Haven’t Seen This On Tumblr Yet, And Tis The Season

had to refrain from calling bottom (from a midsummers night dream) a ‘himbo’ on my zoom theatre meeting. shakespeare is rolling in his grave

psychic: *reads my mind*

my mind: those new shoes?

you talkin’ about these?

those puppies new?

you’re wondering if these are new shoes.

you got some new shoes?

Oh I get the sense you’re wondering if these are new shoes

New shoes.

Are we speaking about these?

I *pshh* I’m talking about

those babies

They look pretty new

I see

Patrick

Patrick

Patrick

New shoes?

those are new.

these babies?

I’M. TALKING. BOUT. THOSE. KICKS.

ah... I...

oh, you’re talking about these.

what you got at the end of those stems?

you’re asking me about these shoes?

your sneaks!

Uh... yeah you by the sink

hi, uh, thanks so much for taking my question, my name is uh, Brian, I’m a — been a fan a while, just wanted to know, um, when, uh, when did you get those shoes, are they new?

Uh, we’re not taking questions about the shoes right now.

OOH BABY BABY ITS SOME NEW SHOES

(ah-ti dah BUH)

I WANNA KNOW IF YOU GOT SOME NEW SHOES

(Shoes! Huh!)

Looks like somebody’s feet made some new friends, I’m talking about shoes.

Those babies new?

Yeah I got them like two weeks ago.

Then I guess they’re...

Well they’re not new, are they?

You... garbage hole.

You sssssack of a man.

You pshhjust pile of ropes on a trash heap.

You human toilet.

psychic: what the fuck

im havin a Thought-

so many of the top mobile games right now are centered around widely stigmatized jobs. number twenty five on the free games list, for instance, is a cashier simulator. homescapes has been on the board for weeks. but cashiers and yard workers/gardeners are considered “unskilled labor.”

so somehow it seems wrong that people are saying things like “well if you’re really that stupid then go be a cashier at mcdonalds” and then turning around and playing cashier simulator and the people making it are profiting off of that, with things like microtransactions and popup ads.

really is no ethical consumption under capitalism, is there?

adhd student: i love learning and i actually hunger for knowledge, but the way the school system currently operates doesn’t work well for people with brains like mine. i am capable of maintaining acceptable and even good grades, but it takes about 3x the time and effort of the average student. all my life i have been receiving messages, overt and subtle, that i am deficient, lazy, and/or weird for my inability to perform well in that environment, and my self-worth has been utterly decimated as a result. 

what ppl hear:

HEY

Hamilton: An American Musical portrays the founding fathers in a far more positive light than they deserve and neglects to mention the horrific impact these men had on both African Americans as a collective and the individual Black people they interacted with and portrays America through rose-tinted glasses

AND

Hamilton : An American Musical was instrumental in igniting a new wave of musical appreciation and modern musicals that sparked a generation's interest in history while also giving recognition and roles to incredible Actors and Actresses of color and is a musical masterpiece

Are opinions that can and should coexist. It's okay to be critical of the things you consume. It's encouraged even.

Gender change changes the change

Anime kings so much

Coach

Coach

Coach

I don’t even go here but I’m still so angry about what happened to Hunger Games. The CLEAR allegories and political messages that were swept to the side and/or completely ignored in favor of a cool sci-fi dystopia story and a love triangle. The casting of a white adult Katniss. The REMOVAL of all (or nearly all) disabilities from the movies. How every fucking YA book jumped on the hot new trend of Rebel Girl Against Evil Society yet NONE of them managed to grasp that the Hunger Games dystopia wasn’t MADE UP based on some bullshit Hogwarts House sorting type system. And it wasn’t some bullshit teenage wish fulfillment fantasy about being Special and teenagers being The Only Smart Ones but rather Katniss is caught up in a groundswell movement that is so much BIGGER THAN HER. How when the movies came out corporate America started making fashion & beauty “Capitol” lines in a hilariously devastating display of irony. How nobody liked Mockingjay because it was “too dark” as though that wasn’t PRECISELY the point. How Katniss Herself was written off as though she’s just a Mary Sue action hero and she was “annoying” and not uniquely gifted because she had STRUGGLED and STARVED and learned how to survive the hard way and she was ANGRY. It basically inspired a new genre and yet all of these books were so pale and uninspired in comparison and the movies though they largely follow the plot somehow STILL managed to miss the point and the whole message was lost because of both these things.

this one goes out to those of you with Daddy Issues.

spotify wrapped is HERE! send me a number 1-100 and I’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist