kholdseid:

not100bees:

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i’m not really into blondes but this is an objectively absurd connection to make

In order to be properly non-pedophilic you have to want to fuck somebody old but not with gray or white hair because that’s too close to blonde which as we’ve established is the hair color of children. So ideally somebody old as fuck but bald. And obviously wanting to have sex with a man is misogynistic so it has to be a woman. And it can’t be a white woman because that would be racist and it can’t be a woman of color because that would be fetishistic, so ideally a woman with some unnatural skin color, oh let’s say, purple. But it can’t be an alien, because we don’t know anything about alien life cycles so it could be an alien child or an alien that looks like a child. So it has to be an animal from Earth, but obviously one of human level intelligence that can communicate is otherwise that would be bestiality. So an old purple female animal that can speak English. I think the only creature you can be hot for is the Ant Queen from A Bug’s Life.

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“bits to use in everyday conversations”

tockthewatchdog:

deadelated:

If you become friends with someone they might offer you shelter or sources of protein

mint-stone:

deadmentellnotales13:

lostcryptids:

the problem with horror now is there is no men in little tank tops and booty shorts

crabussy:

crabussy:

crabussy:

crabussy:

sometimes I have to stop myself from posting shit like “who made replacing a bike chain so erotic” because I remember the number of people who see my posts and I have to take a step back and reconsider my choices. sometimes I have to hide my true and sincere thoughts in a post about how I’m not posting them because it is funnier this way

artist’s impression

whatever. it’s just reaching between all its delicate parts to wrench out its guts with lots of sweating and straining. while it’s upside down and immobilised. and then it’s just taking the slick and shiny new chain and feeding it gently through gears and between metal before pulling it taut until the derailleur is extended and the chain clicks into place and can no longer be removed. I; think I’m bicycle. I mean bisexual

forgot what website I’m on apparently. peace and love on pervert planet

thenyanguardparty:

deadryn:

decadent-trans-girl:

I’m going to need the tumblr transfem community to refrain from reclaiming Richard Nixon

myrskytuuli:

lavenderhayes12:

Everybody and their mothers understood why removing Sokka’s misogyny in the ATLA live action was a bad idea and made the story worse but suddenly when they remove Sanji and Zoro’s misogyny in OPLA it’s a good thing?? Make it make sense

Sure, I’ll make it make sense. Because comparing the two starts from a place of false parallelism.

In ATLA, Sokka’s misogyny was present for 3 episodes in the very beginning of the show, and then used to deliver narrative carthasis in episode 4, in the form of Sokka’s 180 turn into feminism. The tension of flexing the rubber band of Sokka’s misogyny was brief, and the release of that tension then felt appropriatly sized, because it came so soon in the series. The the rest of the show continued slapping instant karmic punishments to characters who expressed misogynistic beliefs. (Anyone who underestimated Toph, Yue’s bethored, the guys who catcalled Katara, etc, etc). The world of ATLA is such, that it bends itself to always prove the misogynist wrong. (of course atla also has it’s weak points where it falters with this aim, but the express aim is clearly there) The audience is primed, so that they can ignore the flinch of hearing a misogynist micro (or macro) agression, because they can expect the cathrasis of a karmic punishment to follow.

This works very well in the genre of escapist fantasy adventure. Shows like Succession, or Breaking Bad, or IWTV can present misogynist characters, who never learn or face any consequences, because the cathrasis of those shows comes from watching unpleasant people wallow in their self-inflicted miseries. They are shows about characters you love to hate.

Escapist fantasy adventure as a genre doesn’t want to create characters you love to hate. It wants to create characters you love to love.

One Piece is an escapist fantasy adventure. It wants to create characters we love to love. So, it also has to ask the question of: How much can we pull on the rubber-band of discomfort before delivering any kind of cathrasis to the audience. The complaints that animanga One Piece faces, comes from the fact that for a lot of people, the answer is not this much.

Complaints about ATLA liveaction removing Sokka’s *Suki teaches him about feminism* moment, and complaints about animanga One Piece having characters dropping misogynistic microagressions casually all over the place, come from the exact same emotion. ‘I wanted to see a moment of fantasy-wish-fulfillment where a man changes how he behaves, and I was not delivered that emotional cathrasis.’

This has nothing to do with whether any of the misogyny of the characters makes sense in universe.

Different people will find different character flaws more or less bearable, and it’s always a tight-rope you have to walk on. But creators do have a choice in what flaws they expect the audience to find interesting and where the line of so-insufferable-I’m-picking-a-different-show lies. I think for OPLA crew, the choices would have been

1. Leave it as it is, rubbing that *discomfort without any comfort* button way too roughly for a HUGE chunks of the new audience.
2. Create an entirely new storyline about Sanji and Zoro facing consequences and *changing their ways*. And I would be willing to bet actual money that the fans of the animanga would have been even more pissed if OPLA had started soloing with the storyline like that.
3. Just sand down the sexist corners, as the show did. And from these three options, I fully belive they picked the right one by pikcing this.

This turned into a pretty long rant, but it does bother me that it is often the case that misogyny is seen as *bigotry light* and the onus of accepting that media has misogyny in it, is put on the female audiences. I have a feeling that we as as society are much more accepting that making a character a racist is going to need helluva strong narrative justification, because the discomfort that choie like that causes in an audience is expected to be very high. But often it seems that the discomfort misogyny is expected to cause in an audience is…. much less. I don’t like that assumption.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist:

wheres-lostboy:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

woo i am such a fan of dramatic plants. just prissy fucking plantlife, be it unreasonable or implacable or ostentatious. plants, man

u know what yeah, let’s talk about weird nonsense plants

1. Living Stones

these plants imitate rocks. who does that?

imagine deciding to straight up evolve into rocks as a defense mechanism. i had a whole rant planned but now i’m remembering that i have, in the past, on multiple occasions, daydreamed about being a rock. like that has been a recurring theme in my rich inner fantasy life. i would not forsake the opportunity to evolve into a stone.

2. Hooker’s Lips

ostentatious. flamboyant. vulgar. garish. randy. dare i say whorish? yes. this plant is whorish.

pucker up you hussy

3. Hoya Hearts

overused trope. lacks subtlety and creativity. truly, they just went with the first thought to pop in their head, no brainstorming involved. “ho ho ho i’m just gonna grow into a fucking HEART, that’ll show em!” Needy & basic bitch. looks cute on a desk

4. Lifesaver Plants

manages to be both psychedelic and disapproving. reminiscent of a prudish great aunt–but like, one who did a lot of LSD in the 70s. evidence of an alien lifeform who crash landed and then decided, fuck it, i’m gonna rent a one-story in the midwest and decorate it with vintage wood paneling & floral upholstery. probably smells like stale weed and glass ashtrays

5. Happy Alien Flowers

yes that is their NAME. sort of anticlimactic, but take a gander:

they are absolute sluts for drama, as demonstrated by the little hussies pictured above are YELLING AT ME. they bring to mind seagulls engaged in a Shakespearean blood feud. this flowers have committed aggravated manslaughter and probably got away with it too.

6. Bat Plant 

aka Cat’s Whiskers aka Devil Flower. how fucking emo is that??? this plant listens to mcr and is probably the gay cousin. they never got the hang of eyeliner but that doesn’t stop them from trying, bless em. their impetuous devil-may-care persona is hindered by their crippling social anxiety. i’m immensely fond of this plant. they’ll come into their own once they graduate and move away from college, but in the mean time they sit with the tech crew at lunch. you go little Bat Plant! 

 7. Dancing Plants

total band kids. also called Semaphore Plants, bc they look like they’re trying to flag down a plane. nifty fuckers 

in conclusion, three cheers for whiny, namby-pamby, scatterbrained plantlife

so you’ll reblog THIS and my Non-Comprehensive List of Cursed Bird That Piss Me Off, but Whimsical Creatures Failing To Tempt Me Into The Ocean is where tumblr draws the line huh

I am absolutely delighted to show you this orchid the ‘Naked Man’. It’s an orchid native to the Mediterranean and it looks like a lil dude with a tiny penis

PROPORTIONALLY SPEAKING

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

I’ve reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You’re not smarter than idealists, and you’re not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that “cynics are cool and smart” was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn’t “oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who’ve lost their faith in humanity”, it’s “these people are in their 20s and need a hobby”

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don’t actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

dancinbutterfly:

nobodys-odyssey:

godlessondheimite:

nobodys-odyssey:

godlessondheimite:

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

Taylor Swift does this

no she doesn’t

You clearly don’t go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I’m not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn’t and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

#I’m fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can’t believe I’m here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can’t#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

ghostly-cabbage:

Chat am I on to something

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startacker:

Be not afraid, hex color.

biocrafthero:

innovadesexual:

thesituation:

that post about how sports should be desegregated is ruffling some serious feathers & every response arguing against me is like “but testosterone literally makes you stronger you naive moron” like yeah man. but how many sports are strictly based on raw strength and nothing else. like sure men would likely generally dominate weightlifting but women would still dominate gymnastics. it’s almost like genetics have always played a part in performance of sports and the sex binary is just one genetic factor that people can’t seem to let go of. michael phelps isn’t put in his own category of “people shaped like a torpedo” even though he has an unfair genetic advantage. like i don’t get why raw strength is seen as the end all be all when most sports don’t rely on that alone for performance