Hex Maniac

This mess of a blog is my main account! • Dank Memes • Gaming • Music • Body Positivity • Equality for All • Multiple Fandoms • Neurodivergency • Nazi Puncher • Stirrer of Pots • Bisexual/Biromantic/Nonbinary • *I post content you may find offensive, from humour to political views. Proceed with caution. Or send me hate so I can troll you*

[xehcainam]

This Tumblr is older than both of my relationships, and if I have to abandon it bc some gross dude I'll be pissed.

You beg me to take you back, you're begging for sexual gratification on your own blog despite being a cheater, you're a pedophile after what you did to your friend's sister at 15, and you're both a domestic and child abuser.

@inkandavoice is my ex-husbands blog. We are separated and I am working on divorcing him. He is refusing to cease communication and I am not able to safely exist in my own space. I keep removing the app to try and keep my peace, but I miss my communities he worked to hard to isolate me from. I thought just existing and working to not vaugepost is all I needed to do, but he is dedicated to making sure I am so unsafe and he doesn't lose his supply.

I wanted to leave him in 2018. I didn't bc I was too afraid to move back home w my domestically violent parents. I only married him in 2020 bc I was 26 and needed insurance discovering how disabled I was. I am labelled as a destitute housewife by my state bc of how deeply he used our marriage to further create chaos.

We were evicted. He neglected our pets and led to the death of my fish. He refused to do any activity I wanted to. He denied me access to people and isolated me. He made our finances impossible, and when we had any abundance, wasted it on himself. He has beaten the shit out of me. He is psychologically abusive. He was/is a serial cheater. During the worst of his abuse, he deliberately got me pregnant and then said "he couldn't be a father". I did not have my child. He does post on fathers day. It's just not our child he wants to be calling him "daddy".

The dude is begging for me back almost everyday, despite his content showing he's really just looking for his easy supply. A dude who once told me he'd try to date the barely legal teens he drove to school. He is not a safe individual, and has even abused/used women on here.

I have been trying to avoid a post like this but it's very clear he is adamant on refusing to stop. I do not want other women to keep getting hurt, and I do not want to keep being harassed. I won't reveal his irl info bc I'm not about doxxing, but I will update w his alt accts if I need to. There's a lot. He keeps using the state of the world to try and stress me out more. Like it wouldn't be stressful w him beating me? Or fully abandoning me while we live in the same space? No. I'm safer getting away from him. So is everyone else.

Sorry to be a downer. And sorry to not be more active. I am trying. And I'm doing really well, despite the weight of everything. I'll talk to y'all when I can.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[dollsahoy]

The whole thing was created in the US, by Aldi US's marketing director (Aldi US corporate headquarters is in Batavia, IL) and by an advertising agency based in Chicago

ALDI saddles up for latest ‘It’s an ALDI Thing’

Leo Chicago and ALDI are heading out West for the latest chapter of the retailer’s ongoing “It’s an ALDI Thing” platform.

It was designed to be intentionally different from typical grocery store ad campaigns. The cowboy is meant to be incongruous, based on the average modern American experience.

How Aldi revamped its social media strategy — and why it’s working

The fast-growing company has turned away from posts that just highlight its low prices and toward more playful, culturally relevant content,

[thememedaddy]

[time-traveling-fetus]

I'm kinda glad that game studios are starting to realize that stylization is preferable to realism wrt to graphics but I hope they eventually make the connection that mechanics and functionality are more impactful than technically complex rendering. Honestly they should have figured that out when minecraft released 17 years ago and became the best selling game of all time.

I guess AAA studios have to find an advantage somewhere and using their financial might on an army of artists and rendering programmers still gets people to say "oooh aaah it looks so real". Meanwhile there are indie games that are just a series of static images that look infinitely more interesting than Pore Simulator 2024

[heytherecentaurs]

The Templers just being a few old men who just like hanging out is endearing. They fund raise and like go carts and skeeball. And even though it’s a fraternity, Herb tells Vesper if she just wants to play skeeball she’s welcome to come and do that. And when she displays sincere interest, he immediately sees it and accepts it. They’re grumpy and don’t like change but they do change because they believe the Templers are more important than some arbitrary rules. Also the one old man ensuring nonbinary people are included because his grandkid is nonbinary suggests he not only accepts them but is creating the opportunity for them to join as well. Maybe he hopes if they join the two of them will have the opportunity to spend more time together. Reminded me of my grandpa. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like someone just wanted to spend time with me more than him. He was the sort to call just to talk. Maybe I’m projecting but I like them.

[xehcainam]

People not from small towns do not understand that the curmudgeonly old men of my childhood were that way not bc they were mean, but bc they worked in the conditions that created need for unions, further employer regulations, factories being made safer, etc. They also knew the immense greed waiting to absorb us into its cogs and wheels. Their fear came from changes exacerbating the divide between govt control and economic demand vs the will of the people. How do you encourage your grandkids to succeed, when the snake grew another head despite your thorough cut? Despite what you tried to do?

My hick ass grandfather is in a spiral over this. My mom is the first to graduate college on that side of the family, and he crashes out because he is afraid of my siblings and I losing our stability (we have all been homeless at some point, me currently). Every move Trump makes further dismantles the world he made and changed for his children/grand/great-grandchildren. And he bitches about his community members who have allowed that reality to rot their brains, and turn them into truly hateful, fearful-of-change bigots who blame others instead of the root cause. I came out to him and he barely blinked, only asking me to be careful of those specific community members bc they would disrespect me. He was a sacrifice in moving factory work overseas, and calls his fellows who went over to assist w the change, scabs (i directly asked him this over dinner, i have never seen true waves of grief and rage cross his face w/o an explosion. all he said was "yes, definitely scabs."). There are definitely sour mouthed, close eyed men who grip their hands behind them and say cruel, bigoted things. But there are so many who are just grandfathers trying to figure out where they can help or control something for the better. Letting a young woman into their Order, and (to them) just doing so in order for her to be a community member who likes to skeeball, giving her a place to do so and engage with them, is absolutely a small town value Purpee would have, bc I've seen in the much smaller town my grandpa and mom grew up in. I like them a lot too. I miss these kinds of old men. CCoD gives me nostalgia for people I cannot get back and I love them for it tbh <3

[grimmghosts]

making my bf listen to city council of darkness with me and literally episode two, he's like oh this is just [town we live in]. oh mikes is just [bar in our town]. like.. yeahh

[anistarrose]

realizing a headcanon of yours happens to make an element of canon even more heartbreaking when you hadn't even considered it from that angle previously

[ID from alt: emoji rubbing their hands together and grinning evilly. End ID.]

[afloweroutofstone]

Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop

[gazanarchive]

“My home isn’t for sale”.

Acre - Occupied Palestine

[thotsandpreyers]

[depsidase]

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[xehcainam]

Generation 3 Pokemon games be like:

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[rivetgoth]

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

[animentality]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

Patagonia is posting notes app social media half-added apologies over their lawsuit 😭😭😭

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i mean. i’ll always side with the human over the company anyway. but these are markedly different

[cheaphalloweencostume]

guys, she can keep performing, she just has to cow to the brand and give up her identity and redesign all her shit despite the fact that they’re both named after a geographical region! the brand simply MUST have first dibs and then the human can live her little life or whatever!! why are you guys so excited to suck corporate boot? am i going fucking crazy? again?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

[highly-important]

Controversial but outside of the rough brush strokes, I don’t understand the Parks and Recs comparisons with City Council of Darkness?

I keep seeing people on Reddit saying they get a Parks and Recs vibe from this season, and then of course Purpee/Pawnee. But even without the vampire stuff the two seem completely different to me.

And this is from someone who watched every episode of Parks and Rec. like… I get that these are both about small town civics … but is that it?

[xehcainam]

People love to lump all the various small town media into one homogenous group, and it just doesn't work. Not all rural shit is mutual; Noah Kahan was one of the first modern indie/folk artists to play into the hole of Northern rural folks identifying as "country", with no music to match, until Stick Season. There are variations and differences in all quadrants of the US. The 3 rural media pieces that CCoD matches with would be; - Twin Peaks, another rough but intriguing story that also takes place in the PNW. Add in the vintage David Lynch (RIP you magnificent bastard) 90's vibes and it gives a lot of the energy our coterie does. -The Adventure Zone: Amnesty, which is the show I feel best matches CCoD in vibes, truly. The humor, the cryptid involvement, the community engagement. The difference in the shows comes from population size, as Kepler plays into dying town vibes vs the struggling but full small "city" (I've lived in both location types, that's the only real difference). Oh, and yes; TAZ:A has vampires! - Gravity Falls. Argue with me. Small town Oregon, gets some traction from tourists, the humor trying and failing to hide the life-threatening consequences of failure looming in the BG every episode, even Stan's grifts work w/ HJ and LaVonte's efforts. I would love to hear other voices on this too, as my rural experience is not the sole one! What real rural media does CCoD remind you of?