"we sold our souls in dark hotel rooms"

jay - he - ancient - that fall out boy guy

[cynical-crypt]

~introduction~

~ hey! i'm jay ;) ~ he/him ~ old. INTP 5w4. perpetually tired in all regards. bday august 2nd ~ self taught artist/animator/writer/sewist/jack of all trades really (&&) ~ i'm interested in a plethora of things... mainly fall out boy ('01-'09 history buff), WoW, naruto, OFF, homestuck, gravity falls, flash creations, spn, dr who, httyd, bh6, rotg, osu!, slenderverse, zoophobia, tf2, etc etc ~ non-fandom interests consist mostly of quantum mechanics (& physics in general), all things space & associated theories, chemistry, robotics, code, costuming, language, psychology, film, etc etc (&&) ~ agnostic. my politics lean pretty far left. firmly pro-palestine and block zionists on sight ~ i explore fiction freely and am against censorship in any form. firmly ship and let ship regardless of the content. ~ feel free to dm. not a small talk guy and awkward around strangers but i'm still available ~ not a consistent blogger. tend to disappear a lot and i rant like crazy in tags

[paramhore-deactivated20181225]

[zukoandtheoc]

anyway blackout poetry not just as an art form, but as an act of violence against other works of art

taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make

i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture

just to be clear: i love blackout poetry, im not criticizing it here. i am just waxing poetic about it. i dont really know where im going with this i just have Thoughts about art being destructive

[queerhollyleaf]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[joannofsnark]

[clarificationsw]

rubbing my penis

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

big if true

[clarificationsw]

not really, it's slightly below average

[chaussurre]

The average penis, when soft, is much smaller than the overwhelming majority of erect penises. As a large majority of penises are currently at rest, it follows that any penises in attack position must be of larger size than the overall average penis size.

It must also be noted that rubbed penis quickly grow to their peak size.

Ergo, big if true.

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

🔥✍️

[clarificationsw]

ok but how do we know everyone isnt hard currently? your argument is built off of an assumption that we cannot verify and therefore your argument is unsound.

[keeper-of-the-flames]

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

Schrodinger's penis exists in a superposition of both hard and soft until it is observed

[real-live-human]

i think schrodingers penis has actually decomposed by now he's been dead like 60 years

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

Schrodinger's penis exists in a superposition of both decomposed and fresh and juicy until it is observed

[clarificationsw]

hey im no longer rubbing my penis btw

[greenflamethegf]

Neither is schrodinger

[regularlesbian]

[regularlesbian]

this is like scrooge seeing his own grave in a christmas carol

[sage-hendricks]

Love reblogging a picture of Tumblr’s grave on Tumblr

[capitalism-is-a-disease]

[evilvarric666-archive]

[bentothuglife]

"Megan, Can You Do Me a Favor? Can You Fucking Shoot Me?" by Fall Out Boy

[falloutboyfan18]

Fall Out Boy performing nobody puts baby in a corner 07.07.04

[shirecorn]

the fear I felt with the blurred pink mass in my inbox under the harried confession of mistakes

[nerdylittlebugcreature]

every day I go through the tags on this post and collect the 10k ones to scream at them

no. NO NO

never. it will never be a 10k post. if this post gets 10k notes I'll fucking eat my words (by that I mean I will scribble down 'words' on a small piece of paper and eat it)

my fate is gonna be eating paper if this gets 10k notes

you know what. if this gets 20k I'll paint the words 'oh no' on my nails. I'm already suffering enough might as well make it worse

LIES

I'm blowing up your house

[shirecorn]

they're doing note laundering in there

[shirecorn]

licking the fucking ham

[making-you-in-spore]

i made the note laundering ham slab in spore [2008]

[sabisuke]

black

[theconcealedweapon]

Cops are trained to be bad. Anyone who insists on being good is not welcome.

[denimull]

[juliagirlfail]

[22psyduck]

awebo

[leathergerard]

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

[danepopfrippery]

Sorry babes but as someone who lived lug around 500 cds they can die. To me lps are at least pretty and pretentious like a fine wine. Cds have no point

[bitethebullets]

the point is cds are sexy as hell. sorry you dont know what sex is.

visual diagram btw ^

[socialjusticeissue]

@danepopfrippery

The real point is that you OWN a CD. You do NOT own anything digital you purchase.

Google Play stole hundreds of dollars worth of music I paid them for from me by forcing me to upload it to YouTube Music (or lose it entirely) which is behind a subscription paywall, requiring me now to pay more money every month if I want to listen to MY music I PAID for without constant advertising.

You do not own anything digitally purchased. It can be taken back from you at any time and it is fully legal for big corporations to do so for some reason.

CDs can't be taken from you unless they come into your house or car in person to physically pry them out of your cold dead hands.

That's why the resurgence. As funny as that person's reply to you was, it's not in fact because they look sexy. It's because you actually own them.

[dragonsrequiem]

Look- CDs are your friend. CD-ROMs and CD drives with the capacity to burn? Are your friends with benefits.

[im-a-creepy-cookie]

Can anyone teach me how to burn Digital only songs into CDs?

[digital-sigil]

i can ask my dad!! i think you need a certain piece of hardware, but i dont think its difficult!

not rn tho hes asleep

[im-a-creepy-cookie]

I would love that thank you!!

[digital-sigil]

here you go!!

[safety-pin-punk]

Punk 101: Burning CDs

People seemed to like my post about how I started burning CDs again, and @olyve-oyle requested that I make a ‘how to’ for people who like to

My contribution to the discussion

[corviacore]

My burner in my old desktop works like this:

Empty cd in the slot

Open cd on desktop

Drag music files in

Done

[bitchesgetriches]

I spent so many hours burning CDs in high school. AND I STILL HAVE THEM. IN A CD FOLDER IN MY CAR. Because sometimes I drive through the mountains and lose cell reception and can no longer stream Spotify over bluetooth.

CDs are useful, my lambs.

Also this whole thread has made me feel Very Over 30.

[breelandwalker]

And for reference, since they took the disc drives out of computers for the same reason they fucked with headphone jacks, you can get a CD burner drive with a USB connection for like $30.

[theworldwalkersdiaries]

This is ABSOLUTELY about ownership!

Also, you’ve unlocked a bonus story.

I work in a public service. My local school districts are cracking down on cell phones. A teen came into my work to try to burn their first cd.

Their first cd.

They were having some trouble and I was secretly like (this is my moment, holy Shit, burning CDs almost continuously from middle school until a couple years ago is About To Be Relevant, what the fuck, fucking hooray)

And I go over, and I listen to the teen (they bought a cheap stack of 100 READ/WRITE CDS. 100!!! And a single-disc cd walkman!!), and we fuss with it, and I troubleshoot the issue they were encountering.

It was So Easy. To fix this issue. I had to do almost nothing. Media player was grumpy bc the files were not in the folder it wanted them in. I moved them. It started working.

“Oh my god, you’re a MIRACLE WORKER!!”

I will be thriving off that moment for Years.

And before I had to go, I told them, “hey, if you can find a compatible player for cheap, you can fit way more songs per disc on an mp3 cd. We just burned an audio cd.”

They got So Excited.

In a fully digital world locked behind paywalls and subscriptions and opaque tablet OSs, knowledge of desktop systems and the resurgence of physical media are everything.

[kandimouse]

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

[goingknowherewastaken]

Another important point

You need to actually reblog posts for this site to work as it should.

Liking posts only saves them in a spot that no one checks except for the user who liked them. Most people have their liked posts hidden.

Also, this site has a spam bot problem. One way we weed those out is to check the blog to see if it's actually being used to post legitimate content. If there is absolutely nothing on your blog you're getting blocked and some users may just straight up report you as spam as a precaution.

Not to mention that the posts you reblog will only be seen by you and whoever follows you. Tagging it "fyp" does absolutely nothing.

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

This. All of this is so important. I have a love/hate relationship with TikTok. (I'm Canadian, so I still get it.) But I LOVE Tumblr and don't want anyone coming here trying to turn it into something it isn't.

Tumblr is full of happy little gremlins who share shiny treasures with each other. Nobody wants to turn it into some kind of new TikTok or Twitter. ❤️

But otherwise, welcome American TikTok refugees.

[radiation]

[beemovieerotica]

dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.

[beemovieerotica]

I almost posted this without the professor-fucking part but I decided that it is in fact crucial to combating OCD. sometimes you have to fight fire with fire i.e. spiraling thoughts with strong negative emotions get countered with strongly emotive surprise, cringe, and humor

sometimes the OCD brain can't just be stopped from fantasizing completely, but you can redirect that anxious mental energy toward crafting a fictional setup and story that doesn't involve you or your fears at all

another thing I do is interrupt intrusive thoughts with a very conscious and deliberate "and then an elephant walks in." and I'd make myself commit to the bit. it would force me to reframe everything and specifically understand it in an absurdist context, make me confront how ridiculous the initial thoughts even were, and there is honestly no way to keep being serious and distraught about your what-if scenarios when you've introduced a fucking elephant into the mix. film studies professor is also that elephant.

so it goes from scary thoughts about my life -> step back. this is a weird fictional film now. -> characters are analyzing the film -> those characters are super messy and have their own problems, and I'm watching them now and eating popcorn at this soap opera

[therogueduchess]

I need you to understand that now I am seeing this whole scenario but the professor is an elephant. Exactly as described, an elephant wearing a cardigan and no I do not understand how it is managing the clapping noise with legs that bend the way an elephant’s do. And yes the students all still want to sleep with him

[beemovieerotica]

A+ ADDITION

[visenyaism]

Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it