemon so we showed him random ones and the way he responded to them made me feel like i was doing flashcards with a very serious baby

ik this is supposed to be Sinister Evil Plotting volo but rly this is just how every minimum wage worker looks at you when their job sucks.

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

ponzu sauce s-tier sauce virtually unknown in the west

Got any food recs to pair with ponzu?

Reblogging in honor of the first day of baseball season.

my humours have balanced. I have become mentally normal again