you know what i want?? a representation of the seven deadly sins where for once lust isnt the only woman and is instead a horny friendzone dudebro
holy shit
A frat house of deadly sins:
Lust, the guy who hits on everyone regardless of whether or not they seem inclined to reciprocate, also known as the guy who considers his own pleasure the endgame of any encounter, consistently failing to give a shit about other people’s comfort or satisfaction;
Gluttony, the guy who overindulges in everything regardless of whether or not it was offered in moderation or offered out of politeness, also known as the guy who’s always high off other people’s weed and drunk off other people’s beer, consistently failing to respect the unspoken standards of politeness;
Greed, the guy who lays claim to every object of ambiguous origin left behind after a party, also known as the guy who hoards things he’s fully aware he’ll never use before they expire or will simply never use at all, consistently failing to demonstrate an awareness of the basic concept of sharing;
Sloth, the guy who only demonstrates any agency when the possibility of getting someone else to do his work for him arises, also known as the guy who will actually expend more energy trying to get out of making a basic effort than the basic effort itself would have required, consistently failing to do much of anything;
Wrath, the guy who finds a way to pick a fight with anyone nearby regardless of the circumstances, also known as the guy who’s formed an elaborate system of self-justifications to excuse his violent behaviours rather than attempt to curb his temper, consistently failing to take responsibility for his actions;
Envy, the only nice guy in the house, also known as the guy who thinks the world and everyone in it owes him something regardless of whether or not he’s done anything to deserve it, consistently failing to recognize that basic acts of human decency do not entitle him to the regard and attentions of others;
and Pride, the guy whose stories keep getting longer every time you hear them, also known as the guy who can’t stand not to be the centre of attention and who only starts conversations with others in the interests of talking about himself, consistently failing to take into account the fact that literally no one likes a person who feels compelled to engage everyone around them in constant games of self-congratulatory one-upmanship.
They are insiduous people, these frat brothers, primarily because you know people exactly like them and could never quite put your finger on why they’re so goddamned infuriating.
the sons of the white suburban moms of the apocalypse
the white suburban moms of the apocalypse:
war: stands up at the pta meeting to remind everyone evolution is just a theory and shouldn’t be taught in science class
famine: invited you over for dinner but everything’s vegan and gluten-free
pestilence: didn’t vaccinate her fucking kids and now the whole neighborhood’s got measles
death: on the way to sign her divorce papers and you just put regular instead of sugar-free syrup in her half-caf no whip caramel latte
the short answer: you must be knew here. bitching about this stuff is the Hot New Trend
the long answer: this has been slowly simmering in increasingly vicious fandom wars ever since fandom has moved onto mainstream social media, which values quantity of engagement over all else.
this means that it is in tumblr, and twitter, and Facebook’s financial best interest to give you as few filtration and privacy options as possible. this is why your timelines keep getting algorithmically shuffled, that’s why they keep introducing posts that they think you want to see rather than the posts you asked to see, that’s why private curated communities have all but died a silent death.
these companies thrive on everyone posting everything, and everyone seeing everything. that’s fine when it’s someone posting memes or gen stuff, but the internet is full of weird shit that we don’t want to see, and we are using services that are incentivized to show it to us – and who stand to profit if we are outraged, so long as we are outraged on their platform. They won’t often say it directly, but angry communities are engaged communities.
I think nearly everyone had a moment when they could have become an anti, when they saw some fictional thing that was truly reprehensible, horrifying, there’s no way a decent person created this. Since the advent on the internet, a lot of those moments have happened. Most of us blocked the creator and moved on, but the younger generation is more and more likely to insist that they be protected from this content, that the content be removed, made against the TOS, even made illegal. And this speaks to a deeper generation gap.
The internet now, for all it profits off of conflict, is much more moderated now than it once was. There are authorities now, and since 2002 their involvement in the internet has been going steadily up, and up, and up. Simultaneously, you’ve got a lot of people growing up with an authoritarianism that’s infecting all of western society. It is not limited to right-wing populists; there are elements, seeds of authoritarianism in YouTube culture, in reddit, in tumblr, in third and fourth wave feminism, in nearly every fat left-wing movement just as much as the far-right.
The funny thing is, a very limited number of antis will claim that they are doing this for themselves, for things that are directly harming or influencing them. No, they’re doing this for vulnerable people. Minorities. Victims. Children. What if they get hurt? They don’t trust people with freedom, either to create or to consume (or choose not to consume) content. An authority has to restrict these. For safety.
This pattern of restricting other people’s freedom based on the hypothetical harm (or even discomfort!) of someone else? That is all new-millennium authoritarian, and it’s growing in fandom just like it is everywhere else.
This pattern of restricting other people’s freedom based on the
hypothetical harm (or even discomfort!) of someone else? That is all
new-millennium authoritarian, and it’s growing in fandom just like it is
everywhere else.
…is this supposed to be considered weird? I don’t get it.
I think it’s more that it was an unexpected feature. I’m glad it’s there.
Yeah I actually found it while prepping for brain surgery, and was incredibly relieved that it was a built-in feature and not something I’d have to leave convoluted instructions about or whatever. It’s a bit morbid, sure, but it’s a great feature.
after seeing this post i was immediately filled with the need to read a book where one regency lady thinks this other lady never talks to her because she’s stuck up and rude about the first lady being less wealthy so she’s always showing off her fantastic gowns and hats to piss the snotty lady off except the other lady is actually a painfully shy lesbian who can’t get a word out around her crush and just swoons every time first lady drives slowly by in her carriage to show off and wonders if she’s flirting and the entire book is second girl trying to impress her back while first girl thinks they’re in an escalating silent social war while second girl thinks they’re maybe flirting probably? this seems like flirting?? until the climax at some fancy ball when first girl says something that’s meant to be devastatingly yet politely disdainful but comes out outrageously gay and second girl is like “THIS IS IT SHE LIKES ME” and kisses her and first girl is like
“oh no. wait. yes. what?”
and the adorable ending is them trying to figure out what happened after first girl is like “but you hate me!” and second girl is like “if you thought i hated you why did you flirt with me for a solid year??” and first girl is like “i was clearly destroying you?” and second girl is like “oh. babe. not the way you thought you were”
2. Wasn’t snow white kept in a glass coffin while she slept? Very vintage fairy tale aesthetic.
3. A few people pointed out in the tags that a full-sized glass coffin would be a terrific terrarium for lots of the already spooky critters you keep in terrariums- tarantula, toads, snakes, carnivorous plants etc. And the coffin shape would give them lots of space and take the spookiness to maximum.
why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman? do y’all know who controlled the sun? apollo. icarus is gay as fuck, y’all.
Sometimes it was helios, not Apollo. Icarus was still gay as fuck
“Icarus we just escaped prison don’t ruin it by flying too close to the sun”
[Icarus already fucking launching himself across the sky for the sake of some godly dick]
woops
Guy getting himself killed to get some godly dick is propably the most Greek thing to ever happen in mythology
I showed my friend this and he goes “Icarus want dat Dickarus
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