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jkrockin · 8 months
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Wait what guy who hadn't read Atlas Shrugged?
I was pretty sure I'd told this story here, but a cursory search suggests that I have not. Okay let's gooooo
Many moons ago, I worked in an emergency services call centre. I worked nights- I could get regular shifts, it paid well, and I am a huge freak, just like everyone else who works nights in a call centre. It is a lifestyle that attracts freaks. Some of my coworkers weren't full-time creatures of the night, but students or whoever who picked up occasional nights for the extra money, and one of them was Libertarian Shithead, who we'll call LS for short.
LS was a twentysomething white dude who wore a lot of name brand surfwear and designer sunglasses. I assume his parents were rich. LS loved nothing better than recreational arguing. Unfortunately, he wasn't very good at it; he had some of the most dogshit opinions I've ever encountered in the wild, and was terrible at defending them. He'd say some crap about how Gattaca-type eugenics is Fine, Actually, because if you let people make designer babies, the ~*Free Market will decide what traits are desirable! Racism and colourism and ableism and sexism and intersexism won't affect those choices at all! And I'd get mad, because I have principles to speak of, and we'd get into it, and WITHOUT FAIL, we'd get maybe halfway into an actual discussion about whatever horseshit garbage he was on tonight, and the second he thought he was losing, he'd say "oh, well. I'm an ~*Objectivist, so you can't really understand my perspective unless you've read Ayn Rand." Then he'd sigh, and change the subject.
At the time I had not read any Ayn Rand. Being fundamentally powered by spite, I withstood maybe three weeks of this shit before I pirated an epub of Atlas Shrugged, put it on my e-reader, and proceeded to slam through it at supersonic speed so I could finally get to finish an argument with this terrible boy.
Anon, I fucking hated Atlas Shrugged. The book is bad. It's way too long, every single character is an unbelievable douche, the prose sucks. Ayn Rand wants to fuck a train so so so badly, but the prose is so turgid I couldn't even get invested in how much she wants to fuck a train. And the core of the matter, the politics I was there to understand, are, y'know. Objectivist. Eye-bleedingly selfish and capitalistic, expressed in amazingly childish and blinkered terms. Even the bits where it seems like the shithead capitalist dudes want to fuck each other are too mired in the scunge of Rand's terrible views to be enjoyable.
But I read the fucking thing! I powered through it with only quite minimal complaining! I finished the book on the train to work, and when I saw that LS was on that night, I plonked myself in a seat by him, and metaphorically cracked my knuckles, ready to fuckin' party. In a perfect world, I would have been cool enough to have waited for the perfect mid-argument moment to drop, but I didn't. I think I lasted exactly until we were both off a call at the same time, and then leaned in as close as the desk dividers would let me, and said "So I finished Atlas Shrugged. I have some thoughts."
I cannot overstate how quickly it became obvious that LS had not read the book. For a hot second I thought maybe it had just been a while and the fine details had escaped him, but no; he didn't know who half the characters were, or key points of the plot, or even know any of the stuff in the John Galt speech, i.e. the big juggernaut of Here's How Objectivism Works near the end of the book about Objectivism that this fucking guy hypothetically based his Objectivist views on. It took me maybe five minutes, in between calls, to realise this, and another five for him to admit he hadn't actually read any Ayn Rand. He'd read her Wikipedia page.
ANYWAY I didn't speak to him for like a month after that, and I don't think either of us lost out there!
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faeymouse · 9 months
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Can you do Mara in #95
So I recently watched "State of Mind" where some evil mind-altering cheeto dust that makes programs worship Clu infected Mara, and I really liked the concept as a whole and this palette worked so well for it so thank you, sweet anon, this was fun
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Palette from this palette challenge that truly never stops giving
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curiosity-killed · 4 months
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Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?
Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "curiosity killed"?
Anon this is an act of violence. Do u know how many fics are in my very favorite, most beloved bookmark??? It is More Than 10, let us say.
Many have been left off, tried to thin it down by ones that have particularly stuck with me in some way but also consider this list incomplete by at least 50+ fics
We were the whirlpool, we were the reef by @veliseraptor
Bleeding Effect by djsoliloquoy
Concession by obsession_inc
Named by RC_McLachlan
as the lion loves the lamb by @demenior
you’ll know, you’ll fall by mme_anxious
我拿青春赌明天 / I’ll wager my youth against tomorrow by @hunxi-guilai
Embers by alfgifu
双命; twin fates by yiqie
(show you all your) demons and desires and dark sides by @neuxue
Honorable mentions go to the Not Easily Conquered series, Mikkeneko’s A Villain State of Mind, and And after, Rain by ThisBeautifulDrowning for also altering my like 15-16 yr old brain chemistry
AND the story behind my URL is typically silly tbh: my sister had a socmed account with a name that leveraged her name’s use in an idiom and I thought that was Super Neat. Unfortunately my name is not also a noun, so I went the idiom route with the revised version of “curiosity killed the cat.” Originally it was curiosity-killed18 bc it’s my fave number but dropped it pretty quick and now I’m just out here forever signing my art as Curio
The irony of this is: (1) I am a deeply curious person, to the point that it is one of the most used words to describe me, and (2) I love cats. That said, I do often regret things I learn on the internet, so maybe it’s a 9 lives type of deal
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jinxedwood · 2 months
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but i'll also say, that i'm getting grumpy everyday that passes since november, when you first promised two chapters by the end of month
Dude, what can I say, my brain doesn't work like a slot machine. I know some people find writing easy. I don't.
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hydriotaphia · 6 months
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what is a top sheila and where did it come from hahahaha 😅
What an excellent excellent question <3
IDK if it makes it better or worse that the answer is that I asked an Aussie friend for "good girl" in Strayan and THIS IS WHAT SHE CAME UP WITH
I laughed so hard I almost pulled a muscle and promptly co-opted it
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slasherhqs · 2 years
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🔪   .   𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙼𝙸𝙲𝙴   𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳     —    archie renaux as the anti-hero?  /  hi hi ! do u have any most wanted fcs pls? in general or for ur most wanted tropes? 
yes  to  archie  !  i  hope  you  don’t  mind  that  i  answered  these  both  at  the  same  time  ,  anons  .  but  we  have  a  most  wanted  and  a  fc  help  tag  that  has  our  current  mw  fcs  and  fcs  that  could  fit  for  our  most  wanted  tropes  ! 
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effeminate-wastrel · 3 months
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you’re sooooooooo pretty 🥺 if you got a tattoo that you need to spread to show off i would die of hot girl
god right? and i would die of BEING hot girl probably so that's two dead hot girl(??)s! uh oh! also y'all anonymice are cowards! let your thirst flag fly! it doesn't have to be weird
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trekkie-lkm-archive · 1 month
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Info: Spock/Kirk or Kirk/Spock --
Chess Sex.
Can include any of the following: ~ Two words: strip chess. ~ whoever gets check on the other person can claim a sexual favor ~ whoever loses a chess game has to bottom for sex (bonus for this!) ~ Bones knows, and gets a nervous twitch whenever he hears 'chess.'
Remember, anonymice, Kirk is a genius in his own right. Who says he wouldn't win or lose intentionally? GO FORTH AND KINK! (thread)
Note: No fills, but two recs attached to thread, both TOS
Rec: 1/2
Author: Sephaya
[Unable to archive due to locked fic]
Rec: 2/2
Author: Islaofhope
[Archived above]
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thrulerofeverything · 5 months
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anonymice
since the end of anonymous is spelled like mouse
:3
Is this an official term agreed on by the community?
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sigmadecay · 1 year
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I posted 10,177 times in 2022
698 posts created (7%)
9,479 posts reblogged (93%)
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I tagged 3,827 of my posts in 2022
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Longest Tag: 138 characters
#it’s less of a financial thing & more of a ‘which of my friends will willingly go to germany for a three day metal festival with me’ thing
My Top Posts in 2022:
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Honestly, sticking a spoon in your sleeping brother’s mouth and taking an embarrassing photo of him, only for him to get really, really defensive is peak older brother & I respect that.
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John Winchester I’m going to kill you
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Does Dean only process the world through pop culture references
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My #1 post of 2022
Hey I made a survey :) got into a deangirl vs samgirl argument w my bestie which prompted this lmao
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newjenns · 2 years
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hi gnf anonymice. My ex gf wants to roleplay DNF
? you have to be lying to me there’s no way
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jkrockin · 4 months
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Concerning the Steddie au of the ‘can’t be your weed guy cause I’m in love with you’ scenario….. is that real and do you have a link pls thank you I love you
It is real and exists! The delightful Come and Turn the Tide by gayhandshake, featuring some magnificent "didn't know they were dating" idiocy from Eddie. I don't remember if links work in asks now but let's have a crack at it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46697275
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faeymouse · 10 months
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Have you done #35? If not, can you draw Prinz with that one?
I haven't! Thanks for asking for it :)
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His office desk looks like a really fun place to sit and steeple your hands menacingly at
From this color palette challenge!
(And lineart below the cut if anyone is interested)
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curiosity-killed · 2 months
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hey! sorry to bother you if you already know/aren't interested, but that one bolero you as far as I can tell recognised from 3 stills (ballet superpowers???) is on youtube. I think I searched "roberto bolle sanremo" or something equally simple
not a bother at all!! :D I'm still delighted and bewildered by Roberto Bolle (who usually only shows up on my Instagram either through Marianela Nunez posting about her friends [casual] or Min from Cloud & Victory's thirst memes) showing up on tumblr haha
For anyone else interested, here's the Sanremo performance
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and, for fun, here's Sylvie Guillem performing the full piece
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and the ballet superpowers in question are really just that Bolero is (so far as I know) the only ballet that involves a) a big red table for the soloist(s) and b) everyone (including women) topless* in black pants 😅 it's pretty distinct
*technically the women are wearing nude leotards but the impression of toplessness/nudity is still there
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jinxedwood · 2 months
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someday, i know that some-fuckin-day, i'll receive an email saying that a new chapter of bound to blood has been posted. someday....
SOMEDAY!
(it will happen, I promise, my brain just isn't cooperating at the moment.)
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slasherkisss · 4 years
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Can i ask how Hannibal Lector and the sinclair brothers feel about having a S/O who really talks down about themself a lot? Like They just have really low self esteem and just.. It shows,,
Slashers with An S/O Who Talks Themselves Down
Hannibal Lecter:
You literally do it ONCE and it activates Hannibal’s therapist mode faster than you can say ‘psychoanalysis’
“Why do you think that, Y/N?”
You really should no better than to try arguing or talking down at yourself with Hannibal as your boyfriend, but you learn the hard way when he sits you on his lap and leans you on his chest, running his hands through your hair as he listens to your concerns and thoughts of yourself
Is the most patient with you on things like these, taking his time to go over thoughts with you and discuss why you think them/find the origins of them
He has a lot of healthy coping mechanisms and distractions up his sleeves
The moment you start talking down to yourself he whips one out and its impressive how fast he can get your mind off of things
On particularly bad nights, though, he’s content with simply keeping you in his arms and going over every single reason why he loves you and thinks you’re wonderful
Bo Sinclair:
Bo gets angry about it the first few times he hears you doing it
He’ll yell at you about how he hates you talking like that about yourself and how you should know damn well that it isn’t true
It’s sweet sentiment but it’s ruined by the fact that he gets so angry over it and probably sends you running off crying
He has to find you hours later when he’s calmer and wraps you in a strong hug and all but pulls you into his lap as he sighs into your shoulder
Apologizes for yelling but tells you that he means it when he says you shouldn’t do it to yourself
“Yer the most amazin’ thing in my life, darlin’, and hearing you say that shit about yourself… It just ain’t true and, if I gotta stay right here and tell you every single reason why you’re amazing then I guess we’ll be here all night.”
It gets a laugh out of you and he smiles, kissing you and dragging you back into the house to keep good on that promise
He’ll still get angry a few of the times, but as long as you’re working towards recognizing it then he’ll learn to calm down faster
Vincent Sinclair:
So confused as to why you talk to yourself the way that you do. Like. Genuinely he doesn’t understand
You think you’re ugly and can’t do anything right? That’s not true and he knows it. He thinks you’re gorgeous and that you always do your best in things. That you always try and are amazing
He just. Can’t quite get the words out to say it to you
Likely it ends up with him sculpting you in a wax figure, pointing to it to show how beautiful he thinks you are. As if the example of yourself will help you. It’s very flattering
If it doesn’t work, though, he might consider just writing a letter to you. The letter says all the things he thinks are wonderful about you and how he knows how it feels to want to constantly harm and talk yourself down past your potential
Will try to find you a hobby that you can pour your passion into and vent your feelings in! Whether it be art or working out or whatever you’re into, he’ll be there to support you and keep your mind off of it all
Always there to hug you tight to him and nuzzle the back of your neck, bringing you close to him and muttering muted words of praise against your neck on extra bad nights
He’s an angel about it is my point we don’t deserve Vincent Sinclair
Lester Sinclair:
It genuinely hurts Lester to hear you talk about yourself the way you do
Has a similar reaction to Vincent in that he’s completely confused about why you talk yourself down all the time? Like to him you’re amazing?
Only he won’t hesitate to tell you that
You’re driving in his truck with him when you make a passing comment about your feelings towards yourself when he slows his car to a dead stop and faces you with genuine worry knitted on his brows
“Now why would you say that darlin? I ain’t never heard more of a bullshit sayin’ in my life!”
“But it’s true and-”
“True my ass! Y/N you’re fucking amazing!”
“No i’m not!”
“You are to me.”
It’s just such a genuine and soft sentiment that he states with little to no embarrassment, having no filter for those sort of things, and it makes you fifty different shades of flustered as he smiles and hugs you close, kissing your forehead
“There’s that cute grin!”
Gets you your favorite snack or takes you on a walk around the town to try and cheer you up when you get too down about yourself, and is generally very supportive about everything! The best boy honestly
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