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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 13h

So like... if that ever happens to YOU?

No, you are not crazy.

Yes, people really do this.

Fuck anyone who tells you it's no big deal or that it shouldn't bother you.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 14h

This is not a boast.

It legitimately sucks in all the possible ways you could possibly think it does

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 14h

Okay, the majority of the attention has been well within the realm of totally cool and acceptable, but y'all

I have really and truly had experiences where people liked my art and thought they were in love with me

Imagine that. Imagine DEALING with that.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 14h

Being a creative person who posts their stuff on the internet has been a wild and sometimes outright traumatic experience lol

Every day you find someone else sidling on up to you who does NOT know how to act and then you gotta expend the precious energy to deal with it!!!

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♥︎ ADDY ♥︎ @gurobits.bsky.social · 4d

#twilightprincess #tloz #midlink

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 8d

This is not a criticism

I would die for bootleg Seregios

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 8d

I love playing creatures of sonaria because WOW that really is just Seregios huh

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 10d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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grilled cheese 🧀 @grilldcheese.bsky.social · 8d

we say "everyone is unique" but you know deep down that you put everyone into a little box in your head and one of those boxes is dumb motherfuckers.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 9d

What is a hot pocket if not man’s cheap imitation of God’s calzone

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 💀 @unfitz.bsky.social · 10d

Missed connection:

I entered the elevator. You were already gone but your lingering perfume made me use my rescue inhaler.

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Trent Cannon (he/him) @trentlcannon.bsky.social · 9d

I would much rather you tell me you are a piece of shit up front so I don't spend time and energy to be friends with you only to find out later.

That is time and energy I won't get back and that could have been spent not being cozy with a shithead.

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 9d

"He should have kept this to himself"

Eh, I'd much rather these shitty people keep outing themselves. Especially in an industry like voice-over where anonymity benefits people who actively think and behave this way, letting them gain a following and a platform until it's too late to do anything.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

It feels like our brains are being actively poisoned and it freaks me out to a degree that I cannot even HOPE to articulate!!

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah.

That one gets me too. ESPECIALLY today.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

Genuinely? I think that's it. The lil numbers everywhere on our posts and profiles have people conditioned to make them go up no matter what and by any means necessary

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

FOR REAL

Like do you want the incest-antis anywhere near the brocon spaces? No? Then why the fuck are you harassing them, dipshits

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

If y'all can do nothing else for the Fucking Situation, then at the very least:

The next time you see some art in the wild that you don't understand/makes you a lil uncomfortable at first? Please promise me that you will be kind.

Just

Be kind. I am begging you.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

I could write an essay on how this kind of behavior is doing more than its fair share of choking the life out of art on the internet but I won't

Cuz we all know

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah... Browsing felt like discovery. And the shit you found, no matter how initially strange to you, was real.

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𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎☆レミ @kimbleefucker.bsky.social · Oct 17

some icons i made for me, my bf, and a friend

#fullmetalalchemist #fma #roymustang #edwardelric #solfjkimblee

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

But, sadly, that's to be expected when the whole selling point of the modern internet is "endless entertainment tailored to your tastes always!"

Which is wild when paired with the strategy of selling the labor of private individuals voluntarily contributing to your site as a product but... Anyway..

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

Or, if you're really unlucky, you'll get endlessly berated and harassed by someone who grew up with the Corporate Internet and hasn't learned to take not being exclusively catered to in stride, yet.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

It's why it's so hard to create now, honestly.

Because it's depressing as hell to know that no matter what you do or where you go the labors of your soul will eventually be reduced to just another data point on some corporate fuckstick's graph for the quarter.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, me too.

And the word "heartbreaking" really does sum it up, I think.

I think what really gets me is that when the internet made space for those things it was just... The thrill of discovery. You learned things about yourself and your tastes and even just about other PEOPLE. I miss that.

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My! Friend! MALAMAR!! @broshidos.bsky.social · 10d

But I am well aware that, if I host the space? Part of it will always be about me. And I don't want that.

I am tired of that. I am tired of cults of personality, and I am tired of how the fucking internet now seems to function exclusively to make that happen because it sells.

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