I don't know, I just work here

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

So what is the deal with Banksy in the world of City Council of Darkness? Like obviously Banksy isn't exactly a performance artist in our world, but also like, does Banksy just straight up kill people in this world?

Because even breezing past the whole Banksy killing at least five people across three different Banksys, you've got Yanis proposing that Banksy was responsible for setting loads of people on fire at the lumber mill.

Is Banksy actually a façade put on by the Camarilla in this world for anytime a vampire breaks masquerade? Is Banksy the same guy from our whose art has now been hijacked by the Camarilla? Is Banksy a vampire who started claiming his vampire kills as performance art as like an umbrella masquerade for other vampires? Or is Banksy just some guy who kills people in the name of performance art whose art has been hijacked by vampires?

[ambert-thecrayfae]

I don't know if you ever watched White Collar but I'm feeling like Banksy is the Dentist of Detroit.

Mozzie as a young kid created The Dentist of Detroit to be taken seriously. Once someone found out he was a literal child stealing from a mob boss, Mozzie left Detroit and became something else. But because the mob boss didn't want the world to know he was grifted by a child he made up that the Dentist was actually big and scary. And then everyone started saying their bad crimes were done by the Dentist. The Dentist became the ultimate fall guy.

Banksy was a person who had a specific theme or reason for their persona. But then a vampire took it and ran with it. If you're Banksy, you can't clear your name. And if it worked for one vampire then it will work again for another. Lou even said he stole it from someone else.

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[panthepotman]

I'm obsessed with the Elizabethan ruff

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[sarinisanta]

Anytime I see a girl apologizing for talking about her hobbies or getting too excited about them i just wanna shake her very hard like, sister, your enthusiasm moves hearts and mountains never change.

[daylightglitch]

your honour i love them (x)

[anxiety-banana]

hello i would like everyone to know that sometimes you can sob your eyes out and have an existential crisis one moment and then suddenly you're booking your driver's test and applying for jobs and crocheting a blanket and maybe life isn't so bad anymore!! maybe you can feel awful and fix your life anyway!! maybe you're allowed to be a wreck and still be good enough!! i am a full on adult and have avoided getting my license for years but now i'm finally doing it because i've grown around the fear!!!! the world didn't crash and burn when i was fifteen!! i did this for myself and i'm going to be okay!!

[stevishabitat]

[anxiety-banana]

the way i am shaking with tears is an understatement I'VE BEEN QUOTED

[stevishabitat]

I'm printing it and taping it to my mirror BTW

[the-haiku-bot]

I’m printing it and

taping it to my mirror

BTW

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[spicycheeser]

"A marriage ending isn't a failure at all. I spent eleven years with her. We were so in love that we couldn't image life apart from each other. We got our own place, adopted a dog, and supported each other through school. I thought if tow people loved each other enough the rest would fall into place, except... love isn't everything.

And I didn't want to believe that, but we were sitting in counseling one day, talking about our future and I realized we were describing two completely different lives. Where we'd live, what kind of life we wanted, what made us happy. And it hit me that- I love this woman and this woman loved me. And after eleven years of loss, grief, career changes, we were so deeply in love... but we weren't aligned. And I kept thinking 'We just need to try harder. We can find some compromise to make this work,' because that's what you're supposed to do when you love someone, right?

But the reality was, we had just become different people. Her trade school took her in one direction, my graduate degree in another and trying to force us back into who we were five years ago wasn't coming from a place of love. It was coming from a place of fear. Fear that, if this ended, it meant we wasted eleven years. But sitting there across from her, I realized: That's not how love works.

Those eleven years happened. They were real. The dog, our home, showing up for each other through grad school and trade school. I wouldn't change a single thing because loving someone doesn't mean you're meant to stay with them forever. And letting go doesn't erase what you had. We measure marriage by whether it lasts forever or not, but what if we measured it by whether it mattered?

What if we measured it by the love we gave, the life we built, and the people we became? Because love's job isn't to last forever, it's to help you become fully completely yourself, and sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give each other permission to be yourselves, separately. But the dog doesn't know were' divorced. He just gets two Christmases now."

Pulled this from this guy Preston Rakovsky's Instagram (@prestonrack) because it is a beautiful perspective on love, marriage, and relationships in general.

[sunderwight]

Gonna make a sci-fi entity that is an AI supercomputer which consumes a planet's worth of resources in order to run, like it is the entire planet, all just for one singular being and its calculations, and it's also stupid as fuck.

Like people regularly pilgrimage out to try and get it to calculate something for them despite the fact that it's widely known that this machine is dumb as bricks. People just refuse to believe that something this big and impression and that takes so much energy to run can actually just be stupid. There are whole entire cults on other worlds that are dedicated to puzzling out the secret actually "smart" interpretations of it's conclusions, widespread disagreements about what the culture of its creators was (if they existed) and how they might impact things like the translation of data submitted or received, there have been historical teams who have worked night and day to understand the planet brain's language and workings and solve this riddle of how it's secretly smart, but prevailing wisdom remains that it just actually, factually gets everything wrong like 99% of the time.

Some people are convinced there's some fundamental flaw to how the planet brain works, and that if this flaw could be fixed then it would become an invaluable resource. So yet more resources and genius have been poured into figuring out what it could be and trying to secure the necessary grants and access privileges to attempt repairs. The few times anyone has actually gotten in to try and change the brain, though, the effect on its output has been negligible, and the brain has gradually reversed those changes and reset itself over time.

It's estimated that multiple billions of resources have been poured into figuring out the planet brain over the years. Experts have dedicated their lives to trying to understand it. Impassioned devotees have ruined themselves and their communities attempting to follow its advice. Even people who agree that it's stupid tend to agree that it should still be preserved and studied, even though trying to recreate some of its systems or apply the super advanced technology involved in its creation to other tech has yielded negative results (it makes everything else dumber too).

Basically it's the sci-fi equivalent of a money pit. Even aside from the energy the planet brain consumes as a planet itself (it's eventually going to spiral into the sun and be destroyed btw), intergalactic civilizations just keep pouring more and more into it because of the conviction that no one would waste THAT much on a stupid machine that did nothing. With the plot twist being that this is exactly what happened. The original aliens who invented it poured a ton of their energy into it out of the belief that a machine intelligence could figure out how to solve all their problems. Over time the investments in the project mounted, the sunk cost fallacy kicked in, and the planet brain even became their last hope of saving themselves from extinction because they had invested too much into it to allow it to fail. Now it exists as an accidental trap, ensnaring those civilizations that discover it and share similar enough cultural flaws as its creators, that they take up the cause of chucking more resources into it.

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[figgug]

In Sync™

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[cowboy]

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[goth-queen]

[dreamycastaway]

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[iwriterobots]

[duckbunny]

your twenties are not "late" to start hrt. that is a normal time to start hrt. your thirties are also a normal time to start hrt. your seventies are pretty late to start hrt, but not too late. like, statistically, that's at the end of the curve. but if you are not dead, it is not too late for hrt.