high king of all the worlds

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

No, please, self-labelled "leftie" who thinks the political spectrum is explicable in terms of physical differences in brain structure, explain to me what's wrong with anime. I'm keen to learn.

You've never met a person who immediately starts cracking inbreeding jokes every time the topic of political conservatism comes up?

the thing about communism is that no one ever made a convincing argument against it that wasn’t “i would die instantly due to no longer being allowed to hoard resources.”

cant do the mutual first memory rb game because i genuinely cant remember anything. i dont know you were all my mutuals at birth. we were joined by the stars and by blogging

m,y first memory is that I Loved You and do still

Once you've learned the spot the historical signposts, it's interesting how many "generically medieval" fantasy settings manage to miss the actual medieval period on both ends. They've got the Roman Empire rubbing shoulders with the German Renaissance, skipping directly from the year 500 to the year 1500 with nothing in between!

(The one consistent exception is, of course, the obligatory Vikings-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off culture, who legitimately are medieval, but nobody they interact with is, so you've effectively got Vikings with time-travelling boats raiding both Roman-occupied England and Renaissance Italy.)

i think "feminine men" have enough fucking people all over the world encouraging them to not fucking transition, you really don't have to go to bat for that. and if you're fucking transgender yourself? what fucking message does that send? "oh you're not one of us you don't have to be one of us (please don't be one of us)" lazerbeam directed exclusively at transfems, go fuck yourself

No you see we're changing psychiatry from the inside. we're queering it. more neurodivergent people are working in it now. we've changed Stockholm syndrome to Stockholm personality disorder and it's when you don't trust cops. it gets you locked up forever.

living in your parents house as an adult is a humiliation ritual why am i in the group chat at 23 years old going “I HATE MY DAD”