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schuylerpeck

2026 RESOLUTIONS

PICK YOUR BATTLES
SINCERITY AND EARNESTNESS ARE COOL AS FUCK
IT IS MUCH HARDER TO LIVE BY YOUR VALUES IF YOU DO NOT DEFINE THEM
FRAME YOUR PHOTOS
BRAVE THE 5 MINUTES OF FIGURING SOMETHING OUT WITHOUT AI
MORE HOMEMADE GIFTS
IT IS OKAY TO BE UNREACHABLE SOMETIMES
TAKE THE SUMMER TRIP
REMEMBER THAT SOMEONE LISTENING DOES NOT ALWAYS PROMISE A WILLINGNESS TO UNDERSTAND
PHYSICAL MEDIA!
PATIENCE IS A DYING ART - KEEP IT ALIVE
DO THE KIND THING
AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, MAKE A MEAL WORTH SAVORING
A GOOD FRIENDSHIP IS A HOLY THING

giulesverne

Reblogged systlin

zootycoon-archive

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

loseremo

syzygy-yzygy

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

this-too-too-sullied-flesh

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?

giulesverne

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willgrahamscock

kyraneko

If they go to sleep it will be tomorrow instantly and they can't handle stepping towards tomorrow on their current level of emotional resources.

Screw "revenge bedtime procrastination" call it "tomorrow avoidance pattern."

giulesverne

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pangur-and-grim

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

giulesverne

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captain-price-unofficially

superstrijder00

The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn't buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.

You'd think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn't matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn't even consider using it.

nentuaby

If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there's a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there's only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they're all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.

If there's no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.

If there's workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that's the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there's not they straight up don't have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed ~~Gen-X~~ ~~Millenial~~ Gen-Z stare while you order.

No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.

giulesverne

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writerlyn

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

rocketsaurus

giulesverne

Reblogged stagbeetleboy

theehorsepusssy

giulesverne

Reblogged pinnipetal

great-gatsby

every reread kills me a little bit more

great-gatsby

reread and enjoy <3

giulesverne

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theunfortunate-author

my daily affirmation as an author

giulesverne

Reblogged spiritsonic

betweendoctorsanddetectives

2026

READ VORACIOUSLY

EAT VORACIOUSLY

TAKE NOTE OF BIRDS

MAKE ART YES THAT ART

KEEP GOING

LIVE

giulesverne

Reblogged pinnipetal

queerorthodoxy

Dance as an act of rebellion. Dance as an act of joy.

giulesverne

Reblogged pinnipetal

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

kendallroy

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

themself

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

westenra

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

lunaescribe

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior.

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.

giulesverne

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rudjedet

I very genuinely need tumblr to understand that museums are as diverse as historians, egyptologists, archaeologists, and what have you in general. Like from the way people are talking you'd think that only straight white Western men are ever involved in these concepts, because the internet at large just loves to be able to get on their little high horsie about how they are sooo much more morally correcter than the Evil Other

Which is absolutely not a concerning attitude to have, not at all no sir

rudjedet

forgot I'm on the piss on the poor website so I'll spell it out: Western straight white men aren't per definition the Evil Other either

You know where the real danger is? Anti-intellectualism, the concept of moral purity, and opening your damn trap when you don't know shit about fuck

veliseraptor

#also our job market is a hellscape and a lot of us aren't wealthy either and neither are our workplaces #many museums especially have SUCH a hard time affording anything rn #the days of museums as institutions and the humanities being a realm of wealth and prestige are well and truly over #this is a field that is being devalued constantly in a world that would love to believe everything important is digital #or about making money #and that's a fucking problem bc the whole thing of museums is that they offer easily accessible education #HOW is the “go to your local library” website so indifferent or even hostile towards museums #academia (via @veilchenjaeger)

cricketcat9

☝️☝️☝️

giulesverne

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thatsnotwatyourmomsaid

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

avis-meum

I would marry this man

the-angels-take-asgard

guys we broke another post because this one’s not showing any notes

lualmu

When I liked it, it flashed “0 notes”

folie-a-ducks

It’s showing -1 notes

try-the-wine

i’m gonna keep reblogging this and you can’t stop me

chemucalcrying

I liked it and it said ‘1 note’

tf is this crap?

agentflash18

1 NOTE I’VE ONLY COME ACROSS 3 OF THESE POSTS IN MY LIFE

ryanterryxd

ITS STILL SAID 1 NOTE WTF?????

princey-must-slay

legendary

iqniited

What the fuck

vintagecartoonz

YES BUT DID HE GET HIS CAMERA BACK?? WE NEED TO KNOW!

na7hannck

WE WILL NEVER KNOW… =((((

n-oy-a

IT still says 0 notes?? WTF!!

softmushie

This is the first thing I saw on my dash

I’m shook

batballon

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKERY

freddyxbonnieshipper459

WTF-

preciousgaby

SAME HERE!!! I JUST GAVE IT A LIKE AND IT DIDN’T STAY

lizzy7064

1 note WTF.

t0rdsk1

@foolishly-snowy

riv-the-awkward-one

3rd time and it’s still broken. This lovely cursèd post.

furioussharkkitten

THERE IS ANOTHER ONE?????

violetfin-hskin

still not-works

portmanteau-bot