ALTimage embedded in tweet is a full bin labeled "Free Condoms, Be Safe Today!", with the aro flag on both the label and each of the condom packets, next to a full bin labeled "Free Water Balloons, Have Fun Today!", doing the same thing with the ace flag.
That’s a cute foot fetish you got there, would you mind keeping it 25796323689432 feet away from me?
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This post turns 11 next month and it continues to be one of the funniest on this damn site
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Happy 10 years to one of the OG funniest viral posts on this site
just a reminder that “being gay isn’t a personality trait” is just an evolved form of “i don’t care if you’re gay i just don’t want to see it”. no gay man thinks it’s their only personality trait, no lesbian thinks it’s their only personality trait, no trans person thinks it’s their only personality trait. you’re just annoyed by someone embracing a large part of themselves and being comfortable in their body and in a community of people like them.
ok i’m going to make a more in depth response to this bc it unexpectedly blew up but i’m seeing a lot of responses and tags about babygays and i need y’all to understand something real quick. y’all need to realize that babygays being obnoxious is literally not harming anybody and we all know it’s a phase they’ll eventually grow out of; it’s really not that deep i promise you. cishet boys and girls can go through phases in their pre and early teens of being “boy/girl crazy” or being obsessed with performing their gender the way they want but when lgbt kids do it then or even a little bit later y’all suddenly have a problem with it. these are just kids, don’t come at them with your own internalized phobias.
“Nobody hurt you. Nobody turned off the light and argued with somebody else all night. The bad man on the moors was only a movie you saw. Nobody locked the door. Your questions were answered fully. No. That didn’t occur. You couldn’t sing anyway, cared less. The moment’s a blur, a Film Fun laughing itself to death in the coal fire. Anyone’s guess. Nobody forced you. You wanted to go that day. Begged. You chose the dress. Here are the pictures, look at you. Look at us all, smiling and waving, younger. The whole thing is inside your head. What you recall are impressions; we have the facts. We called the tune. The secret police of your childhood were older and wiser than you, bigger than you. Call back the sound of their voices. Boom. Boom. Boom. Nobody sent you away. That was an extra holiday, with people you seemed to like. They were firm, there was nothing to fear. There was none but yourself to blame if it ended in tears. What does it matter now? No, no, nobody left the skidmarks of sin on your soul and laid you wide open for Hell. You were loved. Always. We did what was best. We remember your childhood well.”
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carol ann duffy, we remember your childhood well
The fact that there’s an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.
So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.
So like… It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.
But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.
Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.
Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.
Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.
But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.
Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.
I have a volume from the Library of Babel! it’s one of my most treasured books.
on the second to last page, about halfway down it reads “OH TIME THY PYRAMIDS” a singular grain of order in the sea of chaos.
The library of babel contains every book to ever exist and moreover it contains all information that can be encoded in a finite string of characters from its alphabet.
I cannot overstate how much I love the Library of Babel. it’s wonderful, it is my heart and soul.
at last we created the perplexing nexus, from the novel “wouldnt it be weird if there was a perplexing nexus?”
important poll: do/did your parents take away your phone?
yes, my phone is taken away
no, other devices are taken away (computer, ipad, tablet)
yes, also other devices are taken away as well
no, other objects are taken away (video games, books, art supplies, ect.)
no, wtf are you talking about (parents wont take away things)
i dont have a phone
n/a + results
by the time i was old enough to have anything more advanced than a flip phone my parents had stopped taking anything but they did punish me with removal of device time yes
Sewer bop ♫
With the popularity of Planet of the Bass I've noticed a lot of people getting eurobeat and eurodance confused. This is understandable but also REALLY funny to me as a eurobeat girlie. Reigning Eurobeat queen Odyssey (you may know her as the girl behind "Discord I'm howlin at the moon") has a good Twitter thread on the subject, but to add my own summary that's hopefully not too jargon-y:
It's PROBABLY EUROBEAT if:
- Main lyrical themes are cars/driving/going Very Fast, Touhou, My Little Pony, or Japan (though the latter is more of a grey area since Japan comes up as a theme in some eurodance as well)
- Between every verse is a synthesizer riff that sounds too fast to ever possibly be played live by human hands
- There's a section where all but the last word or so of every line is omitted (this is where "dancing, we wanna feel the light is flashing, I send the power to myself" becomes "dancing... flashing... to myself")
- There's an electric guitar solo (may or may not be synthesized)
- The rhythm is a straight four-on-the-floor beat, aka it sounds like WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP
- There's car vroom vroom sound effects
It's PROBABLY EURODANCE (at least as opposed to eurobeat) if:
- There's a rapper
- Themes include world peace or partying (there are SOME party eurobeat songs but not as many, and it's not like eurobeat is pro-war, they're just driving too fast to think about it)
- It's more downtempo
- The rhythm is a shuffle beat, aka it sounds like WA-WOMP WA-WOMP
- It's in a language other than English or Japanese
It's DEFINITELY eurobeat if:
- The YouTube thumbnail looks like this or otherwise involves an anime character and a car
Eurobeat songs you may know include Running in the 90s, Deja Vu, Gas Gas Gas, The Top, Night of Fire, and an honorable mention to The Living Tombstone's remix of Odyssey's eurobeat remix of Discord.
Eurodance songs you may know include Every Time We Touch, Butterfly, Caramelldansen, Cotton-Eye Joe (yes, really!), Dragostea Din Tei, and Blue.
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I joke about how Luffy was literally willing to starve to death to get Sanji back and the “platonically married for 20 years” vibe they have but I think the thing is, Luffy would’ve responded like that for any of his crew post-Marineford. IMO the only real difference between Usopp at Water 7 and Sanji at WCI is purely Luffy having experienced grievous and irreperable loss - the understanding, born of the worst possible circumstances, that sometimes when something is gone, it’s gone forever, so you’d better damn well hold onto the things that really matter to you. In that sense, it wasn’t so much that Luffy is bonded with Sanji above and beyond the rest of his crew, but that Sanji was his first real taste of loss since Ace died, and Luffy responded the only way he knew how: by trying to stop the entire world.
What makes it significant, for me, is that of everyone in the crew, Sanji is the only one who really needed this. Usopp’s had his moment of doubt and grown up since; Robin went through the same self-sacrificial “they’d be better off without me” moment of growth two years prior. Nami, Zoro and Franky have never really doubted their belonging since making the decision to join up; Chopper and Brook are just happy to be there. Sanji, on the other hand, has been actively trying to scramble for redemption-by-suicide since approximately Drum Island and is on attempt 478439 by now; I’ve spoken before about Sanji’s insane self-sacrifice problem and it was gratifying to get to WCI and understand why he is Like This (not just the fatal inferiority complex but like. All of it.)
Anyway. The point I’m making is, Luffy’s intelligence (especially post-TS) imo manifests in his ability to know exactly what people need from him. It’s why people are drawn to him, why he wins allies so easily; he can see what people need, and he finds ways to give it to them. So the thing with Luffy and Sanji on WCI is that is IS rooted in Luffy’s love for Sanji - not because Luffy loves Sanji best, necessarily, but because he understood the nature of Sanji’s wounding, and recognised implicitly what Sanji needs: to be needed. So when Luffy tells Sanji he’ll sit there and starve if he doesn’t come back, it absolutely means ‘I love you’, but it also means Luffy sees Sanji in all his woundedness and trauma and perceived, crushing worthlessness, and he says hey, I don’t need you to throw yourself away for me; I don’t need you to stand in the way of a lightning bolt, or throw yourself into an avalanche, or stand between Zoro and death; I need you alive. I need you here, with me. With us.
“I can’t become the King of the Pirates without you” applies to everyone on Luffy’s crew; it’s just that Sanji is the only one who really, desperately needed to hear it, and to believe it.
Get u a man who’s also a weapon of mass destruction. Get u a weapon of mass destruction who’s also a man
pspspsps 2023 ghirademi fans where u at (details and corrupted version under cut)
“It could’ve been worse.” It could’ve been BETTER. It could’e been EASIER. It could’ve been lovely. It could’ve been beautiful, it could’ve been fun. It could have been simple, it could’ve made you HAPPY.
You can drown in two feet of water just as simply as you can in an ocean. Stop downplaying what happened and neglecting your feelings. Kill that idea with fire. Or at least acknowledge that what happened was bad without immediately trying to justify or dismiss it.
