#I get that there's history but there's also the fucking TEXT.

[nkogneatho]

𝑶𝑯 𝑴𝒀 𝑩𝑰𝑮 𝑩𝑨𝑩𝒀 !!

— old bf!toji x young gf!reader

i think toji with a girlfriend that is so much younger than him is so adorable.

before you, he was just a man with a small room that is always so messy because he is rarely home. but, the room feels so much like home now that you have entered his life. he's never bothered to decorate or do anything. his heart flutters when he finds several photoframes hanging on the wall. one of you and him, a few of just his and a lot of megumi.

toji has never in his life ever clicked a selfie. he is not photogenic at all. so when you poke him to click one with you, he's not sure what to do in front of a camera. you tell him to just be himself and he is still confused. you lift the phone and make a peace sign with your hand, your teeth peeking out as your lips curve in a smile. you click it quickly and scan the photo. it is cute. you put a heart emoji with a wink one and upload it on your instagram. soon, your phone is buzzing with notifications. you open them and giggle. toji is so curious so he peeks and finds people calling him "the rock". He snatches the phone to scan the selfie you took earlier. you look so adorable with your cute little peace sign and smile and there he was beside you with a brow raised looking angry. "delete that shit right now," he orders. "are you kidding me? this is gold. it's going on the wall." he can't help but grin at how you find such silly things funny.

toji who is getting used to texting and wants to be even closer to you so he tries to learn some slangs. you are out with your friends when your phone chimes. you unlock it to see the text from toji.

toji: kys

you almost spit out the coffee you were enjoying. what the fuck is he on? what happened? you immediately call him.

"hello," his voice raspy.

"tojii! why the fuck would you say something like that to me?"

"what are you talking about?"

"the text you just sent me. why did you send that?"

"because i care for you, doll." you were even more confused now.

"you told me to kill myself because you care for me?"

"kill yourself? who said that? i sent K.Y.S." he spelled each letter out loud. "it means keep yourself safe." it takes you a few seconds to absorb and then you burst out laughing. he is not sure what is so funny.

"oh my poor big baby. kys means kill yourself."

oh. OH.

"i—i am so fucking sorry, princess. i was just—"

"you are so adorable. when i come home, i need to go through your google search history to know what other slangs you learnt." he is so embarrassed, he bites his lower lip. but he is also feeling so warm and fuzzy because you called him adorable. who would call a man in his mid 30s adorable? well, you did. and he is so happy about that. happier that he met you.

#jujutsu kaisen #toji fushiguro #toji x reader #jjk x reader #toji fluff #jjk fluff #jujutsu kaisen x reader #fushiguro toji x reader #toji fushiguro x reader #toji fushiguro fluff

[ruffgem]

group work is Not It. I should have known better than to enroll in an engagement course that involves planning workshops with a group of other students……. guess who is doing all the work! :^) Back in tha day my teachers called me a ‘natural leader’… fun fact!!!! I am actually not! I do not like being in charge! it is actually just that people take advantage of me! Hope this helps

#God. I wanted to take the class so bad bc it’s about the history of art in prison systems #and it involves a weekly art workshop in a prison #the group that runs it is pretty blatantly abolitionist and partially run by formerly incarcerated ppl #so it’s made pretty clear that we're not ‘teaching’ art bc thats weird and enforcing a hierarchy if ur a 'teacher' #its more like a way to get materials inside and basically hang out with and make art alongside incarcerated ppl #under the guise of ‘volunteering’ as the dept of corrections labels it #anyway that’s all off topic but basically I am doing all the fucking work lmao we’re supposed to go in for the first time tomorrow and #my group members suck shit at communicating and the person who’s supposed to drive is like radio silent whenever I ask #where we should meet and shit #FUCK!!! I hate logistical shit like this #its taken us a million years to get cleared by the system (on purpose i stg) so its literally midterm time and we havent gotten in yet #i swear if our first one gets jeopardized by this girl who refuses to check her damn texts or emails or even come to class im gonna be so #pissed. lmfao #goddddd this is giving me flashbacks to when i took the class where we were supposed to do workshops at an elementary school #different vibe because in that scenario it was definitely supposed to be educational and we lowkey were 'teachers' #but my classmates also didnt do shit and i also ended up doing literally everything #WHY TAKE A CLASS LIKE THIS IF U DONT WANNA DO IT LIKE SERIOUS QUESTION #maybe they just want to put it on their resume LOL #they need a vetting process for this class i stg like interview these bitches before they enroll #cuz some of these people fr do not care

[heartofstanding]

Shout out to the person who once told me that it was "most likely" Henry V was straight because modern population data suggests an ever-so-graciously rounded down 90% of the population is straight and Occam's Razor and all that. Maybe! Maybe Henry V was straight! No one knows! But more to the point, that population data suggests that 1 in every 10 people aren't straight, not "90% chance this individual was straight so therefore they were all straight because Occam's Razor". Why aren't you advocating for the accuracy of ensuring 1 in 10 characters in histfic aren't straight? Oh, right, we can't have queers in historical fiction unless you have explicit evidence that they actually were queer. 🙄

#same person used to get all 'well actually' about people calling achilles and patroclus lovers #which. it's technically true that homer didn't say they fucked but also..... who the fuck cares this much about no-homoing achilles? #really. anyone ready to jump in to no homo some historical or mythical person is a huge red flag #why is it so bad that historical figures aren't straight by default? literally why is it 'bad history' that queer people might have existed #why is it bad history that possibly famous dead people were queer? you don't know they were straight anymore that you know they were gay! #(the convo around h5 was actually about how he was possibly asexual or gay #and how that's a more valid reading of the evidence of him not having sex with than 'he was a massive woman fearing misogynist' #- which itself has homophobic and aphobic connotations - #but they didn't seem to know what asexuality is. so that was fun.) #text posts #unfortunately i was just 'er ok whatever' at the time

[no1ryomafan]

Ranting in my server how much it saddens me mechas impact on Japan is unknown in the states even now because most people don’t know of the old shows that brought up the genre especially when the take of “Evangelion is a deconstruction of mecha” is still a take I’ve unironically heard in this year-from one of my fucking irls no less-because I learn more and more how crucial this genre was to Japan-

but than I turn around and ago “yeah I watched maybe 4 mechas and don’t have the desire to really watch more even if there’s some I should probably get too” and I wonder if this makes me come off as a worse “umh actuahlly” person or this is showing how awful my commitment skills to anything as of late have been given there’s NON mecha anime I still need to watch.

#meg text #mecha rambles #this one was a lot shorter but the tags won’t be #I really don’t mind the idea of people fighting in big robots but I think I realized I like the robots being sentient #getter does it in such a compelling way no other mecha has hit for me even if the animes gloss over it #jeeg has its fucking pilot become the mech but that was only one mc and it never gets shit #and I have dabble into transformers but haven’t gone back to it bc I was hit with episodic formula #also I’m not kidding when I say it’s a struggle for me to watch anything even when it’s reasonably short #I started Android kikadier which is 13 eps + a 4 ep follow up ova and still HAVENT GONE BACK TO IT #my ass will never get through a Gundam unless someone watches it with me but fuck if I know where to start #(this is also not a mecha suggestion post I literally never get back to do anything unless I’m fixated) #starting to think I’m more hyperfixated on history and influence but than I come to actually watching a show and I go “yeah no”

[james-stark-the-writer]

YouTube keeps trying to funnel me into an alt-right pipeline (weirdly through reaction channels in the last few weeks) and i'm so fucking tired. i'm just so fucking tired.

#james talks #YouTube #and this is exactly why i've had to get in a habit of checking the socials of every person YouTube recommends to me— #bc i'd rather not make them a single fucking cent if i can avoid it. #and like this is fucking every goddamn day at this point #like i have become so hard to force into a pipeline that it's trying fucking everything and i'm so proud of myself for that but— #it's exhausting to fight the algorithm this much. #truly i'm just exhausted. #image id in alt text #also that tweet is so fucking stupid lmao. you know what else progresses? time. history. #like it's genuinely so stupid it's not even worth engaging with it. it's for right-wingers who cackle at bad facebook 'memes' #it's for people who don't like to think. #why would you try to make a space on youtube as a commentary channel when you want to encourage behaviors that discourage thinking #like ik it's a recruitment tactic or whatever but i'm just so fucking tired of it

[knifegremliin]

btw i saw. the pain specialist today. going Back To Occupational Therapy for my wrists and now also will be going to physical therapy for my back. fun times.

#🔪.text #can't tell you what's wrong with my back tho because to be quite honest i. have no fucking idea what she said #i am a stupid man and she used so many big words LMAO #and also i kinda already forgot ngl. #so (shrugs) #it didn't seem like it was anything seriously wrong tho which i guess is good #bc i do have family history of back problems lol #but i didn't get the impression it was something like that so. #at least there's that. #i think i just have a weak loser back that needs to be strengthened or smth #she said it's not gonna be like this forever so 👍 #old man chronicles WILL come to an end #and hopefully the extra ot will help my wrists

[rashfordian]

daily shuffle ting 📸

#im having a mid crisis when im not even middle aged n i dont wanna go back to school #good day and good night. i wanna sink into the floor #bc a football club i decided to support with my heart n soul has betrayed me n i dont even like to watch games anymore #also im reading a drarry fanfiction like im 13 again. #and my skin is awful. and and and im having a crisis n so many emotions that i dont even know where they stem from #i cant even smile properly anymore ive been facial training again bc ive slacked during covid n now — #i dont know how to my eyes have expresseds n i dont know how to smile or look like i care and i TOOK A HARDER HISTORY CLASS FOR NO REASONNN #I DONT EVEN LIKE HISTORYYYYYYYY #and i hate everything n ive been avoiding all my friends n texting ppl less n im just in a Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #i feel worthless n disgusting n my first thought when i wake up is 'i gotta take my acnetame and maybe if i deserve it i can shave my legs' #i naired one of them— my right. she is smooth in ways she hasnt been in a while. my left? chewbacca #n my school changed my passwords for my canvas so now tmr at 1:30 !! I GOTTA WALK UP THERE N GET MY NEW PERSONAL INFORMATION #the clothes i bought i didnt rlly like. but i just wanted to leave the store n make my grandmother happy. now im going into the school year #with clothes i hate n they dont feel gpod and theyre Not the right texture theyre too tight. But not in ways i love theyre too Tight. #n i .s.msneenen all my shoes r blk !!!! theyre all blk !!!! #sjsndjddjd and my hair !!!! my hair!!!!@ sjdjdjdu #God i just wanna lay in my room take showers n rot #roll around and hit myself on my headboard so hard i go into coma n i miss my entire year #n then i fuck off to hershey for chocolate bars and chocolate bags #cant even scrapbook right itsall paint its all paint n aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im in agony bc im not even saying whats rlly wrong with me #im focusing on the little problems and not the one it stims from. Like a web but if the spider only hang off the edge n never the middle #n everyone keeps talking at me n when i respond they yell at me for everything n i get pushed to the side #bc they hate whatever i have to say for whatever reason n wtv ig i hate them back. always pushing me down fuck them fuck them get out. #n now my friend is texting me her stuff after never speaking to me unless she has a problem #Anyways. sorry sorry. im whining im complaining im really depressed rn n def not in the right headspace to post any of this #or talk to anyone who is reading this. this probably doesnt make sense i left holes in my sentences #so sorry super sorry #that is a photo of me as a baby btw. it is the only one. please love her and maybe tell her she has nice eyebrows. she'd love that #we always take rlly good care of our eyebrows. thats a rule. we just plucked them today #anyways. see you. ill post hp gifs later n forger i ever felt bad to beginning. all of the best.

[zouisalmightie]

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#im going to use these tags as a way to beat my soul about my job so if you come at me you’re a bitch and i hope you stub each individual to #i finally realized why im unhappy being a teacher and it’s because i don’t care about the future of these kids more than the cursory #‘I hope theyre ok’ you would feel for any stranger in the world #like i want to harm to come to them but i truly don’t care about them #like the kid that sleeps in class ? my thought is finally he’s fucking quiet the kid that’s got a 2% and doesn’t pay attention im like #whatever like im not motivated to get them motivated and if I wasn’t the kind of person that cared about her work id give them worksheets #for the rest of the year making them silently work while I r ead books all day #like I feel like at the beginning I did the calling home and the tutoring and the flipping over backwards to get as many of the kids to #their reading level and ensure they’re getting a great history lesson that’s going to reach every student and now im like #this is the lesson and if you like it great if you don’t idc you can pay attention or fail it’s on you #and part of me feels bad like I should want to dress up like x figure and get them engaged by doing xyz and like I just don’t want to #it’s like what’s the point im going to engage the same 9 kids in each class while the other 21 pretend to #pay attention while they’re texting under their desk and then they’re going to try to google or use ai the answers #and im like…. whatever i dont care turn it in don’t turn it in whatever #ik too young to feel this apathetic about teaching and it suck but also oof I don’t care #I want to quit at the end of the year before my apathy turns into hatred I’ve seen teachers that hate hate the kids and that can’t be me #like even if I stayed for 30 years it wouldn’t be me but the idea of it scares me #I don’t want this job to change who I am as a person but it’s taking away my care for the younger generation #I don’t hate them or wish them ill but I just genuinely don’t care about them or their progress or anything #it’s scary #anyways im rambling idk im just having a bad day ill see this tomorrow and be like wow girl get a snickers cuz this isn’t you #but rn that’s how im feeling

[polaraffect]

planning classes has me going "hehehe *kicking my feet*" but i know as soon as i actually have to attend those classes my brain is going to be like "😐😐😐"

#damien.txt #having a revival of a very specific academic fascination bc my brain decided that rereading if we were villains is a good idea #which is like. one of the main driving forces behind my interest in history & english #and now im like................. hehe shakespeare #to be fair. the plan was always to take shakespeare next semester. the plan has been to take the shakespeare class since i started undergra #because quite literally i have been interested in shakespeare since i was 11 so. this is a long term interest #but now my brain is like hehe...... what if....... shakespeare ma #BITCH. where did this come from. hello???? #first of all. do you know how many shakespeare ma programs exist in the world? like 4. #second. brain what. where is this coming from #and now it's trying to convince me of stupid things like 'you should try and learn latin again' #in what WORLD have i ever enjoyed learning latin (<- i have literally studied latin 3 seperate times in my life) #the answer is never. i have never enjoyed it. and i have hardly retained any of it #but ohhhhh boy the urge.... The Urges.... #this specific mood always comes up whenever i get back into dark academia stuff again bc i am predictable and not unique #and i always get back into dark academia when it starts to get cold outside bc it's like something awakens within me #that goes 'oh right. we like academia. also the aesthetic hits' and i go FUCK. YOU'RE RIGHT. #but also here i am. writing this tumblr text post instead of doing my actual academics. so. it's all fake anyways #oh! but im very hype abt this shakespeare class actually #bc i think we might have a performance project.... which probably im going to dread when i actually have to do it #but <3<3<3<3<3 i love performing shakespeare so much. it's so much fun to me. #said like a true theater kid fr but. truly and honestly i miss doing that the most from theatre. and i didn't even really get to do it much #mostly just when i got to pick monologues out to do in class in between performances and stuff like that #so. i am a little bit hype. to do that. hopefully it is actually fun and not a complete drag #okay okay im done ranting

[fantasy-costco]

After this semester ends in like a week I won't have any more religious studies classes like. Ever again. My religious studies advisor already told me that people have tried to put religious studies classes towards history degrees in the masters program but the school won't let them. I can always keep researching on my own and part of the point of this minor was to get the tools to do so but religious studies is a field full of so much bias and it's nice to have someone to guide me through that.

#My university just does Not respect the humanities at all but that's what I get for going to (redacted) :/ #If I was going into academia I would probably try harder and try to build a carrier out of like. Early Christian history or something #But as it stands theres not much of a market for that in the museum field outside of the worst Christian propaganda scams imaginable #So I will. Not do that. And will instead study the revolutionary war like a good little public historian and privately #Roast Dennis R. MacDonald in the group chat. For fun. #Also religious studies drama is so much funnier that historian drama cause it's just like. Three people in a room yelling at each other #Every paper is like 'this fucking idiot thinks mark had a classical education can you believe the audacity' or #'you have to prove in a court of law that this text is a forgery otherwise Jesus is gay' (lads the text was a forgery) #The forgery one was funny cause I did a presentation about it and I was trying not to be super accusatory and my professor was like nah #I know the guy who forged it he made it up. Tell us more about gay Jesus tho. #I'm gonna miss this 😥

[sugaroto]

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#i feel weird today #needed to get this out of my system #like I'm tired but exhausted and i haven't done anything and i can't study and i spent too much time on tiktok today and I've been #quarantined all week and ITSITSOTSOTSKTSOTSKTDKTDOTDKTDOYDOTDOTKTDGDOTDOGDITDOTDOTDOODODKDOYD #i can't focus on my study schedule like that #i need my routine #and mha is trending and i hadn't had time to watch the new season and now i just want to watch it but i have history tomorrow and haven't #learned shit and bc i haven't been to school all week i also need to know what the fuck i have for tomorrow but the class hasn't responded #(wait actually someone just texted me about it 2 days after i asked 😭 thanks) finally #and i also need to give the paper for the exams and the fucking school trip shit i hope they let me #sugarenia diary

[coolspacequips]

Y'know as a black person w a lifelong interest in/ostracization from stage arts and musical theatre, I hope every white gay that ever had shit to say about Hamilton that is happy to celebrate the fuck out of Our Flag Means Death thinks fucking twice next time, and also I don't forgive them lol

#one reason i can't engage w fandom #it puts into stark contrast how much fandom talks out of it's ass unless white ppl get something out of it 🙄 #it sucks bc I'm a lifelong enthusiast of pirate history and mythos as well #and a long time advocate of Cowboys and Pirates including poc and queer in a big way #i just feel so bitter lol #text posts #also suss at everyone that has to get their hand on the shit on Hamilton ball #but who never had an opinion on historical drama or media before or fucking since #that show is a masterpiece of writing and when i showed my old black dad Hamilton he fucking thanked me #that show was no less accurate than any single piece of historical media and was a love letter to a black art form #and was also the final straw of me listening to and white ppl's opinions on anything in fandom bc it's all performance #anyway I'm out of here

[not-souleaterpost]

Napoleon and the positivity of negativity

So a few months ago, I wrote on how the Napoleon trailers sucked - cause they looked as if they made Napoleon into some generic comic book "epic" villian, like the blue guy from those Avengers movies people cried about to only forget about totally by now.

But then it turned out I was wrong - and people said it was worse - instead of a power fantasy it instead was a farce, basically making Napoleon into the biggest loser that doesnt weigh 300 pounds or more. I heard things like it was Anglo propoganda, that it Napoleon into a cerain word which I am tired of hearing on the net on yt videos with those poorly drawn white faces with various emotions of rage and mouth-openess, that it didn't even show any battles and claimed Napoleon was too dumb to win not by sheer luck, etc.

Oh also "historical inacuracy" - but I never cared bout that, cause I'm too smart- nah actually cause I'm too scatterbrained to remember enough details to be pedantic anyways.

So the question is - knowing all that I must not have watched the movie? Well I didn't, till a buddy wanted to go see it, rejecting my alternative suggestion of the Bob Marley biopic (someday…) And I thought "why not, lets see how shitty it is" And it started, me watching relaxed, with the lowest expectations, glib and cynical as if I was a 45 year old youtuber who can only make fun of other movies while giving up any artistic ambitions cause my intentionally bad movie was a bit too intentionally bad:

But then it started happening: Napoleon scared but determined, jumps on his horse, starts to ride on it only for the horse to get fucking shot with a canonball, Napoleon on the ground, literally shell shocked, his buddys saying "you alright", only for him after a moment of collecting himself, to run back into the battle, the frontlines and execute his cool anime plan.

Then I got what they (maybe) were getting at - the anime loser who becomes brave Napoleon, the Taxi Driver Napoleon, the internet shut-in Shizo Napoleon. Or the fight club Napoleon - cause Josephine at first was basically Marla or whatever her name was, just with less penguin's surfing around (well guess the dogs made up for that, French royals be crazy) But it wasn't then just some weird emasculation fantasy as you often see in the youtube comments on videos of cartoons that are made for kids - it kinda seemed at first, but then it genuinely became a kind of love story, one of two actually "baaaaaaad" people, who's ambitions turned into something real, even if twisted, and pathetic. The whole divorce scene with them crying - ofcourse one could read as "haha see how they are mocking Napoleon!" but what one felt was the genuine emotons and saddnes in them both.

And I could go on, but I ain't some 1million sub youtuber, so I cant just do summarys with vapid commentary - as Napoleon, I have to write something delusional and unhinged instead: So the thing is, if I went in, with no expectations, I probably would have missed all that - I would have been like all the whiners (no shade, I whine enough myself about everything, but its the best way of putting it):

"Oh Napoleon gets emasculated and controled by his wife who fucks the first guy she meets! Oh they are making him look scared and weird all the time cause they wanna make fun of him and people that think he was an interesting figure! Oh they have fake death counts to demonize him more than all the other royals who enslaved and killed people too!"

And I would have missed a movie that was pretty good. Not like a masterpiece, but compare it to that King Arthur movie by ol' Ridley from 2010 or whatever, this one atleast had some substance, had some artistic vision of reframing Napoleon as Raskalnikov while at the same time reconstructing him AS truly being bigger than life - cause you see how he struggles trough his weirdo excentrys, his various, as they call on here these day "neuro-divergencies" - but that he pushes thorugh them and makes himself magnetic - even if that magnetism pulls all them down into the same abyss…

So yeah tl;dr - Actually shitting on something is good cause either it is shit and then its justified, or maybe it makes it better once you got your expectations lowerd and preamptively delt with things which would have been devestating in the moment.

Also, I'm ofcourse being a bit tongue in cheeck, but if you still are angry or asking why I'm writting this instead on working on things I promised:

Yeah…Sorry

#napoleon 2023 #napoleon #ridley scott #also have a theory about Josephine being a stand in for the values of the revolution and how it betrayed Napoelon as he betrayed it later #meaning his ambitions of being some king ruined the potential and legacy making Napoleon be not remembered as the herold of liberty and #independece from greedy monarchs but as some proto hitler fascist #fight club #raskolnikov #irony of history #essay #meta #film review #synthesis #pseudo intelectuall #idk #napoelon dynamite the way that ship exploded #wait was this movie actually about napoleon dynamite if he got overly ambitious damn #also fuck it I agree with ridley scott that I dont care about history nerds what a documentary if you dont get movies not being about that #life #idk had some funny tags but got lost when soemthing went wrong and I could only save the main text #yeah...sorry #back to work #bob marley

[haarute]

remembering how i not only filled my school folders with drawings, but also i drew elaborate things on my desk all the time out of boredom, and i actually met the girl who went to the afternoon shift in the same classroom and spot i sat at during that year as she was a cosplayer i briefly met for being in the local anime con scene.

i once tried to talk to her to maybe make friends with her, but she was very dismissive of me, and at a later date she just left me a message on our desk telling me to stop drawing stupid things and erased most of it, at which point i just felt really bad and never bothered or saw her again.

#like sure i get it you don't want some rando messing up your desk. but also these desks were all fucked up and filled with shit anyway #random signatures gross insults cheating text etc. #so i wouldn't have thought that me drawing some elven dude in erasable pencil amongst that would have meant much #but also that really doesn't matter? i'm just thinking about how that's like my history with friendships in retrospect #where i make a weak attempt at communicating with someone and immediately feel like i did something wrong and should leave #when honestly maybe she just wasn't very cool to begin with. or wasn't interested in making friends. whatever really. #and she doesn't have to have been. but it's also not something i should have been hard on myself for. #like i'm just reminiscing about how i have a really twisted perspective of what is 'allowed' in any given social context #because of experiences like those since i was a kid (plus issues with my parents) #and i always feel like i'm overstepping and should just leave as a result. #and now that i'm in my late 20s is when the reality of this not being normal or healthy is becoming really apparent #but i don't know if that damage can be undone at this point sooo. lmao. #it is a work in progress. or so i like to think.

[sreegs]

I reblogged it earlier but I'm glad the Something Awful Forums 9/11 thread was archived because it's an incredibly important slice of internet history. For the record I think 9/11 was thousands of personal tragedies for the direct victims of the attacks but one big national farce that led to America's ongoing slide into fascism, and the nationalism and remembrance around it is a joke especially in the wake of the same amount of deaths every fucking day in the US during the height of coronavirus.

Nevertheless I think it's important that if you do not remember because you were too young or just didn't exist on Sept 11, 2001 to read the Something Awful 9/11 forums to get an idea of what the internet was like at the moment when America changed to 24 hour news cycles and renewed hyper-nationalism not seen since WWII.

This all happened before Twitter, Facebook, before Discord. Before smart phones. Before most people had cell phones. When a lot of people still had dial-up internet, even. Some people in the thread were relying on radio because internet and TV weren't keeping up.

It was a live event of internet denizens reacting to the biggest national event (and among the biggest international events) of the past 25 years. It was also a slice of what the internet was like at the turn of the millennium. Not only that, but people accurately calling out who was responsible, and what would result before the attacks even finished.

Keep in mind that the links that follow contain images of the event, lots of Islamophobia, people calling for the Middle East to be nuked, people blaming Palestine, casual racist and homophobic language (this was Something Awful after all), etc etc. They preserved the first 17 pages which spanned about 24 hours during the events. It's the origin of the "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR" screenshot.

Links under the fold. I've also annotated the pages with notes regarding the timeline and any posts of interest. Note the thread was preserved in Pacific Time even though the page says times are Eastern. That's incorrect. Post timestamps are 3 hours behind Eastern Time, which is the time zone where the attacks occurred:

Page 1 - Note the first post was edited to include images of the second attack. The thread started after the first plane hit. Second plane hitting the WTC happens here too.

Page 2 - Poster accurately calling out Bin Laden was responsible at 9:14 AM EST

Page 3 - "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR"

Page 4

Page 5 - First official acknowledgement it was a terrorist attack.

Page 6 - Pentagon hit

Page 7

Page 8

Page 9 - Commercial flights grounded by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

Page 10 - First mention of towers collapsing at end of page

Page 11 - More reactions to collapse of first tower. People thinking it was a bomb or yet another plane. Rumors about a fourth plane just missing the White House (these are false and predate the actual 4th plane crash by minutes)

Page 12

Page 13 - By this point there's just rampant speculation about more bombs at the WTC, the US Capitol building being hit, etc (all false). Remember this is all just people reacting to TV news and radio and the rumor mill via phone, AIM, IRC, and maybe text messages.

Page 14 - By this point internet news sites are overwhelmed

Page 15 - Second tower collapses. First acknowledgement of the fourth plane that crashed in PA.

Page 16 - There's an abrupt time jump in the threads, I think it was the result of admins pruning the activity or the SA forums going down. This page starts on 9/12 even though it is page 16. American flag signatures and ribbons start appearing.

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#9/11 #something awful

[paeinovis]

As scary and shitty and fascist as it is to try and control the education system to the extent desantis is attempting to, it's just soooo fucking stupid. I sure as hell wasn't radicalized by my teachers. Figured out I was gay and nonbiney in the comfort of my home influenced nearly entirely by the internet (Tumblr)

#text #paersonal #it's just baffling that someone can tout free speech while so actively repressing it #college board telling him and the FL education board to fuck off is everything I need in life #imagine trying to censor fucking college educations. #new college and UF are good colleges bc they're not conservative dumpster fires. I guarantee w the slashing of dei and classes that they #claim are ~woke brainwashing~ whatever the fuck when it's just. history. but they love pretending that white people have never done anything #wrong ever ig. which entails just getting rid of programs and classes entirely #will make their ratings plummet #like my mom's sending me grad school stuff in FL like girl it's becoming fucking uninhabitable here #would much prefer to be in CA but it's expensive and I absolutely won't get into any colleges there #AZ I could manage probably but even they're pretty conservative depending on where you are #nm is a refugee state but is also... idk maybe I should've looked closer to campuses but not my fav jdbdjdb #best case scenario is getting a job in the canary islands (Spain). like honestly what a dream #the telescope there and the no light pollution and the Human Rights... dreamy sigh #at least desantis' campaign is crashing n burning which is insane considering his opponent is a uh. super mega criminal. but whatever ig #if that's what it takes