To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.
Happy Anniversary. This is the original post. On this day in 2011 I was doing a charity drive for the natural disasters in Tōhoku and drew this. A few hours later I turned it into a gif and posted it here.
Here’s the original doodle before I drew it into a GIF
A lot has changed these past 15 years but it’s delightful to see this little cat continuing to zip past every corner of the internet. Happy 15th birthday to Nyan Cat!
Thank you to everybody who has kept it going all this time. Drew a special cake version today to celebrate 🎂✨
For those who have been keeping their ear to the ground, you may have heard that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning a Markup vote that will include several pieces of internet legislation that we have been fighting against. This is correct. The announcement of what bills will be going up on Thursday have just been announced today, on Tuesday, as they normally have.
However, they have one trick to add to their attempts to bulldoze this invasive legislation through the halls of power.
As can be seen here, there are four bills related to internet legislation in this nine bill markup vote. Three may seem familiar to you: Sammy's Law, the Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act, and the App Store Accountability Act. The last one, however, the KIDS Act (Kids Internet and Digital Safety), is one that you likely have not heard of before. And there's a reason for that. They only just made it for the worst possible reason.
HR 7757 The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act) is an unholy amalgamation made up of all the bad faith online legislation that Chairman Guthrie and his cronies could possibly cram in there. Including KOSA, the SCREEN Act, anti NSFW legislation, age verification, ID Verification. All the worst players. All of it shoved into one giant bill with a brand new name to hide everything sinister it wants to claim is "for the kids" to further push their agenda of censorship and control.
Before this bill goes up for a Markup, which would push it into the House, on this Thursday the 5th, call as many of the House Energy and Commerce Committee members as you can. Tell them everything wrong with the KIDS Act. Especially if you're one of their constituents. But still call into as many as you can.
Don't let them think they can sneak this in under our noses. And do not let them push this through without a fight.
“It’s too trope-y…” “Try not to be too trope-y…” “This one’s not as trope-y as the sequel…”
Cliché. The word you’re looking for is “cliché.” Literally every story in every genre and medium ever is made out of tropes. It’s impossible to tell a story without them. A cliché is when a trope is overused with little variance to the point it becomes a predictable, boring stereotype. Just because you can identify a trope being used in a book, movie, song, game, etc. doesn’t automatically make it a cliché, nor does playing a trope straight rather than subverting or deconstructing it; it just means you can recognize patterns. When executed in a creative or elegant fashion, even a very common trope can still entertain and inspire the audience.
Obviously what does or doesn’t count as a cliché is subjective, and even something widely regarded as cliché can be unironically enjoyed by someone; that’s usually why they persist in the first place. My point is that I keep seeing the words “trope” and “cliché” being used interchangeably, to the point where the word “trope” is spoken of with distain by artists who should know better. Complaining that a story has tropes is like complaining that your food has ingredients.
I think "it's too trope-y" is actually keying into something different than something being a cliche, and I suspect the problem at the root of it is the way formulaic genre fiction started getting marketed in the eternal SEO deathspiral.
If you take a fairly cliche romance novel, you've got the tall, dark, and handsome rich dude who seems forbidding and broody but secretly has a heart of gold and probably a tragic past or some shit thrown together with a brassy extrovert who breaks down his emotional walls with her huge bazongas and ability to express emotions. This could be awesome, or it could be the dullest thing you've ever read, but either way you know where it's going, and it's fine.
If you take that same thing and start cramming in trope after trope after trope because you're trying to tick every single possible marketing box that will get you recced on review sites or picked up when someone punches a string of bullshit into the Amazon searchbar, suddenly you've got a huge fucking mess on your hands. Your characters and plot are just bouncing from one pratfall to the next like a vaudeville clown whose gag props all misfired at once or a one-man band falling down the subway stairs or those SNL skits where everyone individually did an eightball before getting in front of the camera.
Your heroine's pants came flying off in front of the love interest because one of her pockets got caught on the handlebar of a passing pedicab. The love interest's space alien aunt/mother/sister pops up apropos of nothing to reveal their tragic backstory to the heroine just as she's getting fed up with their asshole behavior and then swans off again like some sort of glammed-up deus ex machina. There will be a Greek chorus of siblings or servants or friends buzzing around for broad comedy and/or a sequel book starring them.
The heroine is clumsy and couldn't find her ass with both hands and a flashlight and can't drive. If they go anywhere, there will only ever be one bed. Someone will try to kill the heroine, who will also have a serious illness. The love interest will turn out to secretly be a ninja and also a doctor, and they'll have to fake-date their way out of this corporate retreat unless they want the second mortgage to save the family farm to fall through.
They'll get caught in the rain and snowed in and also the car will break down. Every single side character will be wacky in increasingly incongruous ways. They're enemies to lovers. They're in a second-chance romance. One of them just got stuck in a washing machine because hell is empty and all the devils are here.
None of this will be in the service of the plot or character development, it's just the author trying to kill whoever's reading along while playing trope-bingo drinking games.
Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. They’ve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.
Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.
Look, I know Tumblr is the website of chronically online introverts, but this is also the only website where I have any reach. And I live in America so this is relevant to me. So I'll go ahead and put this here.
Run For Something
Every year there's hundreds of positions that go completely unchallenged. Some of them for areas that you, the general American Tumblrite, probably care about.
I'm being so, so, so completely serious right now.
Run For Something
Run for something, and if you promise to never ban a book, the linked website and @fated-mates can get you in touch with volunteers for phone banking (aka letting voters know you exist, what you stand for, and convincing people to vote for you). Depending on your situation, they'll fund you, too.
(fated mates was more specific about helping Leftist candidates get $1000, but I'll let you listen to them on this episode and decide for yourself. I'm not affiliated with them.)
Women especially need to hear the message 7 times, according to some studies, to be convinced that yes, this is something they can do.
You can run for something! Run for something small. School boards. Municipal government. Run for something as a side hustle. Run for something because you're an empty nester and your book club stinks. Run for something so you can personally push things leftward, even if it's just one foot, that's one foot further towards your leftist goals no matter what they might be.
Run for school board because look at the fucking idiots currently running it. You know you're smarter than them. Fucking, if you've ever completed a school project you're probably smarter than them.
Run for something because Elon Musk is pissing you off. Run for something because you're trying to fight off despair. Run for something because you hate the idea that you can't do anything. You can do something! You can run for something.
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But where to even start?
Don't worry, they got you.
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Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Two neighborhood people who were involved in being community support for my union decided to run for library board and not only did they both win, they beat out my least favorite board member who is now no longer my problem. These two new pro-union board members will now be on the board the next time we have to negotiate a contract. This makes my life, personally, demonstrably better and easier. Just because two people decided library board was something they cared about.
I see so many posts of "I'm just gonna brain rot between Xmas and New Year's" but BOTH my parents' birthdays are in that time, turning it into "make sure this additional day is meaningful and also not wrapped in Xmas paper" week.
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