Just tryna be a human

[21+] they/she {NB} | Just a tired & braindead eldritch goblin cyborg from Straya a-runnen on windows vista, fascinated by linguistics & tryna fit in quilst 'aven fun & tryna get thru loif [life]. (Ah'm friendly, Ah ne bite, ac Ah'm fairly introverted and more of a laid-back lurker, so feel free tae say hi and chat. Ain't the most knowledgeable ac Ah love learning new stuff :D Auch, Ah make music on occasion & sometimes share it if it been't shite. Due tae surprising request, ye can find most of mah decent enough music here: https://soundcloud.com/zen_artemisia

[goblinindenial]

Yahweh nerfed mé, coz if Ah weren't, Ah would learn ALL the languages old, new, & forgotten, and then reconstruct the tower of Babel to personally kick his arse.

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[eel-slap]

This, and one thing I find scary within some of the online lefty spaces that lean toward this, thankfully not ALL online lefty spaces) is the tendency to "other" or assume any and all of "solitary, prickly, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technological/technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, difficult" equates to "evil" or "wrong morals" or "can't be a part of an ideal society" etc etc

Like that there's only one pure and correct "aesthetic/identity" rather than that we can have almost any aesthetic we WANT to have as long as we understand why we're adopting it and do so with intent rather than just because we're following consumer capitalism, that diversity is actually really awesome in personal traits and aesthetics, not just seemingly fixed identity.

Also, a lot of these traits and aesthetics deserve more credit than they're given as of late. Like if it weren't for nocturnal people, none of us would be here, our earliest ancestors would have been devoured by other animals/burned in out of control fires/otherwise overcome while all sleeping a perfect diurnal schedule.

Solitary, prickly, and contrarian people (and tolerating them and their right to coexist and live without being punished for doing so) are how your collective society does not merely become no different than a cult. They also find the problems and won't shut up about them, which is good for handling said problems before they get to the point of being unsustainable issues or disasters or whatnot. You WANT to hear out the person telling you something won't work/is a problem because they're pointing to something you need to examine more - sure, they could be wrong, but a second check to prove they're wrong might catch something neither of you knew about to begin with.

Arguably, cities and urban areas can be made far more sustainable for the planet than rural agriculture zones or hunter-gathering, ESPECIALLY if maintaining large populations

(and if not maintaining large populations, we have to ask how and what the plan for population reduction is? Is it people willingly choosing not to reproduce and using birth control/abstinence? Awesome, but that will take time and multiple generations to keep the downward trend in the First World going AND to convince the developing world why they should not want what we have and that going back is better (and is it?)

Is it "we just return everyone to year zero and do whatever it takes to get there?" Pol Pot tried that one, and the results were both a horrific genocide and did not even work)

[pastacrylic]

if i were in charge of mlp id make them kiss

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

I can’t breathe

[brawltogethernow]

Best wishes to these people obviously but I’m WHEEZING at the concept of a standard horror plot starter but the stranded travelers are an entire fully equipped orchestra.

[gleefully-macabre]

It’s the prequel to every other horror film. Their haunting spirits play the background music.

[gleefully-macabre]

Oh shoot, that actually would be a really cool concept. The film starts with no thematic music, and as each member of the orchestra is picked off, their instrument joins the soundtrack. Subtly, so you don’t really notice, and the end credits are a full orchestral symphony.

[thestraggletag]

DUUUUUDE

[transmadotsuki]

Call that a death note

[moonybyte]

That entire thing could also be used brilliantly for foreshadowing!

Like, you suddenly notice a string instrument in the background music and you haven’t seen a few of them in a while. And the more musically versed you are, the more you figure it out (like in a mystery novel if you happen to have in-depth knowledge about the current riddle) while the “normal” people can get fooled into twists.

The non-musically versed audience hears a new brass instrument and is like “Oh shit, the dude with the tenor horn is probably dead!”, but then he suddenly appears perfectly fine and one minute later they find the body of the Euphonium player.

And if the orchestra members can hear it as well, then it’s of course another layer cause THEY would probably recognize who is playing. And depending on the director, they could go full ‘Tomato in the Mirror’ and imply they know but Just. Not. Say it. (cause why should they, they all DO KNOW). So they are like “Oh no…. No…!” and start looking for the corpse while the audience is still stuck at “Ok, a violin player, but which???”

[whetstonefires]

immediately after dying you get a brief solo

[blueshelledbastard]

And since absolutely no music at the beginning would be kinda estranging, I’d suggest one singular instrument and it’s revealed early on that a member of the orchestra recently passed, leading into the reason why they visited the castle in the first place, yaddayaddayadda, the plot commences

[coalmine301]

The first guy who died played the triangle

[spaceshipoftheseus]

It is absolutely essential to me that the orchestra remains Bolivian.

[daylightsavingcrime]

[Image description: a tweet by Variety (@/Variety): “A Bolivian Orchestra has been stranded in a German castle for 73 days due to the pandemic. The castle’s woodlands are home to several packs of wolves.” The tweet is retweeted by Apple Bottom Genes who comments: “This sounds like the beginning of Dracula but with more people involved.” End ID]

[sleep--b]

Miku’s getting me through some tough times

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[sashaforthewin]

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

[kitsuneofthemist]

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

[superpeanutgarden]

Moon day Monday is SOON!!!!!

[weird--fxckin--bee]

Well!

[shadeykris]

wibbles.

[kirikomamura]

whenever the conversation about difficulty and accessibility in games come up i want to slam my head into a wall because noone thats speaking has anything more than a surface level understanding of what "difficulty" even is

[kirikomamura]

your game should have accessibility options, but if your only accessibility options are "turn off central game mechanics" then you have made shit accessibility options.

[kirikomamura]

you know what accessibility option doesnt completely fucking butcher your game while allowing almost everyone to play it? an option that is not available in 99.99% of all games ever made? easy:

[kirikomamura]

bonus points: if you put a game speed slider in your game you can also allow Absolute Fucking Freaks to turn it higher than 100%

[skulkingfoxes]

"Good Morning, Rose"

My short story for the wlw anthology GLIMM*R!

[skulkingfoxes]

Turns out it's Yuri Day, so please enjoy my yuri comic about dreams and first dates!

[xigrif]

Sickening sensations

[orb-the-watchman]

I think Wambus also deserves a cool Grandma

[ffooff]

Visit Original Link

4 years ago i took my cat la to the vet and the vet told me that she is "just small" and would "never be big"

[c-53]

pom pom crabs are some of the most unethical animals in the ocean

this man is a serial abuser

[c-53]

His pom poms are two sessile invertebrates he holds in his hands and starves so he can punch stuff with anemones who are so desperate to eat that they’ll use maximum sting on anything that gets close to him. When they starve to death he just finds more

[cpericardium]

at the euthanasia party everyone gets a sip of the forbidden lean

[tastyrepulsorboots]

Yeah, same

[propelledbydisaster]

the person in question fully recovered, incidentally

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon

[avpdvoidspace]

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

[savouryduck]

when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.

One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".

The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."

I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.

[wherethewildcatsare]

If you want to be accepting of mental illness, you need to accept the fact that some people's everyday lives are going to be terrifying to you. That doesn't mean they don't get to talk about it. Stop forcing hurt, isolated people to become even MORE hurt and isolated because you can't fathom toughening up a bit.