#it's not even that good :

[fritzes]

not to be dramatic but I may have written my magnum opus of tennis fic

[sapphicgoblinblog]

Internet: "People are arguing over travel mugs again!"

Me: "... they do know that they can just buy a similar one for $2 in a dollar store, right?"

[lexiiii-vt]

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[cl0wnsexual]

I posted a fic at midnight last night and it already has over 400 hits 0_o

[roamwithahungryheart]

Why do people obsess over Love Actually when The Holiday exists

[leuchtturmhaus]

why is Germany trending

[blaidd-gwyn]

Help I've come up with another useless au when I should be sleeping again

[icannotgetoverbirds]

Time to grade anon hate!

Tws in the tags. Thanks to @txttletale for this idea - I had lots of fun with this!

Image ID: An anonymous ask that reads

KILL YOURSELF!! THINGS WILL ONLY GET WORSE SO DIE NOW PLEASE DO THE WORLD A FAVOR :)

End image ID.

Pros:

Anon did manage to touch on one of my fears that things aren't going to get better. Impressive that they were able to target it, considering that this is the one thing they got right.

Incredibly rude to misuse a smiley. What did he do to deserve this. Will admit that that's slightly upsetting (but like in an exaggerated-for-comical-effect way)

Clarifying that you want me to do this right now, so I can't just poke fun at you and say 'this dumbass forgot we're all mortal in the end'.

Cons:

All caps and two exclamation points feels awkward as hell, man.

Honestly, telling me shit like this while also being pathetic (sender of anon hate) makes me believe in the opposite more. You're not really having the intended effect.

Repeating yourself without getting creative at all.

You didn't use any good punctuation - no official punctuation and no Tumblr dialectal punctuation either.

Seriously, this is so comically aggressive that i can't help but imagine you sitting at your computer with this exact face }(:< and expression. It's hilarious and makes it impossible to take you seriously.

You really picked the wrong person to tell that the world is better off without them - I'm literally so convinced that my life has a point that it's almost concerning. Plus, I have lots of online friends that are very niceys to me, and I know IRL people who would miss me - including people that I don't think should get to miss me, but they still count as being better off with me here, whether I like it or not.

I do know that things are going to get better, because I can already see my way through and the light at the end of this tunnel.

In conclusion: F. Very low F.

[narcoticwriter]

I swear to God, if Heat Waves becomes the song that spent the longest time on the Billboard Top 100, I'm going to lose my fucking mind.

[dirtytransmasc]

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

[lastoneout]

I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.

[captainsaltypear]

IS ANYONE ELSE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS OR

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Lae'zel's character and her entire situation at the beginning of the game becomes so much more funny when you find out she's 22. It makes so much sense. Imagine you're 22 and you're exposed to this dangerous toxin or chemical or something - but not to worry, you learnt that this can be easily fixed, you just need to dial 911 real quick. Common knowledge. Everyone knows that. You learnt that in kindergarten, it's up there with fire alarm drills.

But the people you're stuck with have no concept of modern medicine and when you say "let's go to the hospital" they will say shit like "i think they kill people at the hospital" and "we should ask this swamp lady" or "this guy over there told me about this homoeopathic healer kind of guy but he got abducted" or "this random bard wants to help" and "I'm not going to dial 911 because I don't want the government to know my home address" or "maybe we should consider a deal with Satan". And then a bunch of them KEEP consuming the chemical because it makes them "stronger". One guy might explode for unrelated reasons. You have a few days before this situation is getting critical and suddenly they're solving crime and doing general charity for the community.

And FOR SOME REASON you still try to help these idiots and you STILL want to help them get the cure even though they all keep insisting the "doctors" at the "hospital" might try to "kill them" and they don't have insurance. And you keep telling them to just. go. to. the. hospital. before the time runs out and you all die very horribly of a very treatable condition.

And also you're 22 in a foreign country and you're responsible for shepherding this gaggle of idiots who are all ranging anywhere from 24 to 240 years old.

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[cemeterything]

i think it's so fun that "damn" is such a casual curse word now that it's basically become divorced completely from its original meaning. like oops i dropped my phone, time to invoke the wrath of god about it in the most mildly annoyed tone of voice imaginable.

[hansoeii]

we go just right.