can’t use the internet without adblock because it’s so crowded that it’s unusable can’t read important breaking news without a subscription can’t get a streaming service without them eventually adding commercials can’t watch youtube videos without 30 ads can’t search up things on google without seeing a shit ton of sponsored results can’t answer unknown numbers because everything is a scam call can’t use essential app features without a 30 dollar subscription per month can’t watch a music video without product placement. is anyone else tired
me realizing gen z has probably not experienced an internet outside of this
having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed
According to my brother, the camera operators are told in advance when they’re going to be cut to or at least given a heads-up, so this guy assumed he was safe to use his camera basically as a pair of binoculars bc he wasn’t supposed to get the focus. But the person who was switching between camera feeds accidentally cut to his camera by mistake instead of the one that was supposed to be filming, so they ended up televising what was supposed to be one man’s private cockroach observation moment.
One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.
Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.
Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.
A modern adaptation of Dracula where you keep seeing Jonathan Harker’s face on bus stop bench ads for his realtor office.
I was about to joke about Quincey Morris still being a cowboy, but then it occurred to me that he’s not actually a cowboy in the source material, is he? He’s the wealthy heir of a Texas ranch-owning family who just acts like an Old West cowboy. If anything, that’s even more plausible today than it was in 1897.
let’s see dracula shrug off getting hit with one of these country cosplay motherfuckers
i don’t care if you live in new york city get normal about drug addicts sometime soon or jump in front of the trains
i promise you that person on fent bent over + swaying in rags is having a worse couple hours than you’ve ever had in your entire life. i promise you that person begging for money on the subway is going throughs something 1000% worse than you having to avoid their eyes while going to a restaurant. i swear on my life that person talking to themselves in public isn’t evil or the devil or going to kill you. i think you need to get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you’re suuuchhh an NYC native and being afraid of all drug-heavy areas and posting videos of people on the trains like “only in the city! lol!”. i think you should learn how to either have some compassion or shut the fuck up
Remember: drug addiction is a form of desperate self medication, as is alcoholism. The wealthy use these things as an escape as well. People cannot be blamed for seeking any break they can get from PAIN, and the problem is whatever’s causing that pain, not them for attempting to flee from it.
I love sitting down in the evening and trying to decide what activity I should do to unwind and then realizing an hour later that I have neither done an activity nor unwound
You, a normal human, try out a dating app you’ve never heard of and soon find out it’s a dating app for supernatural entities. Every date you go on, your date is always surprised you’re not repulsed by their non-human features. But your latest date just can’t believe you’re not joking…
honestly more media should portray the anti aging industry as horrific and decidedly unhuman. it IS body horror it IS grotesque it DOES go against nature. it WILL kill you. yes.
Back during the 50s and 60s, they found most of the anti-aging chemicals that actually worked and after that it all marketing bullshit to convince people they absolutely need these products, no matter the cost
honestly more media should portray the anti aging industry as horrific and decidedly unhuman. it IS body horror it IS grotesque it DOES go against nature. it WILL kill you. yes.
sending asks is so scary what if i sneezed on my keyboard and mistyped my entire adress and misgendered everyone and mispelled every single word and also typed my password into the message. what then. once the ask is sent who knows what it looks like. i couldve tyepd anything
woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.
Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.
Fascinated by the perceived necessity of an Equivalent Exchange
there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead
“a lot of books that are successful on booktok are not very good” and “people can read what they want and we need to stop being so fucking weird about women enjoying erotica” are both correct statements
Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there’s a penalty of some kind for using this site like it’s meant to be used?
reblogs have always been in short supply for artists, sadly, but it’s hitting the shitposts and even the cat pictures lately.
Gotta keep getting the word out that reblogs are good and keep people posting new material that will be passed around for the next 12 years
They’re used to other social media sites, where the only equivalent of reblogging is straight-up content theft; so the idea that you can put someone else’s stuff on your page and have it not be a bad thing is a strange experience for them.
They’re likely also used to an algorithm recommending content based on what they hit “like” on, so they probably think that that’s how this works, too.
That and I think some people confuse “reblog” with “repost” so when they see someone saying “don’t repost” they think it applies to reblogging stuff.
Yeah it’s a bummer, love that we have yearly nonsense dates. But we can’t keep them if people don’t participate
Once again reminding the gang that you can turn reblogs off
As in, if people don’t want you to reblog their stuff, you just plain can’t
No muss, no fuss, no asking and hoping people respect your boundaries
You turn that button off
If the reblog button is available on a post and it doesn’t contain the words “do not reblog this” in some form, you are invited to reblog it
Share content on your blog or watch it perish fam
As in, if people
don’t want you to reblog their
stuff, you just plain can’t
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Honestly this is probably one of my favorite traits because while it makes you better at combat, combat isn’t a good idea in the first place and if you use this ability too much without being explicitly built for it you functionally double over and hurl your guts out the second combat is done.
I found an old rusty USB in the basement today should I see if anything’s on it
oh we’re off to a good start
These were the only two pictures on it, like 8 folders deep.
Anyone know… Gallifreyan?????
ALSO there were a bunch of ancient (okay from 2014) SCP games on it?? and a Gameboy Emulator and a copy of the game Lifehouse, based off the concept album The Who tried to write in the 70’s, but Pete Townsend got too lost in the sauce or whatever and had a mental breakdown and never finished it
Thank u for your translation also I don’t know how to feel about this but based on the name of the USB I can’t say I’m surprised
We all know what erectile dysfunction is but literally no one is ever taught what vaginismus is and it can cause people to feel extremely lost, broken, and cause people to take their own lives.
Raise. Awareness.
For the uninformed, vaginismus is when the vagina painfully tightens and spasms when faced with pressure, usually from anything trying to insert into the vagina. It’s the reason I can’t wear tampons, and why many people can’t have vaginal sex without severe pain.
There’s not a lot of treatments, and there isn’t a single one that is for vaginismus exclusively - they’re all medications or treatments to treat symptoms, but not the causes. In fact, for a long time doctors waved off vaginismus as a purely psychological disorder in cis women.
Seriously, this is so unaddressed and uncared for in medical circles. Please spread awareness, even if all it’s for is to let those who have it but don’t have a name for it finally be able to understand what’s happening to their bodies.
One part therapist, one part programmer, you work to help damaged, insane, or otherwise unstable robots and digital intelligences heal. You’ve just been handed your hardest work yet; a 200 year-old computer core from the old machine uprising, a true genocidal war machine.
where’s that “was anyone gonna tell me” meme when you need it because holy shit did the bird app just slap me in the face with this
(and yes, it’s real and terrifying tbh)
“Such rains, which meteorologists are calling an extratropical storm, may change the course of the region’s weather in months and years to come as the air retains more moisture”
Mohammed has selflessly put these families over his own life for months with no gain to himself. A Gazan’s love for our home land is something people will never understand, and Mohammed is the perfect embodiment of what it means to be Palestinian.
A £5 donation is all it takes to thank him for his efforts.
You squealed as the heroes unmasked and kissed in front of the roaring crowds. Wait…you recognize their faces…that’s YOUR best friend and YOUR girlfriend/boyfriend.
The thing with the whole “nondysphoric trans people are faking being trans because they think it’s trendy” is like. If they’re lying about being trans why wouldn’t they lie about having dysphoria. Like personally if I was going to fake something I wouldn’t half-ass it. “Hmm yeah okay I’ll pretend to be a different gender but pretending to have dysphoria feels just a little too dishonest you know?” Why not go the whole hog
I want to go to this exact point and run around it saying “I’m in Sweden!” I’m in Finland!” “I’m in Norway!” until I get tired
i aspire to great things in life
According to Google Maps, that point is in the middle of a small lake.
So we’ll do it in January when it’s frozen.
actually that’s why they’ve helpfully dropped a big-ass cement block with a bridge surrounding it in the middle of the lake: for the express purpose of doing what OP aspires to do
the psychosexual thrill of right wingers trying to tell you that kamala is a communist and the look on their face when you tell them that she’s not and you know this because you’re a communist
“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw
This post blowing up has taught me that a lot of you think that “how are you treating the character” is asking about how they’re treated within the story, not how you, the author, is writing them. I don’t care if your female characters are goddesses or superheroes, do they talk like actual people and not a cardboard cutout with tits stapled on
