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Brainrot

@a-little-ferret

hanging on by a thread
but hanging on

If this is the sign you're looking for, please

  • stay alive
  • stay safe
  • Drink some water
  • eat something
  • get back into the things you love
  • Unclench your jaw
  • do some self-care
  • Take a shower or bath
  • Take your med(s)

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

Hi so um we don’t do this here! I don’t care if you hate a ship or find a character unpalatable. We do not go out of our way to harass those who are playing in their sandbox.

We do not create manifestos dunking on other characters/ships. We do not create side blogs shitting on them either. We do not send harassing anons or comment on works telling people what they should/shouldn’t create. We mute, block, and use the filtered tag system.

Anything like THIS ☝️ is guaranteed going to backfire and get people to ostracize you and good luck getting anything made for your ship. You are in fact hurting those who might enjoy both ships or characters. Spend all that hateful energy making stuff YOU enjoy. Otherwise, have fun being locked out of fandom.

A child's bedroom furnished entirely with those aesthetic beige instagram mom sad beige wooden toys for sad beige organic children, including a little ball pit in all the shades of brown, white, grey, beige and greige, but the owner doesn't have kids. It's all for the cats.

"They can't tell because they're colourblind", the owner explains, "and also very dumb."

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

A thing I don't really understand about the people that outsource their creativity to AI is like... don't you also feel this pull to create to save your life? Like you don't feel like you are going to die if you stop creating???

Like it's not just the result (which, I've never seen good AI art to begin with), it's the process, the ache inside your chest that causes you to pick up the goddamn pen every single time, no? Have you never needed to make something of your own?

gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.

counterpoint

cosmic horror is when the Thing is Not Familiar, the Location Makes No Fucking Sense, and the Outside is BIG.

gothic horror is when The Thing is Of Your Own Making, the Location has a Deeply Bloody History, and the Outside is Wet and Cold and Is Caging You In.

folk horror is when the Thing Should Be Familiar, But Is Not, the Location Should Be Pleasing, But Is Not, and the Outside is Trying Very Hard To Kill You