#I know the internet and i know touching grass

[six-of-cringe]

PLEASE I NEED TO SEE THE CREATURES IMMEDIATELY ! also now i’m curious what you do for work that leads you to encounter so many beasts

!!! I run programs at an environmental education center. It is in the woods and I take children to find creatures routinely. I also take care of animals in the nature lodge (my beautiful snake daughters and my dumb turtle children) and volunteer at an aquarium to work with dolphins. I spend much time outside for funsies as well and have a mushroom obsession.

#I know the internet and i know touching grass #i think i will make that blog. everyone should see the creatures #creatureposting #not soc

[stevethehairington]

really fucking sick and tired of people who really fucking love the eddie book jumping on people who don't like or are even remotely critical of it's posts and like crusading their opinions around from the top of their high horses and shoving it down our throats.

if you like the book, great! that's awesome! love that for you! i am genuinely glad that you were able to find good in it and enjoy it!!

but not everyone did, and not everyone is going to agree with you. so, instead of going on some grand crusade where you find every single post that includes anything even remotely negative or negative adjacent or even neutrally critical and spending ALL this time and effort trying to provide unwanted rebuttals to every single thing, maybe you should just stay in your lane and find people who DO like the book and chat about it with them.

because i can PROMISE YOU, none of us appreciate it when you come onto our posts and start accusing us of "hating on" the author or "being rude" about her and her work and RIDICULOUS shit like that.

being critical of something and pointing out it's flaws is NOT inherently hating on it. i, frankly, do not know where people got that notion, but it's not fucking true so can we fucking quit assuming it is? and, critiquing something is also NOT the same as saying this is shit and it sucks and the author is a piece of garbage. again, where the fuck that came from is beyond me. you can be critical of something and still enjoy it. as soooo many of you love to point out, it's not perfect, why should it be perfect? so D U H. of course that means criticism can and should arise???

also. hot take (by which i mean ice fucking cold because it's NOT a fucking hot take), but going around toting FALSE facts as part of your "defense" does not make you or your argument look good. you, like the author, should maybe do a basic fact check first. 🙃

tldr, if you like the book, that's genuinely great, but stay in your fucking lane and stop seeking out posts from people who didn't like it to start shit in the notes.

#flight of icarus #stranger things #this has happened to me and to so many of my friends and im fucking SICK of it #i didn't even hate the book either!! i thought it was just okay #and yet i STILL get all these book lovers jumping down my throat about things i say about the book #things that - HONESTLY are not even like that scathing!!!!! #like god damn all im asking for is a little BASIC effort from the author and they all think thats me asking for her head on a platter #its NOT #i have no problem with the author #she's whatever to me honestly just a vessel through which the book was given to us #ALSO she is some nebulous blob way outside my orbit. AS IN any critiques i have of her and her work are NOT direct assaults on her??? #like i dont fucking KNOW her #im not saying any of this to her face #she is a published writer she should KNOW the risks she is taking when she publishes her writing #not everyone is going to like it! there are going to be people who are critical of it! there are going to be people who hate it! #critiques and pointing out mistakes and wishing for things to have been different is not a fucking direct attack #those things are actually pretty fucking common responses to ANYTHING #and a lot of times theyre actually meant as useful helpful things geared towards improvement and not something to tear someone down with #some people on the internet need to go touch grass and learn how to CRITICALLY THINK again #the world is not as black and white as you think #n e ways. rant over. if you stuck around through all of that kudos to you. i am just. at the end of my rope with this bullshit.

[tinyfantasminha]

''it's not straight up bullying or harrassment, it's just criticism!!!''

My brother in Christ, the artist literally had to delete/deactivate all of their soc media because of how much harrassment they were getting (including threats). Terminally online Gen Z will obsessively persecute an artist for something problematic they drew like half a decade ago, gaslight their apology posts, threaten them and when said artist deactivates and gets heavily affected irl they say ''oh they can't handle the criticism''. This is straight up vile and unexcusable behaviour. You're not doing the fandom a favour, you're not helping anyone, you're only turning this place even more toxic and quite literally ruining people's lives who never had the intention to interact with you in the first place. You use self-righteousness and morals as a disguise to bully and harass people because apparently that gives a sense of control in your miserable life. The block button exists as a way to curate your internet experience because anywhere, with no exceptions, there will be people with different opinions, POVs and morals than you, and bullying a person to forcibly cater to your morals is completely delusional and a waste of time.

I don't care if I lose followers for this, but if you harass, bully or threaten content creators in any way or agree with these actions, block me.

#discourse #vent #i dont usually engage with drama but im so fucking pissed off with this fandom #how can you sleep at night knowing the person you harrassed might never feel safe again to create content or engage w people online again #you gen Z kids need to step out of your perfect morally-right bubble and touch some grass #there will always be problematic content or things that you dont like anywhere on the internet if you feel uncomfy just block and move on #might delete later

[valentinoappreciator]

If Valentino dies, I will be genuinely sad. He deserves death, but that doesn't mean I want that 😔

HOWEVER

Vox and Velvette's suffering would be DELICIOUS. I want to see them unleash, well, Hell on whoever took out Valentino (looking at you, Nifty, my beloved little freak)

But I also especially want to see Vox and Angel Dust try to figure out who they are without Valentino looming over and controlling them. I want their potential Unlocked - Angel Dust in becoming free and growing, Vox in becoming the utterly insane and deranged babygirl that he is

#text #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel valentino #hazbin hotel vox #if valentino dies i will riot #(i wont but my god i will be SO sad) #and i KNOW the entire fandom (except for like. five other valentino enjoyers) would CHEER and love it #and ngl that makes me feel kinda sick #i KNOW that valentino is a piece of shit. hes the scum of the earth and he DESERVES death #anyway im not normal and i should probably go touch grass or something idk #internet time for me is over

[just-eyris-things]

Vent post. Because i feel like kicking a hornets' nest.

Honestly im just tired of how people will call someone ignorant/uneducated and will go for the throat for every little thing, while they themselves say shit like pierogis all the time. If you're going to point fingers at others, you yourself should be without fault.

The question is... can you?

#im just so tired of all the shit that i constantly see on the internet #ARTIST CANCELLED BECAUSE THEY DIDNT DRAW SOMETHING PERFECTLY #or ARTIST CANCELLED BECAUSE THEY USED A DIFFERENT COLOUR PALETTE #ARTIST CANCELLED BECAUSE THEIR IDEA OF A FICTIONAL CHARACTER ISN'T UP TO FANDOM'S STANDARDS #i bet other people also get shit like that all the time #for example my friend is a writer and he just happens to be a cisguy and whenever i mentioned it to people #they would instantly start saying that they are sure he writes shit like she breasted boobily down the stairs #or i remember how i got told off for making trahearne lives au because apparently #messing with canon is just as bad as falsifying information in history books #just stop for the love of whatever's devine #this has been boiling in me for so long i cant even express it #sorry for going off in the tags in case you decided to read them #peace out imma go and read a book and touch grass #finally its green and soft again after so many rains and storms so it will be a nice chilling time outside #oh btw proper plural is pierogi without the s. singular is pieróg. you want to add s - say pierógs #ngl that pierogi-pierogis is one of my biggest pet peeves #like i wont be stabbing you over it or throw a tantrum and i will just move on with my day i have better things to do in general than #than throwing fits and also im not omniscient myself #like i dont know all the words in english and my german knowledge is very scarce #so i in no way demand others know about pierogis #just give people some room to breathe for gods sake #ok ok ok i think im overwriting this and i cant edit tags on phone so now fr im gonna go and enjoy outside and watch the squirrels

[daisyymay]

I'm honestly I'm not ever close to gaylors anymore I think she is the worst kind of ally and she use queer imaginary to keep us talking bout her. Let me give you and advice, make the exercise to try to stop the parasocial relationship you had with you fav. It's not healthy.

You can love an artist knowing theyre the worst, you can love an artist without project yourself on them.

Maybe you will be less angry all the time for the stupidest shit ever and your life will be a little more positive :)

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I wrote this last night when I should have been sleeping and the english language is not my strongest point clearly but this is a little rant post a big and long rant about anti Gaylor, not an anti Gaylor post. I fully understand why gaylors are even if I'm not entirely sure anymore, not because I think they're deluded, it's because I don't think Taylor is a good person. I don't think she is evil, people are complex, and are more gray than anything. All the things I said about how Taylor is not your bestie are about how you all should be stop be angry in her behalf when someone think she may be queer because its the narrative she is pushing, real or as a marketing strategy.

#parasocial relationship #taylor is not your bestie #and you and taylor are not the same person #sorry not sorry #lets go outside and touch some grass #the worst thing this website made was all the bullshit of your fav is problematic #everything that come after was the most stupid discussion ever #i know life suck and inventing problems in internet sound safe but is not healthy dear #gaylor

[kirinoha]

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#holy christ I just saw THEEEE most chronically online never felt the gentle warmth of a nice sunny day on your skin take I think ever posted #PARAGRAPHS AND PARAGRAPHS AND PARAGRAPHS when a simple 'why do you care' would have sufficed #its astounding what matters to you people and i mean that with malice #touching grass is not enough you people need new organs to create a shift dynamic enough to break you out of these cycles #maybe a full blood transfusion with someone whose life doesn't revolve around performative anger or dunking on internet strangers #i just genuinely want to know where you get the energy to CARE about something so fucking innocuous #how do you maintain friends with this constant anger burning in your heart there's no way it doesn't bleed into the rest of your life #I was gonna stay up and read for a bit but just seeing the depths this person went to emptied my reserves good NIGHT #i hope that op finds joy in the mundane someday or dies like one of the two

[sunflower-dori]

Y'all do not understand i will fight for Kit Connor i will tear you apart limb per limb bro he is the nicest young man out there if you accuse him of queerbaiting one more time i'm gonna suckerpunch you across the room.

#say this with me: saying you're unlabeled is NOT queerbaiting #playing a bi character on a show when you're unlabeled is NOT queerbaiting #refusing to share your sexuality with nosy stalkers is NOT queerbaiting #holding someone's hand while walking across the street does NOT mean they're dating #i hate how toxic the heartstopper fandom became in like the blink of an eye #it's like the show was out and two weeks later the cast started getting stalked harassed and bullied #people saying joe is ugly and for some reason saying he isn't gay?? when he clearly is?? #accusing kit of queerbaiting and trying to force him to come out with a sexuality #sexualizing kit as well while he was still a minor #just disgusting despicable behaviour #yes i know this fandom is young but by god do they need to get off the internet and touch grass #heartstopper #heartstopper tv #heartstopper netflix #kit connor

[commsroom]

Dear listener, happy birthday!

Your writing is always a joy and seeing you on my dash always means smiling and also bracing for excellent angsty emotion (and the occasional necessary horny posting for eiffel, high five).

Here is your present, a silly little eiffel question I’ve been mulling over. Do you think he’d be a social media guy? I mean, he’s hilarious and loves an audience but while he seems slightly tech adept its always very tactile clunky retro tech in vibe, and i guess the baseline shame and guilt he feels could tip him either ways vis a vis having a large online following . I’ve always liked how ambiguous time on wolf359 felt because i guess making it more pointedly feel like our time (even though it is set in our time) didn’t feel like the energy they were going for, but as a result i just do not know how to feel about eiffel on twitter or something. Thoughts?

aw, thank you! that's sweet of you. i love everything about wolf 359, but i post first and foremost for people who want to know eiffel carnally. well. and people who see hera as a trans woman, also.

and this is a great question! i love to think about eiffel and social media. he is absolutely, 100% an analog guy; i think he resents how much has been digitized. which isn't to say he sticks to his principles about it. eiffel is a creature of comfort above all else; he's going to use whatever service is most convenient. but he's going to complain.

eiffel has a huge collection of physical media. eiffel still has his blockbuster card in his wallet as a point of pride. eiffel listens to the radio, and complains about what they play on the radio (90s music on classic rock stations? blasphemy), while people are constantly telling him to just listen to his own music. he likes doing this! i honestly think eiffel is relatively offline - his star wars opinions are too normal for him not to be. social media for eiffel is, like... a couple of pop culture news accounts he follows. his youtube recommendations are mostly just music, simpsons clips, the livestreams of radio guys with call-in shows, and, like, old tech repair stuff.

maybe eiffel still posts on some forums that he's been occasionally posting on for the last decade, but he's not in tune with modern social media or internet culture. if eiffel wants to show you a Funny Internet Video, it's going to be, like, star wars bad lip reading. he absolutely wants to have an online radio call-in show, but he can't commit to being consistent enough to build an audience. eiffel might listen to podcasts sometimes, but he thinks 'podcasts' are just guys chatting about movies. he also thinks he could do that, but there's nobody who wants to make a podcast with him. if he did manage to convince someone, he would post like five episodes at once, forget about it for six months, post one or two more, and then get bored and move onto something else.

#there's nooo way he has any significant social media following #he's just some guy. even post-hephaestus i think whatever media attention they get will die down pretty quickly and he'll just be some guy #and this is good for him. he's notable to the people who love him. there are plenty of doug eiffels in the world. affirmations. #there's a post somewhere where someone said her husband only uses instagram to check flavors at the local ice cream parlor #and in spirit that's what eiffel on social media is like to me. it's an ice cream website to him. #that said i think he's gotten in some dumb internet fights because he assumes good faith in a way he really shouldn't. #he's too offline he doesn't know any better. #hera on the other hand is like painfully online and it's bad for her. girl who literally cannot touch grass but needs to so bad. #asks #wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel

[sailforvalinor]

King Lear may be my least favorite Shakespeare play for a lot of reasons, but I have to say, one part I'm absolutely fascinated with is Edgar's performance as "Poor Tom," because bestie. Bestie. For a crown prince soon-to-be king, you are...terrifyingly good at this madman act. How--how are you so good at this? Have you been practicing? Almost nothing coming out of your mouth makes sense and yet it's...fascinating? Where did this stream of nonsense come from? Are you okay?

#i mean obviously the answer is no #did edgar just invent tumblr humor 500 years before the internet? #and yes i know that edgar is supposed to demonstrate to lear how poorly his subjects are being treated but STILL #as the only character in this play i care about i worry about him #and i guess i like cordelia #but i just hate the blatant cynicism in this play it just feels so pointless #'power corrupts absolutely and redemption is always futile' like william were you having a bad day? do you need to go touch some grass? #unfortunately this was my english professor's favorite so we spent way too long on it #shakespeare #king lear #english humor #literature memes #literature humor

[whatacreepything]

tiktok gays when they go in public and see gay people being gay instead of discussing the latest microlabel discourse that was posted from an account called bobthebuildersbignaturals

#like seriously i actually hate the internet #who. the hell. cares. if you dont understand someone elses identity #the whole point is that its not your identity so you dont have to understand it #“i dont understand neopronouns!!” okay i dont understand german and i know its a fucking language #“youre invalidating xyz which has a complicated history tho-” blah blah blah blah EVERYTHING IS MADE UP #jesus fucking christ is someone really going to burst into flames because someone is calling themself a bi lesbian #if you are so concerned about someone else's identity idk what to even say to you. worry about your own life #touch grass losers jesus fucking christ #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #microlabels #lgbt

[semi-sketchy]

God damn can people learn to use their words already

[smilesrobotlover]

Man, learning about internet drama between people is disturbing me incredibly

#deviant art was a rough time for me #i dealt with a lot of weird people that no child should’ve dealt with #and that’s why I think minors should never be on the internet #you don’t deserve to deal with that #16-17 year olds are fine you’re mature enough #but when you’re much younger #the internet. weirdos. and social media is NOT something you should deal with on top of being a hormonal teenager #i never realize how much that’s freaked me out #and dealing with total weirdos on the internet is wild #luckily it’s not bad now and I’ve grown a spine and I’m less childish #but yeaaaah DA was horrible #i don’t even know if it changed at all or I’m just lucky this time around #I’m not even on it anymore tho #even tho I lost a lot of art I’m very glad I deleted my accounts #cuz I wouldn’t have been able to #well #touch grass and think about my life #and learning how to deal with social media and the internet a bit better #it’s scary #look I’m not gonna tell the minors following me on here to get off #but seriously #be careful #the internet is a dangerous place full of weirdos protected by a screen #vent

[seokmattchuus]

Imaging going to your favs dad, shitting on his son's friend, and expecting that grown man to react like your average underaged, chronically online person.

Wild.

#dumb fuck ted talk #leave kamden's dad alone and go touch grass #this man doesn't give a single fuck about anything #he's just trying to hype his son and y'all are getting on his ass #imagine when kamden finds out #that's fucking embarrassing #leave that grown man alone. i doubt he knows how to internet the way the rest of us do #i just know kamden's gonna go ghost when he finds out people were picking fights with his DAD #boys planet #boys planet problems

[fleshdyke]

i almost feel bad making fun of dancinbutterfly bc this is clearly not a normal response for like anyone and this has to be some sort of mental health issue

#they’re over 30 and work in mental health… they should know how to regulate their emotions better #like they said their trauma response is getting angry which like. sure. fine. but if i can deal with my emotions in a more mature way than #they can? when they are a grown adult in the medical field and i’m a teenager ??? HELLO #like they should know how to not explode on people like that… get off the internet babe. touch grass #like genuinely it isn’t a normal healthy response for like anyone to be over 30 and start yelling at a 16 year old for lying abt bathrooms #and to be comparing me to abusers and rapists and TERRORISTS? be serious #like there’s no way this is a healthy response to any of this. especially for again someone who works in the mental health field #plus i know cringe culture is dead but jeeesus christ the way they type sometimes… #‘this is the HELLSITE and you my good sir have failed at hellsiting. welcome to the blocklist!’ please. #god. get off tumblr please. #rambles

[dandylion-s]

The internet these days will give you 'cringe culture is dead! Wear your interests on your sleeve!' and follow it up with bullying someone for watching like steven universe. Like congratulations yall have reinvented the 2014 hipster culture of hating 'mainstream' things.

#cringe culture #why are people like this on the internet #i know that touch grass is overused #but please touch grass #you are not superior to anyone who likes popular things #or things you deem cringe