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i want art to feel EARNEST. this disgusting, near pornographic level of tongue in cheek meta humor is making me sick to my stomach. i don’t know how many more movies i can take about clever subversions and the movie winking at you to say “we know it’s a little silly, but…” where is the whimsy? why can’t we believe in the pretend you’ve created? why don’t you have enough faith in it? in my ability to believe?

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Cocoon. A paradise crafted by the inscrutable fal'Cie some thirteen centuries past.

FINAL FANTASY XIII (2009)

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girl who handles her guilt and grief in normal ways

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Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

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Starting Pride month on a good note with some practice runs cause I've been needing patches for my various bags.

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Finished the front of the journal. Now I have done the first page.

Lyric suggestions for the next page would be welcome. 😁��️💚🌱💚☘️😁

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Listen; here is the hard truth capitalism has brainwashed out of you:

You are a primate, and one of the more naturally docile species at that.

Your natural instinct is to do a few hours of fulfilling work, and just enough grueling work that is necessary for survival. And then, your next instinct is to spend the rest of your day laying lounging around, fucking, playing, and occasionally getting up off your lazy ape ass to care for the more vulnerable members of your group.

Ashamed of living with your parents and struggling to find work? Don’t be. Humans do not have the natural instinct to leave home once reaching adulthood. They also don’t have the natural instinct to work all day, or to stop playing as adults, or to even raise their children in two-parent households without involving a tight-knit community in their upbringing.

Capitalism has gaslit you into thinking that you are somehow above an animal. That you are somehow more capable of hard, draining work that you hate than all the other intelligent social animals.

YOU ARE A LAZY ASS APE. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK A 9-5. YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON FOR STILL LIVING AT HOME

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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more flowers

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Got busy with some job search stuff, but here's some sketches I did to both practice some animals and Finnish word associations.

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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assortment of flowers i photographed in honor of the sun shining so beautifully today ☀️🫂

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Okay, sorry OP if I take this way too seriously but this hits way too close to home and I have settled on two additional possibilities for this phenomenon as observed in my social circles.

People were raised in an authoritarian environment where seeking out your own answers is such a legitimately strange concept that they don't realize someone else might have literally only plugged the answer into a search engine. I.e. they have no practice, this is not a part of their upbringing, they don't realize how easy it is to just look up anything. (I think they'll look up Some Things, but not Everything is acceptable to just see what Wikipedia says.)

If you're autistic or some other flavor of neurospicy, you will take a rhetorical question or prompt for discussion as a prompt to Find the Real Answer and miss the point of the original question. (This is not a bad thing, just a culture mishap between NT and ND folks.)

Both of these things feel very plausible to me a) as someone who highly values the truth and b) is autistic. My partner's first move on ambiguity is to go straight to DuckDuckGo (f* Google) and even his siblings have this reaction when he clearly states "I looked it up and x says y" and they'll say "wow you're so smart." (First possibility with authoritarian parents.)

The second is just stuff I've realized after hangouts or chats that I thought "Oh I think they just wanted to talk more/say something nice," but looking up answers still prompts more conversation, so I wouldn't worry too deeply on this one if it's true.

These are only guesses and observations, but this dynamic has also baffled me to pieces and I would love more clarity on this behavior (which maybe is as simple as "living in an age of anti-intellectualism" as everyone's throwing around or people being mean like you said).

Someone just asked me a question. I didn't know the answer, so I looked it up. In front of them. Clearly read them the answer from my phone screen. They go, "You're so knowledgeable about things."

I can't figure out this interaction. Was it sarcasm? Gaslighting? Some form of weaponized incompetence? What?!?

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A watercolor piece I made a couple of years ago. It is quite literally a portrait of grass.

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the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.