#non-sequitur

[d-i-whitecards]

"The most un-spaghetti-like noises."

[notmuchtoconceal]

sarah palmer is learning about how to read german when she falls under the spell of the white horse because there is a DOPPELGANGER on the loose telling us about nature of the ZEITGEIST

TWIN PEAKS IS

TIMEGHOST

COAST TO COAST

[benoitblanc]

why didn't you tell me? because i didn't want to believe it. because i don't want to believe it.

[carlyraejepsans]

i disagree with you about mike. the character that spouts non-sequiters did that, toby didn't have any plans for an actual character, he decided to shout the fans out by incorporating some designs he liked while lightheartedly poking at how ravenous the fanbase is for clues about everything. which like. we are

no sure he had so few plans for an actual character that he referenced him in the sweepstakes with invisible text you had to highlight as the only person spamton didn't want bloody revenge on, come the fuck on.

[simsecret]

- Secrets Post #897, February 21st, 2025

[doodlebloo]

Man that podcast episode was seriously so good like I've already relistened 3 times and I'm still not over it.

Tommy being so impressed by DnP and asking for advice on how they've handled things re:content creation and Dan & Phil giving the kindest most sincere advice about finding what makes you feel happy and creatively fulfilled and making sure you're putting yourself first.

Gosh it was so fucking refreshing to see creators from such wildly different "eras" of YouTube be so chill and friendly and find common ground.

[searcherofamroth]

unsure whether I like this one... but as a top tier jopper I must persist

[satanfemme]

I'm going to say something really pretentious sounding here but I think it's a bit silly to be anti-kink while also pro-marriage. if you think an adult playing pretend is bad because what if a hypothetical third party saw that and maliciously used it to excuse separately occurring abuse or whatever, wait until you find out about the epidemic of adults choosing to legally and financially enmesh themselves Real and Not-Pretend style as a gateway to non-hypothetical, well documented, abuse as encouraged (and often forced) by our society. like, it's totally fine and socially acceptable for men to pretty straightforwardly own their wives thru marriage and do whatever they want to her, but god forbid a kinkster wear clothes you don't like or else you gotta tell everyone about how the kinksters are Degenerating our wholesome society by inventing the concept of abuse and then normalizing it! like ok.

personally I think a legal marriage contract is a relationship style of infinitely higher risk to your physical and mental well-being than just doing some fun roleplay with a partner is, but I guess I'm the insane one for noticing that.

[propalahramota]

Me: *posts about another insane and evil thing russia's doing in their war on Ukraine

Crazy ppl on tumblrdotcom: Have you considered the crimes of the Google LLC, hmmmmm???

[d-i-whitecards]

"Mormon toxicity."

[tsuchinokoroyale]

NieR

Far

Where ever you are 🎶

[deer-a-day]

222

not this time

[dukeofankh]

There is something very odd and nebulous happening with language around the Trump administration that I think is bad, but obviously it's kind of a bird's eye analysis of a landscape that has a lot of variability. It's not gonna be universally applicable. Do not Bean Soup me.

Put simply, the discussion of the "flood the zone," "shock and awe" strategy employed by the Trump administration is starting to shift into something much less useful and accurate, in my opinion.

Like, obviously it is preferable, from the administration's perspective, that you feel too overwhelmed and attacked to do anything. That is true. But this has kind of bled into the concept of things being done as a "distraction" until we reach a place in the discourse where like...

People do get that the point of the Trump Administration isn't to make them feel bad, personally, right?

Like, there is a distinct strain of "own the libs" messaging, to be sure, but that is largely to shore up support among their own base. You, whichever marginalized identity or even just vague progressiveism you represent, are serving the same role that the Jews and Communists and Queer people served the Nazis. They just need a scapegoat, someone weak they can defeat to look strong and convince their base that something is being done. Making you feel bad is not, actually, the point.

But I see people saying that all manner of full blown legislative actions are "just a distraction", that "they just want to overwhelm you". And like...no. Trump does have goals. He is attempting to reorder the power structure of the globe, smash and grab and extort and put himself on top of, at the very least, North America, with Europe possibly pawned off to Russia to play with and with China contained as much as possible.

As part of that, yeah. They are attempting to eliminate the entire current civil government of the United States and replace it with one fully loyal to Trump so that when he inevitably refuses to accept the results of the next election, they wont remove him from power. This is all part of it.

The idiocy isn't an attempt to make you personally feel bad. I am trying to find a way to kindly tell you that you need to get over your main character syndrome and realize that they are not overthrowing the faux-peaceful post-war order of the globe to give you anxiety.

Take the Gulf of America thing. Was it just a "flood the zone" distraction? No. That doesn't mean it was a diabolical master plan, either. It was a symbolic spit in the face of Mexico, a country that they will almost definitely be invading within the next few years now that cartels are officially designated as foreign terrorist organizations. It also serves as a loyalty test. Google and Apple had to show that they are willing to go along with anything, no matter how stupid. They were. The Associated Press refused, and they've been barred from press access to the White House as a result. There will be hundreds of tests like this, and the punishments for being a normalass person will get progressively harsher and harsher.

Don't confuse the way that these actions make you feel, and the benefits that the administration wants from the way you feel, to lead you to the mistaken conclusion that these events are part of a huge plot, the entire purpose of which is to make you sad. Those feelings have no purpose. They aren't a victory for them if they trigger them in you, they aren't their goal, and they aren't something that you have to push down "or they win" or something.

Don't get sad. Get angry. Because they have a goal, and it's way, way worse than your anxiety.

[simsecret]

- Secrets Post #894, January 31st, 2025

[bfoxanimation]

"That's a more lukewarm reception than that time Brian tried joining that running club..."

[boom33713]

seasons 2 and 3!!! (and one from the intro bc i realized i didnt make one for it yet. oops)

less transformations this time, more other cool effects. i've noticed you usually only see the light effects when they're not in view, which was more rare in these seasons.

and a bonus :]