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basslinegrave · 2 years

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been watching space vids for the past.. hour or so probably more, feeling weird again

#i want to grasp it so badly but its impossible #ofc its impossible theres no information about any of this #but whats past the space #if its infinite i still want to imagine it contained within something #i always think of fractals and returning cycles #could it be that were part of something bigger just as everything has a smaller thing be part of it #if particles are so similar to stars planets etc #i imagine theres something much smaller than known subatomic particles we just cant see it #not yet or not in our lifetimes #that too time is made up!! things move around but whats time within space that moves so slowly #we do experience time sadly and i guess the smaller you get the more you experience time and the more importance it has #but in the big scales i think its just cycles or chaos #if nothing as we know or i know was real then there still needs to be Something that holds this consciousness and i wish to know what it is #and people that claim theres a god never elaborate past that #where does gods exist there still has to be some space #if theres no beginning or end how can that be possible!!#jermaexplaininghow #thoughts are being thunk

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wolvesbaned · 9 months

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please, keep talking about Palestine. Especially during the holidays. keep calling and keep protesting. make every life lost unignorable.

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #art #artists against apartheid #free sudan as well and the congo and haiti #we will see an end to the colonial monster in our lifetime. we have to #star's art #i have/had something bigger planned to post but i'm traveling for the holidays and can't finish it yet

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faelapis · 3 months

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i should really sleep.... but i'm pretty close to the next "something better" chapter being done... i dont wanna Promise its coming out tomorrow, but we can hope??

#something better #we're also marching full steam ahead to the act 2 finale!!#which is basically the climax of the whole fic!! no big deal!!!!#and act 3 is shorter. so the end is in sight. KIND OF.#(we're not at the act 2 climax yet. it'll still be a few chapters!)#but yes. hopefully this fic will actually reach a real conclusion within our lifetimes.#steven universe #jasper #steven universe fic

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transingthoseformers · 9 days

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would you rather have dinosaurs or Transformers actually exist in the world today?

This was a very difficult choice, but I eventually decided (with a heavy heart) the non-avian dinosaurs had their chance, and that the implications of aliens being real and here too enormous for me to pass up

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araneitela · 5 months

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Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.#[ post-it. ] in a way; you are poetry material. you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.#[ i'm so tired. i need to write a post on this or something. and somehow add it to my pinned. in some way. ]#[ 'sex' and 'seduction' are /not/ wrong in my opinion. HOWEVER-- they are /very wrong/ if we go by modern labels and perception. ]#[ god the horror of writing a muse that is so interlaced in a modern world; setting and culture but seems to /ooze/ something archaic. ]#[ this level of refinement isn't of our times in my opinion. these things that she loves aren't commonly loved nowadays. ]#[ there's so much about her that is old-fashioned to me and it's so in my face. and yet fanon doesn't see it. ]#[ i can't believe i'm an old millennial who's screaming boomer or older things. ]#[ but like can we acknowledge that sex in today's age isn't the same as it used to be? not /always/ but more generally so. ]#[ can we acknowledge that /seduction/ didn't always mean what people see it to mean now? ]#[ can we acknowledge that the FEMME FETALE TROPE HAS CHANGED /LEAGUES/ since the 2000s? ]#[ which is my biggest beef actually. and maybe all of my frustration plays into this most. it's that the femme fatale now is sexualized. ]#[ while that is /not/ what the femme fatale used to be. kafka plays into the old school femme fatale so well. film noir days. ]#[ i had this same struggle on yelan where they make VERY OBVIOUS draws to it by her music in her trailer. god; the jazz. ]#[ but kafka suffers from this so very much as well to a point where i don't dare to call her a femme fatale because then it's fanon. ]#[ the fanon i hate so much. ]#[ but just uuuughhhh. UGHHH. it's so much to explain. ]

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gibbearish · 6 months

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a weird little thing abt me is i will definitely mock shitty ai art but it never feels right doing it about the hands simply by virtue of the fact that a lot of them look indistinguishable from the hands i was doing years ago when i first got a drawing tablet

#like id have the right number of fingers obv but like. putting the thumb on the wrong side #fingers bending weird directions or connecting in weird places #weird anatomy at joints‚ freaky nails‚ bad proportions‚ bad perspective‚ etc etc etc #people say 'this isnt ai like in sci-fi its just machine learning' but to me its a lot more interesting to look at it as #'this isnt ai like in scifi /yet/'#like yeah the stuff ai does in fiction isnt possible at this point but like. i find it difficult not to wonder if this #is the ai version of infancy stages yknow? like.#ppl go 'its cant write its own stuff its just recycling stuff its been fed' as if thats not kinda how people . learn to talk?#idk i just find it hard to agree with arguments that act like where we currently are at is the furthest these technologies could possibly #evolve in our lifetimes #'it just makes things up' you mean like toddlers going on long winding rambles about unicorns and monsters or w/e #'it cant do art good' you mean like a child? or even just literally Anyone who doesnt know how to draw yet?#like. idk. i feel like people are trying very very hard to insist the ai of today is still the same as it was in the clevverbot days #and that its impossible to evolve any further #people want to cling to the old days when ai stuff didnt pass the turing test by a much wider marging than it tends to now #dont want to admit that it does indeed sometimes surpass the turing test and likely would be able to even moreso were it #not for restraints #(see: that one stock trading ai that did insider trading vs various chatbots not bring allowed to write disparaging things #about copyrighted people or w/e)#if ai stuff was still truly indistinguishable from human works then we wouldnt need to spend so much time #hashtag exposing things as being ai generated #and i just think its bad to‚ in pursuit of that‚ mock things that are like. just stuff all beginner artists struggle with #i guarantee you there is not a single artist out there who hasnt drawn a hand that made them want to curl up and die at least once.#i got very off-topic there but swung it back around at the end there so. hashtag win #origibberish

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fragmentedblade · 6 months

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Not to be a jingfu on main, but it's so cute that Jing Yuan thought of Fu Xuan with those jelly beans

#me: the Xianzhou characters are all just coworkers #also me whenever anyone is shown to be fond and have intimate knowledge of some other character: awwww #Like Fu Xuan and Jing Yuan playing starchess and teasing each other or making a reference to things they like #or Jing Yuan talking about young Yukong #Quingque apparently disliking Fu Xuan but obviously that not being the case‚ knowing what she likes and how she thinks #Fu Xuan hiding that she has a sweet tooth but Jing Yuan and Quingque knowing it and teasing her for it #I don't know. There are a lot of instances of these small intimate details in the middle of what looks like a coworker relationship #Good coworkers‚ but coworkers nonetheless #And ironically it moves me so much? Even more so than Belobog. I've been told several times that Belobog seemed more tight. And I agree #In Belobog people were friends or family or companions but linked by something closer than mere coworkers with Wildfire #Even Sampo in the Underworld was strangely 'theirs'. He had the magenta colour of Wildfire and he was trusted to some extent #The Luofu characters don't have that. And yet the fragments of intimacy scattered through their interactions move me a lot #These are people who have known each other for centuries. Jing Yuan knows of Yukong's youth‚ its joy and grief #He knows Fu Xuan has a sweet tooth and teases her about her height. Quingque does too #Fu Xuan chastises both of them for being lazy but she knows they're smart and good at their job. She plays starchess with Jing Yuan #Quingque mocks Fu Xuan for being a workaholic but is very aware of the weight she carries both in her position and ideas about destiny #I won't mention Yanqing and Bailu because there is obviously more than a coworker bound when it comes to them #But yes I love the moments of intimate knowledge scattered through the Xianzhou‚ so telling of the fact that these people have known #each other for longer than several human lifetimes‚ and that perhaps they don't necessarily regard each other as more than their coworker #But perhaps that's enough in order for them to care. Perhaps in a lifetime over one thousand years the intimacy gained with a coworker #through several centuries is something beyond what we could understand in our decades lifespan #But also‚ perhaps‚ I don't know. Also‚ perhaps‚ the do care beyond coworkers in that strange line between work and friendship #Perhaps it's strange for Xianzhou natives to tell apart that kind of relationship after so much intimacy and knowledge through the years #And perhaps‚ once again‚ as it often happens for them‚ they think they'll always have enough time to tell; until they run out of it #They play chess together. Quingque can lose time because Fu Xuan can't stay mad if she brings her sweets. Are they just coworkers?#We play chess. I know what tea and sweets you like best. I brought them today since you would indulge me and play starchess with me #Thanks for playing with me‚ I'm running out of book puzzles. You keep divining my moves but I'll invent a fake story to distract you #Are we coworkers or something more like friends? Where is the line after so many years?#I talk too much but I love this charged nothingness haha I find it ironically so true to how many relationships in real life develop #And I find it so moving‚ that representation of this endearing smallness of everyday life. Of these small things is life made

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pulsar-1919 · 1 year

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Ireland trending because everyone is roasting our entry and honestly deserved I had no hope for us this year

#we hold the record for most wins. and yet we have not won in my lifetime because our entries are so mid #esc #eurovision 23 #eurovision #esc 23

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oreo-creampie · 8 months

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Wah an hour and 30 mins is long distance for u guys 😭 (it does make sense kinda)

The travel time to see my cousin and him back in highschool was insane. And I can't do any long distance, I'm a very clingy mother fucker due to the lack of any positive affection growing up. I seek so much validation from him and constant attention, to the point where early on I hated sharing him with others. (his friends included). Something both of us regoncized and I have worked passed.

Oddly enough I can share him just fine now. Well in the sexual sense, no one is dating him, those softer affections are saved for me

Ever since leaving highschool and becoming adults we have been stuck at the hip. There hasn't been a single night that we havent spent together and I hate going to bed on a sour note. We have to end the fight and make up/cuddle before we sleep

Both of us acknowledge that we could have tried long distance relationship. But both agree that it might have not worked only seeing each other in person for summer and possibly winter during the school breaks

Since he is a clingy motherfucker too. When he wants to De stress after a hard day he wants skin to skin, and cuddles. I play with his long ass hair and we watch cartoons together. Maybe he feeds me various candies, or I might feed him

Ok I'm rambling and Imma stop

#fey’s rambles #i love to thing if the various different cycle of our relationship we have gone through and it feels like we have lived a lifetime together #our relationship in the past couple of years is so different from the first couple #i changed so much and so has he yet I have fallen in love with him more as we changed and grow

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allyouzombies · 8 months

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screaming myself hoarse til I pass out we were together during a very tumultuous time in our lives I will always have your back and be curious about you about your career your whereabouts!!!

#not about j we're good - about the friend who i haven't shut up about in the 14 years i've been on the hellsite #the fun part is that i know his forever career and his forever whereabouts and it will break my heart into shards for the rest of my life!#and goddamnit we weren't romantically together but instead together as part of a weirdly codependent friend group of four and we were #near identically weird and fucked up emotionally and in our humor and how we spoke and how we meshed and i will NEVER fucking get over it!!#i'm still agog that i sent you a last chance hail mary sort of letter like the lyrics in this song about how i think about you often and #have always believed in you and been rooting for you like all the rest of us who knew you before things got really bad because you were and #are such a fucking incredible person and musician and friend and so smart and creative and LOVABLE! i said that in the letter without #realizing alanis said that in one of THE best lost love songs of all goddamn time!#i wish i could tell you one more time - right now today immediately or better yet five years ago - how i have always loved and admired you #and everything about you. even now. all the way out here in iowa i am still loving you with everything i have in me every single day #knowing i will never speak to or see you again [i think about you all the time but i don't need the same] and i finally started to admit #that to myself and my friends and my therapist in 2021 and i'm more at peace with it than i ever was or thought i could be in 2019 and 2020 #but i know it's gonna take my whole lifetime to get a grip on it and accept it. and it'll stop hurting one of these days. i know it will #i don't think i've ever loved a friend as much as I loved you. i think you were the best friend i've ever had #and that's one of the nastiest parts of it - we were good friends and you did seem to like me plenty #but i think i was the w-h-auden_morelovingone.txt by a mile. i was a weird obsessed stage 10 clinger.#and that's surely a large part of the dwelling and the fixation. if things had been more equal then maybe it'd be very different now.#guess i'll die because i sure ain't finding out!!#HELLO LOVES HAVE SOME RICH NUTRITIOUS ANNIE LORE ON THIS FINE FREEZING COLD SUNDAY AFTERNOON!#ann with an ie #<- this was a nightmare to type out and feel but i wanna keep it around for whenever i get the balls to talk about it in therapy again

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twilightarcade · 1 year

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liar. go sleepy

Im Quite Busy though

#askstag #I do have a headache now though. You're also supposed to go sleepy now.#but there's so many things to do and think about but there's never enough time to do any of it #do you ever think about that #I think a tag is missing here. Smthn about books.#like there might as well be an infinite because new ones are constantly getting written and I'll never read them all.#and that's just books. What about the other art forms? Shows drawings songs movies games etc #I'll never get through them all. Do you think about that at all. Much less will I ever get a chance to /think/ about them all #which is especially terrible #there are so many things to think about did you know #infinite experience and nuance to pick apart with a microscope yet we can't #not in our lifetimes #and there's literally birds outside. So many birds outside. Never going to see absolutely every species them though. Much less the individu #individuality of every bird. do you ever think about that. There are so many things and I just get to have an insignificant little peak at #who cares if that logic makes me insignificant #it doesn't #it places value on all the little individual things #there's what. 8 billion people on this space rock. With interesting lives #yeah no one will say their life is interesting like oh no I'm not interesting I just work as a waiter NO YOU ARE INTERESTING SHUT UP #then there's all the people not on the space rock who also led lives.#stuff is so inherently interesting I should get more time to look at stories and birds and people for free #unfortunately I need to like. Do that life thing. What the hell.

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erin-gilberts · 1 year

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I get the weirdest liberal version of thoughts and prayers over being from Indiana sometimes but there is something to be said about the devil you know vs. the devil you don't.

#erin is talking #the thing is - I've lived here my entire life and been doing queer liberation activism here since I was 13 #it sucks here but it's also always been PREDICTABLE here #this is the devil I know which really does wonders in knowing how to fight it. and knowing in what ways you'll never succeed in fighting it #surrounding areas are the devil I don't know - some of them just as bad as IN AND unfamiliar which makes me less capable of fighting them #it's not even that people stay in southern states out of some ethical obligation to fight back but #no one is more knowledgeable and equipped to handle Indiana's particular brand of crap than the people who've spent lifetimes dealing w/ it #our activist movements have always had to be creative here bc outside of Indy and Bloomington public office is going to go red. it's a fact #no amount of hoping and wishing is going to make those counties less red. you can't exhaust all your energy into VOTING VOTING VOTING #because it straight-up doesn't work like that here and you'll be defeated all the time if you do that.#we know how to get way more creative about throwing sand in the gears of oppression because we have to #and we're USED to it #the people from crapsack red states are in fact uniquely qualified to handle their state's particular crapsack brand of fascism #and that's literally why I haven't exited stage right yet is because I've spent a lifetime training for THIS fight in THIS place

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sliding-graphite · 8 days

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I get the occasional notification that someone sent kudos or ‘likes’ on a fic or audio post.

I remember the little joys of doing all that during my younger years and summer months.

I remember I kept a promise to do a longer project for someone.

I remember I’m already struggling to keep myself sane with the bare minimum of ‘thing required to do at work and school.’

I remember the younger me who wondered if I’ll be able to still have the drive to enjoy and make little bits of art with other people.

I hope that teen is proud of me now and less disappointed in this me, in comparison to how disappointed they were in themselves.

#again to that one person I promised it would be done within our lifetime and I hold myself to that #it’s just probably not going to be at the quality I was hoping to give you #both because of time and the problem that I’m not great at sound effect mixing and I don’t have the time to improve it fast enough #please keep sane and keep other people in your heart #I have it way too fucking easy and yet I’m still lost in many aspects #stay strong y’all and keep a hand out for someone else if you can offer some strength #we’re all just trying here and according to this one Twitter post humans wouldn’t be still here if we were parasites

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themagical1sa · 2 months

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seeing the world as it is while living in the philippines sure is a hell of its own actually

#the philippines is a lifetime trial before hell /long-running filipino joke #'our bullshit president is doing his sona while genocides are happening' is a reality i have no idea how to swallow #we have a lot of problems already here and then there are objectively worse problems out there #this. this is the depressing reality that my eyes have been forced open to #i refuse to close my eyes or look away but i cannot deny how exhaustive it can be to be so Hyperaware of So Many Things At Once #i'm a struggling undiagnosed neurodivergent college student in a southeast asian 3rd world country overrun by corruption #that's not even touching on my personal offscreen life yet #eyghrhehe pagod na isa niyo #there's only so much i can do and the constant desire to do more and be more puts me at a dissonance

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glavilio · 9 months

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the damage done to the burgeoning furry community by the collapse of the soviet union may not be yet understood in our lifetime

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stellanix · 3 months

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starlink pisses me off

the issue of its impact on astronomy and light pollution has been discussed a lot, and is a very real issue (i've noticed up to 10% of the frames i take while doing astrophotography being rendered unusable by starlink trails), but there's an even bigger issue

not only does starlink constitute the majority of active satellites in orbit, with over 6,000 already up and potentially over 30,000 planned, but these satellites are disposable

each satellite only has a lifetime of 5-7 years (not including satellites that prematurely fail), and re-enters earth's atmosphere and disintegrates at the end of its life, and is then replaced by newly launched satellites

it's also worth mentioning that aluminum from re-entering satellites forms aluminum oxide, which can damage the ozone layer and risks reversing the recovery of the ozone hole

and this is touted as progress, "the future"! the way we bring high-quality internet to anyone who doesn't live in a big city or a wealthy country. a gift to all humanity! (except elon musk gets to deny it to whoever he wants)

and it is literally unsustainable

the so-called internet infrastructure of the future relies on frequent rocket launches spewing carbon dioxide and black soot into the atmosphere, and disposable satellites that destroy the shield that protects all life on earth from UV radiation

the atmosphere is a global commons. orbit is a global commons. yet a single company owned by a single fascist billionaire has appropriated a vast swath of orbital space and filled it with infinite trash machines - without any international regulation. but bring this up in any space fan circles, and you'll be met with techbros screaming at you and calling you an enemy of humanity for not thinking that elon musk should be able to do whatever he wants without regulation

starlink isn't the future, it's a cancer filling our sky with trash (and i guess some people get kinda expensive internet along the way? oh yeah btw the poor people they're talking about starlink helping can't afford it)

anyway fuck starlink, they should stop launching these trash satellites, if you want everyone to have internet we should build more publicly-owned fiber instead

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