ooohhhhhhhh im going to find a staple dish from every country and make a web connecting any two ingredients that are in any of the same recipes. world culinary web……..
People do not see masculinity as being as fluid and complex and nuanced as femininity and it’s annoying as hell. Because of patriarchy’s stranglehold on masculinity and radfem theory’s stranglehold on queer spaces, people really think with their whole heart that only femininity is subversive or experimental, or frankly, queer, and that masculinity is only a power grab and nothing more. Embarrassing!
Sooo, I forgot about this…… again. Setting up a poll in case any more of you are interested, just so I could actually prioritize it this time. :,) Would love to hear any of your opinions too, if you have any!
(Thank you for all the support by the way! It’s wonderful reading all of your comments!! 💖💖💖)
Oh, so when a billionaire undergoes experimental processes to remain forever youthful in humanity’s closest attempt to immortality, he gets articles and interviews, but when I, William Afton—
Man this fucking sucks. The real life Peter Griffin is on ozempic, and he doesn’t look anything like him anymore. On top of that crap, a milky cloud of white has been eating away at my vision for months
Me, culturally Protestant, walking into a Catholic church filled balls to the walls with paintings sculptures candles and god knows what else: why’s there so much stuff
Me, Catholic, walking into a Protestant church with no depictions of Mary: where’s my mom
Me, vampire, walking into any denominational holy place: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Me, a janitor, sweeping up the vampires ashes: where the fUCk did all this dirt come from
Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone’s lying about themselves they’re trying to look better but sometimes they’re trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.
Your value is not determined by your grades, because you can’t rank something as complex and psychologically intricate as a human being’s knowledge on a scale of one to one-hundred
Your value is not determined by your weight, because you would be the exact same person you are right now if you never had a body to begin with
Your value is not determined by other people, because life is a woven carpet of stories and people need to seek out villains in their stories to live their human nature
Your value is not determined by your moral purity, because there is no such thing
Your value is not determined by your discipline, because real discipline lies in acceptance of who you are
Your value is not determined by your income, because capitalism is a mess of a system and favours material qualities and appearance over whether you’re a felon
“oh the sleepy meepy” has permanently entered my vocabulary. too tired to continue conversation? just say “oh the sleepy meepy” and collapse. No explanation needed
I miss working at the sex store people would really walk up to me and say shit like “I need help making my wife cum” and I’d be like yeah. I know just the thing brother
It’s better to get a few hours/minutes of sleep than none. It’s better to rinse out your mouth or only brush for a bit than to skip dental care. It’s better to grab a snack than it is to forget to eat. It’s better to do one nice thing for yourself than nothing at all.
This post is your reminder that you are not obligated to blog about current events.
Things are bad. Really bad. Do not let people guilt trip you into tormenting yourself even further over the fact that things are bad. Doomscrolling is not activism.
If you’re just on tumblr to blorbopost or reblog pretty pictures, you are not harming people by inaction.
You are not a bad person for not dedicating every aspect of your life and leisure space to whatever disgusting mask-off attack on human life and dignity some government has decided to enact.
Take action where you can, but don’t confuse doomscrolling and digital self harm for action.
If you need to lose yourself in blorboposting, go for it.
If you need to log off for the day, whether it’s to take irl action or to protect what little sanity any of us have left over the past 7 years, then by all means, do.
Morale is important. Hope is important. Small joys keep us from burning out completely in times like this. Do not let any “if you don’t reblog this I’m judging you” guilt trip convince you otherwise.
every time i hear you’re a mean one mr grinch and it gets to “you’re as charming as an eel” i get sad because actually i think eels are VERY charming thank you
Going insane about kicked dog with rabies type characters
On a more serious note though perhaps I’m obsessed with this because I want more sympathy for characters who externalize their problems. Fuck being a perfect victim fuck being a decent one, something horrible was done to you and it was never recognized and you will never ever get back the person you were before, you had everything taken from you and now all you’re left with is anger and sharp things and you know what. You should be able to bite people about it
tumblr will never die because we’re all too incoherent and petty to leave. someone will just pirate the source code and start running “tunglr” and we’ll all move over like the chucklefucks we are
every time web developers try to “rebrand” or “repurpose” this website we just sink our heels deeper into the quicksand of our own absurdity
look what im saying is there was a story abt a group of artists whose house was demolished in order to make room for a new shopping mall and, once it was constructed, they fueled their rage and pettiness at being displaced into finding an unused room in the building, renovated it into a condo, outfitted it with a fully stocked kitchen, china hutch, AC, TV and gaming system and then proceeded to live in the mall undetected for years. that creativity? absurdity? sheer stubborn pettiness? thas tumblr babey!!!!
mutual 2: *70 consecutive reblogs of a fandom you’ve never heard of until today. every time you refresh there’s 30 more.*
mutual 3: *image of a guy in a dog collar* why did he do this
mutual 4: *reblogs of beautiful picnic scenes*
mutual 5: everyone get fatter now
mutual 4: just thought about dunking them in blood again 🤍
mutual 3: *image of the same guy but blurry and far away* is this allowed
mutual 6: I love music 🎵🎶🎵🎺🎹✨💖🌈
mutual 7 that we are all beginning to suspect is actually a dog: do you guys ever think about chewing on bones haha
mutual 6: anyone ever heard of this shit called music? *image of stickman covered in blood*
mutual 5: make him a woman NOW!!!
mutual 8: if you ask me about my ocs I will kiss you on the mouth
mutual 9: hey what happened to mutual 10
mutual 10: day 173 of being lost in the mountains. I have begun to recreate my family’s faces out of the river clay. at night I recite my favorite songs so that they may never leave my memory. I am beginning to forget birthdays. I haven’t tasted a grain of sugar in months.
is this real? / i thought pro wrestling was fake? wrestling is ‘fake’ in that the fights are choreographed and the winner is predetermined, but the physicality is very real. there’s no way to 'fake’ getting whipped with a metal chain so hard it leaves welts.
why ARE they chained? this is a specialty fight called a 'dog collar match’ where both participants are, you guessed it, fitted with dog collars which are then chained together.
is this legal? / how can this be allowed? why wouldn’t it be? they’re both consenting adults who planned and agreed to it.
but they could be seriously hurt! they know, and they accept the risk. pro wrestlers are well aware of the injuries possible in their line of work, and they do it anyway because they’re crazy people.
IS there aftercare? of a sort, yeah - there’s a medical team on hand to patch everyone up, and lots of coworkers backstage to give them a 'job well done!’
why are they wearing thigh highs? they’re kneepads/shin guards for protection. looking like sexy thigh highs is just a bonus side effect!
ok, but why’s that guy in a shiny speedo? personal preference. wrestlers can design their own outfits and some prefer full coverage long tights, while others wear less to show off the gams.
Nah mate two half-naked muscular men chained together by their dog collars whipping the shit out of each other with chains in a ritualised power struggle with a predetermined dominator and submitter of the interaction in a public ring is wholesome family entertainment
There’s this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I’m still not over the terminology of “gravity assist,” the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to “slingshot” them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.
“Gravity assist.”“Slingshot.” Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We’re getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a “slingshot,” because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can’t be sure about the exact physics).
Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. “Black hole?” Damn yeah it sure is. “Big bang?” It sure was. “Galactic cluster?” Buddy you’re never gonna guess what this is. I think it’s an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like… idk, botany.
But, like. “Gravity assist.” I still can’t get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.
We are assisted.
And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:
“… You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. …”
when i was a camp counselor a billion years ago i once met a tiny 10yo girl in all black clothes with spiky bracelets and teeny combat boots and a tiny slipknot tshirt and shoulder length blonde hair (with the right attitude to make it look like a counterculture shaggyboy cut) who GLARED at me as she shook my hand and when i asked her name she said, in the deadly serious tone of a mortal threat: “…Barbie.” i nodded gravely and said nothing. i only ever addressed her as “boss.”
Absolutely amazing how AO3 is a part of the internet that doesn’t sneak in any ads and doesn’t have an algorithm and doesn’t watch you or record how much time you spend looking at each fic or whatever. It’s just right there to use for free. Legend
The internet was like this. This was the normal.
this is because it’s a non-profit! Remember this next time you bitch about ao3 asking for donations.
Re: littlecofiegirl’s comment — actually, the internet was never like this.
“YouTube used to be free.” Youtube used to be funded by venture capitalists. It operated at a loss for many years, until it grew a dedicated enough customer base to start stage 2 of the enshittification process.
It’s the same business model as Amazon or Uber. Venture capitalists pour money into a business, allowing it to operate at a loss and undersell its competition until all the competition dies out and it becomes a monopoly. Once that happens, the business can hike up prices as high as it wants, secure in the knowledge that customers have nowhere else to go.
These websites were never free. They were always accruing debt, with the intention of eventually coercing the public into paying off that debt a hundredfold.
AO3 is not a relic of the old internet. It is a new kind of website created specifically in reaction to the enshittification of the corporate internet, by a community of people who believed that creative works deserved to flourish on the internet, on a platform that was not subject to the whims of corporate oversight, so much so that they were willing to donate money and labor to create such a platform.
If you want to compare AO3 to something, compare it to a website like Bluesky, which was created in reaction to the enshittification of Twitter X.
Do not glorify “the good old days” that never existed. You don’t make the internet or the world better by going back to the way things were. You do it by building something new.
The internet existed before YouTube.
There used to be a lot of websites that were paid for by the individual people who made them. (I had one, back in the day. Cost me $10 a month in hosting, plus the domain registration. Rolled the HTML myself.) There were no algorithms; there were webrings. There were more universities online than there were companies.
AO3 is absolutely a relic of the old internet, which was a muchsmaller place than it is today.
This doesn’t mean that we can’t focus on building new things as a way to move forward, but historical revisionism doesn’t help our current situation either.
Archive of Our Own was created in 2008.
Back then, if you weren’t alive to experience it, YouTube looked like this:
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AO3 was created as a reaction to fan fiction websites deciding to ban content on account of its obscenity*, content that was previously allowed. It was supposed to be a website immune to this kind of free speech backsliding.
*including or mentioning NSFW scenarios, scenes, or concepts, or certain specific concepts such as certain kinks, being smut, etc.
It could be argued that this was an early form of enshittification as it is likely these websites were doing this to please advertisers and payment processors.
hi excuse me this is OPs mom, yah my daughter, she wanted you to know you reblogged her post before she had a chance to update a hasty technical wording edit that improves the readability flow and cadence by about 3% could you please delete your reblog and then reblog the new version?
hi excuse me this is OPs mom, yah my daughter, she wanted you to know you reblogged her post before she had a chance to update a hasty technical wording edit that improves the readability flow and cadence by about 3% could you please delete your reblog and then reblog the new version?
Absolutely amazing how AO3 is a part of the internet that doesn’t sneak in any ads and doesn’t have an algorithm and doesn’t watch you or record how much time you spend looking at each fic or whatever. It’s just right there to use for free. Legend
The internet was like this. This was the normal.
this is because it’s a non-profit! Remember this next time you bitch about ao3 asking for donations.
Re: littlecofiegirl’s comment — actually, the internet was never like this.
“YouTube used to be free.” Youtube used to be funded by venture capitalists. It operated at a loss for many years, until it grew a dedicated enough customer base to start stage 2 of the enshittification process.
It’s the same business model as Amazon or Uber. Venture capitalists pour money into a business, allowing it to operate at a loss and undersell its competition until all the competition dies out and it becomes a monopoly. Once that happens, the business can hike up prices as high as it wants, secure in the knowledge that customers have nowhere else to go.
These websites were never free. They were always accruing debt, with the intention of eventually coercing the public into paying off that debt a hundredfold.
AO3 is not a relic of the old internet. It is a new kind of website created specifically in reaction to the enshittification of the corporate internet, by a community of people who believed that creative works deserved to flourish on the internet, on a platform that was not subject to the whims of corporate oversight, so much so that they were willing to donate money and labor to create such a platform.
If you want to compare AO3 to something, compare it to a website like Bluesky, which was created in reaction to the enshittification of Twitter X.
Do not glorify “the good old days” that never existed. You don’t make the internet or the world better by going back to the way things were. You do it by building something new.
The internet existed before YouTube.
There used to be a lot of websites that were paid for by the individual people who made them. (I had one, back in the day. Cost me $10 a month in hosting, plus the domain registration. Rolled the HTML myself.) There were no algorithms; there were webrings. There were more universities online than there were companies.
AO3 is absolutely a relic of the old internet, which was a muchsmaller place than it is today.
This doesn’t mean that we can’t focus on building new things as a way to move forward, but historical revisionism doesn’t help our current situation either.
Archive of Our Own was created in 2008.
Back then, if you weren’t alive to experience it, YouTube looked like this:
ALT
AO3 was created as a reaction to fan fiction websites deciding to ban content on account of its obscenity*, content that was previously allowed. It was supposed to be a website immune to this kind of free speech backsliding.
*including or mentioning NSFW scenarios, scenes, or concepts, or certain specific concepts such as certain kinks, being smut, etc.
It could be argued that this was an early form of enshittification as it is likely these websites were doing this to please advertisers and payment processors.
Absolutely amazing how AO3 is a part of the internet that doesn’t sneak in any ads and doesn’t have an algorithm and doesn’t watch you or record how much time you spend looking at each fic or whatever. It’s just right there to use for free. Legend
The internet was like this. This was the normal.
this is because it’s a non-profit! Remember this next time you bitch about ao3 asking for donations.
Re: littlecofiegirl’s comment — actually, the internet was never like this.
“YouTube used to be free.” Youtube used to be funded by venture capitalists. It operated at a loss for many years, until it grew a dedicated enough customer base to start stage 2 of the enshittification process.
It’s the same business model as Amazon or Uber. Venture capitalists pour money into a business, allowing it to operate at a loss and undersell its competition until all the competition dies out and it becomes a monopoly. Once that happens, the business can hike up prices as high as it wants, secure in the knowledge that customers have nowhere else to go.
These websites were never free. They were always accruing debt, with the intention of eventually coercing the public into paying off that debt a hundredfold.
AO3 is not a relic of the old internet. It is a new kind of website created specifically in reaction to the enshittification of the corporate internet, by a community of people who believed that creative works deserved to flourish on the internet, on a platform that was not subject to the whims of corporate oversight, so much so that they were willing to donate money and labor to create such a platform.
If you want to compare AO3 to something, compare it to a website like Bluesky, which was created in reaction to the enshittification of Twitter X.
Do not glorify “the good old days” that never existed. You don’t make the internet or the world better by going back to the way things were. You do it by building something new.
The internet existed before YouTube.
There used to be a lot of websites that were paid for by the individual people who made them. (I had one, back in the day. Cost me $10 a month in hosting, plus the domain registration. Rolled the HTML myself.) There were no algorithms; there were webrings. There were more universities online than there were companies.
AO3 is absolutely a relic of the old internet, which was a muchsmaller place than it is today.
This doesn’t mean that we can’t focus on building new things as a way to move forward, but historical revisionism doesn’t help our current situation either.
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