Passive Enthusiasm

How it feels to be a spirk shipper

while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.

you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

me, adding a new tag to my block list: I’m so glad my beloved mutual has discovered a new source of joy

I can never leave Tumblr because after years of sporadic therapy utterly failed to even approach the core of my problem some random tumblr user was like “I processed my trauma by writing a 10,000 word work of filthy fanfic erotica” and I was like “fuck it I’ve tried everything else” and now I’m 17 chapters and 20,000 words deep into an unpublishable work of obscenity and after careful literary analysis with one of the Beloved Mutuals I have come to some Terrible Revelations about my childhood and may now continue the process of Healing. Where else am I supposed to get this kind of experience. Who does this. Why are we like this. I’m never leaving. I love y’all.

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

if you dont like bush you literally dont deserve to fuck

I included this in today's patreon post as an encouraging little art joke, but on second-thought I think it should be preached to the masses.

love and light to the dan and phil girlies that was never my bag but i was fully under the impression that they admitted to being in a relationship like multiple years ago. honestly i thought they were married

The best part about turning 30 was, legitimately, unlocking the ability to use this image

They're selling bush on temu

THE INNOCENTS (1961)
THE OTHERS (2001)
CRIMSON PEAK (2015)
THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947)
THE VVITCH (2015)
THE BLOOD ROSE (1970)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)
THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969)
THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK (1962)
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946)