The River Runs Black With Venom

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. ✯

[yourlocalnautilus]

the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The really frustrating thing is when I see people comment on art saying it's AI, and it's not AI, a real human put time and effort into making beautiful art and it's immediately written off by people thinking it's AI slop. It looks like real art because it was trained on real art. No one wins in this scenario when artists are discounted as being fake and the consumer is left second guessing every piece they see.

[64mpg]

guy who has a mental health condition that comes and goes: i’m cured this time actually i can feel it

[64mpg]

same guy when they start having symptoms again: what the fuck is happening and why

[leebrontide]

Can I offer a reframe of the common "write the shitty first draft" advice? I like that advice a lot but I think the way it's often presented bounces off a lot of people and activates shit that does not help writing happen.

I think of the first draft as an armature.

If I was making a beautiful bronze statue, I would need to make a clay model first. And, depending on the shape, before I even got out my clay I would need to get some good thick wire and create a basic shape for the clay to adhere to, so it doesn't all fall down. Once I have this essential 3D wire frame, I can start building and subtracting and refining.

But if I try to refine on just clay, it won't have enough of a core to hold it up. I'll sculpt a beautiful hand only to have the whole arm fall off and go smush.

The armature isn't the sculpture. It is the frame you build the sculpture around.

The first draft isn't the novel, it's a sort-of-novel-shaped thing that will hold up everything you build and beautify later.

Write the armature draft. Try to make it a good armature, instead of trying to make it a good novel before it's ready.

[gostaks]

on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.

No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.

[btc-official-deactivated2024071]

“why don’t they teleport back” because they’re not on the planet where everyone can teleport anymore. try to keep up dumbass

[retroactivebakeries]

#this feels like a fable that would have some kind of moral but I’m not quite sure what#something about like hard work/effort/the need to be curious idk

the moral of the story is that a breathable atmosphere is important to one’s general well-being

[realwizardshit]

Combat log: The effect Ibuprofen has ended.

Me: *instantly ragdolls*

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[wheelie-sick]

some people have cut this addition off of their reblogs and quite frankly that's disturbing.

you can't appreciate the desert and also erase the fact that these places are under attack.

and I'd even say it's downright racist. this isn't "just" the desert, these are sacred locations to multiple Native nations and they are under attack because they are sacred to many Native people. the least you can do is reblog to raise awareness to the attacks on these lands. there is no going back from mining and drilling. there is no way to repair these ancient archeological sites when the vibrations in the ground topple them and when they are bulldozed.

submitting a public comment is the absolute bare minimum you can do and if you can't be assed to write 1 sentence saying you don't support removing the Chaco buffer zone then at least leave the reblog encouraging other people to do so attached.

[catboybiologist]

Ice beam is low-key a sauceless "standard" move for its type

[catboybiologist]

Earthquake? That is THE ground move. The ground quakes beneath you.

Surf? A giant wave of water that your pokemon can ride. A thunderous tide. Invokes the ocean.

Thunderbolt? Arcing flashes of electricity zap you.

Flamethrower? Fire breath, fire throwing, an arc of propelled flame is classic.

Ice beam? It's a beam. Of ice. Could've been a gust of frigid wind, or a frost incursion, or being entombed in a glacial slab, but noooooo it's a beam. Of ice.

[kittycatwhore]

yes but it goes foowaaaa ting ting ting ting ting ting and i really like that part

[catboybiologist]

Fuck you're right post cancelled

[tboy-cock]

i do think trans men having to perform femininity enough to be "allowed" into queer spaces is a problem. like is this not weird to you? is expecting trans men to perform at least enough femininity to make YOU feel comfortable with how THEY look not coming off as at least a little transphobic?

[tboy-cock]

listen, and here me out here: trans men deserve to be comfortable. every time i hear something about "(cis) women deserve to be comfortable" it is ALWAYS at the expense of trans men and our belonging and safety in spaces that we helped build. your issue isnt with trans men (unless youre transphobic), trans men arent cis men, trans men are still direct victims of the cispatriarchy and misogyny, trans men have oftentimes BEEN VICTIMS of cis men (as well as women, cis and trans, but thats a little too woke for y'all ive found). trans men deserve to be comfortable in queer spaces as much as women do and the key difference is that trans men as a group arent expecting women to effectively detransition parts of themselves to make us more comfortable. trans mens needs to be comfortable in queer spaces is largely to be in spaces that are understanding and accepting of transmasculine people and the transmasculine experience. if womens needs to be comfortable in queer spaces is for trans men to either feminize ourselves or not be there, that is a problem

[athena5898]

You know something about this is interesting. I was, what I can effectively say, tortured by ideas of femininity. I was forced to wear dresses, I was often bullied more by women who were trying to make me adhear to their idea of being a women then men. (Though this was more having to do with being forced into these spaces growing up at the binary separation of people but that's a whole other topic) This shit fucked me up. I legitimately thought no one actually likes this pink doll dress shit. It was just people who were allowing themselves to be played by patriarchy. I still get uneasy around a group of very feminine women because growing up it meant I was about to get bullied or my head bashed against the wall. (Yep, that actually happened) However, this was MY shit to work through. and I did. In fact I'd argue it was expected of me to do so. I guess my question is. Why is it that we have allowed fear and reactionary ideas to run free in Queer spaces? Like...I hate to be this person, but it's not feminism to let your trauma and fear responses let you be a transphobic dumbass. It's not feminism to not deal with your bullshit. You are just using a new shield to hide behind criticism Everyone is capable of abuse. Abusive behavior doesn't give a shit what title you call yourself or how pure you think you are. Hurt people hurt people, so why do you want to be part of the problem instead of the solution?

[veggiesforpresident]

honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before

[trashboat]

whenever you see C#m on a chord sheet you know the musician was just playing bar chords and couldn’t resist the temptation of the most annoying chord in the god damn book

[trashboat]

so i just noticed that c sharp minor is a bit shocking to read when spelled out in shorthand

[trashboat]

whenever you see cum on a chord sheet you know the musician was just jackin it

[nintendocialism-deactivated2023]

i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it… no. i shan’t

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[dogspouse]

there are people with genders you will never comprehend and people fucking in ways you will never understand and people making art you just don't get and that shit RULES

[dogspouse]

this applies even to the genders you think are cringe or "why cis people dont take us seriously" and kinks you think are gross and scary and the art you think is disgusting and pornographic btw

[hyperlexichypatia]

Shocking development: in a language and culture where most given names are considered masculine or feminine, some genderqueer and nonbinary people choose given names that seem unusual!

[damazcuz]

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[filmphotofranz]

[footlongdingledong]

idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms

[footlongdingledong]

"ah but all of this is important and true and if i dont reblog all of this important stuff waga baga THE WORMS! THATS WORMS! THE BRAIN WORMS!

[footlongdingledong]

i do not think you are doing activism chief i think what you are doing is sitting in your room flagellating yourself expecting something to happen