#as if nothing but format mattered

[sciderman]

well - webtoons is over, gang

[pespillo]

a post where i show you things and you just observe with me

winter things

drawings that were used in official enamel pins

gestural things

[grayve-mistake]

this is just kind of a big tangent but like I fucking hate when nerd ass losers see a game with even vague similarities to another game and go "ERMMM. HOW ORIGINALL (SARCASTIC). THIS IS JUST ANOTHER GAME IN THE STUPID TREND OF-" and then they list every genre/label under the sun to try and discredit the game as unoriginal by comparing it to other games. 90% of the time they haven't even played the game they're complaining about. they just see pixel art and get angry ig.

like look at this image. look at this and tell me it's not just alphabet soup. what do half of these words even mean. congrats on discovering what a genre is I guess?????????? good for you?????? do you want a fuckin award or something???? a little handclap??? shall I pour you a little glass of wine for being oh so smart and sophisticated for figuring out that Things Can Have Little Similarities Sometimes?????? just say that 7 years later you're still bitter that undertale got popular and leave oh my god "quirky dialogue" oh I'm sorry did you want your dialogue boring and soulless yeah let me just remove the personality from the game. here's your Nothing Burger I hope you're happy. "pixel art" oh so i guess like almost every game that came out in the 80s and 90s is actually just part of a so-called "2010s-2020s trend". These people genuinely think earthbound and celeste are "Basically The Same". it's not even an rpg. You had to throw in platformers in your disgusting word smoothie because otherwise you couldn't even find any real similarities besides "has a story and contains pixels". they think the psychological horror game Omori is just Undertale 2. yeah sorry guys Super Fuckin Mario Brothers is part of the quirky rpg metroidvania fjhksdgjhlkfgsdhkfgh-like diarrhea trend. cant play it now or you're cringe and bad. do you people ever get TIIIRRREEDDDDD. DO YOU EVER ENJOY THINGS. ON THEIR OWN MERIT. DO YOU EVEN GIVE THINGS A CHANCE. YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL FOR NOT LIKING THINGS YOU'RE BORING AND ANNOYING AS FUCK. I'm so fucking done

[cakemoney]

brennan: so you're in the last standard exam in an alien realm and in the stands you see a bunch of arthur agueforts, they're cheering for you, they're talking to each other, they've got your names written on their chests

editors: zooms in on the two arthur agueforts who are making out because they know how we are

[weepylucifer]

you said steban corruption arc?

oh yes i did say steban corruption arc. i actually have several that i run in my mind whenever i have a moment, bc i'm weird like that

i'm thinking right now he's soft and kind and hates the thought of doing violence, so what if the return comes and he has to do copious violence, and it erodes away his gentleness, day by day, bit by bit. and ulixes, who always wanted that to be his role, can do nothing but watch. and also what if steban finds himself with a genuine leadership role during/after the return, but it comes with the inevitable compromising of morals that always happens when one wields some amount of power. steban has flaws: his tendency to leftist infight over bullshit (turnips) for one, which he drove away all his friends over except for his one most dedicated yes-man. now, being in charge of some kind of communist cell or party or group could bring out his positive attributes - it'd force him into interacting with people all the time, which i think has the potential to get him to really thrive. he can be endearing as well as insightful, rhetorically talented and empathetic, so with more practice he could, i think, really develop a kind of charm. but it could also enable his petty tendencies, his desire to command, his desire to be loved even, his tendency to take himself extremely seriously, the slight ruthlessness we barely catch glimpses of and which a setting like le retour might exacerbate. plus i headcanon that he's somewhat like harry in terms of basic make and model of brain if not in life experience, which is to say that he has skills, maybe still larval in canon time and barely causing pings in his brain, but which an older more experienced steban could use to handle people. all in all i imagine 30-something steban as a politician. not extremely powerful, bc i don't think revachol has it in her to pop out another communist party with real power before the end. but, on a local level, influential. the type for whom "achieve communism again for good this time" would be the end goal, always in sight, which any means are legitimate to achieve. like, if he graduated from turnip argument to actual political stakes, in a setting that fuels his worst impulses. and also he has a following and through them some control of plasm. in all: a charming, personable political type who really has very little dark depths he would not lower himself into, very little mud that he would not sling to gain an advantage, bc the reward on the other side (communism!) will be so very worth it

that's the more feasible scenario. in the less feasible one he's a fake innocence

[jourke-rourke]

Some Two + Three+ Six moments for ya

[lesbianpikachu]

Daily Compendium Selections #10

A woman lies unconscious with an interesting shield.

[marklikely]

the results of that "is fanfic a book" poll have shown me one thing and its that this site never graduated past that absolutely insufferable phase in 2013 where everyone acted like every book is the single most sacred thing on earth

[leyyvi]

love that my supposedly high-level writing class has taught me nothing about structural research papers regarding Chicago style formatting and has no assignments based on that for the entire semester aside from ONE research paper. and im getting 100000 notes about everything when we weren't taught this :/ love that so much

[ask-the-t-sanders-sides]

virg, how are you feeling? are you ok? would it help to talk about it? you don't have to if you don't want to.

Too much

Too loud

Too many thoughts

[pukuppi]

not me complaining about ppl rbing old posts again (i go into fits of agony over this whenever i check my tumblr notes) but someone rb'd that one shit ass hiv esw ap "flat is seigi" joke post i made when i was in my 2019 h s friends im phase and im just like noooo. my old shame (putting spaces to avoid search)

i made that when i was 15 and thought it was nbd funny meme haha to have the weeaboo character make a reference to a old weeaboo meme the **IN THE CONTEXT OF HIM BEING A REDDITPILLED WEEB WHO WOULD MAKE THAT SORT OF JOKE ABOUT A GIRL HIS OWN AGE**

for all intents and purposes i had zero intention of being creepy about the characters myself. the joke was not made in context of Me thinking or saying that about any characters what the character said is and was always separate from what i think myself. i Do Not ever want people to take meme art i made when i was 15 years old about characters who i interpreted to be around the same age (as myself and as each other) out of context

[burningcomputerpersona]

.....fml

[evandore]

decided to commit to making my own website so i can compile everything i do in a way that i like. this is like my fifth time relearning html lol but im so determined that im even taking notes and everything

[changbunnies]

want my posts to look less bulky + look more aesthetically pleasing so I'm about to undertake a huge task (going to every single fic i've ever posted to update it)

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

[cxlrose]

why does everything seem 10x stronger after this stage