Secret_Music

Haha that is awesome! I had to look it up.

You stole my answer. Save us Superman!

Halloween isn't really a big thing in my country, apart from kids here and there in safe enough areas that trick or treat. There's probably dance / alternative / goth clubs that do dress up nights though. But all I saw this year that stuck out to me was online, Heidi Klum:

I seem to remember that she does something pretty epic every year though.

Fun fact: to this day I still don't know what the "loss" thing is all about and I've never bothered looking it up.

But no, in case you're serious, I think it's just old fashioned left to right, top row then bottom row. Like a comic book. A style that was fairly popular before internet brain rot.

I feel like I have a lot in a big barrel that sloshes and spills sometimes. I was a "sensitive" kid that cried at movies and TV, and animals in the SPCA, and vandalized trees. Somewhere along the way I had to get it under control or store it, probably around starting school and needing to putting a mask on in general. Not to say that I never had embarrassing moments from that point on.

I still cry about both big and small things, when I'm in my own space. And one of things that I love about watching movies and series by myself with earphones in is that I get to cry at dumb shit uninterrupted and not feeling self conscious. I rewatched Harley Quinn and cried my eyes out at the finale of that goofy shit lol.

1. To be successful enough in an artistic endeavour (be it music or writing or making a game or whatever), that I can just spend the rest of my life creating things while I travel and do whatever else.

2. In lieu of making money doing something that I love, any job that you can do from home or on the move, and once again I could travel or create things in my free time. My life is about half way over (if I even live as long as the average), I want to see new things and be enriched and not be in a workshop or office cubicle for the rest of my life.

3. Once I've seen and done and everything I want to see and do and I know that I'm going to be staying in one place for the rest of my life (and if money was no issue), then it would be something related to taking in and caring for animals.

This might make me mean but I probably have even less sympathy for non white people, queer people and women that side with the religious right wing, white supremacist, patriarchal bigots and think they're not also on the list. Less sympathy for them than for magas, which is basically none as it is.

Punk's been dead for a long time. The only two bands that you ever hear about these days making a socio-political splash of any note are Rage Against the Machine and Green Day, who had their peaks in the '90s and gatekeepers didn't even consider Green Day to be punk. Millennials completely failed to take that baton from Gen X and instead gave the world podcasts and Pop Idols. Chappell Roan is more punk than anything that's come out of the alternative scene in the last 20 years.

I 100% agree with what you saying but also I appreciate attempts to revive the punk spirit because society needs it more than ever. And at least it's coming from DC Comics and not Apple or Amazon or some shit.

I just want to say something regarding mainstream social media and why I'm making use of it because I know that people here rabidly hate it, and for good reason.

I've been practically a hermit for the last decade of my life and right now I really need to step out of my cottage in the woods and back into the world again. I've enjoyed being alone and finding myself but now that I've found myself, I want to find my people.

I have definitely found a lot of my people around here but I also need somewhere that I can show my face, and see the faces of the people who are like me too.

And as far as my country goes (South Africa), if I want to find groups, or find out where the clubs are, or start having any sort of offline social life again, I'm going to have to make use of mainstream social media, I'm afraid.

And for what it's worth, I only really started using it again more regularly this year. And it's an enshitified battlefield for sure.

It would be fantastic if the Fediverse could be true replacement for it all but it's not even close yet. It's a great little international online community of mostly cool people but it can't be my only social life. Not anymore.

Waiting for someone to tell me it's an AI picture or the cat is sick or something.

Not sure if that's any better. I think I'm actually just gonna delete this post because I thought it was cute but this is just sad either way.

Oof I really hope not. These hairless type cats often have curly tails, I just thought this was extra curly. Now I'm thinking I should just delete the post..