• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    LOOKS INSIDE 4CHAN @ ABLEISM

    ‘Special needs kid’ is a surprising lack of hate-speech for anon though. It doesn’t make it okay for us since most look at it from the distance and we don’t reproduce its’ culture there. But observing these pieces knowing the context is a niche way of having fun.

    This one doesn’t lose much from omitting that part though. Seems like anon didn’t come up with a worthy punchline and just dropped it here, being in a delusion that it’d make the greentext work. A fabric softener in a school setting, what?

    This story could’ve taken another turn if a kid tried to fish it with an improvised hook and scaley anon was so bored and depressed about the kid’s effort so he proceeded to make some fake bites, this becoming their daily tradition. Alone in his bowl, anon finds a weird, deadly relationship with a kid, and asks itself what would happen if it’d bite for real? Would it know when it’s time to risk it, or finally go? I believe many anons questioned themselves about euthanasia and if they’d find courage to do it before they’d turn into a dead weight on their relatives’ backs and not enjoying life at all, so this could’ve started an interesting conversation even there, while overwhelming the use of a special kid character somewhere in the middle.