sorry for being weird online. i'm even worse if you see me in person

They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?

I mean like... I've been called 'weird' my whole life and pretty much immediately started owning it. But I'm also much more the 'makes art from discarded items' weird and less the 'show us your genitals' weird.

They use it like a slur lol

Years ago I casually mentioned that I'm weird to my pro-trump dad and his wife and they got bafflingly offended and insisted that I'm NOT weird.

Being abnormal is the worst thing to those people because they've always wanted it to have a death sentence.

It's kind of funny to see them use it like that because I've been 'weird as a point of pride' for like 30 years. Essentially 'you can't call us that, that's our word for making fun of you!'

Elon actually called it a 'slur' and is trying to prevent people on Twitter from using it. Like... yall want to be oppressed so bad.

I love how benign it is. You can call someone a fascist for years and they don't even blink, bur call them 'weird....' love it.

fascists goal is to become mainstream and normal. In his book The Authoritarians, Bob Altemeyer found that people who scored high on an authoritarian scale would say that they would want to be around the middle of the scale, while medium and low authoritarians would say that they would like to be low on the scale. Altemeyer notes that when asked, high authoritarians tend to rank "being normal" as one of the best things a person can be. This is why when you call them a fascist, they can brush it off like it's nothing, but when you call them weird it hurts so bad. The thing they want the most is to be normal. They want their bigotry, their hatred, their violence to be normal. And it is vital that we do not allow that. They are not normal, they will never be normal and we will make sure that they are not normal. Always push back on their ideas, call them on how weird they are, and organize against them to make sure they stay weird.

^ tags from @/forestfullofberries !

It is very funny seeing Trump supporters lose their shit over being called ‘Weird’.

It absolutely attacks them at their core.

I think part of why it annoys them so much is because they try so hard to paint themselves as the default, so even the slightest suggestion that’s not the case sends them into a tailspin.

Thinking more about this and honestly I think they’ve cracked the code. Trump supporters (and the far right in general) are creepy and weird.

They’re weird with how they talk about race and their strange obsession with ‘DEI’.

They’re weird about how they talk about trans people and focus on genitals.

They’re weird about how they talk about marriage and abortion.

And the fact ‘weird’ is sticking and getting to them so badly is hilarious. People are genuinely tired of the weirdos pushing this culture war.

Some context, from @urbanprole, who is from Minneapolis - Governor Walz of MN started the "weird" thing:

According to Emet, "weird" in that context has some specific Midwestern/Minnesotan overtones, which matches my experience being raised by 2 ppl from Illinois. Specifically, it lands as "this person behaves in an anti-social way; their behavior is mildly to extremely harmful to those around them." This weird isn't the same weird as "Keep Portland Weird," the kind of joyful, harmless, "it would be a strange world if we were all alike," "to each his own," weirdness of the Seattle Naked Bagpiper or Portland's Unipiper (we like bagpipes up here, I guess). This is more like... hmm.

"That guy is weird. He doesn't believe in tipping and I just don't know, he unsettles me."

"That kid is weird. He throws rocks at the neighbor's cat."

So it's specifically saying, "You don't fit in with us, and your behavior is harmful to the social fabric." That is something that the Arbiters Of Normal And Good Social Behavior can't stand, because it's exactly the kind of "weird" they try to leverage against immigrants ("weird food, weird traditions"), queer people ("weird sex, weird relationships") and especially trans people, who to them are weird in the way we look, sound, dress, and want to be spoken of.

Now add on top of that the fact that Republicans have always had a "heartland" brand. They think they own the Midwest. They refer to Democrats as "coastal elites" (which also just means Jewish) and use that as a way of implying or saying that Democrats are disconnected from 'heartland values' and the 'heartland voter.'

With one word, Gov. Walz ripped that sturdy footing out from underneath them and said, "Actually, we think your behavior is bad and harmful. We don't like you here. You don't fit in."

And by G-d, the Republicans can't deal with that idea at all.

I am Minnesotan (born and raised), and can confirm.

Walz was using the Minnesotan "weird", which, much like the Minnesotan use of "interesting", is a form of understatement that is often used to indicate the presence of deeper issues without having to say it outright. It's a common tactic in the Midwest, and particularly in Minnesota, and part of the reason we have a reputation for "Minnesota Nice".

The closest equivalent I can think of would be an older Southern woman saying "well bless his heart". The underlying connotations aren't the same, but if you're familiar with the lingo you know that it can be a devastating indictment - and in this case, it was absolutely intended as such.

It's very strange for me to see so many folks online saying "why does being called 'weird' bother Republicans so much", because like... if you're from here, you know exactly why, it's just hard to articulate for other folks because it's all about the connotation.

before i was a faggot or a tranny or an autist i was weird and surprisingly just being weird is enough to make people treat you like all of the above

"why are so many of your friends queer" because they're the only people who accepted me as a weird neurodivergent teenager when it felt like the whole world was against us and everything mattered too much.

everyone always sayin to me "not to be weird" you have to be weird. you have to be weird for your health

The trick is to not let people know how really weird you are until it’s too late for them to back out.

Absolutely the frak not, the trick is to immediately let people know how weird you are so you scare off the weak ones. The ones who stay because they like how weird you are? Those are the ones you want.

Post 1: workplace

Post 2: everywhere else

… you know what, codicil accepted

The thing about being a profoundly weird person is that it doesn't happen overnight. The kind of people who'll do shit that nobody else would actually genuinely do by pure accident already have an accumulation of low-level layers of weird but harmless choices that nobody else would make, which sometimes just happen to align in ways that wouldn't happen to someone else.

Genuinely, profoundly weird people don't go out of their way to do profoundly weird shit. They don't think "ok what is the quirkiest way I could respond in this situation?", it's just that their environment is already set up for weird things to happen, because of those minor, insignificant weird choices they've already made.

They're simply the kind of people who would unexpectedly find out that you can just buy medical label stickers online, immediately order a bunch, and then forget all about them for several months. Not supremely baffling, but also not something a regular person would do for shits and giggles.

And then only remember the stickers seven months later when they run out of regular clear tape while wrapping gifts, and figuring out that they can totally just use the stickers instead of having to run off to the store just to buy one tiny roll of scotch tape and nothing else. Again, perhaps not the solution that most people would make, but not completely unreasonable one.

That is the kind of a person who would take enjoyment in matching the cool bright-coloured stickers into the wrapping papers by complimentary colours, completely forget to consider what the labels themselves say, and therefore be the only person who could somehow accidentally use stickers that say "CAUTION: DO NOT INSERT INTO MOUTH OR ANUS" while gift-wrapping a cactus.

weird forgotten tumblr things

- don’t hug me i’m scared fandom with the humanoid notebook and clock - fluffy chicken day - those blue pictures that said ‘reblog if you’re in the ______ fandom!’ - all the tumblr island, tumblr university, etc. plans that eventually led to the planning of a tumblr convention which is what gave us the beautiful shitshow that was dashcon. the dashcon ballpit was overall tumblr’s best meme in my time on here imo, second only to sonic for real justice - tumblr trick or treating on halloween¿? - TUMBLR PROM - everyone remembers mishapocalypse but remember the all-out war that went down a year later when people couldn’t decide if there should be another one?? that was honestly almost as scary as the actual mishapocalypse - speaking of misha collins, when he posted his phone number online and this entire website collectively lost its shit. everyone had to post their text convos w/ misha - FRANCIEUM VS FORFUTUREFERENCEONLY - “the only adult supervision we have on tumblr is john green” (yikes) - the time everyone was gonna purposely not post anything the sunday after the guy who played uncle vernon in the harry potter movies died because of the quote “no post on sundays” but then everyone like……forgot and posted stuff anyway - the tumblr version of some nights by fun - moreos guy - when the 50th anniversary of doctor who fell on the same day as some one direction thing and everyone got really offended at this facebook post someone had screenshotted that said like “1d will be around way longer than ur shitty alien tv show” lmao - “swiggity swag, what’s in the bag” - when yahoo was buying tumblr and everyone was flipping shit and making posts saying shit like “yahoo better not go ToO fAR!!! they have an army, but we have a hulk!!!” honestly if i was yahoo and considering buying a website for more than a million dollars and then saw that that was what the userbase was like i would have backed the fuck out of that business deal - those “men of tumblr” posts, you know the ones i mean - when everyone hated miranda cosgrove?? was there a reason behind that or,, - back in 2013 everyone was planning to do this “tumblr day” on march 5th where you were supposed to write a big t on your hand and then if you saw anyone else with it you were supposed to “hug and exchange urls” lmao. im pretty sure no one actually did this but if that doesn’t describe the general social climate of tumblr back then idk what does

- i like your shoelaces

in general i think new york is very good for my social anxiety because no matter how much of a freak i’m being i know it’s probably not the weirdest thing people have seen today

case in point: i felt bad about bringing my unwieldy luggage onto a crowded train, until the man sitting next to me pulled a live fish out of his backpack

Omg 😂😂😂

one thing that i haven’t consolidated my thoughts on yet is like, the importance of “”“"weird”“”“ gender microlabels when you’re starting to realise you’re nb

like i had a “weird” label at first and i realised just now that in my particular case it was that i’d gone so long with a certain understanding of what “girl” was, to whit, i presumed i was a girl and so the way i felt was how Girls Felt

and when my unease with that came to a head i was still thinking in those ways, i mean i hadn’t been able to pin down What Gender Was and so saying something like, stargender i think it was, that was cool because it gave me a starting point to begin talking about my experience of gender

i was unlearning a lot of what i’d previously believed and that meant i had a lot i found i couldn’t articulate and that language, the “aesthetic” language or however people denigrate it, let me talk about it when i was too tangled to express it another way

and now i think i have more of a solid handle on what gender is for me, and i’ve leaned into more mainstream language

which is absolutely Not to say that all people who use “”“weird”“” terms are in the unlearning process or won’t always use those terms but is instead to say that microlabels aren’t actually muddying the waters at all

the waters are already muddy and microlabels are actually useful and helpful, no matter what people say

This!!!

My hip new communications theory is actually that millennial/gen z/internet native humor is so weird and abstract because of the sheer amount of words we’re exposed to daily. we’ve heard a lot of words in a lot of different orders so if you wanna get a reaction out of us you usually gotta put words in an order we haven’t seen before

So like normally structured jokes aren’t as funny anymore but “lemon lime spine” is a one-hit K.O.

you know i wanna disagree with you on principle, because it can’t be that simple, but “lemon lime spine” just made me crack up for the first time all day.

WHY DID I LAUGH AT THAT

If you add ’~’ to both sides of ‘lol’ it looks like a drowning person. ~lol~

I don't know what to do with this information

It’s just a little wild to me that everything on earth with teeth decided to have teeth in the same way. Like, yeah, they can be in different shapes and formations and whatever, but none of them have teeth in a way teeth arent supposed to happen. Like nothing naturally has eye teeth, mouths are never on the bottom of the animal, earth things just collectively agreed that they’re going to have teeth in the same way.

Huh...

dnd idea: an 8-ball but it has a d20 in it so you have to shake it and the d20 rises out of the murky liquid to decide your fate

Good news I found the exact opposite object

yall. every magic 8 ball already has always had a d20 inside.

It doesn’t have the numbers on it though so you can’t use it for dnd

thats quitter talk

ME: I try to jump over the gap DM: Roll for acrobatics 8 ball: Not likely DM: you take 97 damage and die

There ya’ go, nerds

Hold on is that chainmail?

THE FUCK

“um OP don’t you know you’re supposed to have blankets on your bed that you never come into physical contact with” I’m sorry that you live in Actual Real Hell my friend but here in the world of the living I like to be able to rest comfortably without worrying that shifting in my sleep will cause my skin to explode by coming into contact with the Blanket of Forbidden Texture

See this is the kind of thing I was wondering about when posting about why making the bed could take so long. What are you people doing with your beds? I tried to Google this, but it still makes no sense.

Do US people not use those sheets that go on fully around the blanket? And why not? Is the top sheet supposed to function like those sheets, only fifty times worse because there is nothing holding it in place?

Sheets that go fully around the blankets? What the heck are you talking about.

With me you got your fitted sheet (or top sheet that gets tucked in), 5 Soft Blankets and then a comforter.

Do people even use top sheets anymore? I have only seen them at h/motels. Maybe in a very hot climate it would be better to use them versus a blanket? Anyway I have only seen them in-between the fitted sheet and the blankets?

What kavesinisukka means is a sheet that’s like a pillow case for your comforter.

Here we have the sheet that covers the mattress, then you, then a comforter that’s in a comdforter-sized pillow case and that’s it. That’s all the blankets and sheets you need.

You can get an extra blanket on top if you’re Cold but out comforters are designed to keep you warm all through icy winter.

So it’s basically a giant sleeping bag for your comforter? Do you crawl in with it or do you just go under the comforter and comforter case thing???

Huh i just learned a new thing

Heh I suppose that description works. A very thin sleeping bag made of sheet for your comforter. You don’t get into the bag yourself. The sheet is there as a protective and decorative casing around your comforter, protecting it both from dust but also from you, so that you can take it off and wash it every few weeks, because the comforter itself is not supposed to be washed.

This strikes me as something rich people do that needlessly complicates things. I barely have time to make my bed after changing the sheets, you’re telling me people spend time wrestling a giant bulky blanket into a sleeping bag sleeve every so often? It’s hard enough getting the fitted sheet on the mattress! 

Why on earth would I own something I use daily that I can’t wash. 

But… it’s the opposite… the sheet stays on the blanket/comforter the whole time. When you wash your linens, you only wash the sheet and you just put a new one on the blanket. It’s less work, not more

How I make my bed: mattress cover, fitted sheet, flat sheet, blankets stacked on top depending on the season.

How I think you make your bed, after reading this thread: mattress cover, fitted sheet, flat sheet, stuffing a blanket inside a sleeping-bag wrapper for some reason. 

And you never wash this blanket, you just wash the wrapper? Why don’t you have blankets that can be washed? What are these non-washable blankets made of?

After wrestling the fitted sheet on, all I gotta do is stack blankets on over the flat sheet. I don’t have to stuff a blanket inside a special wrapper. If I had to stuff one of my blankets into a special blanket wrapper, that sounds like more work to me.

Hold up, I think they’re using a Duvet cover? When I do my linens, I tend to use a duvet cover so I can air out my down blanket and then wash the cover. It’s also hella warm, so I only use it in the cold seasons, but it’s a way to let my blankets get washed without needing a full wash because they’re heavy and I always worry they won’t dry or fluff up properly. So it goes: Fitted Sheet, Flat Sheet, (layer thin but plush blankets if needed for ++ warm), and then down comforter inside of a duvet cover. 

what fresh hell is going on here

Why the hell do you pile blankets on your bed one is more than enough