F. McGrawvy

Too groovy for the grawvy (not sponsored by KFC 🍗)

[Doktor_74 🇵🇭 #KikoBam2025 @Doktor__74]

Monsters University had such an oddly mature message to teach kids

How there are times where your dreams WILL NOT come true, but that doesn't mean your skillset and interests can't be put into other fields

[Gofa D. HeadBox🔞 @ArtGofa]

The part of the franchise that made me who I am⭐

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@regenmicks @CONEY I’m not much into horror, but I think it’s worth the hype after just coming out watching it. Tad bit funny too

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@raffy_lorenzo Is this like Vegeta becoming one with a table?

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@JohnyLemony @ddcastarchive Well I need to watch S1 still of Born Again if that’s any consolation

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@Red__JT I’m also rewatching the series and when I got to this part, I had a feeling you’d tweet about it 🙏

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@kittyvaniaVT One of my fav franchises besides Metroid in Nintendo

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@TheSashaExpress @ChillyGalatine I went off vibes that I enjoyed the ending for some reason, even tho others didn’t. I’m glad others can articulate better why it fits thematically, even if it’s not the perfect ending

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@Rickyhalo22 @BenTenNews My life would be theirs if it got restored

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@Hero_iRL Sorry to hear m8 😔

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.

Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.

Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.

So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.

Then the gatekeepers showed up.

When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.

Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.

$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.

The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.

[𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈 @worldreads]

Harvard has updated their FREE online classes

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

MoistCr1TiKaL calls out the mindless hypocrisy of the Right's response to the murder of Alex Pretti.

"If the goal is getting rapists and pedophiles off of American soil... you would get significantly more if you took ICE and brought them to the White House."

[TheNCSmaster @TheNCSmaster]

If you grew up in the 90’s or especially the 2000’s, one of these 5 is etched into your soul

[James Shields @scaling_shields]

this is such facts and i've seen it firsthand

my mates older sister is a corporate recruiter for a fortune 500

few drinks in at christmas she started talking

"you want to know how many of those linkedin jobs are real?"

i said yeah

"maybe 30%. and thats generous"

she pulled out her phone

showed me the backend of their ATS

4,200 applications for a "marketing coordinator" role

position was filled internally 3 weeks before they posted it

"so why post it?"

"legal. we have to show we tried to hire externally. diversity metrics. plus the data"

"what data"

"emails. phone numbers. work history. salary expectations. we sell anonymised reports to consulting firms. and keep the rest for future roles we also wont hire for"

i asked how many CVs she actually reads

"for entry level? none. AI filters. if you dont keyword match in the first 8 seconds youre in a black hole"

"what about the people who make it through?"

"depends. if someones internal referral is in the pile we usually just pick them. the interviews are theatre"

i asked what shed do if she was job hunting

she laughed

"i wouldnt apply online. ever. id find the hiring managers linkedin, find their email pattern, and send something directly. or id get someone inside to drop my name before the role goes live"

"so the application is pointless"

"the application is a formality. the decision happened weeks ago. youre just being processed"

she said something at the end i think about constantly

"people treat job hunting like a meritocracy. send good CV, get interview, get job. it hasnt worked like that in 15 years. the system is designed to handle volume, not find talent. if youre playing by the rules youre already losing"

600 applications per role

30 seconds of human attention

the rest is database filler

stop applying

start bypassing

the front door is a trap

the side door is where deals get made

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

More like you’re 26 but you feel 23 inside, and it’s not because you’re immature. It’s because the last few years didn’t develop you - they scrambled you. Time passed, but it didn’t land in your body as growth the way it’s “supposed” to. It landed as noise. Stress. Survival. Weird limbo. Half living.

A lot of people lost a clean stretch of adulthood. Not just because of the pandemic, though that’s a big one. Also because the world has been running on rolling crisis mode for years. Money anxiety, job churn, rent rising, relationships collapsing under pressure, attention shredded by phones, constant comparison, constant doom. When you’re in that state, you’re not learning in a linear way. You’re coping. You’re getting through the week. You’re doing mental triage.

coping doesn’t always build you. Sometimes it freezes you.

You know that feeling when you look at your peers and it seems like they “caught up” to adulthood faster? They have routines, relationships, savings, a calm tone, a sense of direction. And you’re sitting there like… I can barely keep my laundry from becoming a geological formation. I still feel like a teenager in an adult costume. I still get that stomach drop when an email looks serious. I still avoid phone calls like they’re predators. I still don’t feel like I’m driving my life, I feel like I’m being dragged behind it.

That’s the “2-3 years behind” feeling.

usually not a skill gap. It’s a nervous system gap.

People think development is about milestones. Job. Apartment. Partner. Degree. But a lot of “growing up” is internal. It’s your ability to regulate, to plan, to recover, to trust yourself, to handle boring admin without collapsing, to believe that your future is real enough to invest in.

when you’re anxious or depressed or dissociated for long stretches, you don’t get to build those layers smoothly. You might still be functioning. You might still be doing the external stuff. But internally you feel younger because your system is still stuck in earlier modes: avoid, appease, freeze, fantasize, survive.

compare yourself to who exactly? The versions people post?

A lot of people look “ahead” because they’re performing stability. They have the job title and the nice photos and the “adult” aesthetic, and you don’t see the part where they’re also texting their mom in a panic, or crying in their car, or living paycheck to paycheck, or avoiding their own mess. Their life looks organized because they show the clean corner, not the pile behind the door.

Still, the feeling is real. And it usually shows up in specific places.

when you’re with older adults and you feel like a kid listening. When someone talks about mortgages or babies or promotions and your brain goes blank. When you realize you never got the slow practice of being an adult, you got thrown into it. When you notice you still want someone to tell you what to do. When you’re scared you missed the “becoming” part and now you’re just late.

that matters:

Feeling behind is often your mind trying to explain grief.

Grief for time you didn’t get the way you wanted. Time you spent surviving. Time you spent stuck. Time you spent numb. Time you spent in relationships that drained you. Time you spent trying to be okay instead of building.

grief gets translated into a simple story: I’m behind.

Because “I’m behind” feels actionable. You can fix behind. You can catch up. Grief feels heavier. It’s harder to hold.

if you feel 2-3 years behind, you’re not broken. You’re probably just honest. You’re noticing the gap between your age and your internal readiness. That gap is common now.

And it’s not permanent.

It shrinks when your nervous system stabilizes.
It shrinks when you stop living in reaction.
It shrinks when you build boring consistency.
It shrinks when you stop measuring adulthood by someone else’s timeline and start measuring it by your ability to show up for your own life.

[taoki @justalexoki]

this is still the best grief advice I've ever read

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@_Nikkuru Gotta follow peak art styles 🙏

[F. McGrawvy @Hark_less]

@TheSashaExpress Hi
I’m here for cool content 👍