Great work, @VisitNotts!

You failed the Don't Invite The Nazis Challenge 2024.https://t.co/J0gL9gj154 pic.twitter.com/CXO3C97a9z

—  Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com 🟦)🇺🇦 (@waitmanb) May 18, 2024

https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1792122643694436527

https://twitter.com/weewoono/status/1792121206772056472

https://twitter.com/NeonEcho1/status/1792007094352142417

https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1791949017833701415

https://twitter.com/lifesdrunk/status/1792153555350016223

https://twitter.com/cagyphoenix/status/1791947280548848070

https://twitter.com/Osteichthyes12/status/1792071169778282746

https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1792117129044799660

This guy totally owned him by calling him a disgusting person:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/4eDGYZsfv5

This guy signed him up for furry newsletters:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/3YR36p7Z1M

This guy sent him bussy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/K9mpyHLzPQ

This guy posted hog (with warts):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/7Mk2Urdf7D

Are landlords even people?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/d7PVwOY8Jy

I bought a mobile home for my mother to live in and she died a few months later. I've been trying to sell it ever since and have had sooo many people tell me that I should just rent it out, which I technically can't do because it's supposed to be owner or close family occupied, but even if I could, I just don't think I'd want to ever be a landlord, partly because it's too much trouble and partly because I'd have to make a choice between either squeezing someone for all I can, which I have an ethical problem with, or charging them well below market rent, which just seems irrational. Better to sell the darn thing and not have to worry about it anymore.

Sound financial choice bro!

I texted the number and told him he should be ashamed of himself, and he called me a few mins later. I didn't answer because I'm a b-word but it confirmed there was someone on the other end receiving things.

This unfortunately was removed by Reddit, appears to be a super sweet burn with cat facts though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/xCViS02POJ

This guy made a hilarious Google review as Reginald P Moneybags and wants upvotes!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/lxUJBfKSY4

This guy said frick you to him! So brave!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/qpaGyyRmzf

This guy is in debt (lol) but no fear, now the landchad will get those calls so this guy will totally not have to pay!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/Eb5kqalMis

This guy is extra evil:

Sent him a really disrespectful text. Don't feel bad about it he deserved it. I can't stand these types of people. Hope you find a good place soon OP

Literally no one who isn't brain dead says this:

Remember, there are people out the we that will insist that renting is 100% better than buying...

At least there's one person supporting landlord rights:

Tip him

Tom Holland’s POV: https://t.co/xKsu161bjK pic.twitter.com/1bbHwJ1czR

— jaylenz (@itsJaylenz) May 15, 2024

!commies

Jesus Christ, lady, I hope your book has paragraphs!

Let's chop this up a bit.

...it's in a fantasy setting, it also has a coming of age aspect to it and takes place over about 6 years, and they age from 12-18. im thinking hard about how to write them right in their early ages, like 12-14, and i feel like i'm doing it wrong. i'm putting more focus on their character and specific personalities but i'm wondering if, as a girl, maybe i'm accidentally making them too “girly” and “soft.”

i like to make them enjoy the simple things in life, like exploring and enjoying nature, and they also like to talk about their feelings and their hurts. but is that a thing boys do? im trying to make them realistic but sometimes i forget that i was never a boy and i'll never know what it is like to be a boy. and to top it all off, it's a gay romance (it takes awhile though, so they're just friends in the beginning). it just happened to be that way, i wanted a romance that wasn't straight and i felt my story didn't fit two girls (again, there's a difference but idk what it is!)

... i just want these characters to feel real and not how i “think” they're supposed to be. i can't decide if gender is just a construct and it doesn't matter if they're a boy or a girl, or if their outlook on life IS different and they should be written differently. both? what mistakes should i avoid in writing male leads when i'm not a male?

"Have you tried adding reason and accountability?"

Nah, it's a good question. Writing any type of romance you haven't been in is obviously challenging. Writing the opposite s*x requires observation skills, reading and engaging with their work (a bitter pill for moids), and a healthy imagination. You also have to be able to set aside your preconceptions about how people should work, and your desire to fix them. For example, in this case it's not just that men usually don't talk about our feelings, or that we feel uncomfortable doing so. Often, we don't want to. How do these sorts of things affect a developing gay relationship?

But as usual, /r/writing offers reassurance instead of seriously engaging with an OP who wants real answers. Many also get bogged down making very important points about gender.

It being a fantasy setting changes the answer. Boys/girls/men/women tend to be different but a lot of that is a result of the cultural environment in which they were raised. The jury is still out in exactly what elements are genetic vs environmental. But that largely doesn't matter because environment shapes how behavioural genetics do or do not manifest anyway.

Since this is your setting, gender roles and attitudes can realistically be whatever you want. If you even wanted to aim for realism in the first place. If you want boys to be soft in your setting then they are.

It's MY SETTING, and I get to pick the gender roles!!

If you were writing about two average adolescent boys growing up in Anywhere, USA, I'd say it's pretty unlikely they'd talk deeply about their feelings. Many of us aren't even taught to be aware of our feelings. There are exceptions, of course. But typically, they'd probably mull things over in the privacy of their own heads while doing some other shared activity, like dropping bigger and bigger rocks into a lake, throwing dirt clods at a hornet's nest, or building the coolest tree fort ever.

But this is learned behavior, and gender totally is a social construct. You get to decide what being "male" means in your fantasy world, and whether or not you want to make it analogous to modern western, Judeo-Christian culture.

Actual good advice to tell a story about boys erased in real time by genderslop.

Depends on what your fictional society expects of them and if your fictional society has gender roles they are expected to conform to.

In my fictional society, sexy women with big tits are expected to throw themselves at members of !bookworms and !writecel

Of course you can write a world with different social "rules." But the farther it diverges, the less it has to say about real people in our own world, and the more it has to say about the author's own desires and hangups. Might as well say some coomer's monster girl erotica is commentary about female gender roles.

Given your inspiration, I recommend you research homosexuality and pedecrasty in Sparta and Thebes. I'd also suggest looking at Afghan's Bacha Posh to explore the notion of gender vs construct.

This isn't actually out of nowhere because the full OP mentioned "The Song of Achilles," but lmao

... When writing either gender, it's easy to make characters unbelievably confident or strong in their emotions, knowledge, or physical abilities. Making a teen male emotionally literate stops you having a weakness to their character that would otherwise ring true.

Differentiate your characters from each other. Give them flaws. Let their differences and flaws produce tension. Two guys who are just soft and sensitive and slowly start touching peepees isn't a story. Even a hack writer would make one of them the emotional one and the other the moody, silent one or whatever.

A couple more people actually gave decent advice, like here, but of course low effort "You're perfect just the way you are!" advice is upvoted while interesting stuff is near the bottom.

As a straight man, I'll never understand this trend. If the men in your gay romance act like women, why make them men at all? Reading gay erotica should be a form of escapism where you can imagine loving relationships without having to deal with women. At least, that's why I read it.

⚡️BREAKING

Fars News reports that contact with the helicopter transporting the Iranian president has been lost. pic.twitter.com/3r1HLs9Huj

— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) May 19, 2024

To my fellow Android custom ROM enthusiasts, I highly advise you uninstall and stop supporting @projectelixiros.

It doesn't matter if this is retaliation for poking around, this is immoral and incredibly irresponsible. One bit flip could ruin your biggest sponsors. pic.twitter.com/OqATqymt9h

— JoshuaDoes for President 2024 (@TheNotesOfJosh) May 18, 2024

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/100546675

i lived in a walkable neighborhood and it was one of the most racist, fatphobic, homophobic places i’ve ever lived. my anxiety became debilitating. i began to hate leaving my house bc of the way ppl on the street treated me. my overall health declined and i’m still recovering https://t.co/48FHlK8TWO

— chairbreaker, phd (@dr_chairbreaker) May 13, 2024

Mean reply:

https://twitter.com/Black90Prupayne/status/1790536455112032649

Above was first thread about the drama

Below is the second, bigger and older.

I will add separate comments soon :)

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/?sort=controversial

''all of these threads in asianamerican were astroturfed by white people...right?"

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4i988s/?context=8&sort=controversial

'im afraid that our safe space ThR SRD will be taken over by chuds, this very thread seems astroturfed'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4iajm9/?context=8&sort=controversial

'But ghost of Tsushima exists'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4i522f/?context=8&sort=controversial

'Asian subreddits on reddit are so shit, I fear to acknowledge that I as asian have a reddit account'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4im1al/?context=8&sort=controversial

'Hollywood has an issue with portraying Asian male character, however this isn't a case of that..because Yasuke is very important folk hero'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4i7r8c/?context=8&sort=controversial

' why the frick did Ubisoft make an actual historical figure a main character'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4ia3ji/?context=8&sort=controversial

'I'm an Asian American I'm and I have an issue with this game'

'shut up, it's up to Asian males to speak up and out. To White Hollywood. Just like you guys are making a stink of this. Give the same energy to Hollywood. Let them know you need representation that's positive.

Just like Black Americans.'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4ignf0/?context=8&sort=controversial

'true japanese don't care'

'Oh so theyre japanese when they agree with you and secretly white when they dont

Funny how that works'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cuedus/rasianamerican_is_outraged_at_yasuke_being_the/l4ilqh4/?context=8&sort=controversial

Askhistorians link about Yasuke

Totally fine yet this was written after all the evidence given

'If you've read this and all my other posts and links on Yasuke and still don't believe Yasuke was a samurai, then you either a) prefer to believe your own bias over historical research or b) should post an academic level publication from a PhD level researcher arguing Yasuke wasn't a samurai so I could read it.'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cusf84/im_mad_at_what_we_lost_for_the_sake_of_diversity/l4l8xua/?context=8&sort=controversial

'My assumption is that people whose culture is being put on display want the avatar experiencing their culture to be a direct representation of the average member of that culture rather than a liminal figure.'

'your assumption is wrong because japanese people don't give a shit about AC'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cusf84/im_mad_at_what_we_lost_for_the_sake_of_diversity/l4la2qq/?context=8&sort=controversial

'even if asian men care, they should shut up, women are misrepresented more, black and asian' ( a known twox and srd poster Felinomancy)'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cusf84/im_mad_at_what_we_lost_for_the_sake_of_diversity/l4lqmvo/?context=8&sort=controversial

CHERRY ON TOP OF THE POST

LONGEST DOWN VOTED COMMENT CHAIN

'Both sides only care about this dude, because his black, he was not that significant in Japanese history at all.

PLUS - OP, the anti chud warrior makes a comment AGAINST HOTEPS AND GETS DOWN VOTED. Only in SRD

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cusf84/im_mad_at_what_we_lost_for_the_sake_of_diversity/l4ksxax/?context=8&sort=controversial

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This is how stupid people have become. (-7)

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That sucks. I guess the only BBQ place I can go now is La Barbecue. They might be white, but at least they're women. Bonus points because they're lesbians. (21)

How is that comment not racist?Just imagine if it was the other way around (-7)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

So, anything with black in the title is automatically considered a minority owned business? Edgar Black Sr. Started Black's BBQ in Lockhart, TX in 1931 or 1932. It's a family owned business that kinda started out of a cattle farm. (-11)

Angriest Comments

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😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀💀💀this has me crying how many of yall think this post is real. (11)

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You racist moron. It's a family name who's been supporting the Austin community for decades. Yet here you are disgusted that a restaurant is owned by white people. Yet the saying goes back people can't be racist 🙄 absolutely disgusting human being you are. Frick you (-9)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡🔘

They should be forced to change the name of the store, I would try suing on grounds of false advertisement to push them in that direction.Once you win thr lawsuit, we need to shame them into changing their last name too. No room for names that propagate racism like that in this day and age. I'm disgusted (1)

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R-slur's only problem seems to be that Ted won't stop talking about having s*x with other men, but Ted has other issues

and their fight has ended, with absolutely nothing gained or learned from it:

she has continued to text spal

!pnw Redditors are enjoying the never ending crime wave.

Same happend to me last month in a parking garage right next to my work

Did you also park like a jackass?

Literal victim blaming

Had my Gass tank drilled into for $5 worth of gass.. cost about $2400 to fix had to pay 800 out of pocket .

Just needed something to huff real quick

Just happened to me in Ballard Friday. A fun night out at the tractor tavern turned into me being pissed off.

Some frickhead drilled into my silverados fuel tank two weeks ago in ballard to steal $60 worth of gas. Frick these drugged out homeless criminals.

Some tweaker was always wandering around my office, then one night I found my window smashed. Whoever smashed it (I have a pretty good idea) stole my girlfriend's gym bag, which was filled with stinky laundry and nothing else.

I hate to tell ya…but that might have been all he wanted… 😤 lol

First off - sorry this happened to you Second - I can't express this enough - Seattle has become a dangerous place to raise a family and try to grow personally and / or wealth. It is unfortunate - but the support systems that are supposed to be in place (police, legal, mental health, public offices) are failing to stop this. The crumbling of the support systems - and the "act like it's everyone else's problem" is what drove me to move my family after 25 years in Seattle. it's sad.

Woah let's settle down there. Raising a family is perfectly fine here. Making money here is perfectly fine. I would suggest traveling the rest of the country if you think otherwise. Seattle has it great in comparison. I'd love to hear where is better.

Um it's not. I speak from what it was 25 years ago until today. You may think it's completely fine but you're masking the societal problems plaguing the city.

I have traveled. I have researched many other cities of same size and moved because of the reasons I cited.

It's fine if you think it's ok. I don't have a beef with you but in reality most folks in Seattle are in denial and defensive of their city. I get it. I was you 10 years ago.

One other comical point. I find that the people of Seattle will spend more time debating on line about how great the city is instead of working with their elected officials or community to change things.

I tired for a while and gave up after futile efforts with city council.

The votes of r-slurs like this are what put the city in such a shit position in the first place. They will literally vote for easy on crime DA/politicians until the are culturally enriched to death by a tweaker

This is what happens when you have Democrats in control

Absolute moron. Red states have statistically higher crime rates, but facts are hard to comprehend I guess

!dixie know about red states but blue cities

And !chuds know what the south has in abundance that accounts for that statistical anomaly.

But in reality many cities are underreporting or not reporting their crime or pulling the jap method of if we can't solve it we don't acknowledge it ever happened.

This is why I just leave my vehicle unlocked. I keep nothing inside of any value and if there are going to break in, I'd rather not deal with a busted window. Haven't had a problem since other than someone stealing altoids from my console

People are desperate. This will keep happening until we put down real social networks. If we got rid of the moratorium on public housing and started working towards reversing the damages done since the 70s crime would lower in a lot of ways because housing our disabled and criminally ill would also get people off illegal drugs since that's partially why we don't have public housing is so that we have a prison class we can exploit for slave labor

I almost respect the dedication it takes to reject reality. It has to be hard work.

There is plenty of cope, rage, and idiocy in the comments to enjoy

Although one should always be skeptical and critical of what is posted on the 'farms, this accusation is so serious and, with far-reaching enough implications and consequences that I believe it is worth bringing forth before the users of this site. Today at 10:22 AM CEST time a user by the name of Coolio55 posted the following post on rDrama's community watch thread on Kiwifarms:

Turns out that that one image Homoshrexual posted on CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM's wall (The latter @ ing everyone to it) may have been 'p. Whoops!

To which Seafarer replied by calling dramatards attention-whore r-slurs and comparing them with soyteens:

Why is the Farms the only E-gossip site with a user base that isn't filled with the most braindead r-slurs on the planet? Everything on websites like /r/drama and soyjak.party feels very attention whorey, like everyone is always in a competition to shock or gross other users out.

Discuss:

Caitlin Clark has arrived for her first @WNBA game 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ni3qbmP4BK

— Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) May 14, 2024

And this is the trad wifey you end up with irl:

Yikes stop noticing:

Same vibe:

Also Meek Mill is a b-word:

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https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1cplgqv/too_racy_for_times_square_an_ad_for_lactation/?sort=controversial

!dramatards !oldstrags

Journotards are scoing it really well for the most part, you know they like their walking sims because it's a art, but it really looks like boring, annoying slog.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii/

Metacritic score is sitting at 81%, not terrible in most circumstances but Xbox could really use a smash hit, not a polarizing walking sim RN.

Some quotes from the Reddit post:

Puzzles and combat are too easy and there is no variety in either

That sucks. Especially the part about the puzzles. The lack of puzzle variety was my main gripe with the first title. Pretty presentation can only carry so far.

I just got to the first puzzle and it's the exact same "find the symbol in the environment" puzzle from the first game.

Remember to recycle kids

Gene Park of Washington Post reports in his review (Which he scores at around 2.5/4) that apparently, the sequel feels a lot smaller in a sense than the previous game, such as how the combat seems to have been simplified quite heftily:

The sequel is a lesser game than its predecessor. There are fewer combat mechanics in play, removing the melee button and directional attacks and replacing them with nothing. Perspective puzzles to make background details match rune symbols return, unevolved from the 2017 model. The scale of the puzzles are also smaller, as the game's level design has shrunk. The former game had larger areas with vertical structures. This game's level design is mostly a straight line, with a few small puzzle areas to break up the pacing.

The first game had a surprisingly large variety of moves you could pull off, but they were mostly unnecessary and poorly explained. From the little I've played, the sequel seems to have cut them out completely in favor of cinematic fighting. Blocking counters light attacks and dodging counters heavy attacks. That's it for both you and the enemy.

Just played 2 hours of it. Its like a really long cutscene with gameplay segments. Like really this is more of a visual experience than an interactive take that as you will. Even the combat feels more like a quick time event than actual free form combat. The game is one continuous shot with no cuts no loading and no clear barrier between cutscene and gameplay.

After a few hours of this, I'm starting to feel like the game lost the special touch of the first game's voices. Now they're usually just spouting exposition or pointing out the obvious, as if they don't have anything interesting to say and the devs just needed to write something to make them talk non-stop.

From the little gameplay I've seen, it really does seem like endless ASMR-like yapping. I know that " it's the point of the game dude it's supposed to emulate psychosis thay consulted with real psychosis patients!!" but if the point of the game is to annoy me until I turn it off it doesn't sound like something worth playing

Just completed 200 days straight on Alchohol + Cocaine.

This biohack gets expensive due to tolerance increase.

Currently at $569/day (2l of Johnny walker black and 5-7g of peruvian)

Noticeable benefits

-Zero sexual performance (focused)
-Degenerate sex drive (locked in)… pic.twitter.com/8CmXWyH7Gm

— GALLAGHER 🇨🇦 (@SILVERnBOLD) May 15, 2024

God I wish this was real.

!druggies do you dare to take the challenge?