/media/ - Media

i recently started using tumblr and was too young during it's heyday so i never really got to experience that. it has a lot of good art posting and fashion posting so i curated my algorithm to show that only. i don't follow any blogs or people so it's kinda boring and slow but it's chill i guess

I just recently made one yes. A lot of mentally ill young girls on there though. I really like the site still because the customization is really cool that others like ig and X don't have. Plus it being kind of dead there makes it better in a way because I feel more free to post what I want

>>35028
Half of the “radfems” there are just pickme tradwife retards now and make actual terfs look stupid, racist, and uneducated on world events. It’s not comfy just because most of the userbase left. There’s more TiMs writing creepy lesbian rape-correction fics than ever.

I keep following people because they post about things I like then without fail just after I follow they get obsessed with something completely random and I have to see 700 gifsets of some uggo musician or actor they’re obsessed with now.

How does this site work? I can't find much that interests me on it and its algorithm consistently suggests things that I dislike.

>>33405
cc is full of troons and moids too, like over half of the userbase is one or both

>>33406
this is why i use fc even though i’m not very interested in yaoi. it hasn’t been invaded by males so much yet. shame they killed the yume and s stuff though. those were the best boards.

Op here

Okay lol i finally made a few friends on xmpp and it has been amazing wtf

>>34156
based

>>33380
Which ones don't have disappointing people?

vrc is good only in priv or small pc-only public lobbies. i've been to a couple black cat publics and it's insane how many kids there are running around in nsfw avatars, actually depressing.
great pugs are pretty okay for avoiding children on friday/saturday nights but its almost entirely moids, the only women i've seen in there were either normie or tagging along with their bfs lol

>>25504
I popped in it around 2017 curiously on my desktop and stumbled on what sounded like a 50 year old chain smoker giving advice in a Touhou Momiji avatar without any irony or care. I think at that time it was more small and fun and everyone wanted to help each other. popularity ruins everything.

>>25504
I have a soft spot for the Uganda Knuckles since I got into VRchat around their peak due to see the ChipsxNuts streams on twitch. The game had some great energy back then

sorry for necro but are there any nonas who still play vrc & if so do you have any advice for meeting anyone other than totally retarded moids and e-girl avis? i've met a few nice people but nobody that i really clicked or kept in contact with.
i wonder if there would still be interest in a cc vr meetup? i have the free rn time to organize it

Try Resonite!

>>32487
How old is she? Not familiar with her at all, but the first result on youtube is "Your Little Sister Gives You Positive Affirmations (ASMR)" and if she's a kid I find the idea of her positioning herself as the viewers "little sister" uncomfortable, plus ASMR is inherently sexual imo.

In regards to OP I find a lot of the character designs cool but I don't have any interest in letsplays and this is just that with a different coat of paint. A cute anime girl isn't going to change the fact that at the end of the day I'd just rather play the game myself. I appreciate that it gives more privacy to the steamer though, seems like a fun way to protect your identity regardless of if you roleplay or not.

>>32491
I can try though I'm not the most eloquent.

ASMR is all about invoking what listening refer to as "tingles" there are various ways of doing this but the most common for streamers is mouthy whispers and saliva noises, nibbles, and tapping the mic. There is also the subgenre with role-playing where the streamer positions themselves as a friend, doctor, teacher, partner, ect to the listener.
I would argue almost all of these facts makes it weird on the surface, but really think about it. The tingling sensation at whispers in your ears, it's a form of arousal right? Remove the visuals from half the mouth sound videos and it's the same as blowjob audio porn. Not to mention most of the "triggers" are those inherently sensual noises.

I'm not going to sit here and say every ASMR video is fapbait, but I do think the community and genre has an inherently sexual slant. I was actually going to post a video of a kitten eating a crocodile tail ASMR video I saw a while back to give an example of non-sexual ASMR, but searching "kitten asmr" gave the top result of a channel called Kitten ASMR. Her avatar is a picture of herself in a tanktop with ample cleavage and it looks like most of her thumbnails position her tits front and center, the kittens came up too but it think it is emblematic of my point.
Not something I'd want my hypothetical kids near.

>>32494
asmr used to be something for women by women, but of course males ruin everything. now other women like you think it's some weird kink instead of it being a relaxation and mindfulness practice. My mother used to be an asmr youtuber and I can assure you the community back then was not sexual in any sense of the word. god i hate men.

>>32487
im sorry to be the bearer of bad news but lily is a tranny larping as a loli

>>24522
I loved when I had free time during the pandemic to hyperfixate on them. Now, I only watch clip compilations on Youtube.

>>29659

>I'm in my 30s now and while I do have friends there is this yawning void in my online peripheral vision where all the teen girls when I was a teen girl should be

I feel this hard. I think it's because we either hide or the algorithms render us invisible, even to each other.

I've been continuously struggling with the internet feeling like a dead void where it used to be so full of life and potential connections waiting to happen.

I started out with personal websites, anime shrines, online diaries like livejournal in the early 2000s. I was a big 4chan user starting in its earliest days, and stayed on the chans even when they were obviously in an advanced state of decay because there were still habitable little corners.

I keep searching around hoping I'm going to find that kind of magic again but it's like, where did they all go? Now there's all these small, weird chans that seem to have a userbase of like 6 people each and the content is all just the most extreme kinds of weird porn (makes old /b/ look tame by comparison)

Having minimal gatekeeping makes sense, so I can see quality communities moving to places where there's at least a hurdle or two for users to have to jump. But where? The darkweb? Freenet/I2p? Some hard to find nook in somewhere on the clearweb?

>>31162
>we either hide or the algorithms render us invisible, even to each other.
I feel like most women who were online back then and are still around are "fandom" types who lurk. We've been able to watch it warp from LJ/Dreamwidth to Tumblr to Twitter with increasing hostility from The Youths and if we participate at all it's just to post fanfic on Ao3 and leave no socials. I remember on ff.net it was unusual NOT to have your AIM in your bio. Socializing, even online, has become scary to some degree because you never know if you are going to catch the attention of an anti- dogpile.

Other hobbyists have lost forums to Reddit which is overwhelmingly male, so once again for safety reasons we lurk or larp as male and therefore never get to see other women with our interests and reach out.

>small, weird chans that seem to have a userbase of like 6 people
I've given a lot of these a sniff myself and have settled on fujochan. I actually came back to check this thread today because I made a comment there about Wayback Machine-ing some fansite and being amused by the resolution and it reminded me of the post I made.

I am also still looking for the "magic". It's depressing but I don't think I will ever stop. I still meet other girls online (Twitter, FFXIV, VRChat) but they all are just a little too young or too normie to be the kind of person I am actually looking for, you know? I'd kill to meet a woman who could say she had a favorite fanfic in 2004, could say that she has one now. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one left despite evidence to the contrary. It's like seeing a bunch of footprints but being unable to find the pack. It's maddening.

I'm still planning to make my own, you all should do the same. I'm sick and tired of social media and modern web 2.0 and I just want to return to monke and have my own space on the internet while searching up other obscure website on the web, just like I did when I was a kid. I miss reading people's fanfictions and reading them go on and on about their favorite anime/game series back on geocities/angelfire.

I think neocities is a good start for something like this. Sure, it's filled with zoomers who have a bastardized view of what the old web is (and it shows), but they atleast give you some of the tools to start your own thing.
Also, you should all check out https://wiby.me/. You'll find a lot of old sites on here.

>>29783
>That's an inaccuracy some men like to pretend it's the absolute truth.
Holy this. The men who say that are young and have no idea how it actually was. Yes, in certain male-dominated communities if you were female they would ostracize and make fun of you at first, but it was more like some hazing ritual where they would see if you truly belong. They did it to other moids too, but it's just more noticeable if you were female because generally the groups would be comprised of mostly males. If you were normal, and not trying to vye for the attention of men,you were "usually" treated like the rest of the group. In other situations, moids would complain about shippers/fujoshi and be grossed out by them, but it wasn't too much of a problem since shippers/fujoshi had their own spaces. The fierocity between sexes only became worse starting in the smart phone era of the internet, which was the early 2010s, when normalfags started to flood the internet and thus started being exposed to 'nerd' hobbies. Gamergate really pushed it and the tumblr exodus pushed it even further.

Another funny thought I had: A lot of the drama in these spaces were always caused by some lonely scrot simping/whiteknighting for some e-girl at the time who would then start acting mysoginistic once he realized that the girl was just there to get something out of him and all the other lonely sobs who wanted her attention because she was female/was attractive. A pathetic turn of events that happens every time, even to this day.
>>31170
>Other hobbyists have lost forums to Reddit which is overwhelmingly male
Honestly, I wouldn't even use reddit even if it was overwhemingly female. It's just a toxic environment in general when your posts are measured by how much karma you have, the downboating and upboating system skewed by people who can't accept others opinions (and mostly by bots), and the fact that it's become more and more corporate by the day.
>Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one left despite evidence to the contrary. It's like seeing a bunch of footprints but being unable to find the pack.
You aren't going to find them unless you go on personal blogs or AO3. Those are the only places where I find Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Check out Nekoweb, a spin-off of Neocities.

>>1317
I really enjoy reading Lucy Knisleys books, they feel so familiar and they make a good read for rainy days where you just want to be all wrapped up in a blanket drinking tea. The art is nothing too complex, but its simple enough to be a perfect medium for her stories.
>pic related, my first and fav book by her

Paper Girls is a really good mystery/science fiction comic, I don't want to give away much of the plot (imo it's better if you go in blind) but the art alone really appealed to me.
>>1317
Persepolis is great, I think first reading it as a teen and then again as an adult was interesting.

I know its DC but finished reading watchmen and the majority of prequels
enjoyed it more than I thought

This was my main motivation for becoming serious about inking.

I highly recommend Hothead Paisan, especially if you like punk-rock lesbians.

I collect old classical music vinyls, collect books as well on things I am interested in. Physics, math, history and sociology (plus other social sciences)

I have a collection on war history, and focused on nazis for a while. Mainly books in german.

Those are my hobbies. Collecting books and vinyls, I am an autist.

>>37365
Do you have Solti's Ring Cycle?

>>37362
Post some of your works

>>37322
I am into invented languages.

>>37371
What's so great about them?

>>35516
Crap, forgot to post the image!
I thought this moment was particularly interesting.

i'd still like to know why Miki fiddles with his pocket watch constantly

>>35517
Well, I watched the final episode of the anime series today. Bawled my fucking eyes out as soon as it ended even though I don't usually cry at shows. The knowledge that there won't be a new episode to look forward to at the end of the week feels strange now.
I was expecting something more, but I'm glad it ended on a hopeful note at least. Will probably check out the manga next, then the movie.
Even now I still feel a bit dumb wondering what it all means, so I'd like to ruminate on the themes and whatnot a bit more before talking about matters I don't really get. However, I can say with certainty that I absolutely adored it, it was right up my alley and I can't wait to see how the other installments handle everything even if they apparently don't have Nanami.
Also, Utenanthy is probably my new OTP. I have yet to see some ship as amazing as it and I doubt any ship more amazing exists.

I saw the movie many years ago, probably around the early 2000s. I was so bewildered by it, especially the ending. I had no idea that it was a summation of an entire series until a few years ago so when I found it for free on Youtube this month, I watched it all.
It really is a classic for a reason.

Chu-chu represents Anthy's eating disorder.

>>37293
also Woman Eating by Claire Kohda was good, it was less man-killing forward than i liked, but it was good nevertheless

should also have said i'm only really interested in books by female authours

you might like shy girl by mia ballard? i wish there was more man killing but the man killing that does happen is really satisfying

>>37293
Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood