2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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happy new year is this anything
got my desk set up finally
anime will have a character named T. Girl who shows up and says "hello my name is T. Girl i was born a boy but i decided to live my life as a girl, i dress as a girl, i live as a girl, i fully identify as a girl, and and fully uncomfortable with people viewing me as a boy. Also every character in the show refers to me as a girl and use female pronouns on me". and anime fans will see this and say "no hes not actualy a trans girl hes just a femboy. im not transphobic btw"
sometimes im like. why does rotini move like that. like he's so slow and aimless and will just stop for nothing at minutes at a time
and then i get a headache and im like ohhhhh. yeah man. me too
Are you in any of the severe outlook areas today?
Yes
No
Not US
The degree to which modern fans deliberately project their personal psychological issues onto fictional characters is alarming.
You are expected to "relate" to some characters and stories. Yes. That is not the same thing I keep witnessing, where people will decide a given character is literally everything they are the very instant they have anything in common, or an antagonist is exactly like a real person who hurt them, and emotionally invest SO much into this that they can feel actually betrayed when the events deviate from exactly the catharsis they hoped for.
This seems so normalized by some people, I suspect they assume by default that this is basically what fiction is "for" and it never even crossed their minds that you're supposed to enjoy most stories as an outside observer rather than as some sort of guided roleplay session.
This is why creators get harassed and abused more than ever by entitled fandoms.
No, it's not normal, you are not supposed to think of it that way, fictional characters are separate beings from you.
The window within
Marion McDonald, c. 1925.
Interesting Websites #2: Ne0nBandit Street
ne0nbandit.art is a site by @ne0nwithazero! It also happens to have been my first exposure to neocities, and what inspired me to get into the indie web.
This website features:
Mobile-friendly layout
Brightly-coloured graphics
Chromatic Aberration
Queerness and Self-indulgence
Mature Language and Themes
Autoplaying music
Tacky decorative gifs
Dubious coding practices
Work-in-Progress Optimization
Objectum propaganda
Overuse of pink and blue gradients
Hidden Achievements!
AI-Free, 100% human!
It can't not point out how polished Ne0nBandit Street is. This site has an amazing aesthetic and design. It was made by an amazing artist, after all!
As for how to describe the website, I think it's best to let Jay themself explain it:
A portfolio/personal website is exactly how I would put it as well. Jay posts their art on Tumblr, but viewing it on Ne0nbandit Street is a way more immersive and fun experience, in my opinion.
They're an amazing pixel artist, among things. The main thing they draw are their Deltarune OCs, from their Deltacable chapter 3 AU.
Deltacable gets its own section on this website, and it's equally fun:
There's a lot that I could showcase about this AU, but you're better off exploring the site yourself. I merely want to highlight my favorite page in the cable section, The Backstage:
This is a fully interactable, Deltarune-style shop!! You can talk to Host and Mike here, and learn a bit about their lore. It's sooo cool and creative. I keep coming back to this page, with how well it emulates the look and mechanics of Deltarune. I mean, look at those shop sprites! They're spectacular!
Buuut, lets return to Ne0nbandit Street again. You can draw on this site!
Any drawings you submit show up in the gallery!
The site also has a guestbook, but not only that! There's a chatbox as well:
It's great that there's so many methods of leaving messages and doing interactive things on here.
There is... so much more that I could showcase, but I'll leave it at that. If you want to see everything that ne0nbandit.art has to offer, check it out yourself! I promise it's worth it.
Sparkle On Michael Wednesday
today, a severe thursday watch will be in place.
remember everyone...
thursday watch: the conditions for thursday are here, but a thursday incident has not yet been confirmed
thursday warning: thursday has arrived
Same as it ever was
yuri of the week
What if birds could actually speak English and we were speaking bird the whole time. Like really how weird would that be?
the geese are back? God I hate them so fucking much.
what the fuck is this newspaper
Those are sisters
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
Like to charge, reblog to cast?
Tobiko is perfect, don't you see?
basically it breaks my heart when southern folks try and hide their southern accents so what if i gave that to tenna and years of showbiz trained him not to talk with his southern accent but sometimes it slipped through. hey tenna! you sound like home!
