Z - Sequence

Guess who's back, back again

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

[saprotrophix]

[zomburai]

[crazy-brazilian]

[suchcrispwhimsy]

never been seen in the same room together

[zomburai]

Oh. My. God. You're right. They never have been seen in the same place at the same time. Do you know what this means?? Sabrina Carpenter is Superman

[cock-holliday]

People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.

We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.

Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.

“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“

Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.

People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!

What are you doing about it?

[theload]

Ask me about my dragon lore and original dragon species

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[pseudoply]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[squillysquicken]

likes, reposts, and comments seem to be broken too

[zomburai]

Here and now, I reblog the Mysterious Post, helping on it its next step toward its final journey

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[pseudoply]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[squillysquicken]

likes, reposts, and comments seem to be broken too

[thebibliosphere]

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

[themboots]

[zomburai]

This is the raddest goddamn thing I've seen this week

[magic-the-girlbossing]

I find the trend of people pointing towards the community of custom magic card creators to justify UB so frustrating if I'm being honest. "look! these people have been making custom cards based on their favorite IP for years, surely this shows they want IP crossovers!"

I can only speak personally for myself, but I like to make custom cards based on my favorite IP because it's a fun form of creative expression/fan content. magic is a language that's fun to be able to speak. as many fire emblem and elden ring custom cards as I've designed, I can't say that I want to see any of them be real cards in real magic.

[zomburai]

I've tried to explain this to people and they get real shitty at me, real quick

[gothiccharmschool]

Something something people not knowing the history something ...

[abigailnussbaum]

I am increasingly of the view that the besetting flaw of modern, internet-based, leftist-progressive culture is the tendency to take concepts that were intended as consciousness-raising, "have you noticed"/"makes you think" moments and treat them as all-encompassing rules for life. The Bechdel test is not a yardstick for feminism and/or artistic worthiness. It's not a test you were ever meant to apply to any single work. It's a thought experiment intended to illustrate how the entertainment industry as a whole discounts the interiority, desires, and relationships of women except as they relate to men. But again and again you'll see people - and perhaps especially people who define themselves as feminists - who treat it as the one and only meaningful measure of a work's value. In reality, there are feminist works that don't pass the Bechdel test, and works that pass the Bechdel test that are not feminist, and works with tremendous political value that do not foreground feminism because they're about something else.

And if the Bechdel test is a relatively old example, this is a phenomenon that keeps cropping up. "Some artifacts in museums were stolen or looted, with colonialism and racism providing a cover for acts that in other circumstances we'd easily recognize as criminal" has become "all museums are piles of loot and stealing from them is righteous even it it's to melt the artwork down and funnel the profits to organized crime." "Zoos sometimes abuse their animals and the goal should be to reintroduce specimens to the wild" has become "open all the cages and let the animals out (to spaces where they will almost certainly die/be killed to stop them killing people)". "Ethnic foods are sometimes treated as more palatable, and sold for more money, when they're marketed by white people" has become "people should only prepare and eat food from their own ethnicity". Again and again, it feels like these ideas that were meant to make us think, to pause a moment and notice the unspoken assumptions and elisions that exist in our world, have been turned into catchphrases that shut down thought. I think the reason that happens is that people enjoy the feeling of righteousness that comes from calling out institutions like museums or the film industry, but along the way you can become just as dogmatic and tunnel-visioned as the bodies you were calling out.

[tooquirkytolose]

‘The Magic of Jingle Sleigh Heights’

Or: Hallmark Christmas movie turned horror lol

[zomburai]

I never want to hear about you have to be "good enough" to write or draw something ever again

[tooquirkytolose]

‘The Magic of Jingle Sleigh Heights’

Or: Hallmark Christmas movie turned horror lol

[zomburai]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a p-zombie.

No one noticed.

[sam-keeper]

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