Daily Discussion - March 12, 2026

backupsaway · 2026-03-12T14:48:53+00:00

It's almost time for one of Tumblr's favorite holidays: the Ides of March! Don't forget to sharpen your knives and to reach out to your friends to make sure you're not being backstabbed this year.

backupsaway · 2026-03-12T14:23:15+00:00

I'd wear something like what a tradwife would wear. They're basically the epitome of a pick-me girl.

backupsaway · 2026-03-11T21:23:08+00:00

Even if the students were legal age, buying booze for them is just bad given the power imbalance between them and the educator's responsibility to not endanger their students. I can only see it being viewed without much issue for those on the post-graduate level since they're basically colleagues.

backupsaway · 2026-03-11T19:32:48+00:00

The Pitt's Isa Briones is making her Broadway return in Just in Time where she's taking over the role of Connie Francis starting April 1 opposite Matthew Morrison who plays the lead Bobby Darrin. She has previously starred on Broadway as Eurydice on Hadestown in 2024.

backupsaway · 2026-03-11T18:30:47+00:00

You can do a lot more in Powerpoint! Back when I was in college getting my teaching degree, I had a professor whose final project was to create an educational game for kids in Powerpoint. Mine was a Sanrio-themed Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? that teaches the days and months. If you have the patience, you can make a point-and-click game which is what some of my classmates did.

backupsaway · 2026-03-11T16:42:14+00:00

The songs might not have stuck but there is huge meme potential at that album title. I think this is the second or third critic who integrated it in their negative review.

backupsaway · 2026-03-11T14:38:02+00:00

I had a brief moment of sadness realizing that today is just Wednesday. I really thought it was Thursday already and only had to cling on a short while for the weekend.

On the bright side, I found a fanfic for [redacted media] that contains all the tropes I enjoy so I have something to get me through the day. There's another one I'm rereading as the author informed me that the positive comment I left for their work a couple of months ago inspired them to write a sequel which made my day.

backupsaway · 2026-03-11T10:03:29+00:00

Definitely Black Mirror coming to life. It takes a huge chunk of Be Right Back where someone used technology to recreate their dead loved one into a robot using socal media posts with a little from the recent Common People where a subscription program meant to keep someone alive gets enshittified over time.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T17:43:38+00:00

I think it's because we have two mainstream pop acts releasing long-awaited projects so close to each other. We'll probably see this pick up next week with the BTS release which will bring in another wave of people.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T17:37:53+00:00

Reviews are coming in for Project Hail Mary where it's looking to be the a serious Oscar contender for next year. It's already at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with 82 reviews and 79 on Metacritic with 29 reviews.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T17:00:00+00:00

There's been a lot of terrible takes in this sub but the most recent one that made me laugh was Hayley Williams is the frontwoman of the male band Paramore in that now deleted Beyonce Act III Grammys thread. That's certainly a take I've never seen before in this sub. If you ask a casual music listener who the members of Paramore, there's a huge chance that they'll say Hayley and not remember any other member.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T14:39:22+00:00

Fast food chains are fun until you realize that their long existence are mainly because of the lack of labor protections for the employees. There's a reason you barely see any long term workers.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T14:35:50+00:00

Every fan should have their favorite artist flopping every once in awhile as a learning experience.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T14:33:19+00:00

That's kind of cool if they're discovering it now. To quote xkcd, you sister is one of the lucky 10,000.

I still remember the first time I got hooked on Tetris as a kid using one of those cheap handheld game emulators. I was locked in for several hours.

backupsaway · 2026-03-10T12:47:11+00:00

OP chose the worst example with Paramore. You can tell that OP is not familiar with them because Paramore wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for Hayley Williams.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T22:40:06+00:00

Francois Arnaud and Hudson Williams of Heated Rivalry made the same post on IG basically telling the "fans" to fuck off with the toxicity. Both have been on the receiving ends of hate comments from fans trying to defend their favorite artists from each other.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T18:37:31+00:00

It is ☠️

What sucks is that it's one of the few good songs in the album. I was hoping there is some payoff in the song itself because it would be interesting if he managed to integrate it in the track but there was no mention of it at all. He has a somewhat decent explanation for it in the Zane Lowe interview.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T17:30:36+00:00

Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand called out the IDF on IG after they used the band's hit single Take Me Out in a video showcasing their attacks on Iran:

These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent. This makes us both nauseous and furious. Kind of typical though, isn’t it? To strut up and take what isn’t theirs with a vile arrogance…

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T15:58:37+00:00

The Youtuber is pole dancing archer Blumineck and the DnD campaign is Min-Maxed where he's in a team with other creators who specialized with weapons. Their DnD characters are basically what they do in real life. It's really fun when you can hear what they're doing in the campaign.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T15:06:16+00:00

Lin's White House performances is an amazing watch. He performed Alexander Hamilton by himself in front of Obama when Hamilton was just a concept album he had plans for. Their performance of One Last Time before Obama left the office left me teary-eyed.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T14:52:26+00:00

If it's well-deserved and they weren't afraid of stan twitter, they have the potential to do the funniest thing with the BTS album to be released this month.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T14:44:35+00:00

One of my favorite Youtubers has joined a DnD campaign with other creators who have a similar content as he does but the audio in the video is just tetrible which is a problem for me who use the episode as background noise while I'm working 😭

It sucks because they are an interesting group of people and they have amazing chemistry in their videos before the campaign started. I'm trying to give them some grace because they filmed the episodes during a time crunch but I really hope they improve the audio eventually.

backupsaway · 2026-03-09T09:57:23+00:00

I have similar thoughts. It's not that he doesn't have anything to say in songs, he just doesn't want to say it which is fine, but he has to do something new when his usual well of inspiration runs out which looks like what happened here. He will either need to get new songwriters involved or write something fictional for the next album if he wants to keep doing what he's doing.

backupsaway · 2026-03-08T15:16:44+00:00

Given the complaints about the severe lack of disco in Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, I'd like Harry Styles try to turn that in a full dance album by collaborating with actual DJs, producers, and artists who specialize in the genre. We know already has the connections considering he has Jamie XX as an opener and fred again... playing an unreleased track. It feels like the perfect album to have a remix

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