my favourite thing abt the tortall books is that even leaving aside daine, all the main characters have an unapologetic disney princess thing going on that everyone just accepts at face value. like when kel says “one of the sparrows that follows me around everywhere and which knows military signals told me the enemy is in the north woods” the whole army is just like “ok 🙂 thanks for the heads up”
So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.
I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).
And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:
“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”
And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them
“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”
I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before
“When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.”
the thing that’s making me crack up about all the “op’s literally _____ but go off I guess” posts is that when people make their own posts…… they are the op
This is funnier when you get to “Amok Time” & realize that yes he’s been engaged and no, he probably wouldn’t recognize her voice & so his expression here is not “I’ve been sassed” its “why the fuck is that relevant”