On Purpose

Someone mistook me for a writer, so I figured I might as well give it a try.

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

unironically i think part of the reason NFTs were so big is that it's Man Yogurt for art. i have a station in life now where i encounter people who are into NFTs and it's like, you know you're just making art right. yeah but it's about crypto. it's about crypto so it's fine. it's fine. the art is merely in service of the financial speculation. i'm remaining within my proper sphere. it's fine

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

posted this on the worse social media website which i'd believe is 80% male and someone was like "that's not true, i know lots of guys with hobbies such as sports, sports, nerd shit, sports, nerd shit, nerd shit, sports, and sports"

[intentionalperson]

"Men can't do anything." "Here's the stuff men I know do." "None of that counts and I don't want to do it."

Cherry picking coward, don't mention the perfumery, the amateur choir, the music, the writing, the art collecting, the theater, and lump a bunch of disparate activities into "nerd shit" without an understanding of quality, with a tag attack on a game that the relevant people don't even play (Magic the Gathering is a gambling scam). Also how is outdoors stuff lumped into "sports?" What's the common thread between sitting and watching a group of professionals play a game with a bowl of chips in your lap and getting out into nature for solitude (or comradery with a few people), adversity and beauty? You are being irritatingly reductive, and to what end? To convince yourself that you can't do things you enjoy because men are too repressed? Is your environment more really more hidebound and restrictive than the one that molded old professional Mormon men in flyover country, or are you just not stubborn enough to follow through on your disagreeableness?

[dungeonlust]

[sca-nerd]

I took my nephew and niece to their first event when they were... five and seven? They each picked out a heavy and a rapier fighter to cheer on (we made favors for them to give as part of the Plan to Keep Little Kids Entertained™). They interpreted this to mean that they were to LOOK AFTER these fighters and spent the remainder of the day taking them water and sharing goldfish crackers with them.

You don’t know happiness until you see a little kid hand a Knight an Uncrustable and have him devour it gratefully.

[ruffboi-mags]

#congrats your children reinvented squires (via @roach-works​)

[exit-pursued-by-spiders]

The children yearn to serve their liegelords

[theotherhappyplace]

My theory is that Long Furby is a manifestation of the Gnostic god of material reality the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth) appearing in the collective unconscious as proposed by Carl Jung. In this essay I will-

[mf-dude]

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

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[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[beasti]

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

[lafayettelabaguette]

Law

[tooiconic]

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

[sighinastorm]

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

[linkislost]

a legacy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

[kindaoffkilter]

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

[northeastartist]

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

[redchrominance]

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

[twimmythebabywitch]

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

[dduane]

You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)

[fandomsandfeminism]

So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.

And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.

But no-

ITS TAMA!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

like i do kinda think the way society works is that most people get beaten into pretending to be the one person it's acceptable to be. this demonstrating the virtue of being able to be beaten into etc., and the virtue of being able to seamlessly perform that forever. and if you don't do this, you're not demonstrating virtues, so you will register as a Bad Person and all of society will work against you, but also, if you have anything despite that, people will resent you for Breaking The Rules without being punished, and will try to administer punishment on their own. so the only way to like, exist, without the entire world (aside from a few fringe subcultures where half the members are homeless) declaring war on you, is to beat yourself into the sort of creature that can put on the Just Be Normal mask and never take it off

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

as evidence i cite the entire concept of masculinity. like, men are told that in order to attain the state of Sexhaver they must become objectively ugly. but sometimes men are attractive anyway, enough so that people who are sexually attracted to men mention finding them sexually attractive all the time, but those guys are fags and look like dykes so ideally we'd kill everyone who likes them. like do you actually think Roider Beardman with the tactical truck is hotter than gerard way? and like, no one will ever accept that this is wrong! if andrew tate fucked carmen electra it'd be ten points to andrew tate, but prince did and he's still a fag

[misledmagiard]

ROIDER BEARDMAN GETS GENDER EUPHORIA WHEN RIDING HIS LIFTED TRUCK. (cf. the concept of “MtM transsexuals”) HE IS HAPPY W/ HIMSELF. THE CONCEPT OF MASCULINITY EXISTS FOR A REASON. IF MOST MEN FOUND ATTRACTIVE WHAT YOU FIND ATTRACTIVE MASCULINITY WOULD MEAN STH DIFFERENT. WHAT’S ATTRACTIVE (as in “goals!”) TO STRAIGHT MEN ALMOST DOESN’T OVERLAP WITH WHAT’S ATTRACTIVE TO GAY MEN (and your attraction is definitely of the second type!). however note that the men I find attractive are quite feminine (but i am repulsed by makeup on men! to be fair it doesn’t look good on women either). also what type of guy do dc women prefer? 

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

what? roider beardman talks about how it's a horrible but necessary sacrifice and in five years someone will find him on grindr.

[intentionalperson]

Are you incapable of incorporating the perspectives of others? Can you imagine a mind that is not your own? This is peak “no one is ever happy except in the way I understand” bullshit. I  prefer the small sporty Japanese car and I don’t roid, but I totally get a kick out of going to the gym, growing out a beard, etc. It’s fun to have muscles, to shoot guns, to wear a nice suit or to performatively grunge it up. I came to this realization later in life, but it has not caused me to put aside the autistic pleasures of youth, turns out you can lift weights and still have hobbies and interests. Beyond the sort of joy I get out of it myself, there are in fact plenty of women who find this aesthetic more attractive than the MCR look. There are straight bears and female bear enjoyers! I got my current girlfriend off a combo of being an esoteric history/ political theory enthusiast, a math nerd and being strong looking with a nice beard. You apparently live in some sort of hellish bubble because everything you post about society seems incomprehensible to me and I live in a very red state with a very red family. None of my relatives thinks Prince or boy bands being hot is a problem. My brother’s tech job has a bunch of trans people and they don’t get jumped. Hell, even among the very churchy people there’s a common form of metrosexual if somewhat Ned Flandersy campiness that’s accepted by men and women alike, and good for them! LGBTQ relations have gotten worse in the last few years, but that’s close to completely due to them being seen as a communist client-minority, my red-tribe normy relatives do the stereotypical “I love our based gays” thing that frogs make fun of on twitter.

[its-a-gold-song]

How To Draw A Horse - a comic by Emma Hunsinger

[vikugnavikugna]

this was supposed to be a silly lil warmup sketch b4 i go to work on my self indulgent au art but ppl on the wormmemes discord liked it and im generally a fan of democracy so i finished it 4 them

[jncos]

Some of my favourites from The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu (778-897)

[jncos]

[kaumnyakte]

poast em

[intentionalperson]

D’Jouvenel, Yarvin, Hayek, Mishima

[viciousmeme]

[intentionalperson]

Without spoilers or reflection, I’ll just say that the Homestuck epilogues so far were upsetting.

[intentionalperson]

Got a job offer coming. Finally can end the stress of the job search. Without going into the specifics, I’ll be working as a statistician, and I’m very excited about the company and the job.

[intentionalperson]

[intentionalperson]

“My job is selling breelzabber. My welfare and the welfare of everyone I associate closely with is dependent on breelzabber. I have a degree in breelzabber. Every waking moment I think about breelzabber, from the morning to the night. It’s my life, breelzabber that is.”

“Interesting. So, you believe that you have a solution to the particular social ill we were talking about earlier?”

“You may not believe this, but the solution happens to be the heavy application of more breelzabber.”

[earlgraytay]

…and people who work heavily with breelzabber can often see the ways that it could help with said social ill, so this is a problem because…?

It doesn’t always work, but having a lot of people trying different kinds of breelzabber is one of the things that does. throw shit at the wall and see what sticks, aye? 

[intentionalperson]

“#I know exactly what you’re vaguing about and I don’t like it”

[earlgraytay]

I suspect you’re vaguing about artists and writers who say things like “art will save the world” and write impassioned rants about the value of art in this modern day and age. 

Could be wrong. But that’s the most common target when people say things like this. 

[intentionalperson]

“So, what exactly is this breelzabber they’re talking about supposed to stand in for? We know that it’s something that people can dedicate their life to, which they are incentivized to promote, and which affects their framing of issues even outside of its proper scope. Could this be a general point about the importance bias that inevitably comes from thinking within a given field or discipline, the blinkers that people put on as they magnify their vision on a specific point in human knowledge and achievement?” “Breelzabber is an attack specifically on what I like.”

[intentionalperson]

“My job is selling breelzabber. My welfare and the welfare of everyone I associate closely with is dependent on breelzabber. I have a degree in breelzabber. Every waking moment I think about breelzabber, from the morning to the night. It’s my life, breelzabber that is.”

“Interesting. So, you believe that you have a solution to the particular social ill we were talking about earlier?”

“You may not believe this, but the solution happens to be the heavy application of more breelzabber.”

[earlgraytay]

…and people who work heavily with breelzabber can often see the ways that it could help with said social ill, so this is a problem because…?

It doesn’t always work, but having a lot of people trying different kinds of breelzabber is one of the things that does. throw shit at the wall and see what sticks, aye? 

[intentionalperson]

“#I know exactly what you’re vaguing about and I don’t like it”