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@whats-amata-you / whats-amata-you.tumblr.com

.: Transmasc Enby || He/She || 30 || ISTP-T || Apothisexual || Fictoromantic || pronouns.page :.
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Hi! I'm Amata and I write things

Apparently pinned posts introducing yourself are a thing now so I guess I should do that. :P anyway hi. I'm Amata, and I'm an amateur writer.

DNI:

I don't believe in DNI (Do Not Interact) as a hard-and-fast thing, with ONE exception:

DO NOT INTERACT WITH ME IF YOU HARRASS OTHERS OR SEND ANON HATE. YOU WON'T LIKE IT HERE.

For just about everything else, I believe in civil discourse. If you can be civil, then by all means, let's discuss our disagreements. If you can't, then feel free to try to talk to me, but you'll probably get blocked. I learned a long time ago that you can't change a closed mind.

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ainyan

Google is actively blocking Captcha on Firefox

Firefox users have noticed that captchas - both the picture kind and the click the box kind - are not resolving on Firefox. Tests on Chromium based browsers show that it works perfectly fine on them. It is also known that Chrome will be disabling all ad-blockers in June when it moves to Manifest v3, which will greatly limit what extensions can do.

If you use Firefox, there is an extension called User-Agent Switcher and it allows you to change your browser's UA to Chrome. This will allow you to bypass reCaptcha/Captcha blocks set up by Google and make them function properly.

It could be a code snafu on Google's part - but given how predatory they have been acting lately, I'm going to guess not. Don't get locked out of your websites or feel forced to use Chrome again just to browse.

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kinukos

I’ve been on tumblr for almost 13 years and I refuse to know what homestuck is about

The thing that amazes me is that I've been on tumblr for ages and dashboard osmosis has conveyed absolutely nothing to me about Homestuck whatsoever.

There are whole episodes of Supernatural that I've seen in their entirety through gifsets. I don't even know what sort of a thing Homestuck is or where I would find it. I know less about what happens in Homestuck, which presumably actually exists, than what happens in Goncharov, which doesn't.

I spend hours every day on tumblr. I don't know how this is possible.

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I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on

this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??

Quick someone reply with the gif™️

Always reblog this if you are cool

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Depression is such an effective tranquilizer that it creates a great opportunity for plot twists in your real life. I have a pretty consistent opinion of myself which is "low" and "never ending guilt and shame for reasons I don't understand."

Recently received feedback from two different editing clients that started with "Please pass along to Jacquelynn that she is phenomenal at her job" and "I was blown away by the evaluation I received."

You always hear about how depression (and anxiety) lies to you and distorts reality, but there is logically knowing that and then there is like, physical proof of it and you are suddenly Neo in the Matrix jumping out of the fucked up little tube machine.

Look, medication and therapy are essential, but I think we shouldn't underestimate this form of treatment

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animentality

(No one go harass this person I just want to explain)

As an ex dolphin (gatcha term for someone who blows too much real money on anime jpgs but not 1k usd and up like whales do. Think sub 500$ a year) I can explain. You could argue it is a type of chemical addiction but definitely not on the same level of drug addiction.

It’s the dopamine baby. It’s no coincidence that this anime jpg gambling addiction coincidence with times in my life that I was extremely isolated, depressed and lonely. The gamble made me feel excited and happy when I finally got the rare 5*. You get addicted to the thrill the “hit” of getting the rare character you were gambling for.

As a side note: I also had…. I can’t think of a better term for it? I’ll call it a parasocial relationship with the anime jpgs. Back to being isolated and alone, the anime jpgs made me feel less lonely. They were your friends and they love you! They have voice lines like you’re “chatting” with them.

So for me it was a mix of a lot of unhealthy behaviors being exploited by gatcha games.

Labelling addiction as something simply chemical or biological is a disservice to addicts. It goes beyond that and if we are going to see addiction as a disease it's best to think of it as a Symptom rather than a disease itself.

Addictions are generally linked to some deeper depression, loneliness, stress or some other mental issue. Alcohol, drugs, gambling, gaming, all can numb that feeling or distract you from it. If you don't find healthy ways to deal with the underlying issue escaping an addiction can be impossible.

A big part of the reason why so many addicts relapse is because when they experience the negative emotion that leads to the addiction in the first place their Vice is the only coping mechanism they have.

You can't simply 'stop'

#i habitually whale on anything I get too invested in#I have to be very careful about what games and hobbies I pick up based entirely on their monetization model#guild wars 2 is fantastic as far as games go for people who struggle with the urge to trade money for dopamine#in gw2 the lootboxes might sometimes have some mildly helpful time savers but 99% of what you get is aesthetic only#and once unlocked you never end up with useless doubles of things from the lootboxes. end result the payoff for spending runs out fast#I spent maybe $150 a month on it at my peak and i didn’t even have to to get what i wanted like it was budgetable#Star Trek online however was omfg so bad#I blew most of my paycheck on the lootboxes of STO back in the day. it was so bad#I tried out genshin but fell off it because idk the gameplay concept with interchangeable player characters following the story feels weird#it just doesn’t make narrative sense to me to for example have kokomi in the early levels (I did because she was my first pull)#nor does it make sense to ever not have traveler as your main player character because… the story is about traveler???? or so it seems#anyway yeah I don’t really get the concept there and ended up not getting into genshin but#like even when I pick up a game i almost always buy the deluxe super ultimate version or whatever#because FOMO. I hate not having the full game idk#i’m just rambling#blargh. anyway#yeah good post gambling on games bad be careful if you notice you like it too much
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I know it's not the worst thing about capitalism. But I do think there's something really *bad* about the fact that between lack of leisure time, lack of disposable income, and "hustle culture" mindset that for many, many, many people the primary/only way they are able to express their creativity and artistic aesthetics is through consumer culture. Buying stuff and displaying that stuff.

When like...making stuff. Drawing, painting, weaving, crafting, sketching is like, baked deep deep into our bones as humans.

But I know so many adults who haven't like...drawn a picture since they were children.

"Ugh my drawings look like a 10 year old did them."

"When did you stop drawing for fun?"

"...when I was like 10."

Never mind that art doesn't have to be good to be fun.

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Another reason I want more Addams Family with the 90s cast is I think it would be so nice to see Morticia uncorseted and aging gracefully. I don't think she'd go full Grandmama but do you really think an Addams is afraid of wrinkles and cellulite?

Look me in the eye and tell me Anjelica Huston doesn't still have it.

Some normie to Morticia: don't do _______, it will give you wrinkles.

Gomez: God, I hope so.

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roach-works

at morticia's 50th birthday party everyone's making Over The Hill jokes with the same envious joy you would celebrate your cousin's hundred million dollar lottery win. the "hill" decorations are various piles of rats, bones, garbage, severed limbs. there's a lot of chains and stolen crucifixes around instead of party streamers. the cake is a graveyard hill and they cut it with a visibly filthy shovel.

'one foot in the grave' gomez tells his wife, actively crying, 'and what a foot!'

morticia has the first slice of cake (it has a little sugar grave on it). when she finishes her delicate spoonful and smiles, the camera zooms in and we see she has spontaneously developed crow's feet. off camera is the sound of her husband really unsubtly orgasming.

after the party they drive off in a hearse with glass bottles of formaldehyde tied to the bumper. it says JUST OLD in the back.

the unsubtle orgasm noises continue.

YES. I WANT THIS.