"lolcow" is ultimately a colloquial term describing a phenomena that actually precedes the internet (and well, most of history too) but I can't think of another shorthand with implications that are tacitly understood the same way when gesturing to the spectacle that the world makes around acceptable targets. you go on reddit and someone has crossposted a Courtroom Freakout video like that's some shit anyone should want to derive entertainment from. your mom's cohort watches Dumb Criminal Fail youtube compilations and nod their heads as the perpetrator of a failed robbery bleeds out on floor of a kfc like that's some shit anyone should want to see. your peers are heavily invested in the Worthless E-Drama Industrial Complex, where thousands of people are made collateral of all kinds of violence in the name of forwarding the narrative of the spectacle. and you can't ask any of these people why any of this behavior is normal to them unless you want to be accused of condoning immoral tendencies, compulsion to punish The Other already metastasized in their minds. it sucks how easy it is to kill your own interest in this shit but not anyone else's.
I hate 2 say it but being a part of a “weird” subculture does not meaningfully inoculate you against a conservative moralizing impulse. You gotta unlearn that. Saying “cringe is dead” is not enough, you have to actually be okay with things that discomfort, perplex and/or disgust you.
Vriska for old times sake!
whenever I had trouble drawing, she was my go-to-girl
“What if by feeling and expressing my emotions I was actually being manipulative” - the transfem motto
the emotional clusterfuck of growing up as a neglected “boy” and then figuring out how to navigate life as the kind of woman nobody likes kinda sucks ass
The transfem hellscape of never knowing when it's ok to express your feelings and when it's not and of never quite knowing how long you'll be loved for, is the most painful thing I've ever experienced in my life.
i wish andrew could see how beautiful her community of people are, and how much we absolutely love and support her for just being herself its so unfair she will never get to see how sweet everyone is.
I ALWAYS SAY MORNING EVERYBODY INSTEAD OF GURO MORNING EVERYBLOODY BECAUSE IF IT WERE A GURO MORNING I'D BE MAIMING
non osha compliant smoke spots
haha thank god tomorrow is not monday. if tomorrow were monday i would surely lose it haha. i would go crazy haha. i would murder people lol. murderrr. crazyyy. i would commit homicide. haha. thank god it isn't right. haha