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chibitorra · 2 years
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It really frustrates me just how many dude-bro-op-fans just... completely miss the entire message of One Piece.
They’re out there arguing over Yamato’s gender and whether he should be the next crewmate bc of that... when Luffy has a reindeer, a cyborg, a literal skeleton and a fishman on his crew all living in harmony on one ship. Luffy dgaf who or what you are, you are his nakama. 
One Piece is so much more than just a rubber kid beating the shit out of people. It’s a story about how love and acceptance can change the world and I worry for the people who can’t follow its example. 
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killuaisaprincess · 2 years
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If you don’t like Ki
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ohnoteethy · 11 months
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reddit exploding has brought some of the best posting i've seen in ages on this website. Like i really hope everything goes back to normal and reddit doesn't explode in on itself and the ceo eats shit on some concrete but GOD do i hope the new users stay. It's been like going to the same fucking camp every summer with the same people for years. like these people are my friends and i only get to see them here. but ohhhh my god theres new people. a new school came to the camp. your normal camp exploded? i'm so sorry to hear. you've been dropping some of the funniest things i've ever heard before. Thanks for bringing your students here ms reddit. yeah i really hope you come back next year to camp tumblr. no yeah i really hope your normal camp gets fixed but if you want to stay here a while you're always welcome . yeah just don't follow the strange women into the forest or the uncanny faces at your window at night that you have to banish once a week in a intricate spell. you're also trans? that's fucking awesome
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max1461 · 11 months
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Tips for any new redditors joining Tumblr today
If you're going to be moving from reddit to tumblr, there are a couple of important things you need to know. This site, has a culture, and it's important to understand it! So here's a few tips for new users:
On reddit, people will often say things like "have an upvote, good sir". Here on tumblr, we shit on the fucking ground.
On reddit, there's no reblogging of content, so you might not know the etiquette. Basically, it's to crank your hog fast and furious style
If you see someone write "prev tags", that means mao zedong, chairman of communist china, is their celebrity crush and they write all these like ten thousand, hundred thousand word stories on ao3 about him romancing and seducing vladimir lenin, and so on
People here will be like "kill this guy kill that guy I love to kill I'm a killer I kill people, I stick figure biting and gnashing angry stick drawing all the time" but they're simply a lesbian in their room. Don't fear them they are timid even at the grocery store.
FUcking shit lol, big cocks and penis
Almost all our power users are members of this or that ideolgoy, we've got all these catholic midwestern chicks who do a lot of drugs and post racist memes, we've got stalinists and also trans girls who want to upload their brain to the computer. When you see a funny post remember its by one of these peopel.
irl I know a guy who eats human flesh for a lving and if you ask me I can get you some if you want to try it
Crank your hog crazy style over here
kill kill kill the president kill the first lady get um kill people on purpose (you, in the audience: kill a man). did you know that covid was created by the little jizz men, little jizz homonculuses that live in our ears? stop masterbating and they will die :(
it is determined that you are a nazi pedophile or not based on which cartoons for example sponge bob or stephen universe you like but I won't tell you which ones. good luck you nazi pedophile *nuggies your head endearingly*
crank your hog maoist style.
the glory of the chinese communist party is what sets the people free! remember that mao is always beside you!!!!
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citrusinicake · 9 days
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Day 2 :: Zombie Apocalypse
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do you have any idea how fucking hard it is to be a zombie in this economy? you just go out there trying to have a bite to eat so you go up to some randos and they just start SHOOTING YOU! like straight up just SHOOTING YOU! like what the hell man? i mean i know im trying to rip your brains out and shit but cant you let a guy just fucking eat???? speaking of, this guy's brain tastes weird like im pretty sure its at least fifty percent plastic, maybe even a hundred percent i don't know. was he your boyfriend or something? does this mean you're single? wanna go out sometime? you're annoying as shit but i like that in a man, keeps you on your toes y'know? keeps you humble as well like you just wake up in bed one day and go "oh god this is the guy im dating and i don't even want to break up with him or anything what the hell's wrong with me," which i think is a pretty important thing to have-- at least for me 'cause im awesome as shit and if i don't have that sort of anchor i'll probably lke turn into god or something and i dont wanna be god. not out of self-esteem issues or anything, just out of principle 'cause i think that everyone should have a fair chance at killing me which not gonna lie is pretty easy but that's besides the point, the point is that i think anyone who wants to be god is fucking stupid and should just fucking die. like, hello??? who the hell do you think you are rying to reign above other people? are you stupid? are you dumb? hello? anyways, if you wanna know more about what i think of this i post a lot on r/atheism, im user u/waffleontopp-- wait , do i have to explain reddit to you? 'cause you seem more like a tumblrina to me, honestly reddit's pretty similar to tumblr so you won't have a lot of trouble figuring it out on your own but don't be shocked ifbyou see cock and balls on there since porn isn't banned there unlike tumblr. how's that whole thing treating you by the way? must be tough not seeing some girl's boobs every once in a while-- wait are you gay or bi? must be tough not seeing some guy's boobs every once in a while, that won't be problem if you start dating me though. haha just kidding, my chest is basically concave now after a survivor beat me repeatedly with a baseball bat so ive got like negative double D's now. oh but i do know this one guygirlthing whose boobs are out basically 24/7 who likes to hang out with me and this other guy so maybe that'll make up for it. they're not zombies and im pretty sure they didnt get infected so you don't have to worry about that but they miiiight have rabies or something im not sure to be honest so maybe watch out for that instead. if youre wondering why two non-infected humans are hanging out with a zombie then we're in the same boat, might have something to do with the possible rabies i mentioned earlier. also if they tell you that im their pet zombie that is simply not true, if anything it's the other way around, they're my pet guard dogs and they do basically anything i say even if it kills them. or at least i wish it would kill them, they're way too hardy in my opinion, i need them to die so i can eat their brains-- oh but then i'll have to do manual labor. hmm, on second thought, they can stay actually i don't wanna deal with all that. normally i dont even do my own kills nowadays, i just leave a trap or get the other two to do it for me, you guys just caught me offguard which is lowkey embarassing but trust me i am a huge, like Huge alpha sigma gamma male and would totally dominate everyone else around me. but not in a god way of course, just in a lone sigma alpha gamma wolf kinda way like those anime wolf furry drawings. you know the ones. and like im not a furry but not gonna lie they totally popped off with those
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preeningpisces · 16 days
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Non-curse AU! Choso is a big ol' nerd
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A/N: As a big ol' nerd myself I feel passionately about this, so I have way too many thoughts repost bc it wasn't showing in the tag for some reason
Below the cut because I'm a yapper!
♠ Definitely the type to meet his S/O through discord because I think non-curse Choso is much shyer than regular Choso
❥ He wouldn’t be an admin. He’d be the quiet type that’s always there reacting to posts but rarely talks. Has the sickest emotes tho
❥ Prefers smaller discord communities, mostly video game servers
❥ I think he'd like the vaporwave aesthetic and all the RBG setups. Keeps his computer area neat and tidy
❥ Choso fucking loves video games. He'll buy those $300 special edition pre-orders and get the cool figures
❥ HUGE Soulsborne fan. His favorite is Bloodborne (on the nose but I couldn't resist). Also really loves Monster Hunter. Cares a lot about the monster's details, like their eating habits. I think his fave would either be Odogaron, Nargacuga or Zinogre.
❥ Picks the edgiest weapons lmfao. Definitely a longsword user in Monster Hunter. Went blood build in Elden Ring
❥ *Sigh* he does consult reddit for his builds and is a min-maxer. I'm afraid Choso is a reddit user but in a 'I need a thorough understanding of this' kind of way
❥ Function over fashion: he dgaf if that helmet is as ugly as sin, it gives him +2 endurance and he's gonna wear it
❥ Lets you create his character & name them & everything.
❥ If you can't be present for the character creation portion, he'll make his character you! Definitely made you his dream guardian in Baldur's Gate 3 (which in the early access was called the Dream Lover, which is even cuter)
❥ Not pretentious at all about what is/isn't gaming, and plays all sorts of genres
❥ LOVES NINTENDO GAMES. Mario has a special place in his heart. DEFINITELY mains Shy Guy in Mario Kart
❥ Will literally cry and die if you play video games with him. You don't have to be good because he'll happily teach you. Just watching him play and asking about the details will make his day
❥ Definitely would do those cute Animal Crossing museum dates. Loves the relaxing, chill music so much. Despite his min-maxer approach to other games, he's absolutely not a time traveler in Animal Crossing. He's of the mindset that it ruins one of the core features of the game
❥ Stardew Valley? Stardew Valley. Honestly, I can't decide who he romanced first. My heart is telling me Leah, but chat pls advise
❥ Speaking of chat, you just know he's a fan of let's players. Always watching a YouTuber or Twitch Streamer. He's a Markiplier fan. You know it, just accept it
❥ Tbh that's a cute thought: Choso being a fan of the reader that's a small twitch streamer. Should that be a thing?
❥ Really good at singleplayer games. AWFUL at pvp
❥ He'll play something like Fortnite or Overwatch for Yuji, but needs to be hard carried because he only plays when someone asks him to. He can't stand how toxic those communities are, and doesn't want to socialize with strangers just to play a game
❥ He gets HEATED SO EASILY when people are toxic, especially if it's directed at Yuji or someone else he cares about. Definitely the type to step in and check other ppl when they're being toxic. Like those clips where it's a woman in a lobby and the dudes all start being sexist. Choso will not let that shit fly!
❥ Teabag him if you want to see him lose his shit
❥ On the note of Overwatch: the only character he can and will play is Mercy, and he just pockets Yuuji the whole time. Yuji has to beg him to heal/boost their teammates
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nhularin · 1 year
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Some Enhypen headcanons because I'm bored
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warnings: crack, nonsensical stuff😭😭 dont take this seriously please, me being delulu, dts in heeseungs, its 4 am my mind isnt minding, not proofread
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HEESEUNG
Man
I feel like since he has his own room and yk, is a certified gamer™
He rage quits a lot and throws shit around
" User Goku_outdoer_forever stop playing around and get ur shit together or ill kill u!!!!" he's 13 please calm down Mr. Lee
his poor members will be startled awake by his outbursts
talking abt gamer boy hee
his room REEKS of sweat, energy drinks and pent up rage
its okay boo i still love u xx
Jay
facebook mom
"niki why are u making that face, SMILE"
takes 10k food pics from 9229 different angles
its ok tho the house smells amazing bc of him
fashion influencaaaa
Nope its not sunghoon sorry guys
forces jungwon or jake to rate his outfits of the week (in exchange for food of course)
Gets pissed when they rate it a score lower than 9 ( how dare u insult my ability to put clothes together)
Jake
How do i say this in the nicest way
This man gives me massive Kevin Nguyen vibes
Especially with his black hair and glasses
the way je flirts with engenes is criminal
dude i thought we had something serious why are u cheating on me
the type to drive up to ur house in a red maserati and baseball cap
ykw the whole oitfit of jake in subway surfers 😭
its okay babe ill ignore ur red flags
SUNGHOON
he sleeps with his eyes WIDE open
so damn still too😭 is he dead or just having a peaceful slumber??? No one knows
he reminds me of a lululemon girl (no i will not explain myself)
no thoughts behind those eyes
MC Sunghoon will forever be in my heart
tried to google funny gen z jokes but ended up on the wrong side of reddit
Now he's stuck with bad dad jokes :/ he thinks theyre funny too (they are babe ill always find them funny"
Wonyo and him gossip about the whole industry
might even be worse than sunoo...
i can see him being a (fanfic) writer
runs a red velvet (irene) account
SUNOO
Im scared
Dude is probably friend's with like half of the kpop industry
probably has a burn book (kidding!)
owns a fan account and causes fanwars
"Enha flops!" Watch as chaos unfolds
since its confirmed that idols have finstas
he owns a tea account abt hybe especially abt enhypen
" sunghoon smells like shit and doesnt wipe after pissing - s.jy" we all know its u sunoo
JUNGWON
biggest blackmailer
probably has shit on everyone and their mother
"Whattttt no he's innocent and would never do that" oh he would.
remember how he danced / popped in his sleep during i-land? now its worse
LMAOOOO imagine him bolting up fromhis bed like hes being electrocuted
poor sunoo sees his life flashing by
Okay i know this might sound crazy and so not jungwon but hear me out
He owns a tiktok stan account for jungkook
and makes those "would ____ survive a jungkook killer smile???" Videos and proceeds to add John Cena and JYP
Sunoo and him are the unbeatable duo when it comes to defending their faves
but when it comes to their own group.... crickets!!!!
NIKI
Gym RAT
not the good kind either he looks like he smells
kidding
or am i
probably spends hours in the bathroom trying to work on his thirst trap face
"riki stop hogging the bathroom" " im shitting!"
learns gg dances in his free time
yall definitely saw his pre debut videos man was EATING IT UPPPPP
imagine him dancing to poppy with his overgrown fetus body
#1 isa fan and swith im sorry 🤷🏻‍♀️
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joyliit · 3 months
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Hiya! Welcome to my blog!
Last updated 4 April, 2024
Basic Shit:
I'm Alex, but I go by a variety of other names, such as Joy, Liit, Allen, Calxe, Sasha, Li, Alexandra, Dalisay, and Pelex.
I am an AFAB genderqueer (genderfluid & genderflux) teenager. Please do not send me any asks or DMs for money, sex, or romance.
Interests:
- Drawing
- Writing
- Alt Music
- Animation
- Languages
- Psychology
- Criminal law
- Fencing
- Taekwondo
- Overthrowing the government
- Medieval executions
- Reading random Wikipedia articles
- Cool plants (typically poisonous)
- My OCs (Please ask me about them I'm desperate)
Fandoms:
- The Amazing Digital Circus
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Brooklyn 99
- Bungo Stray Dogs
- The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
- Genshin Impact
- Hazbin Hotel
- Helluva Boss
- Honkai Starrail
- Magic and Mystery / Coil
- Murder Drones
- Percy Jackson (and related series)
- Project Sekai
- Strange the Dreamer / Muse of Nightmares
- Tales from the Stinky Dragon
Goals:
- A PHD in psychology
- A law degree
- A stable life (probably unattainable)
- Being multilingual
- Being a mildly successful author/animator/artist
Tags:
#Joy's art - I make something (not specifically drawing)
#Joy's asks - I answer asks
#Joy's bad spending habits - Things I want to buy
#Joy's confessions - I say silly (slightly embarrassing) things about myself
#Joy draws - I draw
#Joy's OCs - My original characters! Wether that be art, writing, or something that just seems like them to me
#Joy's glossary - Fun ways of using words and grammer because yes
#Joy's music - anything related to music
#Joy rants - I talk about stuff
#Joy's refs - anything I might use in the future for drawing or writing
#Joy's vengeance - I am angry about something and this helps
#Joy vents - I vent about negative shit that's happened
[Will probably add more in the future]
Blogs:
@joyliit is my main blog, where I reblog a lot of different things, such as art, political stuff (not often), memes, writing prompts, or other related things.
@thejoyofdeath is my more active side blog, where I post my own art, some stories, and occasionally a headcanon or two. I don't really use it for much else.
@justyourlocalzhonglisimp is my Genshin Impact focused sideblog, where I have many headcanons (mostly Raiden and Scaramouche), and sometimes art.
@sideblogsam is a sideblog purely used to spam on those posts that have stuff like "if this post gets 5k notes I'll walk to a nearby restaurant rather than eating cup noodles again".
Notable Mentions:
Though Tumblr is my most active (and the best social media platform), I also have accounts on a couple other social sites.
@ ca.lxe is my Instagram, though it is completely empty at the moment.
@ JoyLiit and @ Alien.Allen are my YouTube channels, though, completely empty as well.
u/justyourlocalal is my reddit user.
If you read through this whole thing I'd like to thank you for your time and wish you a good day/night.
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storiesbyrhi · 2 years
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Vintage Reeboks - Chapter 4: Cemetery Drive
Eddie Munson x Reader More Eddie fics here
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Warnings: Grief; drug use; cemetery setting; bad understanding of Indiana geography
Synopsis: The gate at the bottom of Lover’s Lake was meant to spit the quartet out in the Upside Down. Steve, Nancy, and Robin were meant to be there. He wasn’t meant to be alone. But when Eddie comes to on the shoreline, you’re there. It’s not the Upside Down. It’s not Lover’s Lake. It’s not 1986.
Previous Chapters: 1 - Lover’s Lake; 2 – Hey, Siri; 3 - World Wide Web
Chapter Synopsis: Éowyn is no man and Eddie looks for Wayne.
Author’s Note: I genuinely regret killing Will in my previous chapter, and I am sorry. If I could take it back, I would. The following Tumblr users had suggestions for what post-80s music Eddie would like, and I thank them for their input: @sk8-wytch, @moonsomnia, @tenderyellowbluefics, @hocuspocuscrocus, @nushy, @mybuttonfelloff, and @nikiiwi.
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The sun was setting as Eddie and Dustin ended their call. Golden hour bathed your pool house room in an orange glow. You watched the shadows move as you tried to work out what you were going to do with Eddie in the meantime. It was going to take the cavalry a few days to arrive; they had lives that required organisation, after all. It wasn’t like they could just skip out on class or curfew anymore.
“What are you doing?” you asked him.
After he closed Zoom, Eddie opened Google. You watched him type in a name.
Wayne Munson.
“Wait,” you closed the laptop before it could load the results. Eddie looked at you, frowning. “Is that your uncle?”
He looked almost embarrassed.
“I didn’t want to ask Dustin ‘bout him… Whatever happened to him, it couldn’t have been good… Don’t know how I’ll… I don’t know. I just need to know,” Eddie said, trying to explain something he couldn’t put words to.
Maybe letting Eddie run free in 2022 was a bad idea. Neither of you knew how the whole time travel thing was meant to work. Loading Eddie up with information about the future, like how his uncle died, then returning him to 1986 might fuck up the timeline. Grandfather paradox or some shit.
Eddie was still looking at you, scanning your expression.
“I just left him there,” he said.
You broke away from Eddie’s intense eye contact, nodding. He went back to Google but didn’t know the best thing to search for.
“Here, let me,” you offered. He slid the laptop across the bar.
Next to his uncle’s name, you typed, Obituary. The local paper no longer existed and there were no archives. You couldn’t find a trace of him, so you turned to the last resort. Reddit. There was a subreddit that could find almost anything. It was not clear if they did so through legal means, but you didn’t much care.
“We’ll check in a few hours,” you said to Eddie after explaining the concept of Reddit.
He accepted it, walking away from the bar. He was quiet and too calm. You’d known him for less than twenty-four hours but even you could tell he wasn’t okay. It made you feel desperately sad.
Eddie sat on the edge of your bed, letting himself fall back. His foot began to tap against the floor, a nervous tick maybe.
“If you need to be alone for a bit, I can go inside-” you began, standing up.
“Can I level with you?” Eddie asked, staring at the ceiling.
“I guess,”
“I haven’t been this… pathologically sober in a while. It’s been,” he pauses to count. “Five days, man. And a couple since I’ve had a smoke.”
“Feel like you’re crawling out of your skin type of thing?”
Eddie sat up a little, leaning back on his arms. “You know the feeling?”
“I know the feeling,” you confirmed. “Ambien helped?”
“To sleep, yeah,”
“Lightweight compared to what you’re used to though?”
Eddie tried to hide his smile. “Just because I sell cake doesn’t mean I eat all the cake.”
You laughed. “Right, well, we can go get some… cake. One condition though,”
“Anything, for my knight in shining armour,” Eddie said, standing up only to bow dramatically.
“Yeah, it’s all that,” you shook your hand at his general dramatic energy. “That might help. I’ve got tomorrow off work too, but after that I’m gonna need a very good excuse to not show up Saturday.”
“Look, sweetheart, you keep shooting me down like this and I might get hurt,” Eddie said, hand over his heart.
“Sweetheart?!” you squeaked, looking over at him from behind the wheel of your car. “Well fuck, you’ve really perked up since you got your hands on that.”
Eddie looked down at the Ziplock bag of weed in his lap. “Something comforting about drug deals being the same. Baggies. Stupid nicknames,”
“Yeah? What was your dealer’s?” you ask.
“Reefer Rick,” Eddie said fondly. “Although… Would be happy not to see his place for a long while…”
You focused on the road while Eddie fell into his thoughts. It went on a little too long, the quiet unsettling.
“So… Still no good excuse then?” you said. All the ones he’d offered were hilarious, given, but probably wouldn’t gain much belief from your boss.
“You want an excuse that they won’t want to talk about. No follow-up questions. You gotta make ‘em sad or make ‘em sick,” he told you so eloquently that it felt like a rehearsed speech.
“Sick or sad?”
“Yeah… Sick is easy. Violent diarrhea. Acidic puke. Traumatic loss of body fluids.”
You laughed. “You know, my boss is a sexist piece of shit. I could probably say heavy period and it would work just as well,”
“Ah, a feminine touch,” Eddie said. “I like it… Your other option is sad,” he continued, frowning and pulling a puppy dog face. “Dead relative. Dying relative. That kind of thing,”
“Back to my boss being a piece of shit…”
“Right. Traumatic loss of body fluids it is… So, we better start the pain relief, for those cramps, yeah? How do you take your poison?” Eddie had his precious party bag open and he was inspecting each individual bud.
“I take it at home, not behind the wheel of a car. It’s not the 80s anymore,”
“No. No, it is not,” Eddie agreed, while he looked out the window at the unimpressive and still relatively small bright lights of downtown Hawkins.
As you pulled into Chipotle’s drive-through, Eddie almost looked like a dog who just realised he’d been taken to the park.
“Wow… Hawkins got fancy, huh?”
“It most certainly did not.”
When you had shown Eddie your small, glass pipe that was Hello Kitty themed, the look he gave you was priceless. He promised that he could roll the perfect blunt, so you let him. As you pulled out a couple of plates for your Mexican, you glanced over at him.
Eddie was sat cross-legged on your bed, a small tray out in front of him. He worked quickly. It was almost hypnotic.
You sat down opposite him and watched him assemble.
“I made you a playlist on, uh, Spotify… You wanna put it on?” he asked, his voice calm and gentle.
He said it so nonchalantly. Like it didn’t mean anything.
Why would it mean anything? You asked yourself.
Eddie glanced up, read your face, and grinned his toothy smile again.
“I mean, I would’ve made you a mixtape. That’s what we used to do, back in my day,” Eddie joked. “Love the convenience but it doesn’t really have the same magic, does it?”
You shook your head slowly. “No… But, thank you… That’s really sweet,”
“Don’t go spreading that rumour about me. Got a reputation of Satan-worshipping to maintain, you know?”
It was another joke, but the kind with a little pain behind it.
“I wouldn’t have believed it. If I was there, I mean,” you told him as you pulled your laptop over and found the playlist named Knight in Shining Armour.
The music Eddie selected was a mix of his favourites, your favourites, and bands he’d just discovered. Black Label Society you could appreciate. Rob Zombie, Alice In Chains, and Nine Inch Nails too. Mastodon, Opeth, Disturbed, Godsmack, and American Murder Party weren’t entirely your thing, but it tracked. It came as no surprise that he’d found System of a Down; he was a stoner, after all.
“BABYMETAL?” you noted. “Is that on there for me or you?”
“Both,” Eddie answered. “Saw them on some of your playlists, but I kind of dig it. Feels like an acid trip, man.”
Eddie offered you the joint, but you shook your head. “You go first. Seeing as you’ll die without it,”
He shrugged and lit it. You started to eat, and that’s how you both sat for a good while. Listening to music, swapping plates of food and the blunt.
When the food was consumed, you repositioned yourself sitting against your headboard. Patting the bed next to you, Eddie happily crawled over, not needing an extended invitation to get under the covers.
“Review of your first Chipotle experience?”
“Exquisite,” he replied, complete with a chef’s kiss.
“And the weed? How’s the ’22 strain going?”
“Well,” and he rolled his head over to face you, all floppy like a rag doll. “I feel pretty good for someone in my position,”
“Pretty good is good enough. This is gonna really up the serotonin though,” you say as you close Spotify and open a folder labeled Definitely NOT Downloaded Movies.
It took until Frodo arrived in Rivendell for Eddie’s hand to find yours. He traced patterns on your palms, sometimes letting his fingers trail up the inside of your arm. At “fly, you fools,” you let Eddie bundle you up in a hug. By Lothlórien, you were trying his rings on, holding them out like a newly made fiancé. Finally, when Boromir saved the hobbits, you played with Eddie’s hair as he rested his head in your lap, wiping a tear or two away.
“I can’t believe they went for it with the three-hour films,” Eddie said from the bed while you made tea.
“Yeah. It’s a bit insane to try to watch them all in one night, but-”
“You’re not bowing out this early, are you? The Battle of Helm’s Deep! Treebeard!”
By Gandalf the White’s reveal, you were sitting between Eddie’s legs, your back to his chest. As Aragorn fell to his not-death, and Eddie squealed, you realised that, speaking of screaming, you hadn’t felt the urge to internally scream in a while. The lake at midnight wasn’t calling you to that momentary oblivion.
When the Ents stormed Isengard, you rolled your head back and pulled Eddie’s arms around you more tightly. He rested his head on your shoulder and started to calculate the risk of maybe trying to kiss you. He pet your hair gently when you cried for Haldir. A Nazgûl, tricksy Gollum, and sad boy Faramir later, Eddie decided he was jumping the gun.
“Still with me?” he whispered to you, as he started the final film. Dawn would be breaking soon, but he couldn’t not see the ring destroyed.
You nodded into him, sighing happily, somewhere between awake and asleep and just really fucking content.
When the beacons were alight with a promise that Rohan will answer the call, Eddie tried not to think about kissing your neck.
Shelob, Andúril, Paths of the Dead, Denethor gone mad. You fell asleep. Éowyn is no man, Mount Doom, and Rosie Cotton. Eddie fell asleep, holding you close.
The Reddit notification was from a user, hist0ryhunt3r, who had tracked down some very old information. A typed version of Wayne Munson’s obituary had his death dated only two years after Eddie disappeared into the lake gate.
It read, Wayne Munson, 1945 – 1988. Son, Brother, Uncle. No public funeral held.
“That’s it?” Eddie asked, taking the laptop from you. “That’s all they wrote?”
“In that newspaper, yeah. It’s from somewhere near… Lindon, I think,”
“He must have moved,”
“Makes sense,” you said. You would have if you were in Wayne’s shoes. It was something you’d always wondered about your uncle; why didn’t he leave Hawkins if the place brought him so much pain?
There was a second attachment. hist0ryhunt3r had found a semi-recent map of a cemetery just outside of Lindon; there was a section where the graves hadn’t been digitally archived yet, and they were willing to bet Wayne would be buried there.
As Eddie reviewed the information, you got out of bed and checked your fridge for milk. As soon as you opened it, you knew it was bad.
“Alright, well, this milk is fucking gross. So, let’s do a day trip out to Lindon. Get breakfast and find your uncle. On the way back we can stop somewhere you won’t be recognised for groceries. Sound like a plan?”
Eddie looked over at you. You hated that sad, confused, wide-eyed expression. It made you worried for him. Even if it was a bit cute.
“Look, I feel like I’m pulling you into something here,” he started, getting out of the bed and walking over to you. You put the milk down and gave him your full attention. “Like I’m stopping you from living your normal life.”
He was compassionate, you’d give him that. Intuitive, maybe not so much. Eddie hadn’t seemed to notice that there wasn’t really a life blowing up your Instagram notifications, no to-do list stuck to the pinboard, and no people banging on your door.
However shitty and stagnant you felt your life was, it was nothing compared to the current trauma Eddie was experiencing. So, you did what you did a lot. You didn’t say shit.
Apparently, a simple shrug in reply wasn’t enough for Eddie.
“No...? Yes...?” he asked.
“Uhhh, no? No. I don’t have anything going on… Except work, but as we’ve established, I am more than happy to ditch,”
“Piece of shit boss,” Eddie said.
“Piece of shit boss,” you repeated.
He looked at you carefully. He was studying your face, trying to see something that would help him understand why you were so generous with your time, and space, and life. It wasn’t something he was used to, and therefore it would usually make him suspicious. But being around you felt… normal?
Eddie wasn’t sure he’d ever felt normal.
“So, Lindon?” you asked, the weight of Eddie’s gaze burning you alive.
He nodded slowly. “Yeah. Yeah, thanks.”
Once you’d cleared the Hawkins town line, you found somewhere to stop for breakfast. You were horrified to discover that Eddie was a waffles guy.
“They’re so dry,” you argued, pouring more maple syrup over your stack of pancakes.
“Nah, man. Only shitty ones. Good ones are crispy, but fluffy on the outside,”
“Like you?”
It had kind of just slipped out. It was so dumb and you almost blushed with embarrassment. But Eddie laughed. Of course, he did.
“So, what’s devil-worshipping in 1986 is just plain old crispy in 2022?” he asked, fitting another almost-whole waffle in his mouth.
“You admit it then. Waffles are just plain and old?”
He shook his head and pointed his butter knife in your direction. You didn’t know what it meant, but it made you laugh and that definitely made you blush with embarrassment.
The rest of the drive was calm, save for the heavy metal music and the jitter in Eddie’s leg that was screaming out for a cigarette. You didn’t smoke though, so he didn’t want to either.
You would take turns playing a song, giving each other an education. Eddie was impressed at the broad range of music you liked; you couldn’t be pigeonholed and that was cool. You were impressed at the depth of knowledge he had about the bands he loved, considering he didn’t have the internet.
Around lunchtime, you stopped at a McDonald’s in a town neither of you had heard of.
“It’s weird… that this still tastes the same,” Eddie said, eyeing his burger with distrust.
“Yeah. It doesn’t, like, break down either. Just kind of goes hard, I think? Mummifies,”
“Mummified Big Mac,” he replied, his eyes narrowing even more.
Outside, as you unlocked your car and watched as Eddie walked along in front of you, you noticed a shop across the road. Vintage and Thrift a sign read in faded retro paint.
“Hey,” you called to Eddie, pointing to the store. “Should we get you some clothes?”
You’d always loved combing through the racks of op shops and vintage stores. There was obscure vinyl to find, and old band shirts that probably were donated on behalf of unknowing dads across the U.S.
The one you and Eddie found yourself in was split into two sections; unsurprisingly, there was the Vintage side, where things were overpriced and retro at best, and the Thrift side, where it was always hit and miss.
You located Eddie looking through the box of vinyl marked 80s: Rare. “If I knew how much some of these would be worth, I might have taken better care of them,” he told you, holding up a Metallica record.
While Eddie was assessing his net worth, you found him some Levi blue jeans, a red flannel button up, a bootleg Nine Inch Nails t-shirt, and a very well-loved Gremlins t-shirt that would probably swim on Eddie but you were willing to guess he loved Gizmo.
“Oh, shit! I could not get enough of this little guy. Gotta say though, Spike was my favourite.”
The cemetery gates were huge, ornamental. They set the tone perfectly, and as if on cue, Eddie went still. Pensive. Anxious, maybe. It was easy to find the older part of the grounds; the grass grew longer there and the graves didn’t have bright flowers nor small colourful wind spinners.
“Um. So, do you want to start at opposite ends? Divide and conquer?” you asked softly, looking over at Eddie in the passenger seat.
He glanced out the window then back to you, then hesitated to speak. You waited patiently, watched as his lips parted then closed again. After a few beats, he asked, “Could we look together?”
Soft. You felt absolutely gooey for the boy.
“Yeah. Of course.”
As you approached the first row of graves, you held out your hand. Eddie took it quickly. It’s weird; you typically weren’t the handholding type. It’s not that you particularly disliked it. It was more that you felt awkward, like your walking was affected. Or you’d be worried about having a sweaty palm. And if there was a height difference?! Forget about it.
It wasn’t like that with Eddie. Your fingers sat threaded through his, easy.
Weaving between the rows, looking for the familiar name, you lead the way. Eddie was quiet, and you realised – not even looking at the graves. He was scared.
When you found Wayne eight rows in, almost at the center of his row, you stopped.
Eddie took a deep breath in then looked down. He crumbled, only managing to hold in the emotion for a split second. You let go of his hand as he fell to his knees, putting his palms flat against the plaque and leaning forward. Between the sobs and the whimpers, you could make out words. Eddie was saying, “I’m sorry,” over and over.
Your nose started to tingle and your eyes stung with tears.
Did he need time alone? Or would he prefer company? You had no idea what to do, but before you could decide, your body was moving. Keeping your hands in your pockets, you stood right behind Eddie, close enough to touch him.
In response, Eddie moved from kneeling to sitting cross-legged. He leaned back against your legs, his crying quietening down, like your touch was grounding.
“He is… was… so good to me,” Eddie said, wiping his face on the sleeve of his jacket. “Took me in when I needed a home. Gave me the bedroom in the trailer… He sleeps on a fold out bed. Every day. Just so I have my own space,”
“He sounds like a good man,” you responded.
“He is. He never believes the shitty things people say about me. Never judges me… He’s cool, ya know? I think… I think he taught me to be myself. ‘Cause he’s a bit of a freak too. He has all these mugs and caps. Like, I’m talking hundreds. He has so many there are some packed in boxes because there’s not enough room for them all. His favourite is the Garfield mug. Always can tell when I've used it.”
Eddie talked until he felt like passing out.
When you got back into the car and passed through those gothic gates again, the sun was beginning to set.
“We’ll get you back to him,” you told Eddie. He nodded. “And, uh, I brought something for you. Just in case.”
Having reclined his seat back a bit, he rolled his head to look at you. “For moi?”
You nodded to the glove compartment. 
Eddie cackled. “You know me so well,” he said, holding the joint up.
Later that night, after the long drive back to Hawkins, after pizza and Spinal Tap and Deathgasm, after something that was way too close to cuddling for Eddie not to fall in love, he fell asleep in 2022 for the third time.
End Note: P.S. I love My Chem. P.P.S. Loved the behind-the-scenes photos of Eddie’s possible outfits. He would have rocked that red flannel.
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Why I was banned from r/curatedtumblr: a very belated explanation/apology post
Before migrating here from Reddit, I used to be a regular participant in r/tumblr as a commenter, then r/curatedtumblr when r/tumblr became unusably bloated with repost bots, and the useless mods did nothing because Reddit's leadership system is dumb and broken. Hence the name, curated tumblr; an r/tumblr replacement that was actually moderated. All of the regulars, including me, migrated there, and now r/tumblr is like 90% karma-farming bots endlessly upvoting each other, presumably so the accounts can later be sold for advertising or political astroturfing purposes. Happens all the time.
I explain this because it's important to understand that a) I was a part of the community for quite a while, and b) r/curatedtumblr was heavily moderated, so as to avoid the mistakes of its predecessor. Fine and dandy.
I was a high schooler at the time, terminally online and working a shitty fast food job to save up for the PC I'm typing this on. Thus, I'd spend the days endlessly interacting with the people on r/curatedtumblr, and the evenings working at a Taco Bell, unable to use my phone until breaktime.
One day, I forget the exact context, but the subject of r/FDS came up, which for those of you who are unaware is a hive of femcels. Named as an acronym for Female Dating Strategy, the sub was infamously sexist towards men, going on about things like "high/low value males" and how men below 6' were inhuman scum and basically doing everything incels do but with the gender roles flipped. And just like incels, everyone there was unaware the real reason The sub featured a nauseating glittery pink colour scheme a la Claire's, and everybody there talked like a popular high school girl in a Nickelodeon movie, all "yaaaaaass queen" "you go girl!" and shit like that.
So this sub comes up, and if memory serves we were shitting on it, or at least I was? Again, the context has been lost to memory, and since the sitewide search tools you used to be able to use to find multiple year old comments have all kicked the bucket, and the Reddit UI for finding old content is stupid and requires you to trudge through the entire histroy of a user chronologically until you find what you're looking for with no option to jump to the desired time period, I'm probably never going to be able to find it. I was making fun of the kind of shit they said on that sub, and I said something like "yass kween dump his low-value ass he only makes 800k a year ur worth more gurl," and then went to work.
Now, I didn't know it at the time, but as I worked, somebody saw the comment and thought I was mocking AAVE. They accused me of being a "4 Chan Nazi." Things kind of snowballed from there. Now, and this is embarassing and I've been hesitant to admit to it, but I'm here to explain and apologize, so:
when I was in high school, I did not know what AAVE meant.
I took offense to being accused of being a Nazi, and I forget what my reply was, but it was snarky towards the accuser, which made me look like a POS. Since I did not know what AAVE was, I did not refute the claim that I was making fun of it, and this made me look really, really bad to anybody who did.
I was then banned for this alleged racism. I looked up what AAVE was, realized I totally did look like a racist in that situation, but rather than fight the allegations, me, being an anxious teenager, instead eternally procrastinated on doing so, afraid of further anger directed at me.
It was a dumb choice to make, because now I'm afraid anybody on here from r/curatedtumblr who remembers those days might still think of me as "that guy who turned racist out of nowhere and then ran off." It's been eating at me for years, so I've decided it's time to rip the bandaid off and finally clear the air. I should have done this a very long time ago.
tl;dr, I made a string of bad decisions that made me look like a racist piece of shit. I could have easily undid this by immediately explaining the situation, but being an anxious, then-internet-inexperienced kid at the time, the sudden social rejection scared me, and I hid from the problem.
I'm sorry. It was a bad move. I never intended to mock AAVE, nor appear as if I was doing so. It's a valid English dialect, it's culturally important, and I respect it and those who speak in it. I apologize to anybody I may have offended by accidentally appearing to imply otherwise.
I hope anybody from those days who still remembers me can find it in their hearts to forgive me. Or they can choose not to, as is their right. I'm not here to beg for forgiveness, I'm here to finally explain things and put them to rest. This is what happened, I am sorry, and I hope you also see it as a poorly-handled misunderstanding and nothing more. I just needed to finally move on from this.
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social media is pushing their luck lately on all fronts. even when you understand their mindset these changes are risky - mainly operating under "social media is like a slot machine" kind of mindset, since thats effectively the same thing.
my point is: the best thing they can do is make it as easy as possible to use the website and develop addictions, any friction hurts this and this is why selling data is their strongest practice, *its invisible to the user*. ads, like promoted posts and such, are less intrusive. theyre just another post. ads, like how youtube does it, are very intrusive and frictional. ads still need to exist for data collection to be worth anything to the corporations, but from a social media companies perspective data collection weighs more on the scale.
but recently, theres been a few interesting developments. its not like ive been to shareholder meetings and can predict exactly what the baby eating ceos are thinking, but - i think they believe the addiction the average person has is so powerful over them that they can get away with putting more friction (or theyre just fucking stupid). the examples im talking about right now are twitters "$1 subscription" and youtube waging war on adblockers. twitters seems like just a fucking stupid descision but youtubes seems more calculated, but its still some big friction.
seriously the twitter thing is unbelieveably stupid friction if youve ever been like... on the internet without access to a credit card you know the difference between free and not free VERY well. the subscription idea will probably get dropped but if it somehow does go through like. every kid will not use it for certian, anyone who... yknow... evaluates the worth of the thing theyre buying even SLIGHTLY will quit, like... the only people that will remain are the blue checks who are not beating the nonsentient allegations. anyway.
i dont know how "normal people" use social media. i surround myself with people who are quite aware about the mass gangstalking of users and are generally above average in tech-proficiency. i dont know the social media habits of jimmy age 25. maybe jimmy will just deal with the friction, but the people i know are fairly averse to the friction and are just... using the sites less because of it. there doesnt really seem to be a stopping point in adding this friction until the site owners get burned somehow (unless youre twitter lol theyre gonna keep doing shit until the servers cant afford to be paid they have NO brakes). i guess we just have to see how much it takes for the lowest common denominator to get too annoyed with social media before sites stop their nonsense
uh, anyway, im gonna take a break from youtube until theres a way to use an adblock on it. a week? a month? never? well, thats fine. i quit reddit basically for good after the API change i can drop a site again if i need to
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The Daily Dad — Feb 20, 2024
Things you might want to know:
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‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence 💭 I feel like anyone seriously researching porn’s influence on women’s self-image in the 2020s has to be old as fuck, ‘cause no one under fifty thinks that porn is having a meaningful impact on modern self-image in the era of Instagram. When it comes to generating insecurity, a bruised-up, bored porn slut being impaled by a sketchy cock has got nothin’ on a perfect size 0 lounging —toned and smooth— in an microscopic bikini next to an infinity pool overlooking Santorini while eating an improbable pizza.
Legendary Publisher EC Comics Rises From the Grave - IGN ❝ Oni has become the official home of the EC Comics brand, via a partnership with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. The new line will be overseen by Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson and Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn in partnership with Cathy Gaines Mifsud and Corey Mifsud, the administrators of William M. Gaines Agent, Inc.
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content 💭 I just nuked a handful of my stories from Reddit. It probably won’t achieve much… they’ll probably let their scraping-buddy —coughOpenAIcough— go through the deleted content too. But it was a small price to pay for the chance to say “fuck you” to our imminent overlords.
The Text File That Runs the Internet ❝ "For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart."
New FDA-approved drug makes severe food allergies less life-threatening 💭 Before long I won’t be able to count on a peanut perimeter to protect me from a full-on snuggle assault… which we in the business call a ‘Blossom Blitz’.
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‘Life Is Strange’ and ‘Life Is Strange: Before the Storm’ Have Been Updated for Modern iOS Device and OS Support 💭 Okay, so Life Is Strange’s writing is hella whack, yo. And the expression-challenged character models tend to make it feel like a department store mannequin production of an off-off-Broadway play about loss, death, and Polaroids. But the “rewind” mechanic elevates the material, and I’m glad we’ve been playing it on the stream. If you want a mobile version of it, here ya go…
New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ ❝ Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’
After a decade and $1.2 billion, NASA reveals its booty from Bennu: 121 grams 💭 It saddens me when stories like this —which should be presented as the exciting developments they are— lead with angerbait bullshit along the lines of ‘See how much they spent to get so little?! Here are some paragraphs explaining why this is actually cool, but we couldn’t get you to read without pissing you off first.’ Human beings do something amazing, and it ends up serving random economic grievances.
Asgard’s Wrath 2 Review - IGN 💭 I’m tempted to buy this for my Quest 2, but I haven’t gotten into a VR game since Half-Life: Alyx, and I’m not sure I want to spend 90 hours spinning in circles and trying not to fall into the TV.
ChatGPT vs. Gemini: Which AI Chatbot Subscription Is Right for You? ❝ Everyone wants your $20 per month for access to their best AI chatbot. Who gets it depends on what features are important to you.
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OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video generator 💭 I recently read a pretty convincing argument that the nature of this generation of generative AI is self-limiting… the nature of the models will lead to most machine-created media looking uncannily similar, and thus boring. It won’t look bad, but those who consume enough of it will start to spot the seams. Which is good… in the short term. Hopefully, society will have time to prepare itself for the seamless shit we’ll see in 2040.
For Hundreds of Years, People Thought California Was an Island ❝ Dozens of maps show cartography's most persistent mistake.
How to get on 'Survivor': Behind the scenes of casting season 45 ❝ How do you get on 'Survivor'? Read the incredible stories and watch the audition videos of contestants that made in onto season 45.
Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value 💭 I’m not saying that there’s nothing to his argument. I’m just not sure that the dudes who stand to make billions —trillions?— from machine learning hardware are the right ones to be calling for what will essentially become a post-nuclear, multi-polar Cold War.
Walmart might buy Vizio to win the fight over cheap TVs ❝ Walmart is in talks to buy Vizio for $2 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The deal could put Walmart in a position to compete with smart TVs from Roku and Amazon.
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postinf the text for my day 2 bsweek prompt here cause its making me lag lol
do you have any idea how fucking hard it is to be a zombie in this economy? you just go out there trying to have a bite to eat so you go up to some randos and they just start SHOOTING YOU! like straight up just SHOOTING YOU! like what the hell man? i mean i know im trying to rip your brains out and shit but cant you let a guy just fucking eat???? speaking of, this guy's brain tastes weird like im pretty sure its at least fifty percent plastic, maybe even a hundred percent i don't know. was he your boyfriend or something? does this mean you're single? wanna go out sometime? you're annoying as shit but i like that in a man, keeps you on your toes y'know? keeps you humble as well like you just wake up in bed one day and go "oh god this is the guy im dating and i don't even want to break up with him or anything what the hell's wrong with me," which i think is a pretty important thing to have-- at least for me 'cause im awesome as shit and if i don't have that sort of anchor i'll probably lke turn into god or something and i dont wanna be god. not out of self-esteem issues or anything, just out of principle 'cause i think that everyone should have a fair chance at killing me which not gonna lie is pretty easy but that's besides the point, the point is that i think anyone who wants to be god is fucking stupid and should just fucking die. like, hello??? who the hell do you think you are rying to reign above other people? are you stupid? are you dumb? hello? anyways, if you wanna know more about what i think of this i post a lot on r/atheism, im user u/waffleontopp-- wait , do i have to explain reddit to you? 'cause you seem more like a tumblrina to me, honestly reddit's pretty similar to tumblr so you won't have a lot of trouble figuring it out on your own but don't be shocked ifbyou see cock and balls on there since porn isn't banned there unlike tumblr. how's that whole thing treating you by the way? must be tough not seeing some girl's boobs every once in a while-- wait are you gay or bi? must be tough not seeing some guy's boobs every once in a while, that won't be problem if you start dating me though. haha just kidding, my chest is basically concave now after a survivor beat me repeatedly with a baseball bat so ive got like negative double D's now. oh but i do know this one guygirlthing whose boobs are out basically 24/7 who likes to hang out with me and this other guy so maybe that'll make up for it. they're not zombies and im pretty sure they didnt get infected so you don't have to worry about that but they miiiight have rabies or something im not sure to be honest so maybe watch out for that instead. if youre wondering why two non-infected humans are hanging out with a zombie then we're in the same boat, might have something to do with the possible rabies i mentioned earlier. also if they tell you that im their pet zombie that is simply not true, if anything it's the other way around, they're my pet guard dogs and they do basically anything i say even if it kills them. or at least i wish it would kill them, they're way too hardy in my opinion, i need them to die so i can eat their brains-- oh but then i'll have to do manual labor. hmm, on second thought, they can stay actually i don't wanna deal with all that. normally i dont even do my own kills nowadays, i just leave a trap or get the other two to do it for me, you guys just caught me offguard which is lowkey embarassing but trust me i am a huge, like Huge alpha sigma gamma male and would totally dominate everyone else around me. but not in a god way of course, just in a lone sigma alpha gamma wolf kinda way like those anime wolf furry drawings. you know the ones. and like im not a furry but not gonna lie they totally popped off with those
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1humanresources1 · 2 years
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Warren the eagle head canons
Bad horrible posture (mf has scoliosis)
Unironically believes in alpha and sigma males
Reddit user, 4chan lurker, discord mod, professional troll
Red pill guy
Hoarder (he always eats out cause he can barely reach his kitchen his house is full of so much shit)
Showers like twice a week
Some sort of mental illness (autism or schizotypal maybe)
Lung cancer from smoking
Greasy mf
Aro ace (but gives off incel vibes)
He’s the sole listener of his podcast
Piss poor social skills
Put him in the sun and that mf will shrivel up like a raisin
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It's insane that Tumblr users, who pride themselves for being more ~rational~ than f1twt are promoting dangerous ideas like Lewis apologized to prevent his fans from sending death threats to the white teammate, which has never happened btw, it's another one of their fake stories like imaginary homophobic insults directed against a white straight man with a girlfriend. They speak of Lewis' apology without recognising that Lewis always HAS to be the bigger man, he has to take the fall to survive in a white supremacist sport. He has to apologize even when he may not feel like, to avoid merciless racist and homophobic abuse. Do they know or care when reddit had to remove 20,000 violently racist comments against Lewis after Silverstone? Icb these racists are erasing the context behind Lewis constantly repressing himself, bowing down and apologizing as a tool to attack his fans. Fans of these white men are always making up completely fake oppression narratives to establish the victimhood of their white drivers while disregarding the very real racism that Lewis is subjected to. Then people eat up these dangerous antiblack narratives, when the goal of these is to prevent Lewis' fans from supporting him, for nobody to ever mention the mistreatment and discrimination he suffers from in and outside his team. A black person is only okay to them as long as they have no support, no allies and is subservient to their white male fav. Truly vile.
yet to see one (1) rational tumblr user including myself but ok
while i completely agree, the person gave several examples and also seemed apologetic about the way they came across so i'm choosing to consider that particular topic closed. but definitely, the ignorance the fans display every time, not just other drivers' but LH fans too, when it comes to recognizing the tone and implications is staggering. being the loudest at the smallest of his stumbles doesn't make them an unbiased fan or separate them from the shit him and his fans will receive anyway. idt the "rational" fans get it.
it doesn't always have to be a slur slinging raging racist for them to notice lewis is being bullied or abused or heavily criticized for something his white counterparts get a free pass. and with fans too, it happens on micro levels. "you people" "lewis cult" "certain groups" these phrases are all a part of the coded language that so many of us just take on the chin or pretend weren't thrown around when we bring attention to the hate/mistreatment and reactions lewis' every action receives.
vile is right though.
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators gather during a vigil for U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, on Feb. 26, 2024. Photo: Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Aaron Bushnell, Who Self-Immolated For Palestine 🇵🇸, Had Grown Deeply Disillusioned With The Military! “I have Been Complicit in The Violent Domination of The World And I Will Never Get The Blood 🩸 🩸🩸 Off My Hands.”
— By Nikita Mazurov | February 28 2024
Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty U.S. Air Force Airman who set himself on fire Sunday to protest Israel’s war on Gaza, appears to have grown disillusioned with the U.S. military and his own role as a service member, according to posts on the online forum Reddit under a handle matching one used by Bushnell.
Bushnell, 25, made international news when he professed that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide” and recorded himself shouting “Free Palestine!” as he burned to death in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” Bushnell had announced on a livestream before his self-immolation, “but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers is not extreme at all.”
The Reddit posts, by a user named acebush1 and mostly from the past four years, chronicle a young person’s experience struggling with money as the pandemic took hold. The Reddit poster turned to the military and was initially enamored with the Air Force, but quickly came to denounce it.
In the months leading up to Bushnell’s act of self-immolation, several of acebush1’s posts showed how sharply their view of the military had shifted. On the r/Airforce subreddit, a user asked veterans whether, in hindsight, they would still choose to join the military. Acebush1 answered, “Absolutely not.”
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“I have been complicit in the violent domination of the world,” they said, “and I will never get the blood off my hands.”
The Intercept analysis linked the acebush1 Reddit account to Bushnell by analyzing his social media activity. In a post on Facebook the same day as his self-immolation, Bushnell had posted a link to the video streaming platform Twitch with the username LillyAnarKitty. Using a Twitch username history tool that identifies a user’s prior account names, The Intercept found that the same Twitch User ID number used by LillyAnarKitty previously employed the handle acebush1.
A Reddit user with the same username — acebush1 — posted over a thousand times since 2014. The Reddit posts mention details that align closely with Bushnell’s life, including being in the Air Force, having a friend who was a conscientious objector, and studying computer science.
As this story was being drafted, acebush1’s posts started to be removed from Reddit. The posts were archived and, though Reddit instantly deletes posts from their new interface, visiting the old-style Reddit user profile page reveals their recently deleted posts.
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“A Regret I Will Carry”
The acebush1 Reddit user joined the military soon after posting about their financial struggles at the beginning of the pandemic. On March 19, 2020, acebush1 inquired about becoming an Uber Eats driver. The following month they posted asking for financial help: “HELP – Can’t get stimulus or unemployment benefits, about to run out of money.”
In May, acebush1 posted a photo with the caption “My Dad getting suited up to give me a goodbye? hug before I leave for BMT” — basic military training. According to Bushnell’s LinkedIn page, he enrolled in “Basic & Technical Training” in the Air Force in May 2020.
Several months into enrollment, acebush1 appeared excited by the Air Force, reposting a video of a military aircraft in August 2020 and giving it a heading that said: “Man, the Air Force does some cool-ass shit.”
Acebush1 also regularly posted in various video game Reddit communities, including one dedicated to the video game “Valheim.” In Bushnell’s self-immolation livestream, the liquid container he is carrying has a sticker with the slogan ‘the bees are happy,’ a meme from “Valheim.”
In November 2021, acebush1 made multiple posts asking about advice in pursuing a computer science degree. Bushnell’s LinkedIn profile, which has been memorialized “as a tribute to Aaron Bushnell’s professional legacy,” lists him as having been in the process of pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer software engineering.
Nearly a year later, acebush1’s posts shifted from largely video game-based content to posts with titles like “Solidarity with Prisoners!” with a link to a Guardian article about an Alabama prison strike, and to reposting a meme image of anarchist philosopher Max Stirner. In 2023, acebush1 made a post with the title “Free Palestine!” and linked to a video of an activist takeover of UAV Tactical Systems, a drone company operated in part by the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems.
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“I Didn’t Realize What A Huge Mistake It Was Until I Was More Than Halfway Through.”
Shortly after the pro-Palestine post, in June 2023, acebush1 wrote, “I’m sticking it out to the end of my contract as I didn’t realize what a huge mistake it was until I was more than halfway through, and I only have a year left at this point. However it is a regret I will carry the rest of my life.”
The poster mentioned a friend who left the armed services on the basis of conscientious objection; Bushnell’s friend Levi Pierpont, according to the Washington Post, objected and left the military.
Acebush1’s posts became more stridently pro-Palestinian as Israel’s war in Gaza got underway. In one, they denounce Israel as a “settler colonialist apartheid state,” and exclaim that there are no Israeli “civilians” because the entire country is engaged in oppression. They refuse on several occasion to denounce armed Palestinian resistance, saying in the apartheid post that they “work for the air force and would also have no right to complain about violent resistance against my actions.”
In November 2023, acebush1 made another post describing “the moral necessity of getting out.”
In the last few months, acebush1 accelerated their posting across various anarchism-related Reddit communities, as well as on other various communities. “Piracy is always ethical,” acebush1 posted. “If you think that you’re making a difference with who you do and don’t choose to give your money to, you don’t understand how markets work.”
Acebush1’s last Reddit post was on February 24, expounding on how “whiteness erases culture” — a day before Bushnell’s self-immolating direct action. In an earlier post, acebush1 had written, “I’ve never been one for bullshit.”
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