where I reblog things and sometimes yap

☙ Oliver • 25 • they/them • @selkie-tea is where my art is btw ❧

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[inkjie]

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lytefoot]

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

You can find tutorials online telling you how to open that thing up and physically remove the mic and wifi module. Frankly I don't trust anything less.

[mookimooks]

Please watch the Gamers Nexus video on LG Smart TV's and monitors! It's basically malware at this point.

[ivy-michaels]

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Corset of Visibility

[obscurelocalstranger]

[fittingoutjane]

Pair this with a black skirt and boots, and you, too can be a Visigoth.

[the-haiku-bot]

Pair this with a black

skirt and boots, and you, too can

be a Visigoth.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[talesfromtreatment]

I... I don't think the patient's weight got entered correctly. Just a hunch

[wimpud]

please, my dog, he is sick

[talesfromtreatment]

Every single note and comment is comedy gold and I'm wheezing from laughing so hard

[awaggaa]

[amnesiaguy]

so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig

[amnesiaguy]

weird as hell, thank you for asking

[gobelindoll]

im rereading project hail mary already dont judge

[candycoatedrox]

getting characters into world-endingly intense codependent queerplatonic relationships is literally what life is all about. it is literally what we were put here on this earth to do

[shirecorn]

Golden Hunter

[chewwypepsicola]

more book sketches and stuffs

[tropicalsteppe]

london fog

[recoveringangelz]

@crabussy

[reluctantlyanimating]

httyding my sketchbook cover

[robogrind]

love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever

[monsterquill]

“some people don’t deserve redemption” redemption isn’t something that’s deserved, it’s something someone does. it’s making the choice to change the way you live your life, to be better, to do good things instead of bad things and try to make up for the bad things. and everyone can and should do that, at any time, no matter what they’ve done. we can’t change the past, but we can choose what kind of person to be now and in the future. we have the responsibility to do so. it is so completely not about “deserving.”

[dingdongyouarewrong]

[noriya-in-the-stars]

I feel like tumblr is the only place that will appreciate this. A few nights ago I woke up from an absolutely incoherent, rolling sleep, where I know I was dreaming in great detail but couldn't remember anything.

Except, the following phrase was stuck in my head after I woke up:

"Project Hail Mary is just a Hallmark Christmas Movie."

And although I am pretty sure some of this nonsense came from my dream-punch-drunk brain, I am unable to shake the realization that there are actually a ... distressing number of similarities between the two.

Some key points:

White collar, cocky/overconfident character goes to visit a spaceship small town

Spaceship Small town has important ties to character's past

First character reconnects with parts of themself/their past through old memories the shenanigans they have in the spaceship town

Character meets a second character there who complements their personality and is often more blue collar, and it's usually a chance encounter Red string of fate my beloved

First character is not a fan of secondary character at first, and it takes time for them to not rub each other the wrong way "WHERE MY BEDROOM?" "BEDROOM??? FOR WHAT?"

First character learns to relax and not care so much "He's kind of growing on me. At least he's not growing in me."

They sing lots of karaoke do lots of activities together

There's a fake out where it appears things aren't going to work out and the characters go their own ways "I don't really know what to say, sooo...." "How do you say goodbye?" "We don't say goodbye."

First character, usually, gets brave and decides to clear the air with second character and go after them TWO OF USSSSSSS

First character has to make a choice about returning to Earth old home or staying with second character

You get exactly one head-bonk kiss

First and second character choose each other, get a biodome on Erid house, and live happily ever after

I don't even care if you read it platonically or romantically, it has the same structure.

I am haunted that I was only cursed with that single phrase-memory from my dream and not the apparently apeshit romcom about Grace and Rocky I dreamed that inspired it. But there you go. Cursed narrative analysis.

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[hollowboobtheory]

one thing you need to know about 2014. is that what does the fox say was playing pretty much everywhere you went. and everybody was just relieved it wasn't blurred lines

[hollowboobtheory]

I canot stress enough that those were the only 2 songs in 2014