Harry Potter Is The Earliest One I Can Think Of. There Were Probably Others Before That, But I Can’t

This sounds like a joke but I’m pretty sure this is how 80% of Little Cup teams are created.

(Little Cup is a format on one of the main online Pokèmon simulators where you can only use unevolved Pokèmon that are capable of evolving, making it very optimized for cute swoosh swoosh Pokèmon.)

me: “that Pokemon looks cool” Some buttman: “sure, but it’s attack stat is shit and not to mention it’s ability makes it worthless. It’s move pool is so shallow, it can’t even learn good tms. Not to mention that it’s 4x weak to fire.” Me: “he go swoosh swoosh and its cute”

Wow, that was an amazing response.

Today in math class:

[Image description: a picture of a blackboard with math written on it. Below the math is the phrase “Pf: I’m too lazy,” followed by a box that signifies the ending of a proof.]

1926. If Harry Potter Was An Anime.

Why is this so accurate?

HUMANISTS:

Expectation- Grow! Strive! Excel!

Reality- Government of, by, and for the most insufferable shitheads you knew in high school

BRILLISTS:

Expectation- Unlock the mysteries of the human psyche!

Reality- Your president is a smug sack of shit who’s also computer-racist

EUROPEANS:

Expectation- Unbreakable bonds of cultural tradition

Reality- “You seized my borderlands, you executed my hero, you conquered me a thousand years ago, and I remember.”

COUSINS:

Expectation- Altruism, community, common good

Reality- Some rando’s crashing on your couch six out of seven nights and it’d be too awkward to say anything at this point

UTOPIANS:

Expectation- Join our constellations and build the future! Also, Fursona-Pokémon are real and you can have one!

Reality- I Fucking Love Science + ENDLESS SCRUPULOSITY HELL

MASONS:

Expectation- Power. Order. Eternal tradition.

Reality- Facebook feed is endless unironic “when did THIS [modern architecture] become hotter than THIS [Byzantine spires]”

MITSUBISHI:

Expectation- Noble stewards of our terrestrial inheritance

Reality- Everyone’s least-favorite rent-seeker, and you don’t even have close to enough property to have a say in anything

WHITELAWS:

Expectation: Morally upright, clean living, stable communities

Reality: Mormonism but without the pretense of spiritual development

GRAYLAWS:

Expectation- Join the one group that isn’t directly run by lunatics

Reality- Somehow even more milquetoast than just becoming a Cousin because your ba'pas are

BLACKLAWS:

Expectation- Proud, honorable libertines, shining example of voluntary self-governance

Reality- The worst possible overlap in the Venn diagram of ancaps and LARPers

Quick someone find me a picture of moldy leaves it is VERY IMPORTANT

People are either completely shocked or say that everything about me makes so much more sense.

To other autistic people, have other people ever been able to realise you’re autistic without you telling them before?

Being neurodivergent and LGBT is fantastic and valid and wonderful