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@mememememe975

The title says it all

Las serpientes son pajitas grandes

Very cute! Snakes can drink water in a more normal-looking way - but the cup setup is a little awkward, and anyway lots of snakes like to be a bit silly with it! I have several who like to drink water exclusively with their heads resting on the bottom of their water bowls!

I want to stick my entire head in a jar of water and for people to see the amount of water slowly decrease as I chug silently

absolutely despise how every single social media platform has intrusive annoying “performance” shit baked into it now. You can’t just be online to post for fun, talk to friends, share stuff to whoever happens upon it.

Everything has a score now. Notifications that say “your post reached 1000 accounts” on insta. View counts on every tweet, so you know exactly how relevant or irrelevant your every thought or drawing is. Every app asking you over and over to turn push notifications on. 1 to 10 self-ratings on YouTube. Get twitter blue for a performance boost. give tumblr your money for a Blaze. Get an Instagram business account. Buy views. Constant scoring. Constant reminders to monetize your every waking moment.

IDK if anybody needs to hear this, but as somebody that works online being self-employed, whose career is art on the internet, I learned a long time ago that you can get by without constantly babysitting the numbers. It’ll give you mind crushing anxiety. It’ll make you manic. Highs and lows all the time. And it doesn’t help you professionally or financially! It’ll reduce you to nothing, it’ll make you hate the act of creation. It’ll make you feel like your peers despise you. It’ll isolate and intimidate you.

Turn off email and phone notifs. Turn off performance reports. 99% of the time, success will be random and unknowable. Preserve the part of yourself that makes things because you want to and you love it. idk

I really don’t feel like we as a society are talking enough about this

TURN THE FUCKING AUDIO ON

tiny fawn, determinedly approaching the camera on wobbly legs on an empty road: mee! mee! mee! mee!

deep human voice: I'm not mama, mama's over there!

fawn, plaintively, continuing to approach: mee!

deep human voice: there, little guy! you're teeny-tiny!

fawn: (continues to approach)

deep human voice: here, let me-- we'll put you next to my coffee cup, so we can see how little you are.

fawn: (wobbles forward, lies down next to a travel coffee tumbler set down on the road. the tumbler has pictures of cute woodland creatures on it)

deep human voice: *chuckling in wonderment* ohhh, you are teeny-teeny-tiny!

Important addition - deep *Minnesotan* human voice

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life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious

if you don't know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don't buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)

just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you

me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)

i really need tumblr to learn the concept of “if you physically cannot do this then this post is not talking about you” because jesus christ.