#oh reddit

[hyperbali]

Absolutely incredible work, lads

[wobinbug]

Some real environmental storytelling over on r/unitedkingdom

My phone didn't even come close to capturing all the deleted posts

[eggbabey]

welcome reddit refugees

[electoons]

I love the college of winterhold. everyone there is casually deranged and there's like an alarming number of students and staff who threaten you immediately when they meet you. it's always one of the first questlines I do. which makes it even funnier when you get made the arch-mage of the college. I'm level 12 and got through this questline knowing exactly 3 spells. what do you mean you want me to lead the college. this school CANNOT be an accredited institution

[shmunter]

dancing with friends is good for the soul

[sleepymrshmllow]

insp 🌸

[ourdykeofsorrows]

ur kidding

[bethanydelleman]

There’s a new book out called The Darcy Myth that says in the summary that P&P is actually a “horror novel” about how scary love is for women… I know the Bennet sisters’ situation is precarious but to call it a “horror novel” ? :P

Okay... so... ug.... did this woman even read Pride & Prejudice? Because from the news coverage I would say no. Let me highlight some passages from the article:

Darcy should be considered the main antagonist of the famous love story

Not Wickham? Not the man who runs off with literal teenage girls?

Darcy pays Wickham to marry Lydia, saving her reputation, and later tells Elizabeth, “I thought only of you” when acting. For Feder, this phrase is proof of the hero’s self-interest. Darcy condemns Lydia to a life with an amoral man, all so the Bennets don’t become so disreputable that he won’t be able to marry the woman he loves.

Um, sorry, but no. Darcy tried to get Lydia away FIRST, she refused, he respected Lydia's autonomy as a human being. Becoming brother-in-law to Wickham was probably worse for Darcy personally than Lydia being "ruined"

I found Feder’s exploration of “Pride and Prejudice”as a Gothic novel — rather than a comedy of manners — far more compelling than her critique of Darcy.

Wut? No. Not even a little bit, what? That is a different genre.

“Darcy helped codify the dominant expectation that potential romantic partners — especially heterosexual men — are not only still eligible but in fact more appealing when they play a little hard to get, even if playing hard to get involves cruelty, insults, expressions of disinterest, ruining your beloved sister’s chances of happiness, and other red flags,” she writes. Women spend their time, energy and emotions on men who, quite simply, are not worth their effort.

Okay, except ELIZABETH NEVER TRIES ANYTHING WITH DARCY. She just sits there and he falls in love with her. If she did put effort into any relationship it was with Wickham, who again, is presented as a massive red flag in the end. This line of argument is wild.

Yet, seeing the sheer number of times women pursue cruel men in pop culture laid out one after another — in Disney movies, Taylor Swift songs and much more — is affecting. Feder concludes convincingly that this cultural conviction harms women in the same way the patriarchal boundaries of the regency did. She writes: “If we zoom out, we see that the Darcy myth also helps to prop up and fortify a very Gothic, patriarchal universe that is, and always has been, scary for anyone who is not a very particular type of man. After all, if we are trained from childhood to invest ourselves in men who treat us poorly, aren’t we more likely to end up in abusive situations and under threat of assault?”

Okay, so this is a valid point, but it also is based on a misreading of Pride & Prejudice or is heavily influenced by adaptations. Darcy isn't cruel, he's snobby and somewhat rude but definitely NOT cruel. Wickham is exactly the type of man you want to avoid: charming until he isn't.

ALSO WHAT DISNEY PRINCE IS AN ASSHOLE??? @princesssarisa? Can you be offended at that one in my stead?

So... this book sounds like rage-bait insanity and I won't be reading it until proved otherwise. Putting it on the avoid shelf along with Secret Radical.

Last note: There is a valid point to be made that jerks or dark broody men have been romanticized, but Austen DOES NOT DO THAT. That is not an Austen thing. Use an actual problematic Gothic or Byronic hero.

[stellariumcircus]

imo the most homophobic take reddit milkvans have is that mike being gay would mean that he's intentionally using el as a beard and maliciously lying to her.

that viewpoint is so callous and harmful, because a lot of gay people (myself included!) do have straight relationships in their past, especially in their teenage years!

and usually the closeted person isn't just pretending to not be gay, they're trying to be straight. sometimes you're not even aware that you're pretending at first. you just think that if you try hard enough, you can escape the thing that's 'wrong' with you

mike does care about el, he says it himself. it's likely he genuinely thought he did have a crush on her when they met, due to pressure and the general confusion of being literally 12 when they got together. but as time went on, it became apparent that his feelings for el weren't like the feelings he had for will.

him realizing he's gay while in a relationship with el doesn't suddenly mean he led her on, or used her, or intentionally lied to her.

like gay people aren't boogeymen that go around ruining the lives of straight people. we're children and teenagers too at some point, just figuring ourselves out

[siryouarebeingmocked]

A lot of people can't tell the difference between "a right" and "is right". They think people should only have the right to do Good Things™.

banning hate speech gives minorities more freedom to express themselves

They already had that freedom, same as anyone else, whether or not someone else was a dick about it.

Also, if they're minorities, you're reducing the freedom of the majority of people, which means that there's a net loss in freedom.

Also also, attempts to curb hate speech have also affected minorities. Like when Youtube tried to suppress far right videos, and somehow ended up suppressing LGBT creators.

>countries with HS laws don't rank worse when we look at results

Which I'm sure you're about to provide a citation for any minute now, which will totally not be from a left-wing statist organization that made up definitions to measure.

> banning even the tiniest amount of speech means there's no free speech 

>if there's any restrictions on free speech, that means the restrictions I want are automatically okay

There's a slight difference between "will directly cause harm to others" (like inciting violence) and "doubleplus ungood crimespeech about certain identity groups".

“Hate speech” is just the latter, and it's been used to censor things which are objectively true.

Also, state censorship has frequently used to shut up minorities, especially political ones.

[hyperbali]

It's always dudes who can't draw tbh

[trickstarbrave]

a post council meeting conversation between the hortator and lord of house dagoth

wonder what they're talkin about

[stergeon]

"I was laughing but at the same time I really wanted to give El a hug, I felt so bad for her"

Edelgard: Thank you for your concern but I am quite alright now.

Um, what's going on with this?

Byleth: Hey, I'm not complaining. Ever since we got together my squat game has been insane. My ass has never looked so good.

[alphie-in-the-sky]

[theloveinc]

i feel like kiri n katsuki are secret fleshlight connoisseurs <3 (they share)

HOOOOOOOOOO my god, bad, bad, nasty, naughty, bad habit.

This is so gross but you know it started in high school when they could only manage to sneak ONE sex toy into the dorms........ and sharing allowed them to keep it better hidden.

Little did they know the sharing-part would be what ended up STICKING, and that'd it almost get even worse when they started running an agency together😔😔😔😔😔😔AND EVEN WORSE WHEN THEY BOTH ENDED UP WITH A CRUSH ON little ol' YOU who pushes paperwork on the floor below them🥺

taking turns squabbling in the other's office about getting to use it when, and now, and if it had been cleaned since it's last usage (although that gets a little less frequent as time goes by. Bakugo's more picky about sloppy seconds but stopped caring as much the first time he saw that you had come in wearing something very low cut. He needed to nut over it so badly that he couldn't wait to even rinse it out with water).

AND YEAH they fight abt who gets to take it home on weekends. One of them always pulls the "just buy another one!!" argument but they're both way overly attached to the well-worn one they've had for years.

People always wonder what they're fighting over but they have their excuses down to a science.

You pop in with last week's statistics printed out all nice and in a stack and Kiri goes from trying to keep Bakugo's hands off his face with a foot to accidentally hardening and slamming his across the room.

And the only thing that stops Bakugo from blowing up the whole place is your confused face (what they were fighting over in the first place, if it was better to bust there or on your kitty)... and in unison they go, "WE WERE JUST TRAINING TOGETHER"

(you probably think they're in a strictly monogamous relationship for the next six months after that and they're confused as to why you always shy away when they get a little too friendly.... and yeah, when you're dating they still refuse to get rid of that damn fleshlight lmfaooo)

[mantasunray-art]

gnf from 2021 that i did for the mcc reddit banner