Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Nothing says “these people needed more shoving into lockers” than HPMoR 10th anniversary parties.
These chumps are a disgrace to Harry Potter fans, and I say that in full knowledge of how embarrassing Harry Potter fans can be!!!
While not exactly celebration worthy and certainly not worth a tenth anniversary celebration, you could argue HPMoR finally coming to a fucking end by whatever means was a somewhat happy occasion.
So did the series actually end or did it just sort of stop?
It had an actual ending. Not a satisfying one, even by the standards of the rest of the fic, and I remember finding the treatment of Hermione kinda distasteful, but it wasn’t even close to the worst part of the entire story. 3/10.
the author decided to stop publishing texts but instead
lecturetiradepreach unto the thronging youths directlyin person it’s easier to do sketchy shit that won’t immediately get caught by a wider audience, you see?
that was my first read, yeah… and then I realized that’s probably not what the poster meant
Also disturbing that OP’s chosen handle—Screwtape—is that of a fictional demon, Senior tempter. A bit à-propos.
I’d assume that is very intentional, nominative determinism is one of those things a lot of LW style people like. (Scott Alexander being a big one, which has some really iffy implications (which I fully think is a coincidence btw)).
are we really clutching our pearls because someone named themselves after a demon
I wouldn’t say pearl-clutching as much as eye-rolling. Though we do dip into full BEC mode sometimes and the stubsack in particular can swing wildly between moral condemnation, intellectual critique, and calling out straight-up cringe.
…the fuck’s a BEC
Bose–Einstein condensate
You know, I realise I have no idea what a Bose–Einstein condensate is and I can’t help but picturing it as a cup of blue espresso.
“Bitch Eating Crackers” as in "God I hate her, look at that bitch over there eating crackers."When you get sufficiently pissed off at someone that literally anything they do makes you mad.
See also how we sometimes swing pretty wildly between moral condemnation of actions and patterns that objectively make the world a strictly worse place and aesthetic critique of shit that, at the end of the day, is still probably less cringe than I was in high school.