The catholic church has a secret menu just ask for the body of Christ monkey style and they’ll give you a wafer with peanut butter on it

This hidden gem KILLED ME

I don’t think you’re a human in animal crossing. I think you’re a doll with a ghost in it

Life is constantly in motion. Kimchi and kochujang didn’t get their iconic red tint until the early 16th century, which Portuguese traders brought red chili peppers over from their native birthplace of the Americas.

Pasta and noodles were first made in China, making their way over to Italy and other parts of the world via traders likely sometime in the 13th century. 

You can’t globalize a globe. As COVID is showing us right now, the world is actually a pretty small place. 

Ask yourself–why were we taught that colonization led modern globalization? And why is it important to remember that Vikings traveled to the Americas long before Columbus decided to set sail? Our current catastrophic situation was not inevitable–it was, and still is, possible to live in a world filled with curiosity and cooperation rather than competition. 

We have always been responsible for each other. We can share and mix and meld and grow and evolve–or we can hoard, compete, and dehumanize ourselves and each other. 

I have to speak up about cultural appropriation and racism because I can’t stand living in a world where Korean and Chinese THINGS are valued more than the people who create them. I’m tired of hearing about people loving Korean food, music and culture while Asian-American people are spat on, abused, and humiliated as viral vectors. I’m sick of white fear of China’s rise to global superpowerdom, the unwarranted blame heaped on the Chinese market workers who are also victims. I want people to see that we are all different in our surface aspects, in our culture, but we are ALL THE SAME in that we are tender-hearted human beings, equally vulnerable to invisible contagions and fascist regimes, and ultimately reliant on each other to grow, change, and move forward. 

im demiplatonic ill only be friends w ppl im friends with

but ill fuck anything

hey ok but actually 

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Y’all Americans aren’t brainwashed. You aren’t insane. The vast majority of you don’t agree with the rioters--or the president. It’s just that you have an extremely vocal 15% minority that care more about their own power than about anyone else’s actual lives, and somehow your president is unfortunately a member of that 15%

make it known that the majority of people dont agree with trump and co. its not helpful to make it seem like the people who disagree are a minority. its easier to stand up with others than it is to do so alone. this is one if the ways thats unions, strikes, protests, etc are prevented. its intentional. they want you to think you're alone.

yes, that small percentage may be brainwashed, but it does more harm than good to say that everyone is.

The Thing with Raymond

So thing is about Raymond is that there are a lot of factors as to why he is so popular and it’s getting really out of hand with people trading him

The fact that he’s a new interesting looking cat villager isn’t least among them. Cat villagers have always been pretty popular, and so it’s not surprising that a new one would get a lot of love. He is also smug, which is probably the male personality type that bothers people the least. The fact that he is very anthropomorphized, has glasses and heterochromia only makes him more of an interesting looking villager.

And of course he fits the cartoon twink aesthetic a la onceler that large parts of fandoms like

But it’s not just his appeal that has lead to this whole Thing. It’s also his rarity. Raymond is actually the most rare villager in the game, which a lot of people probably don’t realize.

You might think you get an equal chance to get any villager when you go to mystery islands, but that isn’t the case. See, when the game decides what villager will be at your island, it rolls two factors. First it rolls for the species of the villager. So here, there is an equal chance of any species. After it figures out the species, it rolls for the specific villager. Here is what makes some more rare than others. There are more cats than any other species, so your chances of getting the specific cat you want are much slimmer than, say, getting the specific octopus you want.

Now you don’t have a slimmer chance of getting Raymond than any other cat, so what makes Raymond more rare? Amiibo cards.

Raymond is the only new cat, which means that he is the only cat that doesn’t have an amiibo card. This means that the only way you can get Raymond with 100% certainty is by trading him with someone else but also means that more Raymonds aren’t being introduced into the ecosystem like character with amiibos are.

And people might not realize this, but there IS an ecosystem when it comes to the pool of villagers available. When you let a villager leave without someone taking them, that villager doesn’t just disappear. They will go into a queue of villagers and then move into an empty space that someone on your friend list has if it’s left open too long. So once a villager exists, it exists for theoretically all AC players and can jump from friend list to friend list as long as they aren’t allowed to leave while you have no friends or aren’t connected to the internet.

So villagers with amiibo cards can be introduced into this ecosystem all the time, but Raymond and the other new villagers can only be introduced when they’re found, and Raymond is the one least likely to be found.

So that is basically why this Whole Thing with Raymond is happening. There is a scarcity of Raymonds that doesn’t exist as severely with any other villager. But the good news is, this will calm down. More people will find more Raymonds over time and introduce him into the internet ecosystem and his value will decrease when more and more become available. Nintendo is going to print amiibos for him eventually which will mean there will be a code to introduce him, which will probably cause the Raymond market to collapse. Raymond is an investment that will decrease over time, so if you want him, just wait. Don’t spend real money on him or trade a thousand NMT. He will become much less scarce over time. He may stay popular, but the scalper market will shrink for him.

Do not invest in the Raymond markets. His stock value will plummet. 

Wait.

These haircut-demanding toddlers have actually actively killed people?

There’s been at least one murder of a store guard, one shooting at a McDonald’s because the seating area was closed, one town that lifted its mask order because customers were threatening retail workers who were trying to comply with it, and one assault on a park ranger who was trying to enforce social distancing.

There are people who are so damned self-centered that they don’t care who they endanger as long as they get to do what they want.

me: so its called jojos bizarre adventure and it has a lot of recurring themes of overbearing mothers and absent fathers and blatant homosexuality

Sigmund Freud: you guys went to the moon??

me: so i was wondering if you could give it a watch with me and share your ideas about what this means about the author

Sigmund Freud: the moon in the fucking sky??