Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from “banal” to “insightful” on the input side and “kind of deep” to “incredibly fucking dumb” on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.
btw to anyone who’s concerned about how the starbucks boycott affects employees: as an ex-barista i can tell you that when business slows down the baristas just vibe and chill in there. they’re fine. and furthermore if sbux starts letting people go or shutting down entire stores, baristas will make it out ok. sbux has a solid severance package for things like this, i lost my job bc of covid and i was covered for several months of pay. the unionized ones are probably even better off. do not even worry about it. there’s better coffee out there anyway
Ship trope I’d love to see more of: “Are we in love? I mean, yeah, probably, but that’s a problem for future us. Right now we’re just trying to make it through the Plot.”
fuck it we crawl 🐛
I think to counter the rash of LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION billboards we should pool our money for a series of roadside advertisements that just say ABORT THAT THANG
Let’s also not forget the intersex kids who are forced into surgeries and hormones with no ability to consent.
Trans and intersex bodily autonomy NOW.
Honest to God I would have killed for puberty blockers as a kid because I started my period at 9 years old.
That is not unusual but it definitely sucked.
hey, don’t cry. one cup heavy whipping cream, two tablespoons granulated sugar, three tablespoons cocoa powder and whisk until stiff peaks form for three ingredient chocolate mousse, okay?
i realized that i like the format because it’s the exact opposite of the recipe blogs with 1000 words before they get to an ingredient list.
i know the ‘is mcdonalds a date’ questions making its rounds but i feel kind of insane bc thats never even been a metric for me. a date is just when someone says its a date. i went on a date w someone to smoke in a building w a caved in cieling in the rain, shoplifted from a gas station paranoid as hell to get them a soft pretzel and then we chased a rat around. where is your sense of adventure people
I’ve always thought it’d be funny if someone on some cop drama tried this move and it just like..didnt work
blood “loss”? well it’s not lost. i know exactly where it went. right over there.
mmm soob
The fight for trans rights bringing about an end to the United Kingdom will be extremely funny.
There’s a popular refrain in Nordie Gaeilgior circles that’s “If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means that you built your state on my land.” it’s actually from a Kurdish writer, Musa Anter.
In the same spirit, if trans people destroy the UK it’s so fragile that it never deserved to exist in the first place.
[vampire voice] a period doesn’t stop anything besides a sentence baby
really like that the “what do you believe the stance vampires generally have towards periods?” question is either met with immediate disgust (loser/skill issue) and shutdown with zero discussion or the most scholarly of debates (normal. well-adjusted and good) for various viewpoints on the matter. people will be saying paragraphs to you. people who i respect, anyway







