gacha is basically a little game where kids used to play dress up and make characters and make little stories!!!!! and people still do it but the singing battles n stuff were mainly a lot older

look up gacha life singing battles if you’d like to see lmao

moviestar planet……..

You said you’re the “oldest-but-also-middle-child” does that mean you’re also a twin?

haha nah, I just have two older siblings who are my dad's kids but not my mom's kids (half brothers). Overall there are three generations of us separated by a decade each ranging from late 30's to preteen. So I fall into the middle section of my dad's three generations of kids but I'm the oldest of my mom's kids which are the younger two generations.

This means I got to have the full experience of being a younger, middle, and oldest sibling LMAO I am chock full of dysfunctional family dynamic trauma ヽ(・∀・)""ﾉ

They gave sterek the destiel special

I am too old/tired for it okay

It’s 2020 again and I am not sure who my Ateez Bias is

my history teacher was telling us just today how when he was 16 he felt the "wind of history" in his hair (the year polish communism ended) and wondered if we would have that moment but how was I gonna tell him about the mcr reunion tour. how about gerard

The Ottawa Free Trader, Volume 1, Number 39, 12 February 1841

when Julian and Donna were dealing with plague shit, they insisted that Julian “hot box his plague mask” and he was out of commission for a few days off of one hit

Barbie and Oppenheimer are both about the main character questioning their own existence

mclaren 🤝 ferrari

fucking up as per usual

losing my mind over this. the graph got bigger I'm shaking

*vivid flashbacks to the newsies union discord*

my friend: wow, sugar is skyrocketing like crazy. remember when it was (x amount)?

me, who has been stealing sugar packets from krispy kreme for the past 5 years: y-yeah.. .

I know we're all trying to be a bit whacky these days, but it honestly just makes me think of "random" humour from the noughties, written by Monty Python and in a sort of 80s/cyberpunk/vapourwave aesthetic.

all the replies to that tweet i’m going to kill myself ot really is 2014 all over again….

gamergate 2 incoming

okay so I was doing a Research™️ about ancient Greek etymology as one does and I found some Things that made me want to Violently Claw My Arms Off please allow me to force feed you my discoveries

So there are 2 words for "not" in ancient Greek, depending on the context: ou and mē. Having introduced himself in the Cyclops episode as " ou tis", or No-man, he then stabs Polyphemus in the eye. When Polyphemus' brothers come to check on him, they say this:

"... surely no man [mē tis] is carrying off your sheep? Surely no man [mē tis] is trying to kill you either by fraud or by force?"

Right after this, after the other cyclopes ditch Polyphemus, Odysseus's inner monologue goes something like this:

"Then they went away, and I laughed inwardly at the success of my clever strategem [metis]." (pronounced mEH-Tis)

Now, there's a difference between mē tis and metis. [mē tis] (pronounced mEH-Tis with a space between the syllables) is the literal translation for "no man". Metis is a word for extreme intelligence/cunning, which is something Odysseus is famous for.

Now, there are several examples of abuse of metis/intelligence in the Odyssey, but I think the juxtaposition between [mē tis], or the concept of anonymity, and metis, or extreme intelligence, is REALLY interesting. Odysseus's adoption of the title "No-man" was characteristic of metis--it was a really smart move that simultaneously hid him from the cyclops and avoided any future consequences. It was a highly effective strategy all wrapped up in a nest little package with a bow on it.

But when he revealed himself as Odysseus of Ithaca, effectively throwing off No-man (anonymity and [mē tis]), that was characterized as idiocy--he's essentially doxxed himself, and now he's doing to (spoiler alert) get tossed around the Mediterranean by Poseidon for the next 10 years.

This is really interesting because it lets you see the parallels/codependency between metis(intelligence) and humility. When Odysseus refused to allow himself to go unnoticed (hubris) he suffered for it. BUT when he declined instant glory/satisfaction (kleos) in order to achieve the long term goal of survival, he was rewarded with Athena's favor (pay attention. This part is important).

And this situation repeats itself MULTIPLE TIMES in the Odyssey--the EXACT SAME THING happens near the end of the book, with the suitors. When. Odysseus is dressed as a beggar and the suitors/Antinious are abusing him, he ACTIVELY CHOOSES not to react--he doesn't stand up and rip off his disguise and start hollering "TIS I, ODYSSEUS OF ITHACA! FEAR MY WRATH"

No. He sits there patiently and waits. He plans and schemes and quietly orchestrates their downfall without alerting them of it. Why? Because he learned his lesson the first time this happened. He buried his rage and adopted what was, according to Grace LA Franz, a more feminine form of metis, weaving a web of destruction for his enemies that ultimately resulted in their total annihilation (see Weaving a Way to Nostos: Odysseus and Feminine Metis in the Odyssey by Grace LaFranz). His patience allowed him to win the whole prize--no questions asked, no 10-year-long-business-trip strings attached--just the sweetness of a full victory. And he is, once again, rewarded with Athena's favor--both in the battle with the suitors and in the aftermath (cleanup/reuniting with Penelope).

This really reinforces the idea in the Odyssey that Odysseus's defining characteristic is not just his intelligence--it's his ability to learn from his mistakes. He used what he learned at the Lotus Eaters Island against Polyphemus--the Lotus Eaters drugged his men, so he drugged Polyphemus. He used what he learned from Circe and Polyphemus against the suitors--Circe used false sweetness and honeyed words to lure his men into a trap, so that's exactly what he did to the suitors. His hubris on Polyphemus' island cost his whole crew their lives, so he intentionally left well enough alone until the right time. He didn't just learn from his failures--he turned them into BATTLE STRATEGY.

i don't care what anyone says that is completely totally and objectively awesome