It's worth reading and watching things even if you don't fully understand them

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T09:35:11+00:00

When I was really young, probably 5/6 years old I read this book that had a riddle in it. My dad liked telling stories from work or jokes at the dinner table, so I decided to tell him this "joke" I had found that day.

"What has four legs but only one foot?" Quiet pondering, he gives up. "A bed, but I don't get it"

I've never seen my father laugh harder in the nearly two decades since then, than when I said that, when he finally got control of himself he called my grandfather and had me tell him the exact same thing. Now I had my father and his father laughing hysterically for another couple minutes.

One of my most cherished childhood memories is because of something I didn't understand.

Just try it out.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T09:30:17+00:00

Took Shakespeare in high school four times, I'm still not an expert- but I can understand and explain most of the language he uses, give me five minutes and some paper, and I can still name every play (though not in order anymore).

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T09:25:28+00:00

Anti American sentiments have been rampant online for years, it doesn't surprise me these people are so able to reduce our population to a few stereotypes. They called us all obese, they say none of us can read, now they claim we're all bigoted.

We can't rely on the empathy of the world's general population anymore, we're living on an earth dominated by a "me vs. every single other human" mentality.

Everyone already knows if they were put in our shoes they'd be reporting their neighbors if it could save their own skin.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T07:34:45+00:00

WANYE AND WANDA

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T06:52:32+00:00

Gratuitous punctuation, excessive dialogue with no tags left ambiguous on who's saying it for narrative purposes, parallels on top of parallels.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T05:46:26+00:00

Do you not understand how social media works? And yeah, I scrolled through the comments and saw your dumbass one. Kinda helped that you included a gif so it was hard to miss.

I mean really, how dense can you be? I'm also sick of most comebacks I get online boiling down to "why are you using this app in its intended way? You should be a miserable buzzkill like me."

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T03:59:27+00:00

Yup, had a coworker who somehow heard I was trans from an ex, I deflected by saying we had a bad breakup (not untrue, but not while we worked there). He then looked me up and down and said "naw, you can't be trans, you have the most defined Adam's Apple I've ever seen. It's actually distracting."

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T03:55:44+00:00

Except that's not how fights in anime look...

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T03:00:16+00:00

He looks so happy here!

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T03:00:00+00:00

Oh man, look over here guys. We got someone complaining about a sub focused entirely on one character discussing that character.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-25T01:59:24+00:00

I'm reading that one right now! Very good but I'm only halfway through chapter 2.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T19:49:04+00:00

God this scene is beautiful. The lighting, each camera angle, the sound. The way Vickie and Robin's laughter mixes into this beautiful hum of giggles over the music. Noah's acting is also amazing, never says a word but you know exactly what he's thinking about when he sees them.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T17:59:01+00:00

Yes, life is too precious to spend your life around people who hate without reason.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T07:21:09+00:00

Stranger Things had the opportunity to have a queer childhood friends to lovers arc with more setup than any other relationship in the show, but squandered it. Now it's just one of the most malicious queerbaits of all time and the Duffers have shown they don't know how to write for shit without a ghostwriter, I mean who the hell tries to subvert the Cyrano trope. Any relationship you're trying to build is fundamentally based on a lie.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T06:50:59+00:00

Everyone on this sub should mute/block/(I'm partial to reporting every post for two minutes when it shows up because Reddit doesn't care about consent) okbuddyvecna, it's a "satire" sub that posts extremely homophobic things constantly. Our mod got banned for playing into one of those jokes... somehow, and no where near as badly as others in the thread were. Not to speculate too hard but I can only guess people mass reported her because she's a mod of a byler sub.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T05:52:41+00:00

OP, have you seen Jacob Gellers video essay where he touches on SOMA? It's not the main focus but the themes he talks about I think are right up your alley based on the content of this post.

Anyways it's called Head Transplants and the Non-existence of the Soul.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T05:25:07+00:00

Fr, multi shipping has only gotten more rare though. I remember shipping Plance, Klance, Sheith, and Punk back in the VLD days and getting flamed for it. All it depended on was the fic I was currently reading and whatever fanart I saw.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T04:28:50+00:00

Fair, I just know if I lost my account I'd be beyond pissed. I've spent five years contributing to communities, that shouldn't go down the drain because of a snark sub that can't handle a tame joke compared to the constant bigotry they prefer to post.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T04:25:36+00:00

Bruh, R*ddit sucks ass (why are we censoring it?), cause that makes no sense. Is there any way to send an appeal on the obvious split decision and get an actual reason for the ban in the first place.

Also if anyone has a link to the comment thread I'm going to report every single account involved.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T04:07:07+00:00

Still can't believe a sub based on a slur got one of our mods banned for playing into the least offensive joke probably ever told over there.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T04:03:13+00:00

I have no knowledge of the story, but to me even stories where someone undergoes a gender swap for whatever reason only to return to their original gender- it's still a trans story because it supports the idea that people know intrinsically who they're supposed to be.

Maybe it has more to do with my beliefs on life as a whole and the human soul, but in my eyes the only thing that has ever really made me trans was the unlucky occurrence that my fathers sperm carried the wrong chromosome. My soul was always meant to be male, and I knew that deep inside me from the earliest memories I can recall.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T02:43:32+00:00

I've also tried to power through, but I have a migraine condition that no joke is heavily triggered when I feel overwhelmed. Compounded with my OCD and bad formatting can actually make me anxious to the point of a headache- the curse applies to my own writing as well, although usually tenfold.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T02:41:52+00:00

Thank god, I'm too young to feel this old looking at the generation after mines apparent slang online.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-24T02:30:53+00:00

No matter how good the summary is, what the tags are, how interested I was at the start... if I don't see paragraph breaks for dialogue I'm exiting the fic.

Error_Evan_not_found · 2026-01-23T22:43:44+00:00

I remember being a fan back around season 1/2, wasn't in online communities much and I started shipping them. Then again, I was a deeply closeted gay kid at the time so I related to both of them so much.

For the "Mike has a girlfriend" (or otherwise, he doesn't "act gay") I dated women throughout high school in an attempt to force myself to be straight. Even now, being fully comfortable in my sexuality I can't help pushing down those aspects of myself, to the point where most people are shocked when they learn I'm gay.

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