The Secret To Life Is Always Having Something To Look Forward To

The fujoshevik keeps commissioning socialist realist paintings of sweaty men in factories and cosmonauts holding each other tenderly

had a dream that there was this new tiktok trend called "scrubbing" where people would take images of fictional characters and put them in images of bathtubs and drag around transparent pngs of soap and brushes with their tiktok art tablets and like liquify tool their hair down to mimic giving them a shower. and people would get into flamewars in the comments of every single video over the types of soap they picked and if the images had decently removed backgrounds and if they got soap in their eyes. and it got onto the news because it turned out everyone doing the trend was doing it compulsively like they physically couldn't stop and each video was a solid few minutes long because they were just collectively obsessively recording themselves fake-showering these fictional characters and arguing about it online

so few people understand the art of the pseudo nap

[Notice]

The manga "Mo Dao Zu Shi" will be on hiatus and won't be released on December 26th and January 9th, 2025. Chapter 6 is scheduled to be released on January 23rd, 2025.

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Been reading a lot of history lately and I'm having complicated feelings about, like, standards of living in the present.

We eat food that only kings and nobility could once afford. We have stopped fearing diseases that used to destroy entire families at once. We have complicated hobbies, many so intricate that they are impossible to describe to someone who doesn't already know about them. We live in luxury by the standards of most of history.

And yet, we're still stuck with many of the same fears as the lowest of peasants always had. Can I afford food? Will my lord's decision, made regardless of my opinion on the matter, bring war and famine and ruin? Will a new and unpredictable illness appear and take those I love most?

Luxuries and powerlessness combined in a way they've rarely been before

There's something... interesting? sad? about that line of thoughts, I think

ok. ok. I'm thinking about the ways I could still communicate with my mutuals if my fate is to be shadowbanned. I think even if I delete this blog and make a new one it will be banned in less than a month to because apparently they may just be banning all people with russian ID...

Maybe I just will reblog things with tags and people who care enough could be just checking my blog sometimes to see if I reblogged their stuff or something? The most problem is that the only way we can communicate now is through the tags; no dms, no asks and no comments are available... I have a Telegram btw. I'll try to get a Discord since I've seen some of you have it but I'm not sure if it's available for people from my country.

I do not want to give up that easily but honestly I don't have many ideas... I really like you all. I want to chat, to discuss things and to communicate! I don't care about popularity, but I do care about preserving my connection with all the cool people I met here (•ˋ _ ˊ•)

So about that definitely real TikTok trend huh. Call that 蓝洗臣 amiriteeeee

Sponge and washcloth pngs are from clnclm; shampoo is from furby-swag; everything else I transparented myself lmao. Shoutout to irrealisms, spiritunwilling, and coldwind-shiningstars for finding the small towel, the Irish Spring soap, and the Spring Breakup soap respectively

Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)