Wolf of the Woods

Why do so many Japanese urban legends seem to involve a dialogue tree that you need to follow very carefully?

It's just the interactive element that seems characteristic. Like I hear a claim that, at some point, "everyone dreams of a village littered with blue corpses, and if they trip and fall then they will die in their sleep and become one of them" and ai just immediately know before I even check that, yes, this urban legend originated in Japan.

there was a post on here a year or two ago that was like "radfems think feminism is when women create a feedback loop to justify their harmful trauma responses" and I think about it every week. that one sentence helped me understand the abuse I suffered from my ex more than several dozen therapy sessions did. I hope whoever the op was is having a fantastic decade

guys you gotta stop thinking of women in their 30s as elderly it’s just misogyny

you also gotta stop thinking about actual elderly women as lesser human beings. Youth is not a measure of one’s worth.

My sister is doing pet play with women on roblox and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s probably a kink for the others involved

She’s in college, she isn’t like, a child

she looking for another dog?

NO

Hey is your sister single (obviously not counting her harem of dog girls)?

No she’s straight (but says she’d go gay for Taylor Swift) and has a boyfriend, sorry petplay girls

Volunteering to stand in as this person's sister during this time of need

I have a name

This post really makes you take a deep breath and ponder...

this will be 100k notes. I feel it.

Don’t sell yourself short just yet

never seen a notes total as a punchline before

Since I've gotten dozens of asks and comments about this, NO, my sister still hasn't seen this post, but she is gay now

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

Like there is a difference between "My trauma creates impulsive urges and has changed my instinctive reactions to be irrational, I need to relearn shit." vs "I'm traumatized so I Can't Help It and you're not allowed to expect better of me"

a lot of emphasis is put into when grace is and isn't physically touched in the movie (never being able to touch rocky except for That One Time then he's left with a scar forever, that long lingering shot of almost-touching through the mesh panel, stratt tapping his chair to get his attention instead of anywhere on his actual person, being taken down by a group of nameless stanger characters while being watched from afar by the two named characters with personalities he actually knows), but what I've seen get left out of discussions so far is that stratt is actually pretty touchy with him in the impromptu public speaking scene on the aircraft carrier. she puts a hand on his arm to stop him from backing out, moves it to his back to guide him to the room's focal point, and takes him by the hand and elbow to show him to his seat. and she's holding her signature Two Venti Coffees™️ at the time, so it's a little bit of an effort to keep a hand free for biologist wrangling. the blocking otherwise has her very deliberately not ever touching him (aforementioned chair tap and chase scenes, giving him things by tossing them instead of handing them over, physical barriers often being present between them when they talk), she's only ever hands-on just this one time in front of an audience.

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

I can help you with your math homework because the fantasy world's magic system was based on calculus and I was a gifted mage, stop nitpicking.

#this world's magic system is also based in calculus

The entire point of, OK, my phone really wants to call it Anastasia so I guess we’re doing that? The entire point of Anastasia (as administered by a board-certified Anastasiologist) during sugary. Sugary? Haven’t I suffered enough? The entire point of Anastasia during augury. Jesus Christ. Hold up. You know what, augury is preferable to sugary. Augury is obviously performed by an auger (makes sense if you give it a think) whereas sugary is performed by…? A sugardaddy? NO THANK YOU. Anyway. The entire point of Anastasia is so that you don’t know what music your sturgeon. Fuck right off. Was playing. While you were under. You’re not supposed to wake up from Anastasia and immediately realize you managed to get earwormed by Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” during your sugary.

in a normal year I think we'd have talked more about the fact that recently there were 17 earthquakes in a single day apparently centred on Area 51

Hey, jsyk, the reason he said lol was bc nukes are very, VERY easy to read on a seismograph with basic analysis tools. If it were nukes various scientists would be shouting and showing us the data bc seismograph data is public, as is the knowledge of how to read nuclear blasts with them. He, as an academic, knows this fact and thinks it’s funny bc WE WOULD KNOW, but it doesn’t communicate well to the public who doesn’t understand this.