#brainstate

[timethehobo]

I'm going to temporarily disable DMs and Asks for a bit, my inbox has gotten very overwhelming and I'm on the edge mentally. I won't be able to help anyone if I start crashing, I'm sorry. Will try to stabilise and then reopen asap.

[airplanefoodblackmarket]

[auxinue]

MHA Ship Names

Because I want to talk about fun ship names for everyone. List is composed of names I've created + names I've seen online, includes rarepairs and popular ships too. Very open to new ideas for other ships as well as the ones on the list, because I'm doing this to have fun, so have fun with me :))))

- Bakugou/Deku - Matchabomb / Dynanotes

- Bakugou/Iida - Fast and Furious

- Bakugou/Momo - Popquiz (could be bkdk/bakuiida too but it feels more them)

- Bakugou/Jirou - Boombox

- Bakugou/Hagakure - Flashbang

- Bakugou/Aoyama - Glitterbomb (Flashbang works for them too)

- Bakugou/Kirishima - Poprocks (ik it's well known but I'm adding it anyway) (also I know bakugou is here a lot it's just easy to come up with names for him 😭😭)

- Kirishima/Aoyama - Glamrock

- Jirou/Momo - ClassicRock (want some new ideas for them tbh)

- Jirou/Ochako - Airpods

- Jirou/Kaminari - Sparkplug

- Kaminari/Shinso - Brainstatic

- Kaminari/Deku - Sparknotes

- Sero/Deku - Stickynotes

- Momo/Deku - Greentea

- Deku/Todoroki - Brainfreeze / Icedmatcha (want some new names for them too)

- Todoroki/Iida - Freezeframe

- Iida/Mina - RobotDancer

- Dabi/Hawks - Hotwings (duh)

- Toga/Ochako - Bloodbubble

This is all I've got so far but I especially want some ideas for Iida/Deku, Iida/Ochako, Sero/Todoroki, Mina/Hagakure, Hagakure/Ojiro, Tokoyami/Shouji, Erasermic, and any others people want to talk about!! I think it's fun to find puns or double meanings or even just matching the ships vibe with names like these, even if they don't catch on.

[snappyep]

trip to hell to save his stupid boyfriend

[bimbocreature]

okay forgive the bitchy begpost but like, would y'all mind if i set up a ko-fi rn purely for help with my HRT? my supplier's being fucked over by shipping companies and i won't last the year on what i have. don't have the money to seek out a new supplier and gamble on them either cause i'm disabled and unable to work. yippee. far from my usual tone i know, but like, most of the time i'm on here i've started the day edging. today i just sobbed from all the fuckin stress i'm under rn 🙃😢😢 i jusst... don't really know what to do anymore.

[bunnybeyond]

okay tbh tonight was really bad . but on a positive note every time i walked past a mirror tonight I went “:] oh im handsome?” which is so nice.. and then i had potato soup??? im still not in a great place but im going to be okay i think!!

[mantisgodsdomain]

Vi and Mothiva is the thing where you meet someone who has the EXACT same mental illness as you who can relate more than anyone else you know and you gain either an incredible drive for self-improvement or an incredible drive for murder within the hour as you come face to face with every single negative trait and bit of hypocrisy you've previously been simply allowing to exist in yourself.

[lindenattic]

GIVE IT UP FOR INOFFENSIVE POP MUSIC

[ihasafandom]

See, if they marketed this to people with shaved heads or like cancer related baldness or something, and maybe toned down the gender essentialism a bit, then it would actually be pretty cool. Something chosen voluntarily to add to your ensemble or let you wear accessories that your current hair length will not allow.

Tired of your baby girl being seen as a genderless imp? Afraid strangers might not recognize your sexless proto-human as the soft femme heartbreaker she is? Well now you can glue some shit on her head! That’s right, just glue some gender conformity right onto her unclosed fontanelle! Say goodbye to awkwardly explaining that no, despite her bald head, your androgynous poop machine is actually a demure coquette! Glue your fucking baby today!

[d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r]

i absolutely do also want rescue sims to be real. but i think we're fooling ourselves 😢

[vvizardbutch]

I hate you this apartment ! I hate how there is always something fucking broken about you !! I hate you canadian rental market !!!

I love you our own apartment ! I love you being naked outside the bedroom !! I love you couch sex !!!

[pissvortex]

i'm so fucking glad this post is going around it's the quick and easy "the person who reblogged this is a liberal bitch who you should unfollow" spotter and it works every time

also thanks for being objectively correct on everything i don't think you get that enough

brainstatic was such a fascinating presence on this website. definitely a holdover from an era of tumblr where people were really fascinated and invested in the opinions of 30+ year old white guys who watched the west wing too much. for the short amount of time he held our collective attention, he used it to beg feverishly and constantly that we not ask any more of our political leaders than the concessions of the obama administration specifically - im assuming his peanut brain lost all capability for intellectual curiosity while witnessing the Obama 2008 campaign during crucial developmental years (many such cases!). a kind of zeal for the status quo that makes someone exist purely in reaction to the left. nothing was more terrifying to these kinds of people than critically examining their own position of power and privilege in an imperialist empire, or more specifically what they had to lose from any threats to capitalist imperialism, which is why they were so preoccupied with shifting everyone’s attention to reconciling very basic, surface level privileges. i.e. the college aged “bros” who liked what a bernie sanders presidency had to offer were the greatest threat to democracy and political decency they could imagine until they were blindsided by Trump’s victory.

these people have been relegated to the depths of twitter or substack following their personal end of history (joe biden winning the 2020 election), but who knows. maybe he’s still out there somewhere, scolding palestinian protestors or something.

[latchofficial]

i must be in a uniquely bad brainstate if i am considering installing overwatch 2

[mariacallous]

in our desperation to "learn from" this election i do think people are getting attached too soon to what type of campaign or candidate should be run in future elections (if we have them). obama was not necessarily the logical answer to eight years of bush era conservatism. trump was definitely not the logical answer to eight years of moderate pragmatic progressivism under obama. we don't know what people will want. i certainly didn't know biden would be what (enough) people wanted after trump part one, i was wrong for that. i'm seeing "we can never run a woman" "we're getting another bill clinton neolib now" we don't know any of that, actually, and frankly i think it's dumb to speculate on at this point. let's just get through the next few years.

I tend to agree - I think it was agraybee, fka brainstatic here on tumblr, who made the point that if you had said in 2004 a black man with Hussein in his name would have been not only nominated for president but win, he would have laughed at you. The "What's The Matter With Kansas?" author doesn't mention Obama either, and that came out in 2006. John Edwards was once the young bright future of the party.

[adhdo5]

Current brainstate

[thebreakfastgenie]

Is it just me, or have liberals largely drained their poison of Bernie Sanders? I remember back in 2016’s aftermath you couldn’t throw a stone without hitting a dozen people saying he single-handedly got Trump elected. (Brainstatic even blamed him for personally ruining the Dems with young people)

I think we've just kind of moved on. There's still some anger at him, some for 2016 and some for 2020 and some for things he's done since then, but it's been years and we have bigger fish to fry. We can't re-litigate 2016 forever. I think some of the anger was exaggerated or misdirected because it was a very emotional time, so it's natural that this was recede over time. Some of it was also, in my opinion, kind of a tit-for-tat thing because people were so angry at Hillary Clinton and her supporters. I'd call that part not entirely reasonable, but very understandable. It is worth remembering, though, that most of it was based in very real grievances.

Bernie insisting on remaining in the primary after he'd been mathematically eliminated did contribute to the party being divided and by that point we could see how serious a threat Trump was going to be. A lot of the arguments people use against the Democratic Party "from the left" now, or just arguments the progressive wing uses against "establishment Democrats" originated with Bernie's rhetoric, even though in many cases he didn't use them quite as egregiously, he got the game of telephone started. Some of that I think he couldn't have reasonably seen coming, but some of it he could have. His complaints about superdelegates did give a lot of people an inaccurate understanding of the primary process in a way that eroded trust and created a false belief in corruption. That one I think he did knowingly to help him in the primary and I think it was wrong and had bad consequences. He introduced a whole new demographic into politics and specifically Democratic politics and I think he was very short-sighted about how he did it.

A lot of the worst stuff came from Bernie's supporters (really a vocal minority of them), not from Bernie directly, but he encouraged some of it to varying degrees. "Bernie or bust" was a real problem. I don't think there were many people who actually voted for Bernie and then declined to vote for Hillary Clinton, and I think of the ones who did, most of them would have simply not voted in the primary at all if Bernie hadn't run and would not have voted for Clinton anyway. However, the Bernie or bust rhetoric and the constant negativity about Hillary did hurt her campaign. And I think liberals were/are understandably angry regardless of material effect on the outcome, because that rhetoric shows a clear disregard for the threat Trump and Republicans hold. Partisan Democrats (and anecdotally I think a lot of liberals gained a stronger partisan identity particularly from 2016-21 in the process of organizing against Trump) are offended by Bernie being a Democrat when it benefits him and an Independent the rest of the time. Honestly that bothered me too, more so with his 2020 campaign than his 2016 one because he left the party in between, but it only bugs me slightly on principle, some people feel a lot more strongly.

There are liberals who dislike Bernie Sanders for other reasons besides Democratic Party infighting, too. The sexism issue is very real, though I have seen it exaggerated and used in bad faith. I remember when he called Planned Parenthood "the establishment" because they endorsed Hillary.

The other reason you're seeing less liberal anger at Bernie now is that he's just less relevant. Bernie and his followers, including progressive Democrats who were elected in the wake of his 2016 campaign, had a decent amount of influence from 2017 to 2024. It might not seem that way because leftist posters ignore or outright deny it, but it happened. The Biden/Harris administration got a lot of policy from the progressive wing, and they were just a bigger part of the national culture and conversation. The era of every corporate office adopting DEI and campuses doing land acknowledgments. 2024 put a pretty abrupt end to all that. The national mood has shifted to the right and the narrative about it coming out of both traditional and social media makes the shift out to be even stronger and more widespread than it actually is. Bernie's brand of leftish populism is no longer getting much attention or consideration, and won't for a while. I think a lot of liberals are also assuming the Democratic Party will pivot to the center, not necessarily because they want it to, but because historically that's what happens after this type of loss. Think Bill Clinton in 1992.

I'm going to add a little personal context about my opinion of Bernie Sanders because he's a very polarizing figure and I think I'm able to be a bit dispassionate about him in a way that's unusual online.

I was aware of Bernie Sanders before 2016 despite not living in Vermont. I have my issues with some of what he's done, but I still have an overall positive view of him for the most part. I supported him for a while in 2016 and stopped supporting him because I was dissatisfied with his campaign; I felt he was repeating the same talking points in every speech and he did nothing to convince he had a plan to actually accomplish any of his policy goals, most of which I supported. I already liked Hillary too (I adored her as a child before she even ran for president and rooted for her in the 2008 primary when I was 12) and throughout the campaign she came across to me as more prepared to do the job of president. In 2020, I voted for Joe Biden in the primary because by the Ohio primary Biden and Sanders were the only candidates left and I did not want to vote for Sanders. My priority in 2020 was beating Trump and I based my primary vote on that. I was angry at Bernie for running again under the circumstances, but I was angry at a lot of unserious candidates in 2020, it wasn't personal to him. My ultimate conclusion about Bernie Sanders is that I think he's a perfectly fine senator and I would feel fine voting for him if I lived in Vermont, but I do not believe he would be a good president. At this point, he's done some things, including recently, I dislike, but I don't hate the guy. I don't get mad at people who do, though, we all have our personal grudges. Mainly I'm unhappy that he ran for re-election this year when his state has a Republican governor. I think that was irresponsible.

I've definitely observed variation in how socially acceptable it is to speak negatively or positively about Bernie Sanders in liberal circles. Some of that is different periods of time, but some of it is just which liberals are in the room. The intense anger exists but it's never been universal among liberals. I think at various times people choose to stay quiet because arguing about Bernie Sanders won't accomplish anything so there's no reason to make people mad. I don't think it's a dangerous "you're not allowed to raise a dissenting opinion" thing, just people choosing their battles in social situations.

And, you know, maybe other liberals had the same experience I had of talking to normie Bernie supporters and remembering that most people who supported Sanders just liked him and happily voted for Hillary Clinton in the general and this whole feud mostly exists among people who are hyperengaged in politics. Very offline Bernie supporters are all over the place in New England and talking to them really helps me get a sense of perspective. There's more overlap between 2016 primary Sanders voters and resist libs than you would think if you spend all your time in online left-lib slap fights!