#You Are A Tar Pit

[flowerandthesongstress]

complaints I've already seen about Coral Island, a new Indonesian kickstarter cozy game: the barman selling a ruined dish is an uncalled-for jab at restaurant workers! cats shouldn't hang out outdoors! eew, this woman shouldn't display her pregnancy stretch marks! where are all the kippot! why is everyone in such good shape! preposterous! this partially deaf character talking in caps lock is triggering me! no one in doctors without borders would be that tattooed, this dreadful representation is literal murder! no doctor would forget her paperwork at a library, for that matter! why is a japanese fisherman talking like a scottish pirate, this is inaccurate!

meanwhile in the game: I freed a stone statue from a magical underground prison and he put an enchantment on my hoe. his brother asked me if I liked figs is he flirting. my hippie boyfriend is heartbroken because his bucket-wearing pet duck is sick but shhh watching tv will heal him. last night when I talked to the outdoors cat she mentioned that she has a crippling fear of birds and thinks of getting therapy. a stem academic looks like a kpop idol and is getting enough sleep. he wears his astrophysics degree all over himself like a linguist would have worn alphabet necklaces, just to spite his dad but it's not working why is it not working ah shit it's working. mermaids hired me as a janitor. it's not pro bono I'm paid in diamonds. my neighbor is worried that his shiba inu went back to rejoin the mountain whence it came from. a turtle won't let me pass until I serve her spaghetti. I'm fighting capitalism with a literal scythe. the local blacksmith is asking my opinion regarding a legendary battle hammer and if it's worth the logistics hassle. it's been a year crabs are still dancing in celebration their zeal is admirable but their choreography could use some work. this giant monkey covered in two layers of meta wants to sell me a nostalgic souvenir. I know it because he sent me a polite letter. how many propaganda flyers can I fish out of this pond a challenge. I barged into a local lab and upended a barrel of seaweed over intricate circuitry now my flowers are five percent prettier. the scientist at the lab attached a mermish translator to my diving suit via the power of coffee. hold on I'm doing meal prep for next week let me finish putting ectoplasmic slime on okra

[demontouched]

ongoing list of things that neutralize Online Insanity:

-you are a tar pit

-to be cringe is to be free

-people in real life: hey man how's it going

-this is my first time being alive

[ceasarslegion]

Theres a huge problem of this sites culture demanding more art from people while simultaneously refusing to engage with it. Clearly this is the creators fault for getting upset about the creative equivalent of baking a cake for a whole party and then nobody touches it.

Jesus christ

[skrillien]

"man i love this musician they make me sooo happy :)" "but didn't they-"

[lostryu]

why would i want to play as a fat person?

why would i want to play as a skinny person?

[badolmen]

*the most ‘um, actually’ person you’ve ever met with the need to always be right* where’s your whimsy? ^_^ we should all be a little sillier and relax

[by-ilmater]

"iT's ThE gEnTrIfIcAtIoN of A FetIsh" shut the fuck uuuuuupppppppp omg that's not what that means! holy shit!

[uraandri]

why do people get so defensive about shit that doesn't even apply to them like ok your library is only open during your working hours and you can't go and that's fine but why are you leaving a 3 paragraph response to someone saying that going to a library is always a good idea if you want to go outside but not be outside

[overmorrowpine]

do you ever encounter someone online that is just a fucking tar pit

[borderline-purrsonality]

Truly amazing to see the difference between twitter and bluesky and how one talks about the other. People on twitter have built a platform off of bullying others and being incredibly egotistical, as opposed to bluesky, a much friendlier place that encourages blocking over negative engagement to the point users can create blocklists to avoid people they’re uncomfortable with.

So when twitter sees an environment like bluesky’s, their immediate reaction is to ridicule bluesky by acting like “it’s cringe” and that its users act like “2012 tumblr.”

Like this is just so fascinating. Minding your own business is seen as “cringe” now. We’ve gone from “cringe culture is dead” to twitter’s “bully everything.”

Anyways that’s why I abandoned my main account there and barely use it

[asordidbarwere]

Zero value.

A kissaroo from me to you! 💋

[nixitynullt]

"You are a tar pit." Oh yeah? And what of it? Hell yeah I'm a fucking tar pit. Your ass is gonna get stuck in my depths and I'l drag you to your demise. I'll digest you whole and preserve your bones to show to the people who trespass against me as you have. I am not above being a tar pit. I REVEL in being a Tar pit. I will kill you slowly and with fervor.

[caifanes]

some of yall have whatever disease kipperlilly has like sometimes it’s not about being right it’s about having FUN

[sybbi]

"Your original post was about Christmas songs and decorations looking better with snow" No it fucking wasn't, and so not only have you missed the point but you're telling the op who is expressing that THAT WASN'T WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT that your misinterpretation is, akshually, what they were talking about.

They're talking about how, in northern climates where snow and ice are supposed to be the norm, that is no longer the case. They're talking about the fact that the Christmas decorations and songs written for and about weather patterns that used to be common in those areas, and might reference traditions that either relied on having snow and cold weather or at least came about as a result of said weather, seem almost out of date now because that cold weather is no longer the norm thanks to climate change.

Nowhere in their posts did op attack your experiences as a southerner, they were simply referencing their own experiences as a northerner and a bunch of southerners LIKE YOU went out of their way to say "SO?" or get pissy as if 1. That helps anyone or anything or 2. A discussion on climate change making traditions our PARENTS took for granted almost nonexistent for us is something to be brushed off bc it doesn't pander to you or have a disclaimer saying your personal experiences are valid.

Come the fuck on.

Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.

[valtsv]

i think the most important thing i've learned from years of working to recover from trauma and break the cycles of abuse i was both a victim and perpetrator of is that i can't change that i was hurt or that i hurt other people in the past, but i can use that to empower myself to learn from those experiences in order to do better in the present and future. obviously it would have been better if none of it had ever happened, but instead of hand-wringing over what-ifs and if-onlys, i accept that it's done and can't be changed, but i still can. i don't have to let myself be defined by my regrets.

[greelin]

i have severe social anxiety too but you don’t see me using it as justification to be a dick to strangers especially in a customer service setting. like. that is someone’s job. it is not difficult to treat them like a person and be kind. Lol