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[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.

[radicalfemimist]

Apps, like all technology, used to be good. not great, but good. When I was a kid playing on my IPad, I played all kinds of kid-friendly apps, and you know the thing is, ads weren’t nearly as common or invasive on those apps back then. In a lot of cases, you’d watch ads to get rewards— or if they were invasive (still not as invasive as they are now), you could remove them for 99 cents.

There were still some apps that were total pay-to-win cash grabs, like Sims Freeplay, but for the most part there used to be free apps that were actually free. Like you could still play them and have a good time playing them, without ad after ad after ad.

There were still ads (hence the 99 cent remove ads button), but they weren’t as bad. And the ads weren’t as misleading and inappropriate. There’s a new tactic I’ve seen from the ads, lately, as I’ve been playing Wordscapes— and that is straight up saying:

���Don’t you hate when ads are misleading? The game looks fun, but then the actual game isn’t anything like that! Well, this is a game that is exactly like the ads!”

And you check the app, and oops! They lied to you. Didn’t false advertising used to be illegal? It’s still not actually allowed, and I know that because Apple lets you report apps for having misleading ads.

And the ads are often full of misogynistic garbage. My sister said she saw one that casually used domestic violence/abuse in it; a husband throwing his wife and child(ren?) out in the cold. A predecessor to the ads where a woman and her daughter, sometimes children, beg for money as the floaty hand cursor messes up the puzzle on purpose to tempt you to play a game that does not exist.

I saw one, just earlier on Tumblr, for an app called Hero Wars, that used a lot of gross and sexual and humiliating imagery of cartoon women, even. Women being in revealing outfits and being tied up, distressed— as the ad pulled the same “we’re honest in our advertising, promise!” shit that I’ve seen Gardenscapes pull. Check it in the App Store, none of the pictures match the content (thankfully) and all of the popular reviews are talking about the false advertising— and the top reviews are 4 years old!

And you can bet I’m gonna download it just to report it, and then immediately delete it without having opened it. I might even have to report it twice, since it falls into multiple categories.

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Archery Nemesis.

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[stil-lindigo]

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[screwpinecaprice]

Just a silly guy, with silly silly thoughts.

@glowweek Day 2

Casual | Surprise

A casual surprise?😬😬😬

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[chamoemileclown]

i recreated scar's storage cart out of lego!

[rushinintolove]

insp:

[capydoodle]

have compassion for yourself and for others. it seems hopeless but any small amount of good you can do is just that much more love in the world

[bixels]

Hey, I need some advice. For anyone experienced with kids, how do you deal with young children with hyperactive ADHD. I’m doing well babysitting but I’m afraid of being a pushover and letting these two kids get away with too much, especially when they’re rough-housing.

[sergle]

man, you know, nobody asked me, but I have such conflicting opinions on some of the fat falin art, where on one hand: it's always nice to see A Fat Body in fanart anywhere + it's being done in positive ways, for funsies and on the other hand, there is something so familiar about how you are automatically The Fat One if you are a woman simply standing next to a more petite woman, bc I've had a 0% hitrate in seeing people change Marcille's body type and keep Falin's, or change both of them. it's just Falin

[inkskinned]

as we enter the start of a semester and the dreaded Hour of Making Friends us upon us... if ur ever at a loss for what to say in one of those weird social situations where you only vaguely-know people, one of my favorite questions to ask is "what is your favorite food crime." a food crime is like the food combination that you love that other people find revolting. press them to take it further than pineapple on pizza, that's rote. food crimes is a good topic that has many benefits as it turns out all people are degenerates and also it will give you some cool ideas to try out later in the privacy of your own degenerate kitchen

the other good thing to ask is "okay but has anyone here ever been someplace haunted" bc it turns out if you ask most people directly they don't believe in ghosts, but many people are like "oh yeah i lived in a haunted house. ghosts aren't real tho"

[zivazivc]

The Floyd JD and Branch sitcom in your head is the funniest show I’ve never seen

can the third movie's spin-off series just be this please?

[takethelx3]

When he's mad and wants to talk down to you, but he's also shorter than you, you have to make it work somehow!