stay alive

✦mediocre artist living a mediocre life✦

[r0achinyourc0mputer]

i think any conversation regarding banning tiktok that insists tiktok is actually a force for good misses the point

it doesn't matter if tiktok is the next library of alexandria or if it sucks shit, the problem is that the US government shouldn't have the authority to limit americans' access to the internet so dramatically. the problem is other social media corporations lobbying to ban their opponents. the problem is pretending data harvesting is just fine as long as we're the ones doing it, diverting attention away from how companies like facebook have already harvest and sold way more data than tiktok could ever dream of collecting for the chinese government.

[loverblaze]

the view between villages is actually one of those songs that hits me square in the chest with the realization that it goes so so hard in the middle of the song

[solmarillion]

i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.

[festeredhearts]

[notalicent]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3.07 | "The Dragon in Winter"

[thatshadowintheuniverse]

Little Talks

Another piece for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles and Drabbles event!

You're gone, gone, gone away

I watched you disappear

All that's left is a ghost of you.

[cipheramnesia]

I feel like it hardly matters anymore, but Flock isn't the only unsecured intrusive data selling crime inventing AI hallucinating automated license plate reading mass surveillance camera operators. Axon and Motorola and Amazon and ALPR and CCTV and security cameras should be equally rejected. All surveillance must go.

[cipheramnesia]

There is no such thing as benign surveillance.

[cipheramnesia]

You are never monitored for your safety.

[mintchipped]

rb to tell ur mutuals ur fond of them

[canonkiller]

many people sharing the writing post today... hard to keep up with..... know my universal advice:

if it sucks you should still write it

if it'll be unfinished you should still write it

if you never share it you should still write it

if it's not a linear fiction adventure you should still write it

if you will have fun writing it you should write it :)

[saturns-warrior]

"Pushing Your Luck"

painted with acrylic gouache and every shade of green paint marker i got lying around :^) painted on the mat frame too and it came out better than i thought!

[thatshadowintheuniverse]

An Important Message

For @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles and Drabbles event!

What could possibly be in that letter?

[solmarillion]

i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.

[stiffyck]

Genuinely so important to me that there was no romance in phm.

"You just need someone to be brave for."

And the person he needed to be brave for was his best friend. It wasn't a lover, a partner, a romantic interest. It was his best friend.

And honestly this isn't even specifically about aroace grace- Rockys story could so easily be a romantic one. He's been completely alone trying to finish an impossible mission without his crew for years. And then an alien comes and they learn how to communicate. And with that alien they both save their planets. Rocky gives Grace fuel with no hesitation, even if in the movie it means he will get back home 6 years slower. 6 years longer to see his mate. And he still does it without hesitating for even a second.

That kind of devotion and story could have so easily been romantic. Two aliens who help save each other, who are both the most important people to each other, but they're not lovers.

Phm being a story about friends means so much to me

[bakwaaas]

[coffeeandthoughtspoetry]

― Anaïs Nin, The early diary of Anaïs Nin

[the-sweaty-toothed-mad-woman]

today’s the only day you can reblog this

“There Will Come Soft Rains”, Ray Bradbury

[thatshadowintheuniverse]

Why should I care about one dead dwarf?

For @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles and Drabbles event!

It is sad, how old alliances can be broken.

How friendships between peoples can be lost.