this post is SENDING ME

hey btw before you start being angry at the 10 year old sephora kids and the ipad kids, remember that we should feel bad for them. because the world has failed them. it is not these kids faults that the world is so focused on materialistic things and that their parents don't know how to talk to them. that is the fault of social media and bad parenting. i said what i said.

found this super interesting. this person below is an acting coach and scriptwriter that's worked on/working on: kinnporsche (2022), only friends (2023), playboyy (2023) and mansruang (2023):

dazai makes atsushi take random photos and videos of him throughout the day (most of them are super dramatic and/or aesthetic) only to caption them with the most unhinged stuff when he posts them on social media

Ok why has literally no one alerted me about the official Trolli brand Twitter account and their shameless corporate voreposting hello???

i send my friend suggestions of tourist places to see in his new country (his contract was extended, lucky him!) or messages about friend of friends i have living there that he could maybe meet for fellow americans to talk to, and his response is always that he doesnt have time. and not in that exaggerated way that people do to seem busy. but in that bone tired way i recognize from him here in LA, that i recognize in myself.

god i love the new jersey government twitter account

can we please discourage kids from being the heros in internet drama..??? idk pitting kids against each other to try and fix situations involving incredibly serious topics when they themselves cant even fully grasp such concepts just doesnt sound very healthy. i dont think that type of peer pressure, stress, or responsibility is good for a kids development

lee min ho is so loved 💜

i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true

tighnari fans stop posting pictures of neglected/irresponsibly kept exotic pets because they remind you of your blorbo challenge

most appealing part of the inhumans is that theyre all middle aged with back pain

One day I'm gonna ruin my friendship triangle with a Sw*ftie and a l*na del r*y stan by not being able to keep my mouth shut about not being impressed by mediocre white women

I guess one question that strikes me as very important, that I haven't seen anyone raise:

What would it look like to make an attempt at scaling down AO3?

Who would need to be persuaded, for example, to lock down AO3 to logged in users only, freeze commenting and possibly slow down account invites? Presumably that significantly damages AO3's status as a community hub without compromising its mission, and makes steps towards having a less strained budget and volunteer team. Make it very clear that they are not a social media site, they're an archive that hosts fanfiction. I genuinely do not know who would have to make this decision though. Could you do it with four board members?

In any case, some of the hypotheticals people are laying out, where the harm to volunteers and users both are so large and intractable and the organization's interest in mitigating them is so limited, would warrant attempting this or something like it right?

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GUYS SPARKNOTES ACTUALLY LIKED MY COMMENT UNDER ONE OF THEIR INSTAGRAM POSTS AND THEY RESPONDED TO IT THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER