Queen Mad's Random Ramblings

Devoted to whatever makes me shriek and squeal with giddy delight. And anything else I find interesting. It shall be as random as I am.

[montanabohemian]

anyway, if anyone could help me out with my moving expenses, i'd greatly appreciate it.

[unpretty]

i like to imagine that clark kent’s search history is mostly normal but then there’s stuff like “improved superman costume concept art” because he wanted ideas

[unpretty]

#what would you even do as an artist #if one day superman is just wearing a costume that is clearly your design #like superman was clearly looking at your deviantart #there is a chance that superman saw that art you drew of him kissing batman #why is he wearing the costume you designed #is he trying to send a message #is he saying that he really does smooch batman #did superman see your kryptosona #how much does he know 

someone said they wanted to be able to reblog this with my horrible tags

[reallyohcrap]

no but like… do you sue him for using your designs? Do you politely ask him to stop using your designs? Do you ask him for license fees when the Superman merchandise adopts your design as well? 

[unpretty]

i am absolutely sure that he would find one with an artist’s comment/description that included “hey superman if you’re reading this feel free to use this anytime ok ;3″ and he would say “oh man that’s so thoughtful, thank you weedhorse69, I think I will” and like how do you explain in court that you, weedhorse69, did not intend for your statement to be any kind of contractual offer because you did not think he would ever find your public internet post with his name all over it

[mellytonin]

#people are reblogging the version of this without my final addition#offended that i would suggest clark kent wouldn’t credit the artist#missing what i consider to be the obvious facts of the matter#it’s probably a costume designed out of pure thirst too like#weedhorse69 is gonna keep his mouth shut because this way he gets to watch superman#running around town in a costume that really shows off his biceps and abs#he thought it looked summery#the league holds an intervention asking him to please stop wearing it#he does not stop no one can stop him#batman v superman II: clark please put on a real shirt

[unpretty]

tumblr is garbage and likes to resize everything and readmores don’t work on mobile anyway so you all will just have to click through if you want to read weedhorse69′s chatlog screenshots

[nekare]

THAT CHATLOG THO

[vi14m2lg7m]

[olivia-ivy]

For the love of God

PLEASE

Read Through The Whole Thing

[mortimermcmirestinks]

the chatlog made my day, lads

[miraculousbatofold]

Absolutely look at the chat log if you can it made my day 😂

[shadowbrightshine]

That chat log bit is amazing. Oh my goshhhh

[thelaurenshippen]

I've been thinking a lot about apathetic passivity recently, and how so much of the way we interact with art these days is engaging with whatever happens to float across our feed/dash/algo recs and how when I was a teenager, I spent hours and hours and hours scouring every corner of itunes for new bands, and reading paste magazine and q to discover music and how I'd watch every single network pilot every fall to see the range of what was out there and how my local bookstore would sometimes get annoyed by how often I would spend a half hour reading the backs of fantasy novels or how I would talk to the weird but well-meaning blockbuster guy about what new indie flick came in that I might like and as a result, there are so many obscure musicians/tv shows/books/films from that period that I still love to this day but how, outside of audio drama, almost every piece of art I currently love is something that was handed to me and I can't tell if it's just that I'm no longer a lonely kid with nothing else to do, or if I'm just old and tired, or if it's just nostalgia for another time, but finding art I love no longer takes effort and I think it should, at least sometimes, at least a little, and I'm curious if anyone else feels this way or if I'm the only one who's let her curiosity muscle atrophy and if you are someone who seeks out new art in the forgotten corners of the world, how are you doing that and is it getting harder each day that enshittification takes over every part of our world because it feels like its getting harder

[thelaurenshippen]

#I am like ten years younger than OP so maybe this is a generational thing#but like. what’s the actual complaint here?#that it’s too easy to find niche independent media you enjoy?#because I see that as one of the few benefits of living in the algorithm panopticon#I mean I do still put in effort right. like I’ll go to the library and spend hours looking through the stacks#I’ll scour Spotify for new music. I’ll ask the people at the comic book store for recommendations#but honestly? in my experience talking to everyday people I run into will not yield me good results#guys at the comic book store will be demeaning. Spotify has infinite bands and most of them aren’t my sound.#books are increasingly tiktok-ified and tv shows are mass market produced to be as inoffensive as possible#and if I ask people in my day to day that I’m not close with for reccs#I’ll get extremely mainstream responses. ‘play [triple A video game]’ ‘watch [movie with a billion dollar budget]’#’listen to [top 40 musician who voted for Trump]’ etc#my IRL friends who explicitly recommend things to me and online mutuals who do it passively#are far more likely to introduce me to indie content#saw the movie D(e)ad because of online content. played In Stars and Time bc a friend recommended it.#discovered podcasts like red valley and give me away bc of people posting about them on tumblr#Instagram reels introduced me to like half of the artists I listen to at this point#all of whom are indie singer songwriters and all their fans could fit in a high school gymnasium#so yeah maybe I put less effort into finding them#but I’m supporting more independent creators and finding more things I actually enjoy#so I just don’t know if that’s actually a bad thing#word of mouth is great. it’s just the definition of mouth has changed via @its-murderous-business

I hope you don't mind me copying over all your tags but this is SO fascinating to me and I think really illuminates the, like, extremely unique experience that everyone has with the Almighty Algorithm.

I love the "word of mouth is great. it's just the definition of mouth has changed" because I do think that's really true! I still get a lot of great recs from friends and tumblr is probably the one place on the internet that I find random things I end up loving (though tumblr, of course, is not algorithmic).

I do love that there's so much great art right at my fingertips and think there's so much good to that. and that stuff can be mainstream! everyone who's talked to me in the last year knows how much I love the pitt, and that was a great example of 'oh huh what's this new hbo show I know nothing about?' and clicking play.

but, I guess, when I do interact with algorithmic social media like instagram and tiktok, I just...I don't know. I've never successfully found anything on either of those platforms. and maybe it's that I don't spend enough time for the algorithm to properly cater to me or maybe it's just weird luck of the draw but I guess...I'm not even sure I have a complaint as much as this is just something I keep poking at like a loose tooth, because I actually am very much not finding niche art that I enjoy, which I didn't articulate well in the original post. and I make niche art, so there's a real tension of...well, if I don't know where to go to find niche art outside of hearing about it from friends, then how am I supposed to get an audience and make a living myself?

and I fully admit that that might just be a failure of imagination on my part. I'm so glad to hear that you're finding stuff you love and this genuinely gives me hope that I'm just, like, using these things wrong, not that they're fundamentally broken. what you're describing is what I want and is, ultimately, not very different from me going to avclub.com every day to see what's being written about. I think I'm just not using these things right!

[adampov]

Vala + Daniel in Beachhead

[yumyumpod]

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[pipshinwhatever]

logging onto tumblr like heyyy i'm thinking about the same character i've spent the past few weeks thinking about. no change here. just wanted to let yall know

[aphel1on]

Affirmations before posting:

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

[aahsoup]

when a mutuals struggling but you know you can't say anything to help so you just like their post and hope they know they're not alone

[proteidaes]

Daily painting 173/365

A nice day to meet butterflies ✨🦋

[ellievsbear]

Is it a dog or a strawberry, I guess we'll never know

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[fear-planet]

Proximan Interceptor by Angus McKie ✨

[ellievsbear]

Having fun with alcohol markers

[romansroys]

community rewatch → 1.09 Debate 109

[montanabohemian]

#that's the face of a man who's realizing he's in too deep

[thekenobee]

Look how HAPPY HE WAS TO ASK HIS GIRLIE OUT

[montanabohemian]

#and then nothing bad ever happened no sir

[kanashino1020]