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Moved to @starwiped
I'm tired of having such a cluttered blog and it's dying anyway, so I decided it's best for me to move. Hope to see you guys there ✌️
I made myself a member of my active side blogs so those will still be in use.

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Considering moving accounts. Lol
entomologists are the most fucking wild people ive ever met
i pointed out a cool wasp to one and she just picked it up with her bare hands and started showing me different features she was using to identify the species
on a walk with another one he just paused, turned, violently shoved his hand into some rotting wood and offered me a tunnel web spider like oh okay i guess-
when i was in college i did larp shit and one of the guys in the group was an entomology student and i once watched him drop directly to a plank position in the middle of a swordfight to look at a moth on the ground
Twitter looking a lot like an “adult site” now 😂
Since when does Xbox do porn?
With the number of times people have threatened to fuck my mom, I'd say as soon as Xbox Live became a thing.
kimiko glenn posted her residuals from orange is the new black (she played brooke soso!) on tiktok and it’s disturbing to actually have a visual of how little she makes for one of the first defining shows of the streaming era
she also went on to say that many of the people on the show had to work second jobs, and added further perspective by adding that they couldn’t go out in public because they were famous but still making very little.

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Y'know, like, nyah~!
going through the tags for something you just watched/read and reblogging from it like its the giftshop
Sprigatito x Pumpkaboo! 🎃🌱
i got a vaporeon plushie today so i wanted to draw her
beware the purple fox on the stairs >:3c

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William Wordsworth
This post absolutely sent me because anyone who has ever encoutered William Wordsworth’s poetry (of ‘I wondered lonely as a cloud’ fame) can tell this quote which represents such an excruciatingly modern American Atticus-style free verse affirmation Instagram poetry style could not come from an early 1800s Romantic poet.
Exhibit A - the aforementioned Wordsworth poem:
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze …
Like, clearly this quote does not come from the same guy, right? This is just not the way poets wrote in the eary 1880s, be it in verse or in their other writings. People just didn’t talk that way, or write that way back then.. So this is categorically not a Wordsworth quote.
Furthermore, this is is such a perfect example of how Instagram poetry (think Atticus, Rupi Kaur et al) works - a quote that sounds vaguely poetic but is very straightforward, and is designed to hit you with an ‘oh my god, it me’ feeling on impact. Two lines you can share and be like ‘so true, #breakup #movingon #2023 #life’ etc.
So, my first thought is that this is like every other one of those fake quote images where someone attributes something quippy and insightful and faux-profound that they wish someone super famous had said. The internet loves a quotable famous dead person, right? And Wordsworth is a poet everyone knows the name of but no one’s actually engaged with the work of (because tbh it’s dated and flowery and sort of boring).
Exhibit B:
So I figure okay, someone thought of that sort-of-poetic, sort-of insightful line an figured it’d get shared more widely with a famous person’s name on it. Wordsworth is a famous poet with an instantly recognisable appropriate name, job done.
BUT then i google the line on its own, and discover that of course the above isn’t the first iteration - this has been made into multiple image memes with typewrite on paper or, like the above, making it look like it was highlighted from a paperback or something. Then I find Exhibit C:
Looking at the attribution on that clear Instagram post, that’s not claiming it’s Wordsworth at all, but an account called WordsOfWorth. Following down that rabbit hole, I find multiple re-posts of similar free-verse-affirmation-Instagram-quotable-poetry in similiar image styles attributing to the same account, but the username is now owned by someone else with 2 followers and 4 posts in a totally different, less polished style.
So here’s what I think happened: a genuine case of mistaken identity where someone misread Wordsofworth as ‘Wordsworth’ and didn’t have either the high school English Lit or the internet nouse to just double-check before making a whole new image in a different but similar faux-authentic format and reposting with the wrong attribution.
All of which means nothing of course because the account’s gone, and it’s not like it matters anyway. I just think the whole Instagram poetry/affirmation thing is fascinating, especially the ways it seeks to legitimise itself.
The fact no one thought to check whether that attribution was right, the assumption that any vaguely insightful quote could come from any source and that fact-checking that either doesn’t matter, or is undesireable to the outcome. The work that goes into making an image like this, making it look like you underlined the words in a book when - clearly - this quote was born on the internet and has never been printed. The desireability of association with a famous name, even a name the creator has either no familiarity with or no care for the real work of, seeking legitimacy through that association.
Then there’s the format itself, again seeking legitimacy through de-internet-ising an artform born, raised, and designed for the internet. Short, catchy, shareable poetry in a line or two, with none of the meter or poetic format of older styles of poetry, where the literary aesthetic of the image it’s presented in is half the point.
Credit atticuspoetry on instagram.
It’s just a sentence, and a fairly straightforward, ordinary sentence at that - it’s the line at the end of a romance novel, or an affirmation a meditation app might tell you to repeat. It’s a million miles from the Wordsworth poem at the top of this post in terms of form, use of langauge, audience, and intention. It’s on the borderline between affirmation and poem, but one of those has significantly more cultural cache as a label than the other. Like it’s worried it might be one thing masquerading as the other, and so has to put on a costume to accentuate it’s poem status.
Bringing ‘real’ poems into this area - even accidentally as I think happened in this case - and presenting the poem in an ‘authentic’ format (e.g. a photograph of a printed page or the evocation of such) lends legitimacy.
And this is not to argue that any of this is or isn’t ‘real’ art - just that it all smacks a little of insecurity in the artform, and I think that’s interesting.
I was in France and for some reason I saw the Twin Towers and not the Eiffel Tower.
it's chill like that
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Under the cut cause a mutual is watching but hasn't caught up to where I am, and kinda long
I hate hate hate what modern algorithms have done to the internet. All the big sites are falling apart. Smaller sites aren't helping anyone. I hate that you have to walk on eggshells for every post you make, even for fun, or you're instantly squashed by layers of suppression.
No, I'm not moving to bluesky or mastodon or whatever. I'm not creating even more accounts to manage. I've tried growing on smaller sites multiple times. Doesn't really work unless you had a massive following to begin with. I'm not calling these sites bad, because growing a site that isn't a major platform and managing its functionality is hard work. But jumping ship for places that may or may not help isn't a realistic solution for many people.
I'm very lucky that I don't have to rely on posting on the internet to survive. But NO ONE should be fighting tooth and nail to survive, just to get their posts seen at minimum. I create because I like people seeing my work and I like meeting other creators. But there are times where no one even looked at them because of how far they were hidden.
If a creator complains even once about struggling to get reach and you call them attention seeking or whatever, I hate you. There is nothing wrong with wanting your work to get attention just for the sake of attention too.
I do have the support of some great people, don't get me wrong. I have circles where we can share our work and admire it with one another and I'm very, very grateful I at least have this. But I'm still tired. I want me and my work to grow outside of this, too. Is that so wrong?

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Goldenheart in their respective traditional clothes Inspired by sicut splendor fulguris lucem donat tenebris @https://thegrimshapeofyoursmile.tumblr.com/
Trans flag + sickle&hammer in bio is such a rabid combination. Not only because of completely irrational denial of the fact that they are advocating for the regime that would have had them killed/institutionalised for "perversion"; but also because 10 times out of 10 they are spreading russian propaganda, thus giving a helping hand to the movement that is actively trying to eradicate people like them today.
And it would have been just a sad but funny example of human idiocy, if they weren't tolerated and listened to as a valid source of information.
It's almost as if trans socialists wanted a symbol that showed how they're both trans and socialist . . .
Jeez, I wonder what symbol has been used for the better part of a century and a half by nearly every major socialist organisation globally to portray socialist ideologies?
Y'all really don't understand that to several million people in more than half a dozen countries where the symbol was held and born it represents a regime that did unspeakable harm. Socialism doesn't need to keep riding the USSRs coatails of blood. Pretending the symbol is somehow disconnected from USSR is disingenuous. Like sometimes symbols become so drenched in harm you have to let them go or be very careful how you use them. The swastika has a long history before the Nazis and is still used today, but you don't just put a swastika in your bio then constantly attack a certain group of people who suffered under that symbol then claim it's just a symbol that doesn't mean Nazis.
When those of us from the places where that symbol meant terror, death and suffering, see that symbol the ideology we envision isn't some detached socialist ideal removed from the reality of USSR.
Or that many of these groups who do use it openly promote and praise the USSR more often than the criticise it. So let's not act like it's a blank slate of "socialism" because it isn't.
Hell, half the shit we have to hear is about runic symbols that apparently mean someone is a Nazi, regardless of how old those symbols are or how varied their use may have been. Because there's something to that and we understand this.
The problem is that you lot have decided that the victims of the USSR, which number in the millions and range in origin and ethnicity, are not ones you will recognize. That they all deserved it somehow or whatever makes it feel ok that they suffered for the great experiment id communism (tm). So you don't see the problem of using a symbol that very much does stand not for the theoretical ideology of socialism but a very specific enactment of the idea, one that was arguably a failure and a nightmare.
It's like the way words become slurs and you don't get to tell the target of those slurs that you are going to keep using the word because you don't find its meaning offensive. It's just you don't think our history and experiences matter enough to actually hear that, don't respect us enough as people to try to understand that yeah, wearing that symbol, for an eastern European, or a Crimean Tatars or a Georgian or a Chechen or a Qazaq, or a Fin may be kind of offensive and weird when coupled with claims about being liberal (not liberal with an L as in "I'm a liberal" but simply as opposed to conservative") or for social justice.
So if any of you actual want to build international solidarity with the left and socialists outside of your bubble, you will need to learn this or just admit you're in it for identity making and cosplay not any actual change action.
Today's tankies are a study in total inability of people who see themselves as champions of the oppressed to extend an ounce of empathy to those with a background different from theirs.
If you want a symbol to signal that you're socialist, use the rose. Or fist and rose. Or bread and roses. Those are all traditional SOCIALIST symbols.