Taylor Swift on how she responds to people who ridicule her through music:
“Sometimes when people are mocking me, it’s really fun to mock them back. Sometimes I like to use words that they have to look up in order to talk sh*t about.”
RuPaul: Shinji Ikari is here!!!
Shinji: hi mama Ru
RuPaul: Are you ready to show us your charisma uniqueness NERV and talent?
Shinji: Yes mama Ru, I think I can see your entry plug from here
RuPaul: Hahaha, thank you for coming.
@loveandlightok agree with so what is the benefit of giving them any ground and treating them like it’s a reasonable position to have? besides if they’re truly faithful what i have to say about their beliefs shouldn’t bother them
@loveandlightok but like there’s indisputable evidence that organized religion is complete made up bullshit designed to support the specific economies they developed around which maybe it’s fine to let sleeping dogs lie but these bullshit religions are used historically to oppress ppl they don’t
@cementeriodecds or the basic graphic design concept of balancing text equally across the screen….with the giant 2 added having the rest of the title be one line through the middle of the screen would look stupid
@norabird that’s why i said “rule of thumb”. it’s not a hard-set rule, as is virtually nothing in any artistic pursuit, but it’s a generally good guideline to follow
@norabird every writing professor i’ve had has advised against long infodumps at the beginning of whatever you’re writing. the first page is where you lose the most readers and the average reader is turned off by a wall of text, especially one that’s not particularly exciting
@prizzvi i think it just got super overused. like yeah it’s not a poc’s job to give random white ppl detailed lectures on the complexities of racial dynamics but then ppl started saying it in response to reallyyyyy simple questions