There’s a plot hole in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ where the Argama is in constant need of resources and food when they could just eat Beecha and solve their problems right away

I identify as socialist-in-a-broad-sense and one of the funniest parts of my political education was that I had to get libs to teach me my Oskar Lange etc "why are lefties allergic to math" has had hilarious repercussions on me

You have no obligation to match the tone that marketing materials used to describe old media. Instead of "Sonic and Tails battle across Angel Island to once more defeat the nefarious Doctor Robotnik," try "We live in a fallen world. But I am soothed when animal boys traverse the colorful maze."

who up thinking about the darkness that lurks in their fellow man’s heart

No.

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Oh dude this Japanese House album rocked

"blowjob brothers" functions as an available english translation that communicates all the information necessary to understand what a "manzai duo" is

I love how many Gundam memes are just lines or scenes from the show, because Gundam is just Like That. anyway this is one of my favorites

LRT Love all the "estrogen won't fix your voice or facial hair" replies and quotes on this. CIA really dropped the ball on the forcefem Hitler plan

the Dorley prequel nobody wanted

I honestly should read more about this because while I did read selections of Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois on exactly this topic as an undergraduate I'm far more ignorant than I'd like to be about US labour history

Which actually gets to the real tragedy: in the "divorce" of the "Wide-Awake coalition," Frederick Douglass ultimately finds himself on the right, DESPITE having very pro-labor sympathies This is because late 1800s unions were mostly, if you can believe it, extremely racist

The cracking up of the Lincoln-Hamlin coalition over the labor question in the 1870s is so depressing, but also fascinating

oh my god

random idea I just had based on this comment I made in some reply thread somewhere: I wonder how much this has to do with the fact that humans tend to create the mental abstraction of "a language" that's one thing that's shared between multiple persons, and ignore individual idiolects

Learning to read is one of the weirdest things to talk about for me because I was such a hyperlexic child that I basically hit a ton of reading milestones before age 5— in the "childhood amnesia" period, so I effectively have no memories of being taught to read at all

It's just so fashionable right now

If you're Canadian, and you support this decision, it's worth sending Skate Canada an email saying so. I'm sure they're about to hear from people opposing it, and it would be good to make sure they’re hearing from people who think they did the right thing as well. skatecanada.ca/about/contac...

I'm honestly still surprised when I see an organization do the right thing these days, but good: www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-spo...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The elusive Dorley Voter

Eating plain rice

I get hyped whenever a Jojo character goes off on an unrelated tangent about something completely pointless because it feels like Araki got hyperfixated on some show or wikipedia page that week and decided to incorporate that in.

Caves of Qud update: poured warm static on my dog, it turned into a dromad trader that comes with guards and items. They are all my dog, the whole trade party and merchandise. I convinced my dog to sell me my dog for free while my dog, my dog, my dog and my dog were standing guard.

that guy at school who made fun of you for studying english instead of STEM now makes video essays about The Deafening Loneliness of Hyrule Temple

remember: if you're not paying, you are the product

When we miss the Old Internet it's not just nostalgia, it's missing a time when online culture was driven by people who were really good at written communication rather than people who really liked to be on camera and hear themselves talk.

I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it

aphantasia is a neat thing to talk about and the particularly fun part to me is I'm usually a 3, sometimes maybe a 2? and it gets me kind of like "what the fuck" when I hear about the experiences of EITHER 1 or 5

I'm starting to wonder the extent to which Lovecraft has become maybe the most popular of the Depression-era-and-earlier pulp writers BECAUSE he's a huge racist lots of them are, but his being so overtly bigoted makes it easier to tell one's self that the past is a foreign country...

maybe in like two years we'll all be like, welp! we're sick of social media. no more social media. and it'll just all die out like how tv is dead now and every channel just shows family guy over and over again

do trans women generally get told take calcium supplements or is it just me?

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

Ah, to be a cockatoo eating a croissant

I've been reading a bunch of Appendix N pre-Tolkien fantasy the last little bit and it's got me wondering how different a vibe modern day fantasy etc. is gonna feel afterwards

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

This is an achewood plotline

It gets exhausting watching people race to find the worst takes from the most hateful people about things they ostensibly like. I want to see your genuine feelings about something, don't hide your excitement or disappointment behind screenshots of the most obnoxious bigot you could find crashing out

FINALLY??

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Cannot stress enough how true this is. I stop and say "this is very Holst" constantly while hearing soundtracks in video games and such

Everyone remembers "one is not born, but rather becomes a woman," but the actual opening of "The Second Sex" -- published in 1949, turned out to be the first book of feminism's second wave -- makes me laugh every time.

The Anne of Green Gables subreddit will be exactly what you think it is and then every so often, out of nowhere: www.reddit.com/r/AnneofGree...

Wicked isn’t queerbaiting but an alternative, funnier thing: a work where everyone involved in every single part of its production is independently committed to making it as gay as possible but nobody wants to be the first to say to the others that it’s what they were doing

Or there’s also this. I am full of helpful explications. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Flashing my green light in complicated strobe patterns, to hypnotize Gatsby into doing my bidding.

It’s sort of interesting that giving Sonic the Hedgehog a gun was a big deal but Nintendo has given Kirby a gun a few different times and no one really reacts because it’s like “yeah he’d have one”

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson