An Age Of Dragons

does anyone else feel me. can anyone hear me in here.

do you see the issue now

I wonder if Neil’s owner/s know about how we celebrate the date of that photo

Neil himself is long gone from this world, and yet every April 13th this group of internet strangers come together to celebrate him and his act of banging out the tunes. Like an entire holiday, all for this little guy

Cause I think it’s pretty beautiful if you wanna get all sentimental and sappy

good news :)

People describe shoebill storks as being scary or ugly birds and always use one image to make their point. When in every other photo they look like this

More like shoebill dork

Well played, Beverly.

this is why discourse needs to start with listening and learning, why online discourse is often so terrible, and why we see people falling prey to terf pipelines.

if you see things you instinctively disagree with, it’s SO important to understand why you disagree.

because when you explore the why, you will sometimes find that in your efforts to find the words to describe your discomfort, that you were right to disagree because someone who is more educated on the subject matter has articulated the why in a way that helps you understand that discomfort.

but you will also sometimes find that someone who is more educated on the subject can explain why your disagreement is actually an internalized bias that you had a blind spot to and weren’t aware of it until it was laid out for you in a certain way.

by nature of the internet, you will see a lot of things you both agree with and disagree with. and it’s incredibly easy to create an unintentional echo chamber where you only see things that support what you already know and believe. when something that is foreign to your current understanding of the world enters your perception, it is a shock to see. and that shock can often lead to an instinctive response of defending what you already know. this is how we get bad faith discourse.

not enough people are willing to examine their discomfort and create potential learning opportunities for themselves because they are too comfortable in their understanding of the world. but it is crucial to occasionally step outside of your comfort zone in order to continue to grow as a person.

if you see something by you don’t understand it is worth taking the effort to dig into it and take the time to understand why. do research, ask someone you trust. actively seek education constantly. we all need to constantly be learning in order to better ourselves because that’s the only way that we can make the world a better place for all of us.

My favourite QRT from that first tweet:

It's so crazy how "Don't feed the trolls" was like the Motto of the internet & in forum culture of the 00s and early 10s and now you log onto a certain website and it's just an endless sea of people pouring gruel into the troll trough day in day out and no one seems to realize or care that their internet experience being a constant deluge of misery and bad faith discussion might in fact be their own fault

“The Dungeon”

Olivier Schrauwen

Mome v14

later addition

I heard this audio and immediately had to redraw it 🫠

i show a neanderthal a doom metal album and they understand implicitly. they pick up a bass guitar and start to play it instinctually

Was made to groove

my man

the "i can't believe it's not isekai" genre is somehow more creatively bankrupt than isekai itself

yes, it is tagged "ecchi, harem, monster girl"

You weren't joking, huh.

Gun Shootman was looked down upon due to his weak skill 『Shoot Gun』 and was banished from his party/noble family/chess club but when he discovered that he can shoot people to death he became the strongest and got infinite bitches. 1 million LN volumes and an anime

To answer your question, @the-shy-shade, I don’t think most people who watch this stuff are enthusiastic enough about this stuff to be called fans but I think enough people watch it as a sort of cheap fix of their preferred genre in-between the stuff they ARE fans of. They like it in the same way people like the airport novels that used to be popular. Sure, it’s a derivative knockoff of much better stuff, it’s not gonna change your life or even be that great, but you just finished the last Agatha Christie novel you have at the moment and this’ll kill a couple of hours on the flight. Occasionally you find an actual hidden gem (a schlocky, schlocky gem) that’s actually a really good time. No one’s gonna be super excited for all these millions of volumes and four anime seasons but enough will watch to recoup the pathetically low budget 9 times out of 10.

Unfortunately, some people do love this stuff unironically. They love the worst parts of it unironically. There is of course the more recent example of some losers whining that the main character of Solo Leveling lost his "aura" just because he cried when he finally cured his mom's terminal illness and woke her up from her years long coma. To clarify further - the character, in universe, didn't lose anything. They're just mad that he, for two minutes of runtime, wasn't a stoic emotionless badass. But the more cogent example is The Executioner and Her Way of Life, an isekai focused on an executioner tasked with killing isekai protagonists because their OP abilities make them a threat to the world. It is actually a well written show with absolutely fascinating worldbuilding, an awesome magic system, and solid characters. It's also, notably, extremely gay. However, it spends the first half of the first episode doing a fakeout with this extremely boring and generic isekai protagonist guy who meets up with Menou - the real protagonist of the show. Halfway through the episode, he unlocks his op power, and Menou stabs him in the goddamn head. Because that's her job, and the point of this moment, the entire point of this extremely forgettable dude's existence was to establish to the audience that killing isekai protagonists is Menou's job. He exists to die, establish what is supposed to happen, and make it clear why the next isekai'd high schooler Menou shanks - a girl with time powers - NOT dying is such a big problem. The show subsequently got review bombed because some losers actually liked and projected onto that guy and dropped the show upon him being killed off. Bruh.

Nova #16 - "Battle Skaarns" (2014)

sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium

Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series ²³⁵U ➝ ²³¹Th ➝ ²³¹Pa (𝜷 decay) ➝ ²²⁷Ac ➝ ²²³Fr (1.38% chance). There’s less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isn’t even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.

If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse

found the guy

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

happy 10 year anniversary!

if the kraken and sharks get good at the same time we will have a beautiful toxic rivalry <3

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