Birds Aesthetic

[outromoonyy]

I still don't know my purpose on this planet but I do love reading fanfiction.

[emmabeeart]

Ellie and Joel <3

[minyicho]

starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You now permanently smell like the last thing you ate How’s your life going?

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Voting ended onJun 21, 2025

[seriousturd]

How did you pick your Tumblr username?

It's my name/initials/nickname

It's something generally fandom related

It's something fandom related to a specific character

It's a joke/wordplay

It's related to song lyrics/a quote

I just picked specific words I like or associate myself with

I made up a new word (f.ex. by smashing words together)

I literally just keysmashed something

Multiple of these

Other (please explain in comments/tags)

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2024

[jammespotter]

mood: a wealthy 18th century woman who needs to lie down for hours after anything remotely distressing happens

[birdsaesthetic]

Yup

[catchymemes]

[eowynstwin]

One thing I’ve noticed about AI users is that they are completely repulsed by the notion of feeling bad or frustrated for even the slightest moment

[eowynstwin]

Been trying to figure out how to phrase this nicely but tbh. I don’t care. If you’ve ever made a consistent effort at anything, you learn to enjoy and even look forward to discomfort.

Exercise. Writing. Drawing. Gardening. Anything that requires your physical effort is going to require discomfort in one way or another and you have to find a way to enjoy that discomfort, otherwise the best thing for you, and I’m gonna hold you hand when I say this, is to just give up.

Any creative can tell you that they’ve thought about quitting more often than not, but when you make it through that discomfort, when you work hard to figure out what you’re doing wrong/what you don’t know how to do, you start to anticipate discomfort because it you KNOW represents an opportunity to level up. It’s exciting to have a hard time with something, because it means you’re going to get really, really good at it as long as you persevere.

And idk, I’ve thought for a while now that AI users think they have some sort of right to avoid all of that. That they have the right to never ever feel bad at anything they try. It’s why I think “making something is more rewarding” is never really going to work as an argument against AI use, because AI users can’t make it past the fear of discomfort and difficulty.

[softened-hearts]

This is a skill called "distress tolerance"!!! I learned about it in therapy, working on it for things like social anxiety, PTSD, tasks like unpacking boxes after multiple rapid moves...... it's a skill that CAN be built. Just because you struggle with it now doesn't mean you're that way forever. And yeah, the skill can recede, and it makes sense that generative AI would contribute to this in a whole new way.....

I don't have it in me right now to make a whole addendum about how to get better at it, but hopefully putting this out here can help people, at least!

[roach-works]

i think you also see this horror of discomfort in the indignant reactions ai enthusiasts display as soon as real artists give them friction for using ai. not only do they want to skip over the stress, frustration, and discomfort of doing art WORK, they also feel outraged when anyone challenges them for their decision and makes them feel Bad for it. they want freedom from effort AND freedom from criticism. they assumed that by skipping directly to the stage of producing a good-looking image, which is of course the only reason anyone makes art at all, they are now a good artist. and good artists get praised for making good art.

so what the fuck?? why are people trying to make them feel bad? this is supposed to be the part of making art where everyone loves you!

jokes on them, though. there is no part of making art where everyone loves you and no matter how many computers you use you will never find that part. hostile strangers demanding you justify your creative decisions is about 99% of the entire thing, and realizing the guy in the picture has two left hands is the other 1%

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

forgive the version of you that didn’t know any better

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

forgive the version of yourself that knew better but did it anyway. forgive every version of yourself. we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

[stuckinapril]

the post that was like talk to yourself like you’re a child while doing tasks is so real. Like not even in an infantilizing way but just in a let’s get through this way

[etiennelux]

i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways

[carryonghostfacer]

One of my favorite scenes from the 1st season is in episode 8.

Weller and Jane are talking after a shoot out with some corrupt cops. Specifically, Weller dropped a flashbang in a pretty close enclosed space, and the concern that Jane has for Weller, and the joking he does... The lightness in the moment just makes my heart happy.

[teaboot]

It is simply not fulfilling to enjoy media in the height of its popularity. You need to show up so late to the party that everybody else is gone and the hosts are asleep so you can rummage through their trash for chip dip and stale hors d’oeurves to eat alone in the dark like a dirty little raccoon secret

[batcows]

I completely understand why blindspot is blowing up on Netflix. it's 50% the joy of seeing corrupt government officials actually see consequences and 50% hot lady with tattoos go pew pew pew

[animatedtext]

[birdsaesthetic]

Hello!

I've been away for a while obviously... But what is your opinion on tumbler premium? I was here when it first kind of got started and I vaguely remember everyone saying they weren't going to pay. Those ads are getting out oh hands though—I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM—and are ‏ruining my experience on here. I would pay to avoid them, but at least I need one person’s opinion on that, lol.

[ot3]

nothing is scarier than seeing what the front page of YouTube looks like when you're not logged in