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I miss when instagram was actually a photo sharing app with cool filters and you could actually scroll endlessly without seeing any ads

it’s just me and the 5 people on here who know my oc by name against the world

voice of someone who has something(s) to unpack: yeah i just love characters who have to pretend to be someone else for an extended period of time. yeah especially if they didn't want it

Did teen girls in the 60s write weird fanfic in their notebooks about being sold to the Beatles or Beach Boys?

So apparently there weren't actually that many unironic "sold to One Direction" fics in the 2010s. Most of them were satirical.

Phantom Trope maybe? Like phantom islands.

Isn't that just dead unicorns?

That's brilliant, actually. Like "beating a dead horse" but the horse doesn't exist.

Tumblr isn't any less aggravating a site to discuss trends in popular fiction on, but it's often aggravating in a different way. On most platforms it's a struggle to find people who are aware of any authors outside the very biggest names currently in publication, while on Tumblr half the responses are from people who have extensive knowledge of the classics but have evidently never read any fiction published this century.

Trying to talk about contemporary creative dialogues and folks in the notes are like "did you mean [guy who died in 1938]".

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

They should invent a glasses that don't slip down your nose or hurt behind your ears or somehow both at the same time.

If there's one piece of advice I'd give to folks in the US running Kickstarter campaigns, it's that if you're shipping rewards to Canada, please just send them via regular post if you possibly can. Outfits like UPS and DHL charge absurd fees to the recipient for every little thing when shipping from the US to Canada. I just got charged $40 CAD in "processing fees" to receive a package because DHL had to collect $4 CAD in sales tax.

"Isn't that just customs" nope. If a parcel arrives with $20 in customs and duties due, DHL will collect the $20 from you, then charge you an extra $80 for filing the paperwork on your behalf. Those amounts are not an exaggeration!

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

free the nipple has to make a resurgence for a number of reasons but bro look at our upcoming eternity of wet bulb temps youre smoking straight up cock if you think im keeping a shirt on when it hits 105° in new england

"I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me" is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or