#Most of them are bitchy slutty and gay as fuck what else do you need???

[eremin0109]

What do you get when you mix Jim Sarbh's Malik Kafur with Jim Sarbh's Homi Bhabha?

A Desi Lestat de Lioncourt of course.

@mr-dickalambo Say, how’d you like to see Mr. Sarbh as a slutty gay vampire? ​

[honhonluigi]

If there’s one think Toko is good for, it’s for knocking self-awareness into stuck-up nerdy girls like I used to be. I found DR through Toko, and I had a love-hate relationship with her because she made me realize how I was in high school. I got bullied a lot before then, but the more I saw how she assumed the worst of everyone and put words to how I felt, I realized how fucked up I was being. I didn’t need to judge everyone in a swath just because I’d been bullied. Toko made me realize that.

Amen, dude.

Something similar happened to me, but not with Toko, since I only got into DR after highschool.

I used to be the biggest nerd in middle school. I mean, you think stereotypical 'nerdy kid' and you got me, and I was proud of it. I know nerds have those stuck-up, bitchy thoughts because I had them. I was such a dick. I thought popular kids deserved bad things to happen to them. I was snotty and rude to anyone who talked to me who wasn't 'a fellow nerd'. I assumed I was always a victim and everyone was trying to bully me, even if they were just being nice. Me and my nerd friends sat around and made fun of everyone who wasn't us for being popular, stupid, slutty, vain, sporty, you name it- we said it. I know nerds are stuck-up unempathetic assholes, because I used to be one.

In highschool I got out of it. I wasn't popular in highschool, but I wasn't unpopular either. I had an average amount of friends and about half of my schoolmates enjoyed me. I was by turns a goth and a stoner in highschool (still am actually). So I'm not coming from a place of "popular person is prejudiced against nerds!" I'm just a person, my guy. I just saw what I saw. I used to be a nerd, and I became a...not nerd I guess? And it was so much better. I felt so free after I didn't have to conform to those fucking prejudices anymore. I made so many more friends after I stopped being a jerk to everyone, and seeing them as a threat to me. It's just a better outlook on life to not judge people for not reading books as much as you do, or for wearing makeup, or for liking sports. It's better to not assume that everyone who speaks to you is bullying you, no matter how nice they are. I went from one to the other. I've experienced both sides. I know which one feels better.

Listen, when I say nerds are stuck-up jerks, I speak from experience. I remember the kinds of things me and my friends said about other people in middle school. We were assholes. And in highschool, two of my friends got relentlessly bullied by different packs of nerds, one for being a slut and the other for failing classes. And I do mean bullied. Framing them to get them in trouble, mean notes in lockers, pushing over their books/desks, crumpling up their homework, etc etc etc. And these people never stopped to think that they were being assholes, because nerds always think they're justified. That they're the victim and everyone else is just getting 'karma'. That they can't do anything wrong, and that people who aren't like them deserve to be punished. For not being nerds. (Thanks 80s movies! Really great message you sent to the youth.)

And guess what? After middle school, I never got bullied by a popular kid. Most of them didn't like me, but they at least fucking pretended to be polite and courteous when I was sat next to them or put on a group project with them. They were nice people. That's why everyone liked them so much. I got bullied in highschool more by teachers than I did by students. (And in elementary school and middle school....Teachers are the biggest source of bullying in schools. Kids don't start openly bullying until they see the teachers do it first, in my experience.) I was bullied by hyper-religious kids, for 'lying about being gay' and then actually being gay when I proved it. But those were only two people, and everyone else in the school thought they were assholes too.

So, not all popular kids are bullies. They're not always out to hurt you. It was a relief for me to learn that, it made me a better person, and I got more friends. I think nerds definitely need to learn that they can also do things wrong, or be mean, or be jerks. They need to learn that they're not the 'superior archetype'. That reading books or having glasses doesn't automatically make you better than everyone else. That people who wear makeup or short skirts, who play sports, who don't pass classes-- maybe they aren't always bad people and don't deserve to have bad things happen to them. They need to learn that they aren't faultless, and that they don't have a right to judge others. Also, that they're not the victim and not everyone is out to get them. Nerds are fucking worshipped in the media. You kidding me? You're not the victim, guys.

Anyway, I don't care if someone is a nerd. I don't care if you like books and reading. I like that shit. I don't care if you like TV or anime or webcomics or video games. I play some video games. It's fine to like that stuff, or to be that person, just...don't be a stuck up asshole to everyone else, okay? We all need to learn that no matter what 'group' we're in. You have no right to be stuck up to anyone else. You don't deserve it. And you're not infallible yourself. That's the lesson that media needs to teach now, instead of the age-old "Nerds are the best! Everyone else is an evil sociopath! Nerds can do no wrong! Nerds should actively cause harm to popular kids because they deserve it! Nerd power!" lesson that the 80s shoved down our throats. That's why I like nerdy villains, or nerds who are jerks. Show that it's a bad way to think. Show that you can, in fact, be an asshole by having that mindset. Nerds don't have to be assholes, but they can be, and you need to check yourself. Plus, it just feels a lot more comfortable not to hate everyone you see and not to think that everyone who speaks to you is attacking you. I say as someone with experience.