little inconsistencies that at first you assume “oh, the author must have fucked up”, but then later on you realize that no, it was on purpose, they wanted you to think they fucked up but they hadnt
related: when you think “this has Implications the author didn’t think about” and then it turns out the author was thinking about them the whole time
this has been happening to me for years but it never ceases to piss me off when men i work with assume im too small and frail to carry anything heavier than a shoe box
bruh i literally talked to a coworker at my current job who is shorter than me and she says this never happens to her
the prince has begun practicing curtseying in the mirror. which could mean nothing.
we have good news and bad news, my liege. the good news is that we now know what that curtsying was about: you will be pleased to know that, after several heartfelt conversations between your child, the court jesters and a myriad of singing woodland creatures, you are now the parent of a proud and joyful new princess. the bad news is that, due to a series of events related to the dragon-sized hole in her bedchamber wall,
People who hate Frodo Baggins are my enemy. “He didn’t do anything and was useless”–yeah, okay, so what you’re not understanding is that he was the sacrificial lamb. He endured physical, mental, and emotional torment that got worse and worse as his will broke. Everyone knew this. EVERYONE KNEW THIS. That’s why everyone was devastated about it. Because Frodo was the most innocent among them, that was the entire point. He represented ordinary peaceful people being destroyed by the horrors of war. And as a hobbit he also represented some of the last vestiges of magic in what was basically a post magic apocalypse.
Frodo was basically an innocent puppy thrown into the Torment Nexus so that EVERYONE ELSE could maybe have a hope of surviving. And he did that willingly. HE DID IT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, KNOWING IT WOULD RUIN HIM.
The “both sides bad, voting is useless, I won’t choose between evils” leftists are still at it in my notes. “Well, maybe instead of just voting you could educate people and organi-” YOU CAN DO ALL THAT AND VOTE. AND YOU FUCKING SHOULD. In the interest of minimizing harm and improving the world in small increments for you, your neighbors and your fellow man, you should vote in local, state and federal elections. You do, in fact, have a moral imperative to vote if one candidate is running on a platform of being ‘tough on crime’ and cutting social programs and the other is running on a platform of improving education and protecting the path to citizenship.
Not voting is what they want you to do. It is why there is a Twenty-fourth Amendment. It is why the Republican Party continues to attempt to put up additional barriers to voting, why fascists keep ‘joking’ about repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. Voting for the lesser of two evils creates less harm than passively allowing evil to choose what path it follows. Until there is revolution, you must continue voting despite the abysmal choices. The rhetoric you spread is harmful, about how absolutely nothing would be different under a Kamala Harris presidency than under the current Trump administration, about how all candidates are equally evil and you will have blood on your hands when you cast your ballot, you are saying exactly what they want you to say.
Sometimes “Sound on” is a disappointment. This is not one of those times
transcript: [in thick New England accent] “Holy fucking shit; MA! MA, COME OUTSIDE, THERE’S A FUCKING MOOSE! OR A BUFFALO OR SOME SHIT; THEY’RE FIGHTIN’! Where the fuck are you goin’?! MA!! Hoooly shit; this is some fuckin’ National Geographic shit. MA, CALL THE FUCKIN’ COPS OR THE ASPCA; THERE’S ANIMALS FIGHTIN’ IN THE FRONT LAWN!! OOOOOH SHIT!!”
complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said “oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person” with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he’s mildly fond of chocolate chips
I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day
“Friend” is an AI wearable device designed to provide “companionship + emotional support”— i.e replace human friendships. Its literally an AI chatbot that you wear around your neck. “Friend” just paid for the largest ad campaign in NYC subway history
And Every. Single. Poster was vandalised, it literally looks like some of the most beautiful art you have ever seen
a dude came into the library stoned out of his mind and was like, “do I need a library card to look at books?” And I said, “to take books home, yes. To look at them, no” and he looked so relieved. bro was staring at a fish encyclopedia for like an hour and then just left.
Scrolled past this agakn and just can’t get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.
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