#i just thought of this but tell me it isnt true

[redheadedfailgirl]

I just had a riveting discussion with a self proclaimed anarcho-capitalist at work, whose opinions included:

Tipping is bad because 'contracts with your employer are voluntary and they can leave if they're not paid enough.' He will still tip if he thinks his wife is watching

If you're stuck inside a torture chamber with an apple you can bite every ten seconds that sends you to paradise for a year, it is illogical to bite the apple and humanity is broken for thinking so

The ending to the good place was bad because the characters weren't being logical and there was so much shit you can do with the afterlife.

The marxist labor theory of value 'isn't true' because paintings have arbitrary value

Heidegger was an idiot

Kant was an idiot

Nietzche was an idiot

He is an anarcho-capitalist

If I don't have 100% certainty for something than I can't truly say that I know something is true, and isn't it illogical that people do that?

I have to see this man every Monday from now until I quit. We work one on one.

#he was also horrified that i give credit to phenomenology despite not seeming to know what that is? #and now that i think about his stupid thing with the car i could just as easily use the sun as an example #and that would be even dumber #my god this man is a fool #and every single thing he said he followed up with 'and i know thats an unpopular opinion' like wtf you weird little edgelord #go read jordan peterson and leave me alone #he ended the conversation with 'i guess i didnt change your opinion' despite me not sharing any coherent opinions whatsoever #mans is getting off on 'rational debate' and im laughing in his face when he tells me 'marx's labor theory of value isnt true' #marx #heidegger #neitzche #anarcho-capitalist #communism #anarchism #capitalism #kant #the good place #thought experiments #i guess #phenomenology #simulation theory #maybe? #tipping #ethics #my fat tranny nuts

[m00ngbin]

I always thought it was so odd that in Steven Universe they have a whole episode where Steven like projected himself into Lars' body and then him being able to do that was never mentioned again

#ok well thats not ENTIRELY true bc he did project himself into the watermelon Stevens but im pretty sure that was explained as them just #having a connection bc he magic spitted them to life and not because hes just able to astral project himself into other peoples' bodies #also thats just like a ridiculously overpowered ability to have. none of the other gems can do that its just Steven #except white diamond but i dont think that's the same #because she can control herself and other people at the same time #but they have to do everything shes doing and she cant really make them act individually #and Steven can only control one person and he has to fully leave his body #but his body isnt doing the same thing as him #anyways but why wasnt he able to use it to possess humans again? like maybe it was against his morals but like #wouldnt it have been so much easier to just possess someone in Beach City to tell his dad and the gems what was going on instead of #going through the stress of possessing a million watermelon Stevens? #if he cant control possessing people thats fine but i still think they should have mentioned it again #sorry for SU posting i just thought about it for the first time in a while and i remembered that that had always confused me

[oatbugs]

idk how to live so im going to talk to myself out loud until i do

#listen. take a deep breath. i know your bpm is high but you need to think with me for a second. #remember that you are paper thin. all your facets are sheets of paper and what you gave her is just another one. #make a new one. you dont need it. you dont need her to see you. i know you think you need her but you will be okay. i know its hard. #you wish you could have shown her how you loved her. listen to yourself. you are made of paper. #she might be concrete or maybe wood or maybe gold. you need to start laying your roots elsewhere. shut that thought down #and blink and listen. the parts you keep thinking of arent lost. they still happened and they are yours to keep. #there is beauty in this loss. tell me about the beauty in this loss. its okay to think about it. you got to see it all and nothing more #and this is great because it would have been bad. you know it would be violent in a way you dont need. you know this to be true. #you are going to look at that empty space in her shape and youre going to fill it with everything that happened when you knew her. #the memories with her but then also the the way your friends talked you through it. the game with the clovers. #your first allergic reaction you almost died and you couldnt stop laughing and you were held so close to their hearts. #learning the names for all the floursecent gene tracking dyes that everyone else knows already. about the exam - listen again. #i know you think if you fail your life is over but you need to try your best. youre not going to get a good grade in a uni test for the fir #youre going to make up for it. youre going to make sure you make up for it. do you understand? i love you. you have to do this. #right now you need to sit up. breathe. i know your heart hurts. go to the living room. grab something to eat. i dont care if you feel full. #youre going to clean your mattress heater. youre going to study a bit longer and then youre going to sleep. youre going to tell your mother #im sorry and i might genuinely fail a test. shes going to tell you its okay. if you do badly in this course you can just become a neurosurg #just agree. dont argue right now. its okay. youre okay. you are paper thin. i know any puncture hurts. #breathe. think of your friends. think of their hands in yours. it isnt eternal.youve lived through worse. the empty sky is still beautiful. #the lack of her is still beautiful

[infizero]

came to the startling realization just now that there are people who actually think light was totally fine and all his evilness came from the death note. ermmm. loud incorrect buzzer

#i definitely agree that the death note's power probably made him worse. but he was bad before that guys.... #i mean i guess i cant totally get mad at those people since the yotsuba arc does show us a light w/o memories of being kira who is like. #pretty ok and is like n-no i could never be kira!!1! :(( so i could see how someone who isnt reading too deep into it could think that #but like. as far as i can recall we dont get tooooo much of light's inner thoughts during that time #so honestly you could totally assume for a lot of moments that he's just doing his thing hes ALWAYS done of pretending to be nice/''normal' #its hard to say. but i really doubt that light was totally good beforehand is whats supposed to be intended LOL #esp since like. he came up w the new world thing IMMEDIATELY after getting the death note #we know he was thinking about stuff like that beforehand. we can argue about semantics of how much of light's corruption is from the note #itself but you are not gonna sit here and tell me that just touching it instantly makes you evil. cmon now thats just not true #he sucks with or without the death note. it just gave him a tool to enact his suckery. it enabled him #serena.txt #death note posting #also i saw someone claim that the author said somewhere that L didnt mean his statement about light being his one true friend #LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER. sorry buddy you never said that in the text itself and wrote shit that very much indicates otherwise so you're not #allowed to say that after the fact. death of the author + the final arc you wrote was bad + you're homophobic so why would i even listen to #you + L + ratio #L viewed light as his friend. sorry!

[thepavementsings]

you think pierre will be forgotten about next year?

This has been sitting in my inbox for a HOT minute, I think based on some tags I may have made a few weeks ago? And now that i'm done finals I'm finally answering it lol what a treat for me.

I think the thing about Pierre is that in the larger fandom, he's already served his big narrative purpose™. The whole narrative arc of getting beat down and shoved away by Red Bull, and pushing through that? Persevering despite everyone telling him "you're as good as done"? Becoming lost in all of the personal and professional tragedy of 2019 and then finding himself again? Becoming a fantastic teammate and someone trusted to lead and then finally finally breaking out of the mold that has shaped him for so long? He's had his little hero's journey already.

Even this year, I think so much of him got... maybe flattened out is not the right word. But I think there was something genuinely SO interesting about the way Pierre rubbed up against everything this past season that was TOTALLY missed under the media-pushed Yukierre and shit car of it all. IMO it was HARD to dig into the meat of it when so much of it was presented like, candy coated rotten apples lol. Especially if you aren't like... in it like the Pierries are. A lot of it got missed (like that 5-10 minutes before people realized what was actually happening in Japan was a perfect microcosm for this season w Pierre LOL but but let's not get into that). I also just think how Pierre was this year hit less of the broad strokes big dynamic and character interests of the fandom than he did in 2020/2021 maybe!

So I think the popularity of him as a character continues to go down at Alpine too, yeah. Because the new story is about chipping away at a new thing. It's not as sexy for him alone: people who don't care about Pierre's story and only care about the narrative will watch for it to blow up with Esteban and thats about it. So much of I think the actual compelling stuff for him happens behind the scenes now, in these next few months before the season starts. It'll be about someone who is so strict and used to routine and one structure and has pre-existing expectations for a lot of usually goes on around him being thrust into a completely new environment and having to figure out how to swim after so long. It's the "Red Bull is the longest relationship I've ever had", and now what? Have you really learned have you really grown etc etc? But so much of that we wont be able to see!!

He's never really been main character compelling to people, which I get. Cause I think his typecast is harder to get into or even figure than the Maxes Or Charleses or Daniels of it all for example. He's often a useful secondary character to a slash or a gen pairing but a hard primary!! God gives his hardest tests etc etc.

The question is really what is the next big arc? And I dont know if there is one thats super clear. Which is fine for me because unfortunately I like it better when less people talk about the people I like because they dont know the lore! or whatever lol you know what I mean. But anyways I think he's just filled his narrative purpose in wider fandom. I am ok with him being put back on the proverbial doll shelf for now though!

#to be like: oh yes your fav is not as compelling to everyone else as you think he is. is hard but true! #unfortunately I CAN admit that I am like. not a good member of fandom #but there are for example ships or characters that i used to like that i see other people do things with #and it can completely ruin an entire facet of fandom for me and it does take me a minute to like. check myself #and like claw things i enjoyed back from the edge and just. like what i like in my own little space #instead if engaging with other people's versions of it that i know i will hate. especially with the way dynamics catch on in this fandom! #if its something you dont like. you just have to like. go sit in the corner and play with your dolls on your own for a bit lol #like recently ive noticed this happening SO much more #especially w the pierre of it all #maybe part of the reason I cant open a single kink meme that isnt piarles that i can almost tell who wrote them but the summary lol #if i see something is pierre pov immediately click out lol thats my toxic reader trait #im like: dont talk about him lol #which these tags have nothing to do w your question but are also just my feelings overall on it lol #anyways sorry anon if this is not what you thought u were getting! #asks #anon

[princeanxious]

Thinking abt the this story im building where each 'story' in this world has a hero and a villian, kinda thinking with musical/comic book logic here, and while the world is segmented up by 'stories' but nothing says these stories and the people in them cant overlap.

And in this 'story,' the hero is unwillingly forced to switch 'roles'(something in their world that is dictated by the Story Fates with a symbol of H or V appearing somewhere on the bodies of a Hero or Villain) with the villain(which is the villians doing) and overtime his would-be 'partner-in-heroics' becomes his ride-or-die 'partner-in-crime' and sticks by his side in full support of the Hero becoming the Villain the world so desprately declares he is and is ready to set fire to the world that turned against the Hero

Like he could have absolutely sided with everyone else that were manipulated by the villain and let the Hero be completely isolated without hearing out his side, and not gotten the same isolating treatment that the Hero did, but does he? No. Because he and Hero are childhood best friends and if it werent for Partner, Hero wouldn't have learned that they were a Hero as early as they did, and thus also feels partially responsible for Hero's outcasting. (Even though neither of them couldve known how far the Villians hold on their town went, and they were kids when they found out. Still, Partner refuses to leave Hero's side out of hard-won loyalty)

And by the end of their story, whether it's end is bittersweet or served justice, theyve ended up together as Partners in more than just crime :)

#this isnt exactly an au its an oc story but ive been thinkin about it all day #but smth that stuck in my mind is just. #for reference Hero's name is Nym and Partner's name is Hayze #the scene stuck in my head is when Hayze turns around while Nym is mid-sentence and fckn. just kisses him. #just straight up 'how many times do i have to tell you that im here because i want to be and love you unconditionally?' #'i would kill for you and die for you. youre mine for as long as you'll have me. true hero or villain be damned. i will follow you to the- #-ends of the earth and always have your back-because i know you will always have mine. so shut it.' #and Hayze promptly kisses a stunned Nym again-much softer this time-and Nym p much melts into it after a moment #luka writes #luka's ocs #luka rambles #theres so much more to this story and their relationship is not even the center of it but i thought id ramble abt it bc im def drawing it

[flugame-mp3]

was looking at some song credits and saw mikey listed as michael way. and like logically i do know that’s his name, i’ve seen him listed as michael way before! however. that did not stop me from bursting out laughing bc “““michael way””” sounds like his very serious Normal Business Guy alter ago

#pls tell me this isnt just me #every time i see it i do a double take bc it feels Wrong #mcr #mikey way #michael way #GOD #i thought that tag was funny #my chemical romance #its #its michael romance... #for real for true... #theo.txt

[aahsoka]

idk how to explain to people that learning about like terrible political figures or capitalists and their path to evil and learning about cults doesnt depress me . like it actually helps me believe the world is a better place and that these kinds of things can be prevented/helped

#jordan talks #mainly if the political figures are dead #true crime does depress me though unless its about con artists #I just want to tell you about scientology ok!!!!!! i have a lot of thoughts in my brain #i guess its like horror like no this is fun for me. #ppl are always like. pls stop explaining this to me it makes me sad #and im like ????? this isnt fascinating to you ????? it doesnt make u wanna go get scientology’s tax exempt status taken away????

[altruistic-meme]

🔥 ☀️ :>

🔥 - How has the way you think about yourself changed since you realized you were queer?

it has changed A LOT, honestly, but most of that isn't really directly related to my realization of being queer. but some if it IS connected to the queer community.

a lot of my internet experience has been defined by my journey and my interactions with the queer community online. not all of it has been good, but I've come to stop hating myself as much, and have learned through them to accept myself and respect myself in ways that I just.... never got taught before.

☀️ - Is there anyone who helped you accept that you were queer? If so, who?

there really wasn't, aha. but maybe that's because I never was... ashamed? of being queer. for me, there was no battle - I accepted that I was queer from the start. it was basically just me going "oh shit im a lesbian?? must be, because I have a crush on this girl. cool!" that story is a whole event in itself jfkajfj, but I mean I guess technically they were the one who helped me learn I was queer, so thank you Isa wherever you are <3

Queer Themed Asks

#i really struggled answering that first one ;;; #being queer just....... /is/ for me #like i said it wasnt really this huge big discovery or epiphany or anything for me #if nothing else it just explained some of what i thought or experienced when i was young #such as assuming that not absolutely hating a guy meant younhad a crush #(i have since learned this isnt true lmao rip young abram telling their sisters who their crush was #bc they thought they had to have a crush and chose the most tolerable guy around their age) #askers #cozycrow

[yelloworangesoda]

maxwell and sammy are all mine and i love them like my children but its pretty hard to divorce them from fnaf enough to make them straight up ocs. sammy especially bc hes technically not my oc, even if i made up every aspect about him except his name and dead twin sister

#my point being i keep seeing oc post and going ‘omg me about sammy’ but sammy isnt an oc. technically #i literally wont even change his name if i do ever just make him all mine. i love him sammy is my bff forevers. #sammy smiles real wide and has sharp canines. he cant stand silence and talks to himself CONSTANTLY and its worse around other people #he interrupts people a lot by accident. and is really bad about holding friendships and doesnt reach out to people. after he took max in it #was impossible to shut him up bc someone was actually there now. he has serious trust issues and thinks ppl dont like him bc he thinks #everyone to have some big secret theyre all collectively keeping from him to keep him ‘’safe’’ which stems from. his mom doing this to him #about his sister and dad she just straight up refused to tell him until he found out on his own. so for 11 years he knew that. they for sure #you cant just split up your family in half in a divorce. something seems incredibly wrong about that but he didnt know what actually #happened there. also they were young when she died but he still felt like a part of him went missing and without the knowledge she died he #assumed. hed see her again and fill that hole. and of course that wasnt true. so anyway he struggles to make and keep friends #hes had like 8 different partners who lasted more than a month (most of them didnt want to deal with max) and he cant keep any of them bc a #a lot of people meet this cute charming guy with a lot to say and realize hes literally like this all the time and it stops being cute and #starts being annoying. he wanted to have kids bc he really likes kids but nobody wants him unfortunately and also he had. max for 8 years #and max is for sure his kid (from his perspective max is weird about it bc max thinks of his dad. as his Parent and sammy as more of #brother) but like max was not really what he was thinking when he thought he wanted kids right. and he feels bad about thinking that but #he does. think that. he wants a kid of his own. sammy is a therapist for kids with trauma specifically so that also impacts his ability to #have a kid. he worries that. bc of his personal experience of what Can happen that he may in turn be a helicopter parent or way #overprotective. yknow. he #ive got to go to bed omg. i got enough thoughts down!!!! #simons spouting #a lot of this is just awfully written but you cant read back or edit tags on mobile. not my fault

[bonerey]

i know logically i wont be fluent in one day. BUT LIKE,. PLEASE?????? PRETTY PLEASE??????? CAN I JUST BE FLUENT IN RUSSIAN RIGHT NOW??? PLEASE?????????????

#tell me thats how it works. Even if it isnt true . Lie to me pleasbe... #I JUST WANT TO COMPREHEND THINGS AND BE ABLE TO WRITE DOWN MY THOUGHTS IN RUSSIAN. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR

[gaystardykeco]

fun wednesday night activity: thinking about all the ppl who left me and how much better their lives are because of doing so

#like damn. i really am a person that only makes ppls lives worse!! #every single person thats stopped being my friend is so so much happier than they ever were being my friend!!! #nobody fucking misses me or thinks of me or regrets anything!!! im a problem and a burden and a causer of harm!!! #i like to imagine ppl that used to talk to me read this blog bc they want to know whats going on in my life and miss me too #but ultimately i know that isnt true like if they follow me they might see a few posts but no one is looking at all of them #i stopped telling ppl what was happening in my life and they stopped caring. bc probably they did not care in the first place tbh #i still follow all these fucking girls from hs on social media and keep track of whats going on in their lives #they havent thought of me in years i guarantee it #and im still sitting here at age 23 thinking about how much better my life would be if i hadnt been so awful at 17 and lost all my friends #anyway sorry for this annoying dramatic post im just like. so tired of not feeling loved no matter what i do and how hard i try #no one will ever care about me the way i care about them and it will never be good for anyone to have me in their life #and im so fucking tired of being this fucking intolerable and awful of a person #i just sit here every day trying to convince myself i dont need to talk to anyone or have friends to survive #but like thats not true lmao i am so lonely i miss talking to ppl so much but everyones moved on #everyone saw what a bad person i am and how much i hurt ppl and cut me off and moved on again #and this is just going to keep happening to me every time i make friends or try to not be alone bc who i am is the problem and i cant fix i #anyway sdlfkjsd sorry i know i sound pathetic and ridiculous jdskf i just need to put thoughts somewhere #and this stupid blog is the only place i have to say anything bc im so completely fucking alone

[euniexenoblade]

since we're talking about call outs lately, i've been called out many times, most of which are made from lies and sometimes by altering screenshots, but the most effective call out i ever got was like, in early 2015 there was a tumblr user everyone knew was a terf, but she would say "actually i support trans women" this was before crypto terfs were as talked about so the language wasn't really there to say "hey this person is a crypto terf." but yeah some people put posts of this woman on my dash and i made a random post on my blog "why do yall reblog her shes a terf" and of course she searches her own name daily, found my post, and replied to it that me calling her a terf was racist. that was it. no other interaction. but she went on all night talking about me being racist and just making things up as she went "oh i bet she says the n word all the time irl" kind of shit that had, like no basis? But her follower base took it 100% and i literally had thousands of anons telling me to kill myself, trying to goad me into being racist (didnt work), and the most concerning thing was i got hundreds of anons being like "what was the point of doing hrt if you still look like that, you should kill yourself." It was like, violent and overwhelming. and on top of it I'd get random young teenager trans people who followed her and bought into her bioessentialism showing up in my messages being like "you give trans people a bad name" "you're why transphobia exists" etc etc it was fucking crazy.

but i lost like, no followers because everyone around me understood, this woman was a terf. this all set up the real one though.

later in the year a teenage "communist" trans girl made some snarky comment about me being racist on a post of mine blowing up. i ignored her cuz like, who cares it's just some random teenager. but i guess people were looking for a reason to hate me cuz that blew up, lots of people just took that at face value no need to investigate. when someone finally did send the girl an ask being like "hey how is she racist" she replied "I dont remember but I know she is" and even more people just took this as 100%. the thing is, i do remember her being one of those "you make trans people look bad" terf following young trans people, it's not that she didn't remember, it's that she didnt want to admit she followed a terf and she believed a terf just saying shit. I lost like 3/4s of my followers, i had a lot of people i thought were my friends just stop talking to me, and going forward every time i got a call out there would usually be a line of like "also she's racist, everyone already knows this" all cuz this girl needed to make a snarky comment cuz she just loves terfs.

the thing about the "i dont remember" bit is it made some weird game of telephone. "I dont remember" became "oh she's racist, i think she says the n word" which became "she called black bloggers the n word" like people just made shit up about me and connected it to this call out. and when id be like this isnt true id be met with a "this is just known, youre a known racist" and it's like, to this day i will still find people be like "hey good on you for growing as a person and not doing that any more" and its like I NEVER DID IT TO BEGIN WITH

#ranting

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for exposing my telling my sister that her thoughts were disgusting? Please read until the end before you click YTA.

So me and my sister are both 16f And she confessed to be that she had a crush on a voice actor cory burton. The problem is that he is 68. Which is very old. When she told me her crush was old and a voice actor I thought she meant like a 40 year old like troy baker or something not someone old enough to be her grandfather 🤢

I told her that her crush was disgusting and that she should have crushes on people her own age. And she told me that it's no different than having a crush on Taylor Swift or another celebrity BUT THIS GUY ISNT A CELEBRITY he's just a random voice actor sure he's been in a lot of stuff but he's not public or a super huge celebrity like Harry styles or Margot Robbie or something hes a very private person

So then while she was sleeping I decided to check her diary. There were nude drawings of this RANDOM VOICE ACTOR in there. I woke her up and told her that she needed to rip them up because it was a violation of his boundaries and she said that "he wouldn't see it because we live in another state" which yeah that's true but if I showed it to him he would probably be bothered by it.

She started crying because she trusted me and now she said that she didn't trust me anymore. But inb4 I find drawn nude pictures of other old voice actors in her book

Aita

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

[deans-asscot]

TW: Suicide

Well today was a day... I was checking in with a student who I knew was having some home problems and just... like to the point where now cps in apparently involved and he just point blank tells me that if he ends up in foster care then he'll kill himself. He did "joke" about suicide last year but I had several talks with him about never joking about it and since then he hasn't. His tone and demeanor this time were way different than when he would "joke". Today he was very nonchalant and matter of fact about it. And the more he kept talking I just started to tear up. Which I know that probably doesn't help and is..idk unprofessional but I rly couldn't help it. And of course he noticed and was being playful like, dont cryyyy. But how could I not? Not gunna lie he is one of my favorite students, very charismatic and talkative, funny, and even a troublemaker at times but you can't help liking him. Like even though his English is limited he wins over so many teachers (and honestly gets away with things he shouldnt...). And it made me so sad that he was struggling so much. Like if it was appropriate I would offer to have him stay with my family if only for a few weeks.

I managed to convince him to go with me to see his counselor. But he was quite reluctant, but I made it clear I was going to talk with his counselor so he should just come along. Honestly thank God they switched him to a Spanish speaking counselor this year cuz idk how he wouldve been able to communicate all this otherwise. I stayed in the room as he explained everything to the counselor (honestly I wanted to make sure that he told him everything and didn't try to just brush it off) all the while I just sat there still tearing up. After the counselor had all the info I left (I'm just an EL assistant so like, I have no place there, also my tearing up probably doesn't help). That was in the beginning of 3rd period and he ended up not going to any other of his classes so I just hope he was able to get some help and that I'll see him Wednesday... later on another student he's friends with told me that he had texted her to tell me "why did you have to go tell my counselor" and I just told her to tell him that it was for his own good. I feel like he just said that cuz he was maybe annoyed at the process or trying to poke fun but if he is mad at me I can live with that too.

#sometimes just thinking about makes me wanna tear up #im sentimental af but idk I think this just hits close to home somehow #like I wish there was more I could do #but im glad that these students feel comfortable enough to express their true feelings to me #like thats one of the advantages of my position is that I spend so much time with them and I speak their language and i look at act young #i hope things get better for him #and I hope he isnt afraid to confide in me in the future but if this strains our relationship its okay #legally and morally I couldnt not tell anyone #anyway this turned out longer than I thought #i might just go cry in the shower #thank go we dont have school tomorrow so I can emotionally recover from that #ugh I rly hope that me tearing up doesnt seem like Im trying to make it about me cuz thats the last thing I wanted #i just suck at controlling that part of me :/ the bane of my existance #mine #suicide