shitposting 2021

Thomas Baines - The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls, 1869

mom’s homemade cake - animal crossing: new horizons (2020)

your future self loves you. they will look through old photos of you with affection, not disgust, nor embarrassment. they wish they could tell you stories of your future, of how much you’ll change, of the people you’ll meet, of how you’ll eventually learn to accept yourself, then love yourself. they will read your diary entries and poems and favourite lyrics, heart aching, tears in their eyes. if only you knew...

your future self loves you. if only they could show you. they are living proof. you’ll turn out okay after all. they wish they were there to console you, dance with you, and make you write it a hundred times: “I AM LOVED”. they will listen to playlists you made, just to experience you again. they will write you a letter - of forgiveness, longing, reassurance. you will never read it. but you will know.

“Surely nothing could be worse than a lot of women dying,” she thinks. “Ah,” she says.

There is no technical need to justify facial recognition that could possibly outweigh the negitive effects. Advocates are enemies to humanity.

any comparison between early 00s online youth culture and late 10s online youth culture is fundamentally incompatible as soon as you move beyond the similarities of “lol teens being cringey” or whatever because we are in a completely different media landscape these days. making heavily-edited cosplay tiktoks is nothing like curating a deviantart gallery full of anime blingees because the former is always, implicitly or explicitly, an attempt to cash in on internet fame while the latter was simply rooted in the deep twisted psyche of someone feasting on the dark side’s cookies

Back in my day we did weird shit on the Internet because we were genuinely fucked up, not for clout

parents who tell their daughters they are ugly are bad parents

everyone who is replying to this with some variety of “that’s just how life is”

no

your parents fucked up and should not have treated you that way

they were wrong and you should say it

This includes implied ugliness.

this applies to any kid btw not just girls

parents who tell their kids they’re ugly are bad parents

how the vaccine works