everyone say in the tags what their current custom discord status is

☝️baby bird

there is nothing more real than his desperate need for worms. which his brothegr can no longer provide for him. sad

I am consuming a media and you are going to hear about it

and the thrilling sequel: i consumed a media months ago and you are still hearing about it

the thing about severance is that the show would have worked fine and still been very good if reintegration had been kept as the goal and the happy ending. but instead of taking the easy way out they chose to take a big swing and say actually no, there are all these problems with the concept of reintegration and we’re not going to accept them, and then started to tell a much more interesting story that is also fundamentally incapable of having a happy ending. there are no ethical decisions under capitalism etc

learning a heritage language as an adult is so embarrassing... like mother if you had taught me this while my brain was still neuroplastic then i could be fluent right now but instead i am paying money to sit in class and struggle to string together a simple sentence. cringe asf

no because im sick of this ngl

if tumblr shuts down you can find me on tumblr. ill still be here. they cant make me leave

Captain Widdershins:

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.

Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.

Really interesting how different Lemony’s narration is between The Hero of the Story and All the Wrong Questions because THIS:

Is very distinctly not his whole ‘Get Scared Later’ (i.e dissociate from the fear) that he has in those books. And this is what? Six months later on the timeline?

thinking about a long article I read a while back talking about the history of “ultra-processed foods” and how they related to american/western health issues. my main takeaway was a short paragraph buried in the middle of the article, where the guy who came up with the term just says outright “technically by these processing metrics tofu and sourdough fall into the same category as doritos and we’re not really sure how to square that circle” and the article just. moves right past that.

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece

Lesbian party interrupted by depressed little boy who just got jumped

say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins