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Getting together with your family for a vacation can be extremely stressful. There's travel to worry about and food to make, but most crucially, there's the pressure and desire for everybody to get along. Some of us come from bloodlines that get into screaming matches over having to wait in line for Space Mountain for 20 minutes too long. Others might be the product of a passive-aggressive lineage where your aunt implies a lot of shady stuff about you while walking down the Champs-Élysées. One…

Tumblr's been name-checked pretty frequently lately, for a few different reasons. Allegedly, nudity and pornography are making a return to the site. Tumblr made the controversial move to ban porn back in 2018, due to the app's removal from the iOs app store. The decision caused quite a bit of controversy , so users have been excited for the return of boobies and erotic fan art. As Twitter users join the mass exodus from the bird app, many people have been touting Tumblr as the next-best thing -…

Rebel girl!

If you are a young Gen Z person, your vocabulary is likely rotted due to your exposure to the internet from a young age. Trust me, I would know. The way I speak has so many colloquialisms imbued into it that you'd think I was a character written by a baby boomer for the purpose of making fun of young people. I say words like stun, werk, and fierce like a robot programmed to do so. Friends have told me that because of my speech, they've started accidentally calling people "gorg" in corporate env…

People give Tumblr a lot of slack. It has maintained its reputation as being a cesspool for 13-year-old fangirls to scream about Misha Collins , even though the website has changed a lot in the past ten years. I stopped using Tumblr regularly in 2014, so my concept of it is a bit skewed toward that time period. However, Tumblr has some hilarious gems that are worth checking out if you've cast it aside. Tumblr has a lot of qualities I look for in a social media platform. It allows and even encou…

Every day you consume things. Unless you are sitting in a dark room with no technology because you're recovering from a concussion or you're a deeply neglected child (and if you're either of those things, I'm terribly sorry), you consume stuff with your eyes and other less important senses every day. You see buses, Comedy Central sitcoms that got canceled after three seasons, and God . Just kidding about that last one, unless you're highly advanced, or you're that person suffering from that con…

F*ck off

Hey man, you're pretty trustworthy; can I tell you a little secret? I've got 28 immaculately crafted memes lying just below this message. I know that you can handle them. Don't go around telling everybody about these memes. I'm serious! I'm definitely not using any reverse psychology as we speak. You better not share this perfectly curated list of memes to your Facebook feed or send it to your most active groupchat. You're going to be really sorry if you tell your coworkers or your family about…

They're festering

I am so glad I grew up offline. Don't get me wrong, I cherish and enjoy every single solitary second I spend on this sacred place we call “the internet.” However, I'm glad my uncensored access to the world wide web didn't begin until I was 12. I still grew up during the era when little kids didn't have phones, and we just watched the same episode of Hannah Montana over and over again to amuse ourselves. We were still flying our brains, but with Cartoon Network instead of TikTok. Kids no longer…

It's coming

This fleeting existence has a tendency to feel a bit pointless. You know, "life's a b*tch and then you die" type vibes. It's really wild that everyting feels as though it's meant to be a struggle, living meager paycheck to meager paycheck, while some person who says "yes" or "no" or “more” lives lavishly and luxuriously thanks to our hard work. While we try not to think of the sad reality in our day-to-day lives, it has become increasingly hard to ignore. But when the going gets tough, and real…

I feel like everyone has been in the state of mind where you often tell yourself, “I just have to get through this week.” Of course, when you inevitably get through the week, you start thinking the same thing the next week. This can be a red flag that maybe, just maybe, you're going through an objectively difficult period of your life. But at the same time, it can be the greatest cope known to man. Even if it feels futile, I'm glad we have cute little coping mechanisms like telling ourselves we…

Take your time

One of the cool things about living in New York is that some institutions will reward you for being young. This probably isn't something exclusive to New York, but there are a lot of things to do here, and when those things are under $30, it makes it a lot easier. If you are under 35, you can get $30 tickets to Lincoln Center musicals, and I think that's pretty neat. The majority of the people in the audience are geriatric, and I am satisfied knowing they're paying full price while I spent the…