#the day i watched that video

[eggmeralda]

happy 10th anniversary to when I started remembering everything forever

#the day i watched that video #that led me to another video #where i heard that song #that got me into that band #and i became obsessed with that genre #and 13yo me was like ''this seems like a significant moment. maybe i should remember it'' and then i have done so with #every memory since then #anyway apparently 6 sep 2013 was when i liked the video #also while we're at it. happy 9th anniversary to the depression day 1 #nothing caused it in particular i just. got depressed on that day and then my brain has been different since #idk what i was doing 8 years ago. probably depriving myself of sleep to get high and probably listening to the who #actually wait no the day before i read about the catcher in the rye and 15yo me was like wow he sounds soo <3<3 #so i imagine the next day i was Thinking about holden caulfield. even though i didn't read the book until december #i know this day in 2016 i was listening to the monkees. nothing specific i just know i was going through another massive monkees phase #2017?????? no recollection #2018? also idk #2019 i feel like despite being a good year some bad vibes were starting to settle in #2020 i was on a camping trip :) #2021 i was also on a camping trip :) but this one was dead. first one was good though #2022 i was probably at work. thinking about swag. eating honeycomb bites. and watching breaking bad i imagine #and 2023 i am in the sad thoughts bc i need to get a job but my executive dysfunction is preventing me from doing anything #anyway happy 10 years of weird obsessive memory hoarding <3 #ramble

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[elizabro]

please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.

of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.

I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.

#aaron bushnell #I didn't want to make another post about this but #watching that video changed me irrevocably. #there have been many instances during this genocide that I've felt that way. and today is another one of those days. #I have been radicalized permanently by these events. #people speak to aaron's death as a result of hopelessness #but I see it as him having profound hope. he had hope that his death would change things. #and it is up to those still alive to ensure that happens. #free palestine

[bleakbluejay]

you motherfuckers have no concept of what "land back" or "decolonize" even mean. you're too busy demonizing entire groups of people, terrified, shitting yourselves, that they'll do even half of the horrors to you that you've done to them for decades or centuries. this shit comes off as hella racist for real. you hate arabs so much. you hate first nations people so much. you hate black people so much. even if you sympathize with them, you can't fucking bear the idea of them gaining freedom, independence, autonomy, safety, because you're so, so scared they'll hurt you back and cause chaos in the streets. these same people who just want to rebuild. who just want to go home. who just want to see their families again. who just want food. who just want medical care. who just want dry, warm shelter. you're so focused on the ideas of colonization, of "us vs. them", of one people displacing the other for a state to exist, that you cannot comprehend coexistence, and your only idea of peace is if an entire group of people were just gone and dead.

grow the fuck up. for the love of GOD, grow the fuck up.

#eli talks #rant #i just watched a video shared by someone i'd been following a while denying the genocide occuring in gaza entirely #are you kidding. are you fucking kidding me. #the video was trying to run with the idea that “from the river to the sea” means jewish people will be expelled from the region #no the fuck it does not you stupid motherfucker that's NOT what decolonization is #anyway. land back. decolonize. from the river to the sea. peace and love on planet earth. #stop razing olive trees. stop scorching the earth. stop bombing hospitals and schools. stop destroying the sea. #if i have to see another palestinian child undergo anesthesia-free amputation im going to start being physically fucking violent #if i have to see another mother with blood on her hands wailing and begging for her child to come back im going to start burning shit #one day all the people of palestine will be free. muslims and jews and christians and all and none. #one day all the people of sudan will be free. all the people in the congo will be free. all the peoples in the americas will be free. #and all the other occupied places suffering genocides and ethnic cleansings that the news neglects to mention. theyll be free too.

[isjasz]

❄️The Dungeon is ready for its next victim❄️

#tangotek #decked out 2 #hermitcraft #hermitblr #goodtimeswithscar #cubfan135 #hypnotizd #xisumavoid #geminitay #bdoubleo100 #grian #my art #dddaily4sherin #day 75!! but i watned to keep the caption clean for this one >:D #decked out 2 is so fucking cool i cant stop watching tangos streams i want to see EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE #(tango pls stop streaming i need to watch the video uploads too goddammit /J) #cant wait to see level 2 and 3 (o7 hypno) pls this is so. i cant find another word its just SO COOL

[theoldkyokodied]

"what if we shot a RPG and stared at the explosions like new years fireworks and then we lay in the long grass and maybe for a moment we were in love in the way the long grass loves sunlight and not in love in the way a rocket loves to explode" -Kath, who got to see this piece earlier than anyone else, who's words stuck with me like they tend to do <3

This is my piece for the iasip Valentine's zine over at @its-always-ziney-in-philadelphia ! :)

#macdennis #macden #mac mcdonald #dennis reynolds #dee reynolds #charlie kelly #frank reynolds #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #happy valentine's day :) happy 'cause i know you man' day :))) #i sent hem the rocket so they can all be mesmerized by big explosion <3 #i watched videos of people shooting rpg's for this one fgdkfgkagfkas #kath sent me a dennis 'let me demonstrate my value to you valentine' card. yall WISH you were me

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

November in northeast china: daily life of chinese college students on campus

#china #douyin #fun #video #i can watch this whole day #ngl it's soothing to stay inside and watch the people outside get blown away by gusts of wind #audio #they are all laughing #the girl who fell said that southerners going to college in the north felt like climbing Mount Everest #students in heilongjiang university call the group of people moving slowly on the steps holding onto the railing #Heilongjiang University Antarctic Expedition Team #lmao #winter #weather

[zaiinab]

fr

#it’s the way i made sure to educate my two younger sisters about them #the day i realised they only knew harry i was like right sit down rn and watch all these videos #m*

[bonesandthebees]

hearing a youtuber I used to watch all the way back in 2017 read out the title of my fic in a video was not how I expected to start my day today

#for clarification this isn't bad or anything it's just wild to me #coley ily i used to watch your voltron fandom videos way back in the day #coleydoesthings

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #peter capaldi #pearl mackie #:') #had to watch the solar eclipse on nasa's livestream today #i had it going for most of the morning for my students #or i'd have it in a little floating video in the corner of the screen during our lessons lmao #it was still very fun #one day i'll go see a total solar eclipse with my own two eyes #hope you all had a good day today :')

[italiantea]

soft and neat

#dan and phil crafts #dan and phil #decided to go to bed before watching the video. absolutely insane way to start the day #took a nap and it gave me strange and vivid nightmares about demons. still think its funny tho 10/10 #my art #this is so gonna come out of left field for my followers lmao #posts this with no context. doesnt elaborate. leaves #edit: ok i lied im elaborating. im not a phan account guys if you follow you will b sorely disappointed #im probably never going to post about it again ive just been lurking for 10 years. you know how it is

[rambles-about-minecraft-ocs]

one of my favorite things about zedaph is that on a server full of people that find strange and oft-overlooked minecraft mechanics or rare events and then see just how far they can push them in the name of spectacle or efficiency or world-breaking, zed is over here finding these mechanics in order to do the weirdest things he can think of in as entertaining a manner as possible

like i 100% have faith in zedaph's theoretical ability to be just as efficient or spectacular or world-breaking. if he wanted to do that stuff, i trust that he absolutely could. but thats so far from being his priority. instead, hes going to spend around a week of irl time focused entirely on eventually having the good luck to spawn in something insanely rare so that he can convert it into something even rarer, the result of which being something that 99% of the server reacts with complete and utter shock that it even exists in the first place, just because its zany and funny and he wanted to. and i love that

#zedaph #hermitcraft #genuinely i adore the clucky few project im not even done watching the episode and i had to pause and make this post #i saw impulses video first and went ''that HAS to be some sort of datapack or something-'' #only to immediately go ''no. no it cant be. because this is zed #and its practically a trademark of his to push the limits of the game as far as possible in the direction least expected #not for the purpose of efficiency or spectacle or intimidation or whatever like some players who push limits #but purely for the purpose of making something so funny you cant help but laugh at whats going on #and maybe being a bit impressed that he ever thought of it in the first place'' #at which point i went ''holy shit. since its zed doing this. somehow he ACTUALLY got a villager on a chicken. with no cheats. thats INSANE' #i was relieved when i checked my subscriptions to see what the next video i had to watch was and saw he would be next in line #bc if i had to sit through 19 other hermits videos before i could watch his and find out what the fuck he was doing i would have been so sa #sidenote but i feel like a zed video where he interacts with this many other people all in the same video is so rare #idk i didnt watch season 9 and i know he started collabing a lot more w/ other hermits then #so maybe its not nearly as rare these days #but like the last one that *i* saw where he interacted with this many people at once was towards the end of season 8 #when all the people he experimented on earlier in the season came back to experiment on him #and like i would like zeds videos with or without the collabs. but its a lot of fun to see him interact with people #so its very cool to me when he does it with a lot of people all in the same video

[rileyclaw]

new TOH animatic on my channel!

#stares into the horizon. i dont think ive seen the sun in 4 days #(it's been raining) #the owl house #toh #animatic #hunter toh #del clawthorne #bat queen #video #toh spoilers #toh season 3 #toh season 3 spoilers #watching and dreaming #toh series finale #courtesy tags bc it. deals with stuff from the epilogue scene LMAO fdhsjf #eartucks cutely and sprints off into oblivion #sorry for my inactivity this month i had covid then finals THEN the flu all back to back #it was insanity #Youtube

[ivsleeptoken]

source: my eyeballs through my camera 😅

#sleep token #iv #*mystuff #eye strain tw #just wanted to share the video that i go back and embarrassingly watch at least once a day. #it's also on my tiktok (michi_lynnn) along with other footage.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS THING IS SCUUUFFED AS HELL & ITS ALSO THE BEST THING I HAVE ANIMATED THUS FAR. IM SO IN LOVE WITH EMIZEL. JUST WISH I GAVE HIM MORE STUPID TATTOOS. NEXT TIME THO. NEXT TIME. I ALSO LOVE VEX&VIV SOOOO MUCH. charlies flavor of Deranged is my FAVORITE!!

#cw gore #jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #jrwi suckening spoilers #ACTULY FINISHED THIS A WHILE AGO. kept going back n forth between trying to work on it more or call it done #in the end i chose DONE!! i worked on this for a full day n a half. NO idea what possesed me but it is NOT happenin again anytime soon #i shall do better NEXT TIME!! in the meantime tho OH MY GOOOOOD WHO WANTS TO SCREAM ABT THE SUCKENING WITH ME #THE FUCKINNN THE FUCKIN THING WITH VEX N VIV BEING THE SHADOW LEADERS OF THE FANGS/DEMONS #OH MMYY GOOOODDD THATS THEIR LIL MEAT GENERATOR... THTS SO FUCKED UP AND COOL UUUGHHH I LOVE THEM... #THEIR FLAVORE IS SO WONDERFUL. I LOOOVE HOW SILLY THEY ARE. MAKING PUNS WHILE PULLIN A SCREAMING VICTIM APART #vex n his lil fashiony art workshop and viv n her sterile n clean doctors office #i bet she doesnt even HAVE a medical liscense. it would be funny if vex did tho. could u imagine #they main MEDIC in tf2 together. viv is the battlemedic while vex only pocket medics for her. COULD U IMAGINE #guh i could go on abt these two forever n ever n ever i LOVE THEMM i gotta draw em more.... #OH ALSO before i run outa room. i should say. i took inspiration from a tf2 animation called POOTIS ENGAGED #the animator. Ceno0. uses black bars in the action sequences in SUCH A COOL WAYYY everytime i watch that video i feel inspired #oneday ill make more complex fight scenes... one day.... #in the meantime UGHHH I LOVE THE SUCKENING SO MUUUCH CAN I JUST FUCKIN SAAAYY THAT I THINK EMIZEL IS A SMART COOKIE!! #THESE PPL FUCKING FEAR HIM NOW!!! 'SHAMIA SHAMI' IS NOW THEIR MORTAL ENEMY!! POWERFUL ILLUSIONIST. CANT DIE. #THAT PART AT THE END THERE WHERE HE FUCKIN. KILLS HIMSELF INFRONTA THEM. THATS SO AWESOME. THATS SO METAL. AND THEN HE COMES BACK!! #I WATCHED EP 7 ASWELL BUT I WONT SPOIL IT HERE. BUT OMYGOD. EMIZEL IS SO COOL AND CAPABLE N SMART N FUNNY N UGHHHHHH I LOVE HIMMMMM #OKAY THATS MY RAMBLE FOR THE DAY THANKYOU FOR READING. I READ ALL TAGS SO YOU SHOULD RAMBLE TOO. IF YOU WANT. IF YOU CAN.

[nxctrns]

....So uh. Transistor au vashwood anyone?

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #I've had like one thought about this au and how well it would fit these two and then i forgot about it for a few days #until i was watching a video that used transistor's ost #after that it was a blur and before i knew it #this appeared on my csp canvas