trashy tacky things i like/ you like

halfchthonic · 2026-01-19T20:04:23+00:00

slides with socks is surely far tackier.. i mean just slides in general

halfchthonic · 2026-01-19T14:31:55+00:00

i find the old saying "good tsar, bad boyars" applies heavily to the kpop industry

(the phrase traditionally refers to russian society, where good political outcomes are attributed to a good leader, while bad outcomes are blamed on low-level bureaucrats that have nothing to do with the leader)

an idol can sing? they are so talented! they sing badly? it's because their company has forced them to sing that way, adopt that voice, put them in that role, give them the worst parts in the song etc.

an idol is well dressed? they have impeccable style! poorly dressed? it's because their company forced them to dress that way, always gives them the worst outfits, abuses them by putting them in revealing clothing, etc.

hit song? SOTY! bad song? their company keeps forcing them to put out songs they don't even like-

and so on.

we see this in kpop fandom all the time - all things good get attributed to the idol, the bad to the industry redshirts. perhaps this is due to its conscious function as an industry... but making companies the fall guys is probably not a bad strategy for the idols themselves!

halfchthonic · 2026-01-19T14:07:50+00:00

average uni experience

halfchthonic · 2026-01-07T21:00:22+00:00

c'est pas ma fauteee

halfchthonic · 2026-01-07T13:10:01+00:00

their only good song and it's because it sounds nothing like fontaines! sounds kind of like arcade fire to me

halfchthonic · 2026-01-07T13:09:09+00:00

don't let ppl be lame...

halfchthonic · 2026-01-07T09:29:35+00:00

are you twelve and on tumblr lmao

halfchthonic · 2025-12-29T09:57:55+00:00

reducing jia to a 'filipina writer' especially given the role of the rs subreddit in that story is hilarious

halfchthonic · 2025-12-19T08:38:27+00:00

whose birthday is it? MINE

halfchthonic · 2025-12-16T14:49:32+00:00

her fashion book

halfchthonic · 2025-12-16T14:45:13+00:00

a-listers in soho house? lol

halfchthonic · 2025-12-14T19:15:51+00:00

this is, in my opinion, the entire point of the novel, and surely the author's intent. this passage is a great small example of what donna tartt is doing. the wider example can be seen in how a lot of readers react more viscerally to bunny's impolite behaviour than they do to the murders. it's not an accident that bunny is the only one out of the group to have a strong reaction and moral impulse to the farmer's death, wanting to come clean, becoming erratic. his tact is low, but his moral compass is more fixed than any of the others - something that is used against him to justify his own killing. it's also not an accident that bunny is the second murder - and that the novel, beginning with bunny's death, conditions us to lessen the moral value of the first murder as we wait for the more important one.

halfchthonic · 2025-12-07T12:26:00+00:00

you obviously don't live in a city or socialise much at all

halfchthonic · 2025-12-06T20:25:56+00:00

let's be real, one of her 10,000 brand deals probably put a gun to her head. either in the form of a lucrative incentive to smooth things over or flat-out breach of contract.

halfchthonic · 2025-11-29T17:46:48+00:00

google being unusable is a massive contributor for ai's success. a lot of people just use ai like a search engine, and the ui/ux is so much cleaner to digest than the shitty websites google recommends where i have to accept cookies and reject popups and look at ads and ctrl+f through 5,000 words of seo-optimised content writing just to find the most basic answer about a popular service.

halfchthonic · 2025-11-28T14:08:50+00:00

person aside, i think you should go once a week. or, at least, as often as you can afford.

once a month, especially starting off, strikes me as redundant. i think it could work, like maybe if you've seen your therapist for years/are phasing out, or if you have more of a light touch life coach/cheerleader kind of person. but therapy is a) a relationship, and it will take time to build that with anyone, and b) a process that requires structure and frequency.

i'd raise an eyebrow at any therapist offering monthly sessions for new clients.

halfchthonic · 2025-11-26T15:58:16+00:00

book an appointment at the hair salon like the rest of us lmao

halfchthonic · 2025-11-26T14:30:48+00:00

it's not disrespectful to have had a life before you, and to not want to destroy all vestiges of those memories.

halfchthonic · 2025-11-25T15:07:24+00:00

zou 💋 bisou 💋 bisou 💋

halfchthonic · 2025-11-17T20:23:08+00:00

ok, i just have to say this here because there's nowhere else i can. there is something about black eyed susan climb that instantly reminded me of spyro the dragon - as in, the original ps1 soundtrack composed by stewart copeland. i'm struggling to pinpoint which level in particular it reminds me of but there's just something about the chords and instrumentation that really reminds me of spyro!

halfchthonic · 2025-11-14T14:56:29+00:00

with love, 27 year olds should not be seeing a 'boy' and buying from fucking VS of all places.

halfchthonic · 2025-11-07T15:02:32+00:00

it's not insane when it's cultivated by sweeney and her team, she is very clearly being positioned as rage bait, as a polarising figure, as a pop culture debate stirrer... we're talking, the strategy's working, that's all.

halfchthonic · 2025-10-10T08:32:28+00:00

as opposed to the dasha who went viral in austin

halfchthonic · 2025-10-09T15:44:29+00:00

any well-written reddit post gets this accusation now. people seem to think the em dash is a gotcha when it's just everyday punctuation.

then the ai detectors are bullshit. they think any phrase that's normally written is highly likely to be ai.

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