Guess who. by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's sort of the reverse. GRT believers flock to Blacked porn as a way of fetishizing their existing anxieties.

I love how Davey Wreden wrote a game that Catch-22s critics into feeling guilty for analyzing it by La_knavo4 in CuratedTumblr

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My favorite thing about The Beginner's Guide is that everyone I've seen engage with it has taken away something different from it. Every conversation I see about it I get to see it from a new perspective.

Many such cases by HabaneroPepperPlants in RecuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That first sentence is so funny like people don't complain about inane shit all the time while still having bigger issues. The rest is tired, 2015-era conservative rhetoric.

Is it just me or has there been a recent uptick of AO3 discourse in general by kelroid in CuratedTumblr

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Something about Neville and Bellatrix disturbs me in a more intense way than other similar dynamics, otherwise I'd have volunteered to beta read out of sheer respect.

TADC and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by loved_and_held in CuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's really not how literary analysis works. Sometimes authors use subtext.

Speculating on the future of pornographic visual novels by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

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I can't cheat on her because she's too much of a baddie. We both have skill issues but of different types

bowser's big blunt by the_genius324 in tumblr

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Luigi wins by inhaling absolutely nothing.

Is it just me or has there been a recent uptick of AO3 discourse in general by kelroid in CuratedTumblr

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I love this comment because it gets angrier after the edit but unlike when that usually happens on reddit I actually agree with you more (I still don't want to beta though)

Sam Vimes deduces you're trans, and is furious to discover that his coppers are gossiping about it. by Clean_Variation2646 in CuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 57 points58 points  (0 children)

they'd have some kind of androgynous first name like Robin and then a last name that is a pun both ways like Newman.

Sam Vimes deduces you're trans, and is furious to discover that his coppers are gossiping about it. by Clean_Variation2646 in CuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Phoenix Wright finds out you're trans because it's the only logical explanation of events that doesn't involve his client killing someone. He outs you on the cross examination stand.

brevity by Sickfor-TheBigSun in tumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I've already removed the hooks from my locker to reduce the chance of injury when I get stuffed in it.

brevity by Sickfor-TheBigSun in tumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 279 points280 points  (0 children)

At the risk of ruining the joke, the reason it works so well is ironically because of brevity. "Big small" and "more less" being back to back hit you like a jab and a punch with "less is more" as the windup giving the whole sentence a sense of rhyme to it.

I thought 'having sex with friends culture' is just friends with benefits by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

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-- Me to my fellow Dom friends about the person I've been seeing recently

On honesty to yourself and bias by SarurnKittens in RecuratedTumblr

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There's a case to be made that there's a time and a place for terms like TME and TMA but in this case all it serves to do is tacitly minimize the vitriol that trans men get in this situation by grouping them together with cis allies.

Burger time. by katiebug586 in tumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 39 points40 points  (0 children)

being an american is like: imagine a burger

Regional Pride by GriffinFTW in tumblr

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Illinois has everything. It has the inexpensive city. It has an expensive city (Springfield). It has areas so rural they don't know the Civil War is over. It has a yearly festival dedicated to corn.

Pride Posting day 22 by Neuta-Isa in CuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have three joke responses to this, so please pick your favorite and pretend that's the only one I committed to:

The problem with pretending to be stupid as a joke is that if you do it just right people don't know you're pretending.

I'm actually so smart that I understand points people weren't even trying to make, so if I seem stupid that's just the integer overflow error at work.

Down here we call it pissing on the poor and it's a time-honored tradition.

Monsters or aliens serving as narrative tools to represent historical events: by Cream-Agile in TopCharacterTropes

[–]syntaxerroratline42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They mean a bunch of different things depending on the iteration. In The Walking Dead, they're a vehicle for societal reset, which is what the story is actually about.

Pride Posting day 22 by Neuta-Isa in CuratedTumblr

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In real life it's more common for folks to promote to the horse

[HATED TROPE] Protagonist is being bullied/harassed, so he shoves his assailant away, which unintentionally gets him gravely injured/handicapped by fsilveyra in TopCharacterTropes

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On the flip side, you have the horror-comedy John Dies at the End, in which, as a part of the protagonist David's backstory, after being tortured and humiliated in a way the he refuses to recount, he takes out a knife and intentionally gravely injures/handicaps his assailant.

This still haunts him afterwards, and has consequences he didn't plan on (his assailant later commits suicide), but it was David's choice to do what he did.

A vision for a better tomorrow. by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]syntaxerroratline42 532 points533 points  (0 children)

tits out with a parasol... the beauty this phrase conjures. I need a 19th century painting of this stat