4chan memorial post. rest in hell

DISCRETION

i associate the word ‘discretion’ so closely with this post that i can’t hear or think or say it without immediately remembering do you have a hairy assed mans legs veryhairylegs started following you and i would like financial compensation

"fetishes are innate" is a predictable outcome of the "born this way" narrative but it is also very very funny. Being into sonic inflation is something you're born with

2025 book bingo time 📚

want a completely arbitrary set of reading goals for 2025? want to try something new in your literary diet but don't know where to start? just like a challenge for the sake of a challenge? just love a good game of bingo?

boy do I have something for you!

for anyone planning to participate, please know that I LOVE attention and talking about books, so I would be STOKED to be tagged on any and all updates about what you're reading or planning to read. I'm so, so excited to see all the different ways these prompts get filled, especially if and when they bring people away from the kinds of things they normally read. not to mention snag some new reading recs myself, hopefully!

and of course, I want to know whenever somebody gets a bingo - and ESPECIALLY if somebody fills the whole board! I don't have any prizes for you, but I can offer a sense of accomplishment :)

note that this is designed to be played as 1 book = 1 space, so even if you read, say, a fantasy graphic novel published in 1923 from an indie publisher that has a bat on the cover, you'd only cross off one space. I'm not a cop and I'm not in charge of what you read, so if it sparks more joy to check off multiple spaces per book then go nuts, but I am throwing that disclaimer out there.

EDIT: the 2025 book bingo challenge is now also on storygraph, thanks to @obi-wann-cannoli!

wondering what some of these spaces mean? seeking a couple recommendations to get you started? no idea what a zine even is, let alone how to make one? worry not! I have a guide to all 25 prompts, including recommendations + an example of what I'll be reading throughout the year to fulfill each space. read on beneath the cut!

I found this and I think it looks loads of fun. I'm trying to get back into reading regularly so this looks like a great way to start. I've already chosen my essay and recipe books.

yay! welcome aboard!

being a scavenger animal must be so fucking great. imagine if every time someone died a new restaurant opened up downtown.

Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'

Groove-Billed Ani

Hoatzin

Pheasant Coucal

adding the cassowary to this list

it's not even pretending to be a modern bird

lots of really funny little ways that companies try to reduce the liability of an emoji being synonymous with death threats, but my favourite attempt on a conceptual level has been google putting magical sparkles on the dagger

they got scared in 2018 and have been slowly adjusting since

THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY (March 18, 2005 –September 1, 2008)

I'm absolutely delighted that this is the tweet of mine that's finally made the crossover

Also, fuck every single one of you who has anything to say about my galaxy leggings. My passport photo for the next 10 years was me wearing a necklace made of multi-coloured paperclips, with a sidecut I gave myself with kitchen scissors. I used to wear a mismatched pair of knockoff Doc Martens, one bright yellow and one lime green, with the laces replaced by purple hair ribbons and green gardening twine. I would layer 4 or 5 pairs of different coloured fishnet tights until my legs were like a 3D optical illusion, and wore a coral coloured blazer with shoulder pads that was 4 sizes too large.

You think the galaxy leggings are bad? You have no idea.

literally slay

We here at Sylph Co. are proud to announce the opening of an official tumblr account. By manufacturing and distributing Pokéballs and Trainer Acessories, we're not just selling supplies, we're selling connections between people and pokémon

I keep coming back to this, it’s such an incredible meta-commentary on capitalism and digital control.

Someone made a Tumblr account pretending to be the Pokeball monopoly in a fictional universe, and people made a “KUNG POW PENIS” string using the in-universe letter-shaped pokemon, followed by a pokemon (zorua) making a slamming blast towards the camera, completing the spell or whatever.

They’re mirroring the real-life “silence capitalist” attitude, against a real account pretending to be a fake corporation, using symbols from the fake corporation’s world. They’re pretending like this attitude exists in-universe. This attitude in part exists due to real-life corporations increasingly encroaching into social life and injecting their presence on social media, like this fictional corporation is doing. It works as a good joke!

The real-life Pokemon company, presumably, issues a takedown, or the corporation of Tumblr does so voluntarily on their behalf, taking down the fictional KUNG POW PENIS on a copyright claim.

In doing so, they’re protecting real corporate interests, against a bunch of people fake-insulting a fake corporation. The result looks exactly like the same pro-corporate control over media exists in-universe, as if the fictional company had issued a harassment or defamation takedown instead. In doing so, Tumblr advanced the joke even further by showing why the anti-corporate attitude would exist in a supposed Pokemon utopia.

Is that what it was? I saw "connections between humans and Pokemon" and assumed it was all porn

Yeah i would have also shaven all my hair off and attacked people with an umbrella ngl

"Would you look at that, mercury's in Gatorade."

"I don't believe in astrology."

"No, I mean there is a recall."

its so windy my poor poor chickens are being blown around like dry leafs they look like this

im so happy this doodle i made in approximately 1 minute and 32 seconds is resonating with 3 thousand people

OP you missed my favorite part of the post where he cancels his barbecue and drinks a beer while watching the bomb technician, and then when they give the all clear they let him keep the empty shell so he PUTS HIS BEER IN THE BOMB AS A DRINK COZY

Apparently collecting empty eggshells, coloring them, filling them with confetti and then cracking them over eachother's heads isn't something everyone does during easter...........we used to find confetti in our hair for days after

Btw they're called "cascarones" and it's a very common Mexican tradition. there's a lot of tutorials online on how to make them if you're curious about it! I have a lot of fond childhood memories of the Egg Wars......and yes it's very messy

YUP.......and the EXTRA evil option: actually wasn't hollowed out at all. just painted and is mixed in with the regular confetti eggs