Running on gummy worms and monsters

Hi, I'm a college kid who does theater as a hobby/sidejob. I mainly do sound but I've done a little of everything. I'm just gonna be ranting here. So buckle up. 

[hollowboobtheory]

I have to upload this as a video bc you can see her think this in real time

[maraudingcaptain]

OP you just can't leave out this golden comment

[lesdemonium]

i made your favorite dish. i made you something you’ve never tried before. i love you. i spent twenty minutes chopping. my grandmother made this for me when i was little. i made this dairy free for you. i love you. i want to eat together. the onions made me cry. i love you. i learned this recipe for you. i love you. i made this special for your birthday. i love you. i know you don’t like peppers. i love you. i love you. i love you.

[timemachineyeah]

I feel like there’s a category of advice that’s like:

This does work for a lot of people, so it is absolutely worth it to try it, and if you haven’t tried it because you’re just “pretty sure” it won’t work for you should maybe try it anyway even if it feels ridiculous, because it might help more than you think. But also, like, it’s irritating to be suggested this again and again when you have tried it, so if someone says “yeah I tried that, it doesn’t work for me” please drop it. Drop it immediately. And if someone says “I’ve tried everything” and this is pretty clear First Thing You Try advice, like, they probably tried it.

Virtually no “lifehack” or whatever is universal.

Advice like list-making, affirmations, exercise, journaling, going outside, etc. Like, it’s not bad advice. Don’t dismiss it out of hand. Don’t be anti-recovery. But also its potential for being trivializing and condescending is through the roof.

[monkey-feathers]

There’s apparently rumors that Sony is already working on several films involving Andrew Garfield’s Spider-man. Tom Hardy DID say he would only play Venom as a villain if it involved him and him only. His influence. Just imagine the chaotic energy between Tom “of course I’ve had gay sex I’m an actor” Hardy and Andrew “my octopus teacher was oddly sexy” Garfield. I’d give my left kidney for this movie.

[santijpg-gone-deactivated202303]

what would you do if you saw jeff bezos in real life?

like to murder him in cold blood

reblog to murder him in cold blood

[sidnakdbsjndbsb13726]

scroll past to murder him in cold blood

comment to murder him in cold blood

[ot3]

i truly believe that the Video Essay is the single greatest way of receiving information. someone who is really really into whatever theyre talking about getting to present it however they want with almost no audiovisual restrictions. what could be better.

[ot3]

#an article. an article would be much better. 

listen don’t get me wrong i love articles as much as the next guy, catch me with my folder full of JSTOR pdfs but an academic article 1. has much more specific standards of structure and presentation 2. often is geared towards an audience with at least some baseline knowledge of the field they’re discussing, so there’s in general a much higher barrier of entry for engaging with them, meaning it’s a little bit less of a leisure activity and 3. this ones the most critical - i can’t read an article while i’m drawing 

[thesmutgoddess]

i could never delete my tumblr. it would be like someone burning their diary. it is the only thing keep those years from blurring together completely. i don't know how u girlies do it.

[funnytwittertweets]

[shutyourmoustache]

What instruments do you play?

Him: yes

[bendingsignpost]

[Tiktok: white text asking “Musicians, what instruments do you play?” Cuts to a man asking the question aloud. Cuts to another man in a pink shirt who proceeds to play ‘Fireflies’ by Owl City on a seemingly unending series of instruments, initially only doing one note of the song per instrument.]

[alyss-spazz-penedo]

video ID loses points for not mentioning that the rendition of Fireflies is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

[alanaisalive]

Back in the day, this guy could have made some serious money playing in orchestras for movie soundtracks. (It’s mostly done with synths now and it’s kind of a dead art.) One of my music profs in college used to play on film soundtracks for a living and he explained that they would pay you per instrument. So the more stuff you could play, the more you would get. The loophole he constantly exploited as a guitar player is that every effects pedal counted as a separate instrument for some reason.

[fulgurite-and-petrichor]

Ok but can we talk about this instrument please? It didn’t get counted >:(

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

SO instrument.

[futureevilscientist]

Thinking about how the Russian word for “comrade” isn’t actually nearly as stilted and formal-sounding in the language itself and would be more accurately translated as companion/fellow/pal/partner (the whole point of it is that it’s a gender-neutral informal form of address that makes no distinction by gender or social class or profession), and how much that simple mistranslation turned viral has done to shape the perception of people living in Soviet times as these fanatical overly stilted communist caricatures

anyway, language and propaganda and all that

[futureevilscientist]

americans think it means soldier when it actually means friend 

Whoop. There it is in one line.

[vaporize-employers]

you have nothing to lose but your chains, bestie

[captainlordauditor]

Proposal: American cold war media featuring Russian characters but the word comrade is replaced with bro

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

The Russian Tracksuit Mafia in Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye’s run now make a lot of sense

[thestuffedalligator]

There’s a bit in Hogfather where two bands of carollers meet in the street.

The first band are upper class aristocrats, who are pleasantly singing carefully edited carols, raising donations for those sections of the poor who they deem worth receiving for being “suitably picturesque and not too smelly and could be relied upon to say thank you.”

The second band is the Canting Crew, the worst beggars in the city, who are all singing and howling and screaming different songs at the same time loudly and badly.

And it’s here that the book says that carolling and wassailing come from old midwinter traditions, when you had to stamp and scream and shake the darkness out of the world. And unnoticed by either band of carollers, squiggles of darkness, the black mould of the soul that forms in winter’s short, bleak, grey days, are squeezed out from their hiding places and into the night by the Canting Crew’s horrible, horrible singing.

Cozy commercialism contrasted by the seasonal urge to rage against the dying of the light.

And that’s what burning the Gävle Goat is like to me.

[memewhore]

[were-ralph]

i will never stop reblogging this how the fuck did she slide against the wall so perfectly

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

seen a this edible aint shit but for adderall

[hardyorange]

sharing @mumblesplash 's tags:

[twofingerswhiskey]

i sat and watched the sunset for the first time in years

[45percenterthen]

nothing makes me cry like the embankment tube station voiceover story !!! nothing !!!!!!!

[45percenterthen]

embankment tube station voiceover story ❤️

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[djkaeru]

this is especially sad while the only pro-democracy newspaper (print media) in the city is forced to shut down this week…

'They won't stop': Xi Jinping wins big as Hong Kong's pro-democracy paper Apple Daily folds up

The paper that backed the popular 2019 Hong Kong protests is on the verge of shutting down as the administration, backed by Beijing, targets

Closure looms for Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily after raids

The pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily looked set to close for good by Saturday following police raids and the arrest of executiv

[dango-daikazoku]

[kutyozh]

[text ID: a comment pinned by “thelastpeanut”, reading:

“I’m genuinely touched by the sudden influx of attention, but I want to humbly remind everyone that each protester you see in this video is now either in jail, in exile or in some form of hiding. Most can’t escape, and now that the decades-old Hong Kong democracy movement has been completely crushed, they’ll likely live the rest of their lives under Beijing’s authoritarian rule. The protesters knew it would probably end like this, but they did it anyways, hence the rallying cry of “攬炒”… “if we burn, you burn with us”.

Most of my friends now suffer from PTSD, depression or perpetual anxiety. Words and ideas that were once debated in public are now whispered in private - or not at all - out of fear that a neighbour or co-worker or family member overhears and decides to report you. I don’t think calling Hong Kong a police state is an exaggeration anymore, and it’s only the beginning.

Maybe it’s too late for Hong Kong, but you can still learn from what happened here. I hope you realise that you’re not alone, that your pain and yearning is shared by countless silent strangers, and that when enough people speak as one, you can move the needle of history. I’ve seen it happen.

Most of all, I hope you remember us.”

162K upvotes, no downvotes, 500 replies /end ID]

[a-shade-of-blue]

Hongkonger here.

I cannot begin to describe the feelings I have seeing this post here. Grateful, but sadden.

The information here is correct, though the shut down of the Apple Daily, the pro-democary paper was already months ago.

One of our biggest concerns now is the National Security Law, which allows the government to basically arrest anyone and ban anything that speaks against them. Movies and documentaries about the protests have been banned in Hong Kong. (e.g. 少年'May You Stay Forever Young’ and 時代革命 ‘Revolution of our times’, which got the Best Documentary award in Taiwan’s 58th Golden Horse Awards. )

A lot of our protestors are jailed. Our pro-democratic socities have disassembled. Our democratic politicians are facing charges or have been jailed. Candidates for our upcoming election for the legislation council are all more or less pro-beijing, and even publishing a poll that shows people are choosing not to vote for anyone this year risks breaking the law.

The situation is pretty bleak, and a lot of us have plans to leave Hong Kong because of it. Especially teachers, who are either unwilling to teach students propaganda and only information about how great China is, or fear that they will say something anti-China and will be reported and have to go to jail.

People mostly avoid talking about politics now. Whereas once we all talked about it openly, you can feel that we are all censoring ourselves now. And even if they do, it is mostly behind closed doors or whispered between friends or using really watered down facing.

(and whereas once I would talk and post about all this in IG, which is popular among HKers, I do not dare to now. Tumblr still seems safe. Hardly anyone know about Tumblr in HK)

Anyway, thanks for remembering us and reblogging this.

[shitpostinguniverse]

[snarkysciurus]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I understand feeling like the Wattpad thing isn’t a big deal if all you posted there was work you feel is silly and ridiculous now. But you did the work regardless and no one else should profit off of that. You may not ever want to see the work you posted on Wattpad again, but no one else deserves to profit from it just because Wattpad decided to cash in. Remove your stuff from the website, do a search for your content in case someone else posted it for you, and send them a goddamn takedown notice. This is a shitty thing to do to young writers, and if it’s not pushed back against, it will only get worse.

[pinkybitesu]

I feel like the worst part about this whole ViacomCBS/Paramount+ deal is that not only does it take ideas and stories from writers, most of whom are very young, but it also gets around any possible agreement and resulting guidelines with the various Writers Guilds (of America, of Canada, etc). Basically, they’re trying to get/use free labor and that is absolute fucking bullshit.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

EXACTLY. The actual content does not matter. It’s both exploitation and a blatant attempt at forcing young writers to accept it. We need to fight this in every ugly form it pops up in.

[drst]

If you’re not aware of this, ViacomCBS made a deal with Wattpad to basically mine content off Wattpad for new shows. There is very little information about how this is going to work and a lot of risk that they will just take people’s ideas and not pay anyone for anything.

Get your fic off Wattpad right away.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Also if you’ve only posted it elsewhere, SEARCH for it on Wattpad regardless, as someone may have uploaded it for you. You might have to file a DMCA takedown, as Wattpad is notoriously reluctant to act otherwise, but it’s worth fighting this all the way through.