how it all feels lately

kill me once, shame on you. kill me twice how did you do that

Some of you care way too much about Pantone for the wrong reasons.

I mean this with my whole heart; stop giving a shit about “the color of the year.” The whole thing is just corporate astrology, and it exists to keep creatives, brands, and consumers orbiting a company that absolutely does not deserve that kind of cultural authority!!

Pantone is not a neutral art resource. It’s a massive corporation that has spent decades trying to assert ownership over color systems through IP law.

Pantone asserts that its color numbers and pigment values are its intellectual property, and that free use of those lists is not allowed. This is why Pantone colors are often missing from open source software and frequently excluded from low cost or community built creative tools. It’s also why Pantone has repeatedly been accused of being intentionally vague about the exact scope of its legal claims. That vagueness is the point. It creates fear, hesitation, and compliance.

People treat Pantone like a design oracle, or get mad that “the color of the year is boring or sucks,” I need you to zoom out a little!!

The problem is not that a megacorp picked an ugly or boring shade.

The problem is that a megacorp is trying to gatekeep color itself behind paywalls and licensing schemes.

Color is not proprietary.

Color is not a brand asset.

Color is a shared human tool that predates corporations by tens of thousands of years. Using IP law to restrict how people reference, reproduce, or standardize color in software and art is deeply, unabashedly disgusting, and it actively harms accessibility, open source development, and independent creators.

If you’re going to spend energy being mad at Pantone, be mad about that.

Be mad that entire creative ecosystems have to tiptoe around a corporation’s legal threats just to describe colors accurately!

Be mad that open source tools are kneecapped so Pantone can keep selling swatch books and subscriptions!!

Be mad that “owning” color is treated as a reasonable business model or concept at all!!!

I am not concerned that Pantone chose a shitty color of the year.

I am concerned that they think they can own it.

felt like the non-scots should know about this

car crash of lexicographical unpersoning going on here

the author chose to gender the balls, but not the woman.

If this post gets 100 notes, 100 terfs will blow up. If it gets 1000 notes, 1000 terfs will blow up. If it gets 10000 notes, 10000 terfs will blow up. If it gets.. will you get the point.. let's blow up terfs shall we. I won't apologize.

"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

There are currently 414,472 fics without a single kudos.

2,948,374 under 10 kudos

If anyone was wondering.

first date spot

I had to know wat this was and

golly

this is exactly the kind of image someone would find and use to make an SCP entry about because so few people know what this is lol

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

Paying your way through college by selling weed or doing Only Fans or whatever is infinitely more honorable than joining the military to get an education. Never forget community college is an option and you do not have to contribute to American imperialism to attend. I knew a girl who had scholarships but sold her dirty socks and underwear to pervs online for living expenses and she is stronger than any US marine for that.

they hate my pussy cus i obey traffic laws

If your band doesn’t have any women then the men better be fucking each other on stage is all I’m saying

If your band doesn’t have any women then the men better be fucking each other on stage is all I’m saying

Archaeologists have finally unearthed mambo no. 1

No matter how surreal it is, Bylers are actually part of the same hivemind and its kinda scary cause wdym we happen to read that one fanfic in the same day(s)