Brittany, 27, Florida. INTJ. The quickest way to my heart is through copious amounts of french fries, strawberry shortcake and well-animated fight scenes. Demon Cyborg's #1 fan, don't @ me
Oh and that fucking crab day post sends shivers down my spine btw. I say this as someone who owns multiple pieces of tumblr merch — support them if you want, or don’t, I don’t care, but we are NOT turning a tech corporation into our poor little wet meow meow who deserves all our money uwu. We are NOT pressuring normal ass people into donating to resolve a company’s millions in debt as if it’s some important charitable cause.
i do find it a bit frustrating when people respond to the uncomfortable truth that some really well made pieces of art are made with crunch or other unhealthy work practices, and therefore believe that the only sustainable morally ethical alternative, are ugly/uninspiring pieces of art, like as if the bad cgi in mcu movie’s aren’t also the result of crunch.
i feel at face value, the takeaway from this would be “it’s impossible to make a movie like across the spider-verse without overworking the animators” but i feel like the more obvious takeaway is that making ANY project with the tight deadlines and margins that are often asked by corporations is extremely stressful and backbreaking, but also the ask of “absolute perfection” because i’m sure the movie still looked great before the constant revisionism. because like the whole rhetoric of “it’s impossible to make great looking media without crunch” does not make people more tolerable to ugly look media, despite how many people post that “i want shorter games with uglier looking graphics” meme online.
tl:dr saying stuff like “it’s impossible to make something that looks as good as spider-verse without crunch” is kind of like saying “spider-verse looks as good as it does BECAUSE of crunch” which is, just isn’t true in fact, it could of looked even better, if the animators were given more of a heads-up ahead of time instead of being forced to completely re-animated scenes that were already finished.
framing the crunch as just the natural consequence of making a film like spider-verse just kind of feeds into the whole notion that “real art requires human suffering” which like no, humans who are being treated like human beings can actually still produce art that’s extremely amazing. happy people can still make movie with good animation believe it or not.
Staff has, as of an hour ago, reblogged the post with a clarification/backpedal (who can be certain with corporations?) that they are not getting rid of the chronological feed.
Nothing worse than antiwar people saying “everyone should put down the weapons” fully knowing that it won’t happen and those who hold those weapons in defense would be dead without them
like yeah, dude, war is bad, we should all frolic around in a meadow and shit, but you see, there is this one guy throwing bombs at my head and threatening to kill my entire family, and I’m afraid the power of your bellybutton friendship gem won’t help, Steven
dude I’m fucking frustrated. some people think on a level so theoretical that it leans into fantasy fiction, while I’m here sitting with insomnia becoming religious in hopes that next missile or drone won’t hit my apartment because I saw what it did to a whole fucking house. it was a hole in the ground. just a crater, you know. imagine a farm house in a country side, and now imagine a crater 5 meters deep 20 meters wide. nothing left except one bent spoon and photos of a family that used to live there that people put on the side of the road as some resemblance of a grave, because there weren’t even any fucking bodies left. People get torn apart when they get hit by a blast wave from a few meters away, you know. Can you “theoretically” imagine what happens with a direct hit?
I wish everyone could put down the weapons and be like “friendship, peace and whatever else”, but sometimes you want to live, and for that you need to kill whoever wants to kill you, and for that you need a Weapon.
I have no patience for negativity toward “boomers” anymore.
Almost everybody doing the work to restore ecosystems, grow native plants, and preserve rare species is 50 or older
The people I work with IRL have told me that my presence is encouraging because it means “the younger generation is getting involved with this stuff too.” There’s really not very many people my age
Who do you think was fighting this fight in the 1970’s
I’m saying this as a Gen Z who is woefully lacking in these skills
Social media and the internet have really decimated my generation’s ability to network and organize with people IRL
Not in the sense that That Damn Phone causes your skills to atrophy, but rather, Gen Z has no idea how people organized before social media, and no idea what anyone over 40 is doing for good in the world
The vast majority of local native plant, wildlife, and gardening organizations have NO social media presence
I could never have understood this until I started working IRL with people who are absolute powerhouses of knowledge, resources, and action about plants, animals, ecosystems, and conservation…who simply, barely know how to email
Google is not a resource
It can link you to a few resources, but it is ultimately a complicated device to make you Buy Product
Google will not even show you the best websites out there for learning about the ecosystem. At all. Google recognizes few possible interpretations of your query other than “Google, show me a bunch of advertisements for [thing] so I can Buy Product.” If your research doesn’t end in Buy Product, Google has no interest in helping you.
Many people think that the way of finding things out before Google was books
But that’s more wrong than right.
The way of finding things out before Google was community.
Because there’s some old lady in your community who has been gardening and observing wildlife for 40 years who is somehow running a sprawling native plant gardening organization and providing everyone else in your town with seeds and random produce, and she has a library’s worth of knowledge absorbed from reading every book and talking to every guy who has any experience about plants, and this old lady has 87 close friends who are somehow involved in every local governmental department and private organization and business, and if she can’t answer your question herself, she will be able to hand you a little scrap of note paper with the name of the exact person you need to talk to. She doesn’t have an email address
Gen Z seems to regard “having connections” as a bad thing and a way of cheating your way into opportunities that you don’t deserve
In reality, it’s “opportunities” and “deserve” that indicates something deeply wrong and dysfunctional with our society. Outside of the numerous artificial competitive scenarios we are placed in where we strive against others to perform the ideal persona of worthiness as a human being, “having connections” is just how things get done.
Same with “being a Karen.” Taking out your petty frustrations on a powerless retail worker is one thing, summoning every ounce of Upstanding Member Of Society in your middle aged white woman body to rend asunder the guy who approved of bulldozing a wetland is another
Someone pointed out a thing recently, about how the Environmental Movement or whatever the term was, the cause about improving the world was essentially suborned in the past decade.
That it used to be about fighting specific evils and fixing specific problems, and people would make actual efforts and drives and we’d see progress or feel losses, but we’d have a measurable thing.
And then somewhere in the past ten years, even more in the past five, it’s been turned into this vaguely political thing. Where the concern is vague and goals are as well, where progress isn’t even a measurable thing…
and in return, there’s no actual progress made, because there’s nothing that can specifically be DONE, just raising an attitude of dissatisfaction.
And your position, as an ‘activist’ is not to effect change, but to yell and BE UPSET and be ANGRY. Someone else STOLE things from you, in a vague and not specific way, and you DESERVE BETTER, in also a vague and not specific way, and because of that you can continue doing the exact same things you’ve always done but you’ve been a good Activist.
And with that shift also came a very visible hate for the older section of the community. With all communities, really. The people who work to change things and make things BETTER suddenly became the enemy because ???? reasons?
And I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy by bad people to work AGAINST things that need to be done, but it very much seems in no uncertain terms that the people pushing for this don’t want the new generation to know how to make anything better, just to know how to be mad and follow orders. And to hate anyone who might know how to do anything that makes a difference.
The people who really aggressively NEED you to know that Studies™ have proven that porn addiction is IMPOSSIBLE always have cum dripping out of their ears.
While the left and right wings fought each other over who makes the worst memes, a third evil rose from the depths and conquered the world unchecked: weebs
life becomes so beautiful when you start cooking rice in liquids other than water
put that basmati rice in the cooker with coconut cream and chicken stock and an entire onion that you’ve diced and sauteed with garlic until transparent. and some salt and pepper. Trust me
“Uncle Benadryl’s one minute rice” one minute what? awake? left to live?
i get that i can expect to see the “unreality” tag a lot on my stuff. i post a lot of weird eldritch shit and even when i post something that isn’t it’s still deeply steeped in my nonsense.
but i’m fucking losing my mind at how even my posts that are correct and true will be tagged that. fatal incuriosity is inescapable when you’re me.
my “a coin is a three sided object. never forget that.” post earned an unreality tag at one point
i’m sorry but maybe you’re not the best watchdog for what’s real and what isn’t, champ. i think being the arbiter of reality requires at least a basic understanding of 3d space.
tumblr users experiencing “unreality”
i once posted the south up map in here and someone tagged it unreality… buddy that’s the earth……..
