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Lynn/23//Homestuck Trash/Mage of Rage. Icon was made by flame-cat 3/3/2002

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

[aetherograph]

Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

HELLO?

[aetherograph]

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

[qqchurch]

[secretmellowart]

Isn't that lovely, and isn't that cool? And isn't that cruel? And aren't I a fool to have...

[what-even-is-thiss]

You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Here’s my logic:

You should be able to work together to solve unexpected problems like fixing a flat tire or getting lost in an unfamiliar station

You should feel comfortable and safe enough around this person that you can sit in comfortable silence

You should be able to keep each other interested and deal with each others boredom in a healthy way

If you’re gonna form a long term partnership with someone you should probably be able to tolerate each other while locked in a small box for a few hours

[what-even-is-thiss]

These tags are hilarious even though I don’t think you intended them to be.

[rosesforwildwitches]

*pulls European closer* The most populous countries in the world are China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil in that order, with these seven nations alone making up 48.16% of the world population. You may note with the aid of a map that many of these nations are quite large, and would take several days of travel to go across either in cars or on boats. Almost half of the world's population lives in places where you can travel in a cramped vehicle for days and still be within the country. Your worldview is limited and Europe is a tiny outlier in travel time and standards for international relations.

[creative-anchorage]

[nepofledgling]

she sounds so cool I hope she leaves him and has a great life with someone who appreciates her

[otterjpg]

queen shit

[nepofledgling]

I am pleased to know they broke up tonight

[ctrl-alt-del-au]

Part 1 of Episode 1 for my AU

So, this is part 1 of my AU's comic! Super nervous to be sharing this, hope you all like it!

Tried my best to make sure it's not out of character (Caine's inner monologue was so hard to do), but I'd love any feedback as long as it's polite ^_^

If you have any questions or are confused about anything, feel free to ask and I'll try to answer them!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[microknifeyuri]

i feel like people are overlooking pomni's trauma being related to gummigoo for "chat ai boyfriend" jokes, instead of focusing on what the implication of it is. that before she joined the circus, she had a normal life. she wasn't abused or had any particular bad relationships, pomni is extremely self-aware and can process emotions properly thanks to this. she herself said she had a pretty alright life, and that she did urban exploration for a change in that.

the implication is that the circus IS her most traumatic experience, that losing her autonomy, her NAME, her humanity, is the most traumatic experience she's ever had. it's the fact that she lost the first person that understood her existential crisis at the time, because gummigoo just had learned that he wasn't real, and pomni found comfort in someone who wasn't afraid to talk about it.

because the others were too absorbed on their own matters due to it, and pomni really had no one to talk to. (ragatha was there, yes, but we already know what her problems at the start of the series were, as pomni NEEDS someone who's not afraid of talking about things, while ragatha was coping with toxic positivity).

my point is that pomni's trauma isn't some ai love interest thing (which i am aware is a joke but it's annoying to see such a meaningful friendship be described as such), but that the loss of the first person that understood her in such a vulnerable time was what marked her the most. it is also the dehumanization that caine portrayed with turning gummigoo into a real animal, and making him (and his brothers) attack pomni.

because she still feels guilty about it.

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[teaboot]

#childhood

[captainjonnitkessler]

Babysitting a toddler is a lot like being the narration in a point-and-click adventure game. Watching him knock on the doors of empty rooms and saying "hmm. I don't think anyone's in there". Watching him attempt to use [spoon] on [cat] and saying "I don't think those things go together". Watching him throw a cup of water onto the floor and just commenting "the floor is wet now" when he looks up at me to see if I approve.

[homunculus-argument]

The stereotype of the nerd girl taking her glasses off and suddenly she's beautiful, but in reverse. A cold tough mean office lady who glares at everyone until she gets glasses and suddenly becomes sweet, approachable and friendly since she no longer has a constant headache over not being able to fucking see, doesn't need to squint at everything, and actually remembers individual people by name now that she can tell them apart at all.

[departmentq]

This is the world capitalists want to return to.

Instagram

[sanchensky]

White lies 🐝

So happy I finished this thing before ep 8 oof

Anyway, the comic was born out of

my thoughts about Caine's model lacking many essential facial features (as if he was never intended to show any emotions) and yet him being literally the most expressive character in the circus despite everything.

me being low-key obsessed with the implications episode 7 left us with. Players questioning everything they've been told and Caine being in the center of it all.

I want them all to be healed and happy, little guy absolutely included, but man the situation is rough, and the odds are against us

(Also please ignore the fact that I've messed up while writing my own name in the first couple of frames hah, am tireddd)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ink: diamine firestorm

[romanceyourdemons]

the three most overused jobs for horror movie protags who investigate strange happenings that have nothing to do with them out of a sense of professional obligation are journalist, writer/filmmaker, and cop (which is both overused AND lame). here are some suggestions for other possibilities:

insurance claims investigator

grad student using excessive research to procrastinate writing their thesis

tradesman hired to fix the spooky house’s pipes

mafia debt collector

normal debt collector

middle aged woman who just wants to get a refund. who in this place can she to talk to who can give her a refund, she has the receipt right here

[beardedmrbean]

[afloweroutofstone]

I am greatly entertained by the President Pro Tempore of Virginia’s state Senate, an elderly woman who constantly talks about her goal of countering GOP gerrymandering by rigging Virginia’s districts 10-1 in favor of the Democratic Party. She’s a rare breed for Democrats: completely ruthless, totally apathetic to criticism, only here to win. Here she is calling Sen. Tim Kaine a cuck for disagreeing

[starfieldcanvas]

ms. lucas i'm sorry i assumed that "calling sen. tim kaine a cuck" was hyperbole i wasn't familiar with your game