Times Are Hard For Dreamers.

my favorite thing about tumblr is you can have a really meaningful and personally significant post followed immediately by a post about butts and no one questions it or finds it unusual

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ohmuffins:

Simple and powerful.

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lakilester:

amandarin:

lotharioslady:

HOLY SHIT.

please.

buy me one of these

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ohmuffins:

I need this for my classroom.

regedt32:

昔市

classifying-bitchcraft:

The Causeway Cannibal’s victim is in critical condition, but it’s hypothetically plausible that he might be a candidate for a full facial transplant, or at the very least could have facial reconstruction done using skin grafts. Considering that in the photographs he has only the remnants of his left eye (god knowing if it’s even functional, anymore) he might possibly be blind, but if he can and will recover, he’ll have a face at the end of this and will be functionally able to fill iun the gaps of the narrative of what happened that’s so far been structured by the security footage and the last accounts of the people in contact with the attacker before he went rogue. Obviously this is fucking phenomenal and dramatically atypical to cases like this, and if ~news sources and mouth-breathers would kindly fucking dial down on the zombie panic and divert their attentions to the surviving parties of this incident they might actually be able to appreciate it as such.

Because what’s at hand here is 1. a cruel and elaborate homicide that was actively ongoing for 20 minutes in broad daylight in an extremely visible public space that could and would have gone on longer if not for the one cyclist who thought to flag down a road ranger, 2. an extreme though not unusual (in terms of frequency, not in execution) act of violence against the homeless that often goes radically underreported if reported at all because of the natural bias against the underprivileged in society

The most irritating thing about the people crying zombie isn’t the immaturity factor, or the implausibility/improbability factor, or even the irritating frothing hivemind latching onto the trendiness of zombies in the media—it’s the fact that in the media zombies are always, always packaged as a ~what if scenario rather than as a unique entity (versus say, post-modern vampires, which are also radically over-represented in horror/paranormal tropes but more often as characters rather than as obstacles to human perseverance). The people who shit themselves over zombies and buy zombie paraphernalia and watch zombie media and play zombie survival games are all feeding into a subcultural conspiracy movement of an invented reality where satirical mock-ups are actually taken as for-serious ~guidebooks meant to guarantee their survival. The people crying ZOMBIE and GOVERNMENT COVERUP at cases like the Causeway Cannibal legitimately want the zombie apocalypse to be real, partially to justify their monetary and chronological investments into their fantasy hobby, and partly out of narcissistic indulgence of wanting to ~prove their grit in a real-life zombie scenario, believing that fantasy games and tongue-in-cheek fiction have actually prepared them for combat.

When the truth of the matter is that

This is bullshit, bearing in mind the sheer implausibility and the arrogant euro/amerocentrism of the zombie apocalypse. In reality, this isolated instance is a byproduct of a. possibly drugs, b. the former variable aggravated by various environmental variables that correlate to violent victim-crimes, c. the presence of two human beings essential to victim-crimes: a victim and an attacker, each loaded with their own circumstances that led to the latter to pursue and prey on the former—note the emphasis on human beings because both the Causeway Cannibal and the man with no face are in fact human beings with names (that I’ve refrained from using only because I don’t feel comfortable or entitled to use them) and private histories that are now being made public in the press that people are STILL voluntarily disregarding because they distract from their zombie fantasies.

And even if it hypothetically wasn’t bullshit—aside from the racist and sexist tropes that are rampant in zombie survival media, the most irritating element is the cock-sured defiance of the plucky protagonists who never having received any kind of weapon training, non-weapon combat/defense training, or minimalist bare elements survival training outwit and outrun their inevitable deaths in spite of being loaded down by floating/sketchy morals re: harming humanoids and/or afterlife circumstances and prissiness and laziness that is the byproduct of their living a comfortable 21st century lifestyle. tl;dr, the white savior complex at its fucking peak.

tl;dr, I’m purposefully disconnecting and unburdening myself of the company of people who fail to take the identities of both the killer and the victim and the reality of the horrible incident that occurred and the real-time events of its aftermath into regard in lieu of formulating half-baked creepypasta-esque conspiracy theories of pulling together other vaguely recent incidents of cannibalism or otherwise irrelevant incidents of missing medical equipment to add another shitty chapter to the shitty legacy of shitty zombie media that capitalizes on boring self-righteous assholes who think that they’re more important than they actually are and that they could be gunslingers in the wave of the ~apocalypse because they read a shitty Max Brooks book.