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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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vriskakinnieaynrand

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olderthannetfic

Anonymous asked:

im never going to get antis. there's so much i hate, and i have so many people blocked. if you so much as mentioned role playing near me? blocked. it gives me so much second hand embarrassment i don't want to interact with you about anything

but i cannot understand giving a fuck about what someone else likes to the point of being weird about it. block and move on. don't interact with someone. it's the easiest thing in the world. it gives me more time to do what i want, and interact with fandom in ways i enjoy

and i do know why antis pull the shit they do. i can follow their reasoning, even if i think it's stupid. but god people need to get off the internet, myself included

olderthannetfic answered:

It’s usually a bad coping mechanism for trauma or existential angst about the state of the world. (Ironic, given how often they accuse other people of coping the wrong way.)

They think Bad Things are producing genuinely harmful effects. They think they’re a lone savior whose responsibility it is to care about everything at all times. They feel guilty if they don’t try to get rid of the fiction that bothers them.

Sure, some cynical people may be manipulating others into this dumbassery, but a lot of it is just home grown guilt complexes and a need for control in a chaotic and frightening world.

librarianarchist
notquitesoancient

you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life

mooncustafer

New headcannon: everyone in that song is gay except the Piano Man who has no idea he’s playing at a gay bar and the staff and regulars have a betting pool on how long he’ll take to finally figure it out. So far John is ahead.

skeleton-richard

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freshdonus

“The manager gives me a smile ‘cause he knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see” also implies that the Piano Man is possibly an incredibly attractive but oblivious himbo, and if you listen to the rest of it imagining that, this all fits a little too well.

spacedandelions

this makes too much sense. Also, the full quote is “Now John at the bar is a friend of mine. He gets me my drinks for free. And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke. But there’s someplace that he’d rather be” Yes, your bed, he wants to be on your bed honey, that’s not a joke, he is flirting with you.

madgastronomer

Lighting another man’s cigarette is some old-school gay cruising.

dduane

I’ll never tire of this. :)

transgenderer
transgenderer

theres this comparison i read once, from someone talking about the experience of having been poor and suddenly becoming like, solidly middle class (he wrote an article about the daily experience of being poor that did really well and started a mildly successful substack, iirc) is that you dont feel as well off as youd expect you would, money is still kinda tight (less tight, but not un-tight), because theres a lot of like, "hidden necessities", things that are so obviously beneficial if you can afford them but which you simply do without and bear the suffering of lacking if you cant, like yknow, doctors appointments when you need them, nutritious food, not working two jobs, etc

anyway ive had this connection brewing in my mind for a while that a lot of the disconnect and weirdness when comparing modern life to premodern life comes from this kind of effect. like especially with medicine, theres a lot of expensive medical care that is genuinely a significant burden that was in some sense lacking as a burden in the past because like...you just died! or like, ditto with food. etc, i think the concept generalized

not sure how meaningful the connection is, or if im just drawing strings

transgenderer

@official-kircheis said: hedonistic treadmill

this idea is definitely *similar* to the hedonistic treadmill, but its making a different statement. like the idea with the hedonistic treadmill is you arent actually better off, emotionally. the idea here is you ARE genuinely better off, but youre maybe not like, less stressed, or not that exactly, its more like, you expect to suddenly have a bunch of slack but it turns out your life had a bunch of "negative slack" that immediately consumes things

tanadrin
tanadrin

something i think about sometimes is, if you took every third or even fourth-level administrative division of a country in the world, and said, ok, you have the option of 1) declaring independence as your own sovereign state, or 2) merging with as many of your adjacent neighbors as want to join together into a sovereign state, and as new states form we’ll re run this whole process a few times, so arbitrarily large states can form

what kind of political landscape would you end up with? i think that a lot of countries would re-emerge more or less as they are. there’s a pretty strong sense of Frenchness, or Japaneseness, or Canadianness. a lot of poor areas with their own cultural identity might still hitch their wagon to bigger neighbors–but maybe different neighbors than before. it’s not like you’d get the True Essence of Imagined Communities, but it would be a fun exercise

discoursedrome

It’s been interesting to watch the Alberta secessionists grapple with this, because they have no good options. Economically, Alberta succession would be a catastrophe for them even if they got other prairie provinces to sign on, or if they convinced the US to let them become a state. There’s simply no way to make it work, unlike Quebec which would have an incredibly bad time of it but does have all the geographical bits and bobs needed to function independently. So a popular proposal for this is “Wexit”, whereby the entire West of Canada secedes (generally defined as “west of Ontario”, though Manitoba is a bit of a toss-up). This would be super viable from a geographic and economic standpoint, but it requires coastal BC to be interested in coming along for the ride – this makes no sense from BC’s perspective, because coastal BC is completely culturally distinct from the prairies, and it doesn’t really work for the prairies either, because the economic and cultural centre of a West-Canadian independent state would inevitably gravitate toward the west coast, leaving Albertans behind yet again.

I think one of the most interesting aspects of geopolitics is the combination of “peoples” and “cultuees” and “states” and “provinces”, which are maximally arbitrary and path-dependent, running up against the limitations of geography, which is largely indifferent to the existence of humans. It really helps sharpen one’s focus on why so much of politics boils down to “securing control of your neighbour’s natural resources”.

tanadrin

strongly opposed to alberta becoming a u.s. state solely on the grounds it would make the border look revolting

tanadrin
tanadrin

rationalist yimby btvs au where the popularity of single family houses and the promotion of homeownership are a result of vampire protection policies pushed by the occult division of the public health services, bc apartments don’t offer sufficiently strong magical protection against supernatural home invasion. willow designs bus routes that function as magical wards excluding vampires from within the area they enclose, which has the side effect of reversing the century old trend toward suburbanization and revitalizing city centers across North America

tanadrin

giles uncovers references to robert moses being a demon in disguise, leading to the the big reveal at the end of act 1 is that the planners responsible for single-family zoning made a pact with an evil wolfram and hart-style demon cabal to trade the safety of the suburbs for human sacrifices in the city center. at the end of act 2, it’s revealed that the charming dutch city-planner-slash-occultist who’s befriended the whole scooby gang is actually a plant, and he’s subtly altered willow’s planned transit routes so that if actually implemented, they will summon Ngwhlmoth of the Infinite Lanes, who will erupt forth from every freeway cutting through an urban core in america at once, devouring the country whole

tanadrin

the sequel fic is 200,000 extremely preachy words of buffy defeating mayor wilkins using the power of georgism