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Not expalining WHY bookburning is bad and WHAT books were targeted has left us with Bookworm uwu girlies treating any art project or act involving destorying/modifying any random ass mass printed novel as if it was a crime against humanity

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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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This reminds me of how Harry Potter was banned in my household for promoting witchcraft until the movies came out and my mom saw that scene with all the spiders and basically went "yes our pastor warned us that this was the work of satan but my Favorite Animal is featured prominently in it"

So did your parents ever explain why you shouldn't get involved in anyhting potentially occult or supernatural? Or why the focus was on stuff like Dungeons and Dragons or Harry Potter and not characters who predated them like Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate?

Most of this question can be answered by noting that most of these examples were irrelevant to my childhood either by How Old I Am or I Didn't Know They Existed.

Harry Potter didn't exist until I was in college! I remember the day, while I was employed at the Warner Bros Studio Store during art school, that the managers had a meeting and told us that The Next Big Thing, By Corporate Decree, would be something called Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone. And we would sell it. And we would have exclusive rights to sell it. And by god it was going to be the big thing or fucking else.

So that didn't come up much with my parents, no.

Also, I'm not sure I knew who Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate were until I was in my twenties. They wouldn't be an example I'd know to bring up.

And so the focus was on contemporary things I knew about, like He-Man or Disney's Gummi Bears or the Black Cauldron PC game I got for my birthday and got to play like five minutes of before it was discovered that there was magic in this.

(five minutes was enough to get frustrated and stuck in it, anyway, so not the hugest loss)

I got to watch Star Wars, which ""promoted eastern religion," because "it was good."

so

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The “Mr Mime is Ash’s dad” theory mildly irks me NOT because I don’t like it or whatever but bc the canon reason Mimey is there is just SO MUCH FUNNER. For plot related reasons Ash dresses up as a Mr Mime in a circus just outside Pallet town but gets kidnapped by Team Rocket. Brock and Misty are like “oh they’ll let him go once they realise he’s not a Pokemon, we should tell Delia that he’s gonna show up at her house in a Mr Mime costume so she isn’t freaked out” but then an ACTUAL Mr Mime shows up at her house before he does and because Delia is as faceblind as her son she mistakes it for him. And this Mr Mime is like “oh I like it here” and starts helping out around the house doing chores in exchange for food. And then when Ash DOES get home he’s like “mom why is there a Mr Mime here” and she goes “oops! Well he helps more around the house than you so I’m keeping him” and does. Mimey is not Ash’s dad. Mimey is his step-brother and canonically the favourite child

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

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pasta, in every context that I have seen it, is aligned horizontally on grocery store shelves?

Like all of the pasta in this image that isn't something small like farfalle and penne is fucking parallel with the shelves they're horizontal they're not fucking stacked perpendicular to the edge of the shelf the length of the pasta has absolutely nothing to do with the depth of the shelf what the fuck are you talking about.

The default length of pasta is designed to fit on a supermarket shelf, not to be the best length for cooking/eating.

Feel free to break it to any length you want (don't let the Italians know I said this)

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Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?

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sometimes the best fanfics are written by middle aged adults with years of writing experience who simply know how to craft a good story. but also sometimes the best fanfics are written by a sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her

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I am normal about polling accuracy I am not a sleeper agent about polling accuracy I did not just turn in an assignment late because I spent twenty minutes answering a question about polling accuracy

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Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

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