Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

basically when i am queen saying you have a plus size section and going up to size 16 (which is actually equivalent to a USA size 12) will be illegal and punishable by death

@PaladinQuinn oh man that's good to hear! i've heard such varying reviews of them - at least they're not quite as much of a scam as milanoo (a name fucking hated and reviled among lolita fashion circles). i just get angry at them for saying they have plus size but then going up to nowhere near my size LMAO

@PaladinQuinn oh man those are SO CUTE.... dresslily is, alas, a pile of bullshit tho. when you get there, you're much better off going to aliexpress directly - at least sellers there will usually give you exact measurements and a better price. (chinese sizes are... a lot different lol)

@Anarkat 16 tons, even

why do i always remember that as either 40 or 14. mysteries of my motherfuckin brain lol

@Anarkat and at that point, i'm not sure you're objecting to popularity - you're objecting to how capitalism has a muzzling effect on creativity. if you want to see that in action, look up some articles analyzing how country music has lost all its teeth post 9/11 when it used to be the genre of 40 Tons and other anthems challenging the status quo.

@Anarkat you might be surprised by how entwined rap *is* with capitalism, and has been for a long time. same with punk. is it really a counterculture free of kowtowing to capitalism when there's Hot Topic in malls across the nation, catering to that aesthetic? similarly, there's a lot of suburban moms that DO listen to rap... especially when you look at suburbs and areas that aren't lily white.

but hell, even my private suburban high school for rich kids - most were rap fans.

@Anarkat isn't that true with all genres of music, though? after all, the same thing afflicts rap, country, r&b, etc... even 'hipster music', where the status quo is obscurity, lol

@Anarkat (however, honestly, i am cynical of such "popular is bad" statements not only with how that critique gets leveled along gender lines, but also because i've mainly seen it come from ...people who want to me to buy "counter-culture". it often gets used as this sort of tribalism, Preps and Jocks versus the Goths and Nerds, that i got way enough of in middle school and am happy to not revisit.)

i *could* delete and redraft that toot after noticing that minor error

oooooor i could just say that uhhhhhh

the minor imperfections show you that the organic toots are all natural and hand-crafted. it's, uhhh, wabi-sabi, innit

@Anarkat ngl (there is a vein of anti-beatles sentiment which is also very much still present against modern pop music - essentially, "if this is popular with teenage girls, it must be worthless and of no merit". and you'll notice that people who talk about the beatles being significant will often still hold this belief in there - they did their groundbreaking things after or in spite of rising to prominence with teenage girls most gripped by "beatlemania". obviously, i think it's bullshit.)

@Anarkat ehhh i'm not going to throw all pop music under the bus THAT hard tbh, or popular things in general. most people tend to consider the beatles as groundbreaking beyond simply being pop music, but i'm just not seeing it, was my point - and ditto skyrim, which is presented as groundbreaking but isn't quite so much.

@Motodrachen actually it's because unicorns all reverse-furried themselves into extinction (proof: a unicorn can only be tamed by a hot virgin girl. unicorns are the og reply guys)

by the time the zoologists were out there outfitting some of them with human masks it was sadly too late 😔 like if u cri every tiem

how you can tell i'm a bio major not a cs major: saw someone rightly pleased with themselves for deflecting a 3k client amplification DNS attack; took third reading before i realized it was DNS, not DNA, and they were not talking about preparing a sample for a client to use for gel electrophoresis

because i was stuck there going "ooer idk what numbers you're shooting for but 3k sounds like a good start to me" for a good bit

@cozykaffe@snouts.online part of the evolutionary defense to deter predators (turning on all lights is like a squid shooting ink)

for this reason it is recommended to approach rally cars slowly while making soothing noises, possibly while also offering some moomin-related merchandise in case a finn is in the driver's seat and is nervous about the idea of social contact with another human person occurring outside of a sauna

also if you consider the initial boy band concept of the beatles, i think the monkees did it better lmfao

LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE IS A BOP AND YOU CAN PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

this is probably the hottest take i have ever put on this website.

the beatles mainly just gentrified ideas to be palatable to audiences. skyrim did much the same.

if you look at any musical concept the beatles did, you can p much find another artist doing it better. they got lucky to be in public imagination and placed themselves there via marketing. ditto skyrim (and its rereleases ad nauseum).

honestly, skyrim and the beatles hold the same place for me

historically significant... ...not because they were actually doing anything unique, all the elements were being done by someone else better at the time, but worked mostly as an aggregate for concepts and was there at the right time with a good marketing department, so that everyone ascribes this to them and not their inspirations lmfao

"oh i'll just take a quick look around breath of the wild" i said yesterday. then it was 2:30 am. whoops

botw is, i think, the game that skyrim wanted to be. i'm not gonna knock it too hard because skyrim was, i think, historically important in many ways. i've just never really had the experience of being... really lost in it, if that makes sense. at some point it always seemed like bland drudgework to me.

botw, tho? botw done got me, lol

ON TO MORE IMPORTANT THINGS

(whenever i do a 'movin' right along' type toot, please imagine me doing a bayonetta-style move like this to announce thus)

(no i haven't played bayonetta)
(this is not going to stop me however) (listen i'm bad at video games ok. i'll get a let's play watched someday)