Thinking about the wilderness rn

#1 stink bug enthusiast Also whatkindofsoup also Jaguar the rainwing-sandwing He/him

[whatkindofsoupp]

Heya! It’s soup. I don’t know how to format an intro post so I’m putting images in that thang

What kind of soup? That’s a great question, I’m really glad you asked it. It’s a very important question, and a lot of people need it answered. I myself am very passionate about it. You know, we have some of our best people working on answering that very question as we speak-

I mainly reblog pictures of animals (emphasis on bugs and birds, they’re fire), any art or photography I think is cool looking, some politics, shitposts, the usual. If you followed me for anything at all I apologize

My art blog is @jaguarsoup ! I will reblog it here every once in a while too, but that blog is much less cluttered w other things than this one is.

I also have a good amount of gimmick blogs, which I may or may not reveal at some point in the future.

My fandoms/interests include:

-Birds/ornithology

-Bugs/entomology

-Cats the musical ‼️ (current hyperfixation)

-Runaway to the stars

-Furries

-Spec bio (don't do much of it myself right now but I find it very cool)

-Minecraft in general

-Animals in general

-Technoblade

-Wings of fire

-Linguistics!

-I also just reblog any art I think looks cool, regardless of fandom.

(Rtts pixel art banners by lunaranimosity)

I don’t have a fully fledged tagging system, I just sort of sort inconsistently and autistically , but it’s something as follows:

Art reblog: any art i see that was cool

Birdy: bird images

Kittyuh: cat images

Bird art: what it says on the tin

Bug art: see above

Soup speaks: text posts

Soupcore: random things that spoke to me

Mecore: random things that spoke to me in a silly little voice because I absolutely would do that

Tumblrisms: posts about tumblr's functioning as a site or things that I think are representative of the online tumblr culture

Genderisms + Transgenderisms: posts about gender, usually gender in the political or social context. can include posts about misogyny, transphobia, trans people's struggles, current politics, or lgbtq/trans history.

Playing with jpegs like dolls: that little part of tumblr culture where we just successively edit an image to be something else entirely. a group effort typically

Blackout poetry: Tumblr's stupidized version of blackout poetry, might also fall under playing with jpegs like dolls. regular blackout poetry might find its way in here too

Soup images: images I made or took (or sometimes just. when I post an image i guess)

Soup mumbles: sometimes I add this when I go on a rant in the tags

Pod: isopods

Musicposting: idk how to describe this one. Me when music

Instrumence: random posts about or including specific musical instruments

I will also sometimes tag my fandoms as such: #wings of fire, #runaway to the stars, #technoblade (or sometimes technoooooo). I usually avoid abbreviations bc I can never tell what they are.

[is-this-fascism]

please help me survive homelessness

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DM for paypal

hi, i'm living in my car and need help surviving. i'm making a meager income on music, but still end up dead broke constantly. until that income increases, i need donations to survive. please help me out if you have anything to spare!

my car is broken down and doesn't move anymore. i'm stuck charging my phone and laptop at the local shops, and can only get food from the few fast food places around here. it's all very expensive and i need help affording it. please consider feeding me so i can keep making music and eventually escape this hole!!

also consider purchasing my music on Bandcamp or joining my Patreon to set up recurring payments.

[is-this-fascism]

this has been a really slow month for music sales. i'm expecting to be fine next month with Bandcamp Friday, but in the meantime i still have to survive until then. please donate if you can, even $5 or $10 will allow me to eat 🙏

[dandelionguitar]

New Album just released on Bandcamp! Check it out:

This album is inspired by liminal spaces and nostalgia. It's got scary, it's got creepy, it's got comforting, it's got frutiger aero. Every song is accompanied by a digital painting.

[ryan-sometimes]

I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

[mankillercalledbunny]

Not to bring the serious to a very fun post, but this reaction is exactly what Mamdani is working for with his image, because in a very real way the most effective way for him to be The Mayor is if he looks like The Mayor.

This is a man who is VIOLENTLY aware that when it comes to conservatives, he is a Muslim first, a Brown Man second, an Immigrant third, a Socialist fourth, and a human a very distant fifth, if considered at all. He was also a young adult during the Obama Years and will have seen Republicans rip Obama to shreds for wearing a tan suit instead of a dark one and use literally ANY excuse they could to try and degrade his image.

Despite the fact that a mayor who wears a T-shirt and jeans might "seem more approachable" in the eyes of the average American, Zohran Mamdani knows that someone with his profile fundamentally cannot get away with that the way his White colleagues can. He has instead put in the effort to look professional and BE approachable, because not only does it make it easier for him to reach and represent his constituents, it forces everyone, including both his opponents and establishment Democrats, to engage with the work he is doing instead of judging his image. The fact that he is always seen in a suit and is recognisably The Mayor is, while also something he has fun with, a deliberate choice to ensure he is as inarguably A Professional Politician To Be Taken Seriously. The added humour of e.g. the hi-vis is a bonus, only achievable because he works so hard to Look Like The Mayor.

[mankillercalledbunny]

Adding these tags from @haunted-stranger-garden bc they illustrate this brilliantly

[gaysadist]

If there's sexual abuse subtext no there isn't, if there's allusion to sexual abuse you're ruining it for everyone else by talking about it, if there's a metaphor for sexual abuse you're reading too far into it and it's actually a metaphor for anything more palatable, and if there's on-screen sexual abuse? Well that's exploitative torture porn, of course.

[captainrufflebanger]

I was trying to look up something on reddit and kept getting a pop-up saying I have to log in or sign up to view anything. Which was weird because I'm on my pc and refreshing only gave me access for 5 more seconds before said pop-up reappeared. Looked it up and yep apparently now reddit is testing becoming a closed site too! Great! Fucking hate it here!

In the mean time, I did find a ublock origin script to block said pop-up so I'm sharing it here. Dropped it in my filters tab and so far everything's working. In theory this should be usable on mobile browsers too if you force the desktop view.

! Reddit login/signup modal www.reddit.com##div#desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog www.reddit.com##[id="desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog"]

! Restore scrolling after hiding Reddit login modal www.reddit.com##html:style(overflow: auto !important;) www.reddit.com##body:style(overflow: auto !important;)

www.reddit.com###left-sidebar-container

Source for the code (from reddit ironically)

[crabussy]

ok here in yankeeland there exists something you have likely heard of, the KKK (ku klux klan) which is a centuries old organized white supremacist terrorist group. for reasons unbeknownst to me, their highest leader is referred to as grand wizard. from my experience, this fact is somewhat commonly known in the states (though it seems not in Aotearoa, which makes sense!)

YEAH I was . Not aware of this in the slightest. what the fuck even goes on over there. don't answer that (closing my eyes) don't answer that (walking towards the horizon)

[strange-aeons]

Not to be dramatic or anything but waking up with this bug in my bed literally makes life worth living

[strange-aeons]

BUG IN MY BED!!!!

[auckie]

When I was little I wanted to be Italian REALLT badly bc I loved the movie cars and specifically had a crush on this fucking THING

Which doesn’t speak English at all, all it’s line are in Italian and it’s name is GUIDO. And everyone knew I was obsessed with Italy in elementary school but they didn’t know why bc I, even as a young autistic child, had the sense to know this was a rightfully so, highly mockable thing. So I would read about cars on IMDB and then one day someone posted a crackfic on the message boards there and it was about this guy getting drunk and beating his wife, and it snapped me out of my fugue long enough to realize how absurd wanting to be Italian was, but then it made me cry really hard and my parents were like ‘hey what the fuck’ and I didn’t have the chutzpah to admit anything so I told them I saw a naked lady online and then they went into the computer and found all the weird south park midi songs I downloaded on lime wire and I thought they were literally going to kill me for about two weeks.

[auckie]

The reason I was downloading South Park episodes and songs on limewire and frostwire was because I was also obsessed with Kenny McCormick and for school we had to make a shitty little website about a world issue, so I found this free platform that doesn’t exist anymore but it was like a horrible little wix site from the mid aughts, and we based my groups theme on global warming. But when we were done with it I repurposed it as a perosnal site and lied about being a voluptuous blonde 19 year old woman who worked at a fictitious restaurant called the lunchbox, and I just wrote about how obsessed I was with Kenny McCormick and my sister found it and was like what the fuck is wrong with you. But she never told my parents. She also found this 80 page story I was writing about buddy the elf and all my weird skater ocs breaking into the moulin rouge, and at one point I was sick of buddy so I had a herd of buffalo trample him in the middle of a city and it was very tragic but jarring and unexpected. And she referenced a part of the story to me and it made me SO fucking paranoid that I wiped our entire, family shared packard bell computer and got in huge fucking trouble for it.

[radiavoc]

smh you could have stolen noelle's name

[jaguarsoup]

So. Many. Stripes.

Art fight attack on Warblerr!

I LOVE this guy’s design.

||DO NOT FEED TO AI DO NOT USE FOR MACHINE LEARNING||

[hotvampireadjacent]

[freshwaterduck]

[musings-of-a-crazed-musician]

reblogging this with the addition of my favorite comment on the post

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[shirecorn]

Fascinating categorization is happening here

[nyantara]

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

[nocakeno]

#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher

tags via foxpunk

[nyantara]

this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.

if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.

[likorys-shimenawa]

Things that wouldn't exists:

every creative media ever made

[nyantara]

nothing creative ever existed before or outside of the legal regimes created in 18th century england.

[nyantara]

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

[nocakeno]

#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher

tags via foxpunk

[nyantara]

this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.

if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.

[likorys-shimenawa]

Things that wouldn't exists:

every creative media ever made

[nyantara]

nothing creative ever existed before or outside of the legal regimes created in 18th century england.

[kdrm]

us tv: reviewed