they should pay you extra if you have to be the only fag in the workplace. they should give you a bonus for that.

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

X

i fucking love the matrix

(one is canon version and one is canon TO ME version)

otaku 🏯

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

Normalize this response

what is your number 8 song on your on repeat playlist?

mirror selfie

when u Mom com home and make hte spagheti

"women are tainted by their previous sexual encounters" doesn't become less openly misogynistic just because it's said by a woman btw

I'll just leave this here

Discworld Heritage Post

people who’s first language wasn’t English, I want to know

Reblog for larger sampler size, and put in the tags why you started learning English (if it was for school, work, communication purposes) and what your native language is

Things baked into Terry Pratchett books that I didn't realise at first but very much needed and benefited from:

Being unpleasant, weird, socially difficult, off-putting, uncomfortable to be around, annoying, obnoxious, etc does not equal being a bad person

And it definitely doesn't mean others don't have a duty of baseline care about you

They don't have to like you but there is a baseline "we live in a society and I care about what happens to the people around me" type of duty that you are owed

They can think you're unpleasant to be around and even stupid and cringe in your presence but there is a duty of care to your existence

And if you are doing bad things you can stop

There are always chances to think about your actions and why you're doing them and if you really believe it's the right thing

There is always an option to stop

And some people do

And some people don't

But if people do that doesn't mean they aren't still maybe unpleasant to be around or awkward or uncomfortable

The "bad guys" in Terry Pratchett tend to

1. Believe they are in the right

2. Never question that belief

3. Have multiple opportunities to not be doing what they are doing but fully commit

4. May have points that at least feel reasonable on a surface level if you don't think about them too deeply

5. Face consequences of their own actions. Which includes the protagonist having to slap them down. If they didn't put the stuff in motion and refuse to back down they wouldn't be getting slapped

They aren't cartoon baddies they are really realised characters with convictions that they believe in and truly tend to believe their actions are the best thing to be doing. That they are doing what others should have already done

But in Terry Pratchett what makes you on the wrong side of the narrative is not your personality or your looks or how sociable you are

It's your continuing actions that define you AND your unwillingness to change

And I think I very much needed that reinforced in my life

Discworld Heritage Post

This feels very timely.