Giant Squid from Concentrate

and that fucking sucked because covid was just starting to actually close things down and i was stuck at home and it kinda felt like no place was safe for me online because i would be blocked if anyone found out my age

youtube creators used to make videos and upload them just because they wanted to whenever they wanted to but now if a bunch of good creators upload at once it's almost definitely just because it's deadline day for their sponsorship and all of them do the same ad read too. get that bag but man it is a little bit depressing to see

I regularly hear youtube creators mention offhand something like "I don't have anything to say, but the algorithm penalises intros that aren't long enough... anyway..." at the start of their videos. Video length, style and pacing can't be based on their best creative judgement or they'll drown on the platform. It's gotta fit whatever the current algorithm formula is and be designed to minimise the chances of random demonetisation. I wish they could be free. I wish to hear their own minds and hearts once more. Alas.

the "we need this version of [x]" memes always have me in hysterics for some reason

It used to be cold. There used to be all these bugs.

Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child has known this better than he.

The grass used to be green in the summer not brown

In autumn, puddles would freeze overnight, and give the sharpest, sweetest snap when you stepped on them. All gone by late morning, but reappearing the next day with sharp crinkles and chimes.

mayflies used to coat the road so thoroughly in spring that their corpses made the road more slippery than black ice.

I miss the fireflies. They used to light up the night by the hundreds. So plentiful that you could scoop them into jars to keep inside. Now I might see one or two if I’m lucky

new chess piece called the jester which can move anywhere on the board but can't capture anything. it just gets in the way to annoy your opponent

Designing and publishing a trading card game with a major recurring character in the lore named "the Meta" purely to make things difficult for a very specific type of person.