Sheep time
I'm basically like if a girl had stuff to do and then didn't do it
cats are so right about lying on the floor and doing a big stretch
if i had absolute power i would be really chill with it actually. i would never corrupt absolutely. i would keep it real niceys. heart
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
ETA; Yes, the links are US American; no your country is not immune to propaganda. Be POLITE in asking, and I will help you find the data for your own country as well.
Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
Curious because this is the Boring Nerd™️ website apparently so I'm interested to see if that started young.
Don't count instances where you didn't get caught, I want to hear about the stuff you did that was stupid and blatant and had repercussions.
everybody wants to write about royalty that is troubled and concerned with the morality of monarchy and absolute rule but nobody wants to write about the compassionate empathetic king losing his mind and having a complete breakdown and smashing the divine scepter of the gods over the enchanted crown
“what if I was a NICE absolute ruler” yeah well what if you went apeshit. what if you couldn’t simply reconcile feudal dictatorship with the innate equality of humankind what if you started pulling out your own teeth to hand out to passerby.
“I’m trying to make the best use of my power in an unjust and exploitative system :)” I’m raving in the streets denouncing my lineage and pissing on the wall of the temple of the god that crowned my ancestor
Alright, I think I like tumblr now.
A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.
That was on July 7th.
Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.
On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.
There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.
But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.
99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.
None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.
And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.
You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.
glad to see lollapalooza is going well for lovejoy
to everyone in the tags going "oh thank god he's finally will gold from lovejoy instead of wilbur soot from dsmp" wilbur literally made a c!wilbur joke during his last stream a few days ago and has straight up made references to dsmp at gigs I get you think dsmp is cringe now but he sure doesn't
THEYRE THE SAME PERSON?!?!???????!!!!
oh my god we really are in the joji era
thrilled to tell all of you in the tags that the guy from soothouse, the guy from the jacksucksatlife editor ARG, the guy from the dream smp, the guy from smplive, and the guy who created the egirl song trilogy is all one guy and he performed at lollapalooza to a crowd of 10k people today with his indie rock band
this is also him.
Just passed a group of teenage girls walking downtown.... wearing cargo pants and platform crocs.... nature really is healing......
Cannot stress enough that this is NOT a condemnation, this is genuine delight that young girls in my town have stopped dressing up like Kardashians and are finally just goofing around on summer break in comfortable shoes and funky graphic shirts.
15 year olds should not be worries about having a thigh gap, they should be trying on SpongeBob bucket hats at the pier and drinking twice their weight in corn syrup like hummingbirds
Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive
“if no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something” is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying “it’s seahorse time” on a denim jacket
Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too
not only did you prove your point, but you showed an example of it in the same sentence
i want you guys to GUESS what this anon says. because seeing this notification itself could not have prepared me for the full thing
all wonderful guesses!
but alas, no, it was:
mixed reactions on this one
i wanted to see how slay the pink hair is and i agree that it is VERY femme camp queen pussy cunt cunt slay. sorry for ever doubting you anon