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in my memories of summer, there was not a single rainy day

a baby can be born right now at 12:00, on a wednesday, august 24 in new jersey while another baby is also born in the exact same moment but they are born 9:00, on a tuesday, august 23 in california, these babies that are born at the same moment are technically because of time zones, a concept that we created ourselves, born “hours” apart even though really they are born at the same moment just not the same “time”, one will be considered older even though in actuality they are the same

Timed draw: 30 minutes

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[ID: A digital painting of Wei Wuxian jumping out of a tree. Lan Wangji holds his arms out, ready to catch him. They sky behind them is blue and filled with pink and grey clouds. End ID.]

genuinely think that twitter culture has actively harmed people's perception on what activism truly is

the way twitter culture actively manipulates and warps people's minds into thinking that if you truly stand for something you have to talk about it and retweet posts about it 24/7 with no breaks and if you take a single break to collect yourself and distract yourself with something that makes you happy you're not really in support of whatever the incredibly important thing that's going on at the moment is is an incredibly dangerous thing to propagate and is actively harming how people approach these topics

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??” 

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them. 

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hate when you reblog a random cropped aesthetic post and some fool comes in your inbox like “this is from an incest hentai ye wee cunting man and if it isnt deleted by 2 pm yer callout will be strewn about the daily post” like aye how was i supposed tae know, and a better question why do you know this sire