nateconnolly:

Good Experience: My creative writing professor, one of the kindest, most open-minded arts teachers in any media that I have ever had, gave us an entire thirty minutes to just bring up stupid writing advice and complain about it.

Bad Experience: One of my classmates brought up how people always tell her to delete the word “very,” and then she asked us how we felt about “very,” and I completely forgot that I was a real boy in the real world and not on Tumbler dot Com, so I answered, “I love her. She’s my girlfriend.” And my professor was like “Did you just say the word ‘very’ is your girlfriend?????” and I had to just nod silently and reckon with the permanent damage this website has done to my brain.

punkitt-is-here:

dude you cant just ask these things like that

aconissa:

jonathanlarsn

i’m all for encouraging girls to pursue STEM fields but can we stop acting like talent/passion for the arts is inherently less valuable than talent/passion for maths and science thanks

mortimermcmirestinks:

earhartsease:

flipocrite:

joeyridersvoid:

Thinking about when I worked at a shitty restaurant + one night it was just me + 3 other women on closing shift, so some guy came in the back and waved a knife around, presumably for money but I’m not actually certain, bc he was met with the bartender holding a much bigger knife, a tiny teenager wielding a cast iron pan, an elderly woman holding up a crockpot of clearly boiling water, and me, turning on the meat slicer with eye contact for maximum effect. He left, but the moral of the story is not girl power or whatever, it’s just. Why the fuck would you threaten a room full of underpaid and sleep-deprived blue-collar workers surrounded by lethal weapons.

Even ignoring the quantity of workers or weaponry, I think there’s something special about specifically

1. using a knife
2. to threaten a cook
3. in a kitchen

not the

not the shar

not the sharpest kn

*nods wisely* not the sharpest knool in the shed

oniontheif:

claystuck

God they are SO fucking ugly

catchymemes:

catchymemes:

perks-of-being-chinese:

Knitting you a scarf so you stay warm and cozy this winter 🥺🥰🧣

catchymemes:

madphantom:

Anyway if this post reaches 30000 notes I’ll sit down and professionally film a Goncharov movie scene you can send to people who claim it’s not real. This is completely serious, I’ve made movies before and I’m willing to do it for the memes.

Are you trapped on tumblr right now?

effeminate-wastrel:

andythecorsair:

amaraqwolf:

amaraqwolf:

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.

Things people in the notes have been able to do thanks to this post:

• eat breakfast
• go to bed
• get out of bed
• take a shower
• write
• practice
• watch Superman Returns and write a paper on it
• retain shreds of sanity

I need y’all to know that you’re doing amazing, and I’m so glad that I was able to help you break out of a procrastination loop you did not want to be stuck in.

Helpful post I’ve added to my queue in case it helps someone else at the random point when it’s posted.

motherfucker….

chennnington:

Guys, do you think that wembley, a black cat, is standing? The crabs aren’t sure

darqx:

I thought i was on the wrong website

(“Tell our userbase it was planned, Jenkins.”)

grimwicks:

Calling everyone on this website - including myself - out

writhe:

really fighting to accept & make peace with the ways i will never find the things i lost, or never again have them in the same way. also trying to be liberated by this

aconissa:

jonathanlarsn

i’m all for encouraging girls to pursue STEM fields but can we stop acting like talent/passion for the arts is inherently less valuable than talent/passion for maths and science thanks

just-shower-thoughts:

If you rapidly say “egg” repeatedly you sound like Mr. Krabs laughing

7amaspayrollmanager:

Okay but the “zionist is now a dogwhistle for saying jews without being called anti semitic” is incredibly annoying bc it purposefully disempowers palestinians bc that’s how we name our oppressors and their ideology and have done so for decades with the purpose of distinguishing it from Judaism because of the faith-washing of our struggle. We’re not going to stop using it bc it’s apparently being “coopted by antisemites” when the definition of antisemitism has been coopted by zionists and drastically redefined in the public discourse to protect zionism from being identified as a fascist and colonialist ideology

spnyuri:

spnyuri:

someone apologized for commenting late… 2 months after the fic was posted 😭😭 girl that’s EARLY thats fresh

times it’s appropriate to comment on a fic:

- if it was written sometime between 10000 years ago and 3 seconds ago

times it’s NOT appropriate to comment on a fic:

-if you’re gonna be mean 🥺

ospreyonthemoon:

riluri:

gay-jesus-probably:

latinajedi:

clauonacloud-deactivated2022071:

n-breezii:

YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN THAT RIGHT NOW

well damn

whatagrump:

bizarre dash coincidence that briefly transported me to a more magical world

falseobject:

“ingredients you can pronounce!!!” actually i’m great at phonics and i love eating chemicals

homoqueerjewhobbit:

homoqueerjewhobbit:

homoqueerjewhobbit:

Wow, this “gender free” fashion brand sure doesn’t have any AMAB models.

Gonna die fucking mad about this. If you can’t put someone with a beard in one of your skirts, is your clothing gender neutral? If your brand is full of plus-sized black femmes and white, androgynous bean poles, do you really have a handle on diversity?

You passed peer review. Highlighted for emphasis but again:

unclothed-i-shall-return:

ardatli:

sunhatred:

Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”

This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.

“Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?”

#I read an article a long time ago about a woman who was raised in an incredibly repressive conservative christian community#where all that mattered was purity and virginity etc #She talked about how for a long time rape fantasies were the only way she could derive any pleasure from sex #because she couldn’t feel safe exploring the idea of wanting sex #it wasn’t really ABOUT rape or eroticizing assault or whatever #it was about creating a scenario where she was free from the shame associated with wanting #i think this is true of a lot of icky-seeming stuff in romance and erotica #it’s an imaginary scenario where nothing you don’t really want actually happens #but you can’t be blamed or feel guilty for it #you didn’t do anything wrong#anyway that article changed my perspective a lot #i think there’s also something to be said for people who have felt ugly and undesirable their whole lives #enjoying fictional scenarios where a hot alpha werewolf or whatever is so attracted to them he ‘cant help himself’ or whatever #because it can also be really shameful to want to be desired #when you feel like youre ugly and gross ( @headspace-hotel )

masteraqua:

masteraqua:

i flipping hate ao3’s layout there’s too many goddamn words

you know what i deserve this

blessyouhawkeye:

the fact that we as a society have the muppets and they are not everywhere in our cultural consciousness is appalling. why aren’t the muppets hosting the oscars. why aren’t the muppets commentating the olympics. why aren’t the muppets coming to a theatre near me every year with a new adaptation of a classic novel. genuinely what are we doing.

sic-semper-hominibus:

balambwanderer:

authorkims:

View on Twitter

komakesthings:

I’ve slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I’ve drawn on Tumblr!

gentrychild:

cat-harman92:

delphinidin4:

greenheart-anon:

SOUND ON

This is funnier than both Deadpool movies combined

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024:

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024:

ball-lightning:

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024:

If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram “Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay.” It would be at her doorstep in two hours.

I… what.

😦

HE DROPPED OUT. Thank you Swifties 💜

readwebcomicsgdi:

unpretty:

prawnlegs:

drunkenauthor:

prawnlegs:

JUST yesterday I gave the library director my elevator rant about why webtoon is evil lmao webcomic library is your friend

I agree but I’d still like to listen to your rant

I have not personally tried to host my comic on webtoon so this is all coming from friends in the trenches, but basically it’s very geared towards marketable homogeneity and anything that doesn’t have a professional level of polish gets swept under the rug. It treats webcomics like an IP farm for potential lucrative netflix deals instead of, say… an art form with its own merits. And for my Old Man Moment: it’s become such a juggernaut that people are starting to ignore anything that isn’t hosted there, and using “webtoon” generically for “webcomic.”

Webcomics started as punk outsider art and seeing them molded into consumer products makes me seethe

gonna ramble out my ass because i don’t feel like pulling sources, i was originally adding this to someone else’s reblog but then it got too long and i went on too many tangents so that didn’t make sense anymore but ANYWAY

“webtoon” is a specific sub-type of webcomic that originated in south korea specifically, and it adopted the scrolling format because the format was more readable on phones (compare this to the recently-killed-by-amazon comixology, which had a proprietary ‘smart’ viewer for traditional page layouts that let you swipe from panel to panel). in korea the big ones are kakao webtoon (recently swallowed tapas) and naver webtoon (webtoon.com, recently swallowed wattpad, owners of line corp if you’re familiar)

naver is very comparable to google, it even started as a web portal and search engine iirc. they run webtoon as an exploitative entertainment company similar to television. a number of panels that if laid out in pages would be enough to make a chapter are posted all at once as an 'episode’, and creators are expected to be able to post a new episode once a week that naver can charge for with microtransactions and also stick ads on. even with a buffer, that’s a ridiculous amount of output. the most popular comics tend to have whole teams, and imports have whole production companies paying to adapt popular webnovels into webtoons and then license the translations.

i’m trying to think of a good metaphor but to be honest this is very similar to the ways indie comics have always gotten fucked. every comic shop always leaned hard on DC and Marvel and big glossy mags full of ads and meanwhile weirdos who got lucky could make comic strips to run in local alt weeklies. Dykes To Watch Out For wasn’t selling in mylar bags. maybe the metaphor here is that people are asking for indie comics and when you try to point them toward DTWOF they’re confused that it isn’t Sandman.

because webcomic used to mean, specifically, self-published. it used to mean one person, maybe two. it used to get sneered at, because self-publishing meant you weren’t good enough to get published. and webcomics got fucking weird and mostly terrible, the way any art that gets democratized gets weird and mostly terrible, and all the ways that it’s terrible are also the ways that it’s great. but now it’s all one word meant to encapsulate achewood and homestuck and solo leveling as if that’s a single genre or even format.

(the illustrator of solo leveling, jang-sung rak, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in july of 2022. starting in 2018 he published on a grueling schedule with only short hiatuses to deal with a chronic illness. i cannot say for sure it was related to overwork, but i do not know how you can have that level of output and be well.)

Report: Webtoon creators four times as likely to be depressed

there are genuine interesting innovations to the scrolling format, like the use of blank space for dramatic pauses between panels, or reveals that only work when you can’t see the bottom of a panel when you see the top. as a Certified Garbage Enjoyer, i love seeing the innovations that are born out of profit-fueled limitations. like sunday comics. i almost went on a two paragraph tangent about sunday newspaper comics and i didn’t, you’re welcome.

but it’s also true that webtoons look like absolute dogshit on a computer or tablet. they are for phones, and they are disposable, to click and scroll and read once and never look at again. almost none of them make it to print. and it sucks that it’s becoming treated as the default format for comics. and it extremely sucks that, if you want to read korean comics in particular, webtoons are pretty much your only option.

there is no thesis to this! i do not have solutions to offer, aside from supporting creators directly whenever you can. if an artist crossposts to a corporate webtoon platform, consider following them Anywhere Else If Possible. get an rss reader instead of using a webcomic platform’s app. if you like a creator, find ways to follow them so that if they strike out on their own you can be there to support them. i won’t pretend this is a webtoon specific issue because publishers have always treated comic creators like shit. but there was a period where being a webcomic meant it was the rare kind of comic where the creator wasn’t getting fucked, and that time is gone now.

ALT

I’m still technically taking a break from this but it’s very important to me that anyone following this blog understands there are Reasons I do not fuck with webtoons myself lmao

shrilleth:

shrilleth:

shrilleth:

shrilleth:

cleonibbles:

classicmeevs:

classicmeevs:

dash is dead im teleporting to the past

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752

2016 dash here

2014 dash

2012 dash

2010 dash

Oh what the fuck

What the fuck

I’m scared

This is horrifying

This is a raw post. No reblog. On my dash. In 2014. We are messing with forces beyond our comprehension and it will get us all killed.

SEEMS LIKE A NORMAL POST, RIGHT.

NOPE. SENDS ME TO FUCKING VINE

junoshusband:

bewbin:

bewbin:

why the fuck is everyone tagging this as pokemon

we-the-maggotsss:

aidlvx:

we-the-maggotsss:

aidlvx:

aidlvx:

all US american accents and canadian accents are hot as fuck and I’m sick of pretending they aren’t

no tags on this one lads. I’d rather no one found me at my lowest

The way I’m so close to tagging him blogs to this travels EVERYWHERE

DONT YOU DARE!!!! this is the worst thing I’ve ever said DONT DO THIS TO ME!!

@alphabetcompletionist @t-counter @a-counter @b-counter @c-counter @d-counter I’m not typing out every letter

@how-many-letters

@i-say-ok @i-give-chess-pieces-to-people @i-count-words-in-posts @the-scribbles-painter @the-orange-painter @the-yellow-painter @the-green-painter@the-teal-painter@the-blue-painter@the-purple-painter@the-pink-painter@the-white-painter@the-gray-painter@the-rainbow-painter@the-pastel-painter@the-pride-painter@the-deep-fry-painter@the-doodle-painter@the-glitter-painter@the-bird-painter@the-pixel-painter@the-void-painter@the-mystery-painter@happy-little-painter@the-weezer-painter@the-bazzow-painter@the-not-painter@the-sus-painter@the-mew-painter@the-mewtwo-painter@the-high-saturation-painter@the-collage-painter @the-scaly-painter @the-duck-painter @the-chaotic-doodle-painter @the-pony-painter @the-ghost-painter

At this point of should apologize to me for having to tag so many ppl. Anyway, tag everyone and everyone.

+ my moots @deadboywalking227 @us-costco-official @questionablemargot

somethingusefulfromflorida:

writhe:

i do genuinely need to go on some sort of quest this year or i’m going to become evil for real

I’m going on a 2000-mile roadtrip in April (1000 out, 1000 back) to view the total solar eclipse. I’ve been planning this since 2017, but I have exactly $0 saved up because life has been throwing me nothing but expensive curveballs since I moved in September, but come hell or high water I WILL VIEW THE GODDAMN ECLIPSE!!! That is my quest. I have 2 months and some change to figure it out.

homunculus-argument:

anexperimentallife:

homunculus-argument:

Not to sound like I was raised by protestants, but I think those kids who argue that it’s animal abuse to put working dog breeds to work doing the tasks they were bred and born for have simply genuinely never encountered the concept that they, too, could be genuinely happier if they could do work they found wortwhile and enjoyable. Like engaging in useful and constructive activities might genuinely make life better than a life of doing absolutely nothing because nobody’s making you do anything.

Blue Heelers are herding dogs. When I had one, he decided his job was to herd our flock of cockatiels. I didn’t ask him to, and in fact tried to dissuade him at first, but it worked out pretty well and kept him from getting bored. Not sure how well things would have worked out if we hadn’t had something for him to herd and protect.

If you don’t give your working dog a job, they will assign themselves one. Unfortunately, that job may sometimes be eating the couch.

The difference between a well-trained herding dog and an untrained herding dog is that a well-trained one won’t start herding before you tell them to, and stops herding when told to do so. Herders will herd because herders must herd. I was there the first time my sister’s dog (a shepherd breed) saw sheep for the first time. I swear I saw him blink like he suddenly remembered something, and instantly knew what to do. Genetic memory just clicking into place.

Everyone deserves to experience that at some point in their life. Blinking like a sheep dog seeing sheep for the first time. “Oh, right, so this was what I was supposed to be doing.”

wolfythewitch:

Happy pride :)

guerrillatech:

good-wizard:

flirtyambiguouswizard:

good-wizard:

flirtyambiguouswizard:

good-wizard:

flirtyambiguouswizard:

cartoonrival:

(guy whos scared of everything and feels guilty about everything) sorry i got scared and felt guilty

Why do you feel guilty you are a good wizard, the best I know even

I feel guilty for doing things I want and like doing, I’m scared that people would be disappointed in me for this. My father most definitely is and he doesn’t even know the half of the things I do that he wouldn’t approve of

I totally get it and it’s the same for me but while it is important to keep in mind what other people think of us and our actions it’s not everything that matters.

Listening to criticism is a good occasion to take a moment and evaluate what you’re doing/have done but you don’t necessarily have to agree with them. Doubting and holding yourself accountable is good to an extent but it’s very different from hating yourself or constantly denying you what makes you feel good out of guilt or fear of judgment; and I know it’s hard because I for one constantly fail at it but it’s important to not lose sight of that and at least try to stick to this, judge yourself fairly means accepting your mistakes but also having compassion for yourself and be kind enough to yourself to give yourself the space to grow out of your errors.

Holy crap you’re making me genuinely tear up, I know you’re right and stuff and it’s what my moms told me to do but damn it’s so hard, I can be really mean to myself and shit but you’re absolutely correct, I’m going to go to my therapist today and try and talk to them about how I can start being nicer to mysel, thankyou so much dude

I’m going through the same shit and have been for years. Realizing how much I actually hate myself is what finally made me decide to start going to therapy.

It’s hard to ignore the voice that tells you how much you suck, how selfish you are, how much of a burden you are, and knowing you shouldn’t doesn’t really help when things get bad and I don’t really have a solution but tell you that you have to stay strong. That voice is not right and your struggle to be better than that isn’t worthless. People do love you and you should thake that into your heart just like you listen to criticism.

Thank you so so much. Telling me this means a lot to me, if you want to talk we could sometime since we have a lot of shared experiences!

lilysaus:

reblog if you consider the people youve befriended on this website (and other websites) to be real friends, even if youve never met them irl before

trying to prove something to my dad

iwillsurvivecollege:

“IT SHOULD ALSO SERVE AS A REMINDER THAT IN THE "CIVILISED WORLD” THOSE OPPOSING WAR CRIMES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE SCRUTINIZED AND PERSECUTED THAN WAR CRIMES THEMSELVES.“

doradotcom:

your email finds me ripped apart by wolves

kelleycubes:

kelleycubes:

pocket-deer-boy:

mwg-drwg:

snakegirltongue:

xener-aol:

xener-aol:

Please stop he is drowning…..

Gone forever

disgustinggf:

can i come over and go through the entire spectrum of human emotions again and again and again

good-to-drive:

It’s kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I’d prefer if no one else saw it

maryaustria:

youaremyeverlovin:

great new tumblr glitch where all ads are now replaced with “snoop dogg just invented coinstar for cheese”