more good news from tiktok: they’ve started blocking celebrities.
they’re calling it block party 2024. just blocking and ignoring countless celebrities who havent said shit about palestine. influencers, actors, anyone who went to the met gala, whatever, they’re getting blocked. and people keep talking about how cathartic it is, how good it feels, how they never realized they could DO that. there was some kind of subconscious law against blocking famous people, but it’s broken, and people are LOVING it. and it’s WORKING. a social media/digital advertising coordinator was talking about how ad companies are PANICKING, because they can’t accurately target anymore. so many big influencers, including fucking LIZZO started talking about palestine the MOMENT their follower counts started going down. and the best part? no one is forgiving them. lizzo posted a tiktok asking people to donate to palestinian families, and all the comments just said you’re a multimillionaire. put your money where your mouth is. blocked.
i feel like i’m witnessing the downfall of celebrity culture, right here right now. people are waking up.
enough toxic masculinity I'm ready for salubrious mexicanity. I'm ready for a social movement that encourages (esp straight, cis) men to indulge in things that make them more joyful, emotionally healthy, and help them strengthen not core muscles but core compassionate communication skills.
why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:
decades of life experience
boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness
access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence
"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude
and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.
what Viktor Arcane is doing is not, strictly, advisable. However, pretty much everyone in his life told him "we're sorry you're dying, but it's your ethical duty to just accept it, just lie down and die from your Limp That Also Makes You Cough Up Blood that was caused by growing up in the Poor Part Of The City With Horrible Carcinogenic Pollutants Everywhere that we not only won't do anything to fix we are actively working on using your hextech research to build weapons to wield against the people there. You are not allowed to use your hextech research to save your own life though. So tragic, you're gonna die so young, but what can we do do? Ah well." Like he fully deserves to go full transhumanist magicyborg at this point and I support him because no one else does.
got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?
webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.
it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere
mel: hehe i will use manipulation and politics (the most unsexy things) to get jayce on the council until he deposes heimerdinger for the sake of my machiavellian schemes and future career prospects hehe
jayce, a starry-eyed idealist: *makes mel remember her starry-eyed idealist roots*
mel, taking off her family ring and voting for peace: fuck, the manipulation and politics got to me instead