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The bulk sale of mechanical pencils is what’s wrong with this country…. To encourage the quick disposal of this elegant device that was originally conceived to be refillable and modular…. Trying desperately to recreate the ecstasy of a bouquet of freshly sharpened wooden pencils… we should each be given one mechanical pencil at birth and only given a new one if there is a fire

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Direct financial assistance has proven to be a fantastic support to those who receive it. This is a great start.

people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue

“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry

i want art to feel EARNEST. this disgusting, near pornographic level of tongue in cheek meta humor is making me sick to my stomach. i don’t know how many more movies i can take about clever subversions and the movie winking at you to say “we know it’s a little silly, but…” where is the whimsy? why can’t we believe in the pretend you’ve created? why don’t you have enough faith in it? in my ability to believe?

My (scalding) hot take here is that this is a byproduct of artistic cowardice in the face of unrelenting criticism.

It doesn't just plague mainstream media; this kind of tongue-in-cheek self-referential, self-deprecating "I know this isn't that good wink wink" is all over indie media too.

So many creators are deathly afraid of being criticized for their creative choices, so terrified of an increasingly volatile online audience, that they feel compelled to sell themselves short on what their intentions are, just to plant that tiny nugget of plausible deniability: maybe if I create the illusion of not taking this all that seriously I'll be more insulated from criticism.

If the thing they're doing actually *is* good and becomes well-received, then they end up looking like accidental geniuses who had a moment of inspiration amid a sea of shitposts, and if the thing they're doing is panned they get to laugh it off and go "well I wasn't taking this that seriously to start with! You're the one who's making a big deal out of it!"

If no one thinks you're really trying or that you don't wholly and fully stand behind your creative decisions, then anyone who tells you that you could be doing your craft better looks like an idiot, and that's the whole point.

A lack of earnestness is the perfect "get-out-of-criticism free card."

someone tagged multiple drawings of mine ft fat characters as “tw body image” i am entitled to compensation and im stealing shit out of your house right now

idk man what people ask you to tag on this website is not sacred and you should. employ critical thinking. like if someones asking for a trigger warning for an entire category of human being thats a nut up or shut up issue for them

"notes in my lunches, winter 2022" a collection compiled by my finacée <3

Paint Palettes // Hung Man on Etsy

monday afternoon baby we gettin it!!!!!

if you warch all this you get to belive

This is it. This is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

that one friend who’s always cold: i’m cold

that one friend who can see ghosts: which is weird because you’re not even being haunted right now or anything

this Jamie Foxx situation reminded me of the time when nonblack trans ppl on tumblr decided Black ppl using the word trap was trans misogynistic was a kiiii bc girl these niggas dont know about no damn niche Japanese hentai slurs, they selling CRACK. 😭

Seriously. It happens every time with the most common phrases baked into AAVE and American Black culture too. Between tumblr and twitter you can’t make up the reaches NB ppl make to center themselves in the conversation.

How do assumptions like this even happen unprompted

OH MY GOD 😭😭😭

They did it with fuckboy, scalp, trap, yellow/ yellowbone. The list goes on...this is why I'm so mean now.

How much longer are we going to put up with this scum?

This is absolutely ridiculous

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

adding this to the post because, 100%, just there's a fire doesn't mean you should pour gasoline on it

I have like ten different ad and/or tracking blockers on my PC and phone... just out of pure spite

Can link it? I wish to hop aboard that train.

@drunkenbartend

Is there any benefit to using multiple ad blockers at once? I honestly don't know, but I haven't seen a single ad on the internet in ages and I get to use this image:

She thinks she’s looking through a window so she keeps going to look for the dinosaurs in the backyard 

1991 Isuzu Impulse RS Turbo Awd

Ant #189,709,928,171 of Anthill #599,198,417 has just been promoted to Lance Corporal

I’m in Love with Your Nigga, 2019

Why is this cracking me up

My favourite Da Vinky twins trans ally moments: