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[–] 2ugly2live 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember telling my mom I'd make a good Spinster, just hanging out at home, doing needle work. She laughed and said, "You're black, you'd be a slave."

[–] Ragdoll_X 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"A woman can dream, mom!"

[–] phoneymouse 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

More than likely, you would not have been a knight, you would have been a peasant working the fields for your short life before dying of some incurable bacterial infection when you got a cut on some of your farm tools.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I see what you're saying

And it's correct

But

A lot of people also long for the relative simplicity and predictability of peasant life.

What is the entirety of the cottagecore aesthetic if not a longing for that? (well, that and a hint of racism but y'know y'know y'know)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

One of these literally shows a dead soldier in a field of flowers so, yeah.

It's idle longing. I could give up my career, move to a deeply rural area, and break my back doing menial jobs until I die of health complications at 64. I won't, but it's nice to long for the imagined simplicity sometimes y'know?

See also:

twitter caption "Why do men keep saying they want to bleed out here what does that mean" over a picture of a desert urban area at night covered in fresh snow

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Born to knight, forced to Office 365.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You obviously don't play chess. It's called horsey, not knight

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Some people think I'm stupid just because I tend to say stupid stuff. Turns out I actually know things

[–] LePoisson 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wikipedia is full of libtard bigots. Even Musk hates them, that's how biased they are.

[–] Armand1 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Isn't it gay for a man to touch a man's butt, even if it's his own? #superstraight

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Real men never go between the cheeks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am interpreting the top half as play fantasy games all day and not actually live in olden times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Can't wait for the day full dive gear is invented to I can live a life time in a fantasy world as a cool fuckinj knight

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] amon 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just people dying in the moment?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Born to die of diarrhoea or some shit, forced to live because of modern medicine and be a wage slave :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Born to be the tribe's nightwatch.

Forced to wake up a 5 AM because my company's HQ is in a different timezone than me.

[–] kraftpudding 6 points 2 weeks ago

Born to die at the age of 4 of a cold.

[–] TheTechnician27 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see The Captain is having a good day 🫡

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure you aren't born to battle to a senseless death for a greedy overlord. You're born to exhaustion hunt prey and gather seeds and roots

[–] ikidd 2 points 2 weeks ago

Naw, me and 63 of my closest friends are going to kill this massive hairy thing and eat the good parts, then kill another one. They can't run out, can they?

[–] JackLSauce 4 points 2 weeks ago

Missed chance to order the logos as a "POX" among us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

O know it’s a mem, but: conveniently leaving out the part that results in the last picture