top 10 foods that when you eat it feels like u’re having sex number 1, general tso’s chicken

number 2. Choco mint chip ice cream and chase it with water immediately after.

list over. gonna have a food orgy.

this is how seth rogen made sausage party

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this duck LOVES pink drink

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watching a fascist dictatorship take over in real time is crazy bc u realize it happens with part of the population ignoring it, part of the population cheering for it, part of the population screaming, all while the people in charge / leadership with the power to stop it before it even began failing us. and I still have to go to work

“trump is manipulating the market” “trump is defying the Supreme Court” “trump is ruining a century long relationship with our allies” ok stop him then???? why r we just talking about it get him OUT of office??????????

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I feel like we need a refresher on Watsonian vs Doylist perspectives in media analysis. When you have a question about a piece of media - about a potential plot hole or error, about a dubious costuming decision, about a character suddenly acting out of character -

Meaning: if Watson says something that isn't true, one explanation is that Watson made a mistake. Another explanation is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a mistake.

Watsonian explanations are implicitly charitable. You are implicitly buying into the notion that there is a good in-world reason for what you're seeing on screen or on the page. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie all the time because they're from a desert culture!")

Doylist explanations are pragmatic. You are acknowledging that the fiction is shaped by real-world forces, like the creators' personal taste, their biases, the pressures they might be under from managers or editors, or the limits of their expertise. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie because somebody thought they'd sell more units that way.")

Watsonian explanations tend to be imaginative but naive. Seeking a Watsonian explanation for a problem within a narrative is inherently pleasure-seeking: you don't want your suspension of disbelief to be broken, and you're willing to put in the leg work to prevent it. Looking for a Watsonian answer can make for a fun game! But it can quickly stray into making excuses for lazy or biased storytelling, or cynical and greedy executives.

Doylist explanations are very often accurate, but they're not much fun. They should supersede efforts to provide a Watsonian explanation where actual harm is being done: "This character is being depicted in a racist way because the creators have a racist bias.'" Or: "The lore changed because management fired all of the writers from last season because they didn't want to pay then residuals."

Doylism also runs the risk of becoming trite, when applied to lower stakes discrepancies. Yes, it's possible that this character acted strangely in this episode because this episode had a different writer, but that isn't interesting, and it terminates conversation.

I think a lot of conversations about media would go a lot more smoothly, and everyone would have a lot more fun, if people were just clearer about whether they are looking to engage in Watsonian or Doylist analysis. How many arguments could be prevented by just saying, "No, Doylist you're probably right, but it's more fun to imagine there's a Watsonian reason for this, so that's what I'm doing." Or, "From a Watsonian POV that explanation makes sense, but I'm going with the Doylist view here because the creator's intentions leave a bad taste in my mouth that I can't ignore."

Idk, just keep those terms in your pocket? And if you start to get mad at somebody for their analysis, take a second to see if what they're saying makes more sense from the other side of the Watsonian/Doylist divide.

Hheeyyy 😬 so. I know i just got done asking for money towards my rent but now one of my cats has got a medical issue and I think I need to take her to the vet 😭 its happened a few times since we moved to the new house and I'm getting really worried coz it's started happening more frequently the past couple of days.

Its like her jaw is getting stuck open for a few seconds? (Video below) It's obviously causing her discomfort/pain so I'd like to get it checked out if i can. As far as i know she's not suffered any physical trauma or anything like that? This has literally started out of no where.

A vet appointment is going to cost about £50. But obviously as I don't know what's wrong there will probably be tests, no idea how much that'll cost.

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it’s crazy that we have to pretend people are oppressed for being skinny now or everyone gets mad at you and says “woooowwww it’s all body positivity until it’s a skinny person”. does anyone else think this. just saw someone saying they’re making a “skinny positive community” and everyone is hyping her . is this real life

it’s so crazy that we weren’t even able to talk about fatphobia for five minutes before it became skinny people patting themselves on the back for being body positive by embracing being skinny and crying about their own problems . idc you were called a “skeleton” in middle school. they’re denying people like me healthcare.

skinny people get called mean names and fat people get to die because doctors don’t listen to us. but oh my god skinny positivity is the real deal here. please tell me how you were called a broomstick again. we need to spread awareness of this issue.

There’s six guys who live in this flat and all they do all day is play WoW and watch movies. Waking up at 2pm every day and there’s always just someone asleep on the bed near all the multimonitor computer setups. There’s always music playing and it feels like a recovery day every day, padding around blearily in pyjamas or underwear. Old hoodies from defunct school teams. They’ve got this system where they’re selling their excess computing power to companies and hosting all this warez, and they’re stealing the internet from the business next door anyway and getting welfare on top of all that. They’re self sufficient and never go outdoors except to buy more fast food, and even then only in the dark. But then one of them wakes up dead some heavy afternoon. He’s just dead and they don’t know why but maybe the floor covered in fast food wrappings is a clue. They don’t want to tell the cops because of the purgatory den they live in and the illegality that supports it, and as far as they know he never had any actual parents. So it’s trouble. It’s taking a long trip out to the forest and thinking about how stars are so far away for the first time in a long time. It’s sweating in the cold air and digging a hole all night with your brand new shovels to leave him alone in. And it’s a long few days cracking all his passwords to keep his identity and associated payments persisting. Until the rhythm of waking up every day at 2pm to play WoW for nine hours and half watch a movie on your other monitor takes over again. It’s the same as it ever was except now there’s a room no one ever goes in.

I’m a displaced person from Gaza.

Every day feels like it could be the last, and fear is no longer temporary—it’s a part of me now.

My kids ask, “Why don’t we have a home? When can we go back?”

And I have no answer… I just hold them and pray they stay safe.

The exhaustion isn’t just physical—it’s watching your child grow up in fear instead of play.

I’m not asking for much… just safety. Just a life that feels like life.

#FromTheHeartOfExile

#GazaIsMyPain

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wish i was trans so i could be a girl

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when people pop off with some ass take like "why should I have to put my pronouns in my profile or signature or whatever, my name is Tom and I have short hair and am wearing an oxford shirt in my profile pic, figure it out" I always think

so do you just not talk to people from other countries for your job, ever?

like, some people don't, and you can follow the flowchart to a different part of the argument about why pushing back about pronouns is stupid, but I e-mail people in Singapore and Dubai and Japan and India every day. A lot of those people have names that are probably their local equivalent of "Tom," but I have never seen them before and I have no idea if that's a girl's name or a boy's name. They usually have profile pics too. I don't know how common short hair is for women or long hair is for men in their country. I don't know if that style of shirt is more common for men or more common for women. I'm not writing this from some homogenous whitebread oasis, either, I live in New York City, it's just simply not possible for me to know the common names in every language of every country where the people I need to work with, live.

just put your stupid pronouns in your signature, some exasperated project manager in Mumbai will one day appreciate it

I'm always teeth grit rolling the fucking dice on some Tsumugi on the Tokyo team rocking a pixie cut and a blue shirt, help me

you are that Tsumugi to somebody

I had an older, white, male coworker ask me over message:

"Hi, the Team Lead for our sister team... I need to ask them a favour. I've never met them in person, and their name is Chinese. Are they a man or a woman?"

And I was like "<Name's> pronouns are she/her"

This guy had never seen pronouns used in the wild before. He honestly thought they only mattered to people who flew the rainbow flag in their office. The look of dawning comprehension in his eyes warmed my heart for a solid week.

the fact that so many ppl view slurs and oppression as cool exclusive clubs to claim access to, tells me a lot of ppl have never genuinely experienced violence before.

we threw a party the other month, and this straight girl showed up and started using the word dyke, and all the gay women at the party immediately went on edge. my gf had to leave the room.

when she was called out, she started claiming she was using it in a “fun empowering way”. upon explaining that a lot of the gay women there had actual trauma from straight women using that word, including physical violence, she started crying because WE were making HER feel uncomfortable.

it’s really hard to talk to ppl in and around the queer community whose worst experience with hate is “online community infighting”. meanwhile my trans friends are getting beat up in bars for laughing too loud.

like, sorry ppl online talking about misogyny and racism in the gay community makes you feel “invalid”, but it’s really hard not to see you as a fucking idiot when my gf and i almost got ran over the other day.

“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain

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sorry to keep harping on this but I do 100% believe that most CSA is perpetrated by people who aren’t meaningfully attracted to children and I also think this is a necessary thing to accept both for understanding yourself as a victim and for reducing the occurrence of abuse. the spectre of The Pedophile* looms so large in the imagination that it obscures the far more common and “mundane” incidents that are just as damaging but nearly impossible to square with the standard narrative.

a lot of people have a kneejerk tendency whenever this comes up to just label anyone and everyone who perpetrates CSA as a pedophile. I don’t believe that’s helpful and may actually be damaging to our ability to understand and respond to abuse as it occurs.

here’s why: