Something edgy, I guess

This blog is abandoned. I'm moving to little-alex-horne

[literallyaflame]

someone: an alarming number of young girls are being pressured to contour and highlight their faces so that they look 10 years older, which is already not great, and then they take all their selfies with an app that makes their faces slimmer and their skin lighter and their eyes bigger and this is MAYBE not great for their self esteem

a grown adult, somehow: makeup is a choice, IDIOT, and Snapchat filters are ALL for FUN, I don’t ACTUALLY wanna look like a DOG haha………. society is fake and kids can just CHOOSE not to be influenced by the things that are thrown at them 24/7!!! i am very smart

[imfemalewarrior]

Social media and advertisements are a major part of life now, and they influence how we perceive ourselves and influence how we think people ‘should’ look, but especially Girls and Women. 

It can be fun and a powerful tool used for good, but it can also be used as another way to control people and how we think and feel. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[grungegoths]

[enoughtohold]

a lot of people on this site are like, deeply existentially freaked out that they haven’t been in love by 19 or whatever, and are desperate for any explanation for this that might make it ok. i just want to say, you are completely ok, no explanation needed. this is MUCH more common than you think, especially if you’re not straight. you’re very very young. you’re 100% fine. if you want it, it will happen in its own time.

[enoughtohold]

i know most people won’t see this, but for everyone saying “but i’m over 19, what about me”: i picked 19 partly because it’s such an extremely young age to be beating yourself up over this. but it definitely applies to you too. yes at 20, yes at 25, yes “even” at 30. life doesn’t follow a set schedule. you are ok.

[insomniac-arrest]

[anxietyproblem]

[babyfairy]

[strapricorn]

[egonspengler]

[bewbin]

nunchucks are illegal in some states but guns are not. so if you tie two guns together and create gunchucks it’s neither legal or illegal

[trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2]

schroedinger’s gunchucks

[worldeaterouroboros]

Why does schroedinger have so many things

[kairibloodheart]

Schrodinger’s hording problem

[atlas-the-worldbuilder]

Today, I would like to commemorate an event which has laid a very profound impact on the internet.

Ten years ago on this day (06/08/09), a forum website called SomethingAwful held a photoshop contest titled “create paranormal images”.  The contest would require participants to edit ordinary photographs into creepy-looking images, and then try to pass them off as authentic photos on other paranormal forums.

Two days later, on June 10th, a user by the name Victor Surge would find this thread, and become inspired.  He submitted the two pictures above, featuring a tall, faceless monster which would stalk children, who would then disappear.  He called his monster “the Slender Man”. After this initial post, Surge and others would expand on the character and the story, creating one of the internet’s most famous monsters.  The Slender Man proved to be popular enough to spread to other websites, with 4chan, Deviantart, and TV Tropes all having their own Slender-Mania. On June 20th of that same year, another user on the SomethingAwful forums found the Slender Man, and also wanted to contribute.  Noticing nobody had made any videos yet of the monster, he sat down with some of his friends and planned out a video webseries involving a former college film student discovering and unravelling the mysteries surrounding Slender Man; this would become Marble Hornets, one of the first horror-themed ARG’s of the internet.

That all happened ten years ago.  Ten years of haunting the darkest corners of the internet, and Slender Man has built up a surprisingly dense resume, for a fictional monster.  Several popular webseries, a couple hit games, at least two movies, even inspiring other characters in seperate series like the Silence in Dr Who and the Enderman in Minecraft.  And all this within a ten-year period.

I think this just attests to how much humans can be inspired by an idea.  From a small handful of edited photographs, we collectively constructed a new monster which lurks in our nightmares, and now it almost seems as natural as the horror mythos he was based on.  For better or worse, the Slender Man seems to be here to stay. Happy Birthday, Slendy!  Here’s to hoping you continue to be both terrifying and terrific!

[wintermutaldeactivated5062024-d]

[anexperimentallife]

“My dearest beloved fuckos” is a fun, gender-neutral way to begin a speech.

[anexperimentallife]

See also: “Esteemed bastards”

[anexperimentallife]

“Gentlefolk, Ferals, and Domesticated Cryptids”

[anexperimentallife]

“My fellow yees and haws…”

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

[daiseokkie-deactivated20190730]

the first five emotes on your recently used emojis describe you as a person ready set go

[dankmemeuniversity]

[catchymemes]

[fake-news-and-headlines]

HONK HONK

[boopednose]

The difference between staff and clowns is that clowns do their fucking job

[fake-news-and-headlines]

[pyrogothnerd-deactivated2025071]

[low-quality-shitposts]

No One:

No One:

No One:

Not A Single Soul:

Me, hanging upside down off my bunk bed: y'all wanna hear about my newest hyperfixation or what??

[toastbutteregg]

[afriendandboy]

I just saw a post on my dash that had some really useful info but op was a terf, so because i want to share the info i’m just going to post it on my own

it’s a bar that can hold your door closed and make it almost impossible to open from the outside. useful for protecting yourself and/or easing some paranoia

it can be bought on amazon for $16