It's Magic, Duuude. 집.

there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments

Marriage license is so funny like hell yeah I have permission to drive this thang (husbamd)

i do think people need to be like, more aware of the distinction between "there are no women in this story because the author is sexist" and "there are no women in this story because the author is saying something about the absence of women"

in the movie The Thing (1982), a film about an isolated all-male group wherein they are the only people they have contact with and yet are so resistant to homosocial contact that they are unable to tell the difference between their friend and an alien that has replaced them, what could it mean that the only "woman" in the movie is a computer that the main character destroys in the first act after he can't beat it?

Alien pulling your sleeve to get your attention: and who is this Cunt you all serve

its easy to be cynical about the future but on the bright side at least more people keep giant skeleton statues in their yards now moreso than ever before

I like it when they somehow repurpose them as Christmas decorations.

oh also a girl in my class found out that I illustrate, and asked if she could commission me for a pet portrait. so I said "sorry, I don't do commissions, but I can give you a free ink sketch." and then the next class I showed up with the sketch and she said "I love this. so why don't you do commissions? I can't commission you?" and I said sorry, just a bit busy. and then she went to grab something from her bag and gave it to me and said "here is a crystal charged under the full moon," and I didn't know what to say so I was just like "oh, okay thanks. thank you."

it's so hard to gaf about anyone romantically. truly what if you get home from work tired and there's someone inside your house. i feel like id get mad sometimes and it'd not be their fault. anyways im going to start a new book

white boy goes to Jupiter and shocks waiters by ordering in perfect Stupider

We were all told as kids, "don't use Wikipedia as a source." But for the love of god, please support wikipedia. It provides so much free knowledge to the public. It is a public resource. I've seen how fast y'all will fund AO3. Do the same for Wikipedia.

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

whenever i eat a fruit salad it makes me feel like im someone's pet lizard and its my birthday