One thing that would be cool for people to think about ever: how fucking scary it would actually be to become famous and then suddenly everyone decides you're responsible for basically babysitting your fans. Like, if you're using your position on purpose to incite violence or spread hate or something, that's one thing, but if you're really just trying to exist as your own person, Too Fucking Bad, because when enough people know about you, you are now their property and they get to decide your worthiness of continuing to exist.

I'm pretty sure this has been several Black Mirror episodes, actually.

I don't like the thought of going back to tumblr for anything. But I might have to for some things I need to say that people need to see. I've spent too long being a Floraverse fan enjoying Glip's company and being afraid to say so just because some people might say shitty things about that. And that's also shitty; think about how bad it would hurt if people were attacking you all the time and your friends responded by abandoning you and perhaps even turning actively against you, following the rules set by some faceless bullies that you specifically are not allowed to be liked or supported. Imagine being beaten down like this for literally YEARS when all you were trying to do was live your life and express your own hurt in ways that help people with similar pain realize they don't have to give up.

It's not enough that I never left... it sucks to be restricted by fear, and it sucks to have that get in the way of supporting someone you care about.

would like to buy a Switch at some point, but I wouldn't be able to also afford games for it, so... ???

I wanna feel Wander's heartbeat with my face

My 3DS XL needs a new battery but Nintendo's Amazon store only has original 3DS ones which are not the same and I don't trust random 3rd-party companies I've never heard of... I can get a battery from Nintendo's own website, but the shipping would take longer... or I could go ahead and upgrade to a New 2DS XL... I'd miss the 3D, but also the New 3DS XL costs more and has some quite honestly bullshit design decisions (who in the actual fuck wants to unscrew the entire battery cover just to change the SD card?) But then if I get a new system, then I have to go through the system transfer shit and get all anxious about if I'm doing it in the exact right way to keep my Animal Crossing town and everything else... I don't know why Nintendo makes system transfer be a thing; it just makes me NOT want to buy a new system.

Also I wanna get a Switch BEFORE Pokemon gen 8 comes out because that's gonna be in the fall, which also = Black Friday/Cyber Monday and Christmas, which means expect everywhere to run out of stock...

Recently bought PCStitch and am playing with making patterns.  I am growing powerful...

I guess it's okay if people enjoy these patterns, and I can see how sentimental value can be a factor, but... photos run through a generator Do Not Look Good as cross stitch patterns.  This is because a) the generator has to lower the amount of colors because there literally aren't enough floss colors in existence to match the photo exactly, and b) it doesn't know how to do anything else, so c) it comes out just looking like an extremely low-quality version of itself.

It's possible to use a photo as a base for a beautiful cross stitch, certainly, but it will take some human thinking to put together the appropriate colors and any additional types of stitches that would benefit it (backstitching tends to have an amazing effect on things that use it).  And because of this, it seems to me also that an artistic embellishment of a valuable photo would have more meaning than a straight-up pixellated and shittily-colored copy of the same photo.

ALL RIGHT guys, so we're gonna need to restart savewoygiftexchange.tumblr.com somewhere that isn't tumblr... but where?  Who all's up for helping me out here?

Everyone else: oh, naps are so good because you wake up feeling Refreshed and Rested

Me: *takes a nap, only wakes up wanting to go back to sleep and also extremely anxious about missing out on the day*

literally how do you take a nap and have it actually do anything good

It's pretty amazing how all these new and different Sabrina series keep getting made.   Like fans continuing to make and develop AUs because they still love the characters and ideas many years later, except these AUs are all canon because we actually see them on TV/Netflix.