decapitated cranium in a house of ill repute

My name is Limbo, 25, she/they/it. Surrealist realist, happy in spite of everything. Artist and writer, drinker of whole milk. There are other names who post here sometimes, and they will sign their posts. Peace and love.

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balloon vendor

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She’s such a silly

[powerburial]

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One thing I like about my new cashiering job is, frankly, I like to obey. I like when I'm given clear directives to carry out, but also given some level of independence to do them. It kind of makes me feel both plugged into some kind of social apparatus while still having the necessary sense of disconnection from it for my survival

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Throwback to the most misbegotten piece of advertising ever

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It’s obvious what they were going for — a childish note left by Scary Insane Killer. But it’s as if the art director said “okay, now draw the least scary snowman imaginable!” How did this get approved. How hard would it have been to make the snowman look like anything else

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Throwback to the most misbegotten piece of advertising ever

[3000s]

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Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, thirteen Lamborghinis in my Hollywood Hills

[uffys-deactivated20241210]

[memorycycle]

nobody givea fuck about gumdrops anymore

[memorycycle]

loaded with 100% vitamins and minerals and 100% protein and carbs and fats and 100% water and antioxidant. but nobody cares or even remembers

[prince-johnny]

[minna-nakayoku]

i too hungry the. icecream

[minna-nakayoku]

[minna-nakayoku]

HAHSTAG MUTT HASHTAG DUMB MUTT ?

[frontierpsychoanalyst]

I don’t think any majorly popular social media has had as much of a decline in quality and usefulness than Reddit has in the past several years. They just slowly, bit by bit, add more restrictions and perverse incentives to turn the site into one big promotional tool.

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Not only do people buy and sell their accounts, because Reddit karma corresponds to exposure, but you can directly monetize Reddit karma now. Isn’t that hilariously fucked? They basically started encouraging people to make up fake stories on /r/amitheasshole and what-have-you. To me this is the malignant root of what people call “enshittification,” more than the unwanted features or changes and the like.

[frontierpsychoanalyst]

I don’t think any majorly popular social media has had as much of a decline in quality and usefulness than Reddit has in the past several years. They just slowly, bit by bit, add more restrictions and perverse incentives to turn the site into one big promotional tool.

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I've written here before about how I feel a certain level of critical towards the concept of "children's media." I concede that, insofar as children have a particular color of experience shared by their common situation, that it makes sense to identify a kind of entertainment for them -- this is just an artifact of demographics.

But the driving factor behind the construction of children as a demographic finds its root in the fact of children's lack of autonomy, their minimal right to make decisions. This is the bulk of why I dislike the idea of "children's entertainment;" it's made for kids by people who have an idea of what is "good" for kids and "bad" for kids (ideas we all have, to be fair). More so than any other demographic-specific output of the culture industry, the children's entertainment business lies on the fundamental premise of non-autonomy.

So I think that if you interact or work with kids, and insofar as a "media diet" is something that matters or has an effect on them (and this varies far more wildly than people tend to think in either direction), it's a good thing to break out of the paradigm of finding things "for kids" for them and instead helping them find things that they like, which resonate with them. This may wind up being something explicitly geared to kids, or it could be something else.

I think children are pushed too often into passive positions, something people rail against in its grossest forms -- them getting hooked on short-term video platforms for example -- but it goes a lot deeper than whatever vice of the day we've identified.

As a partly-related sidenote, it's interesting that whenever parents and caretakers start giving their children more freedom, this is often framed in the language of "getting ready to be an adult," conceding the lack of autonomy in children even when trying to negate it in some way.

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In general I just think it's deeply insufferable when asocial nerds become obsessed with ragging against other asocial nerds and pretending that they are not themselves asocial nerds. Aren't we all in this together?

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I feel like people here are getting more and more dogmatic and reactive about art in a way that's pretty indistinguishable from your average economically aspirational US-style writer's workshop member.

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There is not, in fact, a reason to assume your particular method for writing books is "correct" in any matter, other than that you're pitting it against a bunch of easy targets.

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Whenever I take a look at the actual writing these people make, it's invariably written in this droll, I-read-Wilbow-slash-Homestuck-a-decade-ago-style. This is exactly one step above the cartoon fanfiction you're tilting against. You're also a mediocre nerdy writer!

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I think I also just feel outside of it because these people inevitably talk about novels -- especially genre fiction -- when I'm more of a nonfiction and poetry reader than a frequent reader of fiction.