Thinking about the death of subcultures. Like I haven’t seen any goth kids or punks or any obvious subcultural movements in years. And obviously part of that is just cultural change, but when I think of modern subcultures the only thing I can think of are those tiktok alternative people, like egirls, but there isn’t that sense of a real “scene” going on with their own lifestyles and music and events, like lived experience that’s shared. I feel like what we might call modern subcultures are all reduced to mere aesthetics and they’re all mostly online, and they all look way too pretty – their make up is always perfect and their clothes are perfectly aesthetic and there’s none of that deliberate freakishness going on; literally grunginess itself has been commodified. There’s none of the real expression of confusion and anger that came with growing up in a world that you felt on some level was fucked up but you couldn’t express why, so you expressed it by dressing like a freak, by looking kinda deliberately out of place. I want that spirit back because this is what subcultures were about. Let’s bring back real subculture, not the alienated commodified version that’s based on aesthetics and has been reduced to social media, but the kind where you actually go out looking completely unhinged on purpose to disrupt. The kind where you meet other people and feel a sense of empowerment in your willing difference from the mainstream, and by that I mean the kind that is explicitly anticapitalist.

Note to self: recommending bo burnham’s inside is not working as a cry for help

trans punks take no bullshit!

Pride rats!!!!!

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Punk bfs with matching jackets that say “I’m he’s” and “he’m i’s”

I wanna do art commissions but idk how to start, if anyone has any tips especially for traditional artists plz hmu

LMAO I GOT FIRED

On god I hate people that can’t admit they made a mistake like plz ur in ur 40s arguing with me rn,,,,, grow up

On god I hate people that can’t admit they made a mistake like plz ur in ur 40s arguing with me rn,,,,, grow up

When someone reblogs ur super depressing vent post like it’s a relatable thing to be shared...... L

Men will ask “is anyone gonna suck this dick?” And not wait for an answer

men will see a dick and suck it

I’m so over hearing about people’s boyfriends no one is allowed to have boyfriends anymore

The only worse ones are the trump clickbait ones

Listen ok yeah I get it, we have to vote for Biden, but I’m getting pretty sick of the ads of him in a video game or a song like “joe Biden will always be your friend” please fuck off

Listen ok yeah I get it, we have to vote for Biden, but I’m getting pretty sick of the ads of him in a video game or a song like “joe Biden will always be your friend” please fuck off

Instagram algorithm is transphobic cuz I keep getting ads for pads

Messaging about how everyone is an addict bc of the prevalence of e.g. caffeine dependency that aims to destigmatize other addiction (e.g. to illicit drugs) doesn’t really do the trick, unfortunately. It ends up backfiring in the sense that now people feel guilty about their caffeine use and aren’t likely more sympathetic to illicit drug users.

We’ve really got to get to the heart of the matter, which is that people are self-soothing, self-medicating, coping in whatever ways they can find with intolerable circumstances. We’re not bad bc we feel we need caffeine, or a hit, or a drink!! Ever, at all! Let’s ask: in what ways are our basic needs not being met? For sleep, for food, for safety, for connection? Why do we need substances for energy, motivation, or relaxation? To function or to escape?

The substances we call drugs have always been around in some form. Widespread addiction hasn’t. That’s a construct (w some biological components ofc), a way we stigmatize reliance on substances in a world that’s unbearable and whose demands we can’t meet. We don’t want to say “addiction is bad and widespread,” we want to say “why are so many people unable to function in the world as it is?”

A fresh batch of rats! Some have said its really neopolitan ice cream