Just A Few Oats

SIde blog for oatcakespodofficial, but I treat this one more like main. Antedilluvian passerby. Late 20s. Cw for various horror themes

[oatcakespodofficial]

Greetings! You may call be NavigatorFitz if you like. Or even Songweaver (as I'm known in another place). Navifitz is also nice. Navi. Navigator. Or just plain Fitz. Or @theperplexednavigator (my fandom/horror blog). Your resident Antedilluvian Passerby.

Either way, welcome to my main blog! Here, you'll find a lot of gremlincore/nature-y stuff/things of that sort, plus some writer-y vibes as well.

This was originally going to be a place to share a podcast I'd been working on, "I'm Sorry, We Don't Campaign," aka, Iswadoc, or just Oatcakespod, thus the title. But that project is currently on hiatus (and I dont feel like changing the name on all my links on other places). I do write other things that I would love to share, including poetry, drabbles. (Perhaps eventually more horror as well...)

In spirit, this blog shall be called "Theperplexedoatcake," but once again, I'm too nervous about changing the name atm.

To be honest, I can way more often be found on @theperplexednavigator , where I reblog a lot of horror media and the like.

I'm currently hyperfixated on analog horror, animatronic horror, j horror, and general spooky vibes (one of my big special interests is horror and so on), as well as general fae folk vibes, so feel free to chat about any of that on either blog.

I'm a shy, gothy creature, but I would love to make a few friends here!

Is that all? Hmmm...seems to be...

Okay, well I guess I'll close this out. Cheers!

[theperplexednavigator]

A new official greeting! Hello, it is I, the Perplexed Navigator of which she speaks. Greetings to any newcomers, and I hope you enjoy your stay!

[hxneyfarm]

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

[peachfruitcake]

Witch Sheep

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[passionpeachy]

The point isn't "stop criticizing indie artists" or "defend your favorite show under this post". I don't even watch Digital Circus and no one is above criticism. Literally every indie show is getting torn to shreds on twitter right now and I'm not saying this to defend anyone I don't know. The point is "someone who actually has the power to kill us all and get away with it deserves way more ire and accountability than a cartoonist and I expect grown adults to understand this"

[brandontheoutcast]

Looming Shadow

[theperplexednavigator]

Birthday! Also, happy birthday to @inconspicuous-clovers !

[dracoj]

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

[alex51324]

Yeah the thing is, when you're a kid, there are often a lot of people going out of their way to make things fun for you: parents, other family members, your friends' parents/families, adults at school and at community places like libraries...and that's on top of your friends your own age, and the general fact that as a kid having fun is one of your top priorities.

And then if you go to college, there aren't quite so many people making things fun for you--although there are RAs, and the student life office, and various clubs and organizations doing activities, etc.--but you're in an environment where your friends are nearby and you all have similar schedules and responsibilities, so a lot fun just kind of arises spontaneously.

But once you're out on your own, in the workforce and whatnot, all that just drops of a cliff. Planned activities for adults exist, but you generally have to seek them out, rather than having them relentlessly advertised to you and/or taking place in locations where you will bump into them on the way to breakfast. And your friends are all spread out, and everyone's busy at different times, so you aren't just bumping into people and getting sucked into whatever adventure they have going on, you have to make arrangements.

It's a big shift! If you have kids, you generally figure out pretty quick that your role is now the Planner Of Fun, but without that big obvious signpost, it can feel like the world just gradually stopped having fun things in it.

But it hasn't; you just have to plan and seek out opportunities for fun yourself, because it's no longer anyone else's job to put them in front of you--it's yours!

TL:DR, when you're an adult you've got to take yourself to the aquarium and pick out a plushie in the gift shop and pay for it with your own credit card; you don't just wake up one day and find out that's happening. (Or that it's a have-dinner-on-a-picnic-blanket-in-the-living-room day, or that you're going to your cousins' house where you can splash around in the creek and look for frogs, or that's it's the day when we put the speakers in the window and let the music echo in the alley down below while we wash the car, or anything!)

[brandontheoutcast]

Tribute to Koji Suzuki: Author of Ring, Spiral, and Dark Water. A Horror Legend.

[v1nc33]

where even is michael jackson community i can't find you guys i made fanart tho

[champagnemoon]

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

[carewitchproject]

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about

[avpdvoidspace]

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

[ducktoothcollection]

when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.

One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".

The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."

I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[fluoresensitives]

Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

[castrolle]

wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees

[postillfastill]

Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.

[almostdefinitelydying]

Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in

Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com

[brightlotusmoon]

[yazmmy]

MELANCHOLY HILL

THE GASLIGHT DISTRICT: PILOT

[chikozou]

[miooak]

Im js going to let it stay here

I like the franchise sm but barely anyone knows it outside japan💔💔💔

[theperplexednavigator]

I made a new fursona, one that I feel reflects where my brain is at currently. I don't have a name or any information about her yet only that she's a green sparklefox and has always felt self-conscious about this.