this reminds me of a... speedrunner!

oh hey sorry I’ve been distant lately…. I’ve been really busy having a brain that is bad

the online phenomenon that drives me the most crazy that i never see people talk about in my circles is the tiktok shop ecosystem

for those who don't know because you don't use tiktok (i don't blame you, i only learn about these things through my boyfriend): you can sell things on tiktok. but because it's a video platform, this means you have to make videos promoting whatever you're selling. so basically what this means is you get a bunch of people in their early 20s going "omg look at this, you NEED this in your life" about some bullshit they bought in bulk as part of a drop shipping scam

for a while it was freeze dried skittles. that was the trend. a bunch of people would do videos where they try freeze dried skittles and act like they're the best snack ever that you NEED to try RIGHT NOW—and oh, would you look at that? they have a shop link where they receive commission. recently there's been this shirtless guy who's trying really hard to sell people on some overpriced low calorie meringues, including multiple videos where he puts them in a bowl with milk and tries to pitch them as a healthier alternative to sugary cereal. there's also a LOT of people trying to sell mouth tape right now—not as a (questionable) way to stop snoring, but specifically due to claims that if you stop mouth breathing in your sleep it'll lead to some kind of miraculous transformation of your jawline

it's just an insane ecosystem all around. online grifting in its purest form. some straight up flimflamming. they'd sell literal snake oil if they could. we're gonna run out of electricians because people wanna become tiktok shop influencers instead

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This breaks the record of Strom Thurmond, segregationist asshole senator from South Carolina, who spoke for over 24 hours in a futile attempt to kill the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

"gay or european" also goes for middle-aged women btw. that lady with short hair no makeup and sneakers isn't a lesbian she's just german

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

Fanfic culture as we know it today owes so much to older fans, especially older women, who were obsessed with The Premise.

This was a world before widespread internet, before sites like fanfiction dot net let alone anything like AO3, and long before queer media became more widely acceptable. The Hays Code, which forbade Hollywood from depicting “sexual perversion” which gay representation was considered, was only repealed in 1968, and many still unofficially stuck to it and that part especially for longer. Original Star Trek was canceled in 1969, the same year as Stonewall. But in the early 70s, fans were collaborating and making fan zines containing writings about The Premise, distributing physical copies at conventions and creating mailing lists. Later came private email chains.

In a world with so many factors working against it, large groups of fans decided they were so invested in the idea of these two men together that they would MAKE ways to share their work and acquire new content from others.

Transformative fiction existed in ways before. Adaptations of other stories have existed about as long as stories have, and I’m sure people had written their own little reimaginings and “headcanon” side stories for themselves and friends before. But the culture of spreading it far and wide, of collaborating to do so… If it hadn’t been Spirk, maybe it still would have developed similarly later/slower, but we can’t be sure. In the world we have, though, we owe old ladies who loved The Premise everything. 🙏

feels fucking awesome that i was the first person to beat the ender dragon on april fools update yesterday.

its also just such a fucking awesome update.

fein technically "didnt get aa" because the game has a bug, which probably won't ever be fixed (why would they fix a joke snapshot)

op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it

Yeah.

I wish I was eating chocolate cake right now

Guess I'll go make a fucking. Eggless mug brownie or something.

If you're about to give advice check the post

Can we please have the recipe op

Thank you! Just tried this recipe, and it definitely only needs 3 minutes in my microwave and mug, but wow that was easy. Might try it with coffee instead of cinnamon next time

Every time I make it, a devil on my shoulder is like "that's not a lot of flour, you should double the recipe" and it took me like 5 mug brownies to learn that I absolutely do not need to double the recipe

INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP

Finally some good fucking news

modern art

This looks like art from a 1980s pop album.

Is this anything

I'm excited for the Happy Ghasts but their existence implies the normal ones are miserable because they aren't meant to live in the Nether and that's so sad.

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

Dan liking this comment on tiktok is insane