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[rulerofthedistortionworld]

Hi! I'm Winter, or Echo if you'd prefer!

They/xe/heart/song || panromantic demisexual demigirl

Over 21. I won't say that my blog is explicitly 18+ or NSFW, but I do reblog stuff from time to time. Follow at your own risk.

If you need something trigger tagged (ex: gore) let me know. I'm just bad at keeping up a tagging system.

Art blog: @speedythekitty

Ko-fi

Dm my art blog about commissions

DNI: queerphobic, terfs, racists, zionists, people who post yandere content, minors, MAPs/pedophiles, proshippers

Don't be weird

Have a nice day <3

Please don't contact me about donations. I'm barely making it myself and getting repeat messages within hours of each other.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[1lluminae-files]

UNMUTE!!

[teaboot]

POV u are delicious

[louisegluckpdf]

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

[louisegluckpdf]

for reference.

[bringbackgoth]

I’m sorry but this is so pretentious and such bullshit. Cannot imagine going through that critique on a poem of the grief and horror of losing a sibling in a freak accident without slapping the critic directly in the face.

I’m specifically reminded of The Floor Planers by Gustave Caillebotte. A painting of working men, planing the wood flooring in a home.

So they leveled the floor? And?

The painting records an extinct practice, a completely benign and boring manual labor job performed over a century ago that no longer exists. A glimpse into how life was lived before our modern tools were created.

I think of the many painting of Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, Sorrowing Old Man at Eternity’s Gate, Portrait of an Old Man, his neighbors and friends whose names are lost to history but whose visages will be forever remembered.

A poem created from the trauma of losing a sibling, a person that you’ve known your entire life, gone, suddenly, and some pretentious asswipe says “ok and?” Get the fuck out of here.

Especially in the year 2026, with all of our data being scraped and fed to machines so that they can attempt to create anything resembling a human experience, we should cherish all works created genuinely and authentically by human beings.

Keep a diary, write poems about your trauma, create authentic works based on your own lived experience, paint portraits of your neighbors. Even if you never see publishing or fame in your lifetime, you never know how it will be experienced in 50, 100, 500 years from now.

[uwillneverknowwho]

Hey. Stop for a second. Take this moment to appreciate that you don't have to write a paper right now. No one is asking you to write a paper. You don't have to think about the paper or plan your time around the paper. You have the freedom to think about whatever you want. Everything is going to be okay. At least you don't have to write a paper right now

[rrcenic]

honeycomb

[gemini-enthusiast]

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

[songofsaraneth]

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him

[sinsear-aisteach]

and another thing: no child should ever be made fun of for things they love especially by their parents

[sinsear-aisteach]

it should go without saying but apparently it needs to be said over and over and over again because every time i hear my mom tease my sister for playing wolfquest, every time i hear a teacher tease a kid for doodling, every time i hear a babysitter laugh at a kid explaining the plot of a show they like, it drives a fuckin stake through my heart because i was that kid once.

i was made fun of enough times by adults, by peers, for liking something and wanting to share it that i just. didn’t. anymore. 

dont fucking tease kids for liking things. even if you think its cringe. ESPECIALLY. if you think its cringe. because the way you speak and act towards them when they are sharing themselves with you STICKS and they will think of it years down the line.

BE NICE TO KIDS. BE NICE TO KIDS. LISTEN WHEN THEY SPEAK TO YOU. BE. FUCKING. NICE. TO. KIDS.

[corollarytower]

I was a substitute teacher for a little while between grad schools, and one day I had a middle school math class for the morning. The work they were assigned wasn’t *especially* hard, and one little girl knocked it out in 20 minutes. She started drawing what was very obviously Sans Undertale, and when I noticed I wanted to be supportive, and had the following exchange:

“What’s that you’re drawing?”

*panicking* “It’s nothing, I’m sorry, I’ll put it away.”

“No it’s okay, I was just curious about it.”

“It’s nothing. I don’t want to get in trouble.”

“You’re not in trouble, I just thought it looked like a character from a video game I like.”

Her face *lit up* the second I gave her the smallest bit of approval. She started asking me if I’d heard of various AUs for Undertale, and I tried to follow along as she explained her favorites. I obviously had to keep an eye on the rest of the class, answering questions and helping with algebra, but each time I passed her desk she had more things to tell me.

Anyway, it was very cute, but also a little sad how obviously starved she was for someone kind to talk about her stories with. Kids deserve to have someone in their corner, and it takes no effort at all to smile and listen if they have something they want to share. Preserve the earnestness you want to see in the world.

[africanaquarian]

I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

[astraltrickster]

To be very clear about this: CPUs aren't magical devices that can operate forever. They generate heat. They wear out over time. This happens faster when they're operating near capacity. This is not just an attempt to inconvenience you; this is an attempt to damage your property.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

Fuck Google, and I hope they get sued into oblivion over this.

[fernwah-funzone]

i see everyone in the notes talking about newpipe but nobody's talking about youtube alternatives for desktop

IF YOU USE A DESKTOP PC OR LAPTOP, TRY INVIDIOUS

https://invidious.io/

it is a free, open-source alternative YouTube front-end. in addition to not having ads, it has other great QoL features like a download button. try one of the several instances on that link up there ^^^^

[saintjosie]

so i was super pissed and concerned about this but i have just discovered that while this is true, it is apparently only true for google chrome users. i just tested this by having ten tabs open in firefox playing ten different youtube videos at the same time and my cpu usage spiked to 25% as the videos were loading and then dropped back down to 10% as they played.

if you ever needed another reason to switch to a different browser, this is it.

[logan-supernova]

If this affects Google Chrome then this most likely affects all Chromium based browsers. Most browsers are Chromium based, this includes but is not limited to Opera, Opera GX, and Microsoft Edge.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!

Spin the wheel to find out what!

How bad is it?

Actually way better than before!

Its good

It's alright

It's annoying but I'll be fine

It's pretty bad

IM DEAD

worse than death

Nothing changes/results

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

This idea was submitted by @dbnekonico!

[aeyriabird]

sorry to post religious ads but i got this ad

and i can't get over how the artist/graphic designer clearly went in knowing they were replicating classic holy white bird imagery and did a decent job with the editing too, except they either don't know what a dove is, don't know that the bird being specifically a dove matters, or just got real lazy and chose the first all white bird that came up in search results because that is fully a seagull in that image

[delgrosso]

GOD IS COMING FOR YOUR FRENCH FRIES

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you just teleported to the last game you played how is it going? {you're plot involved}

good

bad

great

awful

dead

I don't play games/results

Remaining time: 3 days 8 hours

Soma 😔

[nerdylizard5]

KOTOR… I probably am dead in the intro tutorial part. Or when the planet gets destroyed.

[enki2]

[herbiehero]

The Twilight Zone: Our episode "A Slot Machine Chases You Around Physically" was meant as a cautionary tale about the predatory nature of the gambling industry

The Gambling Industry: We've invented the slot machine that chases you around physically from The Twilight Zone episode "A Slot Machine Chases You Around Physically"

[2mo3cm-man]

That’s a real episode, for anyone who didn’t know.

[willabee]

naptime

[iwantwings44]

the wolfquest discord really liked my drawin gof the coyote

[rhetorical-sandwich]

I can afford but one.

The steam summer sale has allowed me to get one of these games, and i cannot choose

what will it be?

brazilian drug dealer 3: i opened a portal in the favela trying to revive mit...

lucid blocks

Voting ended onJul 1

outsourcing my choice

[rhetorical-sandwich]

what do i even do now?

[ciphers-fr]

🥄 hungryhungrysnappers Follow

aye can i get uh………ingredients on my crepe

🌿 canopychefoffical Follow

jellyfish?

🌿 canopychefoffical Follow

you want jellyfish?

🌿 canopychefoffical Follow

you want fucking jelly fish?

🥄 hungryhungrysnappers Follow

ingredience

[autistobrat]

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for