emptyblissdotmp3:

literary analysis being posited as this boring grueling penance that only miserable people insist on is very dumb as an idea but its even more dumb to me, the guy who gets so excited about it that he has to clap and pound his fists against the ground and walk in circles at a dizzying speed unbeknownst to man

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phantomrose96:

I don’t think Reddit gets enough credit for how hilariously buckwild the subreddit system is.

Like it makes sense on the surface. The subreddits are all topic-focused independent message boards, each with their own moderator teams, and you can curate which ones show up on your feed. Subscribe to the ones that suit your interests and bam you’re good.

Except the question of WHO is in charge of every subreddit is an objectively hilarious system. Anyone can create a subreddit. Under any name. Who holds the keys to the kingdom is strictly determined by whoever managed to camp the name first. It’s like tumblr URL wars except if whoever managed to grab the URL “homestuck” got to be defacto in charge of the entire homestuck fandom.

Or at least they get to be in charge until they anger the populace and get ousted, Julius Caesar style, by the team of fellow moderators they brought aboard, or until they voluntarily sign the deed over because they don’t want to deal with 600,000 angry homestuck fans every single day, or they get mutinied against and all the REAL homestuck fans flock over to “curatedhomestuck” or “homestuckcirclejerk” or “homestuckcirclejerkcirclejerk”.

You get seemingly benign subreddits about things like baking or kittens that have absolutely batshit rules because the whole thing is being run by a paranoid and power-hungry 23-year-old from Arkansas. You get inter-subreddit beef where the mods of r/cutekittensdoingcutethings will ban you from their subreddit because you have a history of posting in r/genshinimpact. You get subreddits that fall to ruin and spam because the moderators in charge vanished into the night without passing power along to anyone else.

Redditors love to complain about Reddit moderators and this surprises me not at all because there is simply no possible way that the Reddit moderation system could be a smooth-running machine when its defining underlying mechanic is First Come First Serve. And that’s hilarious to me. That’s hilarious. Political system where the King is chosen from among the populace of people who comment “first” on Youtube videos. You can’t beat that.

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cloudbustng:

american healthcare in a nutshell

the muppet show (1976)

partywithponies:

People who write smutfics, write in the tags what fandom and what pairing the first smutfic you wrote were!

filmnoirsbian:

Every night my cat will leave her throne (fluffy pink pillow on my bed) and begin her lamentation shift, during which she will wander throughout the house wailing about the horrors and how unloved she is and the injustice of it all. After about 10 minutes of this I will call her name and she will come slowly back into my room and crawl up the bed to gently headbutt me, meowing excitedly at the return of her loving mother who, it must be stressed, never moved.

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doggirlhen:

tachiehara:

not the twitter migrants putting “reblog heavy” in their bios on here… like yeah. that’s what we do here

ALT

reblog heavy

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lgbtunis:

lgbtunis:

i think heartstopper is very good for what it is - a lighthearted series aimed at young teens. it starts to fall flat on every level when you try and analyze it as anything else. “why is this” “why did they that” bc its a coming-of-age series for lgbt 12-15 year olds. thats why.

like i generally agree w the argument that lgbt stories are being sanitized and desexualized in order to be presented in the mainstream but i also think that maybe in this case its bc its a show for little babies. and no one wouldve batted an eye and made those arguments if this was another cishet story

decompose1:

see i think what people get caught up in is going “oh this and that are fetish art……hey did you know x thing is a fetish…pretty crazy right…..this piece of art is actually a fetish for the artist……..” and like. see the problem is thinking that devalues the art. i don’t think something being a fetish or sexual in nature or whatever actually detracts from any meaning or emotional weight something could have. i don’t think “horny” is a worthless or meaningless emotion and i don’t see why exploring it in art is any different from “sadness” or “happiness” or “anger”. does that make sense? im just sayin we should examine why we view sexuality as inherently detracting/meaning less in art than other things

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animentality:

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