I’ve rewatched the ad at least three times to try and figure out why some folks are angry with it and I’m at a loss.
All I see here is: Be a better human. Set a better example. Encouraging
strength of character and integrity over typical “machismo”.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shot to stardom entirely on the back of misplaced right-wing attacks, mostly because she stands her ground and tells the conservatives to go fuck themselves.
Imagine if literally any other Democrat had a spine.
Democrats are so used to just saying “oh golly gee, we better not piss off Fox News, lets just not say anything or do anything even slightly left-wing,” even though they piss off Fox News literally no matter what they do.
Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t give a fuck, tells the attackers that she doesn’t give a fuck, and therefore bewilders them and elevates herself and everything she stands for. If Democrats don’t learn the lesson here, they really are fucking useless.
If you told me that in 2019 the government would have been shutdown for over 20 days because of the wall funding AND that Clemson not only won the Championship BUT the President of the United States would serve them McDonalds, Wendys. Burger King and Pizza Hut…I would not have believed you. Its straight up, like an article from theonion
Imagine winning the championship and you’re invited to the white house only to walk into the room to find cold fast food had been served. I mean COME ON
They’ve got fine china and this poor guy is struggling to pick up a piece of pizza with…tongs. THEY DIDN’T EVEN TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF THE BOX
At the same time this is sad, disrespectful and trashy but like…I find it hilarious that this even happened.
EDIT: I CAN’T BREATHE THEY PUT THE PACKETS OF SAUCES IN THESE FANCY DISHES
his big brag for this one was he “paid for all the food himself” because the white house cooks are furloughed (because of him you know) but are you telling me that this dude who is supposedly a billionaire couldnt afford to pay a few chefs for the night? my dude that is fucked
Is The Onion still in business because the world is one major shitpost already. What are they gonna do? Write real news?
It’s BUCK WILD that he couldn’t get catering from one of his businesses (hotels/restaurants?). Like that is so insane that a literal billionaire felt the need to brag that he bought fast food. Like this is a fever dream
I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones
Trekkster Gods
No internet
fledgeling fandom
women run everything
seriously where the fuck did we go wrong
fandom wouldn’t exist as we know it without these women
conventions, badges, quite a lot of taboo but also lots of fun
closely-knit communities
mostly discussions in magazines
hogging the phone so you can chat with your friends
(while trying to pretend the rest of your family doesn’t exist)
basement meetings
fanart what??
Dawn of Networking
tin-bucket sites and forums
the badly assembled DIY IKEA kits of the internet
these were strange places
i’m too young to know firsthand but I’ve heard the stories
they were like,, inhabited by eldrich beings
who would sell souls in exchange for fanfics
early RPs
nobody was quite sure what they were doing
but!! You could connect with more fans quickly!!!
made obsessing less lonely
yay
“I was there Gandalf”
Live Journal
small internet communities
the name “Ann Rice” strikes fear into your heart
also hatred, lots of hatred
adding every warning and rating under the sun, hiding behind NSFW filters even if it isn’t necessary, praying you don’t get reported or deleted
you get reported
your friends get reported
nobody is safe
fuck.
Citrus Cheesecake
DeviantArt and ff.net
bright shiny eyes
children everywhere
“more of a lime than a lemon >//< but also kind of just a lemon with fluff?”
where did all the adults go? Where were they hiding??
pls don’t flame
A/N *dances away from your flames because idgaf*
omggg such a nosebleed!!!! XD lol
characters and authors having conversations in the author’s notes
Archive of Our Saviours
ooo we found the adults
mass migration by younger fans to Tumblr, Ao3 etc
looking at fandom’s earlier stages like “I have no memory of this place”
ratings that had nothing to do with fruit
(thank gods)
fandom grows up
we are all grateful
we have proper websites to call home
wanderers can finally settle down
many fans are Tired
We’re here again, Gandalf
your elbows are explicit
cats are explicit
there are legends of a paradise of pillows
but none of us wants to leave hell
blue blue blue
a well-respected petblr is flagged as explicit
will we be here in January?
who will survive?
those with sense watch the chaos from Ao3, sipping mocktails
“If you use social media, you’ve probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year. (…)
Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics, and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g. how people are likely to look as they get older).
Ideally, you’d want a broad and rigorous data set with lots of people’s pictures. It would help if you knew they were taken a fixed number of years apart—say, 10 years. (…)
What’s more, even if this particular meme isn’t a case of social engineering, the past few years have been rife with examples of social games and memes designed to extract and collect data.
Just think of the mass data extraction of more than 70 million American Facebook users performed by Cambridge Analytica.
Is it bad that someone could use your Facebook photos to train a facial recognition algorithm? Not necessarily; in a way, it’s inevitable.
Still, the broader takeaway here is that we need to approach our interactions with technology mindful of the data we generate and how it can be used at scale.”
centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. discuss.
Oh. This. I don’t like this.
#not enough distinct body parts#insects have three#arachnids on the other hand have two#therefore i propose that centaurs are actually spiders hiding a pair of legs somewhere
this is worse
jade how did you manage to make this worse
But centaurs DO have 3 body parts. Insects have head, thorax, and abdomen. Centaurs have a head, a human “thorax”, and a horse “abdomen”.
Instead I propose that insects are arthropod centaurs.
“BEHOLD A CENTAUR”
- Diogenes throwing a fucking ant on the ground
this is why we stopped inviting diogenes to these things
with these classifications, are we also implying that centaurs have exoskeletons?
No it’s the other way around, ants are tiny centaurs wearing armour
The most hilarious thing about the fact Buckbeak had a trial and lost is that later on JKR resolves the issue by having Hagrid take him in again and renaming him Witherwings. That’s literally all it took. What if in POA, Hagrid simply said, “Sorry, Buckbeak flew away.”
“There’s a hippogriff right there, Hagrid.”
“A different hipprogriff.”
“I’m… pretty sure that’s the same hipprogriff.”
“Prove it.”
no dna tests we die like scientifically underdeveloped societies
Prisoner of Azkaban continues to be the most frustrating book
Someone should have just adopted Sirius and started calling him Gerald.
Remus: Erm… this is our new order member, my… cousin Gerald. Gerald White.
“Mr. Lupin that is Sirius Black with glasses!” “Oh come now Minister, Sirius Black doesn’t wear glasses. That wouldn’t make sense.” “Well have Mr. White take off his glasses then!” “He can’t he needs them to see.”
it got better
It’s honestly a miracle to me that wizarding society doesn’t collapse every other week because like
You’ve got this world full of people who can destroy whole buildings or turn people into beetles or make vehicles fly just by waving a stick at them
And there is literally no common sense
Anywhere to be found
Voldemort would never have had anyone find out he was back if he just went around calling himself Steve
Okay, see, I thought I saved this post to comment on it but I’d like to bring up
The Minister would NEVER EVER disbelieve in Gerald White. He’d buy it hook line and sinker. The wizarding world would buy it hook line and sinker. The GOBLINS wouldn’t but wizards have been shown to be pretty blindingly clueless. Still, Gringotts would grudgingly give Sirius access to the Black fortune.
But, but, but, you know the one person
the one person
who Gerald White would drive AB-SO-LUTELY FUCKING BATSHIT?
Severus Snape.
Snape would do everything, EVERYTHING, to get people to believe that it’s Sirius. But the Order would ignore it (they accepted Sirius as Sirius before anyway) and Remus would just be so… so affronted.
‘Severus, he is my cousin.’
And Sirius would love it. He’d love the fact that Snape just hated it. He’d be the BEST DAMN GERALD WHITE EVER b/c Snape is doing everything from dropping veritaserum into his firewhisky to capturing a dementor in a box and releasing it on Sirius when he least expects it
That one causes problems for a bare minute because SHIT A DEMENTOR ATTEMPTED TO GIVE GERALD THE KISS MAYBE SNAPE IS RIGHT except Harry comes forward and is like ‘excuse me, I’ve never committed a crime and dementors are ALWAYS attacking me, I think they’re attracted to glasses’
and the magical community is like ‘shit, yeah, you’re right’
and just
Spare. Snape goes spare.
Picturing Snape as Mr. Crocker from the Fairly Oddparents now.
Gerald White eventually becomes a fully registered animagus. When he turns into his animagus form right in front of Snape, Snape’s bursting at the seams, just pointing at him and spluttering:
‘HE’S A BIG BLACK DOG! A DOG - THAT IS BLACK. SIRIUS BLACK. BLACK DOG DOG BLACK.’
And Remus calmly says: “That’s absurd, Severus. Sirius Black was never an animagus and besides which, people’s names don’t have any influence over their animagus forms or anything like that. That’s ridiculous.”
And Snape yells: “Shut it WEREWOLF MCWEREWOLF!”
Everyone looks at Remus, who blinks and sighs as Gerald White turns back into his human form.
“Pure coincidence,” Gerald says. “My aunt was into Roman mythology. Has to happen sometimes.” Then he pauses to give Snape an overly concerned look. “Are you alright, Severus? You’re looking a little red.”
