#please don't read this

[jinxs-left-nipple]

Ugh tfuq do yall mean disclose my personal thoughts what

Remember how at one point we were all supposed to enter the florpus but then a bunch on nerds happened and we kinda didn't and now there's taxes all over again?

[walison-abigobaldo-iii]

I cannot accept the fact that Samantha Sloyan is SHORTER than Carla Gugino

It doesn't make sense in my head

Carla Gugino is T I N Y

How come Samantha Sloyan is T I N I E R??!!

The disrespect for my poor heart

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.

That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.

palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.

Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.

This is Hind.

[shitty-check-please-aus]

What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

[sirtouchstarved]

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PLEASE NO NOT NOW NOT LIKE THIS, BELOVED PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS I'M NOTHING WITHOUT YOU

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[kinaflex]

*i did not read this though, because it's late and i don't want to cry, so it's unedited, great* *sidenote i've been listening to bedoes, that's how you know it's bad*

22II24 2'22

Today i'm gonna be writing to someone important to me.

Hey hey,

Let me kick off with the fact that i know you won't read this. You know that i write, you've gone through a few even. But I know it doesn't interest you much, just as it doesn't interest you what's going through my head. I doubt you mind how i feel or what i think. There's no conversation between us and slowly but surely i'm losing my will to give wan effort, because in the end, no matter what i say - it doesn't change anything and you just try to push me away, or should i say, pressure me with cutting me off.

To be frank, i don't feel like you care much. You say i'm important. However, what's important to you is not me as a person, but the role that i play for you. This is not a way for us to be friends. I'm losing interest in trying or caring. I don't know what started this, or who, or did someone put your mind against me. I'd love to know what happened, but i never will. And now i know there's no point in trying to figure it out. There's no point in expressing my thoughts, feelings or opinions. Because it's like talking to a wall that additionally disregards you and says that if you bring certain subjects up even the wall won't be there.

I love you. It seems though that you don't want me to and as if you are doing everything for me to leave on my own accord. I don't know why, and it's not as if you'd tell me.

I'm tempted to send you a link to this. I imagine you'd open it, read the key words and not answer me, acting as if you haven't read the message. Then i'd ask if you'd seen it and you'd either say that you haven't opened the link or would somehow turn my thoughts against me (as if they weren't already). I wish you'd write me goodnight before sleep, you know i like stuff like that, but that seems like too much effort, eh? We wouldn't want to make me feel too special.

It's late love, i don't know what to write anymore. I know i won't sleep well tonight once more, but then again, you didn't mind much when i'd told you about it last time.

Goodnight,

unsigned

[wyverndragonborn]

Hhhgh

Warning on this post I am NOT being a silly little guy and should PROBABLY be posting this anonymously on a separate blog but honestly I couldn't be paid to give a FUCK right now

(Written after rant) I'll probably private or delete this sooner or later but I really needed to get this all out

I usually keep stuff light on here but Jesus CHRIST how long will it fucking take humanity to HAVE SOME HUMANITY. To look at the past and the present and realize HEY, that's not fucking right. To take down memorials celebrating fucking criminals and assholes. "Oh things are happening things are getting better" NO THEY FUCKING AREN'T! THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE! AND NOBODY CARES! SOME issues are getting better, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM. Not NEARLY all of them. We are going fucking backwards and I am so fucking scared and angry and part of me doesn't even care anymore and that might be one of the worst parts. I'm fucking used to this. We've been going backwards for YEARS. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. I'm fucking scared of and angry about so much that I can't do shit about because I'm a coward and I can't drive and I don't have the energy to walk places and all I can do is sit here on my fucking social media and repost stuff on tiktok and this rant isn't even about just one fucking issue this has been building for years about SO MUCH FUCKING SHIT.

Have a dragon please don't yell at me in the comments for ranting

[raynewolferune]

DC x DP Prompt: Bruce is bad at emoting but at least ghosts are empathic (too bad bat kids are not)

Was reading Twincognito on AO3 when I stumbled across this gem again:

~

" “Danny, Tim. I was just…checking in. Is everything alright?” Curse his inability to make meaningful conversation when it wasn’t a life or death situation.

They glanced at each other and shrugged.

Then Danny hauled himself out of the bed and walked over to Bruce.

Bruce tried not to let too much excitement show on his face. "

~

Now I really want to read a story where Bruce adopts Danny post Meta trafficking and is being his usual emotionally constipated self. His kids keep getting mad at him because he's treating their new meta brother who was trafficked poorly (generally being stilted in conversation with him, walking away hurriedly mid-conversation, avoiding Danny when he's feeling really awkward, etc). They think Bruce is discriminating against Danny for being a civilian, meta, dealer's pick, but really it's just Bruce being horribly socially awkward. Danny knows this because of ghost empathy and find the whole thing hilarious. The whole thing comes to a head with the Bat Kids staging an intervention in the Bat Cave.

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

Something I think about a lot is how Rick Riordan very rarely uses "girlfriend/boyfriend" to refer to Percy and Annabeth within their perspectives. They're so intertwined, even Annabeth says in hoh that the word boyfriend isn't strong enough, because Percy was a part of her. They are a singular soul, too wrapped around each others' fates that regular labels are far too weak for them. But, Rick Riordan uses "boyfriend" a lot in Nico and Wills perspectives, not because they love each other less than percabeth, but to show how much the word means to them. Nico uses it any chance he gets- "his boyfriend," "he actually had a boyfriend," because Nico has never been able to say that before. Their struggle with their queer identities mixed with Nico's catholic guilt and chronic everyone-hates-me disease makes the fact that he has someone to call his actual boyfriend so much more important to his character development.

[sirnica]

Qyeuqyoqqo

Like, I know what I need to do to get better.

I need to get out, socialize, eat healthier, make friends, not go to bed at 8:30.

And I will get better, probably. It will be hard but I've done it before.

But like why? Why would I do it when I will get depressed again and again and again. I don't want to try so hard again, for what feels like a millionth time on my life knowing that it won't last.

Evrey depressive episode feels worse than the last.

I am so so tried.

[wagenenr]

he lets me hit it creepy like. that Bella Lugussy

[mellosdrawings]

So, I'm not all that caught up with canon lore yet, but one thing that annoys me at times is when people blame Rook for his bad new style (it's not even bad. He looks cute, look at him smiling so much he's so baby). Rook has been shown several times to do things on his own volition without even warning Vil (like, you know, changing dorms?!) and you'd expect me to believe he's not the one to have chosen his new style ?

Anyway, leave my man and his bad haircut choices alone. What's the point of having hair that can grow back if you don't have some fun with them while you're still at school ?

[nyancrimew]

can we pretend that stars in the night sky are like airplanes, i could really use a flight right now

[galaxyofhair]

I think something I am tired of seeing is rants about how gaming is rUiNeD and there's no variety or creativity in (AAA) gaming.

It's not that this premise is necessarily wrong, but every argument I see tends to root itself in this idea that we had it better during the 7th console generation and that it was this golden age of gaming and creativity---But like, no... It wasn't---at least, not as golden as you remember.

I still remember watching Zero Punctuation in 2009 and hearing pretty much the same complaint from Yahtzee that every Youtuber and their streaming dog has today: Classic games (from my childhood) good, new games that are sepia and samey bad.

Again, it's not that this premise is necessarily wrong: Are AAA devs doing some shady, shitty stuff and churning out crappy clones of COD every year? Yeah, absolutely.

But this was also true back then (2008~2013): How many of the 360's titles were dreary and so washed out they were basically grayscale? How many of those games had QTEs, or crowbarred in moral choice systems that didn't make sense or didn't matter?

Also there was Peter Molyneux, gamings biggest grifter from that era who literally could not stop lying to save his f*cking life. I'm mad just thinking about it.

Like, you can choose to cherrypick the great stuff like Mass Effect, Fallout, Skyrim, Super Mario, Borderlands etc---but you're leaving out the dawn of cheap, money pit DLC, you're leaving out the first 7 billion COD games, and Battlefield, and Medal of Honor trying to climb out of the grave, and those awful kinect games, and Fable 3 shitting the bed, carpet, and stairs---Etc, etc, etc, ETC

Stop it, get some help.

There's plenty of modern greats in every, single, category---and the best part is that it's actually really hard to distinguish what's an "old" game and whats new because shit is constantly updating.

IDK I'm not taking the time to sit here and name every example, but what other time in gaming could I go from playing Dragon Quest Builders to a complete, from the ground up remake of System Shock, to Deep Rock Galactic, to TOTK, to Starfield?

There's always going to be something bad that's also new---and it makes it easy to look back and not see how things were also bad back then. This is just a part of growing up, and I'm tired of it. All of this nostalgia fueled ranting I see on Youtube, TikTok, Txitter---it tends to secretly hold hands with the "Reject modernity, return to monke" crowd.

And frankly, on the subject of Starfield---quit it, I'm trying to enjoy this fucking game and everyone's losing their fucking religion over it, chill out. They spent 5 years making a ridiculously large game and it's got Bethesda brand bugs, what else is new. You want tradition? Bethesda still makes buggy games as the gods would have it, there---return to Monke motherfucker.