#I wish I was confident

[charlesoberonn]

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

[bemused-geek-nz]

Smiling through

I’m about to start a new tumblr for Desperate Fun Productions, which I envision as an umbrella covering my several wastes of time:

1. Music

2. DJ efforts, even though they are becoming increasingly perfunctory

3. Zines

4. Streaming

Basically, somewhere I can promote all these without flooding my personal social media and yours with unwanted shilling. Now, I want you to be like Philip J Fry, but I can’t bring myself to cynically badger you with constant reminders.

However. Facebook is not my cup of tea – it wants my money more than it wants to connect me to like-minded people – and Twitter (never X) is right out. I’m not supporting that far-right fool by any means. Nor Tiktok. That app is a sleeper agent for the CCP.

And while I’m telling you that, I might as well tell you that from tomorrow, I’ll be streaming Fallout: London on Thursdays, 7-9pm NZT. https://www.twitch.tv/cranky_rabbit/

I’m also starting to explore coding in the MEG-4 fantasy console. If I understand this, I can simply embed the web version in a post or something... or just upload it to somewhere like Newgrounds. I’m aiming to re-create basic arcade games, and have a nice collection by the end of September next year. This tumblr would be a nice place to have a devblog.

Also I intend having at least three EP-s worth of music by the end of September, one of industro-ambient-noise, one of electronica you can at least nod to, and one of more lo-fi nonsense like Frog Salad. (I wonder if the Stickyfrogs got my loot package yet? You should follow them. Frogs doing nothing but being frogs.)

Sorry. And again, having all of those uploaded and ready for purchase before Wellington Zinefest, QR codes and all.

And of course zines. I think I have some ideas of what I could zine about – such as “obscure tapes I have in my collection” - could be worth a go. I’m wondering about returning to the A6 format – half as large as the A5 zines I publish. In 2030 or thereabouts, retire the smallies and re-release as an A5 compilation.

But... I’m woolgathering. At some stage, I need to pull the pin and get on with it. I just don’t know if I should.

And here’s the song I reference in both this post’s title and my umbrella name.

[puppyeared]

this place is so fruity

[copia]

endless ghifs 5/? ⛧ source — "The Cardinal is our next senior-most member. He's been your right-hand man."

[still-searching-for-something]

I don't think I can say this with enough emphasis--if you are not Jewish, you don't get to decide what is and is not antisemitic.

There's no ambiguity here. Zero. I am sick and tired of being lectured at by goyim about how, 'oh, ackhtually, your explanation of how my words are antisemitic is off! You're trying to stop the discussion by being inflammatory!'

Or to be told that I am cheapening the term antisemitism, and that people used to react to it before October 7th, but now they're numb to it, which is just what happens you start using serious accusations for political means!

It's... genuinely astonishing to me. I'm consistently amazed by the arrogance, audacity, and disrespect it takes for you guys to lecture Jews on what antisemitism is.

Have any of you goyim experienced antisemitism firsthand? Is it your people who's experienced antisemitism for 3000 years? Is it you who has family members rescued by Schindler? Was it your ancestors who fled from constant, unending pogroms in with nothing but the clothes on their backs? Have you ever had someone tell lies to your friend about you sexually harassing people because you're a Jew? Have you ever had to sit and think whether you should mark down that you're Jewish on a job application? Have you ever felt unsafe and compelled to take off your Star of David because you've been afraid you'd be attacked? Have you ever had to worry about a professor who constantly brings up the war in class marking your assignment down because it talks about Israel being a democracy? Have you ever had the feeling of acid being splashed on your soul when you see antisemitic comments? The ice water rushing down your spine when someone is antisemitic to your face, and you feel the weight of 3 millennia of oppression bearing down on you?

No? Not you?

Then sit your ass down, and frankly, shut the fuck up.

[valtsv]

thinking about the trawlerman and gender. the way that he's presented as simultaneously paternalistic - he is referred to as a "man" and with traditionally masculine-associated pronouns, and he claims the promised bride for his own in order to prevent her marriage to another man, like a protective father - maternalistic - he takes in offerings, gestates them in silt and 'rebirths' them; the mouth devouring and the mouth returning, a metaphorical womb - and neither - his followers are "children of the water", but he is neither explicitly father-god nor mother-goddess, simply a grotesque parent that resists easy categorisation as one or the other in his dualistic, transitory nature. of course the river god is genderfluid it's in the name innit.

[skitskatdacat63]

Vettonso complaining about each other not respecting schrondinger's track limits on the radio compilation + Seb's commentary that made me a bit feral

Must include these sexy ass pics okay, it makes me feral how hard they race each other.

Also SO upset that we got this vid and there's also pictures(and presumably a vid out there somewhere) of Fernando, back then, ALSO debriefing this race. And yet we never got them together?????? Evil. Fucked up.

Imagine seeing them complaining about each other but also having to (begrudgingly if you're Fernando) compliment each other IN FRONT of each other. Maybe its a good thing it doesn't exist, bcs then I'd have a heart attack.

[shqrkdud]

Every time I feel insecure about how I draw I just look back at my old drawings from almost 4 years ago.

[gatoburr0]

[tyulezhik]

I looked through my old drawings again and found the first D. I think I posted it a long time ago but deleted it so I'll show it again

[wolfythewitch]

What is the difference between Chirstian/Evangelical and Catholicism?

The windows

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

We should talk more about the fact Jason got swarmed and attacked by a mob as Robin, like??? Hello. He had to be left there because the mob was too violent with Batman near. He had to be taken to the hospital.

Look at those injuries!!

The next time we see him he's forcing himself out of bed and putting on the Robin costume thinking "I've gotta do what I can to help, even if it kills me!"

The next next time we see him he has walked into yet another violent mob

I cannot stop thinking about this story and the effects it probably had on him honestly. Do you think it's made him nervous in crowds, do you think it made him trust others just that bit less. How long do you think he was being attacked before he was found, the scene had cleared. "I've gotta do what I can to help, even if it kills me!",,,,

Just the concept itself! I don't know about you guys but being attacked and grabbed and trampled into unconsciousness sounds absolutely terrifying! Did he black out, still getting hit, thinking he was going to die? Knowing he couldn't defend himself as his injuries to took their toll? At their complete mercy?

1986-87 Legends, issue #2 (the attack), #3 (the hospital), #5 (getting up), #6 (defending heros from another forming mob)

2010 DC Universe: Legacies, issue #6 (flashback panel to Legends moment)

[sapphicyanli]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Preview of the runner up results from this poll. I wish everyone who wanted to see more SVSSS characters from me a merry "I'm So Sorry'.

[strawberrycakeeanon69]

Hot take: Anyone who writes a problematic fic to get their rocks off is a disgusting piece of shit who needs to touch grass and/or go to therapy:

Like I have NO PROBLEM with kinks, mental illness, injuries, abuse, SA, incest, or a general big sad story IF WRITTEN WITH RESPECT AND GRACE TO VICTIMS OF BAD THINGS OR KINK LOVERS INSTEAD OF ROMANTICIZING THE BAD STUFF OR DEROGATING KINK CULTURE TO FIT YOUR DISGUSTING WHIMS!!

Like can’t we all be SEMI NORMAL and write a NON PROBLEMATIC and HEALTHY schlatt x reader.

Please?

And on top of that, can we PLEASE stop being CREEPY towards schlatt, like bro doesn’t even leave his HOUSE because of you crazy fucks!

God, some of y’all deserve to go to super tumblr hell (derogatory). ~🍰🍓

[stormbros]

Call me an optimist but considering what just occured with his parent's oldest son, I don't think Dorian needs to worry about duty interfering with love when he returns to the Squall