#where we're going

[reality-detective]

Why two Suns? - New Earth? - The Fate of those who get left behind? 🤔

[kbrick]

Stop Talking To Each Other & Start Buying Things

Excellent think piece on the Twitter implosion and the history and future of social media by Catherynne Valente: Stop Talking To Each Other & Start Buying Things.  

All about the good, bad, and ugly of social media and why we need to protect our quirky little spaces and/or keep banding together to make new ones. The end made me tear up a bit, for real.

Biggest takeaway - 

“Love things and love each other. We’re good at that, too. Protect the vulnerable. Make little things. Wear electric blue eyeshadow. Take a picture of your breakfast. Overthink Twin Peaks. Get angry. Do revolutions. Find out what Buffy character you are. Don’t get cynical. Don’t lose joy. Be us. Because us is what keeps the light on when the night comes closing in. Us doesn’t have a web address. We are wherever we gather. Mastodon, Substack, Patreon, Dreamwidth, AO3, Tumblr, Discord, even the ruins of Twitter, even Facebook and Instagram and Tiktok, god help us all.”

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Potential spoilers, flashing lights

Title: Where We're Going

Editors: FeralElementAMV, XItachi SamaX, Silver xAG, 67TheShadown, ExilesAMVs, FieldofEndlessSnow, Lucariochu, hassan936, Shadoukun, Sonay017, Andreas Katoikos, MsJassable, Christi AMVs, Tohnochi, DanParthenis, MissTitannia

Studio: CactusStudiio

Song: Where We're Going

Artist: Corey Gray

Anime: 5 Centimeters per Second (film), The Place Promised in Our Early Days, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (film), Sword Art Online, Clannad, Ef - A Fairy Tale of the Two, Whisper of the Heart (film), AnoHana, Sukitte Ii na yo, Angel Beats, Hyouka, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, Chuunibyou demo koi ga Shitai!, Naruto Shippuden, Nerawareta Gakuen (film), Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, Mawaru Penguindrum, Macross Frontier, Hotarubi no Mori e (film)

Category: Romance

[peculiary]

Cable #7 January 20, 2021

[ghostconch]

The talking took a different tone and started to make you cry. What if there's no way for us to know what happens when we die?

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

[aartemisx]

'Call it fate you came my way I love you more than a little bit babe Love you more than my heart can take' ..♡

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

[egophiliac]

Most unhinged moment in TWST Wonderland that made you go:

I love this game.

can I just say the entire front half of episode 7 chapter 8, because everything about it was BONKERS in the most absolutely delightful way. genuinely this might have been the funniest single update yet. we got Idia's directorial debut! big stronk Epel! and. just. gestures to the entirety of SavanaRook. (then Vil went into a spiral of murdering people that culminated in punching the manifestation of his own insecurity in the face, and that was good in an entirely different kind of way, but I digress)

if I have to pick one though, I'm gonna go with Idia's video, because 1) adorable, 2) seriously just look at it, and 3) I did legit have to replay that subchapter on account of laughing over most of it the first time. truly Idia is the artistic genius of our generation.

[hellenhighwater]

Genuinely being a single woman in my thirties, living alone, is such a mixed blessing sometimes. I do love my house and when I'm here I literally never want to leave. But on the other hand, I do get tired of leaving to go hang out with people, even though I love seeing them. Especially because I have such a great group of friends but they live all over the place, geographically, and therefore most of them don't know each other. And I actually really love hosting? But I never have people in my house because logistically it's always more practical for me to go to them than vice versa.

But sometimes I buy new old dishes and wanna just have a little fancy wizard party, but all my guests are far away. Please may I have the teleport spell. Or a high-speed commuter rail system.

[meruz]

been seeing a lot of posting on twitter/ig but not much here. if ur in the socal/LA area and ur free for an hour or two this weekend u should definitely come to the animation rally. build hype and show support for the upcoming negotions.. if the rally has a strong turnout, it will make union negotiations for a better animation contract with the big studios easier...! friends, family, fans r all welcome - open to all!

more info here, eventbrite rsvps are sold out but dont worry abt that, it was just capped to get a headcount u dont need an rsvp to attend

(and if u cant make it rbs are appreciated lol ❤️)

[muirmarie]

jim being canonically the shortest one of the triumvirate is genuinely so important to me lmao, like yesssssss, let that beefy babe be shorter than both his boyfriends!!!!

[lazylittledragon]

just realised i never posted any of the stuff i did for the alternative steddie dads au

[gluttonemporium]

Does Naoto ever drag Teddie's fat ass into a closet for 'stress relief'?

"C-closet?"

The Detective is... surprisingly shameless when it comes to "having fun" with Teddie.

[bytebun]

my piece for @thecodywanzine! thanks to the mods who let me go completely ham and cheese on this bad boy. this one's about living longer than you ever expected and not knowing what to do with it