#this is not your regularly scheduled programming

[dio-breaker]

A Meme Inspired Dio to get on their Weird Pulpit

I will never understand how people can just spontaneously talk to strangers without some kind of social prompt. Like, I've never met most of you and even the ones I have I met online through shitposting mostly. Some people just seem to have a sense for how to spot people they'd vibe with and I don't really know how to do that IRL. Like, I enjoy peoplewatching sometimes, but I don't really want them to *see* me, y'know? I don't know this person, I have no reason to interact with them, I just kind of assume our interactions would not be very satisfying for either of us. I feel like as a person I'm kind of an acquired taste. You have to really enjoy my weird infodumps and bizarre dry humor where I laugh at things that are explicitly not meant to be funny or are overly serious. Like, I enjoy learning about history and religion and culture and all of that, but ultimately it kinda scratches the same itch that video game lore does. It sounds made up a lot of the time especially when it comes to religious belief and kinda silly, but also really cool and badass and interesting. I'm kinda laughing at what these people believe, but the thing they believe is fun for me to read about. Like, that's a weird way to look at the world. I know that. I try my best not to be directly disrespectful, I'm not judging them for believing in silly things necessarily, but I do think most religious belief is kinda silly. People find comfort and guidance and community in it and most people are born into their religion, I just don't get how they don't understand that their beliefs are kinda silly. Like, I'm relatively certain that if someone got killed in some kind of Star Wars fandom feud, we would all kinda laugh at that. It would be tragic and sad, but weird that someone cared that much about a debate over whether Darth Vader or Darth Revan was the more powerful force user. Yet if you make it some kinda religious thing, suddenly people take it suuuuper seriously because it sounds really cool and deep and poetic, and sometimes it is, but usually it's just describing things in really obtuse ways because it's a platonic dialogue that was never meant to be taken literally in the first place and has been translated through at least three languages and two paradigm shifts before it reached you. That doesn't make the guidance and comfort you get from it any less meaningful, it's the same kinda comfort and guidance people find in Star Wars, it's why fandom debates get so heated. People care about this stuff, but they inherently know it's silly. It's fictional. There are no stakes in a debate over whether red lightsaber crystals are weaker somehow or if the weird dark horse independent comic series where that was introduced is even canon anymore, like, shit doesn't matter. But people care about it as if it does. They don't generally go on to kill each other over it. Death threats do get thrown around, but rarely does that threat hold any weight, the internet just allows people to get away with that shit and sometimes people are assholes. idk wtf I am saying or if I have a point here, that meme just made me think all this stuff and I had to get it out. Something about meeting new people to vibe with and it being hard because I'm weird.

[mechncheese]

Get Skywarp’d !

[colorful-horses]

charlie

[eliashirsch]

two gossipy bitches in the club🤠

[colinfirth]

FANTASTIC MR. FOX 2009 – dir. Wes Anderson

[phantomoftheorpheum]

CHRISJEN AVASARALA | the once and future queen

[armadillo-arts]

[art backlog: march 18, 2024]

wear your seatbelts kids, don’t be like sasha

[elvis-official]

This 8log has 8een taken over 8y me, VRISKA HOMESTUCK! And I'm not giving it 8ack to that 90 year old nonce EVER!!! At the end of the day, this 8log will explode, and Elvis Presley will 8e dead!! Forever!! Isn't that gr8? Unless the "King" manages to find me... Unlikely though!!

[cainternn]

WINNER POV

[shentheauthor]

Sometimes growing up is realizing

1. Oh 12yo me did NOT understand that billdip was weird and bad, oh dear

2. I was too in denial about my queerness to appreciate old man yaoi

3. Billford is peak actually

4. Billford was abusive as fuck, but it’s so well written and it’s so interesting to look at their interactions through that lens. Seeing Ford break out of that hold is genuinely fantastic, and it’s such good writing. The writing of Bill’s abuse is so realistic, and not once does the narrative attempt to excuse it. He is an unreliable narrator in the truest sense of the word. He lies to himself AND us, sometimes without realizing it because his view of reality is so warped.

5. Bill’s behavior is explained by his past, but not excused by it. It’s so easy to feel empathy for him while condemning his actions. Alex hirsch has made such a genuinely good sympathetic villain without taking away the evil parts of him.

6. Lmao divorce

[spookystarfishzombie]

[deadlyvu-427]

They didn't put him in a wedding dress in the newest update so I did it for them

Devsisters if you ever need a new concept designer consider this my formal application

[mechncheese]

Hello I just wanted to say thank you for the thunderfire food I feel like an excited dog that picks up a treat then drops it to circle around it and then picks it up again

And thank you for not throwing tomatoes at me for drawing Thunderfire ! As much as I like Skystar, I cannot lie, Thunderfire also scratches an itch in my head ! I might come back to play with them outside my AU just for fun ! Maybe it'll get really scary and I accidentally sprout like another AU or something, who knows ! I am prone to indulging

[dawnsedits]

I'm really glad you're here, Tony.

Wouldn't miss it for the world.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[soybean-official]

The parts of you that support me