Talkin about Tumblrs, man

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  • edited 2013-06-30 00:19:50
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Yarrun said:

    Helvetica, of course, would be Superman. A feature so prominent in its field that no one really knows how to properly use it anymore.

    That is perfect.

    Also: I'm not as big a fan of Helvetica as I once was, and honestly Arial isn't really that much worse, but it irritates me that thanks to Microsoft, the ripoff has become more widespread in internet/computer contexts than the original.

    A bit like Oreo and Hydrox.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Also, semi-relevant:

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  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    Yarrun said:


    A bit like Oreo and Hydrox.
    ...?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Hydrox came first; Oreo was introduced four years later but ended up becoming more popular, to the point where people often assume Oreo was the original and Hydrox was the knockoff.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yarrun said:

    Well, I think we can all agree that Alfred would be Baskerville Old Face.

    not Mrs Eaves? :P
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    Hydrox came first; Oreo was introduced four years later but ended up becoming more popular, to the point where people often assume Oreo was the original and Hydrox was the knockoff.

    Looking them up now, I'm really disappointed that I never got to try any. A tangier, sweeter filling sounds nice...
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Anonus said:

    Yarrun said:

    Well, I think we can all agree that Alfred would be Baskerville Old Face.

    not Mrs Eaves? :P
    Oooooh, I like that!
  • grunge fonts da bess
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    omg rrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy? :o

    XD
  • the best font (*NSFW*)

    that font looks like

    *checks to see if parents are watching*

    penis
  • Mrs. Eaves can also work
    “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing ‘we’ can do — but who is that ‘we’? — and nothing ‘they’ can do either — and who are ‘they’ — then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
    — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (via eibmorb)
    Not the intended purpose of this quote, but I think this explains why Tumblr acts the way it does
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yarrun said:

    Mrs. Eaves can also work

    “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing ‘we’ can do — but who is that ‘we’? — and nothing ‘they’ can do either — and who are ‘they’ — then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
    — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (via eibmorb)
    Not the intended purpose of this quote, but I think this explains why Tumblr acts the way it does
    I got that from Sociolab, which is arguably the best social justice-focused blog that I have yet seen.
  • edited 2013-06-30 00:45:45

    Sociolab, which is arguably the best social justice-focused blog that I have yet seen.


  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    And I only found it because you mentioned it in a post about good Tumblogs in this very thread.

    *peck on the cheek*

    Thank you, as always.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    So, Ohio governor Jon Kasich is an awful person. Not exactly breaking news on that front, but the law in question certainly is.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'd just like to point out that John Kasich didn't even receive a majority of votes when he was elected. That's how much we don't like him either.

    Also:
    hey guess what fuck you ohio
    Fuck you too, blogger who generalizes all of us based on a few powerful assholes.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Hey, I felt resentful when some loons here in Colorado decided they wanted to secede

    So clearly all of us want to secede

    (though from what I know, outside of the Denver area, Colorado is pretty much a red state...heck, Focus on the Family's based in Colorado Springs!)
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus said:

    (though from what I know, outside of the Denver area, Colorado is pretty much a red state...heck, Focus on the Family's based in Colorado Springs!)
    That's fairly typical, no? Big metropolitan areas tend to be blue and rural areas tend to be red, and AFIAK Colorado doesn't really have any big cities besides Denver...
  • image

    And that, children, is why you don't ever ever click the "random" button on Dirty Disney Confessions.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Sadly, you are not yet old enough for me to tell you to take that to the NSFW section where it belongs.

    That said... things like that are exactly why you should always click the "random" button on that blog.


    I'd just like to point out that John Kasich didn't even receive a majority of votes when he was elected. That's how much we don't like him either.

    Also:

    hey guess what fuck you ohio
    Fuck you too, blogger who generalizes all of us based on a few powerful assholes.
    I was thinking the exact same thing.

    Of course, I bet that a lot of Texans feel the same way about their terrible legislature.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I feel like i need to take a shower after reading that. Ewww.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    Dirty Disney Confessions
    oh goodness that blog
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Kexruct said:

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    And that, children, is why you don't ever ever click the "random" button on Dirty Disney Confessions.
    >>Implying browsing it in a logical direction nets any better results.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    This post is just fantastic. Again, kudos to Pangur Bán for reblogging this.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^ I assume that you are referring to the conversation immediately above me rather than the post that I linked...
  • Getting really tired of all the Macklemore hate on my dash. I don't exactly like the song Same Love, but despite being slow and boring, it still seems very genuine. And it bothers me that people are willing to dismiss it entirely based off of one line.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Kexruct said:

    Getting really tired of all the Macklemore hate on my dash. I don't exactly like the song Same Love, but despite being slow and boring, it still seems very genuine. And it bothers me that people are willing to dismiss it entirely based off of one line.

    It's accidental racist all over again!
  • ...no it's not. It's not even close.
  • well, first of all, Same Love is older than Accidental Racist so that doesn't even make any sense.

    second of all, no.

  • For one thing, Accidental Racist is about as disingenuous as it gets.
  • For another thing, Accidental Racist is corny as fuck.

    I'm serious, it made me cringe the first time I listened to it.
  • there are people it didn't make cringe?
  • edited 2013-07-07 09:28:38
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I just wrote a short essay about why political art has an obligation to be weird and shocking.

    I didn't mean to. It just kind of happened.
  • The sadness will last forever.
    I've gotten bored and a bit sick of Tumblr.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    ^^ I liked it. :)
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Miko said:

    ^^ I liked it. :)

    Thank you!
  • I just wrote a short essay about why political art has an obligation to be weird and shocking.


    I didn't mean to. It just kind of happened.
    I disagree with your points but it's well-written.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Mo' said:

    I just wrote a short essay about why political art has an obligation to be weird and shocking.


    I didn't mean to. It just kind of happened.
    I disagree with your points but it's well-written.
    How so?
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Please note before you say anything that I understand that pop music can be subversive by dint of its use of popular forms to make a point via the whole "conform to deform" premise, but that's thorny territory and not what I was addressing there. Rather, I was talking about the self-proclaimed vanguard and the preachiness of political art that does not seek to be as radical in form as it is in content.
  • I disagree with the idea that art has to be radical in form to be radical in content without being contradictory.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I didn't say that such art was contradictory; I stated that, for the purposes of being "radical art," it is insufficient.
  • This assumes that art must intentionally be radical for it to be radical.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I wasn't talking about unintentionally radical art. If a piece of art is simply self-evidently revolutionary without aiming to incite, then it falls outside the purview of the statement. I am referring here to art that explicitly aims to inspire revolutionary, anti-hegemonic sentiments—explicitly political art.
  • See I don't like that idea more or less solely because it discounts a lot of Killer Mike's work (and I'm sure much other socially-conscious southern rap that I'm not personally familiar with).
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    That's an interesting counterpoint: If something is worthwhile as art and radical in content but not necessarily radical in form, does it fail as radical art per se?

    I would say that depends. It can still be important and have an impact without being "pure"—and purity is for madmen and fools anyway—but that doesn't mean that it couldn't go further as a comprehensive statement. Again, form is just as powerful a way of "sticking it to the man" as saying "screw this." My point was really that all too often form is ignored in favour of content without the recognition of that power.

    To put it another way: Hearing something that you have never heard before sticks with you. If a work of art is too staid in form and execution, the content is irrelevant because there is nothing that sticks with you. It is simply another sculpture, another pop song.
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