Quixotic Iconoclast

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awkward social encounters #41b

i was jogging at a park which is the halfway point of my sporadically-visited jogging route and so I took a drink and rested for like two minutes and started walking towards the outside of the park, waiting for the next song to start to force me to start running again and these two guys near my path walked really close towards me and were staring at me and I mean like, what do they even want?

The last time I’ve observed this kind of behavior directed at me was high school. Wait, no, the last time was AT a high school in like my sophomore or junior year of college and I was picking up a friend, and I had a very oddly-displaced feeling of being the new kid at school and everyone was judging me but I was just there to pick up a friend so it was really odd.

Yeah so it felt like that, but I don’t know how old they were, because I didn’t bother looking at them directly, because the sun was going down and I gotta go fast ain’t nobody got time for eye contact with strangers ZOOM ZOOM MUTHAFUCKA!

But seriously, why do people do that? Am I supposed to make eye contact with them? Am I not supposed to make eye contact with them? What would the latter prove? If I make eye contact with them, then what? Staring contest? Is one of us going to say hi? Which one is supposed to say it first? Do they want to be friends? Do they want to be enemies? Do they want to fight? Do they want to act like they want to fight and can totally take me but not actually fight but still act like “yeah I showed that guy I needlessly and randomly antagonized”? Do they want to have a rap battle? Do they suspect that I’m a Soviet spy? Are they the Soviet spies? Are they really Decepticons? Are they from the Pentagon? Are they Decepticons from the Pentagon? What do they want? Why are they looking at me? Do I seem vulnerable? Threatening? Are they on drugs and hallucinating? Did something fall out of my pocket and they’re mad because they think I littered on purpose? Will they invite me to dinner? Do I remind them of someone? Are they someone I knew in 7th grade? 7th grade was over ten years ago bro. Holy shit I’m old and so are you. 

The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.

The artwork is too great not to reblog. 

Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.

That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.

One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.

(Source: xxdardarxx, via raggedybruford)

hey so i’m going to up the frequency of posts on my queue because i’ve somehow been stuck at my queue limit for the past week or so.

if you find yourself inconvenienced by the additional number of posts by me, be sure to blame all my followers for getting more accurate at posting things i am interested in reblogging.

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