i know there's a lot of ego and assumptions about my own susceptibility to manipulation going on here but i truly think i am immune to most cults. not even from a bullshit detection standpoint, but from a standpoint of every account i have ever heard/read of someone finding themselves in a cult or mlm includes descriptions of social situations that would overstimulate and stress me out so bad that i would vomit and leave immediately. a road trip with strangers? a self-improvement seminar? giving out my phone number to someone i met in an aisle at target? having to host a recruitment party? the constant hype machine behavior? love-bombing? the pressure to socialize? unpaid morning zoom calls? maybe it's because i never went to church as a kid but i have no concept of "faith" in something unseen nor do i ache for a "community" larger than a handful of fellow hobby-havers, so the idea of manufacturing a new passion just to fit into a crowd i otherwise have nothing in common with sounds like a type of psychological torture customized for me specifically. i barely muster passion for the things i like.
i can understand completely how people get sucked into them and don't think it's something on which character should solely be judged. most people actually do ache for that community, and most people are actually flattered and not freaked out if someone begins to fawn over them, because we are social creatures isolated by capitalism and crave comfort and validation from others. but on my mother, if a new friend dragged me to a "show" that turned out to be a motivational speaker my departure would be so rude and abrupt. i am too fucking autistic to chant affirmations with an auditorium of 1000 people.
if i am ever victimized by a "cult" it'll probably be more of a final fantasy house low-scale personality cult sort of situation. while i would hope better for myself, a charismatic online person warming up to me until i'm sucked into their little circle of sycophants they have collected is not outside the realm of imagination, and all i can hope is that my true friends will be honest enough about catching bad vibes that it never happens.
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"i really hope you don't have any more work for the rest of this year. fingers crossed [client] isn't giving us more work, but if they do i'm dumping it to january."
"here's my performance evaluation for the team this year: you guys didn't take enough day offs, so make sure to do so next year."
"friendly reminder to remember to log out from all work apps when you go on your holidays!"
"cancelling this meeting session because of festive season. happy holidays all!"
;w; dear gods, i love my coworkers and the working culture in this company so much
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if there's one thing you gotta know about me is that im always going to reccomend the story perpetual mourning aka the first story in batman black and white 1996 like legitimately nothing else about me matters more than my intense insistence that everyone should read the short story perpetual mourning from the first issue of the comic batman black and white (1996) nothing matters more to me than being an advocate for everyone reading the first 8 pages of the 1996 comic batman black and white so they can experience the story perpetual mourning
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Holly Martins is the protagonist of ALL TIME, you don’t even understand…
he thinks he’s the hero in a western
he doesn’t know ANY German
he writes cheap novelettes
he sucks at flirting
he hates cops
he gets an old man killed
he doesn’t know what a crisis of faith is (until it’s too late)
he is NOT coping
he gets bit by a bird
he doesn’t know anyone’s name
he makes terrible jokes
he Cannot Leave
and, most importantly, he is deeply, deeply stupid
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Tumblr updated despite the fact I turned off automatic updates for this shitty app, and now everything is just slightly worse. Why the fuck is the image viewer so ugly. Why is there a tiktok-esque scrolling feature when I view an image or video, and it DOESN'T EVEN SHOW ME THE NEXT CONTENT ON MY DASHBOARD, IT JUST SHOWS RANDOM ALGORITHM-SELECTED POSTS FROM PEOPLE I DON'T FOLLOW. What the fuck. Who decided this was a good idea. Why does every single app seem to just randomly make things worse. I haven't seen a positive update on literally any application in YEARS.
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