mom picked up the button and I said “have fun flirting” and she went 

“ w a it what” 

it was great

I’ve written a grand total of 476 words today. =_=;

if I keep feeling like this, there’s no way I can survive work tomorrow, and I need to be there. 

early bed again. i have slept so much in the past 2 days holy crap. I hate getting sick all the time. it’s really annoying.

titleknown:

jas720:

prokopetz:

ramblingferret:

prokopetz:

Eight essential episodes for any early 90s children’s cartoon:

1. The “Say No To Drugs” episode where the censors wouldn’t let us make any reference to what recreational drugs actually are or what they do, so the plot ends up awkwardly skirting around its own ostensible subject matter. Also, the kid peddling the drugs is the only visibly Latino character in the whole show.

2. The “Racism Sucks” episode where the role of black people is played by a vaguely offensive stand-in, like space aliens or sewer mutants or something. The character who ends up being called upon to “break the cycle of hatred” is a member of the oppressed minority, because heaven forfend we imply any sort of personal responsibility on the part of our presumptively white viewers.

3. The “Keeping Secrets Is Bad” episode where the protagonist spends the whole time creeping about like he’s desperately trying to hide a situationally inappropriate erection. The episode tries to frame a moral about the value of honest communication, but completely undermines itself by having the secret turn out to be something really trivial.

4. The “Young Love” episode where we’re not allowed to acknowledge that twelve-year-olds have sex drives, so the male lead’s infatuation plays out as this chaste, courtly thing that our target audience can’t relate to at all. When the object of the protagonist’s affections inevitably proves unreceptive, his decision to respect her refusal is framed as a noble moral sacrifice on his part.

5. The “Stranger Danger” episode that plays out as a bizarre parable about creepy old men lurking in bushes, because acknowledging the fact that virtually all children who are sexually assaulted are victimised by adults they already know and trust didn’t play well with the focus groups. Also, we’re not allowed to even hint at what the creepy old man wants to do, so there’s never any sense that anyone is actually in danger.

6. The “Everybody Get Along” episode where a secondary character attempts to bow out of a group activity that they find difficult or upsetting, and spends the next 22 minutes being relentlessly badgered and humiliated for having the temerity to prioritise their own emotional well-being over the will of the group.

7. The “Disability Is Inspiring” episode where a character who’s in a wheelchair for some unspecified reason teaches the group an important lesson about perseverance in the face of adversity. Though all of the regular cast treat her like an old friend, this is the only episode in which she appears.

8. The “Multiculturalism Yay” episode where the token African-American character saves the day with the Power of Blackness, by which we mean an awkwardly rhymed hip-hop verse written by a middle-aged white guy.

ANyone got any more?

Sure!

9. The “Learning How To Have Fun” episode where being an introvert is treated as a disease to be cured. The affected character’s “friends” repeatedly force her to engage with busy social settings until she experiences an abrupt personality shift that looks a lot like Stockholm syndrome. Fortunately there’s absolutely no continuity, so she’ll be back to her old self next episode.

10. The “Respecting Others’ Beliefs” episode where the main cast treat a secondary character like garbage for holding some unusual but ultimately harmless personal conviction, even if their doing so is starkly at odds with prior characterisation. The episode completely misses its own point by having objective proof of the oddball belief in question turn up at the end.

11. The “Logic Versus Feelings” episode that frames science and emotions as opposing and mutually exclusive cosmic forces. A female cast member finds happiness by learning to set aside her scientific inclinations and “trust in her heart”, whatever that means.

12. The “bully episode” where we learn a bully character has a troubled home life, and by troubled I mean poor and/or possibly abused thus demonizing the poor and abuse victims, and ignores that real world bullies are mostly just jerks who are held unaccountable for their actions.

You know, it’s interesting/distressing how; as far as I can see; the existence shit like this and its mandatory network-enforced nature explains so much about the spawning of at least a few of the reactionary ideas in nerd culture as to what social responsibility/diversity looks like in media…

Sadly, all of these tropes are alive and well in today’s media, too. This is a constant battle. 

warsawmouse:

intj-confessions:

tyrantworld:

just-shower-thoughts:

All tests should be open book. It’s not like your future boss is going to say, “I need those tax returns finished by noon, but don’t look at any of the financial statements. Do it all from memory.”

Exactly! You should be tested on application of a concept not memory

I’ve told this story before but idc I’m doing it again.

My dad once taught some class at a conference. He gave everyone a worksheet and after watching them flounder for a few minutes on their own he said, “You guys know you can talk to each other and work together, right?” These were industry professionals who suddenly reverted back to that must-not-collaborate mentality when put in a classroom setting.

school fucks us up soo bad

…except I guess all of the car rental places are booked this weekend already. Uhhhmmmm hmmm.