#say uwu?

[0sbrain]

alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases

zepeto

making edits of your favorite character

searching "dress up game" on the app store

learning how to draw

#anti ai #“but im an uwu soft bean and i don't know how to draw” #then learn? #you know you can create right you are capable of more than just “consuming” #im not saying you need to train to be the best artist in the world or that you need to pursue a future in the art industry #you don't need to be perfect you just need to try #that feeling of needing things done right now only works to alienate you from the labor behind the things you love

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

#i can't believe i have to say this #the conservative party is legit like ''is it anything good? okay we hate it.'' #''lets kill lgbt people and ummmmm school children shouldnt be able to read they should be at home watching jordan peterson :)" #the fact that it's like all related is. wild. #like it's wild bc if u start being like. actually making it impossible to afford housing is part of how they keep the nuclear family..... #it's just like lines connecting to lines. EXCEPT ITS OBVIOUS? #what's wild to me about most conspiracy theorists is that they're like . ohhhh the govt is hiding shit!!!!!!! they don't want u to know!!! #and im like. this old man literally got up on stage and said he hates public education and will let our kids die before taking away ak-47s #and ppl are like: lol thats just bob's sense of humor he didn't mean it literally uwu

[tackypies]

every time i think about how people steal wyll's romantic gestures + desire to have a family + everything they gush about in their mega ooc fluff headcanons for their white men but absolutely refuse to engage with wyll in any way bc he's just the token black character to them

#i also feel this way about people who call lae'zel “hot githyanki bae who steps on me uwu” and never talk about the rest of her personality. #tacky talks #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #drives me fucking insane tbh that everyone hc's gale as having kids when like. he says in that one convo #uhhhh idk [50/50 noises] #the best dad is right THERE #it's WYLL. IT'S WYLL. HE WANTS KIDS SO BADLY. HE'S RIGHT TH

[tagerrkix]

#great choice beelzebub! #aw man I always liked this meme #glad I finally got to draw my own version uwu #would you believe me if I told you it was gleafer's recent comic that inspired me to do this 👉👈 #well it was #if you know you know #if you don't then ignore this 👁️👁️ #azirah the terrah *wheeze* #yea I don't really have anything more to say #I just had this irresistable urge to write azirah the terrah at least once in my life #now it's twice #bahahaha #*yeets myself out the window and flies to alpha centauri* #ineffable bureaucracy #good omens beelzebub #good omens gabriel #good omens #good omens fanart #good omens memes

[sheep-turtles-and-pizza]

WHAT IF!! The ancestors of the Hamato clan didn't accept April...?

#What did you say to my hundred grand grand daughter!??! #fee art #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #comic #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #rottmnt april #I can totally see Gram gram from behind scream #gram gram already valid April #UWU #april x tmnt #rottmnt leopril

[spartanlocke]

every time i say tumblr staff (and tumblr itself let's be real) made social media worse by never punishing harassment, allowing people to get comfortable pushing cancel and callout culture so they could harass and dehumanize anyone (especially minorities) they want without ever having to worry about consequences, an attitude they brought with them to other websites like tiktok and twitter after the 2018 porn ban....

This is what I'm talking about. tumblr staff doesn't give a shit if you're stalked and harassed, but if you're a trans woman posting selfies? instant ban.

tumblr staff has NEVER done anything to protect its users, but now they're actively participating in doing the harm.

#jem blogs #tumblr #staff #transphobia #social media #and if all that shit isn't annoying enough i now have to constantly hear about how tumblr Is The Only Good Website Now™ #like no the FUCK it's not #tumblr's been harassing people for fucking ages and now staff is *openly* jumping in on it too #stop trying to revisionize tumblr into your perfect uwu website and acknowledge the bullshit going on right now #and no i'm not saying tumblr invented callout culture obviously the act of digging up dirt on someone to punish them is nothing new #i just say that on the internet? i have pretty good reason to belive tumblr's been doing that longer and more actively than other websites #john green and xkit guy being two of the oldest examples of people being accused of being predators/pedos with no evidence #and having to leave the website to protect themselves

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

we’re only 3 episodes in but buddy daddies is already superior to lots of shows in the childcare genre by letting the child character have tantrums and be annoying to her guardians sometimes and say she needs to go pee at literally the worst moment rather than just being a cutesy moe blob designed to induce baby fever

#iirc the series writer said in an interview that theyre basing parts of the show off of their own experiences as a parent #and like!! you can tell #miri is loud and has a short attention span and throws tantrums bc thats what lil kids do!!! #ppl who hate buddy daddies bc miri isnt 'uwu kawaii' but 'too loud' and 'anoying' just say youve never spent time around kids b4 #buddy daddies #og post //

[hedonicghost]

if i had a nickle every time the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is referenced in this game i'd have AT LEAST 5 nickles. i love it so much

#honkai star rail #stelle hsr #trailblazer hsr #screwllum #screwllum hsr #🔪 #scritch #literally i was so upset when he didn't immediately reference 42 #BUT THEN HE HIT US WITH IT!!!!!!!!!! YEAHHHH!!!!!! SAY THE LINE!!!!!!!! #anyway its only on brand for us to make our first fanart for a source something stupid as hell <3 #(( also hi tumblr.... sorry we havent been drawing....... yknow how it is....... we miss u uwu......... )) #hsr fanart

[icedlava1]

People need to start drawing sassy Tomas HAJDHJSHFJDKD

#No more ‘’soft bio uwu’ tomas. we need unhinged sassy tomas #The reason tomas is so nice is because he knows when to bite his tongue HAHAHAHDJHD #like if tomas wasn’t so nice he would say this to bi han #mortal kombat 1 #mortal kombat #mk1 #mk1 fanart #mk1 smoke #smoke mk1 #mk1 tomas vrbada #tomas vrbada #mk1 sub zero #sub zero mk1 #mk1 bi han #bi han #jay art #my art

[b1dl0]

shy

#ultrakill #fanart #gabriel #hoping it’s my last drawing at hospital uwu #i meant to say shame but colors are kinda friendly so be shy ig

[lexosaurus]

guuys i have a crazy danny phantom au i hope u all hear m e out

okay plz prepare yourselves

(god im so nervous to say this)

so, i was thinking:

danny phantom au where danny fucking dies

#danny phantom #quality content #i hope u guys dont hate me for saying this #uwu

[dragonbee259]

Piping Hot Take For The Newest Episode:

#animation vs minecraft #avm green #avm tsc #avm red #avm yellow #avm blue #avm #I hate how people are starting to villainize the CG just to #make Green out to be this UwU sad hurt baby #for god’s sake they clearly DID try to save the concert when they distracted the silverfish #and even if they did brush off Green near the end #they were at least trying to salvage the concert #I’m not saying Green wasn’t screwed over #but maybe don’t blame the characters for the writers turning Green into a punching bag #also people painting Purple as this savior who is the only one who cares about Green #It’s giving 2010s BL (negative) #I’m not even against making angst over this #but to act like Green has nobody and the world and his friends just don’t care about him #is absolute bullshit #rant post #this is the first time this fandom has actually pissed me off

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

It’s almost surprising that the mandalorian puts very little effort into depicting Din as an honorable mercenary- his reception is generally that of wholesome dad, but the canon is explicit about him not vetting his targets or his clients, and not caring enough to do so. He changes his mind eventually in the face of a literal baby, but he was fully prepared to do people trafficking for imperials, he generally kills without a flinch, and he says outright to his bounty in tbobf that he doesn’t care who hired him or why, and then... literally delivers a head on a plate, after killing a room full of slaughterhouse workers. That’s... not even between the lines. What did that guy actually do? He clearly has some compassion, and is frequently moved by the people he interacts with, but that’s juxtaposed with his ‘cool’ violence that barely makes an effort to be palatable.

That concession to palatability mostly being that the majority of the people he indiscriminately shoots at in the course of handing over people to anyone who has a grievance and also money, or whenever really, are non human, and the humans he does kill tend to be imperials. and also that whenever he’s in a room with other bounty hunters he comes off better than them because they have no honor(tm). Normally I would maybe say it was bad faith to look at the aliens he killed when he first took Grogu, or the aliens he killed when he infiltrated that imperial facility and there were local “pirates” trying to destroy the explosives they were transporting (but not steal, despite being “pirates”)(knowing the locals were discontented with imperial presence), but when it’s in the text that he doesn’t think too hard about his work or his kills, and no vetting is involved, well.

This is less present in season three for Din, but Axe was much the same.

#salt #i am in a mood #the mandalorian #this has been in my head for a while but now it's coming out #i put salt but this isn't even really salt like... #i like anti-heroes #they don't make me uncomfortable #but it does make me uncomfortable when reception is that oh they are innocent uwu i guess #that's where i feel like ................... -_- #coming up next maybe: what i really want to say about andor

[lepusrufus]

I love how so many dps/tank mains don't get that the best survival strategy is being nice to your supports because not only do we walk around with a god complex of the "You're not allowed to die until I say so" variety but we're also petty as all fuck and frankly care about stubbornly not healing that one rude teammate far more than we care about winning

#people saying support mains are uwu bbs never touched support in their life lmao #no we actually want to commit war crimes #overwatch

[huoyd]

I made him better

#scott pilgram #lucas lee #scott pilgram vs the world #scott pilgram takes off #im just saying #you can be buff and round #the two are not mutually exclusive #uwu

[spencer-is-dead]

Dad and son

#Nearly incomprehensible posts #Hololive #mori calliope #kobo kanaeru #Sobbing she made her say uwu