#basil blabbers

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an online friend group may include:

guy who is nocturnal.

guy who goes to bed at nine pm.

guy who is inexplicably literally always online.

guy who lives on the other side of the planet.

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YOU. have YOU been having weird audio issues with windows 11? where if youre on a call itll cut out and distort any audio not in the current application?? i have. i have and ifigured out why. it is one setting. ONE setting. go to your sound settings. go to your output device. click on your output device. you will see advanced settings.

see this setting?

turn it off.

it is turned on by default. turn it off. immediately the issue is Gone.

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i think. i think youre allowed to just not like something. i think you dont have to justify not liking something. and like. you dont have to invent reasons why the thing is harmful or wrong to justify why you dont like it.

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"not all autistics are low-empathy!!!! some are really high-empathy!!!!!" okay cool good great. but are you like... normal about autistics who are low-empathy, though? because people with low empathy exist and are normal people. are you normal about them?

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ive been trying very hard to formulate a way to say this that doesnt make me sound like an asshole but honestly ive like. given up.

youre gonna drive yourselves fucking nuts with all the doom posting. and all the "its gonna be okay, you have to live" posting isnt any less doom posting. its all the same song to a different tune.

its shitty and terrible and youre allowed to feel shitty and terrible. but its not like. gonna change because you feel shitty about it. and constantly thinking about how shitty you feel about it is just gonna make you feel worse.

go like. eat a snack or something. play a game you like. i dunno. its shitty! but dont spend your time catastrophizing. drink some fuckin water or whatever other cheesy bullshit keeps you occupied while you process.

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YOU.

ARTIST.

REBLOG YOUR OWN ART.

im being so serious. this is absolutely my sagest advice for any artist posting on tumblr. reblog your own art. do it at whatever arbitrary time you set up for yourself, once or twice a day, a few times throughout the week, randomly and whenever you remember to. it does not matter.

things can get flooded in the tags, you could post at a time that no one who would want to see the art would, your art could even just get eaten by tumblr itself because it is prone to doing that.

if you want people to see your art, youre allowed to wave it in front of their face and say "HEY LOOK!!!! LOOK I MADE THIS! ME! I MADE THIS!!!!!"

it might feel disheartening, especially if youre the only one reblogging your own work, but i swear to god it is worth it i cannot tell you how many times i have bumped one of my posts only to get someone in the tags going "HOW DID I MISS THIS??????"

it is not wrong of you to want to show off the work that youre proud of. reblog your own art.

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hey you should play in stars and time. HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I THINK YOU SHOULD PLAY IN STARS AND TIME? you should! its good! play game!!!

(ID template via this post, edited for this meme by @/merrysville!)

[ID: A meme from a TikTok of a man looking out pensively over a porch, with the caption edited to read: "I bring a sort of ''You should play ISAT'' Vibe to every interaction that people who haven't played ISAT don't really like." /End ID.]

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my nefarious concoction.

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'we need weirder queers'

you cant handle when like. a trans guy has boobs.

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hey so im selling my partner. giving him away actually.

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I LOVE YOU TIMELOOPS !!!!!!!!! TIMELOOPS I LOVE YOU RAAAAH !!!!!!!

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image beamed into my brain violently at full force.

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if you shame people for being attracted to men i do not respect you and do not want you anywhere near my blog. btw.

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do you . think about them??? i do. i do very often.

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draw that man (isabeau) fatter. my final message. goodbye.

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i am being forced to post grink has become catholic