#thesketcherrambles

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tiktok is like if everyone in the whole fucking world were invited to a party at my neighbor’s house but I’m faking a headache on account of My Neighbors Are Vampires And Guests Are Required To Donate A Pint Of Blood Every Hour, and apparently I’m the only one who thinks that’s a bit dodge. and christ the music is so LOUD shut UP

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dark mode being a common option on a lot of websites nowadays is literally so good. like yes thank you I DO want to turn the lights off. I DO want to feel like I’m hiding under the blankets while looking at my little photos and images and whatnot. no more wretched pale beams blasting into my eyeballs at any given moment. I want to be cozy! what do you mean ‘light sensitive’

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yooo here we are! new url! thesketcherlass -> seventeendeer

“sketcher” you might say “why seventeen deer? that’s so many. you can’t fool us, you’re just the one guy”

to that I say well don’t we all contain multitudes

I’ll be updating my blog tags and so on in a moment to stay on-theme!* I’m also planning on updating my pfp and header sometime in the future. with the. all the many deer. really going to be leaning into the mental image of 17 very small deer in a trenchcoat running this blog

I’ve also made a side blog for holding my old url, where I’ll make an index of old fanworks I’ve done, just in case someone comes looking for it! so if you see another blog floating around with my old url, that’s just me doing my best to preserve almost a decade of things I’ve made <3

*edit: actually never mind replacing the tags! I might instead add the old ones to the directory and just start fresh with new tags when I post again. everyone blacklisting my talk tags are gonna have a rude awakening but that’s just how it is

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took a moment out of my day today to download a custom cursor ... it’s a cute little sparkly pink heart .............. can’t recommend customizing your digital world enough

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what is it about prolonged illness that makes you into such a morbid little bitch. every artist I've ever known who's survived deadly illness or lives with chronic pain or something has been obsessed with body horror, cosmic horror, or some other deeply unsettling thing. I saw a post today about the inherent connection between love and science and immediately thought to myself "famous last words ... we'd be wise to stop digging before we unearth answers that can never again be buried" like a fucking bloodborne NPC. do we all just go a little insane eventually. I think we should all start a secret club and share notes

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everyone really just learned about the fnaf guy donating thousands of gamer dollars to trump, went "oof. very naughty 😔" and then went right back to buying his games and giving him free advertising by the bucketload without batting an eye huh

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there are 2 wolves inside me, one of them wants nothing more than to be gentle and loving and good to all people, the other one wants to be INCREDIBLY annoying on purpose. only when treating angry gamer bros online with endless kindness and compassion until they fly into a screaming rage do I become whole and for one sacred moment in time experience peace

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if there's one thing leftist internet communities can learn from crusty redditor bros, it's to simply quietly assume you're that little bit smarter than all your fellow morons and stick with them anyway because you still share vaguely similar ideologies. maybe not every disagreement has to be a debate, maybe it just has to be you going "psh, what a clown, good thing I'm such a smart little boy and a bit better than all the rest" and then getting back to doing your thing together with your bud. but make the thing in question be pushing for positive social change instead of harassing women or whatever

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I remember jackshit about jhonen vasquez as a person and as such will not be taking responsibility for this post in court, but I think being in close vicinity of his twitter did good things to me at age 14 or whatever. wish more creatives would make ridiculous indigestible garbage on purpose, refuse to speak coherently on any given topic and publically tell shitty fans to fuck off. we need more of that energy in 2022

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made a second player character for my animal crossing island in order to roleplay as the ghost of a person who lived on the island long before my regular guy came along and the first DIY recipe "she" finds is for. a gravestone

I'm sure this is very normal and not the start of a creepypasta or anything

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you ever have a post float by your dash w the same energy as something like "maybe we shouldn't be boiling children in giant soup kettles for fun ... I know it's kind of normalized but I still think it's a mean thing to do idk :/" and wonder who the hell these perfectly kind, reasonable people you're following are hanging out with

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I've yet to encounter one single popular tumblr blogger I wouldn't fiercely beat with a sturdy branch given the opportunity, why are y'all following these clowns, they're not even nice

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@ people who are more knowledgable on the subject than me, is there a commonly cited reason why revolutionary girl utena is so good while yuri kuma arashi is like ... barely watchable? I hear they were made by the same dude but somehow one of them is iconic even now decades later while the other one is -gestures vaguely-

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wish there was an un-weird way to tell someone why you're unfollowing them, like, so often I have to unfollow people bc stuff they post is harshing my vibe and I always want to leave them a message like "baby, it's not you, it's me"

like, someone on my dash will reblog smth like "I think we should stop tying damsels to train tracks just for dramatic effect, it's misogynist and the poor ladies become so frightened" and I'm like damn ur right but also thinking about those poor women is such a bummer, I gotta unfollow

but I'm just imagining the person in question seeing their follower count drop and thinking "wait, you think it's COOL to tie damsels to train tracks?? is that why you're unfollowing??? what is WRONG with you" and I get all like NOOO I DON'T I JUST GET SAD THINKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT I PROMISE

anyway tumblr should let us leave 0-5 stars reviews when we unfollow. no words, just stars. let me depart with the vibe equivalent of "excellent posts, just not for me. keep up the good work. mwah"

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worst part about having been on tumblr for almost 8 years is that all my fellow idiotic teens have grown up into adult people with adult interests and adult tastes, while I myself am still dumb as rocks and as a rule simply have no clue what any of you are talking about at any given time

like, I’m sure your hot take on biodiversity in your swampland of choice is really good and interesting and above all worded in a very funny way, but oh wow that recent meme that went like “wake up bro it’s 2006″ with the gman doing a silly little dance in garrys mod sure did make me viscerally aware that I’m still using the same brain I was when I was 13 and I am NOT convinced the software on it has been updated since then even once

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just watched shark tale for the first time in my life because month 13 of quarantine is the perfect environment in which to simulate being 9 years old and having already watched all the nice dvd’s that get to go on the display shelf at blockbuster so now your only choices are the ones in the bargain bin, and let me tell you, “don’t be homophobic towards vegetarian dolphins” was not the life lesson I thought I would be learning today and yet,