also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!
I don’t think we will ever have the same type of photographical energy childhood photos give off like the 90s and early 2000s did. It was just different back then. I will cherish these pictures of me and my brother till the day I die.
it’s 11 at night. the smog is so thick the roads have visibility load in times. i’m driving with sandstorm by darude on—volume up, windows down.
my eyes are on the road but the entire back half of my brain is having extensive false memories of playing racing games in 2000. i have somehow recreated the experience irl by sheer accident.
gravity falls isn't like the most amazing and perfect cartoon ever (even tho i act like it is sometimes) but i still feel like it's one of the most.... necessary? game-changing???? cartoons to come out in the early 10s
one day you’re happy and the other day a player who reminds you of arsenal’s funniest era decides to leave the club and you are left with nothing but the realisation that the passage of time is real