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[miskak]

there’s so much pathologizing over why enemies to lovers is a popular trope (something something the normalization of abuse something something) when the simplest and less moronic answer is that narratives thrive on irony and reversals, and there’s no greater irony than characters going from hating each other’s guts to loving each other unconditionally. raw thesis-antithesis-synthesis.

#hmmmm

[miskak]

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

[miskak]

if you dont grab ass while you kiss her why do you even have hands?

#omg what is this version

[miskak]

reblog if u a lil ugly

#another rare version of the post #wow

[miskak]

reblog if your name isn't Hans.

2,121,566 people are not Hans and counting!

We’ll find you Hans.

#another version that's not amanda

[miskak]

the doctor says if this gets 5 million notes i can get a new body

#i like this version better

[miskak]

taking a tolerance break from sudoku because it's desensitizing me to numbers

[miskak]

my friend was testing perfumes out at the store and she sniffed a bottle and anounced "ngl this bitch kind of sucks" The girl at the counter suddenly looked really sad, and my friend was like "I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about you." And the girl looked up and said "No don't worry, I didn't think that, but I just crushed a ladybug with my shoe" We both took a peak over the counter. she'd stepped on a red m&m

#i'm literally crying #akdsajdlkasfd.a

[miskak]

I am so fond of english language sometimes

#he is so real for that

[miskak]

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson (American, 1948-2017)

#they explored each others bodies

[miskak]

Being a girl without close girl friends I spend time with feels like some sort of spiritual jail I've been put in for this particular lifetime and it's such a walk of shame in this day and age like I can't count how many reels or tiktoks I see of girls saying stuff like "girls who don't have girl friends??? RED FLAG!!!" Or like jokes about when you befriend the girl who has no girl friends and then you realize why...yikes! Cause she sucks and is toxic and unlovable! And I'm like ouch, that's tough to hear. I know those narratives are popular because girl friendships can be painful and I'm sure there's lot of people out there who have been deeply unkind whether on purpose or not but I guess it pains me to watch people make laughable comments about lonely women. I feel like being a lonely woman is such a derogatory notion already deeply imbedded in society and sexism that I feel like it's just sort of being reframed in the new age as like "she did that to herself" and that's never true, we are all the result of the love we get or don't and it's definitely our own responsibility how we act and how we heal or don't - but it feels so judgmental sometimes to further "other" women who don't have friends

#i am a woman in stem who moved across the whole world #so making female friends is hard

[miskak]

Using dissociate instead of zoning out. Describing a hobby as a hyperfixation. Saying nonverbal when you want a bit of quiet. Saying intrusive thoughts because that must mean an urge like to buy coffee or hair dye. Do you know feeling off sometimes is a sign of autism? Lying is gaslighting. Everyone I dislike is a narcissist.

#saying traumatized instead of upset/disappointed/sad/etc

[miskak]

you know how antivaxxers take for granted how much good vaccines have done because they never had to experience how bad it was before them? i think the same thing is happening with womens rights.

#word

[miskak]

"bUt i tHiNk mAKeUp is fUn" that's nice. i would like to be allowed to exist without it without being socioeconomically punished for that choice but what's important to focus on here is that you're just having the funnest time ever

[miskak]

I redesigned the cover of Lolita! (sound on for more context)

Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov didn't want any girls on the cover of Lolita? He wrote to his editors “I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls.” There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl.” Yet many covers of Lolita picture illustrations of little girls, often sexualized, suggestive images of body parts or of adult women posing as seductresses. These covers have been part of shaping the collective psyche around Lolita. The online Merriam Webster dictionary defines Lolita as "a precociously seductive girl." My main goals in redesigning the cover of this edition of Lolita was to get rid of the representation of Dolores Haze as a seductress and to keep the focus on Humbert Humbert. As Nabokov himself says in 1975 on a French televised interview "Outside of Mr Humbert's maniacal gaze, there is no nymphet."

#this is great

[miskak]

So here’s how laws work in the US. The federal government can’t tell the states what to make their drinking age but they can tell the states that if they don’t make the drinking age 21 then they’ll take away all of their money for highways. So the federal drinking age is not 21 but the drinking age is 21 in all 50 states. But not the territories. Because they follow different rules.

The federal government can tell the states to make marijuana illegal however but the states in return can say “lol no” and for the most part the federal government just can’t be assed to enforce this so a bunch of states have made recreational marijuana legal in varying capacities. But the businesses that sell weed can’t use federally backed banks because what they’re doing is still illegal even though it’s legal and that’s why the IRS has regulations for taxing illegal businesses.

#why can't federal government tell states to make abortion legal huh

[miskak]

it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

#this is good