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“I had a room to myself as a kid, but my mother was always quick to point out that it wasn’t my room, it was her room and I was merely permitted to occupy it. Her point, of course, was that my parents had earned everything and I was merely borrowing the space, and while this is technically true I cannot help but marvel at the singular damage of this dark idea: That my existence as a child was a kind of debt and nothing, no matter how small, was mine. That no space was truly private; anything of mine could be forfeited at someone else’s whim.”  ― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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Columbia University protest suppression, 4.30.24

What in the fanfic hell is this?? 😂😂

so my apartment building got a notice board to post fire alarm tests and maintenance announcements and such. the building is pretty well-maintained, so we rarely get notices. the board is big and grey and to think it would be empty like that 99% of the time was a bland boring sin i just couldn't bear, so i vandalized the corner of its empty canvas with a teeny tiny Guy

and within a few days, there was a sudden addition from my one of my neighbors along with a Bunch of thumbtacks. this was an unexpected, but welcome surprise!

well there was still so much space, i figured i'd add another crumb to the art hoard. i'd been playing genshin that day so i drew my favorite grandpa

and like clockwork, new art manifested!! this person is gonna grow to be a great artist i know it. the detail in those stones? hell yeah that's cool.

we're two weeks into it. more neighbors have joined in with their artwork. who knew there were so many artists in my building?? we're onto somethin great here i just know it.

Hey, I try to not to post here anymore, but do by accident sometimes. Go to fuckyeahemmett-blog.tumblr.com for my real blog, which I haven’t changed the graphic design of since I selected a template over a decade ago...

I just wanted to let everybody know the Kissinger Death Tontine is a thing. idk when it's gonna happen, but it has to be within the next few years, right?

I was wondering if anyone knew a way to get in contact with people from Iran my friend lives their and I'm so worried about her and I have no way of contacting her we communicated through whatsapp but as we know iran has restricted whatsapp and instagram and other apps I just want to know If she's okay any help would be appreciated greatly

Dear anon, I feel you, I know how difficult this situation is, how anxious you must feel.

I can reach my friends via Telegram. I've heard Signal is safe and encrypted as well.

But I'm not a tech wizard. Please, can anyone help anon with more ideas and ways to contact friends in Iran! ?

i’ll say it til the cows come home but as undeniably strange as the star wars prequels are, george lucas’ direction with anakin was downright fucking inspired. people were waiting for whatever badass backstory lucas was sure to give them, awaiting a naturally intimidating actor with rogueish charm to be cast, waiting for this masterpiece of badass villainy or whatever, and george lucas is like no, no, i’ve got you. and then he finds the one man on the planet who looked babier than baby mark hamill and says, “his main personality trait will be being weird and awkward, secondary personality trait loving his wife, tertiary personality trait being incredibly good at murder, and all of these traits will do battle on the silver screen for three movies until they all win in possibly the worst way.” that fucking rules. george lucas could’ve done anything with darth vader and he willingly, enthusiastically chose mentally unstable college student who is somehow married but his only friend is his kind-of dad. that fucking rules, top down, that’s fucking exquisite. if you don’t think that premise is inherently entertaining you’ve got no taste

Look at how fluffy the sky looks!

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the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!

it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.

and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.

making things improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.

take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.

Fuck this

cdc has updated its guidelines! please die for our profits, loyal citizens!

Just posting this because people can't seem to get the fucking difference.

What feminism is: I think that women should be allowed to have the same opportunities as men and to be treated with the same respect while also not putting down other women who choose to be traditional as long as it isn't hurting them or me. I also think that women shouldn't be slutshamed for choosing to do sex work or dressing in revealing clothing, or owning their beauty/sexuality. But, they also shouldn't be treated as just a sex symbol since there is more to a woman than their looks.

What it isn't: Kill all men. Trans people bad. Man bad. Sexy woman bad. Big boobs bad. Bisexual and pansexual bad. Non binary bad.

Radfems and being “sex/kink critical”

Radfems will use any kind of sexual content that makes you uncomfortable to introduce you to terrible sex negative rhetoric and we don’t talk about it enough. Statistically, everyone is going to have something that would make them uncomfortable sexually. But that doesn’t mean it’s a societal or moral failing when those things exist and that we all must rally against them.

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i hate celebrities i hate extreme wealth i hate designer clothes i hate celeb magazines i hate celebrity social media i hate private airplanes i hate closet tours i hate nepotism babies i hate celebrity weddings i hate red carpets i hate celebrity birth announcements and gender reveals i hate celebrity worshippers i hate

big fan of situations where nobody gets hurt 

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Hey New Followers and old,

I don't update my art nearly as often as I should, and because I didn't know how tumblr works when I first made my account, I have different blogs for different stuff. If you want to see all of my micro-blogging and the majority of my tumblr activity, go to this URL: http://fuckyeahemmett.tumblr.com

Thank you for your time. Love!

I may recrop this afterwards. It's an illustration in black ink on a rather odd parchment of the artist Colin McMullan with onions on his face. 2009

A portrait of Charlie Chaplin, dynamic player of silent film, standing before a church in London.

Spring 2009