Jacqueline Merritt

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

kind of obsessed with the idea of the rest of the gaang leaving Toph and Zuko to watch over some cooking food and when they come back its burned and Katara starts fuming but Toph and Zuko are like “we’ve never stepped inside a kitchen in our lives and only have one eye between us, if anything it’s your fault”

The rare excellent piece of writing on AI

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

I've posted about this before but back home at my old job I used to get pho so fucking often that the owners of the place stopped asking me what I wanted and stopped handing me menus when I walked in. After I moved to NY and I could only go back to Chicago like once a year, I sat down and they gave me a menu and I was like "Oh no I already know what I want, can I get--" and they were like OHHH #36 WITH EXTRA NOODLES YOU'RE BACK and I almost cried

i have been looking for this picture for YEARS and it’s finally back on my dash….wow

This photograph predates 9/11.

the thing abt the troubled teen industry that i never see anyone mention is they keep u in there for as long as they can. if u turn 18 they tell u that ur options are to sign urself in and consent to the continuation of the abuse OR u can sign urself out and they can help u bring all ur stuff to the nearest homeless shelter. these were seriously the only options for me when i turned eighteen.

this is a huge part of “adulthood is a social construct” btw. the fact that i turned eighteen didn’t make it stop being child abuse. i essentially signed away my adulthood so i didn’t end up homeless thousands of miles away from anything or anyone i knew. adulthood is meaningless if it can be denied so easily. children NEED the right to say “no” to ANYONE. youth liberation now and forever.

I was coerced into "wilderness therapy" under threat of being thrown out on the street by my parents. once i got there, even though i was over 18 and had signed myself in "voluntarily" they would not allow me to sign myself out for the first week, nor at all until i had somewhere to go afterwards. despite being legally an adult they held me there in the woods against my will for a whole month. this isnt even touching on any of the ways they treated me either. the troubled teen industry is worse than anyone who has not been victim to it can even imagine.

how do you know hazbin hotel but not megan thee stallion

helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury

another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that

finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)

Happy burger you can fuck friday

Happy burger you can fuck friday