#to be fair i was doomscrolling

[codecicle]

the difference between condi "accidentally leaks really important information" condifiction and nathaniel grizzly "blurs out every face in a photo manually on his insta story because he didn't ask to take their picture" plays is crazy

[soundwavereporting]

looking through my trello board for the first time in months and i can't believe i never talked about liege maximo/vigilem on this blog

[triglycercule]

halloween is like in a month and as worlds worst procrastinator (self declared title) i think i'm finally gonna fufill my dreams and make an animation meme of the mtt with that one happy halloween junky rin song (but ughhh i need to decide on costumes i'll give them!!!!! off to the drawing board!!)

[lilacbutbackwards]

Person who decided on a degree heavily based on Philosophy is currently wailing because he does not want to read about Philosophy

[highhhfiveee]

Imagine having to explain to Mike what a Gyatt is😭😭

and the fact that it's not even a noun, but like...an expression. don't get me started lmao. it's like 'GYAT!" 😃

tags: fluff [: (sweet discussions and fun talk of rollercoasters. abby is me, conked out after a twelve hour six flags day).

it'd been a fun saturday; you, mike, and abby had all gone to the popular amusement park in the city, sweating in the lengthy queue lines and pigging out on fried snacks and sweets that made your stomachs gurgle after each ride.

you'd gotten back home late, and abby had fallen asleep in the car, leaving you two to put her to bed before winding down yourselves.

you and mike shower together, pressing your bodies close and massaging at the other's muscles, aiding the scorching water in washing away the tension of activity.

afterwards, you two retreat to your room and slip into your pajamas lethargically, recollecting on the day's thrills. mike falls to the bed as he pulls his shirt over his chest, resting his back against the headboard and grabbing for his phone settled on the nightstand. "'the deep dive' was your favorite?"

you're sitting on your side of the bed, gathering your hair and securing it all at the top of your head before tying your scarf around it. you turn to mike with squinted eyes, challenging, "how could it not be? a 90 degree drop into the ground is crazy. it makes me see stars every time."

mike protests with a squeak, muttering, "eh. that's just it's gimmick. other than that, it's just a glorified 'kinder circuit'" as he stares down at his phone.

"do not compare it to a kid's rollercoaster, mike. that's insulting," you muse playfully, beginning to spread lotion over your arms and hands.

"yeah, yeah," he stalely sighs as his thumb tracked over his phone screen time and time again after a short burst of noise. lately, he'd been prone to doomscrolling on tiktok, hooked after abby had shown him a lot of videos from her for you page, and now, he's furrowing his eyes at videos and replies using this slang he's never heard before.

"do you know what a...'gyat' is?" he questions, trying out the word on his tongue in a few different inflections. "is it like 'guy-yat'? they're saying it like 'guy-yat' in all these videos."

you take a deep breath, rolling your eyes in annoyance as you finish rubbing lotion into the skin of your legs and crawl up to the top of the bed to snuggle into mike's shoulder. "it's not a noun. it's really shortened AAVE, like...'gotdamn', but using it as a noun is its appropriated form."

mike hums, letting out a light chuckle at the frivolity of social media. you go over the term with him, showing him what it really sounds like and means, and he copies you, making you giggle.

"okay, that makes sense. seeing...'latina gyatt' did not make me feel good and now i know why," you full on belly-laugh then, sliding down on the sheets until your head is resting on mike's chest where you feel his own boisterous joy rumble through your cheek.

"well that's good. i can't let you go around being uninformed." mike grins down at you, wrapping his arms around your waist and giving your torso a gentle squeeze. with a tired tone, he mutters, "mmmm, and that's why i love you, baby."

okie short and sweet [: hope you all enjoyed!

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[velvetvexations]

it’s so bizarre to me that you never, EVER reblog or post anything about transmisogyny or the transfem experience. like, can you even recommend any transfem-centric blogs for me to follow? for someone so into “solidarity” your trans activism seems pretty focused on trans men only

So there are multiple things going on with this ask.

As I've explained several times before - I don't necessarily blame you for not seeing it, but I have - most social issues give me panic attacks to contemplate. The thing I mentioned triggered me so badly yesterday was something in the transmisogyny tag that wasn't tagged with anything I had blacklisted (not that OP's fault, I added more variations of transphobia warnings so it hopefully won't happen again).

Intercommunity issues are less existential. Things like hate crimes and legislative assaults on queer people freak me out and leave me a shaking, crying, doomscrolling mess. I don't even follow like, literally any of the people who followed me for transandrophobia advocacy because they reblog other things that gives me heart palpitations.

That limits my exposure to intercommunity issues facing transfems specifically as well, the vast majority of people I follow don't put any discourse on my dash at all. However, I have in fact reblogged posts purely about transmisogyny (other than the kind transandrophobes throw at me lol) only to immediately delete them when I see the OP is vile towards transmascs in other posts, completely spoling the message. At least one was even specifically about ways transmascs can be transmisogynistic, which I thought was a fair enough criticism before realizing it was at best one good point in a sea of bullshit directed at our trans brothers. Another time I specifically asked someone how they felt about trasnmascs before I reblogged their very good post about transmisogyny and was delighted when they gave a fantastic response.

Furthermore, I do actually just speak on pure transmisogyny myself sometimes! I talked at length about the immense pain it caused me realizing Alison Bechdel was TERFier than I thought in a way that completely contradicts the strip that made me cry out of appreciation for her. Recently, I've also been talking a lot about the ways butch transfems are treated for not looking cis.

Do I mention these things less than transandrophobia and other issues that affect people other than transfems? Sure. But like...so what? I like doing things for other people.

I don't mean to act like I'm some kinna savior or anything, but as I said just yesterday, helping people outside of your own issues is something I'm kinna obsessed with not just in myself but others too. I'm constantly stressing how cis allies should be appreciated e.g. my previous feelings about Bechdel, and despite how she turned out I still firmly believe that cis allies should be treasured. I've donated money to multiple cis allies to say thanks for their statements.

It's not like I'm just so saintly selfless or anything like that, I'm very self-centered, it's just that being an ally to [x], [x] being allies to me, and [x] being allies to [y] who have nothing to do with me is not only a rare area of activism I can function in, it's one that actively brings me joy. This includes having sent multiple messages to transmascs thanking them when they speak up about transmisogyny, because I want to show them the love so many of them have shown me for the same thing.

Finally, you say my trans activism is focused on trans men. Maybe so, by volume. But, and I've mentioned this before, I've been wanting to do more for everyone else as well, literally everyone. I've asked a bit about intersex issues and am trying to learn more about what non-binary people who don't lean to one end or the other deal with as well, and I also want all my cis followers to feel just as comfortable and supported by me as well - and, of course, that all goes for other transfems as well, whose pain cuts me to the bone.

I'm radically pro-everyone, anon, and I want to help uplift them all without exception. I understand focusing on one's own lane, and I neither judge that nor am attempting to portray myself as a uniquely noble white knight. That's just what I personally choose to put my efforts towards.

[olderthannetfic]

I feel like there are people who think if they throw a big enough of a fit then they can get their way when it comes to how characters are portrayed in fan works and obviously I think it’s asinine and annoying and entitled for people to act this way but why the hell does it work? People will see a post about how drawing a character a certain way or in certain circumstances is bigoted somehow and then now all these dumb people are parroting it as if it is an absolute fact. It’s mind boggling seeing how easy it is to influence stupid people.

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People are scared.

They're scared of being bullied. They're even more scared of ever being wrong because they think being wrong once makes you an ogre forever.

What they're unfortunately not scared of is fucking up by never trying anything or being a dumb-dumb who treats [group] as a monolith that must be protected in regressive and offensive ways.

It's the highly predictable result of a lack of offline exposure to varied groups of people combined with constant exposure to doomscrolling and internet activism.

Pearl clutchy white US society rewards performative, feels-based pseudo-activism laden with covert Christian guilt and "atonement" by self-punishment. The whole focus, conscious or not, is on the internal process of admitting you're a sinner.

This culture does not reward going out and engaging with Native media (to pick a recent topic) or making some nonwhite friends and actually asking them what they think. It does not reward trying to improve things in concrete, material ways without that added component of self-flagellation.

(TBH, most Native media, US and otherwise, and a fair few of my nonwhite friends are faaaaar too salty and no-nonsense for this kind of tender flower of internet activism to handle.)

And while not everyone acting like a moron online is white or from the US, it's that strain of culture that informs a lot of these patterns.

[archeolatry]

Recently I've been trying to remind myself to take in more "slow media" (akin to the "slow food" movement)- less content, more longform art. I've dusted off a very old list of films that I haven't seen but should, gleaned from the AFI Top 100. Some of it is patience-testing, from musicals (My Fair Lady) to epics (Lawrence of Arabia). Most of it is stuff that didn't necessarily appeal to me initially but is one of those Movies One Should Watch: From Here to Eternity or The Wild Bunch. And some of them are shameful, glaring gaps from the days before you could instantly stream gigabytes of data per second through a screen and into your faceholes. A film of the latter variety is The Third Man.

I watched it last night to keep from doomscrolling and doom-refreshing. (A strange and fascinating choice, in retrospect.) I had heard the above speech before, but in the context of the film it hits even harder. It's not exactly true —Germany invented the cuckoo clock, for one thing— but this speech, as well as others most of Orson Welles' film-defining dialogue, shows you just what kind of man Harry Lime is.

Like the protagonist, we're swayed by Harry's charisma even as we are repulsed by his words. By vastly oversimplifying a paradigm-shifting period in human history and adding a little rosy hindsight, what Harry's saying almost makes sense in a 'big picture' kind of way. But when you find out how Harry made his money and the human toll it took, the picture becomes much, much smaller. It's a great promise to think that hard times may make you into another DaVinci, but it is perhaps more likely that you'll simply be poor and die of the plague.

Relatable, right?

I guess what I'm saying is this: Watch a classic film. Really watch it. Even if that actor or director is "problematic". Put your phone away, even if you feel the urge to look up something that you think will clarify an aspect of what you're watching. Be discomforted. Ask what the film is trying to say. Read or watch The Celluloid Closet. Try to see what's between the lines. Buy physical copies of media you treasure. Put it in your memory where it can't be deleted from collective consciousness. So many classic films —Spartacus and High Noon, just to name a few— were allegories necessitated because of The Hays Code. And whatever censorship Project 2025 has coming down the pike means the great possibility that something like the Hays Code may exist again. Media literacy is going to be more important than ever. You will be forced to learn the differences between queerbaiting and queer coding, because coding might be the most queerness you get. Sometimes ancient Rome is just ancient Rome, and sometimes it's Hollywood under a combination of self-preserving, self-enforced guidelines and government witch hunting overseen by a petty tyrant.

We've seen this shit before.

[devilman-things]

fair is fair

the watcher crew posted an apology you can watch here

I think it's only fair that I posted this, seeing as I've been posting and reblogging and doomscrolling in this tag for three days.

I believe this is a good apology and they addressed basically every piece of criticism

my thoughts under the break have been edited for clarity

I left a comment on the video, which I will report here.

“as I commented on the "goodbye youtube" video with my own gripes, I think it's fair that I comment on this one.

I believe this was a very good apology and a fair solution to sustain your company, I believe a lot of people will decide to support you on this.

I'm glad the callous comment of "everyone can afford 6$" was addressed.

I'm also glad you decided to give free subs to your patrons, as they were the people that would've been fucked over the most.

I think the trust has been wounded and emotions hurt, but this honest apology will go a long way to repair things.

also great that you didn't put music in the background and didn't use tech bro buzzwords, as that would've come off as extremely fake"

this basically sums up my current thoughts on the situation, I'm glad they decided to consider the fans' voices and that they found a way to make this decision sustainable, but I still feel very bruised by everything that happened.

don't misunderstand me, I am extremely glad they decided to apologise, but I think the shitstorm could've been avoided altogether if they had put in more thought from the beginning.

as of right now, I'm still unsubscribed and it will be a while before I sub again, if I ever will. this was a huge mistake, and even if I'm glad for the apology, I'm disillusioned and disappointed.

[atthebell]

i lied but in fairness now im not doomscrolling im just desperately hoping for something to make me less stressed out and miserable

[jikangairodo]

𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥.

ALIAS / NAME: i'm Nero everywhere. Jay if you wanna get rly up close and personal. i may scream and skitter off like a cat tho, fair warning

BIRTHDAY: October 9th

ZODIAC SIGN: a quintessential libra tbh, complete with the indecisiveness and empty brain

HEIGHT: 5"2-3 if i stand very straight. I'm holding onto that 1 inch like my life depends on it

HOBBIES: doomscrolling, video games, drawing, writing, plants

FAVORITE COLOR: green and believe it or not, beige

CURRENT BOOK: i'm in the process of reading all the fics put out by the last exchange event i participated in. there's at least 3 30k fics included and 23 smaller ones. i'm counting them all as 1 giant book idc

LAST SONG: does it count as a song if it's a 1 hour long mashup of 80's bollywood tracks? im a little filmi

LAST FILM / SHOW: movie- Dunki (do not recommend) last show- Severance (so good)

INSPIRATION: anything I watch/ read/ see, as in art. real life experiences

BEHIND URL: Nanami says it one time is2g. It was like my 7th choice. ratioed was taken =/

FUN FACT ABOUT ME: i have 200+ plants. mostly hoya but i have a good few philos in there. I picked up urdu while growing up and watching bollywood movies??? my muslim, bangladeshi parents, raising me in posh, central london really thought, why not add some more cultural confusion into the mix??? what could possibly go wrong??? i had an identity crisis, mum

TAGGED BY: @antishaman my beloved

TAGGING: i think most people i would've tagged have been tagged already? if not, consider this my tag <3

[aerodaltonimperial]

LAST ONE AND THEN ILL ASK ROBBIE FOR BACKUP!!!! HOOOAAAAHHHHHHH

jack’s only been living in this apartment for two weeks. to be fair, the two weeks have been great, so far; all the kitchen appliances work, no leaky sinks, the place doesn’t reek of weed. he likes sitting on the back porch the most, and finds that it’s relaxing, reading a book (doomscrolling on social media) while the sun sets.

the problem comes when jack realizes that there’s a skate park that just finished construction not even a stone’s throw from his back deck. and while the noise wouldn’t bother him— most of the younger kids leave when it gets dark— there’s one particular guy who sticks out like a sore thumb. brings his bluetooth speaker just to blast shitty modern rock at half past midnight and pull off sick tricks in front of an audience of no one…

…well, maybe not no one, because jack sits out every night to watch him, but only because he’s pissed off! he isn’t able to get any sleep anyways with all the noise…

…well, maybe the noise isn’t too bad, even if jack hates modern rock. at least the guy doesn’t turn it up loud enough for jack to hear through the apartment walls. but besides that— the guy doesn’t seem to even know jack’s there, which is incredibly disrespectful, and…

…well, maybe he has an idea, because jack’s seen him peek over the chainlink fence a time or two, between tricks, and really, is jack supposed to be impressed? he doesn’t know anything about skateboarding, even if some below-average-looking skater guy seems to think he might care…

…well, maybe not below-average-looking… definitely better than average, if jack really thinks about it… okay, well— maybe he’s hot, so what! jack still hates his guts, and that isn’t going to change!

Once again, I am so so so so sorry for this bullshit 🤣

[scarefox]

btw something many people on certain video platforms don't seem to be aware of, since so many people fall for it, is comment baiting....

Ya know when video creators ask you questions in the video, something they could easily google themselves, it's because they want you to feed the algorithm with your comments. Making their video more relevant, which gives them more click traffick which generates them more money. Reaction folks like to do that. Which sometimes is fair game (they also bait you with negative looking thumbnails even if the reaction is positive). Some of them actually have genuine questions they could look up but having the fans answer it is a good way to engage and bond with your audience while also feeding the algorithm. That is okay imo, not much different than entertainer who get paid for entertaining and chatting with people. The more elegant version would be to ask people to put their opinions on a topic in the comments and then chat with them.

But yesterday I saw a clip on tiktok... so freaking obvious bait, it was painful. A dude reacts to a MV of Jeff Satur, he got requested by his audience (who definitely mentioned the name in the link they sent him), he literally has the yt video open with the title there on his screen and then asks the whole time "OMG who is this guy??" also titled his video with "please tell me who this is" to trigger every eager fan out there to infodump in his comment section...

Stop being so easily manipulatable please... that one was so cheap it annoys me that it worked on hundreds of people.

Not that this example is harmful in any way but it hurts to watch it play out. Would be worse if you actually pay money instead of your time to answer his question.

I am begging everyone who is wandering on social media, to learn how these sites work, how creators on these sites earn money, how the algorithms work.... that way it's easier to see when you get tricked by it. Also if we are at learning how things work: also look up the term "gamification" since some social media sites like tiktok use that.

(don't get me started on how emotionally manipulative (& intentionally addictive) tiktoks UI, algorithm, ads and especially the (emotional) reward system are already by itself ... should be illegal actually. it's only missing that it plays happy jingles and gives you virtual coins for opening the app and rewards you for every video you watch with a public high score. they are worse than metas & xitters user engagement system while providing zero safety for mental health except the mediocre filter that doesn't work and a screentimer even I have to use to not doomscroll forever)

[surr3al1sm]

Just Dance coaches's favourite Efteling Attractions, pt. 2

I thought of these while at work today (at the Efteling). So I decided to turn this into a little series lol.

"No one cares about this hyper specific thing." Didn't ask :)

Like last time everythings below the cut to save your doomscrolling

Cygnus

The attraction I chose for Cygnus is called Baron 1898. It's a dive coaster and probably the most popular attraction in the park. I choose this one 100% based on vibes. Cygnus is very much a steampunk enjoyer and this coaster is theme is quite frankly a mix of steampunk and mining. So it felt really fitting. He also knows the preshow off the top of his head and quietly talks along with it.

The traveler

The attraction I chose for the Traveler is called Carnival Festival. Its a dark ride that takes you through some countries in the world. Kind of like Its A Small World in disney but like Efteling and better. I think he liked the traveling aspect of it. The song is constantly stuck in his heas though and he finds that a little annoying

Si'ha Nova

The attraction I chose for Si'ha Nova is called Piraña. It's a rapid river ride that doesn't completely drench you but you do get wet to the point its a little annoying. I really don't have any good reasoning on why I chose this for her besides that she likes to splash Wanderlust and her husband in it. Also the song is hella catchy and she just vibes to it in line.

Vester De Ville

The attraction(s) I chose for Vester are Spookslot (It translates to ghost castle basically) and Danse Macabre. Spookslot was a show set to the song Danse Macabre. Danse Macabre is going to be a dark ride that shows you different scenes that fit to the music. I chose the spooky gothic attractions for the vampire. Wow what a surpise. Anyways, Vester cried when the Efteling announced that they were going to get rid of Spookslot, but he also absolutely loves what we already have regarding Danse Macabre.

(Master) Panda

I did Wanderlust's parents and Night Swan so I figured it was only fair if I did Master Panda aswell lol. I chose Fabula for him. It's a short 3d movie that shows the importance of different animals through fun little adventures. I feel like he always took Mihaly to see Pandadroom (Pandadream, the predecessor) when they were younger and he just loved it ever since. If you've come this far: thank you for reading this post and listening to me ramble about this for as second time. There will probably be a third time.

[olivia-anderson-fanfic]

Have you never heard of such a thing, darling?

(The Timari Buzzfeed Unsolved AU)

Chapter 5: The Mysterious Case of the Dupain-Cheng Household

Lovingly, if you guys want to leave off on a kinda happy note, I suggest not reading this last one

Adrien smiles at the screen. He looks human, even if his hair is a little tousled and his skin is a little too clear. He probably could be a model, if that was what he wanted.

Of course, that was clearly not what he wanted, as he was currently filming a video for YouTube.

He waves to the camera.

“In this episode, I am going to solve the mystery of whether Tim Drake and Marinette Dupain-Cheng are dating!” he says, before immediately turning the camera around to show the pair of them curled up in bed together. Tim’s face is pressed into the crook of Marinette’s neck, his arms wrapped around her tightly even in his sleep. Marinette is awake, one hand lazily playing with Tim’s hair, the other doomscrolling on her phone. “Sorry, Gothamites, but it looks like you’re not going to get Tim back.”

She looks up at Adrien. Tries to look mildly annoyed, as if that will distract from the red starting to dust its way across her cheeks.

Adrien gives a dead-eyed stare to the camera. “Anyways… yes. They are dating. Save me.”

Marinette sets her phone down to give Adrien what can be assumed to be a rude gesture, but it is censored with a giant demonetization symbol.

Adrien only laughs in response, blowing a kiss her way.

She rolls her eyes, but still responds by blowing him a kiss of her own.

The demon seems to light up at the affection, a bounce in his step when he leaves.

Adrien pulls the camera away, and the video continues to follow him as he walks downstairs and takes a seat on the couch. For just a moment, people start to wonder whether this was a simple mistake and he forgot to cut out this part of the video. Confused viewers touch their screens, wanting to check to see how much longer the video is supposed to be continuing on for.

Only to find that the video is supposed to be over.

The time stamp reads 0:28/0:28.

So, why is there more?

Adrien looks at the camera again, and all traces of joy are gone from his expression. His eyes still gleam, but this is far less amused, far more wicked.

“Aren’t my humans cute?” Adrien asks the audience. It doesn’t feel like a real question, or even just a conversation starter. It sounds like a threat. “Tell me how cute they are in the comments below!”

He rests his head in his hand. His elbow is seemingly propped on thin air, but this doesn’t bother him in the slightest.

“Now that that’s out of the way. I want to talk to all of the government officials and researchers who have decided that they want a piece of me. I’m flattered and all, but…” He smiles wider than usual, showing off a set of wicked fangs that always seemed to be missing in the looks he gives Marinette and Tim. “Stop. You have finite resources, I don’t. And I will continue to dwindle down your numbers until you all leave me alone.”

He laughs, but this time there is a cruel note to it.

“Oh, and just in case you get any funny ideas. Touch my humans and I will start bringing innocents into this. It’s only fair, don’t you think?”

He tilts his head too far to the side, his smile stretching still wider. His mouth is no longer entirely fitting on his face, the corners almost seeming to have escaped it entirely. “And don’t bother trying to warn Tim and Mari in the comments, by the way. They won’t be hurt. You will.”

The viewer’s hands paused where they had been typing out that exact warning to the owners of the channel. For a moment, they dared to think it was a bluff, they began to type out the rest of their sentence.

Then, too-cold arms looped around them from behind, crossing themselves over their chest, a body (if you could call the writhing mass behind them that) pressing against their back. A chin came to rest atop their head.

“Well, you can’t say that I didn’t try to tell you,” it said, its mouth not moving, its voice so deep it buzzed in their ears. Long, gnarled, clawed fingers began to dig into their sides, not even stopped for a second by the fabric of their shirt. They couldn’t even bring themself to scream. “Leave my humans alone.”

Blood splattered.

It paid no mind. Bloodied claws reached over their slumped form, to their keyboard.

It held down backspace.

And then typed a simple message for the channel that it so adored:

What a cute couple :)

[yb-cringe]

I think a lot of people aren’t aware that there have been actors on the server for weeks and system admins for even longer so this is probably out of nowhere for them. Especially if their only interaction with the server has been doomscrolling and fanfic (reasonably so). They don’t know that since the server re-opened the amount of admins on has been slowly growing. Still, it rubs me the wrong way when people say the admins who stay are being exploited and just don’t know better like they’re not people with agency.

I still want backpay in reparations to former employees, but I know that takes money they don’t have right now, and every testimonial said how wonderful the whole team was except a few people and there was nary a complaint about the acting/rp aspect of the work. It remains to be seen if the toxic work culture has been fixed, and I doubt it because that takes time that being from different cultures complicates further, but I’m willing to give them a try. You don’t fix a toxic culture by through hypotheticals and prep alone. Things need to run so they can test out their changes to see if they hold.

Also this event could literally just be as nothing as re-opening the old spawn for all we know. We know nothing and we’re all jumping to conclusions.

i think this is all pretty good but doubley so on that last bit. like we rly dont know what this event even is lol. it could be something great! it could be really needed rn. people assumed it was like huge lore which fair the photo is pretty mysterious but also it could be like SO many things. being cautiously optimistic.