Seriously has no one yet written a spoof of Remember remember the 5th of November based on the Supernatural finale?
I only know about this through Tumbler going bonkers over the 2nd anniversary, and this is just an obvious missed opportunity.
Taking this idea and running a little further with it: Humans are Space Mongooses. Very similar in several crucial ways to badgers, but they do pack bond.
Ok so we all know about humans being deathworlds/space orcs as well as some people saying humans are space dogs or humans are space cats or humans are space fae.
My I present to to you...
Humans Are Space Badgers
I have no idea if this has bin done but humans are a lot like badgers and even though badgers don't pack bond they are tough little shits that no one real wants to mess with as, if you try and take one down you now damn well they are not leaving this world with out biting and scratching the hell out of you as much they can, and doing enough damage that it will have a lasting mark on you. You may live to tell the tail but you will never attack one again, and if you don't live well let's just say anybody who witnessed it will say they tore you limb from limb and sprawled your insides, out onto the ground. Also we can look very cute and fluffy.
Ok so in a human-are-space-orcs setting, humans are also going to be weirdly (or terrifyingly, depending on your point of view) good at booby traps: improvisational engineering, breaking rules, defending their homes/pack bonded crewmates/pack bonded ships, general mayhem and chaos, and sheer bloody-mindedness.
Imagine the how aliens would react to Home Alone, Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner and Coyote, etc. “This is entertainment for their young!? This is training for guerrilla warfare!”
“When attempting to capture a human ship or settlement, be extremely warry of anything that appears abandoned, or defended only by ‘unarmed’ ‘non-combatants’. There is no such thing as an unarmed human. There are only humans who have done a better job of concealing their improvised weapons.
See files “Jackie Chan” and “Kevin McCallister”
If you’ve read the comics, watch the Netfilx series IMMEDIATELY, since it fixes a ton of unnecessarily-edgy-for-the-sake-of-seeing-if-they-could things about the comics, adapts the best parts of the comics brilliantly, and is definitely the best television all year. The writing is excellent, but the writer has had 30 more years to improve his craft, and learn how to make television to boot.
If you’ve read the comics, skip the Netflix series as it’s a bad adaptation that adds very little.
If you haven’t read the comics, this is probably the best television all year because you’ve never seen writing like this. Watch it.
@fulgurite-and-petrichor it was shark toys I think? This one? https://youtube.com/shorts/LtHpkrlJjUw?feature=share
Can someone help me find a specific funny video?
It's a group of those like... dinosaur toys on sticks that grip things and you can find them in zoo and museum gift shops. And one of them says something like "ok, so one of us is secretly an owl" and another responds "who?" The first one starts saying "well that's the thing, we don't know" but does the most glorious double take I've ever seen.
Respectfully, I’m fairly confident that the preceding understanding/definition of kink contains several non-trivial errors, or at least differs substantially from the understanding that the majority of kink informed people would use.
Briefly, no, kinky activities are not by definition one-step-removed from sexual activity. A great deal of kink is appealing because of the powerful emotional and mental effects of certain activities and relationship dynamics. Many of these feelings are non-sexual, or peri-sexual in the same way that romantic feelings are peri-sexual.
I suspect that the statement “fascism is inherently kinky” is mostly incoherent according to your understanding of kink. But it makes quite a lot of sense according to mine, because it speaks the the power dynamics of relationships and the emotional appeal of those dynamics. (Note: real fascism is still very bad, because there are no safe words and no bloody consent negotiations!)
i feel like fascism is deeply uninteresting as an ideology on like, a psychological level. like, i want a big strong man to tell me what to do too, youre not special
OK, but how weird must if be for Ea-Nasir’s spirit right about now. For thousands of years he’s just been chillin’ in whatever Babylonian afterlife he went to, his name an memory completely forgotten by every living soul. Then some archeologist finds and translates the world’s oldest bad Yelp review, and suddenly there are a few dozen living people speaking his name and thinking about him again. So his shade starts to, I don’t know, wake up a bit. Then Tumblr finds him, and suddenly his name is on the lips of more living people than he probably ever met in life. And now this happens, and suddenly he feels himself changing into some kind of minor trickster god. I’m mean, that’s gotta be weird, right?
I’m going to point out that all of the features of old-time-stuffy etiquette that made them helpful to some autistic people also make them horrible for some people with ADHD.
“Here’s a list of things that you should do, and here’s a list of things you shouldn’t do, and here’s a list of things that you can wear, and here’s a list of things that you mustn’t wear, and if you just memorize all of these lists and never make a single mistake ever in observing them, you’ll never be publicly humiliated or shamed and you’ll get along fine with absolutely everyone. “ And now here’s me completely incapable of remembering a list that’s more than four items long, constantly having terrible anxiety about which stupid rule I just violated, and who thinks I’m a brain dead jack ass because I can’t remember which fork to use at dinner.
The old stuffy rules were used to mark class and to establish in-group and out-group distinctions, as much as to give people who were part of the in-group a common set of behaviors that facilitated “normal” social interactions.
The current anarchy of today’s analogous social norms isn’t really any easier for ADHD folks to navigate, but they’re easier to live with because violations of those norms are now less obvious, and fewer people care as much if you screw them up.
Okay, we can go back to the 50s for your sake. What exactly happens to all of us who are getting plunged back into (more of) a living hell? Do we get to say "I wish I lived back when I still had rights" and then tell you off for talking about how much better things are for you?
Short answer is, “Yes, of course”.
Long answer is that I in no way intend to romanticize the 1950s, or traditional Inuit parenting methods, or anything else. I don’t like lying to children, and as I recall (I don’t have the book in front of me), Temple Grandin’s mother was told often not to expect her daughter to ever be able to function on her own.
But in the same book, we have two white middle class Americans, one of whom has offered several anecdotes about specific features of social expectations that helped them to navigate the world, and one has offered up exactly zero such anecdotes (He has an awful lot about social features that made things hard for him, though!)
The obnoxious right-wing and left-wing response is to just assert that all changes that have happened in history are linked; the only way to go back to the social connectedness or rules clarity of the 50s would be to return to everything about the 50s.
I don’t think this is a well-supported position. Robert Putnam, in Bowling Alone, asserted that high social connectedness in the 60s correlated with more progressive views on racial equality.
This is what I mean by Panglossianism: the assertion that every historical change has been for the better, or, if it has not been for the better, that it was a necessary sacrifice to make things better. Obviously we didn’t consult you, but your opinions on whether or not a given change was for the better are irrational and irrelevant.
So you get people on the left going, “Oh, you think social connectedness in the 60s would be more psychologically healthy for you? That means you also want segregation and sexism, because all that stuff comes as a package!
And then you get these right-wing serpents hissing in your ear, "They’re right! All we need to do to make your life better is to shove women back in the kitchen and stop all this pesky race mixing and the good things you want will come back.”
Which is cargo cult thinking.
You might then push for a sort of ahistorical approach; maybe instead of saying, “I kind of wish things were set up a little easier for people like me in some of the ways that they used to be,” we should say, “Things aren’t as easy for me as they could be, we should work on that for the future.”
Here’s the thing, in my experience, as someone with autism, you know what people do if you try that?
They gaslight the ever loving fuck out of you.
You say, “I think the particular milieu we’re part of has features that make it unusually hostile towards autistic people” and all the allistic people go, “No it doesn’t.”
“Our social rules are completely explicit and everybody knows them. Nothing we do makes things more uncomfortable or hard to deal with for autistics then any other group or context, and if you’re having trouble dealing with our social context, that has nothing to do with us, it’s a weird personal problem that you should work on.”
That’s exactly what @argumate did in response to me! If Temple Grandin says that the lack of electronic distraction and the relative homogeneity of fifties manners helped her, but that those things became rarer as she grew up, she’s wrong. That’s the whole argument.
And when faced with that situation, it’s pretty natural to reference the evidence you have that things could be better.
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