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The thing about adult Muppet parodies is, that the Muppets already touch on adult themes, so the best way to approach it would just to play everything very straightfaced and super seriously, instead of going for easy shock humor. Look, we all know Kermit fucks.

I can't believe my AP English teacher made us read that.

I can't believe I already had a copy because I saw this cover at a thrift store and had to have it

If I had to translate the first line of "The Stranger" for some reason, despite not knowing any French, I would render it as, "Yep, my mommy died lol today or maybe yesterday idk"

Oh, you're not going to tell me about all that boring David Copperfield kind of crap, huh? Gonna cut to the chase, huh? Well, thank you, you oh wait you're actually going to tell me all this other extraneous detail about your day frick damn it

The opening line to "The Catcher in the Rye" is low-key hilarious. Yes, I really do want to hear about it, smartass, that's why I'm reading this book.

@wigglytuffitout That's amazing.

@wigglytuffitout Tbh I had multiple instances of Tumblr trolls screeching at me that I was a superfan of things I either had a mild interest in, or didn't even care about, and most of the times it was completely irrelevant to the conversation anyway.

Especially anime avatars screaming at me that I loved anime too much & wasn't really trans

They could only understand passionate opinions as being something attached to video games and cartoons and things like that. Not, idk, nonfictional things?

@wigglytuffitout They were just adamant that this person needed to be punished by being fired, even though they had very little to do with the scam, and got duped by the scammer as well.

Obviously, the only reason I would defend this person was because I was...obsessed with a cartoon that I'm not even sure was out yet?

@wigglytuffitout At some point, a bunch of people were trying to get a 19 year old fired from a show because they had been "hired" at 14 by Kickstarter scammers Tumblr threw money at (the officer and bear cub thing).

When I expressed concern, I got a bunch of nerd-raging trolls screaming at me that I cared too much about cartoons at my age and needed to shut up.

Meanwhile, they're out there trying to ruin a teenager's career before it even got started. They see everything as about fandom.

@wigglytuffitout Omg. The shipping wars.

I used to enjoy seeing lots of people talk about trashy pop culture from a political perspective, but somewhere along the line it something like the 1980s Satanic Panic over D&D.

@wigglytuffitout Reasons why I haven't been back to Tumblr since last winter. People will get absolutely vicious about the most petty things, then pretend it's about a political cause when it transparently is them just nerd-raging.