ohthepaint asked: dude it's not about liking or pretending to like whitney houston, it's like this fairly important musical figure (well important in terms of musical history + you know, most people know who she is and what her music sounds like) has died and people wanna be respectful, maybe? why should you care if people express grief or whatever over a public figure. as long as they're not being dicks (because there are enough people being dicks over people's death), what's the problem?
I’ve been looking for a way to answer this, especially since it relates to a post I reblogged. Then ABC’s The Drum stepped in and did the hard work for me:
There’s no right or wrong way to do grief, to do concern, to do love, to do angst. Nor is their any imperative to do anything at all in the wake of a tragedy. But pretending that thumbing out a rest-in-peace tweet counts as something, as action, as empathy is self-indulgent and severely deluded.
Read the rest here.
As a last word, Caitlin made a good pointy that legitimacy arguments on the Internet suck, anyway.
Anonymous asked: Wait why DO people hate you? :(
Well…
If you havin’ ask problems I feel bad for you son,
I’ve got 99 problems, being anon ain’t one,
Hit me!
- Obnoxious
- Loud
- Self-centred
- Pretentious
- Condescending
- Lame
- Thinks he’s funny
- Is on tumblr
- Is on twitter
- Is on reddit
- Quotes reddit in real life
- Mentions reddit in real life
- Brazilian
- Likes mentioning to others that he is Brazilian despite holding dual citizenship
- Shitty laugh
- Clingy
- Knows the words to Chingy’s “Right Thurr”
- Defends Kanye West
- Is one of “those white guys who like rap”
- I live in the same area this video is based on.
- I get over-excited about things
- I get over-excited about everything
- Likes The Killers
- Doesn’t like Fleet Foxes
- Doesn’t like Bon Iver
- Doesn’t like Death Cab For Cutie
- Will constantly remind people that he doesn’t like Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and Death cab For Cuite.
- Responsible for this review of a Kasabian live show
- Is sometimes that guy standing at the back of Your Favourite Gig Ever with his arms crossed, appearing to not get into it.
- Is sometimes that guy dancing crazily at the front of Your Favourite Gig Ever, appearing to get into it a bit too much
- Goes to too many gigs
- Has met or talked to Your Favourite Band
- Likes to mention that he has met or talked to Your Favourite Band
- Namedrops
- Constantly over-the-top
- Prefers My Little Pony to Adventure Time
- Has watched Glee
- And liked it
- And formed opinions on the characters
- Has formed opinons on politics
- Has formed opinions on most social issues
- Has formed opinions on most of pop culture
- Likes to loudly discuss his opinions on politics, social issues, pop culture and Glee whenever possible
- Despite this, doesn’t like people who get paid to do the exact same thing for a living.
- Hasn’t formed opinions on religion
- Posts too much on Facebook
- Quotes banbanana too much
- Knows who badbanana is
- Sometimes you feel like Albert is just going out of his way to annoy you
- Actually goes out of his way to annoy some people
- Thinks the term “sand in your vagina” is fucking stupid
- For most of my teenage years I had a very bad acne problem
- Looks creepy
- Generally accepts and adores how creepy I naturally look
- Acts a bit like Tim Curry, which means that to some I could be seen as acting creepy
- Admires Gary Busey
- Admires Prince
- Admires Madonna
- Supposedly, being a heterosexual male, makes points 56-58 a problem to some
- Went to a selective high school
- Hated everyone at my high school
- Once I left high school, I proceeded to attempt to cut contact with everyone from high school
- I wasn’t successful, at all
- Has manic depression
- Omnivorous and loving it
- Doesn’t like marxisforbros
- Trolls music and movie forums
- Has a movie review blog that he hasn’t updated in weeks
- Procrastinates
- A “dumb fuck”
- I spent way too long talking about my time in hospital
- I seem to constantly be going to hospital
- …and surviving. In fact, I seem to generally not-die.
- Doesn’t “follow” any of Australia’s sporting “codes”
- But I do follow “football”
- But I can’t “play” football
- Gamer
- Doesn’t like CoD:MW3
- Has made friends off the internet
- Claims some of his best friends are from the internet
- Thinks he can take decent pictures with his point-and-shoot camera
- Wavers between believing he will be “forever alone” and “awesomely single” by the hour, every hour
- Favourite movie is West Side Story
- Thinks his opinion on anything “matters”
- An Arts student
- A UNSW student
- A former UWS student
- Emphasis on the former: I dropped out of UWS. I am a college dropout
- I once described myself as a social media expert
- I’ve made some strange enemies in the past
- Lives in Australia
- Works at the type of place most Occupy Protesters are protesting against
- Once wanted to actually get into advertising, and not just in the I-wish-I-was-in-Mad-Men way
- Quotes Community all the fucking time
- Thinks Batman is better than Superman
- Thinks DC is better than Marvel
- Thinks current Marvel is better than current DC
- Was once described as “A smaller version of The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy”
- Makes lists of the reasons why people hate him
Anonymous asked: 1)how old are you 2)where are you from 3)whats your background? 4)star wars or lotr? 5)your idea of a good time?
1) 21
2) and 3) Born in Brazil to Brazilian parents/”background” but currently living in Australia. Hold dual citizenship.
4) Star Wars OT > LOTR > Star Wars PT
5) Answerin’ your questions bby.
Anonymous asked: Why do people hate you? You seem pretty cool.
I ask myself this every day.
Not the “Why do people hate me” bit, by the way. No, the “I seem pretty cool?” bit
Anonymous asked: Why are you so sweet <333
Been spending the day nursing this fucking head injury and arguing with everyone on the Internet and you know what? Sometimes a nice anon is the best thing to get :)
Anonymous asked: You memorise your anon asks from several months ago and how do you even find them?
- It’s quite easy when most of your asks are “You are the worst” to remember the ones that vary even in the sligtest. That said, a friend of mine has turned that particular ask into a running in-joke. Congratulations, anon, you are a thing.
- Tags.
Anonymous asked: What the fuck are you talking about? I was just asking if you played any instruments. So, do you?
This is Tumblr. If you are not checking the tags for your answers you are failing already.
Anonymous asked: Do you/can you play any instruments?
I’ll answer that question with a question: Are you also angry at my Kasabian review?
Anonymous asked: Were you at Battles the other night in Sydney?
No one actually wants to stalk me so I am going to assume you wanted to stalk one of those other people I know from tumblr and have met in real life (to which you have previously accused me of being a creep) and just happened to see me interacting with these people.
Otherwise, you should be happy Battles isn’t on the Soundwave bill, Fred. They would’ve crushed you to bits.
Anonymous asked: Look at me look at me I'm going to Coachella. Wow, you just have the worst tumblr ever.
Small reminder that Limp Bizkit will not be appearing at this year’s Coachella festival.
Anonymous asked: youre shit
You’re missing an apostrophe.
Anonymous asked: Just a reminder that you and your blog are shit.
On twitter today Brent, Natasha, Snowfox and I were talking about anon trolls on Tumblr and I realised that for all the shit stirring they bring, they’ll never be as bad as the creepy dudes who propose to TumblrFamous girls anonymously after they post selfies.
priya-pea asked: but I want to see Tin Tin NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too late Pea :(
faely asked: Photos from your birthday? Does they exist?
SOON
EDIT: wait, does they exist makes no sense, Fae. MAKES NO SENSE.
