[huffylemon]

[kuro-anko]

a voice beckoned gently, ,,now it’s time to go’’ a requiem played as you begged for forgiveness “don’t touch me”, i screamed “i’ve got unfinished business”

[tevaselmundogiraalreves]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

a lot of people really seem to unironically think sexual attraction is creepy and it's making me lose my fucking mind. like the fact I got an anon telling me it's creepy to call my manager hot. "no bitches?" isn't a meme anymore you all really DO need bitches

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

like have you been to fucking grade school. are you going to call out the teen girls who whisper about cute guys in the hallway with their friends. this is not abnormal behavior for anyone

[soapstore]

being in small fandoms really is like *some of the most creative, visually stunning fanart you've seen* (41 notes)

[soapstore]

being in small fandoms really is like *some of the most creative, visually stunning fanart you've seen* (41 notes)

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[decadot]

Mercurius Pretty — PC98 — NEC (1994)

[slutdge]

fetishizing normalizing romanticizing sexualizing carmelizing that old man in my mind this morning

[weltenwellen]

Maya Angelo, from “Alone”, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelo

[night-writer-writer]

I think we all need some happiness rn so here’s bumblebees sleeping in flowers

Tag list @sithwitch-crosshairs-toothpick @undercoverwizardninjaturtle @kabuki-akuma @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses @shadows-fan-space

[plastic-years]

my friend @crescentlapin

[catgirl-catboy]

No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

[penrosesun]

It’s not a paradox – it’s a different net.

When we were kids, the internet was a sandbox-style open world – full of dangerous things, yes, but also nearly unlimited potential – and we learned to be careful, and we learned fast, and we learned fairly well.

Now, the internet is a series of black box silos built by corporations to maximize engagement at the expense of everything else.

I may have seen Two Girls One Cup by accident and at the tender age of ten, but I never had to deal with companies using gambling-addiction-creating strategies pioneered in literal casinos to try and make me hand over hundreds of real dollars at the same age. I may have been exposed to vicious bigotry in anonymous and pseudanonymous messages boards, but I never had algorithms spoonfeeding me explicitly far right radicalizing content. The blithely unfettered access people of our generation had is just genuinely not the same as what kids with unsupervised access are getting today.

[gryphongirl]

I know at one point someone on here made a great point about the difference between “trusting your kids with the internet” and “trusting the internet with your kids”, and I think it can be tweaked to fit this. (And granted, I was probably also in a bit of a golden era with decent and easily accessed parental controls my parents wielded well, but I feel this still applies)

Back then, it was a matter of whether kids of my generation or older could be trusted with the internet - trusted not to go beyond the safe spaces. The flash game websites, the edutainment tied in to kids’ shows, places the actual kids’ show makers let us watch full episodes online with no ads or heavily scrutinized ones we would have seen on kids’ programming blocks anyway. Were we the kind of kid who would see a parental control feature going “Oops! You can’t see pages on this website!” and go “Oh, thanks for letting me know I might not like it!” (Save for certain instances when it glitched out over something that was fine before), or would we be the kid who decided that the parental controls couldn’t tell what was or wasn’t okay and find a way to barge past them? Our parents had to figure that out. Sites EXISTED that we could be content staying on, and not just paid childhood MMOs either - a lot of flash-based realms had all the exciting fun or educational wonder we could hope for.

Now, those spaces that can keep kids content and happy with their best interests in mind are all but gone. Sites and apps lean harder and harder on paid features, the death of Flash has made countless harmless free game sites go extinct or be abandoned long before now, and the content for kids is dumped unceremoniously into the same spaces as content for those older than them, with both ends of age-appealing spectrum being trimmed and penalized further and further in favor of the marketable middle ground. Younger groups have to more often than not pay if they want to get into spaces suited for them - Star Stable, Webkinz (more than they did before Deluxe Accounts existed, there’s a difference between buying a single plush that lets you access the site and having more and more features behind paywalls), and many others. And on the free sites where kid content and grown content mingles, there’s no trustworthy adult staff even bothering to limit the harmfulness of the site to something as simple as offering every kid regardless of data ads for a new Poptart flavor or card game - all that exists is an algorithm that has one goal - maximize engagement, whether through charm or horror, and no matter who wears such a mask. Now, the internet is the one we can’t trust with a child.

[lestatbf]

sorry for thinking it's hot when men are experiencing the worst torment of their life. as if it's my fault

[enchantedengland]

Autumn at Scotney Castle, Kent (@jameslloydcole IG)

[margalcazo]

This is the story of Prince Apollo and his devoted Knight, Sir Klavier. Here are the illustration i did for the 2021 klapollo minibang where i partnered with @parchmints on her royalty / fantasy AU! I had a blast designing the costumes and the frames for a storybook style. The last chapter just dropped so go take a look! (completed) READ ON AO3

[sumeiru]

redbeanbaby

[plastic-years]

@crescentlapin

[sarakipin]

The Highest Room in the Tallest Tower 🏰🐉