#that’s all i guess

[wormtoxin]

i’m gonna be real, the cultural perception that trans women are predators is absolutely vicious and immediately dangerous to women. but idk if policing the behavior of trans perverts online is my ideal solution. internalized transphobia has led me to more immediate repression and danger to myself than much else. i’m constantly terrified to publish (admittedly completely boring and safe and marketable) erotica because someone might make such an accusation against me. Trans artists’ reputations have absolutely crumbled on accusations with less stable foundations. I don’t love transphobia. I’m really lucky that the worst kinds of transphobic violence i’ve experienced have been through a screen. I just don’t know that extra surveillance and moral hyper-vigilance is gonna work out in our favor here, girls.

#not anti or pro whatever i think that’s a silly distinction #but if u gotta unfollow i understand #ummm i just think it’s nice to treat art in particular with more understanding and grace than you might extend in other scenarios #a lot of art like this had to be met on its own terms to be understood #and if you still don’t like it? cool! no sweat i get it #everyone’s taste is different #you don’t owe art anything ne definition #but you do owe other people at least a passing attempt at empathy #that’s all i guess

[circa-specturgia]

I had some thoughts while talking, or half arguing, with my brother on the topic of a story, and it’s “point”.

He argued that the point of a story is to entertain, and, while now, I can see what he means, and I can agree that it’s part of what it can do, it felt like far too much an oversimplification.

While yes, from early in our history, stories have entertained us, such as the plays of Ancient Greece, “to entertain” feels to narrow to encompass all that stories can do, to encompass what can be called their “point”, their meaning.

I first argued that before that, earlier still, the first stories would have been those to explain the world that was not understood. Stories of gods, to explain where the rain came from, what the thunder was, how it all came to be; stories to convey information and explain, as a carrier of knowledge.

However, that felt limiting as well. To say that the function of a story is to convey information and knowledge is not wrong, yes, but the key word is “function”. The same way that the function of a table might be to hold things on top of it, but it entirely ignores the purpose of it being the centerpiece of the room.

It is its function, but not the “point”.

The conclusion I came to, which to be fair, considering the hour I write this, may be entirely stupid and is most definitely entirely subjective, is that the point of a story is to tell something human.

In our lives, our being that of all of us from the very beginnings of our history, our stories have told things only we could experience. Stories of all our emotions, every one that could be felt put into word, carved in stone or put on paper, sang in song, or etched into clay. Any time we spoke of stories of things beyond us, gods, or animals, or the moon or the stars, we gave them human faces, human emotions, and human struggles. When we imagine what struggles they might have, we look at them through human eyes, or put things in ways human minds can understand and relate to.

To tell a story is to tell of something human, an experience felt by one of us, and in the case of those stories which reverberate with thousands; felt by all of us.

Before my brother went to sleep, as he is now, we both agreed we had some right.

One of those stories may seek to entertain, finding the ways that we as people feel joy and excitement and pressing in on those emotions, while another may tell a myth explaining the world, or provide metaphor or commentary on a social issue, but in the end, they observe and speak of human experience.

When written by a human, the tears cried by the fox bleeding into the snow; throat ripped out by a wolf, can only be human.

#I don’t ever do these #drabbles or writer thoughts or whatever you might call it #it’s like 1 in the morning #god don’t let this end up on im14andthisisdeep I’ll literally die if it does #anyways yeah #that’s all I guess #circa doesn’t think. #idk #writing thoughts #rereading this it sounds a bit like an argument that people cannot describe or write things that aren’t human #and that’s not what I mean by it #anyways I’ll go to sleep now #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing

[justawriterthatreblogsmostly]

you know that stereotype of lover that’s just a female and pretty version of the main character? that’s macaque.

#lmk macaque #lego monkie kid #yes that’s what I’m talking about #I’m embarrassed about saying to other people through asks so #lmk six eared macaque #that’s all i guess

[sleepygaymerdisease]

#'who was this about' dont worry <3 #EDIT hi i didnt realize this would get notes LOL. um everyone reblog with what character ur thinking of because im NOSEY i WANNA SEE #edit 2 to everyone trying to guess what the character i made this for was. youre all wrong. this was about kamen rider #youd think lupin because of my profile picture but alas i have other interests as well... #anis gaymer moments

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[pimsri]

I make art about grief again

#particularly about fear of forgetting a loved one #like their face their voice #fear of time erasing all of that #pimsriart2024 #pimsriart #comic #i guess? #grief

[officialspec]

can i say something. for years i thought the joke of the song short skirt/long jacket by cake was that he wanted a woman who was hung like a horse. like i thought when he says jacket it was a last-second fakeout because he very obviously meant to say cock. and the rest of the things in the song were just her personality and interests. which were secondary to her awesome penis

#is anyone else doing this. or am i stupid #i didnt question it at all i thought that was just the obviously intended meaning of the song #and i was like damn this is pretty progressive for the 90s i wonder why no one talks about this song when theyre talking abt #popular songs about trans women at the time. i guess some of the stuff mentioned could potentially rub people the wrong way- #OH. SO IT WAS JUST ABOUT A WOMAN WHOIS PRAGMATIC AND BUSINESS CASUAL WITH IT. I SEE #EDIT THE LINE 'a voice that is dark like tinted glass' LIKE....U GET WHAT I MEAN

[mias-domain]

My toxic trait is that I like it when Strong Women say, “tore up from the floor up.”

#lustful thoughts #queer yearning #uhhhhh #that’s all I guess

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

[quibbs]

just had SO much fun with the fallout tv show... i love you missus okey dokey

#fallout #fallout tv show #my art #lucy maclean #i was not expecting it to be so good but it was!! delightful #i think i like video game adaptations better when they do their own thing with it lol #such a relief to instead of seeing something regurgitated mindlessly for profit #its actually just a completely fresh story but in a familiar setting. cool balm on my skin #i guess that's where i'm at in the remake hell we all live in rn #ella purnell has the sweetest biggest eyes i've ever god damn seen

[synapple]

I spent like three hours making this

#I am NOT tagging all of these #but I’ll try I guess #destiel #ineffable husbands #pearlina #sasunaru #homumado #sonadow #is that rigth #I bet the ace attorney guys have a insane ship name #lawlight #shuake #<- I’m just googling them now #soriel #frowise #??????? #sidlink #taakitz #bubbline #vrisrezi #hannigram #qcard #komahina #bowuigi #royai #batjokes #cuttletavio #hardenshipping #okay I’m done

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

[duckdotimg]

Got tired of seeing moeblob young catgirls. Give me butch and GNC catladies in their 40s and 50s (more will be drawn)

#please dont be facking weird about them having facial hair theyre all butch and women of varied flavors!!!!!!!!!!! #more to come btw :3 #duck.png #uhhhh #catgirls #idk how to tag this #gijinka #i guess #too late now to really make it important to people but #these are all supposed to be lesbians #edit: disabled reblogs for my own mental health lol

[heroesriseagain]

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonadow #i guess. #update: to all of you in the notes hoping and praying i wish you luck. hogs together strong

[vurelly]

new au just dropped

#vu talks shit #cotl #my art #i guess? #ive been thinking about this all fucking day