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♥︎ ADDY ♥︎ @gurobits.bsky.social · 3d

#twilightprincess #tloz #midlink

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 7d

This is not a criticism

I would die for bootleg Seregios

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 7d

I love playing creatures of sonaria because WOW that really is just Seregios huh

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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grilled cheese 🧀 @grilldcheese.bsky.social · 7d

we say "everyone is unique" but you know deep down that you put everyone into a little box in your head and one of those boxes is dumb motherfuckers.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 7d

What is a hot pocket if not man’s cheap imitation of God’s calzone

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 💀 @unfitz.bsky.social · 9d

Missed connection:

I entered the elevator. You were already gone but your lingering perfume made me use my rescue inhaler.

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Trent Cannon (he/him) @trentlcannon.bsky.social · 8d

I would much rather you tell me you are a piece of shit up front so I don't spend time and energy to be friends with you only to find out later.

That is time and energy I won't get back and that could have been spent not being cozy with a shithead.

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 8d

"He should have kept this to himself"

Eh, I'd much rather these shitty people keep outing themselves. Especially in an industry like voice-over where anonymity benefits people who actively think and behave this way, letting them gain a following and a platform until it's too late to do anything.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

It feels like our brains are being actively poisoned and it freaks me out to a degree that I cannot even HOPE to articulate!!

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah.

That one gets me too. ESPECIALLY today.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Genuinely? I think that's it. The lil numbers everywhere on our posts and profiles have people conditioned to make them go up no matter what and by any means necessary

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

FOR REAL

Like do you want the incest-antis anywhere near the brocon spaces? No? Then why the fuck are you harassing them, dipshits

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

If y'all can do nothing else for the Fucking Situation, then at the very least:

The next time you see some art in the wild that you don't understand/makes you a lil uncomfortable at first? Please promise me that you will be kind.

Just

Be kind. I am begging you.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

I could write an essay on how this kind of behavior is doing more than its fair share of choking the life out of art on the internet but I won't

Cuz we all know

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah... Browsing felt like discovery. And the shit you found, no matter how initially strange to you, was real.

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𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎☆レミ @kimbleefucker.bsky.social · Oct 17

some icons i made for me, my bf, and a friend

#fullmetalalchemist #fma #roymustang #edwardelric #solfjkimblee

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

But, sadly, that's to be expected when the whole selling point of the modern internet is "endless entertainment tailored to your tastes always!"

Which is wild when paired with the strategy of selling the labor of private individuals voluntarily contributing to your site as a product but... Anyway..

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Or, if you're really unlucky, you'll get endlessly berated and harassed by someone who grew up with the Corporate Internet and hasn't learned to take not being exclusively catered to in stride, yet.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

It's why it's so hard to create now, honestly.

Because it's depressing as hell to know that no matter what you do or where you go the labors of your soul will eventually be reduced to just another data point on some corporate fuckstick's graph for the quarter.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, me too.

And the word "heartbreaking" really does sum it up, I think.

I think what really gets me is that when the internet made space for those things it was just... The thrill of discovery. You learned things about yourself and your tastes and even just about other PEOPLE. I miss that.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

But I am well aware that, if I host the space? Part of it will always be about me. And I don't want that.

I am tired of that. I am tired of cults of personality, and I am tired of how the fucking internet now seems to function exclusively to make that happen because it sells.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

I don't really know where to go from here, to tell you the truth.

I don't really know if it's possible to create that kind of environment again.

It's not that I wanna re-live the past. Not really. It's just that I think... It's important to have some place to be human and not worry about it.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Part of me really does want to try and fix it.

A big part of me wants to try and be the change and try to put a thumb on the scale (even if it is a very big scale, and I have a very small thumb) but I just

Don't

think

I can

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

Those places and those works are mostly gone, now.

All that creative synthesis just... Up in smoke. Because the shareholders found a way to squeeze just a bit more blood from the stone.

Yeah, I grieve that. I grieve the humanity that was wrung out of the internet because it just wasn't profitable

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

And I miss that. I miss the archives of STUFF built by people for the pleasure of it. I miss exploring interests and fandoms that were full of all varieties of weird art and niche ideas that weren't sanded down to be palatable for anyone else.

I miss how that was equally challenging AND rewarding.

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