#r/fifthworldproblems

[doodlydoodlies]

POV: You’re mad at Engineer and he’s too smart for his own good

[mj-says-hey]

[ichbinmeltdown]

I just discovered r/fifthworldproblems and I just had to put some of these with Transformers screenshots

[kitausuret]

so I discovered r/fifthworldproblems and all I can think of is like. this is Eddie since the beginning of the V/Ewing/Grønbekk Venom run.

And one if Flash was there, too:

Edit: one for the Venom Symbiote (it's looking for Eddie 😔)

[al-gatone]

More that I like (from /r/fifthworldproblems)

I love how these are from an Unreality subreddit but to my eye they just read like regular Tumblr shitposts. Did we cross-pollinate or something

[thescholars]

hi could you tag the r/fifthworldproblems post with unreality, please? thank you ':o)

sure :)

[zonotrichia-albicollis]

[misternohair]

It's super weird that after 12 years I'm finally getting off of Reddit.

I've always been a lurker, I don't really post much anywhere, but since about 2011 I've had a Reddit account and been upvoting, downvoting, and saving bookmarks. I never thought I'd see the day when a bunch of *Redditors* didn't give enough of a shit to stop the hated management from impacting their precious "free speech" zones.

It feels weird that tomorrow I won't be able to pull out my phone as I get ready for my day and look at the latest Warhammer news and amazing mini paint jobs, see people asking the stupidest questions in r/AskReddit, laugh at something obtuse and nonsensical in r/antijokes or r/fifthworldproblems, or even see a Wednesday Frog post in r/youtubehaiku.

Reddit has always been a center for niche knowledge and a cesspool of snarky neckbeards constantly trying to one-up each other for Internet Points but I will miss some of the esoteric knowledge that you just couldn't find anywhere else.

Anyway, fuck Reddit, fuck Spez, and please don't fuck me Tumblr. For all your ups and downs, I've been here forever too. If this weird little site can live through being bought by Yahoo and the Porn Ban, it can live through just about anything.

Of course, I thought that about Reddit too.

[doodlydoodlies]

[incorrect-mcyt-quote-blog]

r/fifthworldproblems

Phil: my son identifies as a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause. Should I be worried or is it just a phrase?

Karl: I accidentally cancelled my subscription to Time, now everything is happening at once

Ranboo: You are stuck in 2nd person and you can’t get out. Help you. Help you. Please. Help you.

Jack Manifold: How combustible is gender fluid?

Wilbur: I just broke the fifth wall, now my audience knows they are also fictional

[coconut-cluster]

hello folks sorry i’ve been kinda busy/absent these last two days, anyway here’s oc meme content for the granite gang bc i just found the subreddit r/fifthworldproblems and its ~hilarious~ 

simon: 

oscar:

camila:

elodie:

marcello: 

kris:

giles:

fizrah: 

eudora:

[losyanya]

i got tagged by @mochacoffee to share 10 niche interests of mine - thank you!

 A hard ask, since Good Omens seemed to wipe my brain of all unrelated thoughts 😆 And even apart from that, my interests mostly revolve around animals, which is a vast topic and hardly a niche thing. But i teased out several specific topics to start out the list..  

1. Urban wildlife. I came to USA from Russia, where one was hard-pressed to find a squirrel around the town. Birds, feral dogs and cats - sure, but all other animals were either at the zoo, at a farm, or deep in the forest. Upon arrival in DC, I remember being glued to the car window on the 3 hour drive to the new home because i saw DEER in suburbia. So, yeah.. the regional differences, the adaptations to co-habitation with humans, the dependence on normal human activity (recently highlighted by COVID) - all that is fascinating.

2. Animal shelter management. Some animal shelters get a bad rep, and some of it is deserved. Others are wonderful places both for pets that come through and for pet adoptive families. What makes a pet shelter “successful”. Why have I had people argue with much conviction that a no-kill shelter is unsustainable, when I had the experience of working at one for years and can vouch for the no-kill policy. It’s a very practical and serious topic, but one very close to my heart.

3. History of domestication. When did dogs first team up with humans, how did little lions manipulate us into feeding and worshiping them, how did we come up with domesticating silkmoths and why did nobody come to ride zebras. I don’t think I need to sell this topic any further. 

4. Modern cultural differences in pet ownership. This is, again, inspired by my foreign heritage.. people in different parts of the world have such strikingly different ideas of what is normal and appropriate as far as pets go - it’s mind-blowing. 

5. Mythological/fantastical anatomy. This is easier to illustrate than explain. Example: how are Sleipnir’s legs positioned/attached? It is like this, in “four rows”?  (Source)

or “two rows”? (Source)

(And yes, I had this interest before I tried to figure out with the fact that GO-typical wing arrangement requires double the humeri/radii/ulnae, and what do these attach to exactly?)

6 & 7. Psychology (and experience) of addiction and eating disorders. One of these has deeply personal relevance; the origin of fascination with the other is less apparent, but the two topics have certain similarities/overlap. This is not something I generally discuss, but it’s fair to say that I’ve consumed a large number of available free documentaries, autobiographies and a fair amount of research studies.

8. r/fifthworldproblems. It’s a very confusing subreddit at first glance, summarized in an ELI5 post as “problems people experience in a hypothetical fifth world that takes place beyond our universe” and “surreal problems in a nightmare HP Lovecraft universe”. I read it regularly and delight in it as a particularly rich creative writing place, which thrives on taking language, norms, logic and turning them on their head. 

9. Anton Chekhov. My favorite classical Russian author since childhood, who captivated me with his mastery of short story. I do believe I have, over time, read the vast majority of his short stories (over 500?) - all that I’ve been able to get my hands on, really. The frequent focus on regular people and everyday problems was uncommon for his time; apart from the brilliant writing itself, it has given me a much better window into that historical period in Russia, than textbooks, and I’ve only extended my love of short story and slice of life since. 

10. History of medicine. This is also a vast topic, some of which is rather boring, so maybe... interesting trivia in history of medicine? innovative strategic thinking of early epidemiology... quackery medical devices... what they used to put in children’s medicine in the 19th century...

This was also long, but I learn from the best (as in, the predecessor of this post in tag tree) 😉

I never know who to tag, but I’ll try @krakensdottir, @deservingporcupine, @sirblackboardmonitor, @whispsofwind, @thyra279​ and obviously - no pressure! And, of course, anyone can participate on their own accord, and I’d love to be tagged if you do - this is a great question, something that is lovely to know about people! 

[sikeyaout]

Various ocs as r/fifthworldproblems posts lol

[iteratedextras]

Fuck, is this not the timeline in which you're publicly known to be a franco-mongolian with gender oscillating in the 50-70Hz range, then? That son of a bitch must've changed something. Serves me right for trying to get here via the 80s - never ends well.

Local Anon is auto-subscribed to both r/fifthworldproblems and r/vxjunkies after submitting this ask.

(Don’t ask me about VX, okay?  Just don’t.)

[old asks]

[prudencepaccard]

a useful guide