Wilted Roses

~ Odd|26 ~Hey, name's Odd. Welcome to my blog of dying passions and wilted roses. Oooh wow edgy. Follow my art blog! Tracking #standardoddity

[quasi-normalcy]

“How were LGBT people able to hijack the rainbow!?!”

Uhh, well Jake, we started using the rainbow to connote gayness and you immediately stopped using it because you were pants shittingly afraid of looking gay.

[elfwreck]

[adelphicoracle]

[glacierclear]

double foxes <3

[jenny-jinya]

TW: animal death / injury / death For grandma, who loved pigeons, and for grandpa, who did not but wanted her to be happy. Please hear me out <3 WEBTOON

[wherehavalltheflowersgone]

So let me get this straight, in Monopoly if you give one player more money to start out it’s “unfair” but if you do it in real life it’s “capitalism”? 

[carriagelamp]

You know what, I’m going to tell you guys a story.

In my Sociology class a few semesters ago, our prof had us break off into groups and, much to our naive joy, began distributing Monopoly boards! We had no idea what was going on but yay! Games! Of course, once our group, and a number of others, got the board we began to work at setting up and distributing the money…

until suddenly our prof told us to put the money down and pick up the dice.

“Roll the dice and sort yourselves from highest to lowest,” our teacher commanded.  "Now, the highest number is the upper class. The next one is upper middle class.  The next two or three are middle class. The last person is in poverty.“

Well, as the person who rolled a two this was startling and not wholly welcome news.

From that point the game changed entirely. We had to hand out the money so that the “upper class” had this fucking mountain, and then less for upper middle, even less for middle, and I didn’t get any triple digit bills. We would all collect different amounts from passing go as well.

The biggest change though? Going to jail. Upper class didn’t. Period. Upper middle class could go but they only had to stay for one turn or they could immediately pay their way out. Middle class had some pretty easy guidelines for when they could pay to get out. As lower class, it was really easy for me to wind up in jail and REALLY hard to get out. But since I was working with so little money when everyone else had so much I was in jail all the time because there was no “game over”.  If I couldn’t pay I had to go to jail for a certain period of time. I had to take out loans with interest I could never pay back just to get out only to wind up back in it again, rolling dice turn after turn hoping to be able to get out.

It was simultaneously the most enlightening and most awful game I had ever played. I was bored and frustrated and a little terrified about it all. And it wasn’t only me. I would never win, I sort of accepted this, but it was amazing how the middle classes reacted as well.  They were stressed. Because they were always that close to either being able to one-up the upper class or from crashing into poverty with me. They had to fight constantly just to stay in the middle.

(I should also mention that the upper class player in one group felt so bad for the lower income players that they ended up overhauling their entire game and creating a “socialist” society instead. I’m not sure how our teacher felt about that one.)

[kierongillen]

Worth stressing this is entirely in the spirit of the original designer’s aims for Monopoly. 

Monopoly’s  original form of The Landlord Game which was explicitly designed to teach people about the unfairness of rent systems. To quote from the wikipedia entry, just as it’s the easiest source to hand…

Magie designed the game to be a “practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences”.[2] She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed byHenry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate.

When the usual suspects start making “don’t bring politics into games” noises, I roll my eyes pretty hard. They have no idea of the history of the form.

[the-anarcho-raver]

WOW.. THIS IS CRUCIAL! Thank you for that!!! 👏👏

[aphony-cree]

I read a study where they had people play Monopoly and gave one person twice as much money as the others but didn’t announce this. In all the test groups the person with more money won quickly and bragged throughout the game about how well they were doing and that they were better at the game than the others were. None of them noticed that they had more money or considered that starting capitol may have been a factor in their winning

Rich people like to believe we all have equal opportunities and they’re just better at playing the game

[southpauz]

They’re dating, your honor

[southpauz]

They’re dating, your honor

[gtkayman]

Creepy girl

[astrelle]

By popular demand, here it is: all 3 sets of my emojis compiled into expression memes! feel free to draw your ocs/any character over these!

please credit me if you use and don’t remove the watermark!

All the individual sets of (transparent) emojis are found under the #emoji tag in my blog. merch for these will be released soon!

[charlesoberonn]

New superhero: Crime Man.

He stops crimes exclusively by comitting crimes. He out-crimes the criminals.

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

The Punisher does this and the crime is murder

[charlesoberonn]

The Punisher doesn’t stop crime, he punishes criminals. Big difference. Crime Man is more proactive than that.

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

So what you really mean is like. A totalitarian government that profiles people and arrests them before they commit crimes (which is a crime)

[charlesoberonn]

No, it’s more like stopping a credit fraud from happening by comitting arson.

[mr-elementle]

*A mugger threatening me with a knife* Give me your money! *Crimeman appearing from the darkness with a bigger knife* NO CRIMINAL! You give me YOUR money!

[sudokobitch-blog]

I love the efforts to get deeply analytical and political but op just shuts them down with no crime man does CRIME

BUT BETTER

[jadensilver]

He finds out someone’s planning to rob the bank so he robs it first so there isn’t any money left when they get there. 

[dikubutto]

Armed robbery? Hold their family hostage until they deliver their guns in an unmarked bag behind a gas station

[charlesoberonn]

shirt and pants with horizontal black and white stripes

A black domino mask

A dark grey wool hat

a big sack with a dollar sign on it where he stores his gadgets

a yellow sash reading “CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS”

[micaxiii]

I drew fanart

did I get it right?

[charlesoberonn]

Now that’s a hero if I’ve ever seen one.

[charlesoberonn]

Check out this amazing Crime Man comic by @micaxiii

[silverjirachi]

You do the crime, you get the crime.

[charlesoberonn]

The plan is working!

[t0mies-b0dy]

HE LOOKS LIKE THE QUOTE ‘Be Gay Do Crimes”

[charlesoberonn]

He is gay, and does crimes.

[werewolfie]

Crime Man strikes again

[aegistrucy]

I like Crime man

[charlesoberonn]

And Crime Man likes you too

[defendor-of-freedom]

¿ what are his Powers?

[charlesoberonn]

Resourcefulness, audacity, and a sense of humor.

[phantomrose96]

I love tumblr. I love that tumblr is the best social media site of 2021.

Every other site has spent the last decade perfecting the art of targeted ads. I am a wallet of flesh and blood which must be stripped bare and profiled and picked apart for the maximally efficient way to squeeze profit from my presence. Every other site will fold and morph itself to a shape of my liking - like a fairy tale trickster stealing memories and taking their mold - to lull me into compliance and loosen my coin purse.

Facebook sees me searching fitness equipment and injects my timeline with athletic wear ads. Reddit profiles the subreddits I follow and eagerly promotes a new coding bootcamp or cloud service at every turn. Google overhears me lamenting over my moving to-do list on voice call and fills in my “how much to tip movers” query before I’ve gotten the third word typed out.

Tumblr never even tried.

They could have. The information is there. The basic infrastructure, presumably, exists. Tumblr can recommend me tags based on tags I follow, blogs based on blogs I follow, even posts that for one reason or another may strike my fancy. Tumblr could be - SHOULD be - funneling this framework into advertising, as the only means that free-to-use social media platforms can turn a profit in our capitalistic hellscape.

They just don’t.

Today I saw an ad for treating Hyperhidrosis - a condition, I think, in which a person sweats too much - and I saw it twice, four posts apart, and it is so incredibly benignly impersonally ineptly untargeted toward me compared to all other pinpoint-aimed advertising that I’m endeared to it. Tumblr knows NOTHING about me. 8 years, 51,000 likes, and tumblr has not learned a THING about me.

Advertisements for a mattress? Shitty mobile game ads that don’t make even the slightest pretense at being anything other than a candy crush rip-off? Choose-your-own adventure games either about Royal Espionage or Choosing The Wrong Dress For Your Date with ZERO in-between.

And then this. This here. The culmination, the crown-jewel of tumblr’s nihilistic non-compliance with the state of social media advertising. Any pretense of capitalistic exchange is abandoned at the gas station by the side of the road. This is not a company. This is not a product. This is not anything that fulfills the contract of consumer and seller. 

THIS. THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR HAS TO OFFER INSTEAD.

“Pour vinegar on your bread, fuck you.”

“Put it in the garbage, fuck you.”

“Your wife says you’re a fucking dumbass, fuck you.”

That’s it. That’s the advertisement. You vinegar-breadless cuck. You virgin extraordinaire bereft of bread and garbage can. I am fucking your wife right now in our vinegar-soaked motel bed. She puffs a cigarette which I pulled from the trashcan and we both laugh heartily at her recounts of your immasculine ineptitude. I don’t want your money. I don’t want anything from you. Fuck you. 

Amazing. Amazing. What a state of things to ring in 2021. What a great platform we all collectively choose to be on.

[awnerd]

App Store Privacy Reports

Apple recently started forcing apps to report what information they collect and how they use it.

It’s really detailed and really easy to read.

And the difference between [tumblr] and the other platforms is… extraordinary.

TikTok Privacy Report for iOS

Facebook Privacy Report for iOS

Tumblr Privacy Report for iOS

Some take-aways

Tumblr doesn’t even have a “Data Used to Track You” section

Facebook doesn’t even have a “Data Not Linked to You” section

Facebook’s “Data Used to Track You” section contains the unsettling “other” category

TikTok links more types of data to you than Tumblr collects in total (almost none of which is connected to you)

And this is just the summary from each app. Apple actually breaks this stuff down in detail. Go to the App Store and see for yourself.

[a-tmblr-book]

Apple’s surveys are typically self-interested (does anyone believe Apple cares about people’s privacy?) but this is certainly a valuable contrast to have. It’s indeed stark how unusual tumblr is in its continued resistance to identity data-mining, although it’s not surprising given tumblr’s history of resistance to advertising generally (tumblr didn’t even start advertising until 2012!). tumblr’s practices are all the more remarkable in 2121 given the extent to which datamining has become totally naturalized across platforms and internet services more generally. Alternative ways of generating income are rarely even acknowledged, as if they are somehow not possible. 

[schafpudel]

#i cannot believe that i lived long enough to see tumblr become the best social media site #what the actual fuck #like to be fair it’s not much of a competition when the competition is trying to saw your legs off but #i remember when tumblr being a broken mess was a mark against it #now it’s a key selling feature #holy shit

[standardoddity]

now it just needs to bring back porn

[sabertoothwalrus]

I love seeing various artists try to figure out how to rationalize Midna’s helmet as some sort of analogous modern hat equivalent when making modern AUs, because like. where the fuck do you even begin

there is no kind of hat that comes close

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

[cloacacarnage]

i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Wtf????

[theryanproject]

Smoove with it too 

[meqabitch-deactivated20200901]

This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters. 

[bankuei]

“Pathetic.  You can’t even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?”

[pardonmewhileipanic]

reminds me of this gif

[sueanoi]

[batter-sempai]

Baseball players are to be feared

[cynosurecosplay]

[thenamesdede]

Reblogging for the last one

[saito-91]

^Same for me

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

They just kept getting progressively more “woah”

[scp2008]

much woah

[lord-blongus]

Oh my god this is a lucky universe

[cleoselene-deactivated20260315]

every time this post comes around, my favorite part is the “I know it’s the Mets” qualifier at the beginning lmao like how baseball that this zillion note posts starts with “sorry for putting this hellteam on your dash, bUT”

[lostspirit101]

Y’all have no idea how hard I was trying not to laugh in class at that poor bird

[wazimoomoo]

They…they just blew up a fucking bird…

[greatcomputerearthquake]

Ball’s dead. Bird’s dead. I’m dead

[they-callme-ami]

I misses this post

[roxinova]

Never not reblogging this.

[dippy-ecks]

Homestucks get your homestucks here !!

[ginger-ale-official]

Jesus, after coming back from the dead: hey guys it’s me Jesus, just look at the scars on my hands

Thomas, a known freak: show us the feet as well please

[ginger-ale-official]

[ginger-ale-official]

Happy Easter everybody

[ginger-ale-official]

Every single Easter you monsters give me a million notes on this post

[hoofpeet]

every year without fail big game companies release multi million dollar games where every hair and skin follicle on a character is rendered and somebody makes a simple game about a goose or smthn that does 100x better than every other game that year and i love to see it every time

[peachy-pumpkin-deactivated-deac]

love triangles can’t exist without at least 1 lgbt person. cishets just don’t know how shapes work

[peachy-pumpkin-deactivated-deac]

I’ve created this helpful info graphic

[ros3quart2]

Most of the characters that people call a love triangle is really just a love corner. And the woman is usually backed into it.

[neongreentoxicity]

Reblogging for the last comment

[such-justice-wow]

I hate this post

Because the line between the two guys is “rivals”

That’s the relationship

Thats why it’s a triangle

[goodboysandgirlswhoplaysmash]

I’ve created an infographic that’s actually useful

[standardoddity]

but in the latter picture, there is no triangularity of love as each line isnt one based off of love. Sure, it’s a triangle in shape, and it might be semantics, but i would argue that in order for a ship to be considered a “Love Triangle”, each line would need to reflect the qualifier of ‘love’ in triangle.

[katswenski]

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