Swearing, horrible puns, snopes-sniping, and science. Semifrequent rants on art history and fiction in context. Often sighted on the premises: Indiana Jones. With your host, sentient cube
sometimes you’re out here having severe impostor syndrome because all your friends are super talented and you’re Stuck and then they turn and tell you you’re clearly the only one in the entire group of theater and art people doing insane halloween things correctly.
Honestly? I wish we’d had Facebook or whatever inhuman wasteland this is during WWII so Germans couldn’t cower behind the “we were all seduced by that wicked sorcerer Hitler” excuse and claim there wasn’t a single Nazi in the whole damn country outside of the Führer’s inner circle.
It is these records that are crucial in demolishing the convenient mutually consensual fictions of collective innocence that have fueled so much impunity for atrocity’s lesser agents.
god i wish i wouldn’t have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you’ve been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.
well.
today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year’s trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)
jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven’t even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.
and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they’re part of the lowly proletariat.
i like to imagine the girl in question here, implied by the empty space between open laptop and propped-up pillow, vanished into thin air moments before this photo was taken
i liek to imagine the girl in this photo is an ant LOL
The girl in this photo spontaneously transformed into a pillow. Random cushionification events are no joke. It could happen to you.
I’ve posted a couple entries before but as it’s ongoing, I wanted to link the Gaza Diary project from the Guardian. A person named Ziad is recounting day by day how the family/neighbors are living through the siege in Gaza. It is not pulling any punches, but it’s the sort of thing people mean when they say “Don’t look away”.
It’s really helpful as the death toll mounts to be able to look at stuff like this—it’s a fact that no matter how much sympathy one has, sheer numbers of dead get too big for people not in the midst of it to be able to process. The goal here is to put faces and voices back.
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