I think arts funding should be infinite and easily available to everyone. I think 13 year olds who only draw anime should receive funding to buy giant sets of copic markers and shitty local punk bands should receive funding for instruments and practice spaces and performance artists should receive funding for their weird and nonsensical projects
why are all pride flags just stripes make that shit like Wales
slap a fuckin dragon on there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OP’s right, my eyes have been opened, and I have risen to the challenge:
Oh HELL yes
AWAB
Assigned Welsh at Birth
Someone please translate that into Welsh as is good and proper
i feel like every human should max out at one disability or chronic illness. like when i hit adolescence and my brain chemistry went “bipolar time now?” the response should have been an error message like sorry! this slot can only contain one (1) item and has been filled with childhood asthma. i would even allow the possibility that you can overwrite previous disorders like “you have equipped chronic migraines and so no will no longer display symptoms of bipolar disorder.” i just think it should work that way.
when you're having a deep convo and u realize this person is in tune with u mentally >>>>>
top tier feeling
Hi,
It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:
I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.
That is my anti-permission.
Thank you for your attention.
Funy how tumblr has become the place people go when there is nowhere else. give us your tired, your sick, and your cringe masses or whatever
loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done
Fun fact from a therapist who works in the field of inteusive thoughts: did you know that one of the (many) techniques we are taught to work on with people is to literally yell (in their heads or maybe even out loud if necessary) STOP at thoughts that are distressing or unpleasant and than redirect away from it?
Yall are doing good work out here.
Hello I am Australian. Do your roads not all look like this. Why would there be billboards in the middle of nowhere aside from the occasional "take a rest every 2 hours" notice.
Yeah, America sacrificed beautiful land for advertising space long before I was born, especially on freeways.
That sounds wildly impractical from a cost and maintenance perspective.
It is! That doesn’t matter. Apparently it is worth it because making money, I guess.
I haven’t seen this with a picture of a typical US interstate so like, let me just...
There are areas that lack them of course, in between more traveled areas, but this is so incredibly common that it actually surprises me when I realize we’re on a stretch of road without ANY advertising.
wait highways outside the US give you reminders to rest? 🥺
The drives are long and drivers are stubborn. It's an 8 hour drive from Adelaide to Melbourne without breaks so a lot of people take as few breaks as possible to get from one capitol city to the other before dark. (There are towns on the way but nobody stops in every town.) Many city-to-city drives are longer.
My question about the billboards in those pics is who is reading them. They are so far away from the road. The only person obliged to be looking out there is watching the other cars and checking the green signs for their exit. Can they even see those with anything other than peripheral.
What the actual fuck it looks like the internet barffed into meatspace I hate it
You need an ad blocker mate
feeling Bad, I’m gonna go on petfinder and find the most bizarre cat names possible, will report back with any notable ones
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starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
Not to mention, not everything has to be measured in terms of analytics. Some things should be allowed to be a little more niche
i saw a man at work the other day wearing a shirt that said "i was normal 2 pomeranians ago" with pictures of his pomeranians on it. important to note he had his pomeranians in his cart
artists rendition (i forgot to add the poms on his shirt but you get the gist)
Every time someone makes an artist's rendition of a weird little guy they saw in public instead of recording them without consent, an angel gets it's wings.
“binge-worthy show” man fuck that
i want my shows one episode followed by a whole ass week of going a little insane over it with the people on my phone, writing fics theorizing and going over every single scene through amazing gifs and meta, before the next ep drops and the cicle begins anew
speak louder
It’s also contributing to the overall stagnation of writing. Binging isn’t conducive to analysis.
Binging and whole season drops also seem to be a bit hard on fandoms and fan content creation.
Looking at eg. House of the Dragon last year, which spaced out 10 episodes over 10 weeks (that is 2 ½ months) and the fandom content production and fandom discussions over multiple platforms were so high! It gave fans time to speculate, to produce and to wait for. It held the anticipation high and invigorated the fandom over a long time.
But Netflix (or other streaming services) when they drop a whole season in one go? I feel yes, many fans will watch it. But the vibe is very different. And there will be discussions and fan content, but I feel it is not necessarily good for a fandom in the long run. The built-up does not carry these fandoms as long for “casual” fans and will not bring the same influx of new fans and new content to those fandoms. And that is sad for fan spaces in my opinion.
It’s not just fandom. When I teach popular culture, I also mention how binge culture is destroying the social function of shows.
In the traditional broadcasting structure, you have an episode a week at a set time - you sit down and you watch it, maybe make a family thing out of it. The next day you go to work, and your coworkers have seen the episode too, and you talk about it - because a tv show is a safe topic (not political, not too personal), so you have something to bond over/socialize.
But when a whole season drops at the same time… You either force yourself to binge it, turning your schedule upside down, or you watch it in bits, risking to fall behind. Say a popular show drops a season on a Saturday. On Monday at work, there will be people who haven’t started it, people who are half-through, people who have finieshed it… Mix with the fear-of-spoilers culture, suddenly this point of bonding becomes restricted, even eradicated.
It’s also destroying show production. These days if a season isn’t binged in the first week — fully, completed, watched all the way through in THE FIRST WEEK — it doesn’t get renewed. There’s no opportunity for shows to grow legs and catch on. Netflix would’ve canceled The X-Files. Netflix would’ve canceled so many classic shows that were allowed to find their audience gradually.
I’m dying over this screenshot from when I had a boyfriend in high school before I figured out I’m a lesbian
my current work is hard to color because i love weird filters and effects now, here’s one