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[delphonso]

Dang, I wasn't thinking about it, but now that I see that sliced bread and jumbo tub of peanut butter...I could really go for 15 peanut butter sandwiches right now.

[TheSteppeWolf]

Someone, shot my apartment's window out. With a Bb gun by the looks of it...

Just what? Do I call the police?

[Eric Blank]

Yeah, at least tell them what happened (they will have no idea who did it if you didn't see them or anything.) That will give you legitimacy when you tell the landlord/renters insurance.

[TheSteppeWolf]

Yeah, it's just... I was sitting at the computer and then I heard glass shattering, follow the sound of something hitting the back wall. I turn around and there's a hole in the window. (Thankfully) Not a bullet, or, there would be a hole in the wall too!

[scriver]

Don't use the emergency number though!

[Kagus]

Someone, shot my apartment's window out. With a Bb gun by the looks of it...

They could've put their eye out with that thing!

[Eric Blank]

Pro tip: put their eye out, blame it on the BB gun

[TD1]

Your avatar is disturbingly approptiate.

[bloop_bleep]

*punctures eyes respectfully*

[Frumple]

Every once in a while something reminds me old cartoons could get pretty goddamn surreal.

[delphonso]

Those skeletons died of drinking alcohol then became ghosts.

[wierd]

I love how nobody even questions that Betty's main squeeze (bimbo) is clearly an animal-person.

I also love how nobody mentions that it is an offensive mixed-race allegory.

[Eric Blank]

1) We're all basically animal-people once you get down to your furry side

2) fuck that noise, Betty is canonically a furry in an interspecies relationship. No allegories, just furries.

[wierd]

RE: fuck that noise


You are approaching it from a more modern point of view.  It is important to approach period media from the mindset of the period. In this case, the 1920s, which was very much a period of pronounced racist segregation, and very twisted views about people with different skin colors, as concerns their "human-ness".    Bimbo is very much an offensive mixed-race allegory, probably only an animal person instead of a black-face caricature, simply to get past the censors of the age. (Betty Boop had many run-ins with the "morality police" of the day. Even then, it appears that doggy + lady == Hays Code Violation, so he got cut in later cartoons.)

[methylatedspirit]

I realized that I don't really care about my gender. Like, I query the gender file in my brain, it's blank for a couple of seconds, and eventually it says "male, presenting as I-do-what-I-want-linity with bias towards masculinity" and then a bunch of numbers after that. It's almost reluctant. Is there a label for this "I don't care, but I guess I'm a boy if you really want to" situation? I wonder what it means. Does it mean I reject gender entirely, or is it just apathy?

There's some basis to my thinking there. I couldn't give less of a shit about anyone's gender; I rank it as one of the least important things about a person. To maintain consistency, surely that must mean I must not care about my own too. Or maybe not; expecting consistency out of an inherently inconsistent system is the surest path to madness.

I'm confused. I wonder what it all means, if anything.