I don't know who, I don't know why, but I'm very grateful :)

I swear to god they are literally everywhere. Everywhere you look, everywhere you breathe, there's one of these on the road.

Truly a day to remember:

Originally it was just watching anime episodes while waiting for online class to start but after realising the true power (ie. discovering thewatchcartoononline) now watching 6 episodes of whatever show is part of my daily routine. I think also binge watching the same show for 4 months straight made me lose my sanity a bit, but at least I watched all the episodes :)

Oh and the anime I'm watching is called "Blood-C".

Sometimes I go into the social feed to look at some of the new artwork while listening to new songs. Sounds like it could work well, and it could if I didn't follow so many fricking artists which by the way, I'm rating each artwork I come across because it's good to support small creators like that, but jesus christ It took an hour to scroll down to 2 weeks ago. Same thing with news posts but not to the same extreme.

You get one problem, after about 3 weeks the problem goes away, then another problem comes out of nowhere, things are fine between the transition stage where there's nothing on the conveyer, but then the first problem comes back and it's an endless loop of problems you don't know how to solve, because the second you try to figure it out and stop it: it goes away.

People say "Stand out, be unique" while others say "blend in, fit in". It is good to be yourself, but I feel like society now has gone the opposite direction which is why people on tiktok are faking mental disorders; because it's rare and quirky. For example: if you're a girl and you like dresses, and most of the other girls like dresses, it's not a bad thing to be like the others. If everyone in a room was sitting down and one person stood up, suddenly they're unique. But then everyone copies and suddenly the majority has changed; everyone is standing up. So then to stand out you have to step onto a chair and the cycle goes on.

Society puts too much pressure (well at least in the west) to be unique and be quirky (heck there's even an entire subreddit dedicated to this) and I think something needs to be done about it. Follow the cheesy message of "be yourself", but don't feel bad if yourself acts like or dresses like a large group of people.

Also acting like your oppressed to give yourself attention is utter bullshit.

I joined in October so I've never seen this event before.

sounds cool tho

I asked Dad the other day if he could buy me "The Henry stickmin collection" on Steam as I am a big fan of the flash games. When I was searching for the Steam page I found a bunch of websites where people could download the game for free. Why the fuck would anyone pirate an Indie game!? I understand pirating something like "The Sims 4" because nobody wants to spend over 100 quid* on DLC and expansion packs; but this was £11.39** and made by a small group of people who actually care about their work and you just go and screw them over like this!?

You could call me a hypocrite because I literally have "TheWatchCartoonOnline" open in another tab (according to some random ass website it isn't a piracy site, but let's be honest, it is.) That's because Mum and Dad never bought Netflix or any other streaming services (gen X loves it's pre recorded cable TV) sooooo

*$126 (quid is a slang term for pounds £)

**$15 (that's why the conversion isn't a whole number)

Basically. if you don't know him he's a famous author who wrote children's books in the 70's and 80's; and only now have I realised how dark these books were.

A great example is "Charlie and the chocolate factory" which is about some guy called Willy Wonker who runs a famous chocolate factory (such a British thing to write about) and he makes this publicity stunt where he puts 5 golden tickets into random chocolate bars and whoever gets the tickets gets an exclusive tour around his factory, where nobody except him can go inside as Wily Wonker was paranoid of spies. Sounds pretty harmless, sure there's a couple plot holes but this book is 45 years old so it can be excused.

The first child falls into a chocolate waterfall, gets sucked up a pipe, then had all the chocolate and other crap squeezed from him while some ummpa loompas (fictional creatures who work there who only get payed in food...wait hold on-) sang about how the child is a fatass. The second child stole some chewing gum and inflated like a balloon and had to be rolled out and deflated while the ummpa loompas were singing (they do that a lot.) The third fell into a rubbish dump. The forth got stuck inside a TV and turned tiny: then had to be stretched out so he looked like a 13 foot stick. And the fifth (Charlie) got the factory, but also got stuck inside a lift that went to space. Now imagine if that was a book for adults and Willy Wonker was some kind of child murder (@Xploshi did something similar to this at one point). Not much would have to be changed tbh, just chuck in some blood and swears and there you go.

Another one, which was one of my favourite books when I was 7, was this one called "The Witches" which is about these women who are trying to wipe out children. There's literally a song talking about how they're gonna' drug the sweets and give them to children in a sweet shop so when they go to school the next day they turn into mice. Then the teacher walks in and finds all the mice, kills them all with mouse traps, and reads a book wondering where her students went. How is classified as a children's book!? I guess it's worded and the story is told in a way that children don't really understand it well. But still: how many authors can get away with writing a book about child murders to infant school students*?

And all the books (at least the ones I've read) are like this: the main character's family turns into ducks as karma for shooting ducks for fun, and they almost die, a married couple like to torture monkeys and pour glue onto the tree in their garden to catch birds to eat (at one point 4 boys climbed the tree and got stuck, and the couple were completely fine with wanting to kill them and bake them into a pie, but the boys escaped), a 4 year old girl gets neglected by her family because she likes to read, the head teacher at a primary school** abuses her students and threw one across the playground by her ponytails, and then that 4 year old abuses the head teachers trauma by pulling a trick to make it look like the ghost of a dead relative is talking to her so she'll leave her job, a young boy is forced to work by his aunts after his parents died in front of his eyes a couple years back, the list goes on...

I would genuinely see a film remake where they crank up the violence and say swear words as it just seems so fitting for the books, The only books I can think of which aren't really dark is his 2 autobiographies.

*infant school: age 4-7

**elementary school: age 4-11

Today in the UK is the official date marking 70 years that the Queen has been on the throne, and I've been to 2 parties in the last week; and in both of them I just sat in the corner and did nothing.

The Jubilee's are when Britain gets the most patriotic, I have never seen so many Union Jacks in one place up until now.