truly can’t believe the entire internet used to be about playing little games. it was about having adobe flash and playing little games on nick.com
idk if unalive has ever helped anyone not get banned from any website but it is impossible for me to separate it from deadpool in that one episode of that one animated spiderman show
they were so ahead of their time
Moreover, note that Spider-Man, in a cartoon for children, CAN say the word kill (in certain contexts.)
And adults, making media for other adults, are not allowed to.
The rules applied to internet advertiser friendliness are more puritanical than the ones applied to literal children's cartoons. You should find this personally insulting as a viewer.
tbf this was like. early-mid 2000s. kids cartoons from the 90s were allowed to show the devil. things in general have just gotten progressively more pussy-baby-shit as time went on
sometimes i worry from the disproportionate amount of asexuals in both my IRL and URL friendgroups that this is a trans egg “oh yeah all my friends are lesbians” thing
“Do not worry, there is absolutely nothing suspicious about my mutual circle” I explain, emerging from a building marked ASEXUAL CONVERSION CENTER.
we all have that one homie who volunteers to take first watch that they might contemplate the heavens in solitude
we need to make peace with the fact that "i am a girl and retroactively i always was even when i didn't personally think so" and "i am a girl but i used to be a boy" are both equally valid ways to be transfem and both are punk af bc they equally reject societal norms of what a person's gender experience should be
to all the transmascs and other various queers in the notes saying "this also applies to [insert gender here] but in reverse" i agree with you! but this post is about transfems because that's what i am :)
The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.
Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.
Checkmate, nihilism.
This is a powerful positive message..
I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.
There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.
No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.
Knit a sock.
If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.
This is really good advice for ADHD people because when executive dysfunction gets bad it’s easy to fall into this pattern of thinking. Do just one thing. It doesn’t have to be your homework, or a chore. It can be something small, it can be something you enjoy. But do just one thing to remind yourself that you can.
This is what “humans want to be productive” really means
We want to make things. We want to do something and at the end of the process see that something has changed. We want physical proof that we did something. We want to be able to point at something and say “I made this”. We want to be creators
liking star trek is a red flag. it's also an orange flag. and a yellow flag. and a green flag. and a blue flag. and a purple flag. liking star trek is gay. YOU are GAY.
Startrek pride flag
star trek heritage post (July 17th, 2022)
we are gonna be vacuuming up this post for the next five years
It almost looked like they threw a fish upwards into water (the shadowiness of their hand) & it swam off causing a splash of glitter.
People have been wondering what has to come next after the wizardblogging and clownblogging and whatever and my pitch is medieval monks. Like we can all pretend to be tonsured.
all of these ALSO coexist, specially in a p!nk concert
It's None Pizza's final form
Would be asleep right now, but there are Fictional Characters to imagine in emotional situations. You know how it is.
twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right