Reposted by Liz @ new kid on the block
Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah
Liz @ new kid on the block
@googlymooglies.bsky.social
132 followers 130 following 290 posts
cats, chickens, plants, crafting. queer grey-ace. wlw. always right.
![Screenshot of a tumblr post:
Username: somecunttookmyurl
There is a tendency with history, I think, because we're so far removed from it, to kind of forget that all of the people were people
A child 10,000 years ago left a handprint on a wall. They were fingerpainting. A viking climbs up a rock just to carve the words "this is very high" 10 ft off the ground. Somebody centuries… millenia… ago burned their dinner so thoroughly that they buried the ruined pot in their backyard rather than attempt to clean it. Shakespeare got drunk and wrote dick jokes. Tutankhamun was a little boy who liked ducks more than anything. A Roman carves his name into a monument in another country said "I was here." A prisoner, centuries ago, in the tower of london scratches lines into the wall as a tally marking the days. A medieval monk scrawls in the margins bemoaning the boredom of his work.
Every human being across history has said "i was here. I lived. I loved. I made something. I laughed. I cried. Please do not forget me"
Reply username: somecunttookmyurl
Most of us are not important enough that we will be remembered by name for more than a few decades. We are not kings or queens or great military leaders or innovators or influential artists, musicians, authors.
But all of us, every one has a deep primal need to persist. We leave handprints on the wall, scratch out names into stones, carve initials into a tree, mark our growth as children on a wall, bury little time capsules. Write in the margins of a book. Hide notes behind wallpaper.
Reaching out into the future to some unknown human long after we're gone to say
"Hello, you. I was here once."
[screenshot of tags reading #poetry #not rly but i don't have a better tag and i'm obsessed w this]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkzd67jyesez6owddi62mbjw/bafkreie5bub6hnszftpomlq5gzfxlnxxkdhyzkfay5ykzioiy75jxejpc4)
