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you dont have swag like me

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sugar we're going down is like. yes it's overplayed yes everyone has heard it a million times and then some. but it really truly never gets old. not ever. i could never get sick of it. sometimes it comes on and i'm like "ehh i don't know if i feel like it" but i let it play and i'm reminded just how deserving this song was of being THE song that skyrocketed fob to mainstream success. it really is That fucking good. purely iconic 2000s emo excellence. literally flawless song, 1000/10, no notes, i AM more than you bargained for and always will be, i love you forever fall out boy

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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

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The problem with playing smash or pass is that there's a lot of characters which I'm not sexually attracted to but I would fuck in a heartbeat out of sheer curiosity and ego, like I don't find Mickey Mouse attractive at all but if he approached me at a bar and went "Hey sexy, want me to show you my mouseketool?" I would say yes because then I get to tell my friends I fucked Mickey Mouse

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Sorry I'm thinking about old webbed sites again, but I was just havin a conversation on Bluesky about how the way social media is set up to force artists to churn shit out so fast just to be seen that we don't even slow down enough to really look at what other people are making, and just...

I think the way deviantART was set up was way healthier. By DESIGN. What do I mean by this? Well, think about how things are now. Every major social media has a dashboard people scroll that is endless. That is the main way you encounter art, supposedly by people you follow. It depends honestly. On instagram that's a fuckin' rarity, but I digress.

You have a dashboard, and let's say you only have a little bit of time to look through it. When the time's up, you close the app or tab or what have you, and everything that you didn't see in your scroll now might as well be gone forever. You probably won't ever see it, unless the poster reblogs/reposts/bumps it in some way, during a different time of day when you're more likely to catch it. Algorithms that force constant posting for a boost are bad enough, but so is the fact that everything is missable.

Now take ol' deviantART. It's flooded with AI bullshit now, but BEFORE then, in the ancient times, it was a collection of galleries and real peoples' artwork with a functioning search. Let's say you find some artists you like, and follow them.

Instead of a dashboard to scroll, you could go into your watch list and BAM. There it was, a collection of EVERYTHING the artists you followed had posted since the last time you checked. All there for you to look at at your own leisure. The artist could post at whatever fuckin time they wanted, and they'd only have to post ONCE, and you could still have a chance to see it without having to go to their individual page.

If you wanted to find new artists, no problem! There was the front page with featured works, or recent works- there were sections people could post to based on type of art (traditional, digital, etc.) and if you liked any kind of fandom, you could search AND sort those searches by popular/recent! It required a little bit of agency to go look for other people in your niche, but it wasn't difficult by any means. And some of my best and longest lasting friendships were started on dA by me finding fanart I liked and commenting on it! Or by participating in community-ran events like OC tournaments!

Like, I know instant gratification is a tough thing to beat, but I think if we found some way to just slow back down a little, maybe communities could be a thing again... I dunno. Or maybe I'm just an old kook. Or maybe both! Who knows?

But yeah somethin' somethin' gallery sites are way healthier than twitter for artists.

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i hate you summer i hate you heat i hate you sweating i hate you burning sun i hate you warm weather i hate you climate change

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Student : Wowww the cafeteria food is so nastyyyy today right Alyssa ?

Alyssa : Yes

Their friend Randy who has been trying to convince them for months that he was a death row inmate in his previous life: For my final meal they fed me the worlds roundest pea

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man this sucks i'm going to (remembers solid snake's message on how even though life can be hard and challenging it will always be worth living and how we owe it to the people who have helped us in our life to keep going for them) love living

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They know it.

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character development (for anon)

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The most beautiful person you’ve ever seen just made 12 flop posts in a row

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i like tagging posts with my ocs and then never actually posting about them. i wonder what my followers think their deals are

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one william dollars isnt even that much money anymore due to the flation

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