straight people are so fascinating even when they aren't actively trying to be homophobic. I had a class a few years ago where one assignment was to summarize some eighth century arabic poetry about going out for drinks with the lads before indulging in some gay sex and like half the class came in and said "I'm sorry idk what was happening in this one, they mention having sex with a servant but they also say the servant's a man? where'd the woman come from? I'm so confused." and a few days ago in a shakespeare class I made a comment about how cleopatra and octavius caesar are kind of parallel characters in possessively bartering for mark antony's attention and one of my classmates responded as though I'd been talking about octavia and not caesar, despite the fact that I said "caesar" and "him" multiple times while describing the actions he specifically took. fully incapable of comprehending of anything that's even a little bit gay.

"Let them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat" was when I was hanging out with a bunch of people and the topic came up of "who would you want with you in a wilderness survival situation" and this was back when I was still very strong & doing back country work and one guy said "I think we can all agree our last choice is Story" and everyone laughed but one guy who said, "isn't Story the only one here who's a wilderness first responder and who can use a compass" and everyone said "oh yeah" and I was like it's okay I know when you think of me your brain defaults to the fact that I lose my car keys 9 times a day but luckily we won't need those to set your shattered ankle

i lose my car every single time i park at a mall and i forget which entrance i came in and i get stressed and overstimulated trying to retrace my steps and i get panicked

and one time in 2017 this happened when i was a Map & Compass Reading instructor my friend said "don't you like, teach 'directions' as your job" and i cannot stress enough that every single day of my life no matter the weather i would rather be in a mountainous rainforest triangulating my destination on a damp topographical map at the risk of having to sleep on the ground if i failed, than continually hitting the horn button on my car keys wandering through the affront to god that is a Sears parking lot.

tbh with my memory being what it is and my parents in their seventies I don't remember the last time we parked the car and DIDN'T take a photo of the parked car and surrounding markers before leaving the lot

Armor won't protect from that

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Terror fans let’s go on an Arctic expedition, we know what we’re doing this time and global warming is on our side <3

I genuinely believe that the new SW trilogy wouldn’t have flopped out into irrelevance like it did if they hadn’t dumped Finn on the side of the freeway like a new pet rabbit the week after easter

I firmly believe it was their biggest fumble when it comes to a compelling character story. Rey and Kylo got more time to be interesting only cause the plot allowed them to, but that fucked right off into nothing petty fast too.

20k likes in 2025? Finnpoe will ALWAYS be loved

too many movies have been ruined by not casting ugly people

I love a good floppy leaf. The floppier, the better, am I right??

please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is ple

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

"male loneliness epidemic" is misleading because it implies that men are suffering because they can't get girls when I feel like the actual problem is that pretty much any online content that's aimed specifically at men conceptualizes the masculine ideal as what I call the Buff Scammer. there are only two things in this world that matter, says the Buff Scammer: being jacked and making money. how you get to either of those things doesn't matter, you just need to be as rich and as buff as possible or you have failed as a man. Get into drop shipping. Eat nothing but raw meat. Rugpull a memecoin. Remove seasonings from your diet. Sell an online course. Go to the gym daily. Starve yourself so your body will achieve ketosis and start burning fat. Attend a seminar on real estate investing. Work 80 hours a week. Take steroids but don't let anyone know about that part. Flip a YouTube channel after 10xing the subs. Sell AI art on Etsy and AI audiobooks on Amazon. What's that? You're trying to do this to get girls? Why would you care about women? Women are all stupid whores who don't help you get richer or buffer. The only people you should be paying attention to are other rich, buff men. If you do hang out with women you should be pimping them out on Chaturbate so you can at least get an ROI off your time spent not thinking about men. Male friends? You don't have time for friends. You should be hustling and grinding 24/7 365. And if you absolutely do need to spend time around to her men you should only be spending time with other buff scammers so you can collaborate on entrepreneurial ventures. Like Jesus Christ even writing this is exhausting I feel like trying to be this dude would be fucking miserable like not only did you turn yourself into a friendless, materialist, misogynistic asshole who can only conceptualize the world in terms of value extracted but you're NOT EVEN HAVING FUN DOING IT!!!!!!

Luigi Mangione has been locked up since December 2024, and he's been met with nothing but the violation of his rights every step of the way. Luigi's right to be treated humanely is constantly violated, as is his right to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. Evidence is not being provided to his legal team, and he's being treated with prejudice by law enforcement.

Luigi is not a handsome face and a few jokes online. He is a real human being with real pain and real health issues. Luigi is a young man fighting for his life and the media is doing nothing but trying to sexualize him and make light of his situation.

Luigi has already lost so much to this, and although he remains resilient, it's important to remember that his circumstances can't possibly be good. It's also important to remember that if they can do it to Luigi, they can do it to more people, to your loved one, to you.

So please, keep talking about Luigi. Keep standing by Luigi. Keep supporting Luigi.

Never let Luigi Mangione walk alone.