Since last year, I’ve seen this headline around a lot as a description of our current political divide:
But it wasn’t until today that I found out there was a response article to it:
Seriously, this shit would be cartoonish and unbelievable in fiction, and yet someone actually wrote it.
Isn’t there a word about being compelled to do something against your will? Call me silly but I was under the impression that this is, you know, generally a bad thing.
I’m sorry that “saying you should care about people and not be a selfish asshole” is such an oppressive and awful thing to hear. Life must be a real struggle for you, having been attacked by things like Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street as a child.
pet rats r the Most white privileged pet imaginable like there are human beings protesting for their right to sanitary living conditions on Driscol’s berry farm where they work as berry pickers for slave wages living in slave quarters over run with rats killing their children but u put a Christmas sweater on your pet u probably spent half that human beings monthly salary on feeding a disease carrying varmint ew
Damn the response to this post some of the whitest shit I ever read.
literally over half the comments have been from non-white people you absolute child. take your L gracefully and go sit your privileged ass down for being able to use a computer to bitch at people for finding a little happiness in life that in no way affects you or anyone else.
owning pet rats, liking rats, or knowing that make wonderful pets negatively impacts a grand total of zero people. go be bitter and lonely somewhere else, ain’t nobody want you here.
My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.
A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness – they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)
Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.
Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.
Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.
But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.
Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.
WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES?
Because I posted it about 90 seconds ago, calm down.
It doesn’t matter how terrifying or monstrous or deadly you make your eldritch monster, there’s gonna be a person who hauls themselves out of the sewers to tell you that they will personally fuck it.
This post has so many notes and it’s mostly people calling out their friends for being sewer-dwelling awful cryptid fuckers and I love it. Expose them.
Back in highschool I drew weird eldritch crap all the time (shocking everyone, I’m sure). This is one of the ones I liked a lot, and I felt like coloring something so I dragged it out from the grave.
If any TAUer wants a demon design feel free to use this as one, and I suppose you could take some creative liberties if, for some reason, you don’t want your demon to be neon colored with sparkling rainbow eyes.
You get bonus points for having a neon colored demon with sparkling rainbow eyes though.
Original sketch under the cut, if anyone wants to know what it looks like with it’s mouth closed. I took out the tail while coloring it because I just didn’t like the way it looked, and I made the legs weird cause it felt more right.
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