I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.

But I was little too.

— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father

HANK!! HANK THIS IS NOT A KAFKA QUOTE! THE DARK ACADEMIA BLOGGERS TOOK IT FROM A TIKTOK POEM AND DECIDED SINCE IT MENTIONS FATHERS IT WAS WRITTEN BY LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY WRITER FRANZ KAFKA DESPITE THE STYLE VERY CLEARLY BEING FROM 2022 #INKSPILLED INSTAGRAM POETRY HANK! WHY WOULD HE EVEN REFER TO HIS FATHER IN THIRD PERSON IN A LETTER TO HIS FATHER WHEN THEY ARE ALL IN THE SECOND PERSON!! HANK LISTEN TO ME!!! HANK!!!!!

I have no particular stance on whether estrogen would have saved Shinji, but I'm looking at it from the family dynamic angle, and... well, Jesus Christ. On a good day, Shinji already looks like a teenage soft butch version of Yui Ikari – can you imagine how Gendo would react to his "son" slowly morphing into his dead wife?

Asuka remarks that "y'know, now that the hormones are starting to kick in, you look an awful lot like Rei" and from there, accidentally unravels the entire plot within minutes.

Girlie the post is about you

HELP

Machine Translation: Player-kun…. Why would you defend King Greedō? He knows nothing but greed and ignores his own people’s suffering. That’s not how a king should be!

Official Translation: Hey… tell me, why are you defending King Avaricean? He’s no king… All he loves is the sound of gold dropping into his coffers, as he leaves his people to rot!

Twitter Localization Discoursist: as you can see, the meaning of this line was COMPLETELY lost in translation. Until I read this, I had NO IDEA that King Avaricean was supposed to be greedy

everybody thinks having ocd is all about touching stoves or hand washing when in reality it’s really about having this guy inside your brain

your message “i’m gonna getcha! i’m gonna getcha!” has been removed for violating Twitter’s terms of service (threats of violence)

When I realize the intro theme we've been hearing in Andor the entire time is a funeral march

@tovezza 's tags are exactly right; "Andor" is a eulogy. It's about a character we, the audience, know to be dead. The story doesn't even focus that much on him. It focuses on the people around him and the impact he had on their lives. Y'know, like a eulogy does.

"Maybe the reason trans women's posts are getting marked as 18+ even after getting reviewed is because the review process is getting outsourced to other countries where they're poorly trained and have different standards" yeah sure. I suppose you think Disney doesn't make movies with gay people to appease markets in China too. Get fucking real.

Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge the possibility that staff might just have a bigotry problem

i always forget how autistic/a man i am until im in a social situation where theres no task to do.

im alwyas like wow i wish i were moving chairs around at this party rn.

i can't believe people used to straight up not tell their kids they were going to bleed from their vagina at some point like. one day you're 13 and you're pissing blood and you don't even know why and your mom is like yeas is normal

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

Honey is literally murder but go off

Prove it.

They literally puke their guts up to make your honey

I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.

Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.

Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder

they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom. 

…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?

bee carnival

bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey

Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.

Here it is. The bee post is back

*90s tomboy sister who just unplugged ur computer voice* log into the real world, dweeb

[through gritted teeth] im soooooo normal about media

just saw a video compilation of makeup tiktokers showing their makeup with the lights they use for videos on and then just with normal room lights to show "how my makeup really looks in person" and they were all like "see it's normal to have bumps and texture in your skin, social media is lying to you >:( no one has smooth skin and beauty gurus fake their smooth skin with lights and/or post editing to sell you foundation" babygirl i hate to say this but you literally just showed me the special lights you use in your videos to make your makeup appear flawless and your skin smooth exactly who do you think are the evil social media people making everyone so self-conscious about their skin texture. how can you have so little self awareness that you complain about a problem while showing how you directly contribute to creating it

not to shit on an entire category but i think that if you're an influencer / makeup artist / fitness blogger you can't just occasionally address the problem and be like "yeah actually my life / makeup / body isn't half as perfect as you see on social media and it's really shitty that social media makes us so insecure about our life and physical appearance" when your entire activity and livelihood depend so crucially on you advertising yourself and your life as perfect and creating those same insecurities you complain about. like these people are out there blabbing about how "social media" make us insecure when they are not only directly creating the problem but also profiting from its existence, like babygirl either you shift your activity to actually doing those things for fun (if that's even possible because that would require 1. that it's possible to do those things exclusively for the fun of it and 2. that you were doing those things for fun in the first place) and consciously work towards not creating insecurities in people who consume your content or you shut the fuck up and change career

the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans

me, watching a mobile game ad: you fool. you shit idiot. i would never let the goldfish fall into molten lava.