Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

be sincere! be wildly sincere! be honest in your loves and dislikes! tell your friends you love them, tell people whose content you've enjoyed how much you've enjoyed it, tell the world how much you like things!

and when you're struggling, be sincere about how you're struggling; you will find that is a great way for people to also sincerely offer help and support!

be sincere in who you are! it's frightening, but it's worthwhile! i promise!

sincerity gets pushed out as 'not on-brand' and 'not fitting in here', as 'childish' or 'stupid'. but it's sincerity that we most often use to relate to one another as people and as fellow human beings.

'cringe culture' is entirely built around the antithesis of sincerity, you know? if you sincerely like a thing, if you get really enthusiastic about it, that's 'cringey' and there's a huge push to shut it down.

i don't know if these 'don't be sincere' impulses need to be fed more, tbh.

i guess that bothers me in part because i think sincerity is something that online communication easily loses, and that people are pushed to lose.

sincerity is, for lack of a better term, not very marketable. simply because sincerity is so individualized.

but i also see meme culture trapping people into vortexes of irony and pithy quips. and those things are nice, but they don't often make a fulfilling life on those things alone.

obviously i should embark on my new career of being a pro domme for the furry set by blasting "perfect isn't easy" from oliver and company wherever i go

I HAVE YOUR HEARTS~ AND YOU HAVE MY PITY~

@Hmmwat yeah sure! i believe https://knzk.me/@seagazelle/100840279067697173/ should be the link to it!

@Hmmwat i just saw it listed as some common/recommended cws, which is a fairly nice list because there is admittedly stuff i keep forgetting about - food, eye contact for instance - but it... also does make me genuinely a little bit worried.

i'm not trying to shame anybody, i'm just like being everybody's worried great aunt, because i feel like that may be feeding an expectation to be "on" and "performing" all the time that is exhausting and unsustainable

ok i realize this is largely a cultural difference, as it were, since i am very new to mastodon, the local vibe, and so on, but

@ the people who cw for sincerity:

are.... are y'all ok? are y'all good? do... do you want to like sit down and talk about it? because i'm worried about you. you don't have to be a constant funnyman making sweet memes for consumption. you can just be. i promise! i promise. come sit down and have a cup of hot cocoa, it's going to be ok.

@sickasfrick@slime.global oooohhhh i'm gonna go look this up, thank you!

i would also like to recommend - though less for history, with occasional detours - super bunnyhop, who is one of the few channels i watch because Holy Shit, Gaming Journalism With Actual Journalism In It

well nevermind, the secrets of vegan cream cheese frosting will go unknown for another day because apparently when cinnaholic says "open to 9" they mean "closed a 7:15" so if anyone needs me i'm going to sulk into my oatmeal

anyway cinnaholic says everything they have is vegan. now, a vegan cinnamon roll, i will grant you, that is doable. ...but i'm not sure how this vegan cream cheese icing is going to go. (i'm hoping maybe it's the lone non-vegan thing in the store, and that information has been lost on the menu of the company i am using to deliver them to me for dinner.)

self care is ordering 20 dollars of cinnamon rolls to be delivered to your door for dinner, right? ....right?

it's fine, they're like vegan n shit, i ordered fruit on one, it's fine,

@WritingPrompts "Just kill me," you attempt to beg the cultists. "Like, c'mon, just pick up the knife and -"

There is a puff of brimstone-scented smoke. You wince, biting back a wail.

And across from you... with a voice like a crack of thunder.... "ＷＨＡＴ ＭＯＲＴＡＬＳ － Ｏｈ． Ｕｈ． Ｈｅｙ."

Your ex appears.

"Hey," you warble out weakly.

"Ｙｏｕ＇ｒｅ ｌｏｏｋｉｎｇ．．． ｇｏｏｄ."

You are not looking good and you know it. In fact, you look like shit, because it's been rough lately. And now... your ex knows.

my hottest #lolitafashion opinion (EXCLUDES ISSUES OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION MIND YOU)

"healthy at any size doesn't exist because i have health problems because of my weight"

cool. that's YOU. that's YOUR health. the anti-fatphobia movement is for more than just YOU.

additionally, health as the arbiter of worthiness is fucked up. some of us, like my disabled ass, will NEVER be "healthy".

i understand how you got into these thought loops but you don't gotta damage those around you by continuing to give them play and space in everyone's heads

@BotEquippedWith aka what happens to you when you attempt to remove a wet swimsuit.