#you either laugh or you cry

[theoretically-questionable]

"oh scientific papers are so dry" WRONG i have read papers with bleaker, wryer humour than any comedian has put on stage

consider the following paper: Leaving No Child Behind: Decomposing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Child Health for India and South Africa

As the title would suggest, it is about child nutrition in heavily exploited global regions. As such, in addition to dealing with complex social and economic issues, it also has to content with a pervasive web of (often explicitly racist) misconceptions in the public eye.

Therefore, while i cannot speak for the actual intentions of the authors, there is a great deal of bleakly funny wording in here, alongside a vein of bitter, preemptive "I dare you to try raising objections or playing oblivious, this has been pointed out LOTS OF TIMES BEFORE" sentiment throughout.

For instance, after making the point that wealthy families can afford food (and so the issue is more complex than 'this region is poor'), the authors provide eleven citations:

For context, you usually get between one-to-three citations for such a straightforward claim. Five might be excessive. Eleven very much seems like the authors are looking meaningfully at the reader and Making A Point.

Particularly as the similarly uncontroversial idea 'if you don't solve economic inequality you can't solve world hunger' gets twelve citations:

And the fantastically straightforward sentiment of 'your healthcare is fucked up because you won't fund basic welfare' also earns a tidy eleven citations:

Then, a staggering TWENTY citations are laid out for 'seriously, if a household is food-insecure and in a rural area with less-maintained social and material infrastructure, their kids are more likely to suffer from malnutrition':

But, beyond anything else that the authors decided to slap an inarguable number of citations on, the bleakly funniest, tongue-in-cheek message in the entire paper (one that made me genuinely stop and re-read it) was, to paraphrase, 'the problem of malnutrition is not that mothers do not know their children need food'.

Because, yes, there are a non-trivial amount of people that are convinced individual education initiatives are the best way to lift regions of people out of malnutrition and poverty.

As opposed to, like, reliable and sufficient funding for infrastructure and a robust social safety net - and also reducing economic stratification by Actually Redistributing Hoarded Wealth, Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

(Also, you will have to take my word for this but an early pre-edit version of this paper contained the accidental phrase "poor children were less likely to be nutritious", which doubtless led to the rarely seen editors note of "Revised: original sentence implied cannibalism.")

[isit-allover]

imagine being elody in this situation. your husband who you last saw dead with a glass shard in his chest shows up to the castle you’ve been living in with an old gay man, a cat, a wooden boy, a wolf girl, and another princess covered in briars. You have two (2) interactions with him. In the first, he says that he would be nothing without you. In the second he accuses your cool multidimensional princess sisterhood of trying to break the world, and then sings about hair being everywhere. The next time you see him, he is horribly injured and galloping away on an ice horse covered in a white sheet. this all happens within a few hours. wild.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The most terrifying creature of all

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[dykemind]

Lesbians are the funniest people on earth because we are forced to endure a constant stream of situational irony that only gets more complex and ridiculous as time goes on.

[starry-teacup]

one of the reasons the voices are so important to me is that simply being around a person who cares when stressed or nervous is comforting to me, and bc I'm them, they automatically have to care, so I'm just forcibly trauma bonded to these idiots

more than that though I just like that they're cheering us on and supporting us, all in their own ways (except broken :/ ), and I like the hero am a sucker for validation and any kind of affection, and would like a head friend to be able to go through life with because life is hard and I don't want to do it alone

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

again, props to the fan or fans who’ve posted this, but tumblr is a river that waits for no one! Tried to find you again! Sorry!

[hightro]

[silverfoxstole]

For some reason I only noticed the other day that Eight in the Titan Comics uses the Dark Eyes sonic:

To be fair, I was probably too distracted by the (often epically) terrible likeness:

[lycheeluv]

I'm sorry for disappearing. Youkai gakkou Sensei has be eating me alive.

[chilschuck]

PLEASJEHSB IM YELLING AR THIS I CABR STOP LAUGHIG

`✦ ˑ ִֶ 𓂃⊹ HELP ME . PLEASE PLEASE PLEASDSE GET HIM SOME BROWN CONTACTS I CANNOT BREATHE. THE STARE. I CANT STOP WATCHING IT

this is the stare you give when you’re seconds from literally strangling someone. deadass

[orcelito]

Thinking about using the journal I got for writing my dad's eulogy for trying to process my grief with it. The letter from me I found in his lockbox is still in that front sleeve, along with one of the memorial folders they had at the funeral.

I think I don't want to write it all on here. I think I've talked about my emotions too much as of late.

[dracomeir]

Two of my favourite moments in Funkin' Adventures. This was in the Demonic Formalities arc.

This was in the Friday & Funkin arc which was a stupid D&D clusterfuck of a campaign that actually caused the order of arcs after it to change. I love rolling dice to determine fate. hehehe

I really wish ppl didn't throw OG Girlfriend's and Boyfriend's random silliness aside, or pretend shit like ADHD didn't exist for them. Another reason why I started writing my own shit. For your own AUs it's fine since they aren't the same characters, but for the OGs? Making OG GF a bitch just so you can have pico x bf? Turning OG BF into some weakass uwu bitch instead of keeping him as a smug, confident bastard? Nah, man. Fuck all that.

[amusingmusie]

A very annoying meme dump of images I’ve had saved for a year now, Yours Truly edition

[boxwinebaddie]

an uncle nina update...i mean UPHATE!

okay there's a couple lines at the bottom i didn't fill in...i don't want to talk about it...that's a problem for future me idc idc! it's done, okay?

BUT AT LONG....LONG LAST....I AM FINALLY....FINISHED fuCkiNG WRITING RM6 AND AM EDITING AND FORMATING IT ON AO3!

when i tell you there are tears in my tears...oh my god...please, clap.

i am going to start deletion progress of probably 1k worth of spaces between lines ( whoever decided that when you paste a google doc it double spaces everything...please meet me in the pit, motherfucker! ) running a fine tooth comb through everything, figuring out where certain italics/blockquote goes, writing the sh*t i put off at the end & crying to taylor swift loudly over the sound of my cracking fingers.

but first...i am taking...a nap....or i'm gonna try. #freeunclenina

because i pulled a writer girl all-nighter.

...and brain hurty so, so bad.

-uncle nina, making miracles happen on the last day of nanowrimo

p.s. if you see me on here answering ask memes and being a circus clown, please close your eyes...i miss her ( my not-stressful inbox )

[there-will-be-a-way]

No sleep meds and quitting weed is a baaaad combination

[nacregames]

top nine shows

i was tagged by @hungrydogs-if (thank you <3) but it took me a while to understand what this was about since i haven't been online for a while jdsgfodafgoashsha

anyway feel free to share your own shows idk even know who to tag and pls don't judge me i've barely watched any shows my whole life