Brotherhood of The Orb
literally what the fuck do you mean its still january. how is that remotely possible. its been six months minimum
I’m seeing a lot of people say Wake Up Dead Man doesn’t feel like a movie about Catholicism, and I feel that is missing the point. Yes, the movie isn’t about mainstream Catholicism, not at all. But that’s the point. It’s about a rural American tradcath church, which breaks away from the traditional Catholic path to blindly follow a priest as their de facto cult leader. The “normal” Catholics at the beginning of the movie even warn Jud about going there because of this. It isn’t meant to be a representation of traditional, mainstream Catholicism, but the Catholicism that has caught on in right wing, redpilled, MAGA America, and that’s the point.
Tango. Uniform. Mike. Bravo. Lima. Romeo.
Kilo.
Uniform.
November
Golf.
Papa
Oscar
Whiskey
Papa
Echo
November
India
Sierra.
btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you
The above is true.
Also, if you feel like you need information before you go, ask a public librarian first.
"haha sorry ive never *gone to the dmv before* *made a budget* *selected a primary care doctor* *planned meals* … can you tell me how to prepare for/research this?"
A good librarian will ask you more about what you need to do, and guide you through the websites or other resources with you try to understand it, print/email a copy for you, and also draw on personal experience as much as possible -- falling just short of giving you actual legal or medical advice.
Plus you are helping the library by using resources and adding to their stats.
when i was a kid i had moments of being so fucking diabolical because i realized at some point the best way to leverage power over my family was to do shit that would make everybody late
our house was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods so when i decided i didnt want to wear dresses anymore if we were going to some event & my parents insisted i had to wear a dress i would just go hide in the woods. was so committed i almost made us miss a flight once bc my mom packed a dress in my suitcase
i only promised to stop doing this if my parents got me formal boys clothes to wear which eventually they did. i don't feel bad about resorting to violence bc i asked politely and they said no. proud of 10 yr old me for evil annoying lesbian behavior
5th grade was the last time I wore a dress for school pictures. When my parents attempted to force the issue for 6th grade, I climbed onto our roof and pulled the ladder up after me. My dad borrowed the neighbors ladder. As soon as it touched the roof I pulled it up too. By the time I had 3 ladders they were willing to negotiate, and 2 hours late for work.
get yourself a girl who knows exactly how to compliment the selfies you send 🥰
In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.
As someone from outside of the US, I find it so telling that US-Americans are only now getting mad at ICE that US-citizens were killed by them. So many videos on TikTok right now put emphasis on the fact that the victims were US-citizens. Where was this energy when people without US citizenship were harmed? All the US-Americans only getting mad now are essentially telling us that they were fine with ICE's violence as long as it was against immigrants only.
I don't know where you live or what your news has been reporting, but as an American I can assure you that most of us been pretty fucking mad this whole time.
LA has been in a constant state of protest since June. Millions of people (including me) have joined rapid response organizations like stopice.com and justice4all, as well as legal advocacy groups to fight the presence of ICE and to provide legal aid to those who have been affected. Thousands of lawsuits were filed against ICE in 2025. In San Francisco where I live, protesters shut down an entire island in October to keep troops from moving in, and succeeded in stopping the surge of ICE officers that other blue cities were suffering. Several state governors, including Tim Walz, are making plans to mobilize their own state troops to kick ICE out. (For context, state politicians openly defying federal orders is pretty unprecedented here, and represents a point of no return that has everyone extra worried.)
The murder of Renee Good is sparking particular outrage for a couple of reasons:
- The shooting occurred less than half a mile away from where George Floyd was murdered by masked police just a few years ago
- Just minutes after the shooting, national laughingstock Kristi Noem talked out her ass about how the victim was a domestic terrorist who deserved to die
- The murderer's own footage from his phone was released and verified, so everyone can see for themselves that what really happened was very different from what the state sanctioned media machine is trying to spin.
To be clear, you're absolutely right: there are definitely people who only started caring when US citizens started being rounded up, who only care now because it's a white woman being shot in the face this time. Since at least the Civil War, white nationalism has been founded on the concept of protecting our pure and fragile white women from those violent black and brown people. Literally every argument about immigration boils down to protecting white women from abduction. ICE recruitment ads aren't even subtle about how cool and sexy you'll look protecting the ethnostate, particularly the white family unit. (And the optimist in me is desperately hoping there are ICE officers who are seeing this and starting to wonder if this is what they signed up for.)
I have a feeling that when people try to place emphasis on the fact that she was a US citizen and a mother and just a normie-looking midwestern white lady and so on, they're trying to reach those people who aren't already on the right side of history. They're trying to say "she's just like you. Is this finally your problem yet? Are you finally ready to join the rest of us in opposing this yet?"
I wish those people were mad before, but if they're only just getting with the program now, better late than never I guess.
I suspect that a lot of people all over the planet are looking at what's been happening in America - not just for the last year, but for a decade or more - and yelling at their screens do something, why won't you do something, WHY AREN'T YOU PEOPLE FIGHTING THIS, and that's entirely understandable.
But believe me, we are fighting this. We've been fighting this.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Renee Good was murdered for fighting it. ICE wasn't after her. They were harassing her neighbors without a warrant, and she used her vehicle to block ICE vehicles so they could get to safety. Yesterday a family risked their own lives to protect a doordasher who ran into their house to flee from ICE - who only withdrew because the entire fucking neighborhood was screaming and filming them. People who aren't being personally targeted by ICE are being shot and tased and pepper sprayed and loaded into unmarked vans and never seen again because they're fighting this, because they are absolutely not okay with what ICE has been doing.
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
Anonymous asked:
I just really hate the word "fandom". It's just a portmanteau of "fan" and "random". It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word "fanbase" already exists.
idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain??
but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have ‘fandom’ when ‘fanbase’ already existed? but that’s language for you, always changing all the time
Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).
The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.
Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers.
here are screenshots from the online OED incase people don’t have access through and academic institution:
