He forgot books exist in the 80s
the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined
did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"
Underground french cinema
my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.
some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.
this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.
A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don't misgender her :)
reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.
I had a fifteen minute long crying session yesternight over the fact that all I was 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 14, is lost and lonely, and now, at 24, I am neither and that filled me with so much gratitude
reblog to tell a teenager that these aren’t actually the best years of your life and that things can and will get better when you have independance and maybe are away from your situation right now.
Its me reblog to tell me that
my only advice is to BE CAREFUL posting about holiday traditions around europeans. you'll post something casual like "anyone else watch the old Grinch movie every year? what a classic" and a european will appear as if summoned and say some shit like "funny how USAmericans always CONVENIENTLY forget that Not Everyone On Earth is from The USA…….. no of COURSE we dont watch 'the grunch' or whatever the fuck that is…. our tradition is to attend a community showing of Glummdorf the Racial Stereotype"
European children waiting patiently on Hatemas Eve for Racism Claus to slur down the chimney and segregate all of their presents by colour.
somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
We often eat pie at work...for morale.
"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.
imagine if people actually took romantic consent seriously. wouldn't it be fucking awesome. i know they never will, but just. take a moment and imagine it with me
no more "just give them a chance, maybe you'll end up liking them!", no more "if you're going to reject someone, at least apologize to them!", no more shaming people for breaking up/divorcing, no more demonizing people for rejecting other peoples' romantic advances, no more shoving romance in romance repulsed peoples' face on purpose to provoke us, no more "i know we agreed to just be friends with benefits, but i thought you were going to fall in love with me eventually!", no more "i can fix them" when the only thing "wrong" with them is that they want to fuck without dating.
wouldn't it be nice?
Anonymous asked:
can you explain that post you rbed from tpwrtrmnky
flying-potato2 answered:
gna assume this is genuine and . ur gonna have to be a lot more specific i will not lie to u i have not a damn clue what ur referring to lol. who is that and what post. u could be talking abt like. 1/200000 posts i will not find it and i dont know what to look for anyways
ok no response so its time for a lesson in callouts and hate campaign tactics.
This anon is an example of what we call a "whisper network": a web of people spreading rumors about someone they all collectively dislike, usually a trans woman. This here is very specifically building plausible deniability as " im just asking questions!" while still effectively spreading the Notion that the victim (tpwrtrmnky in this case) has done or said something problematic. The intended format was going to be "can you explain" -> i explain my interpretation -> they respond with their bad faith interpretation -> i call them out on their bullshit and they label me problematic too OR i agree/am neutral to them and spread their version of the story to my entire following. both are bad. Ive derailed them here by just. not knowing what theyre talking about. who is tpwrtrmnky? what post? I don't know these things and its not like they're being very specific, so how can I explain? which, speaking of,
"can you explain" is a neat way of getting (tricking) me into saying something - anything - they can twist as problematic, or otherwise giving them ammunition (in the form of out of context quotes) against their victim to say "well she believes in THIS PROBLEMATIC THING and heres our PROOF" using my words against the victim. and while yes, i am giving benefit of doubt to this anon in particular these are almost universally bad faith questions and you must never treat them as legitimate. again, there are two outcomes from this sort of interaction and both are bad, for me and for the victim.
If youve known me, youll see exactly what I've done here even with that benefit of the doubt to shield myself from obvious pitfalls - I don't know what post they are referring to, and with so many posts on my blog how can i know! In the meantime ive ensured no bad faith responses by disabling anons - theyre never quite brave enough to face me directly. If they were truly trying to understand then they will have no trouble facing me directly - if not, well, good riddance.
Further Reading:
i’m not the first person to say this but it’s so insulting and dehumanizing that every AI advertisement frames the consumer as a stupid useless idiot. every AI ad is like ugh i can’t write this email (a thing that takes 2 minutes to do) ugh i don’t know how to interview (if you’re as incompetent as the commercial paints then why did you even apply for this job) oh nooooo i don’t know what groceries to buy (respectfully are you such a dumbass that you don’t even know what you want to eat???)
ads used to be like “tough stains? use our detergent!” “are you an outdoorsy person? get this 4x4 jeep cherokee” and now it’s like. you stupid animal. you don’t know how to socialize. you have no friends. you’re terrible at interviews. you can’t write. you forgot your anniversary with your husband. let the robot do all this for you. export your skills and thinking and interpersonal communication to this evil machine. surely this will have no adverse side effects. we hope you never have an original thought again. submit to the corporate robot overlord you stupid bastard clowns
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