#like what the fuck!!!

[fairycosmos]

WHY DO PEOPLE GIVE ME DIRTY LOOKS IM JUST SITTING HERE!!!!

[jo-the-bass-stealer]

it is genuinely wild to be learning about fascist europe in the 1930s and 40s in school then coming home, watching the news and seeing the exact same events play out beat for beat in real time. it's not even whiplash it's like being stuck in a timeloop in which i fall down a dark bottomless cavern before being teleported back to the top and pushed over the edge again

[bauliya]

emma frost is probably the only comic book character to be played by an actor with a more comic book-y name than her

[pinkkop]

It's been almost 2 weeks since I got sick and I was so close to being out of the woods with only the leftovers of a cough buuut my throat has been hurting today which is usually what happens when I'm about to get sick which means there's a high likelihood that I'm getting sick AGAIN!!!!

[lovetransaction]

imagine watching “something wicked” and your only thought coming away from it is “john is a big meanie who hates dean and is a jerk to his kids”. imagine the complete dearth of media literacy and ability to comprehend character that takes. imagine seeing the way JDM manages to convey john’s inner battle between his self-loathing for this being his boys’ life, and his terror for sam’s (and dean’s!) safety, and his mingled anger and disappointment about dean dropping the ball because it’s ultimately yet another way he’s failed as a parent. imagine not getting any of that and bumbling on your way thinking john was cruel to them on purpose and not just some damaged-as-fuck guy trying his utmost and realizing his boys might get out of this alive but he can’t get them out of it unscathed and that’s the best he can manage. the most he can give them is survival and brand name cereal and that’s about it

[2022dirt]

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[alkemylabz]

"writing about fucked up things doesnt indicate your values as a person" and "the way you write about things may indicate some of your values" are not conflicting statements if im going to be real

anyway post cancelled. look at mysterious green glacier mice move across the ice in formation

if anyone wants to assume this post is about rugrats porn or hentai or censorship or ao3 i will have you know this post was because i found it odd (as someone with a passing interest in cults and high control groups) that so many people were insistent that the former scientology auditor did not have any internalized views about what consent meant that showed through in his writing. it's possible that you could glean he has such views through the way he talks and writes about certain things. what a strange and novel way to view communication that has no applications in real life.

do not derail and continue discussing glacier mice as usual though

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[vulpinesaint]

quiz enjoyers! i am now inviting you to come create something in my workshop❕

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[bearloonz]

I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues