Not me learning that Trump has been arrested and that the Barbie trailer came out at the same time by randomly glancing at Twitter trending and doing a double take when seeing the first two spots
This is like hatsune miku WWIII all over again
THE WHAT
destiel and the queens death are separate events
destiel becoming canon coincided w/ the 2020 us presidential election and the queens death came just after the final round of the og tumblr sexyman poll on twitter
Though I’ll re-type them later digitally, I write the text in narration boxes and speech bubbles onto the page by hand, just to make sure that the text fits them. And sometimes, to make sure that the written text fits the panels, I’ll first write it down exactly as I mean to put it on the page onto some random scrap paper.
Recently, there was a spider in the apartment, hanging from the ceiling by a thread. Not wanting to harm it and also not wanting to have the spider touch me, I grabbed one notepaper and planned to catch the spider on it, but my attempts to rescue the swinging little bastard caught my boyfriend’s attention. Being less hesitant about it, he simply gently took the spider by the silk thread and carried it outside by the thread itself. I left the note paper on the kitchen table and forgot it there.
I sometimes walk the neighbour’s dog when the weather is bad, since she’s old enough to have a great-granddaughter who’s learning words, and slipping on the ice means breaking bones and breaking bones is a matter of life and death for old ladies. I usually tell my boyfriend bye and blow him a little kiss at the door before I close it, but that night he was so focused on the game he was playing I didn’t want to distract him, and simply left after trying to call his name twice. Routine day, business as usual.
You’re probably wondering what any of this has to do with any other aforementioned matter, but once I got home my boyfriend asked about what’s up. I had no idea what he was talking about, either, before he explained. He hadn’t noticed me leave, only that I had left without saying a word (something that he interpreted I’d only do if I was mad at him), and there was a note on the kitchen table. I had already forgotten both the spider and the note, before he showed it to me. Without thinking, I had picked the random paper with the most unnerving possible line from the comic written right in the middle of it.
“I only asked for more wine. Now let us play for real stakes.”
The Onion’s journalism is the only journalism that matters. Holy fuck.
Full article here - it is incredible.
I know it's been talked about before but I still don't think it's been emphasized how *fucked* today's internet experience is for children. I didn't know what the word "discourse" was when I was 8, or 10, or even 13. I was too busy playing the nigh-limitless amount of flash games out there on the internet and making sure my neopets were fed. Like I cannot stress enough that if I had free time on the computer, 9 times out of 10 I could go and play a jaunty little game someone had whipped up and put out there for no other reason than that creating games was awesome and easy to do. Or go to some page that existed just to collect memes; you see back then there were more than 4 sites, and you didn't need accounts to visit them. I didn't get targeted ads. I wasn't exposed to any sort of political ideology. I spent a lot of time on the computer but no one site monopolized my time or tried to fucking manipulate me into using it more. The internet was for more than one thing back then, and honestly I don't think enough people realize how much has been stolen from us.
I understand the feelings of despair, but the rest of the internet is still very much out there. There’s a growing and dedicated movement to take it back from corporations. I’ll link a few of the neat little websites I’ve found on Neocities and in various other places. https://sadgrl.online/ - A good jumping-off point that has html guides, links to webrings, and other cool stuff.
https://deathgenerator.com - You ever wanted to make one of those funny fake video game screenshots, but you don’t have the patience to do the image editing? Well, here you go!
https://signal.vercel.app/edit - A neat little free online midi editor! You can upload midi files or compose your own!
https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/ - A cool falling-sand-type game. The website it’s hosted on is full of other cool games, most of which are free and don’t require flash (rip flash)
https://webshark.neocities.org/gamepages - Speaking of games that don’t require flash, here’s a whole page of ‘em. Most are fairly simple, but they’re still a lot of fun.
https://ocremix.org/ and https://vgmusic.com/ - Two websites that have been around since almost forever. OCRemix is home to video game music remixes, and VGMusic has a MASSIVE library of video game midis! I used to spend a lot of time on VGMusic in particular when I was a kid.
https://cooltext.com/ - You can make cool-looking text! They also have free fonts you can download.
And this is by no means a comprehensive list, no. This is just a sampling. There’s so much out there just waiting to be discovered-- you just have to go looking for it! (And remember, kids, be careful out there-- computer viruses and malware are still very much a threat, so I encourage you to get uBlock Origin or NoScript-- or both-- for your web browser before you start web surfing! Also never give out any personal information! And for the love of all that is good, and for your own safety, please stay away from the porn sites if you’re under the age of 18.)
Have fun, stay safe, and
HEY KIDS, YOU WANT MORE GAMES? ITCH.IO HAS PLENTY OF WEIRD GAMES YOU CAN PLAY ON YOUR BROWSER OR DOWNLOAD ON YOU COMPUTER. Just remember to always check tags and description to avoid finding things that are for a much older audience.
There's also special browsers like NuMuKi that you can still play old flash games on!!!
ppl who werent changed forever by youre gonna go far kid by the offspring when they were like 11 and insanely impressionable you just cant understand me
ppl who werent changed forever by youre gonna go far kid by the offspring when they were like 11 and insanely impressionable you just cant understand me
being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse
Being a stem major who's friends with humanities majors is ALSO funny bc you ask what's goin on with them and they're like "oh yeah my day's pretty good! I only have to read 50 pages for this one class today and half a book for another one. It's much better than last week where I read three books and wrote a 10 page paper about their overlapping motifs for one class while also researching a niche period of time that our library doesn't have any resources on. How's it been for you?" and you're like "oh I have a lil packet of fun math puzzles due tomorrow." and they look at you like you're carrying the weight of the universe on your back
Americans are strangely confident that their utterly bizarre ideas concerning ethnicity are universal, and then they get confused when that's not how things work.
Like apparently as far as they're concerned, the spanish are latino but italians are white, despite of ranging in the same colours and speaking languages so similar that I can vaguely make sense of italian by understanding the basics of french and spanish, and they're baffled when J.K. Rowling manages to be racist against white people.
“Spanish people are Latino” is definitely bound up in the fact Spanish is a major language in Mexico and South America (thank colonialist Spain for that part), I still wouldn’t call someone from Spain or Portugal Latino because obviously they’re European. The dividing lines are weird as hell to me, too, they really just wanted to draw some boxes and didn’t think too much about it imo.
Meanwhile Rowling is the sort of person where them being racism against other British people wouldn’t surprise me.
Wait so by the american definition, Spanish people who speak Spanish aren't even included in the category of people who are occasionally referred to as Spanish because they speak Spanish. So spanish people are white but spanish people are latino. Am I understanding this right.
This is going to cause you physical pain but there’s a number of Americans who don’t realize Spain is a country.
Another factor is that, by this point, a lot of Latinos are mestizo, meaning a mix of European (primarily Spanish) and the various native tribes that were in the Americas when Europeans came over descent. So they tend to have darker skin or eyes or hair colour.
Whiteness in America is less about racial ancestry and more about how much an individual can pass for Caucasian; specifically, White Anglo Saxon Protestant Caucasian. Someone from Spain who looks White Anglo Saxon Protestant Caucasian would be considered white. (Catholics are technically considered white but are on thin ice). And because we (america) don’t really talk about race, a lot of people don’t understand that our concept of whiteness and race are a cultural construction, and get really confused at the idea someone who looks what our culture says is white isn’t considered white by another culture.
There’s a term that I think is helpful for understanding US-specific racism: Conditional whiteness.
Basically, if you LOOK like the popular idea of a White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) you’re perceived as white and are treated as such.
When you deviate from that idea, you are no longer white, you lose your “conditional whiteness.”
For example, I am white. I am perceived and treated as white (95% of the time). If I tell someone that I’m Jewish, depending on their understanding of Jewish culture and ethnicity and whether or not they’re antisemitic, I may lose my “conditional whiteness.” If I tell someone that, along with being Jewish, I’m also part of a Native American tribe, I am even MORE likely to lose my “conditional whiteness.”
I’ve had the BIZARRE experience of standing next to an actual WASP girl who happened to have darker, curlier hair than mine and hearing her get called an antisemitic slur. She didn’t even know what the slur was, or what it meant. Her hair color and texture was enough to get her considered “not white,” while I maintained my “conditional whiteness.”
American racism is based heavily on a “white”/“not white” divide. Because whiteness is — more obviously and dramatically in the past — a way to access money/power in the US, European immigrants had a strong incentive to homogenize/integrate and view themselves as “white,” instead of maintaining their cultural identity. From what I can gather of European racism, whiteness and non-whiteness is part of it, but there are ethnic/cultural/national nuances that are lost on Americans. Like, if you asked an American the difference between a Polish person and a Bulgarian person, most would be like “Idk, are their foods different?”
Could go for some pleasures of the flesh right now tbh, shoutout to pleasures of the flesh
Idk about yall but glass onion was about how black women are continually fucked over by a system that favors white men. White men have no problem stealing every idea that comes their way and claiming it as theirs. They also have no problem threatening the position of other people and defining blackmail as friendship. Black women are the ONLY ones who have the real bravery to "disrupt" a system that loves to tie them down. The entire movie was about the uplifting and protection of black women and the necessary dismantling of a racist, patriarchal system, even if no one else wants to help you. But, that was just my interpretation.
MY ideal destiel wedding is they drive 3 hours to boston to get married in 5x03 free to you and me because dean says cas wont die a virgin and cas says god said to wait for marriage
If you had shown me this site in 2005 I would have asked you if had checked your virus software lately, because this looks like a bad one. I would have clicked away so fast it would give you whiplash. Looking at these sites now, I have to convince myself that they aren’t virus laden sites and fight against the pavlovian urge to just navigate away.
I navigate away anyways because fuck them, there’s usually a better site (though they are dwindling quickly). I still can’t get over how the internet “as intended” today looks like a malware ridden fever dream from 20 years ago. This is every story I’ve ever read about an empire that used to be great and has now fallen into turmoil.
Beloveds, there is a wonderful website that gets rid of all that crap<3
OOOOH.
I had a vision and I had to put it on paper
might drive my chevy to the levy. it better not be dry tho
you guys won't fucking believe this
