#do you exist

[twelfth-dykector]

rik my blorbo my most lovely specialist boy i hate him i am beating him with a stick while i tell him how much i adore him i am SQUEEZING HIM until his brain leaks out his ears while i pat his head gently with rocks

[elkdiaries]

will - true blue

when you moved to chicago / you were spinning out / when you don't know who you are / you fuck around and find out / when you called me from the train / water freezing in your eyes / you were happy and i wasn't surprised / and it feels good to be known so well / i can't hide from you like i hide from myself

lucas - cool about it

once, i took your medication to know what it's like / and now i have to act like i can't read your mind / i ask you how you're doing and i let you lie / but we don't have to talk about it / i can walk you home and practice method acting / i’ll pretend being with you doesn't feel like drowning / tellin' you it's nice to see how good you're doing / even though we know it isn't true

el - letter to an old poet

you’re not special, you’re evil / you don’t get to tell me to calm down / you make me feel like an equal / but i’m better than you / and you should know that by now / when you fell down the stairs / it looked like it hurt and i wasn’t sorry / i shoulda left you right there / you don’t know me / i wanna be happy

max - revolution 0

i don’t wanna die / that’s a lie / but i’m afraid to get sick / i don’t know what that is / wish i wasn’t so tired, but i’m tired / if you’re not enough / then i give up / and then nothing is / i used to think / if i just closed my eyes / i’d disappear

erica - $20

it’s a bad idea and i’m all about it / give it one more chance and then i finally had it / when you wake up, i’ll be gone again / mama told me that it don't run on wishes, but that i should have fun / pushing the flowers that come up into the front of a shotgun / so many hills to die on / run out of gas, out of time, out of money / take a break, make your escape / there’s only so much i can take

mike - satanist

you wonder / if you can ever be seen / from so far away / a slow pull / a seismic drift / leaning over the edge of the continent / it’s so hard to come back / you hang on / until it drags / you under, you under

dustin - anti-curse

tried to be a halfway decent friend / wound up a bad comedian / an honest fool with more bad habits than you can count / there we were / was anyone ever so young? / breaking curfew with illegal fireworks / unpacking god in the suburbs / writing the words / to the worst love song you've ever heard / sounding out the foreign characters / an incantation like an anti-curse / or even a blessing

boygenius; the record — the party

[bowiebox]

where are the silly kpop and haikyuu tumblr ppl here or are you not real

[furelisecollective]

To: Anyone in the void.

I’m not sure if anyone really sees the artwork I post on here 😂

If you’re scrolling by and see this- would you confirm I’m not existing in the twilight zone and that my art does indeed exist?

From: Possible subliminal space of nonexistence.

[roo-north]

Does anyone else's sibling just go up to you and go 'What if I am not real and just a figment of your imagination,' or does that just happen to me?

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[shalaaex]

JFJSJJSHA I CANT EVEN FINISH THE L.O.V.E ANIMATIC WITHOUT TAPAKAH GOING ON AHEAD AND NEARLY FINISHING ANOTHER SERIES.

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[osheamobile]

Keep seeing the (extremely correct) posts about keeping your stuff on physical media - CDs, DVDs, blu-rays, books, etc.

And yes, 100%, do not get rid of your physical media in favor of streaming. I did some of that about a decade or so ago before I learned better and there are books and CDs I now need to find again.

But something that I see a lot of people dismiss is that the digital versions are more convenient. Taking ebooks to travel is so much better than taking up half your backpack, having digital music is genuinely better than swapping out discs

The thing is, it's not mutually exclusive. Rip your CDs and DVDs but keep the discs - you can toss the cases in favor of more condensed storage and leave them in your closet until you need them again. Strip the DRM from your ebooks - you paid for them the same way you'd have paid for physical paper tree-based versions - and burn them to CDs as well for safekeeping.

You can play MP3s just as easily as Spotify in cars and in much the same way, and you can stream movie files from your computer to your TV just as easily. Tech can be both convenient and for personal preservation - you can do both.

Keep your physical stuff because streamers can just get rid of anything at any time, but you absolutely can keep the convenience of the modern digital era at the same time.

I spent several months last year digitizing the roughly 1200 discs that we've accumulated for the past thirtyish years - music, movies, TV - and it was not only the most fun project I took on, it's been the most rewarding because we have movies that aren't available to stream. But I can stream it to my TV with director's commentary any time I want.

[lgbtlunaverse]

Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intent to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

zany to me how these um actually nihilists like to pretend that "um actually love/friendship/cooperation/kindness isn't real bc we evolved that way to benefit ourselves as a species..." um YES? that's also where tool use comes from? that's where cooking comes from? am i supposed to think social bonds & tool use & cooking aren't "real" because they evolved over time instead of appearing fully formed from the ether?

sorry u can't enjoy things. im a superior being twirling a fork in my bowl of delicious noodles whilst staring in adoration at the world

[vroomvroomwee]

As an aroace I engage with romance and sex from a fantasy-level type of distance in the way that whenever I remember that people in real life actually want to touch each other's genitals I get the same wave of "hold the fuck up" that I would get if someone reminded me dragons exist.

[flagellant]

yeah we might be brothers in christ but so were cain and abel so shut the fuck up before i decide to find a rock about it

[deecotan]

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[hinamie]

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