[Plain text of the last paragraph which was in block capitals:

No! Chocolate doesn't activate the cocaine circuit! Cocaine activates the chocolate circuit!! You don't just have an addiction circuit lying around in case you ever encounter a drug! The addictive drugs co-opt your reward circuits so that you feel like you need them as much as you need food!! Not the other way around why would that ever even evolve! End plain text]

The way twitter and tiktok talk about dopamine responses you would think everyone was posting from a convent

You can make anything you hate in a "pathology" by writing about how it triggers a dopamine response: food, sex, social media, pop music, whatever.

And because you use big words, people will take it seriously when you speak, even if what you are saying is "doing something enjoyable is bad because it weakens your moral fiber." Because you didn't say those words, you said "this behavior rewirses your brain by triggering a dopamine response."

When quite literally any form of pleasure triggers a dopamine response! When I beat someone online at chess, it makes me happy. Does that mean chess is "the same as any addictive drug."

I joke, but the funny thing is, people did used to say this about pleasures we now see as enriching or classy. Reading novels was supposed to rot your brain, and Beethoven was too stimulating and could ruin your morals.

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

I personally choose to believe that the Hunger Games series is supposed to be Katniss's memoir/way of setting the record straight about her and her loved ones part in the Games/war. Meaning I think the entire country of New Panem was going into a FIT with every new chapter they read, let alone book. Just imagine the podcasts for a second.

"SO THE STAR-CROSSED LOVERS OF DISTRICT 12."

"YEAH."

"FATED SOULMATES."

"DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER."

"Role model for all of our relationships, I think it's safe to say."

"Mmhmm."

"It was a SURVIVAL STRAT????"

That baby reveal??? Had the country in SHAMBLES when they realized Peeta was lying. Her editors probably told her to just keep that out and she probably just said "why?? I have actual kids now, it's fine." The tabloids are blowing clear the fuck up all day every day. Peeta's hijacking??? People already knew but they didn't know EVERYTHING. God, those podcasts were LIT.

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

Team “I can hear the near silent hum of electrical appliances and the bubbles fizzing in the can of soda on the coffee table, but can’t watch tv without subtitles and processes conversation at ¼ speed”

gonna start making snopes-style responses to urban legends about tumblr

I thought this was going to be an idea for an episode of Leverage. Either way, I want to read it.

Cyberpunk heist movie where a trans woman's favorite hot swap genitals are stolen and being held hostage, so she has to get together a crew of trans human misfits to recover them. Meanwhile the thieves have locked out her pubic region with a hack through the genitals' wireless ability and are spending the whole time edging her to fuck with her ability to concentrate on retaliation.

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First image: (post by beer person @CantEverDie) however shitty america might be, at least we will always be able to call jk rowling a holocaust denier without her 6 year old tattle tale brain trying to sue us with the atrocious UK legal system

Second image: (post by 679 Enthusiast @marionumber4) My American ass when it's legal to call JK Rowling a Holocaust denier. (Picture of over the top US patriotic imagery including the flag, a flag-decorated eagle, tanks, cheeseburgers, bears, Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty holding McDonalds food, another eagle, and a sad panda.)

Third image: (Delzoun @Delzoun) The craziest thing is that JK Rowling factually is a holocaust denier. Holocaust denial isn't only if you deny the whole thing. If you deny parts of it you're still a holocaust denier.

Fourth image: (Andrew the Psycho-Statistician) I may have to pay for my American healthcare, but at least I can call JK Rowling a Holocaust denier for free.

Fifth image: a photo of a Nazi book burning.

Sixth image: a Google search for "first book burning nazi germany" showing three results.

Holocaust Encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org> content article, boo...

Book Burning | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. The Nazi burning of books in May 1933 is perhaps the most famous in

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org wiki Nazi_book_burnings:

Nazi book burnings

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi List of authors banned in Nazi... Vicki Baum Heinrich Heine The Empty Library

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

https://www.hmd.org.uk> resource, 6-may-1933-looti...:

6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10 May, the entire ...

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in guarani there's a standard greeting that literally translates to "are you happy" (ndevy'apa) and the natural reply is "i'm happy" (avy'a) and as americans learning the language we were so distressed like "but what if we're not happy....." and our teachers were like "that's so not the fucking point"

we kept trying to think of any other way to reply but our teachers kept trying to get it into our brains that it's an idiomatic greeting, it literally is not the time or place to traumadump, and as usamerican english speakers we are not some special exception for saying "what's up" with the reply being "not much" instead of "the ceiling"

but anyway while i was working in paraguay -- the country with the largest population of guarani speakers -- i got sent an article by some friends back home like "look! they're saying that paraguay is the happiest country in the world!"

and the methodology was "we went around and asked paraguayans if they're happy and recorded their responses" and i was like. oh. of course you did. and of course you got a 100% positive response rate.

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Image 2: a Tumblr comment by ripslyme that reads, "they're still walking the mile as we speak". End ID]

Screeeeching at this meme a girl I went to high school w posted recently

One of my absolute favorite tropes is “We have taken the one you love most!” “Oh, have you? Good fukken luck lmao” *distant screams of kidnappers as loved one escapes* or the flipside: “We’ve kidnapped you!” “You are in so much trouble. You are in so much fucking trouble. You are in the most trouble ever, oh my god.” *DOOR EXPLODES INWARDS AS LOVED ONE ARRIVES* and the alternate: *vehicle pulls up, door opens, person is shoved out, door slams, vehicle screeches away* “Did you get kidnapped??” “For a minute yeah”

the 10 lil grifters job episode of leverage is so fun. we get to see our team attend a costume party. sophie calls her seasoned criminal coworkers "whiny babies". the whole time everyone is only like 80% sure that nate didn’t commit first degree murder behind their backs. parker offhandedly mentions that she robbed imelda marcos, and she clearly has no idea who that is. hardison has been inviting himself to the oscars for years. there’s a huge amount of references to mystery novels, movies and tv shows, not to mention all the fictional detectives you can spot in the background. timothy hutton is playing nate playing ellery queen, a detective character who was played by timothy hutton’s late father, jim hutton. we get to see all of the team use their skills in very different ways: you can’t hack a house that was built well over a century ago, so hardison has to adapt; eliot has to beat people up subtly and in public; parker’s spidey senses (aka extremely good spatial awareness) allow her to discover secret passages; sophie gets to do the amateur acting gig she’s always wanted; nate has to figure out how a crime was done rather than how to do a crime. at one point, parker gets offered a threesome. truly one of the episodes of all time.

Every few seconds we have to close our eyelids for a moment to keep our eyeballs moist and on paper that's a trivial detail in the grand scheme of our complex biology but if a fake cartoon human never blinks it bothers us so all cartoonists have to add the blinking even though it takes only a frame or two. I just think that's really interesting. If there's aliens and they make cartoons do they have anything like that? Zoblop your characters aren't gloobering, how could you forget to make them gloober, no one wants to watch stiff freaky ungloobering characters, Zoblop you need to go back to space calarts

draw women in post-apocalyptic world settings with armpit hair, leg hair, bushy brows and pubic hair ya cowards,, draw brown women/women with dark thick hair with arm hair and happy trails and sideburns and mustaches i’m sick of seeing silky smooth soapy clean make up wearing post apocalyptic dolled up women next to stinky sweaty crusty men with dirty nails and sweaty clothes and sweaty greasy hair and 3m long ugly beards

Oh wait, this is the USA meaning of pants. I said 6+ but I thought knickers not trouser-like apparel. If we exclude anything belonging to a salwar khameez suit, because I don't wear those alone, I have four pairs maybe. Two that fit and two that will take two pairs of leggings underneath them.

this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

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[ID: a two panel comic showing a person with shoulder length black hair and a dark t-shirt using a computer. Panel 1: They look excited as they say, "At last! Finally found another great band!"

Panel 2 has edited text in the speech bubble. Everything after the word go is edited in. Still smiling they say, "Now I gotta go check Metal Archives to make sure the members aren't Nazis".

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