it's so sickening

great, great, this is fine dot gif

WILD it took them this long to hit on this idea for the franchise

listen if you're the one asking the questions then the answers are probably somewhere on AO3

The most apropos moment yet for a 1984 reference and yet i'm too tired to make it

fire guys* had to walk so hockey guys could fuck

*thousands of denied slash pairings over decades

I'm just saying I know that marketers emphasize building brands on social media by posting on specific themes, but to avoid burnout and avoid hating your own sm presence, I think it's ultimately more important to post what you're excited about alongside the things people know you for.

I think it's a balancing act! In the before times, I lost hundreds of followers when I livetweeted watching a certain show, but I also gained hundreds of followers and made friendships that have lasted for years, and people still go back and read those posts. Lots of ppl value your personal passion.

also I suppose it goes without saying at this point that our current president has no idea at a glance which nations are thought of as developing and which aren't, and absolutely could not point to a single one of them on a map

is nobody else gonna comment on his shadow because

(TIL car fandom was called "motordom")

it's more feasible to access it because the U.S. auto industry spent $$$ and decades lobbying for a car-first, car-only public infrastructure that included PR campaigns framing cars as inherently American. That's *why* public transit is so derided today. yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/amer...

i mean how many times does she have to quote hitler before— oh wait you know who wrote and spent years updating a record of this bullshit, YOURS TRULY www.vox.com/culture/2362...

YEAH, JOHN, IT IS A BELOVED STORY. THAT'S WHY IT FUCKING SUCKS TO BE A TRANS PERSON SUDDENLY OSTRACIZED FROM EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT IT BECUASE ITS CREATOR TURNED OUT TO BE A FUCKING GOBLIN, YOU FUCKFACE

I just think that if I, an HP fan for 2 decades, can walk away, so can he.

It seems like this ABSURDLY OBVIOUS point shouldn't require spelling out, but it's something we had to spell out *over and over again* when the new HP game came out 2 years ago, and people still refused to get it.

You giving this franchise money=you actively giving transphobic organizations $.

"By now you’re probably wondering … who is paying this WIRED reporter to pump up the prospects of a new startup?"

Well at least you're self-aware about how fully this reads like a giant free ad.