Alipeeps' Obsessions

collapses in your arms princess style after casting the biggest evil most fucked up spell you've literally every seen

(Tags via @reprintable)

My mind reals at the idea that people couldve been playing music like this 4000 years ago

Wang Xingyue for a Teeny Weenie event

TTEOTM becomes really funny when you consider it from the perspective of all the guards, servants, doctors, generals, and advisors watching Tantai Jin absolutely crash out over the woman who by all appearances tried to murder him THRICE

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

Also like... there is joy in learning and creating?

For my English A Level we had to write a long essay (I can't recall how many words but a couple of thousand at least). We got to pick our own title/topic and I still remember mine to this day (and folks this was a loooong time ago because I am OLD). My title was A Comparison of the Treatment of Women in the Poetry of Tennyson and TS Eliot.

And my god, I pulled everything into that essay. It was a thing of beauty. Creating it was exciting because the more I wrote and the more I thought about the topic, the more ideas I had and was able to include. I even managed to relate my topic to the non-fiction book that we studied for A Level (Criminal Justice by Rene Weiss, about Edith Thompson, one of the last women to be hanged in the UK) and bring elements of that into the essay, fuck I even managed to track down a 2nd hand copy of an out of print book called Belladonna that I had found referenced elsewhere and that was relevant to my topic (my English teacher helped me contact a company that specialised in out of print books who were able to find it and ship it to me). I got a fucking A+ on that essay and I am still super proud of it to this day. If you use AI to write your essays for you, not only do you not learn anything but there is no enjoyment - there is no excitement as you make connections and realise a really good idea that you can add into your essay. There is no pride in achievement. You are missing out on so much!!

You want to hurt that character because you hate them. I want to hurt that character because I love them. We are not the same.

gotta get back to my adorkable chinese drama. a moment but forever episodes 15-16

i’m not necessarily a squee-er but i think i squeed

bonus moment because it made me stupid happy watching it:

Bwhahahahaha the way this mocks the usual medicine through a kiss narrative!

And then she massages his mouth open to get the meds in!

Just for you @fake-married-my-dead-fiance

It is just unbelievable to me that anyone with these beliefs these tats & his history can be appointed to ANY office including sheriff cop or mailman

And why is there no pushback from the military?

Problem: the military has too many of these guys.

i love when fic writers who have clearly never tried any kind of alcohol in their lives try to write someone drinking bc they're always like

"he ordered a tall glass of hard liquor. after three large glasses he was feeling tipsy" like babygirl i can't be sure but i think u just sent this man to the hospital

"the amber liquid tasted sweet" bestie i can assure you it did not

Australia, wake up, vote!

Doesn’t sound demonic, which is a nice change of pace from the typical 8x slowed down songs.

I’m dying of laughter

IM LEGITIMATELY CRYING

[ID: Homer Simpson lying in bed and staring up at the ceiling angrily. /end ID]

Susan Crawford has defeated Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election giving a defining blow to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Elon Musk donated $20 million dollars to this race and bribed people to vote for Schimel. Wisconsin rejected both of them.

This means that the Wisconsin Supreme Court will have a 4-3 Dem majority which is critical for abortion rights, redistricting measures, etc.

Decision Desk HQ with the Projection