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wodkapudding · 4 months

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philippe besson: venice beach (original: un homme accidentel; no english translation available for now)

mini-playlist:

miley cyrus — psycho killer (talking heads cover)

noir désir — à l'arrière des taxis

shiny toy guns — stripped (depeche mode cover)

robots in disguise — the sex has made me stupid

lana del rey — fucked my way up to the top

challengers soundtrack

#this novel feels very french because it is both sexy and poetic and maybe a liiiiiiiiiiiiittle melodramatic #i expected it to be a bit more noirish but i'm not complaining #i mean in a way it is #but it's a bit like 'private eye monologue with the narrator not being jaded enough (yet)'#the depiction of southern california is very relatable because i too am just a european learning everything about the US from media #i love how they went from 'i am interrogating you about the murder of this rentboy' to 'come to dinner with me and my wife'#to 'let's drive to monterey to have gay sex' in like three days?#i'm not complaining it's why i got the book!#ngl if it hadn't been for molly ringwald translating lie with me #i probably wouldn't have discovered his works #i can definitely hear the homoerotically charged undertones on the challengers soundtrack without having watched the movie #media diary

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succubi-tch · 2 months

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Joining an all-girls group on discord has reminded me of why I hate women

#in all fairness these are not women these are girls in adult bodies. they are childish and stupid as fuck #one of em has been talking about her earwax and plugged ear for three fucking days.#started talking about posting a pic in the gc today. i started dropping hints that i was highly reprehensive of this.#she posts it anyway. i say LOL and leave. they ask for me back in a different server but get mad at me for being grossed out LMAOOOO #i quoted her when she said it was gross and she told me ''at least everyone else was nice enough to not say it was gross'' like.#victim playing bitch y'know what. I'm actually not gonna disagree with you that shit is beyond fucking foul #everyone else wanna dogpile correct me when i say all you have to do is keep your fuckin ears clean and you won't accumulate #massive amounts of earwax that need a fucking ent to professionally and painfully suction out.#then they hit me with the '' 🤓 um actually. you can't clean that deeply in your ears''#BITCH who said anything about scrubbin eardrums?????? i stg.#you keep the outer parts clean enough it wont compact deeper inside. dumbass. THATS what i was saying. if im wrong then how tf have i not #gotten my ears plugged. how has my mom not?? maybe im just delusional and they secretly are plugged rn. lol #anyway. southern indiana's most misogynistic woman 💯💯💯💯💯

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ereborne · 6 months

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Song of the Day: March 15

“Over Yet" by Hayley Williams

#song of the day #very exciting to have one of my brothers tell me entirely unprompted that he's enjoying the current playlist #a very big win #I spent most of my work day today doing what I've been thinking of as 'evil rubber-ducking'#where the IT guys throw me the especially Difficult faculty members--the ones who can't be helped because they won't listen--#and I trick them into actually talking me through what they're doing so we can find the problem and fix it #(eternally amazed by people who request help and then refuse it. you called me bud. you submitted a service request ticket on purpose.#oh you can't do your job without connecting to the vpn? that's great we can't fix it until you tell us what's fucking stopping you)#mostly this 'tricking' takes the form of me being a sweet young butter-wouldn't-melt Southern girl in over my head with mean IT guys #bless them (derogatory) these folks who won't let IT even attempt to start working through the 'have you tried' scripts #because they know they're getting something wrong but are too angry-embarrassed to admit they don't know what #are still delighted to mansplain the idea of a remote connection to me #--that's not fair. I shouldn't mischaracterize them it's mostly not mansplaining.#the two today were yankee-splaining me. city-splaining maybe.#what would a hick like me (y'all is one person. all y'all or some'a y'all for multiple people) possibly know about enterprise networks--#anyway they were using the wrong login credentials and were so sure of themselves they'd never even tried the other set just to see #bless. their. hearts.#(IT owes me so many little favors like this now. the latest database tweak I asked for got done live while I described it to them)#anyway anyway! love the chorus on this song #'to get out of your head yes break a sweat / baby tell yourself it ain't over yet'#makes me move my head every time

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wipples · 7 months

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What is it like to lack a sense of agency?

What is it like to have it?

#oc #it's her full outfit no flippin way #sometimes her name is miranda #sometimes her name is Bunny #depends on the fandom LMAO #her bit is always the same though: kinda stupid college student with a knack for urban exploring and nature stuff #she's stupid in the way that junji ito protagonists are: just kinda lets shit happen and doesn't stop it #lets herself fall into the abyss basically because depression is a bitch and she's a little obsessed with escapism #she also hates cops and is a big ol druggie but thats not important for the majority of situations i stick her in #her brain is also weird but thats just bc shes basically me but worse and also better #worse and better how? idk you tell me #she's also nb and goes by any pronouns but defaults to she/her #she's still a boy tho lol #she'd allow you to call her a girl but she mostly likes being called a guy #this bitch wears binders unless going out urban exploring or hiking etc because shit gets sweaty and you should never exercise with them #shes also vaguely southern because im from the south yehaw #mmm grits and pimento cheese yummery #I'LL MAKE A REAL CHARACTER INFO THING ONE DAY maybe

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adhdandcomics · 2 years

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you are 2010s transmasc art reigen. to me

i wont lie to you ive been trying to parse this ask out for a minute. do you mean i look like 2010s reigen art? my art looks like reigen art? i embody the spirit of transmasc reigen?? the world may never know. i have a sinking feeling you mean all of these things, though.

#KIDDING i think you mean this as a compliment. i think #i do love being transmasc and also reigen is transmasc. so thats good #the more i post comics about myself the more i realize just how mucgh people. know about me. this is fine. and also not fine. but its good.#you know??#i was not made for the internet. i was made to be a snake oil salesman in the 1800s southern usa. and have a little cowboy hat. unknowable.#but you trust me.. Maybe #nobody figures me out until i mosey on to the next town.#or perhaps a member of the band aha.#didnt have this problem in the 80s. only people who know about me read magazine interviews. wears funky button downs. sings. idk.#thats probably what it was like.

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dorkicon · 1 year

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bitching abt homophobia n shit at my job in the tags o7 happy pride

#so i voluenteer at a library n work there through a 3rd party job center over the summer. ive volunteered there for like 5 yrs so i know --#--the staff there p well #anyway yeah so like last year our pride display got taken down bc someone complained. our director didnt really contest this.#our pride display got taken down again. this time with the board threatening to cut funding if we put it back up.#no contesting yet again #its literally just the corner of a 3 sided display podium with some gay books or whatever #some guy comes in and tears up our lgbt author rec list. the director removes those as well #there r 2 bi clerks and one genderqueer clerk and me! the fag gopher and she still doesnt feel it pertinent 2 stick up for the ppl who--#work there #or maybe she does right? like i want to believe she does bc ive known her for 5 maybe 6 actually years. ive gone to christmas--#parties at her house. shes been someone i can count on before and yet here she is letting us all down #bc its not just me or the gay ppl who work there right its for the ppl in my shitty fucking southern town who have basic common decency #shes someone i thought was some kind of ally HAHAH...like that term feels lame but #.....yeah yknow?#she even said shed be moving picture books with gay parents and shit into a quote quote adult matters section into the juvenile section #i assume on request of the board bc obvs being trans or gay or whatever is of course an adult matter that will taint our beautiful little #tow headed bastards #we even had the guy who requested the pride display be taken down come in today and CHECK to make sure no faggy books were out #ive been very angry about it and i just need to ...spit it up somewhere. maybe a transformers blog isnt the best place for it but whatever.#sorry about my language lol.#shes my boss and its going to be a real issue for me bc she laughed saying id have to start cleaning bathrooms this year and i legitimately #--nearly had to leave the room. like haha really funny. glad you can laugh about shit. did you know im a fucking queer.

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pulchral · 9 months

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it's always irked me how carmy's name in the show is "berzatto" when the correct spelling of the actually existing italian last name is "bearzatto." literally, like that. the pun was right there.

#o.#maybe it was too on the nose... but still.#also his name should be carmine!!#it's a popular name in the southern part of italy so it'd make sense!#especially with his nickname being “carmy” and “carm”#don't mind me tho. just yapping about the minor stuff #</3

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istherewifiinhell · 1 year

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was that a Very Special Episode about self esteem or smth howd u get 2 characters having a crisis of faith in one episode...

#some shit #its not called cisformers #hand to cheek... rodimus one very. buh #ive said b4 smth about the way the VA delivers this very. unaffected voice that isnt actually going u know. true Monotone character #it cracks me. he does just SOUND tired. done with it. well and anyway they gave him 80s kid show depression #ohhhh and hey protectobots i cannot believe ur still. here. being characters.#they finally remembered at least try and characterize some of you #that groups medic one [which over all. makes him like... the 4th or maybe.. 7th? character that will do Medic like stuff]#but anyway his gimmick is that hes a For Real pacifist. not bad actually. they gave me One whole thing to know abt him and #i can see how its revalent. i would describe his voice as... sad nerd.#which dintinguishes him from the other medics in [ticks of fingers] old southern guy. east coast city guy. british [old]. british [nerd].#is there one more british one? might maybe. jeez.#ask me later if they doing some regional sterotyping bias OR trying to UNdo regional sterotyping bias

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mishkakagehishka · 1 year

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Sve me nervira sve me živcira još uvik

#korka when the anger issues are issues #but no this isn't anger issues actually this is just me being dalmatian and so annoyed is my neutral state #maybe it's southern winds

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kindafooey · 1 year

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Had a bit of a xenophobic moment just now lmao

#I was at a campfire site minding my own business when a bunch of southerners came up #and while sternly pretending that I wasn't there they put on godawful music and started doing yoga #and I. well. I'll admit I could've made an attempt to be more communicative but like. I was literally right there #and they were being extremely rude. like. I don't know it's a cultural thing because I genuinely do not understand southern finns #but I think it's customary to ask if it's okay to blast music from your shitty boombox when there are others present??#not to mention that we were literally in the middle of the forest where people usually want to enjoy the silence ffs #and they didn't so much as say hi #so I was like. fuck it. two csn play this game. and I pulled up my phone and searched for 10 hours of annoying noise on youtube #and started blasting that to drown their dumbfuck yoga music #and eventually they pulled that gross fake southerner smile and asked me if I wanted to join them #and I was like. no I don't think I will. I was just curious how long they were willing to pretend that I wasn't there #and I told them it's common sense to ask other people if they're okay with playing music that loud especially in a situation like this #and they were STILL fake smiling at me and said I'm free to join. so I was like. okay gals listen up.#I don't know if this is how you do it in helsinki but it does not fucking fly in lapland and maybe they'd be better off going the fuck back #to where they came from #(which is a gross thing to say to anyone I KNOW but I was being talked down and fake smiled at #and feeling fairly fucking pissed at that point)#then I was like aight I've had enough I'm outta here #but changed my mind and came back #at which point they turned off the music and actually apologized. which I can appreciate #so uhh yeah. I can be obnoxious and gross sometimes lol #but even though it didn't come out in the best possible way I still think it was like. a well-deserved moment of straightforwardness #for the three of them #honestly I don't feel ashamed at all haha #but maybe next time I'll be more polite. just maybe. no prommies tho

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whimsyprinx · 2 years

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ever few months something happens that makes me want to remind southern ppl that we’re not like a joke or bad or stupid or whatever else ppl like to paint southern folks as being

#whimsy whispers #especially marginalized southern people like people are so quick to forget that the south isn’t made up only of racists and bigots #like the south sucks for a lot of reasons but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a diverse array of people living here #and because we live here we know more than all else what it’s like and how bad it can be sometimes which is why it sucks even more when #people act like the south and every southerner as a whole is bad and bigoted and stupid ya know?#hi I’m sure I’m annoying with this but it just makes me sad because I’m so use to seeing people make fun of us or like talk genuinely badly #about us #and not just online or on tv but irl as well I’ve had people treat me like shit because of it #and idk I do want to live outside of the south one day but i also don’t want to because of how ppl act like southern ppl are #I know ppl who’ve moved from the south elsewhere and like they do get treated like dumbasses or shit because they’re southern #idk on one hand I feel like maybe I’ve being overdramatic but on the other it is an annoying and shitty thing to have to deal with

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robocops-a-christ-allegory · 2 years

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Something I wont officially decide is fucked up until season 2 drops and we see more of the guys but Ive kind of started to get actually bothered by the way James Gunn made Peacemaker and Adrian Chase, two dudes whos worldview is very much influenced by them both growing up wealthy, like ambiguously middle class at best

#Bothers me more with Adrian then with Peacemaker because I still think peacemaker's dad was a rich guy #cosplaying being poor but in Adrian's case I think hes actually not a rich boy at all anymore #which is weirder for him because he is very much a rich white republican man in the comics.#Like its not something thats really explicitly addressed but its kind of big and with everything else Gunn included #its weird that wouldnt be. Like we're remembering that Peacemaker's racist but not that Adrian Chase is a privleged rich boy whos 'tough-#-on crime'? again maybe itll be revealed he is somehow still a rich boy in season 2 though. I dont know.#still would be weird it wasnt just obvious from the start #And I still think it was a bad choice to like southern red-neck code Peacemaker's dad #even if Im right and he wasnt Actually like that and was just playing into it because hes a nazi freak

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jaspertjunk · 3 days

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non southern USAmericans will never understand the political climate down south and most of y'all won't even try to because you think either we're all mark robinson or the southern states are divided up into helpless oppressed minorities who need to go up north to escape and a literal pitchforks and torches mob

#sorry it just frustrates me #this is my fucking home and im proud to live here #and that can coexist with me being fully aware that it sucks to live here from a political perspective #have you considered that maybe we're just people who live in a place #also you guys are like really really classist towards southerners sometimes maybe think about that #southerners #politics #american politics

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darlingfern · 2 months

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just remembered that, in 2008, my elementary school made the entire school go through a mock election where we were forced to line up and vote on the very real presidential candidates. i couldn’t tell you the reasoning behind it, but i vividly remember them setting up the auditorium with fake voting booths and a bunch of america-core decorations, and every grade, an entire school of 5-10 year olds, filing in. i think i ended up voting for obama? because i remember thinking the combination of letters looked good on paper (and i think i got a sticker? or pin? for voting democrat?) but i genuinely had no clue what was going on and did not care.

#also bush was on the fake ballot and i remember my? teacher asking me what i thought of him vs obama #bitch i’m 9 #i barely know how to be a human being #how am i supposed to know what a democrat is???#maybe this was a southern thing and nobody else’s school did this?#or maybe the faculty at that particular school was just batshit #fern thoughts

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exopelagic · 8 months

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A list of things I’m frustrated by:

#1. my right skate won’t fucking tighten right it’s being stiff so I can’t skate properly again. they don’t fit right but I can’t do shit now #2. I’m not enjoying ice hockey as much right now bc of that and the people being. not annoying but. I’m disconnected from them #3. feeling disconnected from everything because of the residual barriers I put up but also the ones are just There bc of outside forces.#4. of them the disconnect that comes from not like loud music/crowds/drinking when you’re at uni.#5. the fact that the friends I have most access to I largely don’t like that much bc half are straight and southern and rich and annoying #6. the fact that a different group of friends basically just stopped talking to me and honestly didn’t really want me around that much anywa #7. the fact I don’t care that much about that. any of that. and I’m not Cool with not talking to them anymore but it’s just Happened yknow #8. the fact that’s a significant portion of the queer people I know here. and the others aren’t people I’m anywhere near as close to.#9. the way it’s my third year here and a bunch of people are graduating and opportunities to meet new people went to hell like two years ago #10. i Can meet new people and in fact am even now but everything is so much effort #11. how that’s probably how it’s gonna be the rest of my life bc being an adult sucks. I’ll get Maybe one more shot at meeting a bunch of #people quickly if I do a phd and move but that’s hellish for other reasons and I lose a lot in doing that. but I lose a lot no matter what #12. graduating sucks and so many of my friends are doing it this year. I’m not but next year will suck bc of flatmates and everyone missing #13. feeling on the edge of hockey friends bc they’re fucking hockey players and make dumb fucking jokes. and how I can’t do that #14. anxious isolated gay boy I was never gonna be cool with that and there was never any way I could’ve been on the team #15. the fact I decided not to go for the team partly bc of that and the fact I dont regret that decision. bc I like ice hockey but I couldnt #17. knowing the answers to most of my problems bc I’m at That point where I have the self awareness and maturity to some extent to see #exactly what’s going on and what’s up with it and the right way to go about things. and still feeling the fucking feelings anyway #18. the weird fucking position I occupy both w queerness and the north/south thing weirdly where I’m gay+northern + surrounded by Not #and neither feel like they belong to me. distinctly Other but not in the right way and both sides see that. always a little off #19. being socially aware enough to see exactly where things are awkward or done badly but not knowing in the moment how to make it Not #20. the way the shit The Asshole said abt my anxiety has stuck with me so much and I still think abt it all the time #21. the way he was my fucking first. a lot. and then did That to me and there’s been nobody since and that’s fine but see point 17 #22. the way shit is slow to fade both with Him and current guy (very different things that are fading) even though both are fucking dumb #23. current guy being the fourth and should know bettering and knowing that’s bullshit too and I hate it. gonna start biting #24. not having the means time or opportunity to meet other people instead. and feeling dumb abt wanting to. and abt not doing some stuff #25. the fact this list is long enough that I’m gonna run out of tags and there’s still more but it’s 4am and I’m done #luke.txt #I’ll be fine once I’ve slept on it all. I should do something abt this probably but idk what right now and I should sleep mostly so. night!!

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cleolinda · 2 months

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I am not the first person to attempt explaining this, but let me tell you about some of the nuances of Bless Your Heart™. It does not solely or even usually translate to “you are a dumbass.” It is more subtle than that:

It is primarily a thing you say to clarify (or falsify) the tone of what you DID say

OR

it is secondarily a thing you say instead of something ELSE to maintain 1) plausible deniability 2) a moral high ground.

“Bless your heart”: You genuinely deserve blessings because you are going through it right now and you need them. Gratitude, sympathy. “I’m going to have surgery next week.” “Bless your heart! Is there anything I can do for you?” (“Oh, bless your heart for asking.”) Original face-value meaning.

“Bless your heart”: You need a blessing because God knows you’re lacking (manners, intelligence, common sense) right now. Synonyms could include “Well, isn’t that precious” or “Well, that’s different.” It often comes in clutch when you don’t want to tell someone to their face that they fucked up. Your nephew has mowed the front yard for you. He has also mowed over all your flower beds. “Well… bless your heart.” If you were going to use it as a stealth insult to someone’s face for a more egregious occasion, it would be this category. It can be a mean girl move (the classic “It’s so brave that you dress like that” vibe), but it’s also a way of saying, “I want you to know that I see what you’re doing and I don’t approve of it, and you fully understand I’m expressing that, but I’m not going to give you the justification to clap back at me because I didn’t SAY that.” Someone wears a fancy white bridal-looking gown to your cousin’s wedding: “Well, bless your heart, that sure is a dress!” (If they understand you: “What’s THAT supposed to mean?” Because they know, but they want to make you SAY it. Combat engaged.)

“Bless their heart”: I am sharing news (gossiping) about someone but I like them and I want you to understand that I do, truly, bless their heart. “It’s been so hard for her after her father passed. Bless her heart, I’m gonna make her that red velvet cake she likes.”

“Bless their heart”: I am shit talking someone and I want to cover my ass, of COURSE I am just concerned for them. “She wore white to her sister’s wedding last week! WHITE! Bless her heart, I guess some people’s children just don’t know better.” (“Well you know they say she was always after the groom—“ “NO! Bless her heart.”)

That last one is the BYH they would need to deploy (but didn’t) in the Make Some Noise clip, but I feel like it honestly wasn’t necessary because the “prayer request” already served as a cover for talking shit. It probably would have come out if they’d been allowed to keep the skit going and they needed plausible deniability for spilling juicier details that maybe Jesus didn’t actually need to hear about. Thank you for coming to my Performing Southernness While Being Neurodivergent talk.

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