#this obsession with connecting to the internet

[gerbits]

oh the ea app is down? it's almost like games shouldn't require a launcher or the internet to play

[tanadrin]

[22degreehalo]

I'll say it as many times as it needs to be said. There is absolutely miniscule actual harm that comes from engaging with Harry Potter in 2024. JK Rowling does not need money. Anything sent her way is less than a rounding error. And the book series was literally EVERYWHERE in the 90s and 2000s. Like it or not, it DID impact a whole generation of people - pretending that never happened is completely absurd, if not outright irresponsible. It happened. It's just a fact. Harry Potter is mainstream. There is nothing that can be done to 'promote' it. It's already there.

What all this obsession with HP on tumblr is about? An easy way to smugly define Good People from Bad People. Because if you *really* cared about trans people enough, you'd hate everything associated with Harry Potter. Regardless of how much you adored it when you were 8 and went to Harry Potter parties with your family all dressed up quoting book lines at one another in your most precious childhood memories because for once your special interest actually aligned with the people closest to you. No, all those positive associations should have been deleted instantly. If you *cared enough*, it would just *happen*.

Which is why a whole slew of people who previously had earnestly reblogged posts about Moral OCD and how bad tumblr can be about it were suddenly cackling about how buying Hogwarts Legacy was comparable to *refusing to throw The One Ring into Mordor, starting a war that would kill millions.* And how donating to a pro-trans charity (an act that would have VASTLY more impact than aforementioned rounding error) is comparable to 'donating to a pro-elf charity' in the wake of that.

Because tumblr doesn't actually give a shit about autistics or OCD sufferers. When we complain about stuff that they also dislike, they proudly reblog that and rage in the notes about how selfish and cruel and Individualist those other people on tumblr are!!! But the *second* they get to paint themselves as the ones with '''''good thoughts and feelings'''''' they take it, and make up posts about how HP likers 'believe they're the main character and everything should revolve around them.'

Is it actually about whether something causes harm? Or is it about dividing the world into Inherently Good People and Inherently Bad People? Is it actually about doing real good for the community and making the world a better place? Or is it about shaming people with the Wrong Emotions until they fucking hate themselves and spend hours upon hours ruminating on end trying to change themselves because their inability to let go of positive Harry Potter feelings is OBVIOUSLY evidence of a truly inescapably evil and cruel and wretched identity that the world would be better off without?

Which is it, actually? When it actually feels a little bit good to feel like you're on the Right Side of all of this, for once?

[fiendishartist2]

the bar for "revolutionary" webhorror is so low. what happened

[angstics]

not the mcr archivist in sellout spitting about the band’s longstanding no sexism, no racism, no homophobia philosophy, gerard way feminine performance, inclusive pit etiquette, and broken beaten damned dynamic. all at once. all in print.

[stargirl1331]

Everytime you like my stuff I go insane, love you <3

I feel the exact same way. I see a notif that says unnamedrat(which I keep somehow reading as unarmedrat which is funny) and I’m kicking my feet with a smile, love you too <3

[king0fcrows]

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[louderfade]

i don't trust anyone that had a good time in middle school. it's a hellish first encounter of what's on the other side of childhood and designed to be a period of adjustment; it's not supposed to be comfortable. if you enjoyed being in seventh grade something is fundamentally wrong with you, and i'm like an animal sensing another animal has rabies or something. don't come any closer or i'll attack.

[killherfreakout]

i’m like if a girl had no friends 3/4 of a film degree and a blog

[maxthewickedgoblin]

love these tags but smart printer need to die. my empathy ends with them

stumbled across some of my printer opinions that i don't recall writing but am correct about

[thefaultinoursprinkles]

ok well they said all that same stuff about The Internet when I was in school in the early 2000s and it has been 25 years and it’s fine so I think you need to try building an understanding of ‘AI’ beyond buzzwords

[rose-skunk]

Why does a washing machine need an app why does a washing machine need TO CONNECT TO WIFI??? IM GONNA FUCKING KILL MYSELF WR LIVE IN A WORTHLESS SOCIETY THAT TRIES TO ACT ALL PERFECT AND FUTURISTIC BECUASE WE PUT APPS AND SCREENS ON EBERYTHING WHILE MAKING NO ACTUAL IMPROVEMENTS TP THE FUCKING WORLD

[devllishy]

just posted my art on tiktok for the first time i feel like throwing up

[mindful-things]

Even the Vegvisir is a Christian symbol. I believe it became associated with vikingrs because it was seen in old films lots as it fitted the aesthetic.

A reminder!

[eryanlainfa]

LABELS MAN!!! THEY’RE COOL!!!

THEY ARE. And there are SO many gdjkddk probs should have as many as there are people because everyone has their own little definition and thats freaking amazing.