I guess all I can

tell you is that you have to

want to believe it.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Update

Observation: all of these are freak4freak relationships. They recognize and accept, even revel in, each other's weirder and darker impulses.

Oh yeah. A lot of them also involve at least one outcast/misfit

Oh yeah. A lot of

them also involve at least

one outcast/misfit

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

watching gen z and millennials make fun of gen alpha has been torturous. "But they're actually stupid" 1. theyre middle schoolers 2. isn't that what older gens said about us? don't you remember being 11?

it truly is just "impulse reaction to cringe <- has not yet unlearned shame"

the cycle continues let me out of here

guys. guys I think we should kill cringe culture

My kids and their friends are Gen Alpha, and they are sweet, sweet kids living though appalling times.

They grew up with the most rigidly binary models of childhood that have existed in my lifetime (girl-glue, anyone?) and been viewed as their earning potential since before they could walk. They have been exploited and abandoned on the internet by their parents, have been exploited on the internet by the algorithm when they were too young to understand it. They are the first large generation of the children of Mommy bloggers, anti-vaxxers, trad wives, and quiverful types.

They’ve survived a pandemic, and had it cut through their schooling in a way that has been enormously traumatic. They have the smallest outdoor range of any generation to date. In their lifetime, climate change has become violently real, socioeconomic disparity has only increased, reactionary movements have increased, and rights that we’ve taken for granted have been rolled back. They are the generation of British trans kids taking their lives on the now-static youth GIC waiting lists. The American trans kids who are watching their very existence become illegal. They are the generation of creative kids whose arts and humanities funding has been cut to the bone. A generation who have grown up watching soft-lit, queer friendly cartoons, walking out in to a world of violent trans and homophobia.

They are depressed, anxious, afraid. Their aspirations are low, their hopes for the future fragile.

They are clever, and creative, and charming, and brave. And they are KIDS.

Be nice to them, they’re dealing with a lot.

They are clever, and

creative, and charming, and

brave. And they are KIDS.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Have all five of them carry you down the aisle on a palanquin

Have all five of them

carry you down the aisle

on a palanquin

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

My relationship with cheese is just one big metaphor for aromanticism

I'm not a fan of cheese. I just don't like how it tastes.

Everyone around me loves it. All my life, everyone around me has eaten cheese with gusto and constantly talked about how amazing it was, while I just had to listen in confusion, because whenever I'd take a bite out of anything cheesy, the taste would range from utterly unremarkable to downright disgusting. It didn't feel like we were tasting the same thing.

Cheese and cheese flavour is everywhere. You don't realise just how prevalent and overwhelming the presence of cheese is in the flavour world if you're not the only one at the gathering avoiding it.

My family will not leave me alone about it. At every get-together I'm presented the cheese platter and the cheese spread and the cheese pastries and "gently" pressured to try them, because I haven't eaten anything cheesy in months, so how can I be sure that I still don't like it? I was sure you'd grow out of your childhood distaste! Oh, but this kind is so good, everyone loves it, so obviously you will too, you just have to give it a chance!

And have to sit there and politely repeat that "No, thank you, I'm sure, I don't want to try it. I'm glad everyone else is enjoying it, but I don't want it. No thank you. Stop offering, please. I don't want to try it, Thank You." In the most polite voice I can manage, because the moment I start sounding frustrated about having to keep rejecting them after the fifth time I said no, they get annoyed with me, because "Why are you being so moody, I'm just saying you should give it a try"

There are ways that I enjoy cheese. When it's an ingredient in a meal, cleverly concealed or complimented in a way that makes it not feel like cheese anymore. Even certain cheese flavoured snacks are fine, but I will never choose them over something that I simply like more.

I don't want to eat cheese. I don't want to date. I just don't like the taste or sound of that. I don't want to put myself in an uncomfortable position just because other people think I might enjoy it this time.

triple the fun n triple the tragedy as they say

So we can all agree that Will is canonically gay after this scene, right? I know we were all basically in agreement about this already, but we can all agree agree, right?

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

Radish. Answer the question radish.

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

Its takes less than a minute

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

Like seven minutes

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

I’m sorry but the THOUGHT that has been put into this, I actually CAN’T—

The fact that nearly every line is so metrically considered- near perfect iambic pentameter witb the occasional trochee for emphasis, but usually retaining a strong sense of rhythm nonetheless. And then the king comes in at the end, so wound in his disbelief that his response is reduced to prose.

And the even better thing about this is how easy it would have been to structure the king’s line into iambic pentameter: it is effectively already said as such because of the way wizardlyghost has phrased it, yet they haven’t!! They did not break the line, rendering what, by all typically of both Shakespearean canon and other periods context should be the character with the most command and authority in the whole play. If there was ever a more effective way to convey a genuine “what the fuck??”, I know of it not.

But it gets better!! Shakespeare regularly uses meter in order to represent class divide; the nobility usually speak in iambic pentameter, save for a few particularly chosen moments (e.g. Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness, Othello’s realisation of Desdemona’s “betrayal”) or just lines where Shakespeare needs to suggest high emotion or when a character is lost in thought. Supernatural characters like the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Witches in Macbeth usually speak in trochaic tetrameter, an inversion of iambic pentameter. Lower class characters, particularly those used for comic relief (usually under the influence of alcohol), speak with no structure at all: their language is plain prose. Therefore, if this is a conversation between these types of characters, as the prompt from silvergirachi suggests, why the hell are the characters speaking so eloquently???

Now, this is Tumblr. It is subsequently logical to assume that this may have merely been a humorous recreation (and a very good one at that) of the Shakespearean style in a way that is widely recognisable to an audience that may or may not have read a great deal of Shakespeare, which is understandable. However, logic is boring so I’m going to probe further into this to the point where future historians will look to this as an example of overanalysing.

The inherent eloquence of the characters here suggests an unusual subversion of the roles typically assumed in Shakespearean comedy. This could be interpreted along two major avenues: firstly, that the rhetoric displayed by the speakers is fundamentally representative of how truth can be expected even from the most seemingly pointless or ludicrous discussions. Furthermore, it could suggest that it matters not how well constructed your speeches are: if you talk bullshit, it’s going to sound that way despite your attempts to hide it.

This is similar but not identical to the second avenue of interpretation: there is the implication that the noblemen in the play are in fact the comic relief characters, therefore implying that the “common people” of the play are the ones whose influence, though not expressed in such a highly spoken manner, makes a lot more sense than whatever the hell this is. If this was a real Shakespeare play, I would call it a subtle exploration into the innate corruption of the rich and powerful. Well done, op.

Now, I doubt any of this is actually grounded analysis in any way, shape or form, but if someone else can take this to the extremes of writing a Shakespearean scene, why can I not analyse it as such? And where else to do so than Tumblr?

im in tears i didnt think anyone would put this much analysis into this‚ thank you so much

i also like that everyone else gets a version of their handle and then tumblr user pidoop is promoted to king

BOO

It's pride month yk what that means!

The voices spoke to me and I listened. This is the most brilliantly stupid idea I've ever had.

Anyway, mtcpt fans!! how are we feeling after Jock slammed Sanders to the ground? No seriously how tf did he do that.

"My outfits aren't flashy enough." says the man in a purple tailcoat suit. Speaking of which, I wonder how many times Sanders has been mistaken for a waiter?

I've also noticed my design for a teenage Jock is just me projecting onto another character again :,D (High school is a nightmare but we getting through it)

Anyway, I like seeing how both characters express themselves and I've noticed that Sanders expresses his affection more physically than with words, I mean he at the very least TRIES to, but yk...he isn't exactly good at it. (+some random sketch)

I have something else in the works for mtcpt so stay tuned in for that >:D

School is kicking my ass atm so I apologise if the posts aren't as frequent, I've also got exams coming up so I most likely won't be as active. I always appreciate the support tho! so thank you to anyone who likes my silly little drawings <3

I'm not even here in tumblr but i'll post it here so you @geezerflakes see it ='D Maaan your comic driven me from an artblock, the world needs it as a cartoon series pls pls pls🙏

___

Btw take a look guys: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/my-two-cents-plus-tax

The story tells about two tax collectors working in a kinda hmmmm ordinary weird and criminal town and having situations. Here they are, so middle-aged dude Jock who just does work and his [soul]mate Sanders Grave bringing fun and, ahem, whimsy to this boring, stupid job😈🗿

I made this so quickly but like this is literally my favorite webtoon so far 😭😭😭 jock and sanders, my beloved <333

doodle dump practicing my simpler art style cuz whyyy not :pp

they’ve literally already filled up my ibispaintx gallery jeez

just fyi im gonna be drawing them doing stuuupid shenanigans ALOT. its kinda my brand and i sincerely apologise in advance

ALSO I KEEP FORGETTING SANDERS WEARS GLOVES ACK

Sanders: Here take my coat

Jock: But I already have a jacke-

Sanders: shhhh it's romantic