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seething about the fact that i will never experience photosynthesis in my own useless cells. i bet it feels so good when the light of the sun both warms you and fuels you at the same time. a bone-deep satisfaction mixed with a heated sugar-rush and endless brightness. not that i would fucking know

3liza

IDENTITY EMERGES ORGANICALLY FROM ACTION

3liza

IF YOU DONT DO ANYTHING YOU ARENT ANYONE. SORRY

natalieironside

Also even disregarding issues of gender and politics I find it really really irritating when people try to equate doing martial arts with, like, physical abuse and assault.

Boss, it's a game. It's not a real fight, it's just a game and they're playing together and having fun.

#hoping to write my diss on this topic actually #there is a gap in my country's legal code #which means it is not explained why martial arts/piercings/surgery etc. are not considered harm despite fitting the current definition #when the law says that you cannot consent to your own harm #but lets you consent to these #(my angle is the judges get too much discretion and this causes personal bias to seep in)#((esp in queer bdsm cases which are more likely to be considered assault than straight ones)

priorwaltress

all babies are baby gender. you dress them stupid, in pumpkins and teddy bear suits

hiveswap

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

hiveswap

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

kowai-kabuki-tanuki

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

#this song is what it feels like to be buzzed out your mind on fizzy drinks and chocolate cake in a bouncy castle age 6

thenwearedecided

fuckkkk my sacrificial lamb has started hanging out with the scapegoat

the-artist-lio

stratt upon finding out about bloodymary

feriowind

ready to draw 109847325 more drawings of grace in skirts

homunculus-argument

Random worldbuilding: there's a region in the country with a strong culture of offering homecooked dishes as gifts for all occasion. And over time, they have accumulated an entire category of dishware that aren't any particular individual's property - they are constantly in rotation, being gifted and re-gifted as the dish holding a pie, a casserole, loaf of bread, the list goes on. Once a gift dish is in your possession, you need to make something in it as a gift in return - not necessarily to the one you received it from, but to someone nonetheless.

They're called lovers' dishes, but not for any romantic reasons. The name was adopted after people started deeming the previous name, courtesan bowls, inappropriate. The term courtesan bowl was also a slightly more cleaned-up term replacing a previous one, as the dishware were originally known as slut cups. As they, you understand, they get around.

sunthoon

Project Hail Mary fans after finishing the book and the movie

the-cassquatch

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

dj-of-the-coven

Long collection of resources under the cut.

You're right that the internet is smaller than it used to be, but there's still some cool stuff left in the corners. I'd recommend checking checking out Neocities if you haven't--it's an independent web hosting platform like Geocities of the old web, and there are hundreds of interesting and active pages discoverable both through their search function and through web buttons (links attached to small pictures with the title of a website) within the websites themselves. Here are three examples of web buttons you may find in link pages:

Most Neocities websites have link pages or button collections with anywhere from tens to hundreds of these. Don't be afraid to explore!

If you're looking for something more like a search engine, I can point you towards Marginalia. It's not a particularly smart engine, but it's perfectly usable if you've ever been taught to use search engines back when they were mostly run through keywords instead of full sentence comprehension. There's also an "about" and "tips" section on the front page with more information. The algorithm of Marginalia can be filtered by the user to allow, disallow, or require JavaScript depending on your needs, plus there are filters designed specifically to prioritize web 1.0 sites or mostly text-based ones. It is possible to search for modern websites with it, but it can return websites from just about any decade (since the invention of the web, obviously) so long as they contain the information you're looking for. For example, here are some random interesting sites I've found using Marginalia:

Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Cultures

BASIC HTML COMPETENCY IS THE NEW PUNK FOLK EXPLOSION!

Earthbound Text Labs by Bill Eager

The possibilities for discovery are truly endless.

Now you might want to know about directories. These make browsing for websites easier, but require you to read through and judge which ones to visit, as there aren't algorithms ranking the sites besides the whim of whoever coded the directory. Some of them have themes, others don't. Here are two that I've used:

Yesterlinks Directory

Ichigo Directory

Directories can be harder to come by just by surfing the net, but they aren't impossible to find. Many personal websites have their own directories of interesting sites hidden within them.

Webrings are similar to directories, but are actually more community-based. You have to register your website to be a part of a webring, usually by sending an email to whoever runs it and meeting some kind of entry criteria. For example, my personal website used to be a part of a webring called Sweet Dreams, which was for websites that heavily utilize color palettes and images of cute things, particularly sweets. Webrings will give you access to a widget upon entry that allow visitors and other members to browse between the registered websites in a massive ring, ergo, where the term gets its name. Webrings can have any theme or criteria for entry. If you can make a website about it, you can find a webring for it.

Now, you might be wondering about social media alternatives. I can't offer much, but I can nudge you towards the idea of forums. Here's one I found that could really use some traffic. I also browse a bit on MelonLand forum, which is actually closed right now--it's currently closed on Mondays--but on any other day of the week, you can find a fun community there dedicated to web revival. You can find it through MelonLand's main page. I'd also recommend checking out SpaceHey, which is a MySpace clone that's customizable and easy to use.

I hope this is of some help to you. The internet may feel less magical than it used to be, but that doesn't mean that the spark has completely died out. These types of indie websites need more attention if we ever hope to reverse the damage done to the internet by centralization and corporate interest. People are trying to make the web a cooler place to be, but we're going to have to do the work of finding and interacting with these projects in order to get them off the ground someday.

xerxestexastoast

ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

biothreads

Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!

A collection of 1,966 blogs about every topic

derinthescarletpescatarian

Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I'm going to cry

headspace-hotel

try Radiogarden

rosiewitchescottage

And it's amazing that you can find information that you looked for, just in the off chance, never expect ing that it would really be there.

Are you a word nerd like me, and my father before me?

Then may I introduce you to...

The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of Eng

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

Thank you @headspace-hotel

vintage-tigre

eypril-eypril

okay, fun facts about the titles in young royals for anyone who might be interested:

in the late 60′s, the swedish language was reformed. titles such as herr (mr) and fru (mrs) were dropped, and since then we’ve referred to everyone by their first name in sweden. an example of this is that during my school years, all of my teachers went by their first names. this was a social democratic reform and apart of the democratization. previously, social status dictated how people should refer to each other. at hillerska, we hear the students refer to their teachers by their last names. for a swedish audience, this feels very foreign, and immediately lets us know that this is a very unusual and conservative environment.

however, there are a few exception to the 60′s reform and one is when referring to swedish royalty. before the reform people spoke to each other in third person (“does the lawyer want another cup of coffee?”). because it was very difficult to know the professional titel of everyone you meet, the language eventually evolved around it (”shall there be another cup of coffee?”). once wilhelm becomes the crown prince, the staff at hillerska starts referring to him in third person (“the crown prince”, “he”) when speaking directly to him. we see some of these characters struggle a bit to get it right, and a part of that is probably because it’s so incredible unnatural for a swede to speak in such a formal way. this becomes especially apparent when journalists do interviews with the real royal family. many times, the journalists forget themselves and sometimes those mistakes make it into news articles of their own.

#young royals