General Mess

Multi-fandom, multi-shipper | call me Storm | 24yo | they/she | Biromantic Asexual |

[notbecauseofvictories]

good morning exclusively to the atlantic’s science editor, or whoever it is that titles their animal biology articles

[notbecauseofvictories]

fellas, they’ve done it again

[notbecauseofvictories]

me, weeping openly: potato

[notbecauseofvictories]

DEFECTOR HAS TAKEN UP THE MANTLE

[zmpl]

before we start posting that july is gay wrath month let’s consider that july is disability pride month first and foremost. the “be gay do crimes” memes can wait

[zmpl]

before this post breaches containment and people start going “why not both hehehe” i want you to seriously consider the very long history of disabled people’s existence being pushed aside and/or seen as secondary. i promise you it’s not going to hurt to hold onto the memes and give disabled people space for visibility and celebration.

i say this as a disabled trans person whose trans identity is made front-and-center to the (mainly cis) people who know i’m trans but my identity as a disabled person is brushed off by the very same people.

[transhuman-priestess]

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

[transhuman-priestess]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

[absolxguardian]

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[owlthex]

When there's a very obvious bloodstain in the hardwood kitchen floor, but the house is 30k under expected price

[owlthex]

I feel like the picture is necessary to understand just how not subtle this is.

[tuxankhamun]

it's fine

[keepcatholic]

I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

[keepcatholic]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China

[gayweeddaddy69]

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

[senshibignaturals]

Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals

[corrucyst]

[blaquesails]

some replies:

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[kirbykonka]

I thought Old Man Yaoi was like a specific person or entity. Like you walk down to the river, there’s Old Man Consequences, you walk down to the oak tree there’s Old Man Sensibility, and then you walk into the gay club and you’ll never guess who it is

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[fluidstatick]

I'm excited and proud and pissed off, because the box office numbers for Iron Lung are impressive, but also disingenuous.

Gross Income is not the same as Profit.

Sam Raimi's Send Help, going into day 4, sits at 20mil, which is a net negative, 50% behind its 40mil budget.

Avatar, touted as the highest profiting film of all time, made a 237% net profit over its entire run.

The final Hxrry Pxtter movie made a 360% net profit.

Mark Fischbach's Iron Lung has turned a 570% net profit. In three days.

3mil-18mil isn't impressive on its face, next to a $500mil film making $2bn. Raw numbers are raw numbers. but for return on investment, Iron Lung is not only running with the biggest studios in the world -- it's crushing them.

[toastynoneofyourbusiness]

To put it in simple terms, all theatrical releases have to make back AT LEAST twice what they cost to make. I say "at least," because most theatrical movies spend a fuckton on advertising, and several of them spend even more on merchandising.

Iron Lung had basically NO advertising, and a negligible amount of merchandising. For a normal movie, that means that nobody goes to see the movie because they've never heard of it, and the movie can't cover any of the lost box office revenue with merch sales (you CAN have a box office bomb recover its budget with merch sales).

A theatrical release earning back its budget and then some on nothing but word of mouth and a loyal, pre-established fanbase is unprecedented. It doesn't happen. Ever.

THAT'S why Hollywood is pissed. Because to executives, a puny internet personality self-funding a passion project with basically no advertising or merch shouldn't happen. To them, it defies all logic. They've been putting billions upon billions of dollars into advertising, merchandising, celebrity casting, huge sets, expensive CGI, and so much more; and then this "nobody" comes along and succeeds with none of that.

[shevny-blog]

This is true, and it's also worth mentioning that this also defies the traditional model of distribution for movies.

Mark tried to get the movie distributed through traditional means, but got fucked over at every turn. Nobody wanted to distribute this movie. Distributors like to be able to control what is and isn't in theaters. It gives them more confidence in their bottom line and projections for how many people are going to see their movie.

This movie was distributed by the fans to over 4,000 theaters worldwide, had a domestic release around the same size as its biggest competitor that week, and made a significant profit while retaining a 50/50 split with theaters, so the theaters are making more off of that ticket than for a typical movie.

Disney probably doesn't care that Iron Lung made 20 million dollars, plenty of movies do that. They care that seemingly anyone can put a movie into theaters the exact same way they can.

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Instead of a stoic hero and a chatty villain or a chatty hero and a stoic villian imagine if they’re both chatty. Just, the villian trying their best to kill the hero while the two of them have a in-depth discussion about their opinion of pumpkin spice

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Villian: *shoots laser* No but seriously orange is a really fun color

Hero, dodging: but your entire room? I’m not painting my entire room orange

Villain: *stabs at the hero and misses* well then why did you ask my opinion on paint colors if you’re not going to listen

[anastasia1marie]

The Princess Bride

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Holy shit

[heroofthreefaces]

[coolnerdyrn]

Megamind

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

[calidotgov-deactivated20240108]

congratulations piracy

[livefromtheloam]

Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

[commandtower-solring-go]

Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

[geekysteven]

[teaboot]

Fun fact! Both the music and the font in that ad were incorrectly sourced and did not provide compensation to the creators

[teaboot]

When I was a kid one of my moms would call her period "moon time" or "her monthlies" or shit like that and my other mom straight up stealthed it, but when I'm a dad I think I'm gonna go straight down the middle and call it Werewolf Week. Like sorry kids, dad can't roughouse right now, it's Werewolf Week

[enderlordisadumbusername]

"one of my moms"

*points finger*

child of lesbiabs

[teaboot]

I actually have six parents and three moms total but they're all straight as far as I'm aware

[ballsalsda-deactivated20260516]

Polyamorous parents or divorce?

[teaboot]

Turbo divorce

[nor-ahoy]

What the heck is a turbo divorce?

[teaboot]

It's when you end up with six parents

[hareofhrair]

[crabussy]

made a post about how I'm relieved and excited to be alive in 2026 and how I'm glad I exist in a time where music and education and communication are so expansive and accessible and said post wasn't even up for a single hour before someone started declaring that actually there are evil revolting breaches of human rights happening right now. not even an hour

[shallowsenjoyer]

im so mad i cant find it anymore but heres my recreation

[crabussy]

this is kind of beautiful. I reckon we should all fabricate tweets from faint half-remembrances and letter them by hand instead of using screenshots

[hollowboobtheory]

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

[hollowboobtheory]

internet soft skills

not opening the comments

letting people be wrong

letting people be wrong about YOU

letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)

knowing when your input isn't needed

spotting bot comments

block button

[hollowboobtheory]

blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them

[bigbigbigtruck]

"why'd they block me? we've never talked" bro if i see you being nasty to the bartender i'm not gonna chat you up