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It's my 15 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

#my blog is older than some tumblr users #tumblr anniversary #auto-generated post #pinning this instead of stating my age

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valtsv

what doesn't kill you gives you an extensive vocabulary and niche knowledge set that nevertheless fails to accurately account for what happened

#mental health #so called giftedness #can contribute to both sides of this equation

thememedaddy

xielesbian

[ID: Tweet by daz @/MetamateDaz reading: Gen Z does not understand that the economy used to be so good that if you had a roommate people genuinely thought you might be gay. End ID]

#I mean #maybe true for people who were working full time #but not for students and casually employed folks #but that is less pithy

headspace-hotel

it's not that I don't think "do it scared" can ever be a positive phrase, like if it's something like. "Oh, I'm scared to go to this party" but the "scared" is. nervous about the uncertainty of something, like not knowing people and things like that. That can be good.

Like, you don't have to wait for the ideal time to start doing things that could make your life better

but "ignore the fear and just do it anyway" is such an unstoppable and inescapable message, but on a basic level it is not true that fear automatically goes away when you expose yourself to the feared thing. Fear goes away when you expose yourself to the feared thing by your own choice and free will (not forced, coerced, or out of resignation because it seems like the only option), and when the experience feels safe enough that it can be a positive or at least neutral experience and help heal the fear.

people are very attracted to the idea that others have problems because they are not strong enough or too weak-willed or sensitive. Many people seem to like to believe that everyone's problems come from unwillingness to "do the hard thing."

As someone who viciously hated herself from very early childhood for being not strong enough, too weak-willed, and too sensitive, I have found that the method of doing things in spite of their "hardness" through sheer stubbornness and pain tolerance only created minimal progress.

"Pushing through" is useful in some circumstances, but using it as a primary tool for facing challenges results in expending enormous energy and difficulty for very slow results.

Examining why the thing is hard, and coming up with ways to make it easier, will take you six steps forward for every single step you take by "pushing through" without self-understanding.

ritavonbees

What do you think it is that allows people to make the jump from "doing this thing is good" to "forcing people to do this thing is good" so easily they don't even notice they're doing it?

it's like the modern utilitarian/rationalist thing of designing an outcome that looks best from the outside and then completely failing to consider the fundamental changes that trying to implement it from the inside wreaks upon the whole thing.

you are not god. you are part of the story. your place in the system affects the results of your actions.

#doing it scared #only works when you want to do the thing #and you have a choice

aya--bb

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

notemily

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

#fiction #there are many reasons for reading and writing fiction #not all of them need to be about teaching a moral lesson #great cartoon #jkr is funding hate groups #don't buy or watch harry potter

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trumpetsbyjasonderulo

one must imagine sisyphus in margaritaville

prokopetz

"This fic is literally just porn, why do you care about the quality of the editing" unfortunately, both my brain and my dick have strong opinions about verb tenses.

eternally-conflicted

You severely underestimate the effect of typos and incorrect tenses on my libido

#it's true

gobigorgoextinct

Steve Irwin in a Jaeger would be entertaining.

Look over there. There’s a Catergory 3 Kaiju. Biggest one yet.

Ah’m gonna wrassle with it.

owl-recluse-deactivated20150626

#yeah but who’s his drift partner. a crocodile. just a crocodile. its not a special or humanoid croc its literally just a croc strapped in.

lledra

frauleinninja

THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BUT I DON’T CARE BECAUSE IT HAS IMPROVED EVERY TIME

mothnem

Croc Brain: Bite and death roll.

Steve Irwin: Bite and death roll it is mate!

overlordraax

[Image description: someone drew the suggestion and thus we get to see Steve Irwin in a Jaeger pilot suit next to a crocodile wearing a modified headset and able to stand up right thanks to a set of railings. End description]

#steve irwin #jaeger pilot #drift compatible #very cute art

wetdirtguy

The more Australians I end up following and the more that follow me, I am just seeing a big L Word map in my head. Let's all hold hands and pass the same posts around this big big continent I'm kissing you all on the head.

#it's true #and I don't even follow OP

berdymane

can-i-make-image-descriptions

[Image ID: Bluesky post from hank hill (@/ freshGarlicKnots.bsky.social) on Jun 3, 2026 reading: "fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem that fiction will ever be /End ID]

#fiction #social media #co-signed

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penny-anna

Anyway here is my take:

I think trying to make a movie out of The Odyssey (not the story of Odysseus, but The Odyssey as in the poem) is a bit of a doomed endeavour as the structure of The Odyssey simply does not jive with the structure of the Hollywood movie

I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.

penny-anna

Here are my opinions:

The Odyssey should be a musical but ☝️only some of the time. When Odysseus is narrating? Musical. Penelope and Telemachus on Ithaca? 🙅‍♀️

Odysseus can break the fourth wall during the parts where he's narrating.

Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

penny-anna

In essence am I implying it should be tonally similar to the emperor's new groove but with ultra violence? Perhaps

#the odyssey

prokopetz

Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.

petrodykeonicapocalypse

absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog

#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit#but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz

inthefallofasparrow

icannotgetoverbirds

#blackout poetry #erasure poetry #partially described

notjusthespongenextdoor

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.

#small talk #phatic communication #signaling that you are a human basically #<- prev is right #it's how we show each other we are human #also how we keep the lines of communication open for when we have something interesting to say

thetomska

Thoughts?

No thanks, I’m trying to cut back

#already reblogged?

the-clacton-affair

#flawless plan #count binface #image description in alt text

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baglieg

If all the software developers in the world disappeared, it would be months or years before average people saw any negative effects.

If the people who clean the toilets at inner-city train stations stopped doing their jobs it would be a catastrophe by the very next day. They're the real MVPs.

#true facts

luxiomahariel

youre telling me someone named jay pegged this image?

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