#but it's just not the same

[prokopetz]

I was hoping that Tumblr’s recent move toward somewhat more permissive content policies would represent a partial return to form, but all of the artists I follow are being so diligent about applying community content tags that I haven’t had even one opportunity to complain about untagged robot dick.

#tumblr #blogging #social media #art #penis mention #plenty of TAGGED robot dick #but it's just not the same

[amiracleilluminated]

suffering because i watched all saw movies and there are no more saw movies to watch

#maybe i'll watch screams #maybe #but it's just not the same

[5s-missing-eye]

Hear me out

John as Homelander

#TELL ME IT'S NOT PERFECT #like #i wish that was his thing in reborn #we only got that little moment where lucas possessed him #but it's just not the same #imagine john actually acting like homelander #like the murders and everything #I'd like him so much more tbh #lorien legacies #i am number four #number four #john smith #the boys #homelander

[psalacanthea]

shopping for perfume-making supplies is always daunting, if for no other reason than some of the oils I want so badly are just so out of the price range I'm willing to pay.

curse my stupid allergies.

#listen I have bought quite a few 'sandalwood alternatives' #including different varietals of sandalwood #none of them are right #it is what it is and in blends the substitutes can work okay #but it's just not the same #don't get me started on the prices of floral oils #I would murder for a decently priced lily of the valley absolute

[voxofthevoid]

My prose will never be as good as the shit my brain throws at me when I'm half asleep at fuck o'clock and telling myself bedtime stories

#then I wake up with vague impressions of WORDS and spend hours stewing in frustration #sometimes I manage to get outlines or lines of dialogue down #but it's just not the same

[rovermcfly]

no but boomers were so real for waiting by the radio for their favourite song and shit like that. I love watching old tv shows on cable when I know an actor I love was in one episode and hoping that maybe today I'm lucky and catch that episode

#like. I know which ep it is. I have access to the ep #but it's just not the same

[thefirstanomally]

Blessed be the little loops at the ends of my backpack, for what would my hands know to do without them while I walk.

#Positivity #I guess sometimes you have pockets #But it's just not the same #T1A Speaks

[memorydragon]

Me, while writing: Is mahjong too new for mdzs canon? *quick research* Yeah, definitely too new.

Also me: Do I want to add it anyway?

#I'm trying to remember what guoshi played in tgcf #but checking is effort #I just want the clicking of tiles #as ambient sound #hm I must consider #will probably go with chinese chess instead #but it's just not the same

[rackartyg]

i like vegetables. i want to eat vegetables. when my food is too beige i get sad. but anything colourful is so expensive this time of year and this year it's even worse, obviously

bwease i just want some fresh broccoli

#she speaks #recessionposting #satisfying my broccoli cravings by making soup from frozen broccoli because a head of fresh broccoli is 14 kronor #but it's just not the same #mum made ... okay so snålröra doesn't have a translation but #basically you take a bunch of veggies put some flavourings on it roast it in the oven and blend it up #mum makes that off of her and dad's kitchen garden harvest every year because when it's fresh there's too much to eat #and it's nice to have when it gets colder and there's no veggies and anyway i was given a bag of it #made pasta with it for lunch #mixed in some frozen spinach #but i want real veggies! that you chew! with colour! that are not carrots! or beetroot! #i miss back in august when the greenhouse grew like five monstrosity zucchinis all at once and my parents foisted one of those on me #and i had zucchini with everything for like a week because it was a desperate race against time before it went bad #now it's just. potato onion carrot. everything is potato onion carrot #something canned. something frozen. once in a blue moon i can have chicken because chicken prices terrify me #milk is the only animal product i refuse to give up on fuck you recession i need milk in my coffee #and eggs. you can pry eggs from my cold dead hands #putting a soft boiled egg in my instant noodles is one of my human rights actually

[magdasabs]

I miss biathlon

me too! can't wait for it to be back

#there is summer biathlon #but it's just not the same

[whaledocboi]

ai generated images make me increasingly sad and tired the more i see them in more and more casual contexts. i dont know how to explain, but it just fills the world with a bunch of nothing. no matter how visually stunning the pictures might be, there's nothing behind it for me. no dedication, no emotions, no feelings, no hard work or creativity, nothing i can truly think about, admire or enjoy. i dont think thats how art is supposed to be

#not to mention ripping off and plagirazing real artists hard work of course #which is a whole other conversation #i cant feel the same love and adoration for whatever the slop machine produces #it will never be the same #im just really tired #anti ai #anti ai art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath. #not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first. #I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*. #Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about. #I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/ #Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight - #The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room! #Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

#my path of self improvement has been less self righteous and personally gainful #and more just. a lot of embarrassment and pain #like i wouldnt change the path i took to get where i am now but i wouldve chosen to travel that path sooner because omg #nothing hits me like the fear that future me will feel the same way about right now me that right now me feels about past tense me

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back. #he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them. #and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him. #your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back. #i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Pomni and Gummigoo reunite in TADC!

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #tadc #tadc pomni #gummigoo #pomni #digital circus #the amazing digital circus #tadc spoilers #tadc fanart #I would like to formally apologize to Pomni #I actually don’t think Gummigoo is dead #especially with Ragatha mentioned Caine reuses NPCs #but I also don’t think it’s the same Gummigoo or he doesn’t remember her #so gonna be so sad if they do meet again and Gummigoo just doesn’t recognize Pomni #Been awhile since I’ve done angst but I saw this comic so clearly I HAD to draw it #sorry to TADC fans 🩵 #IDK if I’ll do mor stand alone TADC content but we’ll see 🙏🏾 #my poor little heart won’t be able to take it if this happens BAHA