in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay

people will claim to be filled with whimsy and joy for life but then hate musicals……. the vile tongue of man will never cease lying

The fact that so many leftists and progressive are not only not trying to be vegan but are actively arguing against it, while simultaneously believing this to be a progressive position, will always baffle me.

The question being asked is: “should this oppressed group have rights?” and your answer is “no.” You are arguing in favour of the overwhelmingly dominant ideology and of maintaining the status quo, which is the same side as massive, environmentally destructive, exploitative corporations and just about every conservative you know.

If you are arguing against animals having rights, you are taking up the politically and socially conservative position. There is no debating that - you just are. There is no way to frame this as socially progressive or radical. There exists a movement in favour of social change and the liberation of an exploited class, and your position is in direct opposition to that.

 You’re free to hold that view if you want to, but let’s not pretend it’s somehow progressive. You can’t have it both ways.

Fred Prinze Jr's Fred walked so Ryan Gosling's Ken could run

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Screenshotting as OP’s confidence in defending their own ideas was such that they pre-blocked me as soon as someone tagged me to respond, but I really want to hold this post up as just an incredible example of confirmation bias and groupthink. Can you imagine a take like this getting over 48,000 notes if the victim were literally any other group? Someone who stands on the power end of a clearly unbalanced relationship with a group who is unquestionably being exploited, a person profiting from their bodies and production, declaring ‘actually this is mutually beneficial’ while dismissing collective boycott of an incredibly destructive industry as ‘virtue signalling’ and it being widely shared and applauded? On Tumblr.com? This is the extent of the vested interest we all have in maintaining our illusions about our consumption habits. We are presented with the horors of modern farming, we recognise instinctively that this is wrong according to our own values, and what we essentially have are two choices: 1) We can change our behaviour to match our values. 2) We can attempt to argue that our behaviour already does match our values. One option requires self-reflection, acknowledging our own wrongdoing and vowing to do better by making real, tangible sacrifices in our own lives, while the other offers a reassuring pat on the back that we actually don’t need to change a thing about our own behaviours and our own consumption habits, and that some vague far-away problem is the actual issue, like capitalism, or industrialisation, or something else that requires nothing of you personally. Almost all of us, all the time, are choosing option 2. Posts like these are always so incredibly popular despite the juvenile attempts at justifications, the zero sources, the no-nuance analysis precisely because they offer us semi-coherent reasoning to continue engaging in our current behaviours while maintaining the facade of caring about animals and our planet. This is why we have post after post telling us ‘it’s not us it’s capitalism,’ or ‘actually being bred in unhealthy bodies for profit, exploited then having their throat slit at a fraction of their life expectancy is ‘a sweet gig’ or that ‘what we buy doesn’t matter since supply and demand isn’t real.’ This is the diffusion of our responsibility and has been the favoured public response to just about any atrocity anyone has ever been complicit in. I ask all of you to rise above which ‘side’ you think you’re on, and to look through transparently self-interesed takes that tell you exactly what you want to hear. Be suspicious of anyone letting you off the hook for your own responsibility to make moral choices and passing the blame off to someone else, somewhere else, something you can do nothing about. Look at what animal agriculture is, look at what you pay for and what you support by spreading rhetoric like this. Look what this industry does to animals, to human workers and communities, to eco-systems, to our environment, and most of all, look what it does to you and your ability to live your own values. Most of us absolutely do have the ability to make different, more humane choices, if we just take the time to examine our biases and really consider why we find reassuring but uncritical rhetoric like this quite so appealing.

im having a moment

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

not to be the Preachy Vegan™ but it would be pretty cool if people stopped murdering animals

i love characters that are just a cunt. no redeeming characteristics. just there to stir shit up and scheme. cause a ruckus. get on everyone's nerves.

It’s so hard being a silly goose in this anti-whimsy society

Eat the Rich stencils spotted in Napoli, Italy

How to get ready in the morning

Step 1: Stay in bed as long as you possibly can. 

Step 2: Speed run. 

you ever just click on a fanfic and read the first word and go “shut up” and exit