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“if no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something” is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying “it’s seahorse time” on a denim jacket

starseekrr

greenycrimson

Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too

chemicalheart-deactivated202009

Me

bearotonin-international

Floofability score: sheep

bearotonin-international

Although logic, common sense, and basic self-preservation instincts tell us better, we must agree with you, Good Sir

bearotonin-international

A point we cannot refute

violetsandshrikes

Spotted Hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) by leuli

theropoda

skoople

queen from deltarune is like if the green m&m was autistic. aaand post.

peelingmandarins

shortgremlinman

Weathering with you was really good I've never seen the rest

sweetfirebird

I just read something about some fanfic readers on TikTok, mostly younger ones, are against AO3 because it doesn’t recommend fic to them. As in, it doesn’t track them and auto-feed them content using an algorithm.

I am sure it’s not every younger fanfiction-reading nerd. But….

The generational divide between old internet and new internet users is so stark sometimes. Like. That younger people don’t remember the individual fanfiction websites days… okay. I get that. Some of them weren’t even born and time is time and it moves on. It’s fine.

But to grow up with an internet where you do not get a choice, or not much of a choice, except to be fed content? Oh wow that’s a yikes I’ve never thought about before.

Yeah, there’s some filter capabilities but companies override that all the time with subtle little changes. Youtube recommends stuff constantly (often conservative videos even to me who has no history of watching or liking that shit). Twitter and Facebook got rid of chronological posts and even when you try to get rid of suggested posts, they come back. Instagram is basically all ads now. And then TikTok literally doesn’t even ask you to search (and as I recall, their search function sucks), and you can like videos to change what you see *a little* but ultimately the algorithm will lead you wherever it wants.

That’s so sad to grow up with that. Choice and searching and relying on your judgment and the recommendations of people you like… those are good things.

I am not like “oh those youths!” here. I am “fuck these corporations!” here. Look at this shit. It’s not a rec list from someone you like and trust–it’s what corporate has decided you should like. And a lot of these kids have not known anything else. That’s scary and infuriating.

poisonheart

It’s kind of terrifying to think that a lot of people no longer want to explore—or discover! That they just expect to be given suggestions, that the content should always find them, when one of the biggest pleasures I had was looking through long fic lists to see which one sparked my interest. And then reading fic comments to see if I could find other readers or writers—check their saved/faves/bookmarks or published works.

It was similar to the pleasure of entering a library, roaming through the shelves and finding random books that would become my companion during those long summer days as a kid on vacation. To see that people would trade organic discovery for algorithm based suggestions (which have not shown me anything I actually wanted to see/engage with on other sites) is sad, especially because this generation has never known different and refuse to even try different.

abz-j-harding

Honestly beyond AO3 there is this -thing- that is being described but not identified in the behaviour. ….the growing attitude of expecting everything to be served to you on a plate without the need to make a choice for yourself, Then slander the stuff that requires you to actively search and think for yourself is a fucking horrendous one. it’s the same attitudes that have given rise to AI art Generators being made (at the expense of artists), why libraries are struggling.

Convenience makes us lazy, docile, and easy to manipulate.

and something that comes up in bloody dystopian literature.

wack-ashimself

espanolbot2

It’s wild that back in the day futurists assumed that with increased automation and computers it will enable people to have more free time, but in actuality it just make the capitalists decide to make people do more work for less instead.

Like, “Oh, you did what used to be a week’s worth of work in a few hours? Then you can gets months of work done in an entire week! Make more money for me faster, hooray!“.

nautilus1996

girl im turning into an octopus help me girl

arachnidsgrrip

stop holding the ZL button king

galaxywarp

lulu misses me a lot when im gone but she’s really not big on physical affection so the way she shows her love is by following me around from room to room and staring at me.

everytime I turn around I see her literally like this

galaxywarp

deus-ex-moshina

STOP!! This is the mooncake line. If you see this on your dash you can have one quarter of this mooncake 🥮 with your favorite filling and a tiny cup of freshly brewed oolong tea that’s just cold enough to drink. Okay enjoy

watermlon-deactivated20211021

finally

watermlon-deactivated20211021

i am so tired of ppl not watching the video and rbing with their ignorant opinions going on abt “dress for your body type” and shit like…. that’s not the point. the point is that almost everything deemed trendy and attractive is awarded these qualities BECAUSE they are worn by tall, skinny and usually white bodies.

if y’all had bothered to watch the video, you would’ve seen the comparison between gigi hadid wearing denim shorts and a regular ass shirt and a normal fat woman wearing the exact same fit, and how drastic the reception was for the latter. it’s the exact same outfit, nothing revolutionary or new, i can’t even call it fashion—denim shorts and a t-shirt. yet the fat woman was mocked relentlessly online and said she looked like a racist, while miss hadid was praised for being a trendsetter and a fashion icon.

and not for nothing but y’all have to shut the fuck up abt dressing for body types. it’s bullshit. women should be able to wear whatever the fuck we desire without needing others’ approval for whether or not our bodies are attractive enough for you to let us get out of the house or post pictures online. the most important thing is that YOU like what you’re wearing and YOU feel confident and comfortable in your outfits and your expression of yourself. wear a long skirt “even if” you’re short. wear 6 inch heels “even if” you’re 6 feet tall. wear crop tops and hot shorts and backless dresses “even if” you’re fat. cover up and take off whatever you want as long as you like what you’re wearing.

truestoriesaboutme

Fox Mulder is such an amazing character, though, because on paper, he sucks: Wiseass federal agent with a porn addiction who is obsessed with conspiracy theories, thinks he’s the smartest guy in every room that he’s in, and is just hot enough to be dangerous.

But David Duchovny plays him with such dumb, gleeful kid energy that suddenly it all just…works. You can’t hate him. Look at him!

He’s got nonthreatening male sexuality of a Disney prince in the 90s. You look at him and think Look at this hot idiot, He’s trying his best. All he wants to do is get laid, infodump to his girlfriend, and meet a real life dracula. He’s like if you turned an orange male cat into a human. He definitely owns an album of Halloween sound effects. He’s six feet tall but he’s just a little guy.