So Much Of Being An Ok Person Is Just 1) Not Panicking, 2) Not Taking Things Personally, And 3) Not Letting

so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things

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abysskisser

5 months ago

as much as i understand being a hater you have to offset that shit with genuine, sincere enjoyment & wonder sometimes lest YOU become the one who is corny. and sad. imo.

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abysskisser

5 months ago

So I am currently knitting the Magical Flying Husband a tube scarf. I like tube scarves, they are thick and warm and soft and flexible. And this one's coming out fairly prettily, too! But I have never made one before, and I am thinking, well, I made this one pretty wide--a solid eight inches across, because I want him to be able to wrap it across his head if necessary and those four-inch-wide trendy tube scarves can't even cover your ears right. So I think, I will Ask the Internet what their opinion is on the perfect length for a tube scarf, and I will make any necessary adjustments from there in light of the width.

And the first result is a useful forum post, and the second result is a useful-ish Reddit post, and the third response is a little spreadsheet, and the fourth response...

the fourth response is this

A clothing sale website with a picture of a smiling blonde woman completely enveloped by a throat-to-ankles-long knitted tube of beige fabric. It is titled "Chunky mohair tube scarf in beige mix" and priced at 299 Euro.

The woman has raised her arms and is utterly consumed by the tube scarf. No part of her body is visible; the tube stretches above her past her fingertips, and only her black boot tops emerge from underneath it.

The woman's face is visible once again; her hands are at her hips, inside the tube, and its fabric angles out like wings around them at both sides.

The woman looks almost directly at the camera, one arm half-thrust behind her and her hip at a jaunty angle, all of that mere suggestion because her body is still within the tube.

I would argue that this is not a scarf

Also I am concerned by the possibility that the smiling human head is there to entice actual mammals closer to the Tube

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abysskisser

5 months ago

Bluesky post by Annie Craton:
A month or so ago I saw a post by someone saying "we should all admit that Neil Gaiman has always been a shitty writer." That whole knee jerk revisionism. No, man, that's part of the whole horror. He's an internationally recognized writer. Objectively a good writer. But he's also a fucking monster.

We have to keep doing this. We have to do this with books and films and games and any meaningful media. Recognize that it's skillfully crafted, recognize the meaning it has to you, and do the terrible math of weighing it against who created it and what they have done.

This is a basic facet of media studies. How do you reconcile the reader's relationship with the work with the author's indelible fingerprints upon the work, and what else those fingers have done? There isn't, has never been, an easy answer. Ease simply does not factor into the equation

We have done this so many times with authors! Within living memory, even. Within this *century,* even. We are still doing a protracted version of this today with Rowling. You must do this work.

The perpetual usage of the "get out of complexity free" card by acting as though you alone have always been woke to this horror by saying that an award-winning, massively influential comic series was Actually Poorly Written is just the most dogshit cowardly move. Worse than "Hatsune Miku wrote this"

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abysskisser

4 months ago

Was Suddenly Moved To Draw A Toony Sort Of Character Design .. But This Is A Bit Too Close To 2013 Tumblr

was suddenly moved to draw a toony sort of character design .. but this is a bit too close to 2013 tumblr sexyman for my own comfort

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abysskisser

4 months ago

Mushroom Playing Keyboard

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mushrooms björk fossora too bad Björk already made her mushroom album

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abysskisser

9 months ago

in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

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abysskisser

10 months ago

Your children's show unfortunately has the absolute wrong take on tackling fascism. Yeah the power of friendship angle is showing a dismal lack of understanding of Marxist theory or even intro-level Leninism. Yeah my only two interests are children's media and online leftist discourse so this is gonna be a problem.

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abysskisser

2 months ago