[ID: image 1: Twitter/X post by maddie/@madsssagascar. It's a picture of text that reads: "Karl Stojka. 'It was not Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, or whatever the others were called, who had me dragged away and beaten. No, it was the cobbler, the neighbour, the old man, the milkman, the postman, those without form suddenly given armbands and a cap on their heads and them they were the master race.'" The post is in response to Markwayne Mullin/@SenMullin's post that reads: "Ice agents aren't Disney villains. They're our neighbours, friends, and loved ones. These immigration and customs enforcement officers are red-blooded American patriots doing a tough job to keep our nation safe. A..." the rest of the post is cut off.

Image 2: Mario napolitano/@Mars1 (the rest of username is cut off) 's reply to madsssagascar. It's an image of text that reads: "'Nice people made the best Nazis. My mum grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than "politics". They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbours were dragged away. You know who aren't nice people? Resistors. ' -Naomi Shulman"

playing trivia games as a nonamerican introduces a real element of chaos because sometimes the super easy beginner questions are like what was the top selling brand of toilet paper in texarkana in 1972 and sometimes the hardest questions will be like oh no a super tricky one for you: what country are dutch people from?

silly redraw inspired by @zonaenthusiast's post

sometimes you will see a joke circulate within a fandom and at first it's all fun and games but then the slow and terrible realization starts to seep in that this will become in fact a widely-accepted way to read a specific situation between characters that were subject of said joke and there is nothing you can do about it but to watch the horrors unfold in real time

And We Leave Here On Another Break, As We Come Back To The Present

Also that skull looks familiar.

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spell that halves your hitpoints but never kills you, a la zeno's paradox

don't neglect your female blorbos. put HER in the torment nexus. give HER some old lady yuri. ship HER with everyone under the sun

Insensitivity reader to make sure that your characters are ignorant assholes in the ways that make the most sense for the characterization you're trying to achieve

can you imagine 😭😭

I do think it’s funny when headcanons are presented as objective character facts bc I get “He would not fucking say/do that” as much as the next guy but I must also humbly acknowledge its powerful cousin named “A skilled enough writer could make me believe he would”

"wahh i only like enemies to lovers if it's gay bc i don't want men to be mean to women" what about a woman doing heinous shit to a man and that man (who also sucks) being pathetically psychosexually obsessed with her. you people have no fucking vision. if you were willing to read & write women doing actual wrongs this wouldn't be a problem. let that female character commit atrocities with the sole goal of ruining one guy's life while they have weird sexual tension about it

society if people discoursed abt characters being evil not because theyre obsessed with holding fictional people to arbitrary moral standards but because characters being evil is cool and interesting and sexy and tragic and thematically complex

i dont think KNow Your Meme gets enough credit for how seriously they archive information. i use them as a historical research source constantly. i personally have never found any false information on their site, im sure they make mistakes and i just havent personally seen any because i havent happened to be well-versed in the particular event where the error was made, but the format of their research is extremely citation-heavy. this has been especially true of how they link to tumblr posts that originated memes etc. no one else is keeping track of this information in this way

It's always funny to me when people give their blorbos all the same "correct" far left political views which while I understand the urge to make these blorbos as progressive as possible as political commentary, there are some characters that I feel in my bones are 100% centrist, pro-ai, pro-capitalism or absolutely refuse to vote and its supported by the source material. As a narrative tool these features are still great for being political commentary, even if the character never changes.