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I love this blog because while scrolling you'll encounter very interesting or positive takes and then you see someone talking about how they want to be dominated by/impregnate an fe character
this is just how all fandoms should be imo
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the sluttiest thing a man can do is be himself.
(& takes on social media)
Hi.
I'm lonely.
The moment I got "two weeks off school" in sophomore year, life went to 4x speed & I can't turn it off no matter how hard I try.
Maybe COVID-19 adolescence did numbers on me.
Somewhere between the iPhone 5c and ChatGPT, 14-hour screen times have live-streamed to me a steady, homogenous death of culture.
Nothing is cool anymore.
Nothing is sacred.
Every movement is a trend, and every cult classic a sequel.
The value we place on things being beautiful, on being "cool," and our gatekept appreciation of how hard these things were to find: it's been co-opted, or perhaps stolen. It's been stolen by the new merchant class. "Disruptors" and "innovators" turning our lives into a burgeoning black mirror prequel. Soon, we'll graduate too, and we'll wring every morsel of value in each others' lives dry for cash.
Plain and simple, I think we're being manipulated.
Your dates are an algorithm.
Your music is a social signal.
And Zuck knows when you sleep.*
God. What the fuck are we doing???
“Individuation is becoming the thing which is not the ego, and that is very strange.” — Carl Jung
Recently, I deleted Instagram.
My first impulse was to post a story or something, announcing my departure.
But then, I thought that would be lame.
I got rid of my account, too. Kinda. Over 1 year, over 800 followers removed, and what remains of me is a little grey icon, and "JM_0000000010" where my name and face used to be.
yay.
There were many people I wish I could have been friends with, but I wonder, too, why I find myself so drawn to the validation of others. Does social media affect me worse, or do we all just choose to ignore it, languishing in private?
At any rate, this last year has almost felt like re-learning how to be a human being.
Personally, I think one of the biggest markers for maturity is when you become willing to disappoint the people you know in favor of what feels right to you, when you start to unravel the stories you’ve told yourself (or been told) about who you are and what you should be.
In short, the sluttiest thing a man can do is be himself.
And sometimes, I think about every college student that has ever lived.
My grandmother, my dad, and so on.
Just consider for a moment all kids who graduated before 2010:
What was it like for the ones in 1940?
To walk around, before a campus had computers?
In 2006: To meet someone pretty, but forget their number?
In 1999: To cram into dorms, and watch Seinfeld live on-air?
Would I, like my dad in 1988, have braved cold night, brisk wind, & landline phone-call just to knock and see if my friends were too busy to hang?
What stories could I tell if there was even the slightest chance of getting lost on the way home from a party?
Humans are social creatures. We crave our friends like water. To me, the clearest difference between Dasani and Instagram is that one of them comes in a bottle.
Yet despite these distractions and comforts we have in 2024, somehow, we still have engineering students.
People who carve out time in their day to sit down, look at paper, and solve differential equations.
But then, that's not so hard, is it?
It just takes time.
Precious, fucking, time.
At Meta, leagues and leagues of these engineers power behavioral scientists, who are competing for the highest salary. Their benchmarks? Your FOMO.
Guilt. Anxiety. Obsession.
The worse you feel, the more you engage with their content. The more you engage with their content, well, you're starting to get the point.
Try something for me:
Open up Instagram, but don't tap anything.
What happens?
How many little animations?
How many tiny nudges prompting you to get lost?
Our home-pages are billion-dollar diving boards, hoisting us over engineered catacombs of subconscious quicksand.
My homepage is my FOMO, my envy, and my crushes. The pain and struggle of trying to be someone who I am not. My little existential crises, bundled-up, packaged, and shipped with a like button.
To abandon your social networks entirely, however, requires a safety net of close friends. After all, your friends are online, and you'd be miserable without them.
This is the problem with our monkey brains. Millennia of sociological natural-selection have made us quite great at feeling terrible. We're damn good at making tribal status games to play with, too.
Seeking refuge in quirked up septum piercings and boygenius listeners, my time in counter-cultural, alternative "scenes" between St. Louis and Tampa has shown me that even the weirdest of folks and the most removed can accidentally find themselves reduced to nothing more than high-school popularity contests. Even if I love them. Even if they're amazing people. We're human.
We can't "quit social media" as much as we can't "quit bottled water"
Sure, we can, but it's inconvenient. And even without a bottle, we're still drinking water.
So I lost touch with my friends. I got no new updates on their lives.
I forced myself into the inconvenience of not having a phone to reach for in fleeting moments of boredom.
Suddenly, I was out of the loop.
Suddenly, I was bored.
And suddenly, nobody missed me.
My only friends were the ones I had the time to text. Everyone else ... does not exist.
Weekends have become more valuable than ever. Without the empty social calories of seeing my friends' pictures, I find myself planning hangouts as often as my schedule allows.
I have more lunches, more study sessions, and more is done in the company of less.
And I have the time to breathe.
And in this calm, I think I found my answer: it's my misplaced ambition.
These fears of anxiety and people I thought I would miss, they seem represent something I want to see more of within myself. Something I want to develop, lean into more deeply, as an individual. And I think that's quite normal; to look out into the world and feel attracted to things we want to see more of. This is, I think, how everyone develops their own definition of beauty — and of coolness. It's largely the intersection of what we find most interesting, and what we want to see more of in the world. Because beauty and coolness, by definition, are rare and hard to find. If they were everywhere, nothing be beautiful, nor would anything be cool.
When we all turn into wrinkles and cataracts, bad backs and heart attacks, for a brief, glorious moment, our lives are going to flash before our eyes.
In this moment, you'll see your story. The ultimate progression of you.
How much of that will be skibidi toilet and reaction clips?
How much of that will be arguing on the internet?
Can you tell me, just how much of your life will you have skipped over to pacify your intentionally-lowered attention span?
That girl whose number you couldn't find
Those passing questions over coffee that you couldn't search on Google
The boredom of a subway ride
Those are not inconveniences, they're what the older generations refer to as "life."
* (oh, but if you can't sleep, consider this aside: Google knows the angle you walk at, how fast you're walking, and they've got crowdsourced pictures of everywhere around you at all times of the day. fun bedtime thoughts <3)
#scene#alternative#social media#social justice#instagram#college#coming of age#writing#blogpost#blog takes
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When you check into the blog every time you visit Tumblr and then all of a sudden, the blog stops updating and you start crying and screaming in despair.
I’M UPDATING I’M UPDATING HOLD OOONNNN
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Anon who said Boscha Odalia and Belos as favs is a red flag is a bigger red flag than those fans will ever be. Are you seriously scared that someone likes mean FICTIONAL characters?
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what if you just disabled anon on here. then what. chaos. this fandom could not be normal without anonymity. or any fandom for that matter, any person on the internet. we rely on the anonymity to censor us, keep us safe. hiding behind a curtain while spouting hate, comfortable in our own bubbles. if you popped them, who’s to say we’d survive? we’d crash and burn like a meteor all because we can’t spew our hate without the consequence of being known. even little things like “this ship sucks” or “i hate this generally agreed upon opinion” make us fear judgement and i am no better. is anyone? can anyone ever be? we all pretend to be better, but are we? one click of a button and you are safe, don’t you love that? that your mutuals can’t judge you for hating a ship they love? that your bestie that ships some random, no-chemistry ship won’t know it was you that said the ship makes no sense? no, you’re no better. but neither is anyone. so the anonymity stays on.
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!! NOT TARGETING ANYONE !!! Maybe it’s me attuned to this mindset but shipping discourse never made sense to me tbh bc I am a severe multishipper and have every and any headcanon. Oh in this au [female character] likes girls? Oh in another [same female character] likes boys? Or some other sexuality?? Or is headcanoned with different prns? Congrats!!
I’ve always just went with whatever and appreciated all Headcanons and ships and stuff. Don’t take things personal, yall. I have specific ships I loveee that I’m not gonna be too pissed if someone goes and is like “actually what if [character] was into [other character]/was [insert sexuality]” sort of thing.
idrk
I said some thoughts previously which led to another person defending themself or something with their whole deal thing and stuff but what they said previously needing to support each other is real. If anything, we are a crumbling fandom that relies on us to storycraft our own interpretations, if we can’t appreciate or at least validate each others ideas and headcanons, we’ve failed.
I have some regrets but still.
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FLICKER CONFESSION #0055
confession type / blog(?) - fandom - general
Blog runners' take: i get you! i feel like when ppl say stuff like whats been said on this blog they dont mean to offend or target anyone, but it may come off that way? i know you said that this isnt targeted at anyone, but i feel like its relevant information and we just need to be patient and more communicative and less judgemental with each other
#💥 anon#roblox flicker#flicker#flicker roblox#robloxflicker#rblx#flicker confessions#blog takes#fandom takes
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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
#tumblr#tumblr tips#tumblr tags#tumblr search#tumblr how to#new to tumblr#why did I pick croissants as the example? who knows!#but I'm a pro at finding things on people's blogs especially my own#takes me like 4 seconds to find Exactly The Post I'm Looking For no matter how long ago I reblogged it
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I want to say I really appreciate your decision to not tag specific characters for character hate 🫡 my favorite character (Alya) gets a lot of hate from the fanbase and I've had to block a few confession blogs since they kept clogging her tag with it. Your system is a great way to allow people to speak their mind while also not filling a character's tag with it.
Uh I guess for an actual take: Lukas mom is hot
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#miraculous take#miraculous ladybug#anonymous#fandom takes#blog takes#anarka couffaine#also anon i agree there is a lot of hate for alya in this fandom.#i based my tagging model off of other takes blogs in different fandoms that ive seen so im glad you prefer the system
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Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
#unforth rambles#this wasn't really prompted by anything#I'm just sick and tired and distractable#or i should say it wasn't prompted by anything recent or that happened now#like no one has disrespected me#but as i hit the point that it's regularly taking me an hour plus every single day to queue things for the danmei art blogs#i just think of all the times people go WAIT YOU RUN ALL OF THOSE??? BY YOURSELF???#like i just don't think a lot of people realize how much work it is to really do background fandom labor long term#and i appreciate places like rec blogs and networks and events and just everyone#y'all are awesome#thank you so much
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hadn't seen anyone post the full comic about laios + falin's family on tumblr yet so. here you go
source is from the reddit
#in general i haven't seen as many translations of the new content get posted here which is like fine#but it was annoying me that the pages shared here and on twitter were missing sections. lore is serious business#the less lore the average tumblr user knows about the more nonsensical takes i'm forced to read. so im taking direct action#this is the last time im posting manga pages here i don't want to become a manga pages blog#beepbeep.txt#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi spoilers
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Ungentle reminder that all 3h discourse is now banned.
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me waiting for the total drama takes i sent two weeks ago to be posted to a tumblr blog (i have the hardest life anyone has ever had btw):
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THOSE toh stans after seeing that posts on this blog tagged as "toh critical" are actually critical
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love how like 50% of the anons made actual accounts for their anon identity and still send in asks on anon
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FLICKER CONFESSION #0048
Submitted by anonymous (from confession #0002):
hii!!! anon #0002 here!
fun little fact! mike is the second most popular "recent" character only behind grace, so please tell me how "one or two" people are talking about him. putting mike in maid dresses and cat ears and whatever CAN be "just for fun" or whatever but it's usually just sexualizing him. that is what i meant by that. im talking about people who go into the lobby in mike cosplays with cat ears and maid outfits. these characters are adults. im not a complete hater of tasteful sexualization. but there is a PLACE and a TIME.
thanks for reading!!!! ^_^ <3
Blog runners' note: this is pretty off topic but I hate how cat ears and maid outfits are used for sexualization so often :// like WHO LOOKED. AT A CAT. AND AT A MAID. and thought "mmmm yes s veyry seggzy 😍😍🥴" ?? anyway anon sorry if I contributed to anything bad ever I am a horrible person and a sinner . Also, the confession #0048 is not a mistake, I just realized that that one ask from a while ago doesn't really count as a confession
confession type: blog - fandom - general
#roblox flicker#flicker#flicker roblox#robloxflicker#rblx#flicker confessions#anon 0002#flicker mike#mike flicker#blog takes#fandom takes
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long list of self care practices⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🍈
brush ur hair
make urself a warm drink (tea, hot chocolate etc)
light a candle
go outside and get some fresh air
dance to a song that u rly love (look at me/heart-shaker by twice)
put on a face mask
stretch ur body
do a guided meditation
journalling (shadow work/writing in ur diary)
have a bubble bath (or use a bath bomb or bath milk)
say ur affirmations
binge watch a comfort show
take a break from social media/ur phone
read a rly rly juicy book
paint ur nails
use ur gua sha
oil ur hair or do a hair mask
eat one of ur favorite meals
take a long nap
give urself a pedicure
take care of ur lips (exfoliate, lip plumper, whatever u like to do)
hydrate
do guided yoga
listen to ur playlists
lymphatic drainage massage
#it girl#self care#becoming that girl#self love#that girl#it girl energy#honeytonedhottie⭐️#self improvement#self growth#beauty#hyperfemininity#princess#girl blog#dream girl#dream girl tips#girly#girlblogging#take care of yourself#self reflection#wellness girlie#health and wellness#mental health#mental well being#girly girl#resources💬🎀
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