I havent updated this in at least three years i realized. Im fukcing 22 now and im still on this hellsite but gdi being anywhere is an accomplishment. Meg, 22, bi, and i have no coherent interests so if you are here for something in particular THINK AGAIN
i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.
when i travel i like to take hilariously bad pictures of common tourist things, because anyone can take a nice picture of them, so i’d rather take a shitty one i can laugh at later
here’s this
continuing:
Can I play, too?
I’m howling
this explains the tourists i saw taking a picture of a picture of edinburgh castle outside tesco instead of idk going to edinburgh castle 10 minutes away
This belongs here:
everyone please look at all the images in the replies of this post im dying i had no idea other people were as dumb as me
A rat eating from a trash can with the eiffel tower in the background
In love with this random guy who had a lock slapped on his storage unit for not paying its rental and not only did he ignore management and took his stuff out without paying, but also chose to steal the lock itself and send it to the LockPickingLawyer along with a confession letter
People always focus on the “lockpicking” part of his name and ignore that the lockpicking lawyer is, indeed, a lawyer, and can tell you exactly which crimes you committed in getting this lock to him
[Image description. The first image is a frame from a Lockpicking Lawyer video and shows hands holding a round, red padlock. The captions say: “your only legal option is to go pay your bill and have management remove the lock.”
The second image is more of the captions, and reads: “Jon however chose a different route.”
The third image shows a larger portion of the previous quote: “Jon however chose a different route involving at least four felonies.” End ID.]
One of the paradoxes of the modern internet is that I genuinely understand sites need to get revenue somewhere, and while I don’t love ads I’m actually okay seeing relatively unintrusive ads on a free site, hearing words from sponsors, etc.
But the modern internet is so full of modal popups and video ads on autoplay and trackers that using it without an adblocker is basically impossible, so everything gets blocked.
i want my shows one episode followed by a whole ass week of going a little insane over it with the people on my phone, writing fics theorizing and going over every single scene through amazing gifs and meta, before the next ep drops and the cicle begins anew
speak louder
It’s also contributing to the overall stagnation of writing. Binging isn’t conducive to analysis.
Binging and whole season drops also seem to be a bit hard on fandoms and fan content creation.
Looking at eg. House of the Dragon last year, which spaced out 10 episodes over 10 weeks (that is 2 ½ months) and the fandom content production and fandom discussions over multiple platforms were so high! It gave fans time to speculate, to produce and to wait for. It held the anticipation high and invigorated the fandom over a long time.
But Netflix (or other streaming services) when they drop a whole season in one go? I feel yes, many fans will watch it. But the vibe is very different. And there will be discussions and fan content, but I feel it is not necessarily good for a fandom in the long run. The built-up does not carry these fandoms as long for “casual” fans and will not bring the same influx of new fans and new content to those fandoms. And that is sad for fan spaces in my opinion.
It’s not just fandom. When I teach popular culture, I also mention how binge culture is destroying the social function of shows.
In the traditional broadcasting structure, you have an episode a week at a set time - you sit down and you watch it, maybe make a family thing out of it. The next day you go to work, and your coworkers have seen the episode too, and you talk about it - because a tv show is a safe topic (not political, not too personal), so you have something to bond over/socialize.
But when a whole season drops at the same time… You either force yourself to binge it, turning your schedule upside down, or you watch it in bits, risking to fall behind. Say a popular show drops a season on a Saturday. On Monday at work, there will be people who haven’t started it, people who are half-through, people who have finieshed it… Mix with the fear-of-spoilers culture, suddenly this point of bonding becomes restricted, even eradicated.
It’s also destroying show production. These days if a season isn’t binged in the first week — fully, completed, watched all the way through in THE FIRST WEEK — it doesn’t get renewed. There’s no opportunity for shows to grow legs and catch on. Netflix would’ve canceled The X-Files. Netflix would’ve canceled so many classic shows that were allowed to find their audience gradually.
Bingeing shows used to be fun because you were catching up with an existing fandom and there werent that many things to constantly binge because itd be split up by regular watching of other shows. Now the whole fandom has to binge immediately before they can talk about even the first episode it and it becomes exhausting to keep up with.
