Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Handwritten black marker poem on a whiteboard: "In order for me to write poetry that isn't political I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds The Warplanes Must Be Silent - Marwan Makhoul" Three-panel black-and-white ink comic. A mustached man in a top hat, resembling a Monopoly-style tycoon, looks at a crowd of hooded chess pieces and a horse-head knight. Panel 1: "MY HUMAN CHESS BOARD HAS UNIONIZED?" Panel 2: "HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?" Panel 3: "I DELIBERATELY PIT YOU AGAINST EACH OTHER!" Three-panel meme. Top: a stern old man with long gray hair and beard, subtitle "I am not trying to rob you!" Middle: the same man, softer look, subtitle "I'm trying to help you." Bottom: a wide-eyed tan dog holding a tennis ball in its mouth. A bearded warrior in a riveted metal helmet with a eyeguard mask and a rust-orange wool cloak, lit warmly against a dark background. Text: "Pick your battles. Pick fewer battles than that. Put some battles back. That's still too many battles." Black-and-white photo of a woman with short dark hair holding a cigarette, looking down. Typewriter text on paper strips reads: "Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible." Red text: "Doris Lessing". Watermark: pinwords. Black-and-white manga page titled "This Is How I Do It!!" A box reads: "Oh, Mr. Handsome Toriyama, how ever do you draw your manga? Please tell us! Tee hee. ♡" How many times have I received a postcard from a cute girl asking this? Never. But I'll tell you anyway! Heading: "Step 1 Agonize About the Story". A cartoon author in a gas mask and suit sits at a cluttered desk with a pencil, coffee mug, tape roll and a… Fantasy illustration of a large bronze dragon coiled on a glittering mound of gold coins in a cave. A black speech-bubble-style box from the dragon's mouth shows a post on X from Elon Musk, @elonmusk, reading: "Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware". Timestamp: 11:14 AM · Jan 31, 2024 · 310.2K Views. Typewriter-style text on a pale, mottled gray-lavender background reads: "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Below it, a handwritten cursive signature reads: Benjamin Franklin. Video game screenshot of a gray-skinned elf with long pale blonde hair, glowing red eyes and a pointed ear, gazing upward with a sad look, a sword hilt over her shoulder. Subtitle: "Minthara: She exists in the moment, and she will burn out and be gone in a moment. There is something very beautiful about that." Corner portrait shows 134/136 and L2. Footer: "Posted in r/BaldursGate3 by u/KintsugiStatue", reddit logo. Four-panel comic of a woman with long dark hair, glasses and a green shirt on a pink background. Panel 1: "Today we're going to learn about insurance!" Panel 2, finger raised: "Hey insurance, I am injured and need some of that money I give you in case I get injured" Panel 3: she wears a top hat and gold dollar necklace, sits in a red chair with money bags, and says "No". Panel 4: "And that's how insurance works!"… Black serif text on a white background. Heading: "For When You Need Validation For Your Anger". Poem: "You are angry and anxious because you never agreed to live in a burning home while the people who should care pretend the fire doesn't exist. Distress is a valid emotional response to injustice." Signed: "- Nikita Gill". Screenshot of a post by Gryph, @darkgryphon42, with a purple furry-style avatar. Text: "My grandfather would say the Finnish word "sisu." Loosely translated, "stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience and hardiness," but it's hard to describe in English. You might hate doing a thing, but the thing has to be done, so you will do the thing." 15:23 · 28/02/2023 from Earth · 232K Views A tweet-style quote reads: "Mario games teach us that even if something is essentially the same, psychologically it can be completely different. This example is very easy to understand." Below are two Super Mario Bros. screenshots: World 8-1 with tall block staircases, and World 8-3 with Mario on a lone block above scattered single blocks. Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two mirrored hilly coastlines facing each other across water, each with a tower, a spire, a domed hut and a sailing ship. Left side labels: OUR BLESSED PIG FARMS, OUR GLORIOUS LEADER, OUR GREAT RELIGION, OUR NOBLE POPULACE, OUR HEROIC ADVENTURERS. Right side: THEIR HOG STREWN WASTES, THEIR WICKED DESPOT, THEIR PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION, THEIR BACKWARD SAVAGES, THEIR BRUTISH INVADERS. Signed TOM… Black-and-white portrait of a bearded man with swept-back dark hair in a dark jacket and bow tie, beside a quote in white block capitals: "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville. Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs (1854). Logo: Memes, Dreams, Reflections. Screenshot of a tweet by Matthew, @CrowsFault, with a profile photo of a gray cat. Text: "People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go." Below: "Traduzir Tweet", "16:21 · 10 mar. 22 · Twitter Web App". A white square warning sign with a black border, mounted on a wooden post in front of a wire fence. A red oval at the top reads "BEWARE". Below, a black stick figure digs with a shovel into a pile of cracked rubble, which hides spiky, clawed and hooked tentacle-like objects. Text at the bottom reads "Ramifications". Top text on a white background reads: "Things may be tough now, but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel." Below, the text reads: "The light at the end of the tunnel:" The photo shows a caped figure in a black helmet, Darth Vader, in a red-lit corridor holding a glowing red lightsaber. Cartoon of an elderly bald man with white hair, a gray mustache and small glasses, in a brown suit and tie. He sits in a leather chair, glares and points a finger up. Top text: "YOU ARE TECHNICALLY CORRECT". Bottom text: "THE BEST KIND OF CORRECT." Black text on white: five stanzas of song lyrics beginning "I'm singing this song for my sister Sinead," with a repeated chorus: "And maybe she's crazy and maybe she ain't, but so was Picasso and so were the saints." Photo of a printed page in black capital letters that reads: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE" followed by "THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION". Faint mirrored text from the reverse side shows through the paper. White serif text on a plain black background reads: "Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say, I understand who you want me to be but I am going to show you who I actually am." Attributed below: "-Anthony Anaxagorou" Instagram post from user aunt_evil. Bold distressed text reads "THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION" with "NOT" in red. Below it is a map of the United States filled with the American flag. Beneath the map: "IT'S A NATION IN WHICH YOU ARE FREE TO BE CHRISTIAN". Top text reads: "How to be good at talking. 1. Polite greeting 2. Name 3. Relevant personal link 4. Manage expectations". Below, a close-up of a dark-haired man with a mustache and intense eyes. Caption: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Numbers 1-4 mark each part. "@lifehack.ers" Plain black serif text on a white background, three numbered verses. 12. Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself. Impossible it is that all should be suppressed. But let this angry mind alone be overthrown, And it's as though all foes had been subdued. 13. To cover all the earth with sheets of leather— Where could such amounts of skin be found? But with the leather soles of just my shoes It is as though I… A screenshot from the Kirby anime: pink Kirby stands on a blue tiled floor with an angry, scowling expression. White caption text with a black outline at the bottom reads: "fuck". Black serif text on a white background. Bold title: "Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America". The poem reads: "Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe. To sail on clear water, rolling your eyes at the kelp reefs swaying beneath you, ignoring the flicker of mermaid scales in the mist, looking at the world and feeling only boredom. To… Photo of a book page numbered 9 between red and black rules. The poem reads: "Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." Faint mirrored text shows through from the reverse side. Black serif text on a white background. Title: "Sentimental Moment Or Why Did The Baguette Cross The Road?" Byline: "Robert Hershon". Poem: "Don't fill up on bread / I say absent-mindedly / The servings here are huge // My son, whose hair may be / receding a bit, says / Did you really just / say that to me? // What he doesn't know / is that when we're walking / together, when we get / to the curb / I sometimes… Screenshot of a poem page. Title: "I Am Learning to Abandon the World" by Linda Pastan. Poem text: "I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends. I have given up melodic lines of hills, moving to a flat, tuneless landscape. And every night I give my body up limb by…

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