Stream of [un]Consciousness

Wave of the future.

[pinkw0rld-deactivated20210309]

remember when you were 12 and the internet seemed like an endless source of fun and now you just scroll through tumblr and check instagram?

[pinkw0rld-deactivated20210309]

or is that just me

[p1x1egutz]

thought i was the only that felt this way lol

[parallaxia]

The internet when you were 12 in 2007: Most of your friends didn't use it and neither did your parents. Corporations didn't fully understand it yet, commercialization consisted almost exclusively of banner ads. The most popular social media was MySpace, of which you could personalize almost every aspect and nobody's parents used. Instead of having one Nerd Website that everyone uses, you had accounts on a bunch of different forums related to your interests and each had its own unique environment. YouTube was an uncharted terrain of kids just like you uploading whatever they wanted, unpolished and unedited with no ad partnerships.

The internet in 2020: Literally everyone is online, every member of your family has an account on each of the most popular websites. Instead of being a place you can enter on your own terms when you're ready, the internet now comes to you, giving you a little spike of anxiety with every new notification. Ad spam is everywhere and it's becoming increasingly harder to differentiate between real people and marketing schemes. The most popular social media websites have streamlined, neutral colored UIs that cannot be personalized at all beyond a singular photo and username. Instead of being a haven for fellow weirdos, everyone is a denizen of the internet now. 90% of online activity for your interests takes place on a single website, the community is going to be devastated if it ever goes down but what can be done? YouTube is just mainstream television but on the internet now, YouTubers are rich celebrities who live in Hollywood mansions.

[xxglitterghostxx]

Im so glad people are talking about this cuz Ive been scared it was mainly my depression sapping the joy out of everything again

[fuckkyliejenner]

when you’re dissociating and someone asks you a question

[blackwoolncrown]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

[shittynewyorkercartooncaptions]

[just-shower-thoughts]

In Japan, radiation creates monsters (Godzilla) and in America radiation creates superheroes

[mallemerok]

Shockingly, it’s almost like Japan and America have very different narratives surrounding nuclear fallout. Now, if we all think very very hard, maybe someone could think of why this might be.

[plastikmaniac]

Personal Update

I’ve been inactive for, what, 5 years now? I no longer immerse myself in graphic design or animation interests nowadays, and I have started a family in the past 3 years. I work at a job that puts food on the table, but isn’t very interesting. I don’t “art” anymore. :( Maybe in another few years I’ll get back into it, but for now I’ll be inactive.

[totallytransparent]

Semi Transparent Gameboy Advance SP (Gameboy matches colour of your blog - drag it!) Made by Totally Transparent

[agrabahprincess]

"Made ya look!"

[plastikmaniac]

Hunter Patch Adams: What's wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

Robin Williams, "Patch Adams"

[wilwheaton]

I know a lot of creative people and perhaps by correlation I know a lot of people who struggle with depression. They have told me (and they’ve told the world) how depression sits there, implacable, and drains the color out of the world until no success or joy matters. I believe them, and it becomes increasingly evident that no matter who you are or what you’ve achieved, that depression is a good liar and can make you believe none of it matters.   I know and love too many people with depression to believe that it’s something that’s shameful to talk about or to acknowledge. I want them alive and I want them here with us. If you have depression I want you alive and here with us. Don’t let the moment take you. Don’t be afraid to get help. The people who love you want you here. Believe it.

John Scalzi

No matter what problems you are dealing with, we want to help you find a reason to keep living. By calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255) you’ll be connected to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area, anytime 24/7.

(via wilwheaton)

[thefrogman]

I decided to become a comedian at the age of 14. At that point I didn’t know how to be one—but I was eager to learn.

One of the first things I did was visit my local Blockbuster videotape rental store. Turn right as you enter, head to the middle section directly after the really old action...

[trajans-deactivated20150201]

[sensoryinputpatterns]

From the Agents of SHIELD Blooper Reel

[knerdyknitter]

I love these people

[incognitomoustache]

The Amazing Spider-Man vol.2 #51 (2003)

[dragonsorcsandgeeks]

[oldschoolfrp]

Characters from the Rankin-Bass animated version of The Hobbit, 1977, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.

[wlmager]

Christopher Lee: The real James Bond

"I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like."

Christopher Lee was Ian Fleming’s cousin. Both were distantly related to Charlemagne - and Lee, in his 80s, released a heavy metal album named after his regal ancestor.

Christopher Lee has an illustrious military past. As well as fighting for the SAS (then known as the Special Operations Executive or SOE), he also volunteered to fight for Finland in the Winter War prior to WW2, during WW2 fought in North Africa, and saw the concentration camps first hand. After WW2, he spent time hunting Nazi war criminals.

It was on the set of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy that Peter Jackson and his crew were given a chilling hint of Lee’s past.

Filming a scene in Return of the King (seen only in the extended version), when Grima Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) stabs Saruman in the back on top of the tower, Christopher Lee corrected Peter Jackson on the fact that when a person is stabbed in the back of the chest, they do not scream (as the director wanted), in fact the air is pushed out of their lungs and they “groan” with an exhalation of air, very quietly, as their lungs have been punctured.

From Peter Jackson’s DVD commentary: “When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would, I was explaining to him what he should do… And he says, ‘Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?’ And I said, ‘Um, no.’ And he says ‘Well, I have, and I know what to do.’”

The crew said that they knew Christopher Lee had been in the British Royal Air Force Intelligence Service in World War Two, and they didn’t really push him for more information about how he knew in such detail exactly what noise a person makes when this is done to them.

He wouldn’t have told them anyway.

When pressed by an eager interviewer on his SAS past, he leaned forward and whispered: “Can you keep a secret?”

"Yes!" the interviewer replied, breathless with excitement.

"So can I." replied a smiling Lee, sitting back in his chair.

[nevver]

Patented, Henry F. Phillips