Aliens that live for like a billion years and age faster being horrified when a 28 year old human starts working on their ship cause wtf why did the human race send a literal baby to space?!
Kindergarten: Stupid. Oh gosh don’t tell anyone I said that.
Elementary school: What the heck.
Middle School: Damn it this is freaking dumb as hell
High school: what the fuck did you just say you little fucking shitbitchcuntfuck I will beat the dicks out of your ass
College: what the frick frack snick snack are u doing
Min wage should be 80k salaried
Like this isn't an exaggeration. You should be able to rent alone, buy groceries, have disposable income, and still save for a vacation or whatever tf. I cannot emphasize enough how little people are being paid
thinking about how every time i tell a story on here about a stranger i encountered, i’ve begun purposely using gender-neutral pronouns because i realized that even though i want to live in a world where we don’t assume strangers’ genders, i was assigning genders to strangers all the time in my posts. and now that i’ve stopped it’s wild the look at the tags of all my posts about strangers referred to with gender-neutral pronouns, only for every tag which talks more about the stranger to assign “he/him” pronouns with the clear assumption being that the post is about a man, while nothing in the post actually indicates that whatsoever. the stranger could be identified as simply as “a bus driver” or “the person behind me in line at the store,” and thousands of people on this site will picture a man and go on to further discuss and describe that man in the tags.
this feels even more pointed when one of my posts about ME goes viral and ends up constantly reposted to Instagram and YouTube and TikTok, and all of the tags on here and all of the comment sections elsewhere call me a man, assume I’m a man. Thousands and thousands and thousands of times. Especially back when I explicitly used she/her pronouns and still identified as a woman when my old blog was at its height of popularity.
And now that I do ID as genderfluid and use he/him pronouns I wouldn’t even mind being misgendered once if it meant one single person alive online anywhere just once in godforsaken history read an interesting story and pictured a woman.
the moral overall is that "corporations can't be trusted with telling a good story"
however specifically it has happened twice that very large media franchises have essentially obliterated and destroyed a pair of highly compelling and interesting characters out of anxiety over those characters being perceived as gay.
Bucky and Steve in the MCU are the first example; Steve's friendship with Bucky was interpreted as homoerotic by many fans, and the franchise responded by going scorched earth on the friendship itself.
but a more blatant example in my opinion was finn and poe dameron from the (gag) sequel starwars trilogy. it's been forever since i saw the movies but i remember they had a very cool chemistry and energy together and when they were separated from each other and randomly stuck with extremely flat female love interests, it came across to me like Disney was desperately reassuring the audience that they were not gay.
But this is bad storytelling, because if the bond between two men is a powerful driving force of the story, a good storyteller follows that to its conclusion because it is providing the story with aliveness. It is possible that this means you wrote a gay story or one that will be perceived as such. Love is deeply overlapping with other love. If you find the possibility of homoeroticism intolerable, you will uproot love, closeness, and friendship entirely from the story in the process of trying to root it out, and the story will be fucking dead.
This fact is so much about good storytelling and so little about wanting characters to be gay or not. Even if you are homophobic, you cannot deny the truth of it in my opinion.
so has anybody’s dad ever actually apologized to them, or is that just an urban legend
Mine did. He came to see me when he found out he was dying and laid it out. Sorry for what he did wrong, proud of what I did right, And he told me that he’d provided for me basically for the rest of my life.
I know, though, that I got STUPID lucky in the parent department and I’m grateful for it every day. And I miss him every day.
this is just what gerrymandering in the US looks like
You do realise a LOT of french people will oppose that right ? Word of advice : leave the Bretons alone or be prepared for repercussions
the french will be completely fine with it stop being such a tightass
I’m gonna need you all to get more obsessed with Supergirl 2026. It’s literally every single sarcastic, messy, depressed, grieving, male lead from recent media that accidentally adopts an angry, young girl (also grieving) which forces him to confront his self destructive behavior and realize the impact he can still make. But she’s a girl. This is the character you all love in every piece of media. I’m begging you all to adore her the same way.
It’s literally a genderbent version of “grumpy old man accidentally becomes a single dad” trope
To be honest with you it's so much more than that. Yes that's the basic outline, but I need people to understand that it is so much better than any of the other movies with that premise I have ever seen.
Supergirl grabs you by the shoulders and goes "hey it's okay to grieve, to be angry, to want revenge, even to be not nice, but be good. Above all, be good."
Open the gate now, or we will all die.
Nobody's gonna open that Stargate. We're all gonna live,…or we're all gonna die right here
Never forget what they took from us.
For those asking how it compares today
and also
Mid-year 2026 update (this is without tax):
Just to round out the comparison.
it’s so crazy how nixon had to resign after watergate and now every single month 1 million watergates happen and no one cares
they were threatening to KILL two random assholes from the newspaper for asking questions about like, mishandled money and light wiretapping. in 2026 you can be spoken out against by other government employees establishing a surveillance state and using public taxpayer money to fund golf courses and outright stating your intentions to go against multiple constitutional amendments and nothing will happen
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Aliens that live for like a billion years and age faster being horrified when a 28 year old human starts working on their ship cause wtf why did the human race send a literal baby to space?!
