#offline tag

[astraltrickster]

This post is your reminder that you are not obligated to blog about current events.

Things are bad. Really bad. Do not let people guilt trip you into tormenting yourself even further over the fact that things are bad. Doomscrolling is not activism.

If you're just on tumblr to blorbopost or reblog pretty pictures, you are not harming people by inaction.

You are not a bad person for not dedicating every aspect of your life and leisure space to whatever disgusting mask-off attack on human life and dignity some government has decided to enact.

Take action where you can, but don't confuse doomscrolling and digital self harm for action.

If you need to lose yourself in blorboposting, go for it.

If you need to log off for the day, whether it's to take irl action or to protect what little sanity any of us have left over the past 7 years, then by all means, do.

Morale is important. Hope is important. Small joys keep us from burning out completely in times like this. Do not let any "if you don't reblog this I'm judging you" guilt trip convince you otherwise.

#serious tag #current events #im gonna be offline for the day working on making doll clothes #this is why i keep my blogging and my activism as separate as i can #and only talk about the dynamics of big irl issues as they apply to hobby spaces most of the time - #because i know myself well enough to know that i WILL fall victim to the doomscrolling cycle #it's happened before and im not going there again

[ara-line]

Stop glorifying the suicide of that US airman.

He grew up in a cult and never really left behind the mindset of that cult, even if his beliefs on the political spectrum shifted. According to a former member of the cult, it was common for members to leave and end up in the military. She described it as "going from one high control group to another" in the WaPo article linked.

In short, he never got help that he clearly needed. And from what I've heard about the military, his time in it may have worsened whatever issues he already had.

His suicide is a bigger reflection of this very strange pattern on the left to glorify self harm since others are suffering. It's one thing to see children in a playground and think about how there are children in refugee camps who don't get to enjoy those freedoms. This is another thing. Bushnell, unlike many other cases of self-immolation (ie the self immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, the man whose death kickstarted the Arab Spring) was not directly affected by the bombings in Gaza. Yet he chose an extreme route that even those affected by the situation, whether through being related to the Israeli hostages or through having family in Gaza, would not go to. This is a reflection of a larger trend on this website of self punishment and forcing every last gory detail of horrific events on yourself because of a) this feeling of powerlessness over not being able to do much about the situation and b) wanting to show how much of a good leftist you are because you will subject yourself to horrific violence to show how much you care. In reality, it is mental self-destruction. I've seen this behaviour in true crime communities as well.

I think a lot of the leftists on this site grew up in conservative environments where it's all or nothing right wing extremism. Thus, much like Bushnell, their political beliefs have shifted, but not their mindset. That's why so many people on this site are glorifying his suicide.

The reason newspaper headlines aren't mentioning his name is because we already know many school shooters do what they do for infamy. Therefore, by not mentioning their names, the media wants to avoid copycats. It's the same line of thinking here. It's got nothing to do with Zionism, according to some people who probably had no idea what that is before Oct 7 and not now, controlling the media. No, Zionists do not control the news cycle. You're perpetuating antisemitism when you say that.

Inevitably, since people on this site have piss on the poor reading comprehension, I expect this post to go over well. If you're going to tell me to kill myself, just know that you will be blocked and reported. Any dialogue ended the moment you decided that was acceptable.

#on society #palestine #israel #stop making the left look bad you donkeys #aaron bushnell #tw #signal boost #kindly: please get a job. Some of you need to spend more time interacting with humans offline #or at least get a hobby im begging you #not jewish but tagging this as #jumblr #because i want as many people as possible to read this #leftist antisemitism #antisemitism #free palestine #free gaza #again with wanting people to read this and just stop and think about what they're posting for one moment

[newttxt]

i cannot believe i made it to gear 5 without being spoiled,,

#one piece #luffy #gear 5 spoilers #wano spoilers #u h. so i hear ppl dont rly tag for this anymore but the sheer JOY I FELT seeing this as a surprise… i dont wanna ruin that for anyone else #to be fair. i just muted every one piece word i could AND only looked at things friends sent me #so maybe its impossible to avoid spoilers without just going offline like i have #WHATEVER. whatever. its for my peace of mind #anyway. the way my jaw hung open for like 5 episodes straight #i said a couple days earlier ‘how will oda make the end of this fight actually satisfying?’ and bree screenshotted it to show me later #yeah id never have predicted this but it SURE WAS SATISFYING

[favoure]

that "draw ur two comfort characters as that one steven universe meme" trend that was going around twt a few months back Uhm !

#favourarts #grian #mcyt #do i even WANT to tag this PLZZKHSDJHDSHJ #okay fine i'll do the usual Just bc i want ppl 2 know that i still draw #if this leaves my target audience then . #im going offline for another couple of months LMAO /LH

[caduceus-tealeaf]

They noted this on her chart: 8:38 A.M. After which, according to their records, Annie lapsed back into her impenetrable isolation and did not utter another word. The doctor on call noted this on her chart:

“May have been responding to auditory hallucination.”

#twin peaks #twinpeaksedit #dale cooper #annie blackburn #kyle maclachlan #heather graham #mine #mygif #emerges from the swamp after like 4 years of being offline with occasional lurking #just to post a twin peaks gifset #LISTEN #not engaging with social media turned out to be pretty ok for me mentally #but also i kinda missed it #and also i rewatched twin peaks while reading the final dossier #and annie's part messed me up so good i had to redownload photoshop #i read this part in the final dossier ages ago and somehow didn't make the link to doppelcoop #then i rewatched the show and saw that whole conversation #and OH BOY #do i still need to tag this #twin peaks spoilers #are people still being spoiled for a 30 year old show #idk #anyway how are y'all doing

[mistergreatbones]

Batfam X Encanto AU, with powers decided by their ages (it kinda got away from me at the end)

As the baby of the family, Damian gets Antonio’s animal speaking powers and absolutely is living his best life

Skipping Duke since he has his own powers already, we have Tim as Mirabel and Steph as Camilo. As tempting as it would be to switch them, I think there’s great angst potential in Steph never being sure if Bruce actually values her or just finds her powers useful.

Also angst in Tim being the only one without powers having to work to prove himself and Bruce being terrified as Jason has Luisa’s strength and was still struck down.

Outside of that Jason’s power doesn’t change that much, neither does Dick with Isabela’s powers, just now uses vines to swing around. Cass is a bit weird because she’d have Delores’ power, so now you have a girl who hears everything but can’t understand it. I mean it’d be helpful in the field, but I imagine it would get overstimulating quickly, especially trying to focus on one conversation while she’s just starting to learn English.

Finally we have Alfred, Barbara, and Bruce. I picked a random triplet for each since they’re the oldest, so Alfred gets magic healing cooking, obvs, Babs gets Bruno’s powers to match her Oracle branding (we’re not gonna talk about how this affects the killing joke or how Bruno made prophecies for others but never for himself ok?), and Bruce gets Pepa’s powers.

I mean like in a meta way Gotham was literally made to reflect Bruce's mental state, but what if that was true in universe? What if it's rained everyday since that night in the alley? What if you're trying to fix a city and you can't even fix your own brain? What if you're just making it worse? Worse weather, worse conditions, worse things you're willing to do to get out.

What if you're Batman, with an unreadable face, yet your emotion can be read on a thermometer?

What if you can't feel it in the Watchtower, but the weather warms up when you tell that old Bat a joke? What if the skies clear up when he knows you're flying to him?

What if you're Dick Grayson who can make the sunshine with your smiles? What if you're used to getting rained on when you try to talk?

What if you're Jason Todd, and the rainbow you once made only come out in the reflection on the hailstones he drops every time they mention your name? What if you once wanted nothing but thunder clouds, but now you want lightening to strike at everything but you?

What if you're Tim Drake, holding back a hurricane? Stephanie, reasoning with fog? Alfred, who's given up trying to change him, just grateful when it drizzles instead of snows?

What if you've mastered control as best you could and it's still not enough? What if you're trying to be some sunny playboy when all you want is to be a kid again? Could you keep it from pouring down on everything you love? Could you stop your rain from eroding everyone down?

#leo says shit #batfam #bruce wayne #encanto crossover #damian wayne #Tim drake #stephanie brown #jason todd #cassandra cain #dick grayson #barbara gordon #alfred pennyworth #tagging all the bats cept Duke cuz I think there’s au potential I just focused on Bruce #batfam au #the hurricane is a reference to Tim trying to stop b from being violent and fog is a reference to b not listening to Steph #ALSO I’m probably gonna be offline for a bit so: #anyone has blanket permission to use this idea #just credit where you got it from + tag me so I can see it later

[ksdesign]

there’s a mystery in wonderland! A murderous one 🤭

#qt cinderella #foolish gamers fanart #tinakitten fanart #and everyone else… i just cant be bothered to tag them 😭😭😭 #offline tv #offline tv and friends #i think LMAO…

[sinistersuns]

its so fucking frustrating to have grown up experiencing misogynistic abuse—including emotional abuse, verbal abuse (which was sexual), and a grooming attempt—from cis men, and now being told “uhhh lol no you don’t understand Women’s Struggles TM because you’re an evil dirty MAN.” like okay i guess the 11 y/o girl seeing porn maliciously drawn of their persona and pregnancy “jokes” thrown at them and having all of the above things done by cis boys/men who were at MINIMUM 5 yrs older than them just doesn’t fucking exist! and while that’s the worst of it that’s not even fucking all.

#i’m so fucking heated my gods #i’m tired of people who aren’t transmasc thinking we’ve never experienced hardship Ever #transmasc #transmasculine #transmascphobia #transandrophobia #yeah fuck it i’m posting in that tag now who gives a shit #trans #trans men #transgender #honestly i meet these kinds of ppl equally online and offline so like. can’t just ignore it anymore #tw abuse

[haunted-xander]

Waiting

#heeeeeey this is my keykid her name is mari and i made her yesterday after finding out khux apparently has an offline version available <3 #which is basically a glorified dress-up game with cutscenes now lolol #<3 #player #key kid #mari #? how do ppl tag their key kids help #chirithy #strelitzia #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts union x #kh #khux #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[heartorbit]

please let her smack you flat like a pancake with her comically large hammer

#emu otori #pjsk #project sekai #revue starlight #yesterdays emus... revstar emu has infested my sketchbook. should design an outfit for nene soon #i tried to post these earlier with other doodles and i guess it sidnt go through as the same time as my wip but im glad #bc i realized i should post them seperate. keep my revstar brainrot contained. maybe make a tag for it #revue proseka #hows that. nice ring to it. arent i so handsome #tags are my diary sorry but thats how i am. anyways i had another serious looking one of her with a a bigger hammer but her head looks off #i thnk her hammer should be huge. close game offline style. not like lalafins little sledgehammer. tch #i was like ''maybe i should make a tag for traditional doodles' for 2 seconds and decided #no. im not doing that. amen

[brother-emperors]

Did you used to like Mark Antony and dislike Cassius? What changed your mind ?

honestly the condensed version of events is that Antony and Brutus became uninteresting, extremely boring as POV characters to me at the same time for the same reasons, that prompted me to look closer at Cassius, and then I decided to spend two years trying to untangle Cassius from Brutus which completed my transformation into a part time Cassius apologist

like, both Antony and Brutus are still compelling figures, it’s honestly the versions of them in media and pop culture that I personally dislike and find boring because it’s not discussing anything I find interesting & frequently I feel like my time has been wasted, while their historical counterparts is more of a ‘wow I hate what you’re doing, keep it up!’

and ofc: the general passage of time. you get older. things that interest you change. being a hater as a recreational activity is fun. variety is the spice of life. people who write about Cassius are delivering poetry and I’m not immune to it. etc etc.

#my first attempt to answer this was six paragraphs long haha but it was all irrelevant offline nonsense that doesn’t rlly apply #I do have some petty grievances abt Antony but it’s has more to do with people who focus on Antony than the ant man himself #like how dare you write a new biography on Antony with all this new scholarship to draw on and FUCK UP DISCUSSING #THE CRASSUS-POMPEY-CAESAR COALITION. or they wrote abt the conspiracy in a way that makes me want to take up #smoking like oh my god shut uppppp can we tone down dickriding Caesar’s corpse. not even Antony was behaving like this #ask tag #anyway like/dislike is sort of a useless metric to me bc of the overlap between what I do (storytelling) and the Process of Learning etc

[aghhtdraws]

Just one kiss for good luck? A moment of your time, sir Sogeking...

random SanUso from this week bc I haven't drawn any fanart in so long, it just called to me ;>w>

a few days into february, i caught up with One Piece for the first time since 10 years ago and One Piece has been on my brain for the past 3+ weeks now (after I finished watching OPLA haha)

Anyway, I don't post a lot of ship art, but this is an old ship I liked in the early days of browsing FF in the mid-00s or so and it's been popping up in my head that these characters still feel sorta close. This art isn't much but I just wanted to play around with inks and colors a bit. It's cool seeing so much fanart of the ship these days!!! I like Usopp, he's a fun character, and Sanji's just the sort who gives a shit a bit too much. They can be fun and silly together, caring but also daring in different situations. It's a fun dynamic!

anyway smth possessed me to draw this just because I could. busting out of the art block like HEY….I'M HERE….

#sanuso #usopp #sanji #sogeking #aghhtdraws #skidoodles offline again bc i'm anxious abt everything else #haven't been drawing anymore which feels weird but I guess it makes sense for now #slowly reconnecting with my art and creativity #tagramble #didn't put the longer ramble into tags bc tumblr has been wigging out on me #doodles #posting this before I take it back haha

[lunarharp]

uhhh scribbly extras/backlog. lol

#witch hat tag #orufrey #cause i want to keep working on a long comic tomorrow. somehow my longest and most delicate comic ever🤦 #it's a year now since i went offline for a month due to travelling..that's right for a whole month i stopped drawing i shut up for a month. #i don't like how time flies.

[coffinwoodx]

I think the reason there's consistently been generations of minecraft youtuber groups (yogscast, team crafted, stampylonghead, dreamsmp, hermitcraft, qsmp, etc), just youtuber groups in general (sidemen, lunch club, the eboys, offlineTV, distractible/three peens in a pod, trash taste, etc), or even duos (smosh, game grumps, good mythical morning, chuckle sandwich, dan and phil, etc) is bcuz people crave that sense of community, that connection, between friends. they consistently spend time together since making videos are their literal careers and are usually always having a great time cuz it needs to be entertaining. craving that kind of strong and consistent type of relationship to drown out the loneliness and living vicariously through these content creators and their friend groups

#is this parasocial? #probably #idk #only gonna tag the ones i watch from what i named cuz some of these fandoms scare me #stampylonghead #stampylongnose #hermitcraft #qsmp #offline tv #offlineTV #distractible #smosh #game grumps #good mythical morning #chuckle sandwich #this might be an absolutely dreadful take #im sorry its 4 am

[myobsessionsspace]

My Obsession For A Reason

I’ve yet to come across a picture of this man and not save it.

I’ve never seen someone as beautiful as him.

However he’s more than just a pretty face and idol body.

I’m 'obsessed' with him, but I don’t really ‘want him’, I want the best for him.

I want to see him happy in song, happy in dance, happy on stage, happy eating, happy with friends, happy with fans.

I want him to have his peace, protection and privacy.

I want him to have his space and his freedom.

I want him to only hear ‘how can we help you’ and never ‘you can never.’

I want to understand him on the level he feels comfortable with and never make him feel uncomfortable.

I respect him as a public figure and a private person

As a human he’s not always gonna be happy, is gonna make mistakes, is not going to please everyone, will have had misunderstandings, anger, tears etc.

However to know what we do of him, he listens, he learns, he tries to be better and do better. No one that’s spoken of him can ever say he’s not the most selfless person they know, the most emotionally intelligent, the kindest. No one that has spoken of him can deny he gives his all to his friends, his members and his fans.

He does what he can both in private and public for his hometown and his country, to children, schools and foreign aid.

I love him deeply, as unique and talented artist and a perfectly imperfect human striving to make himself and what he can around him better.

If I only ever have all that he’s given to his fans and supporters I’m still content.

I yearn for anything and everything he shares with us but I yearn for his happiness and security more.

Always with Jimin

💛

Check out this awesome channel whenever you get the ‘missing Jimin feels’

#Jimin #Park Jimin #when I think of him #when we don’t see him online for a while #he has responsibilities #he has an offline life #he has family and friends #I want him to enjoy it all #Jikook #the last tag just because… #Youtube

[beebfreeb]

If there is a program I will want/have to use regularly, I NEED IT TO WORK WITHOUT INTERNET...

#funny talking tag #I love offline functionality I NEED offline functionality. My internet goes down regularly.