ik this is like by design bc we live in a capitalist society that emphasizes individualism so as to isolate us from one another, but it would be so much easier to analyze and critique societal phenomena if every statement made about the potential harm of certain actions/behaviors/cultures didn’t get taken so personally by the people who engage in them.
we can’t talk about how makeup culture stems from and enforces misogyny or the violent institution that is gender because women who love makeup will scream that no, actually, they LOVE wearing makeup, it’s an art and a hobby and who are we to tell them they have to stop (which nobody ever actually says)
we can’t talk about how bdsm going more mainstream often results in people (usually men) who are sexually gratified by physically hurting others (usually women) having much easier access and opportunity to enact said physical harm, often with people who feel pressured into accepting it who wouldn’t otherwise – let alone discussing why so many men get off on beating women – because self-identified submissives will say “stop telling me what i can and can’t do in the bedroom!”
but frankly i think if someone says “analyze and examine your behaviors because they might be harmful” and you hear “stop doing this because it’s harmful” that tells me that you know what you’re doing might be harmful, whether to you personally, to someone else, or just in terms of promoting harmful phenomena in society, and you’re afraid to examine it because you’re afraid that you won’t be able to justify the consequences of your behavior
really love imagining a bunch a kids and teens on their pokemon journeys staying the night on the couches and floors in the lobbies of pokemon centers, having long talks about their experiences and feelings sharing funny and scary stories and myths about legendaries and trading items and sharing TMs along with sugary snacks and pokedex chargers all while their pokemon are out of their pokeballs and all bundled up in blankets sleeping soundly next to their trainers while they stare up at the stars shining through the glass ceiling over their heads
it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet
tbh i still start sentences with “hokay, so” at least 3 times a day
same, aggressively so. I also still use “wtf, mate.”
who doesn’t think this is STILL AS HILARIOUS as it was when we all watched it over and over and over again 15 years ago?
I’ve reblogged this before and will doubtless reblog this again because MY ENTIRE GROUP OF FRIENDS WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO IN 2002/2003 THAT WE COLLECTIVELY BANNED ANY MENTION OF IT EVER AGAIN
AND YET
WE ARE NOW GROWN-ASS ADULTS IN OUR THIRTIES
AND IT STILL GETS QUOTED FROM TIME TO TIME
I HAVE THE WHOLE THING MEMORISED
TO THIS DAY, MY MOTHER REGULARLY SAYS “BUT I AM LE TIRED” BECAUSE OF A VIDEO I SHOWED HER IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL
THIS IS AN ICONIC PIECE OF INTERNET HISTORY AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERS
my wife and I still regularly say “hokay so”, “but I am le tired” and “and some big meteor’s like ‘well fuck that’.” Fucking iconic.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE AND I’M SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS POST BECAUSE I’VE SEEN IT NOW AND I CAN’T STOP FUCKING LAUGHING
I’ve quoted this video on a daily basis for the past 10+ years and will probably do so for the rest of my life.
This vidoe is there, on the wall of fame, right by “Crab Battle” and “John, you are the demons”
….but does any one else still sing badger badger
In case some of you were interested, dude made a part 2 recently.
having a fursona is an extremely freeing and deeply personal method of self expression that everyone should at the very least consider, regardless of the stigma surrounding furries or lack of interest in the community. in this essay I wi
y’all in the tags want the essay so yknow what? I’ll give you the essay
having a fursona is a highly personal experience. No one can take a fursona away from you. I had characters that were dependent on stories I made in the past with abusive, terrible people, and those characters now bear the memories of those abusive, terrible people. but you know what my fursona is? my fursona is a representation of me. my poor experiences are my sona’s. as I overcome my trauma, I overcome trauma associated with my fursona.
no one can ruin him for me. no one can take him away. when I’m upset, I can manipulate him into what I want. I can make him punk. I can put him in the clothes I can’t afford. I can put him in the fashion I’ll never wear. I can either draw him like my body type and help myself cope with dysphoria, or I can draw him in the body type I eventually want to have. I can draw him with other people and other characters.
and the animal aspect is representative too. I know people who are slow and tired who make sloth sonas. people who feel like they’re dirty who make raccoon sonas. people who want to strive for knowledge and make owl sonas. it’s a representation of who you are and who you want to be. your fursona is your ideal you. they’re a coping mechanism and a goal all at once.
your fursona is a unique experience no one can destroy. no one can take your fursona from you. no one can truly destroy your identity as long as you OWN THAT SHIT. therefore: make a fursona
Okay, so like, here’s the facts. Lucretia had to figure out new lives for Magnus, Taako, and Merle with only the ability to take away information via the Voidfish.
As we know, Taako just got hooked up with his show, feesibly without any further erasing needed. I headcanon that the original Merle from Faerun died as a baby, so Lucretia only had to erase the fact that he died to place her Merle with this plane’s version of his family.
But Magnus insists that he was born and raised in Raven’s Roost. And as far as we know, no one ever questioned him on it. So how can Lucretia give him a lifetime at Raven’s Roost if she can only erase something?
The answer: she erased the fact that he’s a stranger. Maybe she wrote down “Magnus Burnsides is not from around here” onto a piece of paper and threw it into the tank without really thinking it through. Because now it’s not just the people of Raven’s Roost who is pretty sure Magnus Burnsides has been here his entire life even though evidence suggests otherwise. everyone in Faerun has this vague sense that Magnus Burnsides has been a vaguely familiar face in these parts for a long time, even if they can’t quite place why.
Magnus tells a barkeeper in Bradybuck that this is his first time here and the barkeeper doesn’t say anything, but they’re pretty sure Magnus has been stopping through here their entire life. Maybe they’re wrong, but either way his familiarity makes him easy to talk to, if not downright comforting to be around.
What I’m trying to get at is that one of the stranger side effects of the voidfish’s static is Magnus’s rustic hospitality.
midoriya 2 weeks into getting OFA because he’s a dumbass 15 year old but now with the power of G-d and the brains of a teenage boy: then i hit the counter with my fist so hard it shattered. haha it was awesome
iida: that sounds very irresponsible! i am sure your mother does not appreciate you breaking her decor!
midoriya: oh no it’s okay, the counter is fine. i meant i shattered my fist. it was awesome. i mean, not awesome because we had to go to the er, but i got a sweet cast
iida, now realizing one of the peers in the classroom he’s chosen to be friends with has absolutely 0 sense of self preservation and enough Dumbass Energy to power an entire city:
todoroki, fellow dumbass 15 year old: i learned a new power move
iida: oh?
todoroki: yeah so if i raise my body temperature high enough i can melt everything around me, including cameras and metal structures however there is also a very high and exciting chance it will also kill me horribly
iida: well that is. hm.
midoriya: hey iida i heard you’ve been working on improving your speed! care to share with the class?
iida, having recently realized his own dumbass potential and hitting it with exponentially expanding speed: yes, actually! so i went out into the woods and tore off my old exhausts with a pair of pliers and now they will grow back stronger, larger, more powerful, and i will be much faster. nothing says improvement like physically removing a part of your own body for the sake of personal growth!
todoroki: that sounds…..bad. and very painful.
iida: oh, yes, it was excruciating!
midoriya: hey i just had a thought
iida: yes?
midoriya: maybe we should stop putting ourselves through intense physical trauma for the sake of a hero program that quite frankly kinda sucks and seems dependent on punishing us with dangerous and life threatening physical harm.
iida: well…that sounds…reasonable
midoriya: also aizawa wouldn’t let me keep this abandoned cat i found outside in my dorm room so i think we should form a student union and boycott
this makes me laugh bc he comes up w three excuses to justify shooting her in the span of like ten seconds: 1) i knew it was u all along shep i just didnt want the mercs to know it was u ok?? 2) also u were taking too slow 3) also i’m a n experienced rifleman i know i wasn’t gonna kill u promise
in reality he probably spotted shepard through his scope and was so startled he shot her on accident
just moving along like everyone else 