plurality on tv : ahhg..watch out my...EVIL ALTER!!!! HE'S COMING OUT!!!! HES GOING TO JEFF THE KILL YOU!!!!!!

plurality in real life:

friend: is something wrong

me: (staring off) Somebody is mad.because i want the pink donut

the pipeline of fixating over some thingy

[image id: On the left, a drawing of a nondescript character smiling and throwing up peace signs, labelled "First fanart of a character you liked". On the right, the same character is seated in an elaborate dress, with feathered wings, in front of a birdcage covered in sparkle. This drawing is labelled "30th fanart of the character. This is how you know you're cooked". /end id]

alright alternate route for people who have problems (i understand)

okay people are still online but im gonna say this anyway. the queer community has gotten way too comfortable being awful to straight people and it needs to change and im not kidding

yeah okay whatever the straights are oppressing us we know. but being mean and always making jokes about “ewww i hate straight people” and excluding them from queer spaces when they have good intentions is doing nothing but damage. do you think spinning their narrative of ‘disgusting homosexuality’ back on them into ‘disgusting heterosexuality’ is going to change anything?

not to mention this hurts and excludes people who are queer. bisexuals and transhets and people with genders and orientations that present outwardly different than one would “normally” expect listen to your words that you hate straight people and they hear that you hate them. you are pushing marginalized people out of their community because a joke turned into actual hatred somewhere along the lines and no one wants to admit that. perpetuating this is not funny or cool. you are hurting people— not just your allies, but the people youre supposed to be fighting for.

Guy's living in the year 3,000

key elements of Superman that the new movie absolutely nails:

its important to have a game on your wishlist that keeps going on sale every couple of months and you still never buy it

ilove when someone posts about an issue that's supposedly plaguing society and it's painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok

reminds me of this reddit comment I have saved

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A Reddit comment by user bat_out_of_heck that reads as follows:

This is helpful for me to read as a therapist because it helps put into context some of the stuff my younger clients tell me. I'm only 35, so not old old, but my social media is 90% cocktail recipes and 10% friends so I'm not really dialed into what terminally online people are thinking outside of Reddit. Whenever a client under the age of 25 says "everyone is saying X," my first reaction is usually "I have never heard X, and X frankly sounds completely unhinged, and also the main proponent of X, whom you refer to as a 'celebrity,' seems to be a naked man who lives in a garden shed."

/end ID]

The fact that people don't think friendship is enough to justify characters doing insane acts of love for each other baffles me. Like have you never loved your friend so so much you want to live in their ribcage. Have you never been really weird about a friend. Have you never wanted to bite your friends parents or shove them down a staircase. Have you never wanted to be buried in the same grave as a friend. Have u never. How do u people live like this.

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.

One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”

I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”

“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”

Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.

And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”

The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.

“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”

The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”

“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”

So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.

But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well.

Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.

What the whole world would look like.

Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.

If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

That Vonnegut quote brings this particular moment to mind:

Yes, it’s just a pie. Yes, the pie itself doesn’t do much direct damage in the grand scheme of things. But the pie is resistance, and resistance inspires resistance. Resistance inspires survival. Throwing pies sometimes starts a movement. Throwing pies sometimes saves lives.

And of course, we haven’t spoken about the inherent morality of throwing pies at oppressors in a world where oppressors have outlawed pie throwing. At the very least, pie throwing is a reminder to the oppressors that no matter how much money they have, no matter how much power they have, there are still some people, some moments they can’t control.

I’d rather go out throwing pies than just rolling over and accepting that pie throwing isn’t going to solve anything. Yeah, the pie throwing doesn’t immediately solve the problem, but it doesn’t have to because it’s just a starting point. So throw the damn pie.

So throw the damn pie

Also, starfish. You may not be able to save every starfish, but every one you do save matters to that starfish. And, because we’re talking about actual human lives here, to their loved ones, too.

Throw the damn pie.

I love when characters have an idea about them having a Role in a narrative. I love when characters view themselves as The Hero who needs to Fix Everything, even at the cost of their own life or health. I love when characters view themselves as villains, as two dimensional Things in a story and not a person who can change and grow. I love when characters view themselves as side characters without agency or personalities. I love when characters are Wrong about what their role in the narrative is. I love when the narrative actively acknowledges how much this can fuck a person up. I love when characters base their morals or world view off of fiction and view the world through that lens. I love when characters view themselves as fictional. I love when characters think the world operates off of fictional rules. I love when characters have Feelings about being fictional!!!

it's so Weird how ppl STILL make fun of the idea of alcohol-free queer spaces just because an asexual teenager suggested it in 2015. it was odd then and it's odd now. Why are you mad at the idea of a coffee shop for queer people. don't answer that i do not gaf

the concept of a gay coffee shop is not going to fuck your wife or shut down your favorite gay bar but every time you complain i personally put another asexual pride flag on one of the cafe walls and then i take a bottle of titos out back and i shoot it with a rifle

Real and true and same. I'm not paying to remove ads when I can just go to YouTube and use an adblocker or download MP3s

man i wish i could just imagine the story i want to make and snap my fingers and it gets written for me (remembers the world we currently live in) not like that, and actually, never mind