#‘this shit again?’

[exilepurify]

i genuinely and truly wish that the english translation of the Yakiniku omake kept Shigeo’s slurred words as “Tch… Shut the hell up.” because just fucking imagine what the next ten seconds must’ve been like at the table after that. I’ve made like a billion posts about it and it still makes me laugh out loud like an idiot. Imagine being Ritsu and seeing that happen before your very fucking eyes. AND TERU. THE WAY TERU’S ONLY REACTION WAS “😀”. AND THE DEAD SILENCE AT THE TABLE. Reigen went home and scream sobbed into his pillow for sure. I genuinely could not imagine being Reigen and having Mob look at you like you’re a cockroach on the bottom of his shoe and tell you to shut the hell up. I would never again speak unless spoken to.

and Mob didn’t even apologize. He knows that what he said isn’t what he meant to say and he just let it linger there with no explanation or remorse. He’s like “whatever, close enough”. And then Ritsu tries to max out Reigen’s credit card 💀 The entire situation is expertly crafted to be as funny as possible.

[winged-mammal]

anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[chessb0r3d]

Analysis so bad you don't even know what it's talking about anymore.

[luxwing]

Congrats to the TF2 community for finally getting a cosmetic into the game with the trans pride flag hidden on it. About damn time

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[solarwreathe]

let’s not talk about this, ever

[nicktoonsunite]

manny discovers something mildly disappointing about jenny

[baejax-the-great]

[an--artistic--autistic]

i am unreasonably proud and excited about this

[morganbritton132]

17 year old, CEO Tim Drake canceling a press conference and then putting out a statement like, “Sorry for canceling last min, Alfred said that he was going to run my laptop through the dishwasher if I didn’t clean my room. I think he’d do it :/. Also, wasn’t really in the mood. Cya -Tim.”

[icestorming]

- oh.

[heartorbit]

if we could stay connected, just like this

[cairhienin]

rio hates evanora in a way that is so specific to hating a mother-in-law

[vinestaff]

for what it's worth, i was telling the truth when I said I enjoyed working with you

[zenithpng]

it is ALWAYS morally correct to draw a man with a soft stomach instead of a six pack. in fact it is ENCOURAGED.