#now that’s what i call irony

[weldnas]

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#Seeing the dune part 2 american centric red carpet and as a devoted aficionado of the books and yk a moroccan person here are my 2 cents #Dune was one of the few Western works inspired by MENA culture that that felt genuine and respectful #But ofc despite the profound symbiosis with Middle Eastern and North African culture evident within the pages of the novels #the movie adaptation lack of substantive representation from these communities both in on-screen portrayals and within production roles was #very much disappointing in part 1 and i doubt there are any change now #While drawing inspiration from the Amazigh peoples of Algeria and Morocco #the film barely skims the surface of its MENA influences leaving substantial potential untapped #Herbert openly acknowledged the profound impact of Islam and MENA culture on his noveIs #from the metaphorical representation of Spice as oil #to the allegorical parallels drawn between the occupation of Arrakis and real-world MENA geopolitics #By marginalizing Arabs from the narrative fabric of Dune the essence of the story is being undermined particularly its anti-colonial core #the irony of this is kiIIing me because this was a direct resuIt of us impérialism on the middIe east #But the reality is that Dune is an American production tailored for an American audience so it makes sense for it to be what it is now #a big production running from its original essence #What adds to my disappointment is the fact that I liked Villeneuve's adaptation of Incendies and I had what you call foolish hope hfhg #Dune feIt Iike a squandered opportunity to authentically depict the cultural milieu that inspired it #Given the narrative's inherent anti-colonial themes #the omission of Arab and North African voices dilute its message if any of it is even left #without representation from Arabs and Amazigh people the cultural essence becomes another appropriated resource watered down to an aestheti #rather than serving as a critique of the destructive actions of colonialists seeking power and dominance #the narrative becomes susceptible to distortion and co-option by the very entities it was intended to condemn and hold accountable

[spark-circuit]

not me getting jumpscared because i forgot there was a location called this in BL3, lmao

#the irony of this civilization getting destroyed too huh #borderlands #borderlands 3 #bl3 #ultrakill #ultrakill minos prime #minos prime #spark talks about nothing of relevance #now that's what i call shitposting #ultrakill spoilers #spoiler warning

[p-perkeys]

Don’t mind me, I’m just reading things

#marvel #Sabertooth #victor creed #daken akihiro #death of Wolverine #how about I beat you at cards for a while #then some years from now me and other mes will kill ya #you know for your dads birthday #your dad that’s dead right now #is this what they call irony?

[gunpowdercarousel]

I'm sorry but isn't that name a little too obvious?

#the scambots are literally calling themselves 'scam' now #i can't tell if this is just a randomly chosen name or if it's deliberate #is this reverse psychology? #is this advanced irony? #or have they just given up? #also what happened to the first two receiving-scams?

[dinosaur-mayonnaise]

So I know that 'flawless' isn't the most perfect translation of Oda's ability, but something about Fukazawa calling this 'the most flawless strike of my life' while he was kind of looking into the future to realise what he was about to do-

don't mind me i'm just sobbing.

#the fact that being able to see into the future just ALWAYS ends tragically #first with oda in the fight with mimic when he realised that no matter what he was done for #and now with fukazawa realising that he couldn't stop his attack #again #i know it's not the exact translation #but i feel like calling this 'flawless' in the series has this sort of cruel irony to it #because what the characters witness that's about to happen IS flawless #except that doesn't mean it's good #it just means its inevitable #bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd oda #bsd fukazawa #fukufuku

[silverislander]

being on the internet is so fun. i can come watch one of my childhood heroes make a whole twitter thread cyberbullying random women she's never met, putting anyone who says that's kind of mean on blast and then blaming them for the hate she sent their way via her hundreds of thousands of radicalized followers!

#like. jesus fucking christ #i dont expect better from her but its so fucking sad at its core. its just fucking pathetic #and thinking abt what her work meant to me and how much i loved it? and what it got me through? #i was reading these books to escape being bullied for seven years on end they quite literally kept me alive sometimes as silly as that is #yeah they sucked in a lot of ways i didnt pick up on but they were really important to me as a kid! #i would like to at least look back on birthday parties and road trips going 'well that wasnt perfect but i had fun and now ive learned' #rather than 'god i wish i had never heard of that' #and now shes. doing almost the exact same thing those people did to me on a larger scale. basically for a living #if she knew me shed probably call me the same shit they did back then. how sad is that #levi.txt #i genuinely want to know if she knows who anita bryant is. and if she can name anything specific anita did before campaigns #but then shed probably think of her as a fucking hero too. no sense of irony in her body #i just feel so fucking awful for the poor women shes calling out in those april fools posts. i hope theyre doing ok #i hope they can get away from the harassment somehow bc ive heard abt how intense it can be when it comes from her #and i hope they know theyre better women than shell ever be. its such a deeply mean spirited 'joke'

[thyandrawrites]

Ah. So that's how it works. And here I thought he was gonna turn into a human suture thread. This reveal is somewhat underwhelming compared to the wild image I had built in my head

"there's a ninja in my body keeping my wounds sealed shut. It's fucking weird. A whole-ass tiny person with tiny arms in there. Sometimes I'll be yelling at Half and Half over poorly chopped chives and feel a tug in my chest and remember he's there. Squeezed into a straw to stitch me together. He cannot hear me or see me but that bitch is judging me, I can feel it. I never struggled to fall asleep before but now I toss and turn in bed for hours every day. It's hell. I owe him my life but I don't think he thought this through."

"quit telling people I'm dead"

"Sometimes I can still hear his voice. I feel like I'm going insane"

#Bnha #Bnha spoilers #Kind of? Well either way have a shitpost #I had half a mind to add kaminari's input there but I spared you that vivid image #So I'm gifting it those brave enough to read the tags instead #Kaminari: do you think he hates it? Being constantly wet? #Bakugou: ... #Kaminari: i think he must hate it. Stewing in there. Like a noodle floating in human broth. Forever #Bakugou: did you just call my insides human broth #Kaminari: yeah? #Bakugou: I don't even have the energy to blast you right now. What the hell? /laughs hysterically/ fucking udon. The irony. shit. Fuck

[worstloki]

I actually find it hilarious on a metafictional level that the episode where Thor was raised an only child makes him big on partying violently as his main trait because that is in canon how Thor was before Thor 1 anyway—Sif mentions how he used to celebrate for weeks in TDW and the careless violence is a given—alongside no mention of Hela (and somehow this makes Odin peaceful? As if that shouldn’t be the other way around...) and having replaced the concept of What If Loki Was Worthy they were originally going to go with

#the irony the drama where do I start #they were so hung up on making sure people knew Loki couldn’t be inherently good that they forgot he was Thor’s foil in Thor 1 #lmao #it’s like even when they made him neutral they did it at the cost of...... Thor? Thor buddy you’re hardly in an AU #that’s just regular Thor on Olympus I’m calling it now #What If? #Thor 4 #that’s literally just Thor #you went in a circle and ended up with Thor #regular Thor

[antiqua-lugar]

I always imagined Caradoc as feeling extremely guilty in the ending for picking himself (and Gale) over Orpheus and the liberation of the Gythianki people (nevermind how he really did not want to follow Karlach to Avernus, thank the gods for Wyll), but now that I made him a low-key follower of Ilmater it's kind of turning into a small religious crisis.

Like he isn't the biggest believer but he has always tried to do The Right Thing and that probably was not The Right Thing and he did it entirely for selfish motivations and yeah he is feeling guilty but he is not feeling even a little bit sorry. He would 100% do it again.

But also he figures it's gonna be hard to sell to Ilmater when he kicks the bucket.

Or is it?

Does he have enough faith in Ilmater about this? (Considering the Illmater novices we see in the game I think Caradoc has zero to worry about. "Your honour, I did the best I could but I crossed the line at turning into a squid because I really love my husband, friends and family and I wanted to be with them" still beats "One refugee killed Father Logan so now they should all die in the streets")

#antiqua plays bg3 #the irony that gale would have 100% not cared if he turned into a squid but caradoc would have cared enough to kill himself on the docks #bg3: caradoc #bg3 caradoc #this is a bit of a moot point as he is probably gonna convert to whatever gale wants to convert to so they can be together in the afterlife #right now it could be kelemvor but who knows #i wanna believe in peepaw withers calling dibs in the afterlife #if nothing else because I think that it would be more fun for them to have some actual work rather than #...than just chilling? I have no clue what people do in the d&d afterlife I am picturing a Good Place situation without the arc #I also have no clue what people do in most IRL religious afterlives aside from just chilling #also the wiki is telling me that ilmater is actually pretty forgiving so I guess caradoc gets forgiven considering EVERYTHING ELSE HE DID

[jrueships]

isaiah hehe

PLEASE TELL ME YOURE TALKING ABOUT THOMAS

#THOMAS?? THOMAS!!!!!! #i LOOOOOVE isiah but not in a like cutesy heehee my tiny angel 🥰🥰 who did no wrong bcs mj is BIG MEANIE 😠😠!! way #i think he is a calculating little cretin who tries rlly hard to seem the angel to save face but in reality #is very much. not mr angel face #like he started off as a hero for chicago and detroit and then mj came and took everything away from him #including magic LOL #so now hes kind of like the unfortunate never meant to be hero villain who sort of embraces it until it goes too far #and rlly honestly misses being lauded in a heroic light so hes desperate to do anything thatll turn the tables but hes already dug his grave #with his actions and the season has already been cancelled early so a redemption arc is practically impossible but he cant understand that #bcs hes part of the show and not the one behind it despite all his thinking b4 as the hidden little puppet master #IDK i just LOOVEE all the sick kinda irony surrounding him like i looove ironic fates for ironic people it's just soo Interesting to me #i wouldnt call him Pathetic or helpless.. bcs thats what he wants u to think so he can keep in the secret advantage #BUT... hes rlly not as put together as he pretends to be. so u have this weird balance thats also a Liiittle off kilter #if u shift ur glance a certain way.. #idk LOL it's like watching a coiled spring like. is it all gonna set off. or not. hes just. ugh. so fascinating to me #i looove writing him but also no one cares abt old ppl so i have to keep my delusions to myself 😭 #BUT I LOVE EXPANDING ON THEM SO THANK U FOR THE CHANCE #ted tumbunity things #zeke the freak #he is a scrungy but elegant goblin. best i can describe him is that evil little girl from cats dont dance LMFAO #and bill is the big butler that he punches and breaks his hand on

[backseatloversz]

just saw heartstopper get called unrealistic bc the queer ppl are happy sometimes............and they have queer friends and alliances and places they know theyre safe.............and also undermining the heavier topics it DID touch on. ??????????????

#queer teens arent all totally miserable all the time!!!!!!! i promise!!!!!!!! its nice to see that REFLECTED!!!!! #queer youth who ARE miserable deserve to see queer teens being happy bc it IS possible!!! i promise!! #the irony of the person who wrote that article talking abt adults clearly never knowing how to accurately write what its like to be a teen #right now. like. Yah #it didnt say the show was BAD but. crazy #crazy it got called unrealistic......that queer ppl were happy sometimes #wh. whwhwjwhhwhajah #cowboy posts

[bbnibini]

"This is like Kingdom Hearts but with hot Bible boys"

-My best friend after I showed them my outlines for the CYOA

Girl, bye 💀

#and we're both really tired and just got off work #are we high maybe??? #on what?? hot bible boys omg im gonna use that from now on #obey me #at one point theyre like...'everyone is a simp especially that rat boy' #they called barbs a rat boy kanxisosjdbudodkdd #the sweet irony #blurbs #possibly delete later #just posting this out of affection #i love them adore them. they'll be too powerful when they play this game.

[firstluvlatespring]

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#idk what the hell i am going through but my inability to do things rn is looking like active sabotage to me rn #knew i needed to do something -> made the template/prepped for it -> didn't actually do it -> employer then lowkey calls me out on it. #like i knew i had to get something done and i did it but i did not flag it at all and now the time has passed and my employer has noticed #and held me accountable (rightfully so) #but i did not act on it like why am i stopping juat before the finish line #this is related to work volunteer work and personal life like what #i used to be so disciplined and excited for everything #the irony is that today is my one year work anniversary and i am feeling this type of way #coworkers are wishing me well and twlling me that i am good contribution to the team and i feel nothing #combination of burnout depression anxiety and stress am i right

[fertilizing-daffodils]

…..damn it. I know I’m just sad and mad. I’m smad. And now I’m smangry because I can’t think of the actual word.

#damn she really just said 'lol bye forever' and dipped huh #that used to be what I would do #just here one day and then all gone the next #like i get it do what you gotta do and protect your own peace #but jesus christ dude you lived in my house #you called me your friend and told me you loved me and i cared for you and trusted so much of myself to you #its obvious my partner meant more to you than I did by a long shot but you left her without a thought too #its horrible irony that this spiraled because we couldnt figure out how to have a conversation about it with everyone on the same page #and now i guess she's decided that we arent worth the wait #which fine we were half worried she'd try to physically assault me after finding out anyway #granted i'd let her have at least one good hit in if she truly wanted (cuz i still think i deserve worse) #but keeping my wife from losing it on her for touching me would be a whole other story #edit: bleh it’s all still true and I deserve what I get for being a real shitty friend #she doesn’t even know how shitty of a friend #I guess it just bothers me that my partner’s friendship was so easily tossed aside #I know I should care more about myself but I just don’t want to right now