writers when they’re proofreading their works for the 34th time *find zero mistakes, there’s no typo, no grammatical error. everything looks good. hit the post button*
writers when they’re reading said works after they’ve been published like proud parents *find 52 mistakes at first glance, 38 typos and 14 grammatical errors with a bunch of inconsistencies and plot holes*
We lost something as a culture when computers stopped screaming in agony as you connected them to the internet.
You would not have survived the dark ages. A webring would spell great peril. There was no search. And the dark things lurked out in the open in those days.
The computer screamed because it knew.
if it didn’t torture a landline phone for the duration of the process, was it really internet?
My dad hit me with the info that there was an option to turn it off… the sound… the whole time. But he didn’t want to tell me. Or to stop me from the, presumably character building, ritual of struggling to smother it to death with a pillow at 12:30am so I could be on the Forbidden Web and not wake my parents.
Barbie moving back or just not feeling it when Ken tries to kiss her on multiple occasions. That right there. That’s when I felt so seen.
And throughout the entire movie, I was just dreading the moment where she’ll have to step back and realize that she’s had feelings for him this whole time ugh and that she’ll go back and they’ll live happily fucking ever after again ugh
But there was none of that. Just Barbie being her own self without a man, without a romantic relationship.
That right there. That gutted me because that’s been me my entire life and I thought that there was something wrong with me for not wanting a boyfriend and romance in the real world, fictionally it’s a whole other thing but this right here rung so so true to me because it felt so real and it felt like a healing salve to that ache society caused in me.
Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one
I do maintain that partly why Israel is losing the PR war is that they can’t stop the IDF acting like fucking idiot monsters on instagram and tiktok.
Makes you wonder what would have happened if social media had been a thing during the Iraq war.
Genocide porn is a thing now, apparently.
“Oh, I helped out in bombing hospitals, mosques, refugee camps, Christian Churches, Catholic Churches, nuns, schools, shooting journalists who exposed our crimes and killing UN members.”
“But at least I look good on the beach.”
The banality of evil.
The “they don’t even deserve it” line bothers me so much
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