quadtator, going dark

omnipitence doesnt exactly do execeptions ^moot points for whoever names where the quote comes from^ TAG ME IN SHIT YOU WANT ME TO GET TO FIRST

[bloodied-dagger-deactivated2024]

final song of the week is “Somewhere Out There” by acloudyskye btw. Y’all should go listen to it

[sirartwork]

Because I’ve lost control of my life

[sirartwork]

reblog for the blessed 100k

[sirartwork]

[morinokunikara]

[snelbz]

IVE ONLY HEARD WHISPERS OF THIS POST

[fireflychaosdemon]

I know nothing about this fandom so reblogging for the mutuals who do know things about this fandom

[heartwarminganimals]

Ploop ploop ploop

[creepymutelilbugger]

i know this is a predator. like a hardened killing machine. tempered by hundreds of years of evolutionary prowess to fine tune him into a living weapon. but ohhhh the little BABYYY look at the Little Bouncing Baby he is going Boing Boing Boing oh my gooddddd

[guerrillatech]

[pastadoughie]

dysphoria jacket save me,,,,,,,,,,,,

[pastadoughie]

studyy of a photo of m e. proly the closest i wil evr come 2 postinhhhnm my face

[pastadoughie]

1 day im gona become a boyy &tghen itll be all ovr 4 u guys

[sunb1eeder]

the establishment fears this.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Somebody had to actually dig the holes in the movie ‘Holes’.

[coffeekenzie]

that’s what interns are for

[journie]

Builds character

[roxxydoubleexes]

His name is Tim Everett.

He plotted all of the holes in “Holes” using 3D modeling. He also supervised the production of all the lizards in the same movie.

He built the storm in “The Perfect Storm” and now he’s the Hollywood go-to guy for water effects. The whirlpool in Pirates of the Caribbean? Tim fucking Everett. They asked for him by name.

He’s the man who taught me how to model mountains and light caves. He showed me how to frame a scene in classical 3-field vignetting. He is a hard ass when it comes to lazy work, and he is one of the most amazing artists I have ever had the pleasure to present my work to.

That someone believes some poor intern had to dig all those holes is a testament to his work. Tim Everett is an environmental guru.

Someone did dig all of those holes.

His name is Tim Everett.

[a-redharlequin]

Holy crap. Now that’s dedication.

[adriofthedead]

[mens-rights-activia]

[oblivious-aro]

I am too caught up in the first two-thirds of the first sentence to care about the gross negligence of civic duty or whatever going down below.

[weinermannnnn]

which is multiple times a year because i have many legal identities is the funniest thing ive read today

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Like. People are learning mandarin to join this social media site. I’m not joking. There are tutorials going around to show people who don’t speak Mandarin how to sign up for this app. They’re all talking about how they’d rather learn a new language than join instagram reels and it is not a thought in ANYONE’S mind that tumblr is also potentially an option

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

To be clear im not mad about this. I’d rather see a generation of people learn a new language and engage in cross cultural connections than have a wave of tiktokers flood this app but I still think this whole thing is very funny

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

no because that is quite literally what is happening on Red Book right now like. All of the Chinese users went “hey why are there suddenly a gazillion Americans on here?” to which the Americans went “they’re banning TikTok and we’re moving out of spite” and the Chinese were like “oh cool send us pictures of your cats and help us with English homework and we’ll send you pictures of our cats and help you learn Mandarin” and as far as I can tell everyone is having a genuinely very nice time together.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

the beauty of elden ring's world is that it demands a blood sacrifice to effect any change whatsoever and then never tells you when to stop

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

and you can start out with the best motivations in the world but every step past the first will be blanketed in and colored by that uncertainty of: am i doing this because i need to, or because i want to?

maybe you could have put the sword down ages and ages ago. maybe you haven't yet paid off your debts in full and if you stop now it will have all been for nothing. maybe it'll never be enough. maybe it doesn't matter either way, and your hands are already bloodied so you may as well keep exacting whatever toll you like on anyone who you deem unfit to live.

you pray to god and it says, oh, you want to change the world? you want to free yourself from the cycle? of course. anything you like.

here's the knife.

start cutting.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i'm in a blood cult, you're in a blood cult, this whole fucking continent is in a blood cult

[greater-than-the-sword]

If anyone remembers the old story about how male prisoners were found to be calmed when their cells were painted pink; (oft cited to prove that the color pink has a calming effect on men) apparently this research was replicated with other paint colors and it was found that any color of paint has the same effect, including painting the walls the same color that they were before. As it turns out, you have to clean in order to paint, and people are happier when their environment has been recently cleaned. The obvious takeway is that correlation does not equal causation, but the even MORE obvious takeaway is the many times proved but seldom acknowledged law that one should never attempt to extrapolate general principles out of studies done in a prison

[marvel-lous-things]

Bartender: thanks for stopping that bar fight, spiderman. Can I get you a drink? It’s on the house

Peter: thank you, but I can’t

Bartender: why not

Peter:

Bartender:

Peter, trying not to give his age away: I’m pregnant

[eldritchcannon]

Bartender, shook: oh, congratulations, boy or girl?

Peter, now in full-on panic mode: it’s an uh, spider

[moonbeamdagger]

I’m seeing stuff in the notes about “Miles would do this” and I just want to say: you’re absolutely right. All Spider-folks across all universes share one (1) singular brain cell and most of the time it’s Gwen’s.

[seananmcguire]

As the current author of Spider-Gwen, I can attest that Gwen has not seen the brain cell in years.

[marvel-lous-things]

[sephiebutsepia-deactivated20200]

I FOUND IT

[adragonhoardingstories]

I finally lay my eyes upon this glorious post myself

[birdsareblooming]

OKAY, WAS ANYBODY GOING TO TELL ME THAT SEANAN MCGUIRE AUTHOR OF WAYWARD CHILDREN WRITES/WROTE FOR SPIDER GWEN

[dorothylarouge]

Hey how come the truck automatically locks when it explodes and bursts into flames

[typecasto]

hey how come elon musk can remotely unlock any tesla vehicle

[alicehealer]

He ly how come elon musk has access to security footage of you charging your car

[squeakitties]

do not, under any circumstances, buy a fucking tesla

[exeggcute]

I feel like anyone who calls the dialogue in kojima games "contrived" or any variation thereof is simultaneously missing the point and denying themselves the fun of watching an extremely long game-movie, but also, the man literally just tweets like this

[exeggcute]

exhibit B

[domicileensnared]

Please know that second one is about him being locked out of his instagram account for 15 minutes

[skullvis]

When you understand that kids and teenagers being salty about literary symbolic analysis comes from a very real place of annoyance and frustration at some teachers for being over-bearing and pretentious in their projecting of symbolism onto every facet of a story but you also understand that literary analysis and critical thinking in regards to symbolism is extremely important and deserves to be not only taught in schools, but actively used by writers when examining their own work to see if they might have used symbolism unintentionally and to make sure that they are using symbolism effectively:

[hyperspacial]

When you understand that a lot of the reaction against literary symbolism is because we don’t educate about  symbolism as a communication form (people have historically used x symbol to mean y) and instead is taught as a fact (x symbol means y) so it strips analysis of any relevance to the world or other texts AND we don’t teach tropes/archetypes/genres from a young age so students are being exposed to literary analysis for the first time as 13-16 year olds and rightfully feel like it’s been made up

[skullvis]

Delicious. Finally a good fucking addition.

[yourenotsylviaplath]

When you become a teacher and you realise that the reason teenagers don’t like literary analysis in English class is because they’re forced to try and decode the ‘right’ analysis that exists in their teacher’s head and are spoon-fed small, language-based points that can easily fit into an exam answer because teachers don’t want to risk allowing multiple, sometimes imperfect interpretations in their classroom that might foster a love of reading because they’re too concerned with teaching exam technique: 

When you realise that the system is set up like this because so much pressure is placed on exam results as the only metric of school success and frequently determine the amount of funding a school receives, which means that poorer schools which are frequently low-performing desperately double down on the teaching method above: 

When you realise all of this is supported by a Conservative government because they haven’t bothered to read any pedagogical research published in the last fifty years and think that school should be ‘hard’ in order to ‘weed out the clever ones’ because they can’t imagine a classroom functioning in a way other than the shitty private schools they went to in the 70s: 

[skullvis]

FINALLY. ANOTHER GOOD ADDITION. DELICIOUS.

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

i know most people following me dont care about the weather, but i really need to share this because im genuinely gonna throw the fuck up dying of laughter over whoever runs this national weather service account on twitter fighting for their lives

[mrcloudyfun]

This hurts my soul

[phantomrose96]

We've lost a lot to the onslaught of enshittification but I can think of none more brazen than Discord getting rid of the send button

[phantomrose96]

Oh, you've typed a message? You've typed a message? Would you like to add a sticker (server stickers available with Nitro Boosts(TM).) Would you like to add an emoji (more custom emojis available with Nitro(TM).) Would you like to send a gift (gift your friend Nitro(TM) for only $9.99 a month.) Would you like to add an app (more apps available in the Nitro Store(TM).)

[phantomrose96]

They got rid of the send message button. On the send messages to my friends app. In order to make room for a 5th button that sells you something. The parody is too bold people will roll their eyes you have to scale it back.

[the-final-sif]

I would like to gently point out that the send button can be enabled or disabled under accessibility,

Also, if you're someone who'd like to customize your discord further, or remove nitro garbage or bypass it, better discord (an open source project) can be used on desktop for a lot of fun results:

BetterDiscord extends the functionality of DiscordApp by enhancing it with new features.

Plugin options can entirely replicate nitro stuff, and enhance privacy, such as:

RemoveChatButtons - BetterDiscord

Remove annoying buttons like the Gift button from the chat box.

"Fuck those buttons"

InvisibleTyping - BetterDiscord

Enhanced version of silent typing.

"Hey maybe I don't want you to know when I'm typing"

SplitLargeMessages - BetterDiscord

Allows you to enter larger Messages, which will automatically split into several smaller Messages

"Fuck the character limit"

BetterFriendList - BetterDiscord

Adds extra Controls to the Friends Page, for example sort by Name/Status, Search and All/Request/Blocked Amount

"Can I see my friends in a normal manner please"

BetterAnimations - BetterDiscord

Improves your whole experience using Discord. Adds highly customizable switching animations between guilds, channels, etc. Introduces smooth

"I would like navigating discord to be like a powerpoint please"

And many other features that range from helpful to profoundly useless but fun.

Enshittification sucks, but the first step to undoing it is taking control of your experiences and helping others do the same. So hopefully this helps a little?