huh

“Weak, Dad.”

willow’s proof of life makes me want to cry. why don’t more nepobabies do this. take the time to perfect their craft and come up with a unique creatively honest but non market friendly voice because they don’t have to chase palatable algorithm friendly conformist mediocrity OR churn out massive amounts of the content in the short window while they have attention post-debut to have a career

she released whip my hair back and forth at twelve and gained instant virality and realised v quickly this wasn’t who she wanted to be as an artist the rest of her life and DELETED IT rather than doubling down and took a break to work on her art. I am just. I have such admiration for her. which other artist other than children of celebrities have this opportunity. and what do other nepo babies do. fifty shades of grey?

btw it isn’t about talent she’s clearly VERY talented this is about TIME. this is about PRACTICE. capitalism is opposed to both these things. it has to be instant bam, bam, bam release twenty songs while TikTok is pushing you that all sound identical and are written to cater to whatever algorithm du jour is controlling media consumption. I am not blaming artists. there’s no other way to pay rent while being a musician. but you have the OPTION to take it slow when your parents are famous. and she took it. and my god she delivered 😭😭😭😭 other nepo babies are a part of the few hundred people in the world who can do this and they just don’t they just refuse to practice, to learn, to work hard, to chaise fleeting virality and get roles and releases and second third tenth chances off of their parents’ names. lord. what a waste.

Jonas continuing the collection—

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

IF ONLY ICARUS COULD SEE ME NOW

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

California quail 🪶 Wild Republic 🎵 Plush with sound!

hank reflects on his actions

The Eeper, 2024, Digital Photograph.

More old gravity falls stuff cuz ppl seem to like these :3

UM WE FORGOT THE OTHER TWO

tumblr when a new pathetic man drops

The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE

This pigeon is an angel

hey besties

no but actually sarah iles johnston arguing that ancient people had a parasocial relationship with mythological characters resulting in strenghtened belief in them and the perpetuation of hero cults is so true but also so so hilarious. alexander achilleskinning real actually. athenian teenage girls roleplaying as artemis and callisto at brauron real too. the helen of troy discourse must've been crazyyyy

thinking along these lines modern society is NOT beating the idolatry allegations

zeuswives...

the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

despite mass arrests by NYPD and several students (including rep ilhan omar’s daughter, isra hirsi) being suspended for their participation and having their university identification deactivated, the gaza solidarity encampment is still going strong well into its second day. def recommend following independent reporter talia jane who is taking part and providing live updates. (talia was the first reporter to break aaron bushnell’s self immolation in february; she was one of the reporters he contacted personally prior to the protest.)

thank you so much alexa @shivsblunt for mentioning it…..anyone who wants to contribute to their jail support fund can do so @ bcabolitioncollective on v*nmo. also, if anyone is in the area and available to join (via cssw4palestine on ig):

(x)

im just like rick, clinical depression