Jon Wood's Bad Wasabi: Art-o-stration

gryphknight:

droo216:

hey fun fact about tumblr that apparently only like 6 people know:

only the first 5 tags of an original post show up in the tag

after the first 5, it’s only good for your personal tagging for your blog

and tags on reblogs never go into the tag

so. tag wisely.

This is one thing that could definitely be improved with the recent sale.

So, I’ve basically been wasting my tags all this time.

Girl update:

She started giving me ambiguous symbols, I went “screw it” and posted on Facebook about how I was giving up, and if she liked me, she should have be clearer. I didn’t name her, of course.

Then I felt sick about it like I would with a breakup.

Then she made a post about how she was going on vacation with her family to someplace warmer. The angsty little part of me was hoping she felt so bad that she had to get away, but, logically, the vacation was likely planned months ago.

In other news, I made a post on Reddit about how I would talk to a certain girl -which, inexplicably, got over a dozen downvotes- and “Mike” said I was doubtless some fat smelly neckbeard who wanted to bang the girl* and had conscripted her into my “social fantasies”. “Brian”** concurred, and elaborated that I was going for a “long con” by being friends with the girl (a la your stereotypical passive-aggressive “Nice Guy™”), that I assumed the girl was obligated to sleep with me because I was nice, that I was assuming I was a better catch than I was, and most gallingly, I was “lying to myself” about my “animalistic intentions”.

I took great, great pleasure in demolishing his argument by pointing out that he was making assumptions not only without evidence, but actively counter to my claims, that I was someone who had to actually talk to a girl before he knew if he wanted to have sex with her, that I was attractive enough to have lots of women hitting on me and telling me, with varying degrees of directness, I was attractive - even if I spent most of my life not realizing it - that I said nothing about being a nice guy, and that I was a Conservative Christian who was waiting until he got married to have sex. Basically, every one of his assumptions, though he prefaced it with a desultory “I suspect”, was completely wrong. He did not respond.

“Mike” responded by mocking me for claiming that I was attractive, and said that there are plenty of Christians who were supposedly waiting until marriage that still had sex, and I should probably carry a condom in case some “succubus” manages to seduce me. At no point, of course, did he actually admit he was wrong, or explain what what he was saying had to do with his or Brian’s earlier claims. He was clearly in “parting shot” mode, where you try to score some kind of “points” off your opponent, even though you’ve already lost the argument overall. It’s the equivalent of “Yeah? Well…your face is stupid!”

If this was real life, I probably would’ve laid into “Mike”, verbally speaking. When I get pissed off, I get really, really snarky. I’m not proud of it, mind. Since this is the internet, I just put him on ignore.

* Note the rather unfounded assumption that fat basement neckbeards never get laid.
** I also checked his comment history, and he seems to have a habit of assuming people aren’t saying what they really mean.

“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence…”

I wonder what real prostitutes look like, not the Hollywood ones? I’ll just check flickr and-

lots of photos of dudes in drag

Um. That’s…interesting. What’s a “microskirt”? I’ve heard the term before, but I’m not sure about the meaning. I’d better search for that too.

lots of photos of dudes in drag

Odd. Okay, just for completeness’ sake, I’m going to search for “miniskirt”-

lots of photos of dudes in drag

>know pretty much for a fact that Girl X likes me

>still looking up “missed hints” threads on Reddit

Hearts in Holding Pattern

I’m pretty sure That Girl and I have reached the “amusing misunderstandings” phase of our not-relationship, where neither of us is sure the other likes them. But like Max Payne said, “Nothing is a cliche when it’s happening to you. “

I’ve appropriated Miles Vorkosigian’s “Civil Campaign” metaphor to refer to this whole mess in my head. Even though I’m doing it ironically, I’m pretty sure that’s a bad sign.

>randomly search for an iron man 3-related tag on tumblr

>come across My Little Pony porn

THAT’S IT INTERNETS YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR

…

I KEEP SCROLLING BUT I CAN’T GET PAST IT

Dear X,

Get off my back.

Sincerely, me.

PS: Seriously, I can’t bend over backwards to accommodate you every single time because I didn’t phrase something exactly the way you like.