yeehaw

soulja boy tellem im too shy

[memorycycle]

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

[schermit]

[minmos]

really obsessed

[rhelaza]

spellweaver ✨

[theotheryongbok]

[spinchs-field]

love how when i get a new interest, i’m like “oh god it’s happening again” and i’m stuck like that for about a week until everything explodes and any interest i’ve had prior is completely dwarfed for an unknown amount of time

[spinchs-field]

like this

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

catholic priest drag king called Father Issues

[awesome-bluehair-universe]

In case you writers ever wondered. Made by Carrie Patrick on Facebook.

[saybyebus]

The object comparisons are things of an equivalent weight, not things you can cut with the swords. Just saying so to preemptively stop cursed comments.

[mutantrenegade]

[coobk-blog-deactivated20260103]

[noesa]

i think the thing that is specifically bothering me about the conversation about the new hbomberguy video ("live your life in a way so that hbomberguy doesn't tear into you for 3 hours", "hbomberguy has figured out how to death note someone through video essays", "oh new hbomberguy video [incredibly dense paragraphs of text] i now despise james somerton") is that it really feels like people aren't paying attention to what hbomberguy was actually saying. like, as much as he wanted to make people aware of the plagiarism issue, he also very explicitly did not like the fact that he might even remotely have a financial incentive to make those sorts of videos. and rather than the last video, which was a "get mad about this" call to action, hbomberguy spent this whole video sympathizing with the people who were directly out indirectly affected, and wanted the focus of people's attention to be on uplifting small queer creators

but also, negativity drives engagement so i guess it's to be expected.

[dinkypoo]

completely agree. I think much like the tellarico situation it wasnt that hbomberguy called him out because of malice or power , or to flex that he could ruin someones career- which is the tone people are taking to those videos. Harris Bomberguy could not waltz in and ruin anyones career , at any time. Harris bomberguy keeps running into cases where small creators are being taken advantage of - REALLY obviously- by people who draw more attention. And the point is to give credit where it was due and call attention to THE laziest lying u could ever conceive of. the entertainment is in applying sherlock-levels of effort and anaylsis to people who regularly leave smoking guns lying around. and the education is knowing who joey Kuras is ! and checking out Matt Baume and the playlist of queer creators in the description who are getting buried under james's stuff.

[bumblequinn]

yes yes yes. i think the very last segment of the video should not be overlooked, as well. he poses a really important question: why do people plagiarize? and he offers one possible explanation: we all have a little bit of "nothing" inside us. as social animals, we look to other people—particularly those who we imagine as having it all figured out—in order to model our own behavior. and in so doing we learn to navigate the world through social learning and imitation.

at its most innocuous, this facet of human existence is not harmful, but beneficial and even necessary for finding oneself through trial and error. but taken to the extreme, imitation can be used as a shield from discovering oneself. why bother with all the pain and tribulation of learning who you are when you could just... pretend to be somebody else? why risk failure when you could just steal someone else's success? it's a profoundly cynical and ego-preserving way of navigating life, and it has obviously terrible consequences for the people being plagiarized. but it's also... sad. it's sad to think about someone living life that way.

it's an incredibly thoughtful way of talking about a very ugly subject. and, importantly, it's a cautionary tale. i don't think it's at all accidental that harris concludes by drawing attention to the fact that finding your own voice is Fucking Hard, but You Have To Do It. because we ALL imitate, and there isn't some exceptional, intrinsic Evil Thing lurking inside people who exploit that for their own gain at the expense of those around them. we all have the potential to do harm in this way, and we MUST be mindful and intentional and caring of others if we are to live authentically. and harris encourages that so earnestly and so emphatically.

easily the most important message of the whole essay, but i fear it might get overlooked being, you know, at the very end of a four-hour exposé. when you neglect your own voice, you risk simply taking someone else's, and that's bad for everyone. so do the work. do the work. do the work.

[penroseparticle]

This website is elite. This website is the blueprint, it's the pinnacle. There is no website like it. I lwill never leave this website

[tulilips]

[memorycycle]

ever since i was a young hydrogen particle 14 billion years ago i knew i wanted to be wasting all the hot water in the shower

[memorycycle]

Lol.

[memewhore]

[truestoriesaboutme]

The fucked up thing is that Texas actually looks like this

[violetsandshrikes]

is there anything that the humble chicken cannot do

[funnytwittertweets]

[invaderxan]

Tumblr burned down years ago, and now a tranquil meadow has grown from its ruins

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Tumblr is that barren pasture in Costa Rica that was purposely filled with 12,000 metric tons of orange peels by conservation researchers. Initially, the orange peels decomposed into “sludgy stuff filled with fly larvae.” This led to accusations that the juice company providing the peels were “defiling the land,” and thus, the site was ultimately abandoned. But when researchers went back about 15 years later, they discovered “the arid landscape had been unrecognisably transformed into a dense, vine-filled jungle... as for how the orange peels were able to regenerate the site so effectively in just 16 years of isolation, nobody's entirely sure.”

And that, my friends, is Tumblr.

[rexidot]

(via @lastvalyrian)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[changeling-chatter]

PREV??????

[oneheadtoanother]