#mckennacore

this blog is a twelve years long stream of consciousness don’t take it seriously except for all of it. tx(unfortunately)

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

when I'm on my deathbed im going to queue like 15,000 posts from the perspective of someone who's dead and in hell so that the blogging never ends

[kayleerowena]

the house on ash tree lane 🏚️ tip jar | patreon

[cosmicanger]

[dimetrodrawn]

Drew some pink goblin sharks for @siglati!

[requiem-on-water]

Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

[whyenn-reader]

part of being an adult is figuring out what eveyone else's definition of "going crazy" is. to you it is not sleeping for 60 hours, writing 80k words in one sitting and expiriencing enough anxiety to kill a horse. to beth from accounting its buying a ticket to Columbus, Ohio. and to your friend its consuming so much ketamine you lose all of your posessions and wake up with five broken bones in a ditch somewhere and then proceeding to do it again the next day. to your other friend its writing a letter to their favourite actress about how much they appreciate her work. to your neighbour its laughing loudly in a grocery store whilst in pajamas. maya from uni hears the voice of her dead father making jokes with no punchlines and she considers that to be quite normal - to her going crazy would be hearing her husband instead. your downstairs neighbour will take night walks naked sometimes and claim there is nothing weird about him. there are literally no rules to life and all meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

[arinewman7]

Light in the Window

Neo Bauhaus

acrylic on canvas, 2022

[64mpg]

fool me once that was once

fool me twice not so nice

[flowergrenades]

*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.

[rrondo]

[midnightsslut]

So was taylor really cancelled in 2016 or was it more that she wasn't as popular as she was/would like to be?

oh she was absolutely canceled. buckle up because I have a lot of thoughts on this djsjsj.

if you were around in the fandom at all, you knew. things were BAD. that level of hate towards a celebrity is honestly rare these days. i would say the only thing that comes close in recent memory is like… idk, it’s actually hard to think of any because it was a combination of a few factors. it’s not that the general public decided to quietly boycott her and stop consuming her music. it’s that there were viral tweets hating on her pretty much every week. if she did anything in 2016-18, it was met with an absolutely asinine amount of criticism. twitter had a field day with things as innocent as her september cover and her post about having a good year in 2017. a lot of celebrities decided to distance themselves and take kanye’s side. there were numerous articles written about how she was finally going down and should apologize for being problematic. people were famously convinced the tour would flop and absolutely celebrated it. people literally told her she was dead. it’s genuinely difficult to explain the scope of this hate train to people who weren’t around at the time, especially because the news cycle is very different now. people get over news stories a lot quicker than they used to.

now, the main argument people use to prove that she wasn’t canceled is the first-week sales of reputation, which is sort of funny to me because all the coverage in 2017 focused on how its performance was lackluster compared to 1989. of course it still sold well compared to other artists’ albums in the first week, because there was still hype around her comeback, and most importantly, she has a huge fan base. none of the singles had longevity except delicate, which fans genuinely worked their asses off to campaign for. the radio did not play her singles like it used to, though this is due to other factors as well. sure, rep was not actually a flop, but it was nowhere near how TS6, the follow-up to one of the biggest pop eras of the decade, could’ve performed without the cancellation. it also got the worst reviews of her career, most of which generally didn’t focus on the music or the lyricism and were just mad at her as a person. yes, this sounds dramatic, considering the fact that it still got a lot of glowing reviews. the media made sure to focus on a lot of the negative stuff, although they were surprised that critics generally seemed to like it.

what’s funny is that, when she spoke about the kanye controversy in interviews in 2019, no one told her she wasn’t ‘really’ canceled, because a lot of people still hated her. they just told her to get over it. the level of hate was nowhere near pre-rep tour levels anymore, but she was still one of the most criticized celebrities, and it was widely believed that her peak had passed (people love to write revisionist history about the lover album and its performance that does not actually reflect the numbers, but that’s another story). now that more time has passed, and she’s even higher than she was pre-2016, people want to convince her that she’s actually wrong.

it’s almost insane to me to chalk up that level of hate to anything other than a cancellation. seeing articles like ‘was taylor swift REALLY canceled?’ and essays on why that’s just in her head will infuriate ANYONE who was online and didn’t hate her. none of the articles I linked here really convey the scope of that hate. taylor really played the long game and came out the other side of it, but she WAS canceled.

[time-incantation]

Decor Inspo 𓇢𓆸

[papayajuan2019]

your mistake is thinking healing will always feel good, and not often like molting while clung to dead tree bark

[spectrologie-deactivated2023041]

The Eyes of Texas // Mike Cooper

[whoscallingwhoafraud]

would you tell me to go fuck myself or lead me to the garden

[risingchaos]

T’Pol would be well into her middle life when she heard the news. Of course, she’d heard of their marriage, and the medical advances made. They were a high profile couple after all. Despite Phlox, she still wondered if it was even properly possible. Something deep inside her, something angry and mean and grieving, hoped it wasn’t.

S’chn T’gai Spock is born in the year 2230, and all T’Pol can think of is Elizabeth, dying slowly in an incubator.

She thinks of Trip, her poor Trip, dead on the floor. Of the way their bond had faded slowly, like a flower withering, and then ripped out by the roots in one violent pull. She thinks of the face his parents had at his funeral that his family had invited his crew to, and having to leave to make herself breathe because she knew. She knew, and those two had gone through it twice.

She thinks of the way Trip had been so gentle with Elizabeth, even when they knew what was happening to her. It took days. It was agonizing. And he stayed, a rock against a current, and let her be confused and upset and angry. How they fought when she was gone, and shouted at each other when their grief washed over, and cried side by side when the tide ebbed. How nothing made her feel complete again.

She watches Spock. She meets him, of course. He is Ambassador Sarek’s son, and they are in the same business. She saw him grow up, heard of his doctors and his appointments checking on his progress. How there were things off with him, but overall, he seemed okay. At least, was, eventually. She hears of the animosity to him, the attack on his school, and feels a deep sense of disgust cocktailed with a gross longing. Despite the horror that poor boy and his family went through, she was supposed to have that.

[phantom-threaded]

"So what do I sacrifice? Everything." ANDOR (2022-2025) ROGUE ONE (2016)