You’re The Only Friend I Need.

(21+ He/ him) I want to believe so badly in a truth beyond our own. Hidden and obscured from all but the most sensitive eyes. In the endless procession of souls. In what can not and will not be destroyed. I want to believe that we are unaware of God’s eternal recompense and sadness. That we cannot see its truth. That that which is born still lives and cannot be buried in the cold earth. But only waits to be born again at God’s behest. Where in ancient starlight we lay in repose. -Donald J Trump, 45th president of the United States Of America.

[theviewfromhalfwaydown]

“We’re reeling through the midnight streets.”

Lorde at Red Rocks Amphitheater, October, 14, 2025, Morrison, Colorado. Ultrasound World Tour.

[oneheadtoanother]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[prosthetic-placebo]

[theviewfromhalfwaydown]

Hot

[demilypyro]

[demilypyro]

[theviewfromhalfwaydown]

[my-russia]

First computer animated cat ever - “Koshechka” (”A kitty”), 1968

[theviewfromhalfwaydown]

Legitimately in contention for one of the coolest things ever

[gaylor-moon]

[im-mender]

[probablymarin]

TADC: The Last Act is really good if you actually care about the story instead of whatever headcanons you've decided to base your whole personality around

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve spent too much time as a society wondering if computers can be people

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah wondering where humanity begins and computers end is an interesting thought but people think that ChatGPT knows them. That thing is not a person by like any measurement we know of. It doesn’t have opinions. It regurgitates statistically likely word salad and scrapes answers wholesale from Reddit.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Questions about the potential personhood of machines feel kinda stupid now? Like these large language models clearly aren’t people. And to a certain extent, why would you want to make a computer that’s a person with feelings and personal opinions? You’ve made something and trapped it inside of a computer at the whims of programmers. Why? Why do that to something? Even if it was possible. It doesn’t fully seem like it is yet.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The guys who don’t think that computers can be people are usually the unenlightened ones in these stories but frankly I think that my cats are closer to being people than a chatbot is.

[aropride]

this was written 100 years ago but it reads like a post i would make on my tumblr blog in 2026

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[i-restuff]

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[contemptible-scoundrel]

goes crazy

[depsidase]

[hellopuns]

The Monday Period: Part 6 of 6

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6 (End): you are here

[stupidlittlespirit]

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.

[demilypyro]

[theviewfromhalfwaydown]