[mxrbutch]

Claw Machine: an Essay About Wanting More

I Saw The TV Glow is nothing short of a nightmare. And yet, somehow, it gives us hope.

wrote an article about I Saw The TV Glow. feel free to share wherever and tell me what you think <3

[mxrbutch]

question: feel free to answer in the replies or send me an ask this month im gonna do a talk on an author who uses they/them pronouns and im gonna do it in italian. the problem is that italian is a gendered language and we have not yet reached a consesus over how we might go about de-gendering it. its obviously easier in writing but speech makes it v difficult for a bunch of reasons. i obviously hope that the language will evolve to account for nonbinary people, but in the main time i never know how to go about it. im probably just gonna use both but it's a poor solution. have any of you ever encountered this problem with other languages? how have you gone about it?

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

have you ever had a beef with a teacher/prof

yes

no

hard to say

results

Voting ended onJun 3

[fishpondfish]

mymusician... oughh my little bug [remembers parasocial relationships are bad] [remembers infantilization is bad] this complete stranger is their own huge bug

[mxrbutch]

for science: reblog this post and write in the tags the name of a fictional character you would love to talk about art with

[john-silvers]

BLACK SAILS, XXXII

[hotgirlmeg]

society has progressed past the need for "jacob elordi" and "timothee chalamet"

[piratemadi]

i actually think the reason they didnt have max and silver interact too much is it wouldve broken the ethos of silver's character which is that he can't confront himself. the mask slips too much around her like even before the cliff scene even before it's explicitly said that he's constitutionally incapable of introspection you can See when he's around her his persona looks so stupid and awkward and slips around so much that you can see there's literally nothing underneath it

[piratemadi]

when he tries to threaten her into joining the resistance and she's just like no i dont want to. silver's whole Thing just does not work on her and he does not get why

[piratemadi]

RIGHT. like silver technically wins that confrontation bc his guys kill all her guys but there is still the distinct feeling that she had something over him bc he really does look like such a clumsy jackass when he tries to manipulate or threaten her EVEN WHEN he legitimately has the upper hand

[piratemadi]

GOD! "i don't care" "you will" and he DOES!!!!

[fashion-runways]

Audrey Nuna attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Julian Hamilton/Getty Images) pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[luckydiorxoxo]

Janelle Monáe attends the 2026 Met Gala in Christian Siriano

[valdevia]

Copper rot (Xylaria electrophaga) is a newly described fungus that, through yet unknown means, appears to obtain energy directly from electricity.

The adaptation, believed to have recently evolved from a wood-boring mushroom that fed on utility poles, lets this species enter cables through exposed metal, then grow outwards. This not only damages infrastructure, but often ends in a fire, which it uses to disperse its spores further. If encountering copper rot, it is not advised to touch it, as its white tips can conduct enough energy to cause electrocutions.

(Bestiary)

[chrispshakebake345reblogs]

oh my god i saw this without seeing the username first i got so scared

[valdevia]

Remember, kids!

The actual horror is reading things online without checking the context :)

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[liirker-at-thresholds]

The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post

[billiewena]

okay judgemental free zone here because I’m genuinely curious: how much of supernatural have y'all ACTUALLY watched

[deadpigdarling]

has anyone else noticed that the ingroup is morally pure af whilst the outgroup is depraved and evil on an ontological level?

[icarus-homebound]

Ramiz Rafi Mirza, the man you are.

Here's a couple of playlists about him-

(also the SpeedPaint!!)

Rip Ramiz Rafi Mirza you would have loved tagore

just finished Babel or the necessity of violence and now I have worms in my brain

Taglist: @thevagabondexpress @chaosandtwo @lesbocrocker @caterpillarinacave @faithfromanewperspective @quantummeep @totheidiot @nashoe @cult-of-the-eye @archiveofliterature @tlajtollirambles @jokrrouttfynn @i-wish-i-were-softer @screw-wentloose-somewhere

[anton--rayne]

neverrr check the notes on a poll where tumblr users are confronted with the possibility they could visit other countries

[natoapologistblocker]

The worst part is, these people have all been inoculated by pseudo-intellectual Tumblr discourse that Wikipedia is FREE UNBIASED COMMUNITY BASED COTTAGE CORE INFORMATION so they swallow it up instantly and uncritically

[natoapologistblocker]

Don't fucking hide this in the tags

[stackslip]

there's something to say about how chatgpt and ai companies directly seek to monetize people who are lonely/struggling with no recourse, and how they tweak their ai to make it easier for vulnerable people to become dependent on chatbots to then sell and monetize their data, about the surveillance involved—and there are ways to talk about it without sniggering or implying that people with "ai boyfriends" or who use chatgpt or bots as friends/therapy/companionship/aid are some weirdo degenerates who deserved to be taken advantage of and are subhuman in comparison to You, A Well Adjusted Human Being