i wanted weird al's gender before it was cool

THEY KEEP ASKING ME IF I WOULD DIE FOR THEM AND I KEEP ASKING WHY THEY WANT ME DEAD

job interviews

you've heard of slender man now get ready for fat woman

never let being a girl stop you from being a boy

do people even know the extent of sanctions on the iranian people? my mom's family can't afford fruit anymore. it's a state of psychological warfare; literally nobody living there has any sort of hope for the future. added sanctions from the EU are going to destroy the lives of 87 million innocent people

as my cousin put it: "there is no point to saving up out of uncertainty that it will be worth anything in a month. what investments can you make in the future when you can't even be sure how much food will cost tomorrow? this isn't living." there are, of course, absolute shortages as well—my late grandmother experienced a period of deterioration because the medicine she needed was just not available. many such cases.

Messenger! What news have you from the Yaoi front?

i can't feel my legs

A shame. Rest in the dining hall. The Yuri nuns will attend to your wounds.

Egads. Perhaps you may wait here. The nuns appear occupied.

I am a violin maker learning to tattoo so here is a banana with the decoration from the Hellier Strad violin

Eternity's Bond

see also: power fantasies of dissociation. heroines who find Other Things To Focus On during their tribulations to the extent that they can almost entirely dissociate from the truth of their circumstances. heroines who make “the best of it” by hyperfixating on what they can control and successfully dissociating through a difficult period, how many hundreds of years of gendered conditioning through literature goes into that, from dyed moroz to beauty and the beast to every frontier great grandmother family story about how Times Were Hard but she kept a Stiff Upper Lip and By Gum She Got Through It.

how I began to use dissociation in the bedrock of the story to counter this same trope. active dissociation, directed dissociation, dissociation that turns into something horrifying

how this was more or less how I maneuvered my way out from under my family’s influence. dissociating to escape the worst of the toxic radiation and reassociating with tools and insights my family did not want me to have, that they found repulsive and frightening, which propelled me out of their sphere of control.

dissociation as guardian force.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I’m miserable now

If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.

A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.

Kenya

Salad Fingers, episode 2

End of Ze World

Schfifty Five

The Hamster Dance

Badgers

"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt

Charlie the Unicorn

The Llama Song

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

2007