in case no one’s told you in a while. you are valid.
attention is not just nice; it’s a basic human need. humans need positive attention. they need it like they need sleep, or clothes, or shelter. when humans only receive negative attention - or no attention at all - it hurts them. breaks them over time. and, like a starving person stealing food out of desperation, a person starved of positive attention will do drastic things in order to get the attention they are lacking. it’s pretty easy to get annoyed at someone who is clearly trying to steer attention towards themselves. but maybe it will help you not be so quick to judge or get annoyed at them if you can stop yourself and say “maybe they’re just not getting the positive attention they need”. it doesn’t mean you have to be the person to provide that attention; it just gives you a mechanism to defend yourself from hating someone needlessly. and maybe it will even help you get in touch with your own need for attention, as well. good things will come from that.
“ccute baby bunny compilation” “cutest rabbit videos!” “cute bunny so sweet every video” NO. i want FUNNY rabbit. i want rabbit STUPID compilatiom. I want every video of a rabbit thumping over some inane thing . i want a compilation of ever rabbit thats ever jumped in a trash bin. show me the goddamn animal
“Sex is what makes us human” is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably
it’s funny how “press F to pay respects” was such a gigantic meme that it seems to have permanently affected the way we talk online. people use it completely genuinely and unironically. had a bad day? F. died in a videogame? F. I see it constantly in Discord, Twitch and ingame chats. like it’s actually being used as common shorthand. when it only gained prominence because of how hilariously stupid this screenshot is
my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just…. believed her
got a new lighter. it’s shaped like a fish and it blinds you.
it had a huge sticker on it that said “this is not a toy”. the gas station i got it from had a sign infront of the display for these only that said “buy first, then test”. the first time you strike it (from the fins, by the way) you find out exactly why. they have added incredibly bright flashing blue LED lights on the eyes, which point directly into your eyes and the eyes of whoever is looking anywhere close to the fish that makes you blind.
a friend of mine was like “you can probably take this apart and cut the wires so it doesn’t do that anymore” and i told her “no i can’t. i can’t do that” and she was like “???why not?????????”
it’s just too fucking funny. this is the stupidest thing i own. thinking about that gas station clerk with like 50 more of these fucking things thinking “how the fuck am i gonna get rid of these?” makes me loose it. setting up the sign and i was literally the first person to buy one.
Rocket scientists who leave the rocket industry keep thinking everything is a rocket and it’s kind of adorable
“We can honeycomb this to reduce the weight” sweetie no that’s going to be twice as expensive to manufacture and we are not launching it anywhere.
“If we use titanium instead of steel we’ll save a bunch of weight” baby you need to stop worrying so much about your weight! And maybe worry more about what happens to titanium when you expose it to deuterium plasma.
My child, who spends their entire life being transfered from home to car to school and back, and is not allowed to leave the house or talk to anyone and can only in their wildest dreams imagine a life free from constant surveillance, is very sad. Obviously they’re dumb and lazy, like all kids these days.
kind of a tangent but i recently went to a bowling alley with my friend i’m 19 he’s 18 and the woman at the door didn’t want to let us in because there was a sign saying under-18s needed adult supervision. everything got cleared up and we were able to go bowl, but i’m still so mad about the fact that kids need adult supervision to go to a bowling alley and arcade. like okay maybe young kids should have supervision but what do you mean middle and high schoolers need to hold mommy’s hand while they play video games. kids aren’t just addicted to their phones because phones are addicting, we’re addicted to our phones because there’s nothing else to fucking do
I’m sure banning kids from online spaces while simultaneously not ensuring that they have access to offline spaces to socialize in (without having to rely on their parents who already don’t have time for them) will help them feel better & less alienated from society.
Reigen bringing up the split-attraction-model to Dimple and then immediately going “never mind I don’t want to talk about this with you” and that’s the end of it is in the rankings for funniest sleeper moment in the series.
I have genuinely no idea what the authorial intent here was but in my own personal truth Reigen was on some pure HTML+CSS queer theory message boards at 3am some night going “Oh I see. Maybe love is more complicated than I thought.”
And immediately after bringing it up with Dimple he remembered this is also where he learned extensively about the concept of cruising and realized he didn’t want to talk about any of this here
