A Trinity of Two

Liren/Spring, 21+, ze/hir/hirs [ze pets hir cat] majority untagged blogging from mobile.  ex-superwholock who's into anti-racism/solarpunk/anti-capitalist social justice etc.  My IRL life can be summed up as A Lot Is Happening (TM) so the activity gets sporadic.  90% of my posts are queued. I've been trying to escape this hell site since January 2013 and somehow still haven't managed it.

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

[image id: the ‘sometimes you just need two men’ meme (a poster pinned up advertising two men who were willing to do odd jobs, complete with flexing arm clipart and a spiel about how they’re also best friends and how ‘you will receive not just the strength of our bodies but the strength of our emotional bond as well’) where the ‘two men’ are rosencrantz and guildenstern and some of it has been edited. their names are written underneath like in the original but in a way where it’s ambigious who is who, ‘we know hamlet’ replaces the ‘we are burly’ of ‘we are two men, we are burly, we’ll do what you want’, ‘we have been friends for over 14 years’ is replaced with ‘?? years’, and the phone number after ‘hire us’ is replaced with ‘just send a messenger’. end id.]

claudius voice wow hamlets onto me,,, i know what i need. 2 men

[the-haiku-bot]

claudius voice wow

hamlets onto me,,, i know

what i need. 2 men

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[beemovieerotica]

[vintage-tigre]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

[alettertofutureme]

History is not done with us yet my friend

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit

[apricops]

Stranger Things season 1: beneath the superficial image of “peace and prosperity” in 1980s small-town America, there was the painful legacy of countless atrocities committed by the American government in the name of ‘freedom.’

Stranger Things season 4: evil Russians (not Soviets) have sent our All-American Hero to the gulags which apparently still exist in the 1980s and it’s up to us to save him 🇺🇸🦅🫡

[apricops]

There’s probably a term that already exists for this but if there isn’t I’m gonna call it ‘Rambofication’ in honor of its probably most well known instance: Rambo First Blood was about a soldier, John Rambo (that’s his actual name I’m not doing a bit), returning home from the Vietnam war, so traumatized by war that he brought the war home with him to a small town, unable to adapt to life without strict military discipline and hierarchy. Subsequent Rambo movies were about how John Rambo was the only supersoldier tough enough and patriotic enough to kill faceless hordes of dastardly foreign commies.

Ergo, ‘Rambofication’ is the process of a series starting with a relatively nuanced or subversive narrative before its sequels become a shallow embrace of the very narrative it originally subverted. It happens surprisingly often!

[iteration-dave]

Recuperation (politics) - Wikipedia

In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.

[necronatron]

I think... I never shared this here. I could be wrong, but I am unsure.

[thashining]

Voting Myths

[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[saturnalia-charceuterie-board]

mars with their two moons, phobos and deimos - "fear" and "panic" respectively :)

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[homunculus-argument]

I wish I could put my boyfriend in a little pocket dimension in my bag or something, like pokemon in their lil pokemon balls, so I could take him into social situations with me and hang out with my friends having a great time while he's in the pocket minding his own business and playing video games and stuff, and I can just let him out when I miss him and/or he wants to.

And when people are like "awe, your boyfriend didn't want to come with you?" I can be like oh no he's right here, check it out, and whip the pocket open and my boyfriend's there staring at them like

for like seven seconds before slamming it shut from the inside.

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

[lakevida]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[viralfrog]

[definitely-not-a-plant]

ah yes, lasagna

[yharnamsnewslug]

He doesn't show her face. He tries not to laugh at a basic question so she's not embarrassed. Films his reaction, and is so kind. This is SUCH a good video.

[yesornopolls]

Would you consider the hate for AI at the moment “excessive”?

Would you consider the hate for AI at the moment “excessive”?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 19 hours

[blackheartbiohazards]

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

[blackheartbiohazards]

I promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.

[heroineimages]

During a creative-writing workshop during my undergrad, the professor shared an anecdote about a past workshop where one of the writers shared a first-person short story about a man contemplating having an affair with a married woman. Apparently at the beginning of the workshop, some uptight gal slammed the story on the table in front of him and shouted, "Assholes like YOU are the reason so few marriages last!"

[art-of-illusn]

I saw this picture of @pangur-and-grim's creature and was struck by a vision

[emeraldraccoon478]

@animals-with-fan-art

[artofmaquenda]

Devotion

Saw this news and I had to make a rough sketch about it. 🥹 We humans always underestimate the empathy and care of other animals..

[animals-with-fan-art]

I love this with my whole heart

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]