#the great forgetting

[frances-kafka]

So I'm going to tell you why I think people think that Mandela died in prison (the "Mandela Effect.") First of all, people actually in South Africa, who were alive at the time, know better. Nelson Mandela is the only South African anti-apartheid activist that didn't get memory holed. The one who died in prison was Steve Biko. (And, plenty of others died in prison, but Biko is the one around whom there was any broad awareness.)

[calista-222]

[Post-Shadow Generations]

He's fiiiine...

[keferon]

Lemme introduce you to my super niche dynamic. Primus and The first Prime.

I am mixing continuities again and using Prima’s characterisation and origin from Aligned universe and the design from Tf1. Because the tf1 design is incredibly pretty~

ALSO the “every spark is connected to the Matrix” is based on the mtmte#21 where it reveals that Matrix has sparkcodes in it and you can basically use it to reassign a new spark code to other mech as if Matrix is just a freaking exel document that can be edited haha

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[kawareo]

Frog...

Illustration for the previous chapter of Godsbound!

[friedunicornstudio]

We painted a new Shiranui zodiac piece this year featuring all the brush god constellations!

(Shiranui themself is in front of the Hanagami, but we did paint them. They're still there. It counts)

[nb-swordk9]

Shit man, this math war is fucked. I just saw a guy draw a commutative diagram and say "one point compactification" or some similar shit, and everyone around him got folded into a 3-sphere and vanished into 4d-space. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting ε-δ and quotient spaces. I think I just heard "infinity-groupoid coskeleton tower" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

"You and me, Ethan. Together we go save Rose, and then we can grind Miranda into paste!"

[just-an-enby-lemon]

The thing about jonmartin is that Martin wants to be a romantic, he loves poetry and probably watches romance but for him it is a fantasy, a silly game he plays. Martin is at his core very cynical. Things don't work out for him so he doesn't really belive in romance, it is a pretty dream but that's it. He is pratical and realist. Dating Jon he has to remind himself it is real and he actually struggles with romantic gestures, it is something he has to remind himself to do, to remind himself he can do even and honestly who even has the energy and what if Jon doesn't even like it?

Jon on the other hand wants to be cynical. His first coping mechanism was pretend the things he was afraid of weren't real and goddam if he isn't afraid of love. It didn't really work to him so far so it's easy to pretend he doesn't care. But he is a romantic at heart. He saw love and he read about it and he has enough evidence that it is undeniable. And to be honest Jon was always to much a bunch of mushy feelings hidden in a grumpy (and bitter and afraid) trench coat. Dating Martin he has to hold himself so he isn't too much. He plays the grumpy unromantic guy at first. But he just can't stop giving flowers and planing dates (this is the guy that saw a theme park on a fear domain and considered how he wanted to take Martin to a romantic ferris whell date [until he discovered Martin was afraid of them]) and making all the silly things one does when in love.

TR: Martin is deep down very cynical about love but wants to/pretends to be a romantic and Jon is deep down very romantic but wants to/pretends to be cynical about love.

[clownowo]

ok everyone knows and loves the very gay susahao concept art

but did you know that the shawl she's wearing is Susato's?

[hinamie]

green

[frances-kafka]

I'm pattern matching something nightmarish and dystopian downstream of the fact that Century of the Self has been given so much primacy as a history of 20th century thought-shaping and meaning-making. And acting like this is some great discovered Forbidden Knowledge. When actually, the whole history of 20th century advertising, psychology, etc *is* fairly well attested and does not revolve around some kind of anti-Semitic Great Man Theory that you are all jerking off to. You're looking to a 20 year old documentary as your only source of meaning-making about the 20th century and that's not only intellectually dishonest, it's dangerous.

I am not debunking this work, I'm just really really disturbed by the fact that moderns - who are downstream of the Great Forgetting of mid to late 20th century social science, academia, journalism, and the loss of Boomer and older cultural memory - are centralizing Freud (who is not actually given anywhere nearly that much credit by Twentians) and Bernays much more than any Twentians ever actually did. If you're younger than 40 then you have no memory of how people actually talked about Freud past his heyday.

It's convenient that you've ONLY not Great Forgotten the Jews you are specifically blowing up into greater cultural importance relative to Watson, Skinner, Pavlov, &etc. And that this is being disseminated by people who have no context for 20th century history, who also largely participate in the broader intellectual latent spaces of conspiracy theorists and QAnon. Anyway, I have a whitepaper on this and I look forward to showing you all.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This wine tastes like pigs blood!

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[turimoalin]

Marinette: Adrien won't have anyone to take care of him if you are gone.

Me:

[valyrfia]

Ollie Bearman and Kimi Antonelli in Baku, September 2024 (via 5ainz5)

[captainmaxatx]

Logan and Wade almost always do the nasty with the lights out and Wade is a little disappointed but he gets it and he resigned himself to a lifetime of dark sex long before Logan came along, sucks to know that your partner doesn’t want to look at you while getting down to business but its something Wade can live with.

Meanwhile, after a long day of stupid big bright lights Logan loves to have the lights out when making love with Wade because there isn’t any extra light bugging him and his natural night vision means he can see Wade perfectly, just the way he likes it

[crescentfool]

december 31st but i make it silly (based on a tumblr post, below the cut!)

everyone say thank you xenia, i made adjustments for the december 31st context but nyx avatar is still fitting.

original draft of the last panel. i considered putting the bi flag but i didn't know how to squeeze it in. we love ryoji mochizuki in this house.