Not Ryan Bergara getting the Mike Wazowski treatment 😭😭😭😭

https://x.com/tommchenry/status/1428891618770407428/

When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

#I can tell you’ve been practicing hard and working to build your stamina #how did it feel to last longer? did it feel good? I’m so glad to hear that

lifetime sub who's an experienced dog trainer & teacher trying to encourage a newbie dom w a master's in education: i know iT'S BAD PEDAGOGYYY. JUST PUNISH MEEEeeee please before i die

remember to leave some milk and cookies out for Steven Lim tonight

I know I'm 25 years late to the party but I'm finally watching Due South and this is the hardest I've laughed in MONTHS

@anon:

Learn to troll like it’s 2005.

No, really. I was thinking about this just earlier tonight. Your well-crafted two-page essay on why it’s okay to write dark fiction will have no effect on these people, but just posting “lol” (exactly like that, all lowercase, no punctuation) will get them so mad they can’t speak, because you’re not giving them anything to punch. I used to respond to hatemail here with a picture of Zorak from Space Ghost Coast to Coast. A well-placed “u mad bro?” will do so much more to shut them up than any thoughtful reply you can give, because they don’t WANT to think.

And if you want the REAL one-two punch, reply like this AND THEN BLOCK THEM. If you’re wondering “why bother? Why not just block?”, the answer is that bullies only escalate when they think they can win. They’ll be less willing to go after you on their friends’ behalf if they know they’re going to get the mock’n’block, because if you don’t care, then they look stupid. And if they look stupid, they automatically lose.

Save up some meme images. Scan video essays about The Old Internet. You may have to deploy a few threads at first (“angry anti comment!” “lol k” *block* PERSON #2: THEY’RE RIGHT! YOU SUCK!” “ur boyfriend said you do too *loss.jpg*” *block*), but they’ll stop EXTREMELY QUICKLY when they realize you don’t care, because you caring about their opinions is the only weapon they have.

And this is why you reply. Because they’ll bombard you as long as they think they might hit. When they realize they can’t, they’ll flee.

Oh man, xe gave me internet permission to break out my old reaction images.

Enjoy, everypony!

Holy shit, are those RAGEFACES????? I haven’t seen those in like 15 years, I’m surprised you still have them.

But yeah, definitely look into very old internet memes. Like VERY old. Like “I made u a cookie but I eated it” old. When I said “like it’s 2005,” that is EXACTLY what I meant. Our memes were deranged in a completely different way than today’s memes, and they weren’t used as a language shorthand the way modern memes are, which makes them baffling for someone trying to pick a fight. Look up the lolcat Bible and start quoting from it! “Ceiling cat is watching u masturbate” would get a ton of great mileage here.

I look forward to the endless posting of contextless images of badgers, mushrooms, and snakes.

not enough people bring up that this is Kim’s reaction when you learn Harry was a gym teacher before he was a cop

they're always bringing experts or activists on the news to agitate about porn and there's a standard script for this that's like "I think sex education is important, I'm not anti-sex, but so much of this porn is violent and misogynistic if not outright illegal, and it's far too accessible to our children"

I want to see someone finally be brave enough to say that the government should just make its own porn for teenagers that accords with community values, so they don't have to go to these shady places to get it. I think the government porn would probably be pretty bad but I would be so eager to hear about the process of designing it. there would be so many stakeholders and consultations. in canada it would have to be bilingual

The Musketeers + Tumblr text posts, 4/?

i try to be chill about people mixing up homophones in their writing but unfortunately my brain does not agree and is forever shouting “it’s free REIN!!!!”

To be fair: most people don’t ride horses anymore, so it makes sense that there’s growing confusion around this one! Especially because there’s a logic to the most common error (free reign). However,

These are reins. They’re used to tell the horse where to go. They’re a symbol of direction and control. In simplest terms, horses are taught that loose reins = follow your heart and tight reins = listen to the rider. (It’s obviously more complicated than that, but that’s all you need to know for linguistic purposes.)

As a result, English has a TON of rein-related idioms, and they’re all pretty self-explanatory when you know they refer to working with horses. For example:

If you loosen the reins after giving a bunch of 5-year-olds scissors, you may regret it. A class full of kindergarteners with free rein to cut whatever they like usually ends in impromptu haircuts, though if you’re lucky they’ll only take advantage of that full rein to hack up a favourite book or two. They don’t usually respond well when you try to tighten the reins again, either. You can try to rein them in, but they probably won’t rein back on their destruction willingly. It’s best to make sure you hold the reins and keep a tight rein on things, because once you hand over the reins, your afternoon is pretty much ruined.

(There very few actual “reign” idioms, monarchs being rather less common than horses.)

When you fuck around and find out you now longer have a job.

Everyone pick up your government-assigned fursona, grab your two colors then combine it with this random animal picker. Tell us what you get and no rerolls, I don't make the rules.

Shout out to Richard Siken for joining the war on destiel on the side of destiel

When Alain Prost signed with Williams, they had a special collaboration with Sonic the Hedgehog where the Williams liveries had the extremely cute art of Sonic’s legs on the sides of the cockpit.

Then comes the Sega European Grand Prix where it was infamously Sonic the Hedgehog themed. The McLaren garage decides to have a little jab at Ayrton Senna’s rival by pasting a sticker of a squashed roadkill hedgehog flattened by tyre marks in the shape of Mclaren’s logo near the side mirrors of Ayrton’s car.

#'i love conflict' is the most agent thing to have ever been said by an agent

[ID: The "I am going to create an environment that is so toxic" meme, showing Sue Sylvester from Glee. The caption reads: "I am going to create a fic that is so irrelevant to anybody else's interests" End ID]

hey sorry we put your boyfriend on a show where the game changes every time. yeah he has no idea what game he’s about to play. but he’ll be fine once he realizes the only way to win is by learning, the only way to learn is by playing, and the only way to begin is by beginning. yeah actually we’ll be beginning without further ado but you can pick him up after. sorry again.