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@whatsupwithjinx
so I finally got around to watching Remember...
let's just say if I had a nickel for being right about an aspect of a show I already made into a headcanon earlier, I'd have two nickels. Haven't been so psyched since Obsidian got revealed in SU.
Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.
So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.
Not me, but @bitchesgetriches has a lot of great resources for many of these topics on their website.
That's us! Professional internet adults, specializing in financial stuff! We recommend starting with our Grand List of All Articles, or one of our Masterposts:
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MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Investing for Beginners
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I have one bit of advice that applies to basically all adulting tasks: work with the brain you have, not the brain you think you should have.
Have to make a scary phonecall, and cuddling a toy would make it easier but you feel like that's stupid? Doesn't matter! Cuddle the toy!
Need to use a planner but you keep forgetting it? Literally tie it to your bag!
Dishes keep piling up and becoming insurmountable so then you just don't do them and your eating gets worse? Only keep an amount of dishes you can ACTUALLY feel able to clean around. Everything else goes away, or someplace inconvenient, so there are never too many dishes to clean.
It doesn't matter if a cope is silly, childish, or excessive. This is how you can do it so this is how to do it. You don't have to do things the way someone with a different brain does them. Screw "willpower". Work smarter, not harder, even if working smarter means doing something that might seem a little dumb.
In case the English-speaking audience of @elsa-fogen would like to have something somewhat easily understandable to listen to, here goes nothing
It's all par for the course at this point - I hear something nice, and I think "wow I wanna try and do that"
The rhyme schemes in this one were so damn tough but I'm pretty proud of how it came out 😊
The lilies are purposeful because scarlet bloom but mostly because I have THOUGHTS and they bouncing around in my head with nowhere to go
can you tell I love this man an unholy amount? because I do
glass mother be doing the God's work making me crawl out of my private music folders
Unless you speak whatever the language in this is (maybe Russian? It sounds at least related to Russian), you won’t understand exactly what they’re saying
You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video
And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter
Sound definitely needs to be on
@elsa-fogen is it just me or is this giving IF!VoxAl living situation
Copycat Gumi edit of Incompatible frequencies by
@elsafogen TW: SA,flashing,fast pictures
OH SHIT THIS SONG.... i remember doing a weird ahh animatic for JSAB with this song.... some lyrics do fit here...
that would fit real well for that fic you reblogged where he goes docile eventually
I SWEAR I HAVE NOT SEEN A SINGLE PERSON TALK ABOUT THIS SCENE THE WAY I SAW IT AND I’M LOSING MY MIND SO HERE’S MY RANT.
This was THE moment where Valentino’s entire character snapped into focus. NOT because of violence, NOT because of dominance, but because of BOUNDARIES.
Everyone spent the whole first half of the season painting Valentino as “the weak one,” the “scared one,” the one “under Vox’s thumb,” like he was just this pathetic wet cat clinging to his terrifying TV boyfriend, and this episode proved beyond doubt that Valentino was never physically powerless, “too scared to fight back,” or physically beneath Vox. HE COULD HAVE DESTROYED VOX AT ANY TIME. He is terrifying when he wants to be. He rips the man’s HEAD off like he’s removing a stubborn jar lid. This is not someone who is “too weak” to defend himself.
The gag is this: He didn’t. BECAUSE. HE. LOVED. HIM. That was the line he wouldn’t cross. Hurting Vox (seriously) was the one thing he would not do. Until this scene.
Because THIS, AND THIS ALONE, was the thing that finally crossed Valentino’s boundary. Not Vox yelling. Not Vox controlling him. Not Vox being arrogant or cruel or bigoted or insufferably smug. No. Valentino doesn’t freak out over any of that, because that’s just “Vox being Vox.” He’s lived with that for years. He knows that version of Vox. He’s built his life around that version.
What he cannot handle, what cracks him open, is Vox finally admitting, out loud, that he does not care if he lives or dies, essentially saying “I don’t care if I die as long as Alastor goes down with me.”
Do people understand what a HORROR that is for Valentino?
That is the exact moment he realizes: “Oh. You don’t care if YOU survive. You don’t care if WE survive. You would trade your own life—AND MINE, AND VELVETTE’S—just to settle a seven-year grudge.”
THAT is the betrayal. The betrayal is Vox giving up on EXISTENCE. The betrayal is Vox saying “You don’t matter enough to keep me alive.” The betrayal is Vox saying “WE don’t matter enough to keep me alive.”
And THAT is when Valentino stops being gentle. He tries, obviously, he reaches out softly, and it is the softest this man has ever been, and Vox SHOVES HIM AWAY, and that’s it. The moment Vox rejects the olive branch, the moment Vox chooses oblivion over their bond, Valentino flips from heartbroken to survival mode.
Not because he stopped loving him, but because loving him is EXACTLY why he refuses to let Vox kill them all.
So he does the one thing he’s never done before: he hurts him. He yanks his entire head off, violently and decisively, not out of anger, but out of sheer terror that the man he loves is trying to die.
This whole time, he wasn’t restrained because he was weak. He was restrained because he cared.
And the ONLY thing that finally pushed him past that restraint was the realization that Vox would rather annihilate himself—and everyone around him—than let go of the stupid deer vendetta.
This is not “Vox being Vox.” This is Valentino realizing: “Oh. You stopped choosing life. And if you stop choosing life, I have to choose it for you.”
Valentino’s not naïve. He didn’t “miss the red flags.” He walked into the field, collected the flags, waved them around like parade banners, and kissed the man holding them. He knew EXACTLY who Vox was, and he still said yes.
Valentino doesn’t rip Vox’s head off to win. He’s not trying to dominate him. He’s not trying to “put him in his place.” It’s literally the opposite. He takes Vox’s head because he has NO OTHER WAY to keep him alive.
Also let’s talk about the symbolism because YES, IT’S SYMBOLIC.
Vox loses his HEAD. The part he thinks with. The part he plots with. The part he obsesses with. The part that is STUCK on Alastor like a looping broadcast. And Valentino literally rips off the part of Vox that wants to die. Valentino and Velvette are left holding the part of Vox that matters most to them: the part that thinks, schemes, talks, curses, teases, obsessively obsesses over them. The part that defines him as Vox. The body, all the posturing, the brute force, the physical dominance? Not necessary. Gone.
The audacity of this scene is unreal. This is love distilled to pure preservation of the self he cannot lose, and it hits harder than any overtly romantic scene ever could.
I love this but it's not just a 7 yr grudge. It's a 7 decade long pining that Vox has not gotten over and Val finally sees this man still deeply is hurt by Alastor
The timeline was a mistake on my part, but we could argue semantics on what Vox feels toward Alastor until the sun explodes and we will STILL get nowhere, because this man’s entire emotional vocabulary is just ego, validation, image, rage, and passive-aggressively refreshing his own name on the HellNet trending page.
It’s HARDLY “pining” at this point. Vox isn’t in his room kicking his legs and journaling about the one that got away. What Alastor did to him wasn’t romantic heartbreak, it was a narcissistic injury. Like. Alastor didn’t hurt his heart, he dented his self-concept, and Vox has been malfunctioning about it ever since.
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
Anyone gonna mention how this guy actually preformed live with Carly Rae Jepsen?
I’m gonna scream is2g
I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.
Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1
Audio:
Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!
Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!
underrated tumblr feature is being able to catch up to yourself on your dash. so there is an END POINT. and you can say “ah, I have reached where I left off, there is no more to see! I’ll take my leave now and come back later when there are new posts.” instead of being stuck forever in a bottomless algorithm pit digging deeper and deeper till you have to summon monumental strength to climb out
tell me you got very little going on in here without telling me
Watch them just find out one day that it's their brain scans that are in the circus, and the actual bodies and brains stayed safely outside and knew nothing of it all
all all all
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s
Hey y'all. Here's something for you.
Reblog and Signal Boost for US followers.
Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again
fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data
Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.
Ooh I know this one!
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
@afraidofamericans
Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE
If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.
Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.
