Eat Your Hamburgers, Apollo

Iris Wilson 🩷

“Used to be a major scale, but the melody went stale / musical cacophony let isny winsy spider free / you’re a rich little boy who’s had to work for his toys / you’ve got all the sensibilities, oh, of an upper class guy”

~Seventeen, Marina and the diamonds

yuki

sleepy morning😴

that broken doll face trend but make it rose quartz

Dan Da Dan episodes 1-6: A fun anime about teens with sudden supernatural powers. They fight aliens and yokai. Great animation. Dick jokes. Romance leads with great chemistry. A chase scene to a techno remix of the Willhelm Tell overture and the Can Can.

Dan Da Dan episode 7: Hey what the fuck.

Also if you regularly work with kids/teens I cannot stress how important it is that you know someone who's like really into lame emo junk. There was a girl my dad was working with who just flat out refused to talk to adults or anyone at all and one day I was there and I saw her wearing a homemade bracelet that had beads that said YLDNDAHFHHACYCSYCDAYDKK and since I was also once a 14 year old making niche homemade mcr merch I was like "oh my god you like dnd Audrey Hepburn Fangoria Harry Houdini and croquet you cant swim you can't dance and you dont know karate!!!" and she looked at me like I'd said literal magic words and now we talk about music all the time

If you're working with troubled kids you need several people trained in child psychology with godlike levels of patience and at least one person who knows five nights at freddys lore front to back

In these times, I think some of the fandom rules from the 90s still sound good:

-Never get a fandom tattoo

-Don’t engage with the creators, you’re going to be disappointed at best. At best.

i wish every engineer a “try going around your building in a wheelchair”

i wish every app software engineer a “try navigating your app with a screen reader or big text”

I wish every software and hardware company a "try consulting your video guides with the sound off/badly scrambled with AI subs and transcripts"

I wish game designers a "try playtesting your game with a colorblind screen filter"

yuki

drawin the dex collection 5!

During the first Trump administration I saw a disturbing rise in American nationalist tendencies amongst many Democratic Party loyalists but this time I’m really unnerved by how openly racist many people are being, blaming and scapegoating a variety of marginalized groups for not toeing the line and falling into apathy about the election. This is not a good development in the process of fascization in the United States.

I think what we are unfortunately seeing is a broadening of fascist racial politics beyond party lines that blame various groups for society’s intensifying failures. That rarely ends well and I’m deeply concerned that much more people will be radicalized towards genocide in a world that has been getting increasingly genocidal as is.