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Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

I beg of everyone to read the tags to this post, as they are all random and hilarious and read kind of like a poem, if the poem was written by someone who was on a lot of drugs.

we shouldn’t have let fanfiction become something everyone reads. like, you shouldn’t know what ao3 is unless you were deeply weird in middle school, okay? i don’t care if this is gatekeeping. some gates need to be kept, for my own sanity.

#i simultaneously profoundly believe that a) gatekeeping is bad#b) nothing is cringey#c) we made a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE mistake letting fandom become mainstream#fandom was so much better when it was a weird thing that you were vaguely ashamed of#fandom was better when you had to tentatively broach it with other ppl to figure out if they were horrid little weirdos too#those were better days#2012....I miss you so fuckin bad.......#ppl nowadays are just like asking public figures on twitter if they ship slash. how did it all go so horribly wrong#like when everyone was vaguely ashamed of all aspects of fandom i s2g it was way less common to be like#ohh you ship PROBLEMATIC THING?#back in my day....back in my DAY. All shipping was problematic. we were all equal sinners#and it was BETTER (@ace-trainer-risu)

are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.

what the fuck 😁

Yeah this is a thing

Are you serious

Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.

… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.

No they’re very real

Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada

It’s fun

Oh, it’s a blast.

Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???

So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?

that is exactly what we’re telling you

op here. holy shit dude

Don’t forget each one of these rotting corpses of a big box store also comes with a parking lot that takes up enough land to build an entire neighborhood which will sit there doing absolutely nothing for years between a store closing and the eventual day when the land is bought and the building is town down to build another identically awful one. The pavement stops water from entering the soil, making floods more likely during rainstorms and preventing aquifers from refilling. It also increases the ambient heat of the area and worsens global warming because it absorbs massive amounts of heat from the sun and then radiates it at night. For no reason. No one can use the parking lot because it’s private property owned by the real estate company and they’ll tow your car for being on their unused and unusable property. Useful land left completely ruined for a capitalist shell game. It’s a nightmare in every possible way.

My mind is blown that other countries don’t have this many empty stores. There are empty stores on practically every street of every city in America and I’m so accustomed to that I’m having difficulty comprehending how the alternative is even possible. You’re telling me there’s places where you DON”T automatically expect 90% of businesses to fail and close forever in their first four or five years????!!!

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in