make emo great again

I write fiction and stuff. Rock 'n' Roll. All cops are bastards. Eat the rich. Etc.

[technofeudalism]

seeing a lot of people suggest that healthcare CEOs should go into hiding or employ more private security and i could not possibly disagree more. you can't live the rest of your life in fear. i think it's imperative that they get back to work, in person at least 3 days a week at the headquarters address listed on their company's website.

[riddlerosehearts]

animation being treated like a genre instead of a medium is something that actually makes me go insane. beauty and the beast is a romance. the emperor's new groove is a buddy comedy. big hero 6 is a superhero movie. moana is an adventure film. the lion king is a drama. treasure planet is sci-fi. if i was talking to someone who hadn't seen these movies before, and they weren't specifically interested in animation as a medium, then i wouldn't necessarily assume they'd enjoy all of these. and that's just disney movies! try telling an anime fan that fruits basket and fullmetal alchemist are the same genre and see how they react!

[magimerlyn]

I feel the same way about musicals. Look me in the eyes and tell me Seussical, Le Miserables, and Be More Chill are in the same genre

[riddlerosehearts]

yeah i'm also a musical theater fan so i unfortunately have to suffer from this as well 😔 not to mention people who automatically hate musicals because they "don't get why everyone is bursting out into song"... like please... just accept joy and whimsy into your heart i'm begging you...

[bobbysox]

[romanceyourdemons]

i love when settings have a place called Evil City or something and the citizens are all campy villains in flamboyant little outfits. and it’s just a functional city with a mayor and taxes and cafes it’s just your barista has a giant spider on her head and you’re unsure if it’s a decoration or a pet or if it’s mind controlling her and this very nice cappuccino was made by a telepathic spider

[romanceyourdemons]

take me down to the EVIL city where the grass is ASH and the girls are SINISTER

[lizardsfromspace]

The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

[lizardsfromspace]

When I made this post I did not expect it to be an effective test of which Tumblr users actually read a post fully before reblogging, and yet

[elodieunderglass]

To be fair that’s what all posts on tumblr are

[lionfloss]

José Eduardo Barajas, Solitario (Windows XP/RM), 2017

[bansheeparty]

if you know, you know.

[partiallypoison]

OH BOY! i have spent the better part of three days working on my love letter to i brought you my bullets, you brought me your love. and finally, here it is: sixteen individual pages (a front cover, two intro pages, eleven pages for eleven tracks, a thank you note, a back cover) available for you to read here.

if you’d like to print a version of this, you can download the pdf for free here. it’s set up for printing already, so just be sure to print on both sides and on the short edge! if you want to send me a tip as thanks, you can here :)

i’ll upload the cover (without the text about it being a zine) and each song to my redbubble later, if you want poster versions!

[kosmonin]

do kids these days know about glomping?

[catlips001]

What is that?

[m0uthslikesidewindermissiles]

hehe…. *glomps you* OwO

:3

[catlips001]

What the fuck?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.

[tepkunset]

Genuinely can’t stand the new favouritism towards video format. You want me to spend a whole two minutes listening to someone say out loud a paragraph I could read in 20 seconds?

(This is about tiktok. I hate tiktok.)

[impishtubist]

It’s not just tiktok, it’s everything. I’m tired of clicking on news articles and instead finding it’s a video I have to watch. I’m tired of being sent to a video when I want to learn about a new thing instead of an article I can skim in less than a minute. You mean you want me to sit through an entire video, listening for the one kernel of information that’s buried in there that I’m interested in? Nah, man, life is too short to waste it like that. I don’t know why any of you like videos lmao.

[headspace-hotel]

Thank god someone said it holy fuck!!! I hate video formats!! Hate hate hate!

And it is legitimately impossible to find information on certain subjects in non-video format. “Internet lore” subjects are almost exclusively the domain of videos. Minecraft redstone tutorials? Fuck you, here’s a video.

Watching things is for some reason something I cannot get my brain to do. I don’t watch tv or movies because passively looking at a screen is not engaging enough and I get distracted, and I can’t just glance backward like you can with a book.

This is an accessibility issue. I’ve been required to watch films for classes before and had to break them up over multiple days, listen to their audio while playing minecraft or some other activity to occupy my hands, or just straight up bullshit using wikipedia summaries and stuff.

You know how when little kids try to explain something to you, they stop and start their sentences over and take forever to finish the explanation? That’s what video format is like for me. It’s just SO SLOW and takes FOREVER to get to the point compared to reading, and if I miss something or get distracted, I have to rewind the video and try to go back and catch it again.

And I can’t quickly, visually skim a video to see if it will have the information I need. If I hit skip, I might miss something important. I can’t go through the subheadings like I can in a written piece of text. There might BE an outline with subheadings for the video, but skipping forward might make me miss the handful of frames they’re displayed in. I can’t screenshot a sentence in a video so I can look at it later when I need it.

I also just process less when i’m watching a video. If I’m not doing something else while listening to the audio, I’ll miss a LOT. Information in video format just feels more ephemeral in my brain.

Someone sent me a video essay about the history of 2b2t (the minecraft server) but I haven’t watched it yet even though i’m really interested in it.

My heart breaks at the thought of all the information out there that I can’t crack my way into because the only way it’s preserved anywhere is in video format

[gangsmp]

Scar, The GangSMP

The German Girl, Armando Lucas Correa // Mimmo Paladino, from James Joyce’s Ulysses // Dark Places, Gillian Flynn // Sharp Objects, Gillian Filynn // Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four // I Know The End - Phoebe Bridgers // Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years Of Solitude // Zoë Lianne // Clementine Von Radics

[khunrathheinrich]

[winedarkarchive-deactivated2023]

E-MORTALITY / @blueskies-bluescreens / status of a steam user / death, virtual grief and your digital footprint by kelley edwards and johanna j. lunn / STurner4077 on twitter / the new forms of mourning: loss and exhibition of the death on the internet (2016) by julie alev dilmaç / description for all the ghosts in the machine: illusions of immortality in the digital age (2019) by elaine kasket

[mcrbois]

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[mcrbois]

gerard way revenge era 2022 x

[bansheeparty]

I love that he’s still covered in blood and totally theatrical

[cathedraldecay]

x

[marzipanandminutiae]

seriously I had some little TikTok teenybopper burst out laughing on my tour because I said that a historical figure was “most likely what we’d now call gay”

like

listen

you’re free to take a ouija board out to the cemetery and try to explain the dizzying array of current queer terms and get a solid answer as to how he identifies within that framework but 

until then, I’m going to continue NOT definitively assigning someone identity terms they didn’t self-identify with, and might not have even known, when I’m responsible for representing them faithfully and they’re not here to correct me. even more so when they’re part of my own community

I mean, you know, as long as that’s okay with you. Bestie.

[razomyure]

#did MODERN historians really say they were just friends? or did modern historians not use precisely the labels you’re accustomed to#and you got in a snit about it?

[winterfellmadeoutofsnow]

why would you leave this in the tags??

[fairyesque-blog]

[degenderates]

yall DO realize that when tags on ao3 are like "abusive relationships" "homophobia" "racism" "consent issues/r*pe" they are there to protect you, right? you do realize that those tags being there lets you know that an author RECOGNIZES when something is wrong and is explicitly tagging that because it's a story that discusses those things right? you do realize that the author is not *shudders* condoning those things, right?