to be alive beneath cherry blossoms

28 | she/her | then-and-again fandom enjoyer | often poet | sometimes meta writer | title by Kobayashi Issa

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[lizardlicks]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

[wizxrdpendrxgon]

The backlash was a major lawsuit from 9 tribes alongside other lawsuits from advocacy groups like NDN Collective. You can support NDN Collective by donating to them here.

[natalieironside]

Here in the great cosmic mistake we call western civilization, vast swaths of ppl are utterly convinced that terrible misfortune either only happened in the past or only happens in other places. This is an article of faith which supercedes the evidence of their own eyes and ears. I dunno what to do with these people. Trying to talk to them about current events that are currently eventing right in front of them is like trying to talk to a cartoon elf from a tv show for babies. They're like "[thing that was literally on the fucking news a day ago] could never, ever happen here in Happyland where bad things never happen, and talking about it makes me sad. Why do you want to make people sad? :( Nobody's sad in Happyland. :)"

[phaeton-flier]

The main issue with The Dunk as a form of posting is that it

Is formatted to be as unconvincing to the nonbeliever as possible

Is formatted to encourage as little understanding of the actual topic as possible

[phaeton-flier]

Dunks are the ultimate form of twitter posting, they are meant to work in a sentence or two, and that requires you not to have any nuance and works better the less that you know. If you actually bother to read the article and not just the screenshot of a headline, you can't make your Epic Clapback. You'd know why the joke doesn't work.

And the rewards you reap for doing this—retweets, notes, likes—very much encourages you to not learn, not to write longer pieces, not to express complex thoughts or write anything that isn't convincing to anyone who doesn't already agree.

[deadgenerations]

the next stage of this, of course, is what twitter has done over the last several years. engagement is no longer merely a little hit of heroin, engagement is directly monetized baby. Now not only can people be psychologically conditioned to dunk, but people and entities are financially incentivised to dunk, to not learn, to not express complex thoughts and so on.

People now make money off not just The Dunk, but in setting up the dunk as well! a financial ecosystem built on rage bait and cheap clapbacks.

[thorsbaratitty-blog]

“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” - Eartha Kitt

[pmamtraveller]

"Everything Appears as it is: Infinite" by Alex Dodge

[geyfrog]

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships

[dharmaart]

An older painting I never got around to posting. I've always really enjoyed painting golden hour lighting especially on grey or white horses.

[ripempezardexerox]

[targetedknowledge]

[dramatic-dolphin]

i love that the part of bees' hind legs where they collect the pollen is actually called "pollen basket" because whenever i see a bee who has visibly collected a ton of pollen i do say "look, her basket is full!!" good to know everyone before me has thought the same thing too.

[sinoheritage]

Traditional Zaojing 藻井 ceilings in Chinese palaces and temples, Beijing. 🐉

[toastyglow]

the backrooms are simply not as scary conceptually if there is Something In Them

[toastyglow]

the whole reason why they're so unnerving is BECAUSE there's nothing in them!! because they're unrelentingly liminal and lonely and uncomforting. there shouldn't be a monster guy in there chasing you. you should glimpse other humans (?) from a distance but they walk away before you can close the gap and then they're gone. things should run away from YOU. do u get it

[toastyglow]

"and there was a MONSTERowooowwohhhh" the monster is isolation and banal beige sameness and uncanny valley architecture. you fool. you rube. you're putting a hat on a hat and the second hat is not only unnecessary but it ruins the first hat!!!!!!! "there's a monster in there" great so now it's just another place for a monster to be. ridiculous

[toastyglow]

fine I will concede: you CAN actually put something in there while maintaining the vibes, but it should complement the location instead of just being a generic scary guy you could put literally anywhere

[sioltach]

heirloom farmer Bettinakbh in Denmark

[cheriecore]

[cheriecore]

happy ending

[gumy-shark]

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

[brainstreams]

Don't use AI to write. Use cocaine like a real author.

[galileoace]

Cocaine is ridiculously expensive...so is AI for that matter. I just use maladaptive daydreaming and lucid dreaming

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I've tried using a gas leak in my home but this, unfortunately, does not help.

[headspace-hotel]

In rare circumstances, the Muse will just show up and abduct you.

But the things that had to happen to trigger this event are not recommended.

[tacocandle]

I was once tripping balls from a combination of benadryl and antihistamics and really bad flu, covering a double shift for my boss who was vacationing out of state

I was taking care of the hardware store by myself, in between selling stuff to costumers in a humid cotton mask

I opened Word 2016 in the old checkout computer to write what was supposed to be the background info of my upcoming homebrewd DND character

But instead I ended up writing a 4 chapters long, nearly 10000 words crime novela, pack full with angst, obsession, drama and pain

Soooo much drama and pain

I imagined myself delivering the payoff to all of these set ups, 4, 5 sessions down the road

I could feel the character's pain

Best thing I ever wrote

zero AI involved

[cikero]

cats be like damn we are cuddling 😳 what if I bit you for no reason