Subspace Jet Witch

@demilypyro I'm pretty sure you're an anti-monarchist, but still...

I am as much horrified as I am astounded by the general inability of Americans to correctly recognise and identify what socialism actually is

i'm gonna be honest with you all i straight-up did not notice that the E in this picture was fucked up. i don't know what's going on here and i'm scared

Honestly, there is no redemption in ever attempting to take these people on good faith. Like - there's no advice - y'all are just killing us over your sense of comfort and that is why your souls and the Earth itself are rotting alive. Melodramatic? If you respected trans women, it would be safe to be one, and therefore we would deconstruct masculinity, which is the source of the oligarchy destroying the lives of every human being on the planet. The sick joke is that the very women you see as so casually disposable are the very balance upon which this fragile blue marble lilts and tips ever so slightly towards a boiled hell.

I love kill la kill. I love how seriously it takes itself. I love that it is the most unserious show I've ever seen. I love how it somehow tricks you into getting deeply invested in a genuinely philosophical battle against the very concept of clothing. I love that it does this by showing you big titty anime girl fights with animation that rivals every other show I've ever seen. I love the lesbians. I love how it fails in its concept at times, and I love how much it succeeds. I love every dumb plot twist. I love that the villains genuinely do fucked up, unforgivable shit. I love the commentary on the nature of fascism and its relation to fashion. I love every dumb joke. I love how they made an 8 foot tall muscle man who's obsessed with discipline and school regulations and then made him a giant fucking masochist with a pain kink. I love that they made that one guys nipples glow pink for literally no reason. I love the insightful commentary on the social construct of nudity and what being naked really means, and how our bodies are morally neutral. I love the dick jokes. I fucking love this show.

The fact that the two words sound similar (in English) is a complete coincidence, but fascist movements and luxury fashion brands have always been cozy with each other, right from the very beginning. For probably the most explicit examples, just look at Hugo Boss designing uniforms for the SS, or Coco Chanel retaining her social status as cultural royalty in WW2 France by spying for the Nazi occupiers

Can confirm to European mutuals this is an actual ad campaign Aldi’s pushing here in the States. Wonder how Lidl here will respond.

Can now confirm that I’m getting these Aldi cowboy ads more frequently now & there’s more than just two commercials

being sexually active as a socially awkward transfem basically means accepting everyone around you is having sex without you all the time but if you develop a kink for that its fine

@kyriathanatos

why did nobody expect me to be good at slay the spire

ive always found the way people think "you know the amount that you hate yourself creates problems for the people around you" to be useful advice to be so funny (infuriating). Oh no there is a fire I will put it out with my dry grass and small sticks and if that does not work I will simply douse it with gasoline.

lowkey i think people who say they love themselves to be even more infuriating. Like, what? You're saying that self-reflection is for the weak?

hate corporations more

I feel like every time this topic comes up people just don't understand that Kill la Kill is not just some "problematic fave" to me. it's not me excusing something obviously offensive just because I like it, or something. that is something I do; that's Danganronpa. but I've never pretended Danganronpa is good, and this isn't Danganronpa. Danganronpa is NOT as smart as Kill la Kill, or as full of meaning as Kill la Kill. and my enjoyment of Kill la Kill isn't motivated by nostalgia or whatever. I have no issue criticizing my darlings, there's plenty of stuff I used to like that I don't anymore because I went back and found it distasteful. hell, I'm pretty critical of the politics of the Mass Effect franchise these days and people know I used to be like a superfan of that series. but when I went back and rewatched Kill la Kill with a critical eye, I only liked it *more.* I genuinely just think Kill la Kill is a good, feminist, antifascist work. I think if you really look past its surface, if you're able not to flinch from your discomfort, there's just a lot of rich nuance and meaning to be found. I don't just excuse Kill la Kill, I *champion* it. and people just don't want to accept this.

I think it's a little unfair that British food gets so much shit for being bad because it distracts from other countries that have similarly bad if not worse cuisine. No one ever talks about Dutch food but I'd argue it deserves similar amounts of mockery

Also a lot of the Nordic countries because apparently Lutheranism and Calvinism make you bad at cooking

being raised as a straight guy and then transitioning to a lesbian woman has given me a morbid fascination with certain flavors of romance media that are mainly targeted to straight women both because this type of content is something I never engaged with until very recently and because the genre expectations feel patently insane from the outside looking in. a lot of the male main characters in m/f romance, specifically romance novels, Wattpad fic, and Webtoons, are just straight up abusers. they're controlling, manipulative, violent, and sexually assault the female lead in many cases. "Dark Romance" is a massive trend on TikTok and the whole conceit of that genre is women falling in love with stalkers, bullies, serial killers, and on at least one occasion their own family members. If you already engage with this type of media none of this is surprising to you but for me it was genuinely crazymaking. people talk so much about the accessibility of internet porn damaging young men but the average dude's porn tastes consist mostly straightforward sucking and fucking with perhaps a little choking here and there - meanwhile the booktok girlies are reading shit that makes the average Brazzers scene look like a convent. I grew up being told that Twilight is a negative influence on young girls because Edward Cullen stalks Bella in the first book. Edward Cullen is TAME by the standards of m/f romance. Edward Cullen is the blunt end of a stick that the average romance reader will beg and plead for the sharp end of. learning about trends in m/f romance makes me feel like I'm hearing my coworker complain about her lazy good-for-nothing husband who won't change a diaper or cook dinner and when I suggest she divorce him she acts like I'M the crazy one in this situation. Like I'm into BDSM so psychologically I can understand the appeal of this stuff but even WITH that knowledge it's shocking like what are we doing to our beautiful queens????

Sometimes you get a brief glimpse into the American worldview and decide that you don't want to know.

I cannot stress enough that this meme is entirely literal. there's no reference or subtext you don't know. these are simply the objectively most popular works of art from each denomination.

Not to mention how, as someone from the Nordics, arguably the most protestant region on the planet, it's pretty insulting to learn OP genuinely believes nothing we've made has been of more significance than some kids cartoon none of us have ever heard of