it's insane to watch non-usa movies (like from anywhere) and the actors have regular human teeth

i stopped watching basically anything a few years back and it's so weird because now whenever i try to i'm too distracted by the fact that hollywood actors barely even look like people. they've all dental-worked and plastic-surgeried and starved and dehydrated themselves right into the uncanny valley.

whenever i hear normal people talking about how fat and ugly and disgusting they think they are and how they wish they looked like whatever actor i want to scream. no! you don't! you look like a perfectly normal and dare i say beautiful person! they look like freaks! your brain has been poisoned!

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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are we quite sure it'll be his nose?

I'm gonna regret this

So, this... dish? Food item? Thing to eat?:

Seems to have a lot of names. And now I'm going to make a poll with a bunch of the names I've heard this dish called.

I am already 100% certain that this will be one of those "OP is about to find out their experience isn't universal" polls.

In fact, what I call this *isn't even listed in the Wikipedia article about this dish*.

I'm starting to believe that it what I call it is a regionalism so narrow in both place and time that the only other people who call it what I call it went to sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in the early 1980s.

P.S. WHY THE HELL ARE REPLIES RESTRICTED?? I DID NOT SET ANY RESTRICTIONS!

MY FAMILY CALLED IT BITE A HOLE IN THE TOAST AND YES WE HAD TO BITE THE HOLE. OUR ENTIRE LOWER FACES WOULD BE COMPLETELY SMEARED WITH BUTTER. I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL ADULTHOOD THAT THIS WAS A NORMAL DISH THAT OTHER PEOPLE MADE AND HAD DIFFERENT NAMES FOR AND MOST IMPORTANTLY DID NOT HAVE TO DO THAT okay sorry i have feelings about this one i guess

don’t kill yourself because the internet is going to be really funny when Elon gets assassinated

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I'm gonna regret this

So, this... dish? Food item? Thing to eat?:

Seems to have a lot of names. And now I'm going to make a poll with a bunch of the names I've heard this dish called.

I am already 100% certain that this will be one of those "OP is about to find out their experience isn't universal" polls.

In fact, what I call this *isn't even listed in the Wikipedia article about this dish*.

I'm starting to believe that it what I call it is a regionalism so narrow in both place and time that the only other people who call it what I call it went to sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in the early 1980s.

P.S. WHY THE HELL ARE REPLIES RESTRICTED?? I DID NOT SET ANY RESTRICTIONS!

MY FAMILY CALLED IT BITE A HOLE IN THE TOAST. AND YES WE HAD TO BITE THE HOLE. OUR ENTIRE LOWER FACES WOULD BE COMPLETELY SMEARED WITH BUTTER. IT WAS NOT UNTIL ADULTHOOD THAT I LEARNED THIS WAS A NORMAL DISH PEOPLE MADE AND HAD DIFFERENT NAMES FOR AND MOST IMPORTANTLY DID NOT HAVE TO DO THAT. INSTEAD OF LIKE. SOME WEIRD THING MY GRANDFATHER MADE UP okay sorry this one gives me feelings for some reason

feels like lately i’m seeing more posts on here like “xyz character is gay, and the writers had no idea!” or “xyz show had a perfect portrayal of this topic, and the writers did it completely on accident!”and it irritates me in part because these people are making assumptions that may or may not be true, but also because it carries an attitude of superiority and arrogance that i find distasteful. i am all for championing the value of the audience’s interpretations of a text, including when those interpretations clash with the intended authorial message, but i think it can be dangerous to assume you know more about the author’s intentions than you do. making those assumptions can limit your ability to find meaning in the text, because you believe it must all be accidental. and ultimately i feel like what matters is the story and what you take from it, regardless of the author’s intent. so maybe this writer depicted a gay narrative completely on accident - but if the narrative is resonant and meaningful to you, does it really matter that it was on accident?

i also think that meaning changes even for creators, because life is long and art always says more and less than the author ever wants it to

once I was at a queer lit award show (I was up for something) and they were honoring Lana Wachowski too, and she gave a speech where she talked about making Bound and identifying, at the time, as a cishet man - and she said something (tearing up) that has always stayed with me: that Bound was, in some way, a letter slipped under the door to her future self. and she understood it so much more once she opened that door.

Remember being in middle or high school, and reading or watching something that contains - to you - an obvious sexual innuendo, and giggling madly with your friends about it?

"Teehee! The person who wrote this had no idea that those words mean something different to the youth! Hah! This guy a hundred years ago had no idea that term would evolve into slang for a sex act!"

And then you grow up and you realize: Oh. Yeah. They knew. That term's been used like that for ages. Adults talk and joke about sex a whole lot more than kids. The slang surrounding it, unlike things like "rizz," originates with the adults. They knew exactly what they were doing. We were kind of dumb, actually, for thinking "haha! they had no idea they made a sex joke!" when the sex joke is half the point of that passage.

That's kind of how it feels when I see people saying "They had no idea how gay this would look!"

Tapping the mic. Premature ejaculation can be cute if we stopped stigmatizing it and instead were like "awww you got excited"

a ejaculation is never premature, nor is it delayed. it arrives precisely when it means to.

premature ejaculation is only an issue if you're having the kind of bland heterosexual sex that's over the moment the man gets off

Actually it's a thing that just happens sometimes and even if someone's cishet it's not fair to stigmatize it by calling their sex life "bland"

sorry, i thought this was clear. their sex life isn't bland because they're cishet. it's bland because it's fully defined by the man's orgasm. there are other kinds of cishet sex that are not so defined and therefore not included in my statement.

Premature ejaculation is typically not, yknow, a thing someone does on purpose. And then, typically, the person doing it is unable to get it back up even after the refractory period because of the shame associated with it.

This post is specifically about premature ejaculation, not cishet men being inattentive lovers.

I know it's not on purpose. And the sexual encounter can continue even if the penis doesn't want to go back up, unless you're defining sex along the lines of "penis in vagina/ends when the penis ejaculates." I think if that were not our societally accepted definition, there would be a lot less stigmatization of and embarrassment stemming from premature ejaculation. The idea that it's somehow a problem, and not something you can just go "aww you got excited" about as you suggested, comes from the fact that it tends to end the encounter before it could properly get started. That contributes to the way people talk about it and portray it in media, which leads to even those with a freer definition of sex feeling shame. The historical tendency of cishet men to be inattentive lovers is a large contributing factor to the fact that there's a stigma in the first place. The first step to breaking the stigma is to not define sex by the ejaculation.

Tapping the mic. Premature ejaculation can be cute if we stopped stigmatizing it and instead were like "awww you got excited"

a ejaculation is never premature, nor is it delayed. it arrives precisely when it means to.

premature ejaculation is only an issue if you're having the kind of bland heterosexual sex that's over the moment the man gets off

Actually it's a thing that just happens sometimes and even if someone's cishet it's not fair to stigmatize it by calling their sex life "bland"

sorry, i thought this was clear. their sex life isn't bland because they're cishet. it's bland because it's fully defined by the man's orgasm. there are other kinds of cishet sex that are not so defined and therefore not included in my statement.

Tapping the mic. Premature ejaculation can be cute if we stopped stigmatizing it and instead were like "awww you got excited"

a ejaculation is never premature, nor is it delayed. it arrives precisely when it means to.

premature ejaculation is only an issue if you're having the kind of bland heterosexual sex that's over the moment the man gets off

I love how Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel specifically cameoed during One Short Day, because that’s the song where Glinda and Elphaba are talking about their future together- a future that we know they’ll never get. BUT having Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth there feels like we got to see a version of Elphaba and Glinda who DID get their happy ending together living in the Emerald City 💚🩷

I love this but I also can't separate it from the specific role they're playing. They aren't just in the Emerald City, they're part of the Wizard's Propaganda Machine. To me, it felt more ominous, very: You can have all that. Everything you're singing about right now? You can stay here, and it'll be yours - and this will be the cost. This has all happened before. We were you once. We chose wrong. So now it's up to you. For all of us.

i've seen Discworld fans discussing various dream casts and wishes for how they'd adapt it and that's great and all but i feel like we're missing the obvious answer?

there's one way to do a Discworld adaptation and it's

the other day my husband asked me who i thought should play Rincewind in a Discworld adaptation. i thought for a minute and said "Bert." he stared at me for a minute and said "you mean...the...muppet?"

hell yes the muppet. he and Ernie are the perfect Rincewind and Twoflower. anyway i'm bringing this back. Muppet Discworld.