Notes from Nowhere

unfiltered views on life, capitalism, technology, art, fandom, community and the human soul i try to post at least 50% original content fandoms include: star wars, she ra, steven universe, legend of zelda, winx club, sailor moon, harley quinn, gravity falls and more old enough to be your mom

[anarchistmemedistro]

[nobodysprobablysimplethoughts]

spiraling because more and more staff at university are endorsing AI. "Science and AI" talks, "Scientific Publications and AI" talk rounds, "How to use AI for scientific/literary research" courses. I CAN'T ANYMORE!!!

[nobodysprobablysimplethoughts]

do you support women’s wrongs? do you like visual novels?? do you want to experience a fucked up visual novel about an undead woman, a domme (?) and some plantfucking? boy do i have the game for you:

Symbiogenesis by SearedBread

plantfucking toxic yuri VN

[space-feminist]

i feel like "feminist" anti-kink sentiment is very tail-wagging-the-dog. like male doms playing out bdsm scenes of abuse are not oppressing their female subs that's acting. you're mad at acting. you're those aliens from galaxy quest. same with fearmongering about "booktok". however an eroticized version of patriarchal dynamics being a popular kink DOES speak to the pervasiveness of sexism, bc eroticizing the oppression is a way of coping with living under it. it's women creating a fantasy world where men being menacing to them is sexy and not scary like it is irl, or where it is still scary but in the fun way like a horror movie bc you can tap out at any time by using a safe word or putting the book down. acting like this sort of kink is oppressing women is like if you assumed the thermometer controlled the weather outside. it might be depressing to look at the thermometer and see the impact of climate change, but it's not the thermometer's fault

[oblivious-aro]

Attacking the symptom, not the disease.

[soul-hammered]

btw this is true with all aspects of sexual fantasy. even not-kink (whatever that means today). and the proposed solutions don't actually address systemic misogyny but they do make people weird and miserable and constantly disclaiming

[nobodysprobablysimplethoughts]

In regard to booktok „romance“ books (i.e. Colleen Hoover or „Credence“) I have now finally realised something which might be helpful to someone else too: I don’t mind the weird power dynamics or age gaps or even incest or whatever they have. I love fucked up romance!!! I also think that the book itself, characters within or the author don’t have to wag their finger in our faces every time something bad happens and let the reader now that YoU kNoW tHiS iS bAd ACTUALLY!!1! with these sensitive topics. Because then we wouldn’t have conflict or flawed characters or interesting dynamics. What bugs me are the fans who are normalising the characters’ behaviour or talking about it as if this would be soooo romantic irl. The shit I have seen about what happens in ATOCAR that people would deem romantic irl is insane to me. Fiction and role playing are really not the issue. It’s people uncritically engaging with material and transferring fictional logic to real life.

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[delphinidin4]

[dobeydoubt]

[nobodysprobablysimplethoughts]

i am organising an art community endeavour in my rural town (it’s a medium town but with a rural mindset and limited options). it is hard to organise meetings as it seems that there is a lack of third spaces we could use for free. we are not an official club (yet) and so we also cannot use money to rent a place. do you have any suggestions on how to get or where to look/ask for meeting rooms?

((reblogging (also with your 2 cents) is very welcome to get the ball rolling on the advice))

[what-even-is-thiss]

Where’s the YA protagonist teen girl and her two boyfriends that are supposed to save us from this mess anyways

[what-even-is-thiss]

The dystopia books lied. The teen throuples aren’t coming to save us.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Save me teen dystopia love triangle

[what-even-is-thiss]

Teen dystopia love triangle save me

[puppygirllaika]

It's actually so fucking weird that your identity is absolute these days. like, it's been normalized to the point we don't think of it much, but until a hundred years ago, hell even less, you could just kinda. go somewhere else, and be a new person. and that's not a thing anymore.

[secretearthworm]

Yk this is fully untrue right? You can fully still do this if you're willing to change and let go of everything at literally any moment you want

[puppygirllaika]

since a good few people now have said this i want to be clear: you can move to a new town still and change socially, but like. the government still knows who you are. so do tons of corporations. your identity follows you.

[puppygirllaika]

13 hours later and the parade of stupid comments like this has not stopped =_=

[ratbastard69420]

a guy named Rusty cage did a video on how it's impossible to leave your identity behind unless you become a eunuch

[ratbastard69420]

fuck hermit I meant hermit

[puppygirllaika]

Identity is stored in the balls.

[treecitysessions]

“Goonbait” and it’s just photos of teenage girls and women in their early 20s smiling and being happy because they’ve each just accomplished one of the biggest moments of their respective careers

[treecitysessions]

It’s not even because her style is alternative or whatever bc they were saying the same thing about the other girls above it’s literally just that young women can’t be seen by these people as anything but a vessel for their sexual desire to the point that they can’t even see a 20 year old make a silly face while smiling during one of the happiest moments of her life without being like she is clearly doing all this just to make me horny.

[yellow-cat]

im not really worried about aging because im only going to become hotter and more insane the older i get

[idiot-haul]

Why is it referred to as coming out of the closet? 

[idiot-haul]

It could be coming out of anything. What wasted potential.

[idiot-haul]

Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just guys

[kingohats]

#if you want the pedantic answer bc I’ve actually researched this for my thesis#there doesn’t seem to be a for sure agreed upon origin of the phrase BUUUUUT#it seems to be a combo of two earlier phrases ‘coming out’ and ‘skeletons in the closet’#coming out started to be used by gay men in 1920s new york bc a “coming out” was the 1st time a debutante would debut into the dating scene#so gay men would have their “coming out” when they first went onto the gay dating scene#a skeleton in your closet is a shameful/dirty secret that would often only be revealed once a person died#for a lot of queer people their queerness was something they literally took to the grave#so being ‘in the closet’ meant you were the skeleton in your closet#I couldn’t find an exact confirmation of when the phrases began to be combined but it seems to be around early 1970s gay liberation movemen#at the time a popular protest chant was ‘out of the closet and into the streets’#which I think also helped to popularize the term#I’m putting all this in the tags bc I realize this is a silly post that is meant as a joke and I didn’t wanna ruin the punchline#but I also wanted to provide an answer for those who were curious

[guelwaar]

........had to call back a patient asking for refills on [medication you can't refill out of clinic] and tell him he needed another appointment and he was like are u joking i have to pay for another office visit and i was like yes im sorry, if it was up to me nobody would pay for health care period and then he got more upset & called me a socialist & hung up

[kosmogrl]

sorry but I do feel superior to anyone posting ai caricature of themselves. first of all you’re dumb. and second you’re lame as hell.

[de-activated-offical]

I don't use Chat GPT. I stare blankly at a piece of paper for hours like God intended.

[biomancy-artificer]

[maggotmuncher0]

idk why but I misspelled the letter f so i had to be creative

made with rainbow pencils!

[isquirtkerosine]

That elderly couple who volunteers at the soup kitchen after church on Sundays and attends every town hall meeting has done more community direct action than 99% of internet leftists 🤷🏽‍♀️

[isquirtkerosine]

#lol this post is stupid spup kitchens were created by the gov after they literally destroyed black radical organizers lives#and since when does going to a town hall meeting and working within the system help anybody in any significant way

100% agree homeless people should just starve and dumpster dive till le epic revolution happens!

and for sure local politics is so stupid it only handles dumb things like your schoolboard, judges, infrastructure, and rent laws! now tweets? Thats where the real work happens! 

[what-even-is-thiss]

Local activism stopped garbage collection from being privatized in my hometown and local activism is what defunds the police and keeps libraries and community gardens open and gets done most of the things people waiting around for a revolution claim they want. The weird former hippie suburban wine moms donating bags of quinoa chips and money to the food pantry I go to sometimes have done more for me materially then any defeatist political rant on tumblr ever has.

[iamnmbr3]

#local politics#so many people saying local elections won’t do anything for police brutality#when a lot of places in the US elect their sherrif!#and judges!#and all the other people in charge of the police!#but no I’m just a filthy moderate for suggesting we use EVERY tool at our disposal to improve the state of things (tags via @sofiadragon)