25, she/her, sometimes I think about how my icon is a painting I did based off of a baby picture of my cousin and I don't know if he's even on tumblr but man wouldn't it be weird to be scrolling on here and see an unflattering picture of yourself at age 1 or whatever as someone's icon? Anyway
The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper
Like… i have to make sure my meals are nutritionally balanced… i have to make sure that the space i occupy is big enough, and interesting enough, and provide enrichment to make up for the lack of novelty… i have to make sure i get exercise… i’m not qualified for this
crazy that all those 13 year old girls clocked dan and phil so hard. like mustve been intensely fucked up and invasive etc etc but so crazy that 13 year old girls worldwide were like those men are secretly gayandinlove and they literally were
i think the reason the internet feels hostile and unhinged so much of the time is bc when people agree with something online they do it silently, by liking and sharing or even just reading it and thinking “yeah true” and moving on, esp when the sentiment being undersigned is just very clearly common sense/decency and doesn’t need further explication
but those silent nods of agreement are invisible to everyone else, even the likes and shares are very easy for your eyes to skim over when you’re looking at the engagement on a given post or article, they’re just numbers listed under it
on the flip side, its the few people with the bad faith/bigoted/contrarian takes who usually feel the need to comment, which is so much more likely to catch your eye and make an impact on you because its Words and not only that but Inflammatory Words
so a lot of the time someone will post a good or common opinion and 98% of people who read it are like “oh yeah of course i agree” and either don’t feel the need to engage at all or do so in a very quiet, anonymous, wordless way
but because its the internet that 2% of readers who are shitty or unhinged or acting in bad faith are able to create a comments section that is dozens of dumbass takes long that leaves you, the reader, with the impression that everyone else who read the thing is a huge asshole and that the internet and/or species is going to shit
Once on IMDB I saw a “goof” which was that during a scene set in India(?), the light flicker was at the wrong frequency (in hertz). I wish I knew what movie it was to show you guys, I want to say it was some Marvel shit.
I always wondered how this person knew that. Was there an amazing Indian electrician who just instinctively felt the flicker rate was off? Did they go frame by frame and count the flickers per second?
