carry me slowly, my sunrise.

27. Aries. INFP. Hopeless wanderer. Dissociating my way through life.

[lakevida]

just saw someone say they were "hyperfixated" on cooking with seasonal squash i love that nothing means anything

[goofstep]

i’m seriously traumadumping pepper all over these boiled eggs

[junglejim4322]

I’m gaslighting my stove

[yuki-oto-art]

Rei's pink overalls 💗

[ixoren]

the blood orange string of fate

[orcboxer]

one of those things you really gotta learn is that it's insanely easy to get people to get mad at anything if you just phrase it the right way. slap the word "woke" on anything you want conservatives to hate. call something "extremism" or "radical" to get a centrist to fear it. say that a particular take "comes from a position of privilege" to get leftists to denounce it (that's right, even us leftists are susceptible to propaganda that uses leftist language). all these are simplistic examples of course, but it's all to say that certain terms, slogans, and phrases just kind of turn off people's critical thinking, especially ones with negative connotation. there are so many words that are just shorthand for "bad." once a term reaches buzzword status, it becomes practically useless.

it goes for general attitudes too. "this piece of news is a sign that the world is getting worse" is a shockingly easy idea to sell, even when the "piece of news" in question is completely fabricated. I'll often see leftists uncritically sharing right wing propaganda that rides on the back of the "humans bad, nature good" cliche, or the "US education system bad" cliche, or even the current "AI bad" cliche. most of the details of a given post will go entirely unquestioned as long as they support whatever attitude is most popular right now. and none of us is immune to this.

(the funny thing is that I'm kind of playing with fire here even making this post. folks are so used to just reacting to shit that I have no way of predicting which buzzword I included here will trigger a negative association in someone's mind and convince them I'm taking some random antagonistic stance on a topic that they've been really fired up about lately.)

[october--7]

What happened during the 14 days of the Holocaust? The documentary film “Al-Shifa Hospital...Buried Crimes” is now watching exclusively on YouTube AJ360 - Al Jazeera 360 An aspect of the crimes that we worked to uncover in Gaza despite attempts to erase and forget

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner-deactiv]

[ashstfu]

kendrick lamar made me realise that there is an even stronger level of hater that i have yet to tap into

[ashstfu]

he actually made me question if i was even a real hater. i strive to be a hater like kendrick

[hiddentorchforge-deactivated202]

We lost something as a culture when computers stopped screaming in agony as you connected them to the internet.

[almostmfa]

[hiddentorchforge-deactivated202]

You would not have survived the dark ages. A webring would spell great peril. There was no search. And the dark things lurked out in the open in those days.

The computer screamed because it knew.

[lin-squiggly]

if it didn't torture a landline phone for the duration of the process, was it really internet?

[geekandmisandry]

My dad hit me with the info that there was an option to turn it off... the sound... the whole time. But he didn't want to tell me. Or to stop me from the, presumably character building, ritual of struggling to smother it to death with a pillow at 12:30am so I could be on the Forbidden Web and not wake my parents.

[morgenlich]

time for one of my favorite tweets

[animentality]

[tunashei]

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

[weaselle]

my followers can have some cave pics, as a treat

[writing-prompt-s]

Good reference for writers

[4x01]

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

[petrichara]

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

[kukuro-cheli]

Mean Girls (2004) House MD (2009)

[notedchampagne]

[ruinikaidoexplodedbadly]

this makes me so mad because the art on the left looks so full of personality and the coloring style is fun and unique then this fucking lady transforms it into one of those really offputting uncanny valley kpop fanart looking styles with the unnervingly smooth painting and personalityless lineart... god help us all

[mfdestoron]

[promisedastoria]

[45percenterthen]

remember when captain america said he wasn't dating because "it's kinda hard to find someone with shared life experience" and then later in the movie they revived his best friend and silly rabbit and right hand man and the only person that could hope to understand his specific set of circumstances and then they walked the earth together as two men out of time soul-tied by fate and loyalty and blistering unwavering devotion. and that wasnt meant to mean anything

[sunfortune]

everybody say Happy Birthday LEGEND  

[sunfortune]

everybody hit this movie with rocks for what it did to me .

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Thinking about... Grieving the undead.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

You aren't dead, but you're moving 12 hours away.

You aren't dead, but you're leaving our friend group.

You aren't dead but you've moved to a different state and now we text twice a year.

You aren't dead but you blocked me.

You aren't dead but we stopped talking, not on purpose but so long ago that I wouldn't even know what to say to you now.

You aren't dead but you're a stranger to me now.

You aren't dead but we lost touch and now I don't even remember your username.

You aren't dead but I ended things with you and now we never speak.

You aren't dead but I still have to grieve you. Whether I'd change it if I could or not, you're still a presence that I'm used to and now you won't be there anymore.

And so I grieve.