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@hey-sparcs

max | they/he | multi with hyperfixes that hyjack the plane for a while | the pitt & 911 & mcu i love you spiderman.... irondad i have a complicated relationship with you and only True™️ peter enjoyer do too |

i still remember when bobby's death was leaked and everyone was ok this is obviously going to be a fake out because they'd have to be too fucking stupid to let this spoiler get out like this. and yet.

futurama episode where the b plot is bender went to a craft fair and got pissed when someone said machine crochet isn’t possible and he tries to teach himself crochet. near the end of the episode he has his own stand at the craft fair and it seems like he DID learn it only for it to be revealed that he just bought crocheted items from someone else and has been selling them for 10x the original price

unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it

don't get me wrong. it's always devastating always humbling. no one wants to fall for the lying machine it just sounds bad. but you can't dwell

personally? i enjoy being a fan of characters who have done Wrong. i like when a character is not a perfect victim, has hurt people, has transgressed, has done bad things. sometimes its nice to feel the sting yknow? and to recognize that a character is not a flawless perfect victim, but is deserving of understanding and compassion anyway. a lot of people in fandom refuse to let go of moral absolutism and its... rough.

great now name a female character you feel this way about in the next 30 seconds or another hostage dies

you can't even say "get a job" to people anymore because the market is so bad they'll be like ive applied to 400 jobs over the past 6 months

the most important thing to know about the UK isnt the tea or the baked beans or whatever. its that mr brightside has been charting on the uk top 100 for 475 weeks, or about 9 years straight. sometimes it just randomly rises up to the top 40 for no reason. the grip that song has on our souls should be studied.

one time me and my coworkers were locked out of our storage building in the rain and we somehow ended up in an extremely passionate group rendition of mr brightside. like 30 people belting our hearts out, rain dripping down our faces. in my heart that is how this song should be ideally experienced tbh.

i thought this was exaggeration

It is crazy to me how many cis dudes are like “My S/O got pregnant and got an abortion without my input/permission and this is a worse portrayal than being cheated on and I am absolutely justified in treating her like garbage after I impregnated her without her permission.” especially when the S/O is just a casual girlfriend and/or has bluntly told him they don’t want kids. I am of the firm belief you do not get to decide what someone does with your sperm after you deposit it in their body, you cannot force them to keep a pregnancy or to abort a pregnancy and having the intent to do so makes you a fucking supervillain. You can inform them you’ll be there financially and would like to coparent if they’re open to it OR you can tell them you have no intention of being a father and will not be in the child’s life but you do not get to control the decision.

The fact your girl did not tell you she was pregnant and had an abortion means she thought you were both clear on not wanting a kid at this time OR she knew you would be a massive fucking asshole about the whole thing. These guys treat it like a personal insult and a wound that someone they’ve been casually fucking for 4 months does not want to go through 9 months of pregnancy and have their baby.

if this is your first rpf ship here are my personal rules to doing rpf ethically:

  • accept that rpf occupies an ethical gray area. rpf can be super fun and joyful, but it involves working with (the public images of) real people. therefore you as an rpf shipper have more responsibility than fans of a traditional media property to behave well and model good behavior for other fans. the onus is on YOU and other shippers to respect boundaries and maintain clear lines, NOT on the celebrity, who is simply a person living their life.
  • don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever interact with the actors or creators or public figures on any social media platform, or with anyone connected to them (friends, family, makeup artists, etc.). never. don't show them art, don't show them fic, don't ask them about your ship, don't ask them about the person you ship them with, don't don't don't. just don't.
  • keep your rpf fic locked. keep your rpf twitter private. understand the risks of engaging in rpf on platforms that use algorithms to serve fandom content to people outside of fandom circles (tiktok, twitter, insta). personally i think we should NOT be doing rpf at all on those platforms but i accept that there are thriving rpf communities there. (thriving rpf communities that often have terrible boundaries!!)
  • remember it is not real. It Is Never Ever EVER Real. the more invested you are in a ship the more intense your feelings will be about their fictional romance and the more you are at risk of convincing yourself to believe in the fictional stories you and your friends are constructing. you must remember that it is not real. they are not actually dating, fucking, yearning for each other, whatever in real life. and if they WERE doing any of those things they clearly don't want YOU to know about it, so you should continue to operate under the ironclad belief that your ship is not real. you are playing with characters based on real people, not the real people themselves. you might know a lot about the characters you have invented but you know NOTHING about the real people. and that is how it should be!

Spent tonight at a local short film festival. One of the shorts was made by two 12 year olds in their backyard and it was the best short of the entire night

“Hello I’m Officer Goodguy”

“I didn’t kill him!”

“I wasn’t going to ask if you killed somebody”

“Oh, sorry”

Did you kill somebody?”

“Oh yeah”

“I’m gonna have to take a look around”

“Okayyy but you’re not gonna like it”

*opens door, reveals room full of badly keyed in fire and high pitched screaming, closes door*

“Well?”

“I didn’t like it”

It won the audience choice award, obviously

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eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061

I'm getting jumped in the notes here with "easier said than done" and that's true, so I am by NO MEANS a professional with professional-level art off the top of my head here's some tangible things to help with your frustration tolerance.

  1. It never goes away. Like. Literally ever. "It's so hard and I keep stumbling over it" yeah. Never goes away. For anyone. Keep that in mind.
  2. While you do have to train your eye to get better at drawing, which means you have to look at good art, you also have to stop only looking at artwork made by professionals or people who've been doing it longer than you. Jealous of another 21-year-old whose art is better than you? Block or mute. Lol. It doesn't matter who cares. Jealousy is ugly and you should work on that but feelings like that don't just go away and so if it's not hurting anyone just get that out of your sight. Unblock/mute when you're in a better headspace.
  3. If you can't keep your drawings to yourself then have a dedicated set of artist friends to complain with or hold each other accountable. Preferably people of your same skill level. And no I don't mean a huge discord server full of randos, like, your actual friends, chances are you're only going to get your feelings hurt if in you're some huge buttfuck discord server where people are busy doing god knows what and they either ignore your posts or just leave reacts.
  4. What actually helps ease this is by practicing in bulk. Everyone tells you art is like a muscle and you have to train it constantly, with rest, but constantly. And what this means realistically is you're more likely to learn by drawing something repetitively. Say you're struggling to draw a profile. Don't waste hours getting one drawing of a profile right. If it sucks just start over again. Repeat. Literally the fastest and most efficient way with almost every drawing roadblock is just start over again. The time will pass anyways etc etc.
  5. Confidence is won through effort! Confidence is not so much a feeling as it is the cumulative result of the work you put in. (I read this on reddit one time and never forgot it.)

6. This is a really tough one but you'll have to substitute motivation for discipline.

7. I mean. You don't have to be good at art man. It's fine. You do have to weigh in how much you actually want to get to a certain skill level and weigh it against the amount of effort you're willing to put in. If you're fine where you are that's fine!!! It's fine!!!

can non natives stop acting surprised and performatively jokey "uhh what lol!" about ice going after native americans. theyve been doing this for years and it ramped up last year and i had to hear all the stupid "uhhhh where will u deport them to 😜 silly republicans!" comments as if its not always been about detaining torturing murdering using as slave labor scattering communities through fear and intimidation etc. be an adult and act with maturity please. its not quirky or confusing its directly in line with americas racism and white supremacy to make sure native americans are eradicated

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