#talk junk

[pangur-and-grim]

[m00nbuggies]

all 'bout family!

[mircrobios]

konichiwa (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

[kiophen]

genuine question, do you think callout posts are inherently evil? like if someone's doing some weird shit and hiding it i think people would want to be warned about that at least. just try to discourage harassment as much as possible

The existence of a callout posts means that the targeted person will be harassed if enough people see it. There is no amount of "don't harass anyone mentioned in this doc/video" disclaimers that will prevent that. The post is now potentially a permanent record that anyone can cite for years into the future. You are now at the whims of unknown strangers to be banned from communities, kicked out of creative projects, or be blocked by friends, at any time with no warning. I would consider this to be harassment, but to people who don't know about how these things usually go down they would be seen as righteous whistle blowers.

No matter what you actually did, if your awkward interaction with someone was too sexual, or if you stated a shitty opinion about a complex topic, or if you misjudged someone's boundaries, or if you engaged with kink in a way that made someone outside the scene uncomfortable, you are now a predator. I have seen firsthand the game of telephone starting from "this person did/said something sexualized on an online platform where teenagers could have been present," to "acted creepy around teenagers," to "regularly sexually assaulted children," to "pedophile".

Callout posts do not actually stop the person from "doing weird shit". It depends on what you mean by "weird shit", but if you mean "secretly draws/engages with Bad Porn", which is what a lot of callout posts are about, I implore you to recognize that it is truly not your business to know every private action someone takes just because you follow them on social media. This applies to awkward interactions people have in private too. Sometimes it's patterns of abuse, but a lot of the time it's interpersonal drama that is not anyone else's business.

If by "weird shit" you mean that someone has demonstrated ongoing patterns of real emotional/financial/sexual/etc abuse, and it's something that cannot be handled by any other means (either privately or with legal action if relevant), then in those cases a callout post can potentially do more good than harm if it reaches the people that need to know about it.

The level of long-term mental anguish that a target can go through is absolutely no fucking joke. A callout post has the potential to be a gun to someone's head, especially if they're socially/mentally/physically disadvantaged to begin with, which conveniently describes the most likely people to be targeted with high profile callout posts. [This is because: 1.) Our communities are wayy more likely to self-police than the rest of the internet and 2.) there are groups such as kiwifarms that love when a trans girl does something they can suicide bait her with and they also love it when we infight, isolate, and attack each other.]

I don't think callout posts are inherently evil, but they do nothing to make the target not continue their unwanted behavior. The only good function a callout post can serve is to warn potential future victims. If there are no victims, no behavior that will DIRECTLY lead to someone being victimized, no scam being uncovered, no patterns of abuse being shared, then the only victim is the target of the callout post. Everyone else involved is just gawking at gossip and/or contributing to suicidal levels of anxiety to a stranger.

[junkdrawernoggin]

Every time Ekko is drawn with an anime nose an angel loses their wings

[akai-anna]

i love how eerie he looks. love that other-worldly energy. red pupils, nice. very demonic of him.

[soupfather]

I want y’all to know whenever you reblog my junk with little notes or whatever they’re called I read them all multiple times over and I’m like

[wu-does-art]

one haunted little boy vs The Flesh Eyes

[smallpapers]

They are so. In love. Help me. I can’t

[tswwwit]

Bill is dying in dipper's arms, like dead-dead. no coming back. what are his last words? i like to think he'd give dip an onimous message/spell to clue in a way to get revenge after his death and then kiss dip till he's gone, also what way would you kill off bill? the memory gun? in the mindscape? or some other way?

would dipper ever be put in a situation where he'd have to kill bill himself, and for what reason?

The obvious answer is: Bill doesn't get any last words.

It's so much more poetic to have the guy who's always talking, rambling, bragging and being cryptic to go out without a sound. Just there and gone in an instant, without any last dramatic memory for Dipper to cling to.

[bittersweetexile]

It’s the greatest feeling in the world when you yap about special interest and the other person not only listens but is genuinely interested and asks questions

[breakdownsbuttlights]

Oh my GOD I audibly gasped when Ratty showed up on my feed. Drift's right, he's got the loveliest eyes and the best smile. ❤️

And the fattest di- *I am forcibly yanked offstage*

[vampyrdolll]

[moghedien]

honestly I encourage everyone to get comfortable opening up their electronics. game consoles. computers. phones. keyboards. headphones. whatever. like obviously don't start with the most difficult thing to open up and don't just mindlessly pop open something and lose all the screws and don't do it while its on. but get comfortable looking inside your stuff yourself

its not hard to open up most electronics that don't have an apple logo on them (and even a lot of those are easier than you'd think) and it DOES NOT VOID YOUR WARRANTY.

Companies will try to scare you from learning how to care for your own stuff because they get money that way. Warranty stickers are technically illegal in the US but just isn't enforced, and a company can't actually void your warranty if you repair something yourself, so long as you don't break something else in the process.

like I look at threads all the time where people express fear about just opening up a console and looking at the internals to see which version they have but don't be! its easy, its safe, its free! get comfortable with your electronics and learn how to clean and repair stuff yourself, it isn't scary, companies just want you to think it is!

[stiffyck]

What if people started saying "I need to exercise more" or "I need to eat a bit healthier" instead of "I need to lose weight"

You can be healthy and fat

[saphushia]

Btw if you ever have to choose between high quality paper or high quality pens/markers/paint get the paper every time. Expensive paper can hold up to cheap supplies easy peasy but using expensive supplies on cheap paper will give you way more problems. Obviously you don't NEED expensive paper or supplies, but if you've gotta choose one go for the good paper.

I get a 25$-30$ canson mixed media sketchbooks and lemme tell you it's great knowing I can get cheapo dollar store markers and it'll take it no problem