Jenn here. Ugh. My mom just walked in on me during a past life regression. I was crawling around the floor slowly. She asked me what I was doing and I told her that she wouldn’t understand. She kept pressing and I told her I was experiencing past life regression. I told her about how I was a tortoise in my past life and about my tortoise memories. I ended up coming out as otherkin to her and had to explain what that meant. She got angry and told me to “grow up” and fill out some job applications online.
I don’t even know why she would tell me to fill out job applications when I’m going to be moving soon. I can’t wait to move. I am so sick of living with a bigotted alcoholic mother who is afraid of what she doesn’t understand.
mod people with a good taste in avatars, like me. but don't mod me, just people like me
deleteddeletedover 11 years ago
let's not talk about tumblr because i get frustrated knowing some insecure teenager is going to find it and try to find self-worth in pretending that they are pikachu in their soul instead of facing reality
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deleteddeletedover 11 years ago
it feeds the need for people in societal out groups to feel accepted but the agendas of the groups couldnt be more different. the tumblr userbase isn't out to start trouble for the sake of starting trouble
Yeah, the requirements are different, but the overall outcome is the same. And when Tumblr dies and something new takes over, that'll have the same dynamic too. It's what the internet feeds.
i don't see "tumblr" as a community at all because it's such a huge website that encompasses so many different people who use blogs and tumblr as a whole for so many different things and it's really really not hard to keep your tumblr environment (should you choose to have one) completely enclosed and only contain people who are Real, or share your interest
/v/ weren't douchebags to each other in the same way they were to people who weren't accepted though. It's more like the dumb "BANTA" you get from that certain social group irl.
i will say one thing about tumblr and it's that their humor is the most insipid and unfunny garbage ive ever had to read
they become so entangled in self-parody that nobody knows what is a joke anymore, which just becomes a joke in itself
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deleteddeletedover 11 years ago
nah, they were douchebags to one another. it's just that everyone was in on the joke, and therefore not offended by the douchebaggery. it's the reason that things that passed for humor back in 2011 now draw vitriol. it's the reason the community's gone from largely defending the use of the n-word on the forums to largely being against the use of the r-word
