#this is... pointless

[quixoticanarchy]

I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid 

#an autobiography #skravler #*editing tags to add: ftr i dont like the addition to this post and it was not meant to have the 'use your words like an Adult' tone #it's abt refusing to play out bad/bigoted/uncomfortable/pointless social scripts; not abt fighting passive aggression w more of it #and calling yourself a real adult for it

[randompolls]

#poll #polls #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #random poll #random polls #my polls #i love polls #silly poll #pointless poll #superhero poll #superpower poll #hero poll #mine #finished poll

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

[ispyspookymansion]

as always define the question however youd like and take your best guess

#pointless poll pmonday #kora.txt

[luxlightly]

It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".

Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.

It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.

And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.

#i get choked up about that poem #and it breaks my heart to see people interpret it as being about pointless cruelty #instead of a celebration of the beauty of existence

[cyanomys]

#polls #polls and research #pointless poll #united states #midwest #hell #location #moving #america #look im sorry if youre insulted by me grouping some states but there are 12 Midwestern states and only 10 options allowed #i just took a trip across the country and my limited perspective is that Ohio is Not So Bad #i grew up in Missouri 🫠 #why yes i am blazing this post #i enjoy whoring my ideas to the masses to satisfy my curiosity

[mo-mode]

#ngl that was a cheap trick #kind of pointless to the entire plot other than shock value #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[oh-good]

This is exactly what I look like when I open this webbed site and read ya'lls posts

#pointless post

[anintelligentoctopus]

🎡 schlitz-playhouse-of-stars Follow Mar 22, 1954

Back in 1951 I told my draft board I was a homosexual communist so I wouldn't be sent to Korea except now I'm not so sure I was lying lmao

🎡 schlitz-playhouse-of-stars Follow Mar 22, 1954

Looks like I'm joining the war on communism and perversion on the side of communism and perversion

🎡 schlitz-playhouse-of-stars Follow Mar 23, 1954

I've been blacklisted

🧶 herockonmyhudsonuntili Follow Apr 7, 1954

got another one fellas

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🥔 the-famous-eccles May 12, 1954

can't believe i just saw princess margaret x peter townsend rpf on my dash with my own two eyes

#you know who you are

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📖 photoplays 🔁 bebopappreciator May 12, 1954

👔 johnny-dollars-expense-account-reviewer Follow Mar 29, 1954

honestly dni if you support the boycotting of salt of the earth by movie theaters i'm not even kidding

🌎 mccarthyismofficial Follow Apr 2, 1954

This just in: Tumblr thinks communist and un-American propaganda is good now

👔 johnny-dollars-expense-account-reviewer Follow Apr 2, 1954

Say it ain't so

#this is the communism and un-american activities website

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✒ lesbianeffieperine 🔁 haysoffice Follow May 12, 1954

✒ lesbianeffieperine May 9, 1954

If these shitty rollers fall out again tonight istg

🎞 haysoffice Follow May 12, 1954

Profanity

Blasphemy

VERDICT: POST NOT APPROVED

✒ lesbianeffieperine May 12, 1954

excuse me

#what the fuck

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🎷 bebopappreciator May 12, 1954

here's how adlai can still win

#further posts from 1954 tumblr #now with fake post accessories #pointless post #did this require this much effort? idk

[lambjurk]

what REALLY happened at the castle

#super mario #super mario bros movie #mario and luigi #luigi #bowser #bowuigi #bowigi #this is so pointless #luigi and bowser #short comic

[annalandin]

There's a new swarm of totally real ladies with empty blogs following me, and I'm blocking and reporting them left and right. If you are an actual human person with a brand new account trying to follow me, I urge you to please post *anything at all* on your blog so that when I go to check who the heck you are, I can tell you aren't just a bot-encrusted void. Just a simple "hello this is my lurker account I use to follow people" is enough.

#talk #get off my property you pointless robots

[buggachat]

honestly just in general it's very exhausting to try to analyze media that is literally meant to be analyzed, only for the replies to be filled with people arguing not against your analysis, but against the premise that the media can be analyzed at all.

i don't even know what to say about it without starting to really betray my frustration, so i'll just settle with— just don't engage with analysis posts? I'm serious. if you're typing a response to a media analysis post, reread what you've written and ask yourself "is this comment/response against the very concept of analyzing the media at all?" and if the answer is yes then delete it all and go sit in the shame corner. throw your curtains away if you want to so bad and stop telling me that I'm not allowed to hum and haw at the fact mine are blue

#ml fandom salt #I suppose #and no amount of adding ''stop telling me to not analyze the media'' on my analysis posts stops people from saying it anyway #and yes. the leaks count. stop telling me that the existence of outdated leaks invalidates all analyses of the completed material #and no. just like every other time i've said this. me saying that i don't care about the leaks is not an invitation for you to try to #convince me to care about the leaks #do i tag this spoilers? it feels weird to. i mean this to be a vague overarching thing about media in general #also of course any ''or maybe the writers are just bad'' arguments ALSO are included in this. YOU guys have been my bane since FOREVER #would you guys consider commenting on fanart with ''umm.... drawing seems pretty pointless lmao'' rude? #i know this is not the first time i've made a post like this and i'm sure it won't be the last

[nedlittle]

genuinely i think it's important for adults, especially in the plague times, to play pretend in our day-to-day lives. when i rub my back down with tiger balm so i can sleep without pain, i imagine i am a valiant knight tending to an old injury i received from a dragon. when i go to the store to pick up eggs and milk, i am a lone cowboy riding into town on a mission. when i turn my collar up against the wind i am a femme fatale who's killed 4 husbands and is scoping out a 5th. when i stomp around in the snow i am a doomed polar explorer. if being a little bit silly about my walk to the pharmacy helps me remember that life can be full of joy and whimsy, then so be it.

#this is a pointless text post #my most embarrassing version of this is that whenever it was foggy at the lighthouse i imagined i was emily bronte #or that i was taking a walk in the fog with my good friend emily bronte :^) #so much of this is also tied into the fact that my body hurts all the goddamn time #i am trying to make my pain something i can live with #is this gonna be how i learn that normal people don't daydream about being In The Past #anyway do u guys imagine these sort of scenarios too or am i just a freak #greatest (s)hits

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

based Doctor who

#doctor who #based #peter capaldi #his inner scott came out #abolish the monarchy #my back It simply refuses to carry the weight of an entirely pointless stratum of society #do you know how hard that goes #12th doctor #dr who #the husbands of river song #King hydroflax #greg davies #river song #the doctor #christopher eccleston would be proud #not my king #not my voice #doctor who quotes

[kat-rose-griffith]

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandermo #Of all of the stupid pointless gross bs that could’ve easily not been on the show THIS is where you draw your line… REALLY #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz

[terrific-crow]

Watched the Teen Wolf Movie. Incredible experience.

#teen wolf #teen wolf the movie #teen wolf movie #this was a wild ride from start to finish #truly Teen Wolf's own Rise of Skywalker #down to the pointless deaths #and the contrived plot with too many characters #at least it was funny #sterek #stiles stilinski #dylan o'brien #derek hale #eli hale #allison argent #the teen wolf jeep (a character in its own right)