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My friends' (@anoptimisticpessimist @lun4rc0w) DnD characters being carried across a lake of cold honey by a fire-breathing bear. This actually happened. Apparently one of them also received "Earrings of Speaking to Bears Who Are Assholes," but since this bear is usually polite, they didn't really work on him??

#amazing art #d&d oc #d&d

st-pam

#fuck it #at this point I'll try anything

mr-oldman-appreciator

You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person

#gay #that's about it #definitely not cuz you're my best friend or anything #💕

welldrawnfish

**Reuploaded due to shadowban, deleted most recent posts to make sure they werent an issue. My apologies for the repost.

Some people ask to support me, my kofi is here. There's literally nothing on it I have nothing to offer people I'm sorry. https://ko-fi.com/welldrawnfish PLEASE, do not donate unless you are very well off financially. Take care of yourselves first.

I will be Running a half marathon in May for the Ronald McDonald house. I have successfully contacted the race coordinators and we have worked out a way to protect my identity and still raise money. Look for a donation link in the future! You can find Penny here: https://twitter.com/tiredtomboy she is very cute and sweet friend and a newly hatched egg and I wish her all the support! And you can find Ruby here: @rubi_ruu

#transgender #transgirl #transfem #fashion #refer to later

void-milf

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

void-milf

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.

37womenwieldingknives

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

afraidofamericans

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

queeranarchism

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

anarchopuppy

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

mayflower-gal

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

#internet privacy #junk data #ad blocking and anti tracking #resources #useful links

uten4

They're on my mind...

#echo vn #echo project #echo #so true #especially the flynn ones

muslimfish

Matching icons with @anoptimisticpessimist now because we really liked Paranormasight, especially the devoted arsonist mother and her sidekick, Bird Otaku.

#no yea he's very gay #they can tell #also almost every character in it was amazing #paranormasight #bird otaku is also accurate btw #he's great

nonapteral

#otherside picnic #urasekai picnic #gay #i love your art sm

catpop12343

reblog to give a lesbian a cup of hot chocolate

#hot chocolate for you

guerrillatech

hekatontarch

queertail

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

sola-whumping

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

#useful resource #and unfortunately necessary

nonapteral

#alex dragalia lost #elisanne dragalia lost #elisanne #dragalia lost #couple #gay #cute #I'm in love with this

irishironclad

Reblog and tag the person you reblogged this from with what kind of magic you think they’d perform. Ex. Fire magic, ice magic, Necromancy, etc

#you seem pretty neck-romantic #but probably time or something #not to any overpowered degree but you'd use it creatively

neil-gaiman

Why Tumblr? Why do you, an actual celebrity, a famous writer, use Tumblr of all websites?

(The actual celebrity and famous writer sits back in his rocking chair, surveys the world of Tumblr, from his porch. He chews meditatively on a straw, and then he says:)

TACAFW: Y'see, I've been here for nigh on twelve years now, which in new-fangled internet years is about four hundred years... yup, I remember when all this wuz just folks trading photos of cats, and I remember when over there, where it's now just waste land, that whole part of town was whut we used to call 'Not safe for work" -- hooey, I don't know where those folks went, when they got driv out of town -- but me, through those twelve years, I've just been in this old rockin' chair on this old porch, and I've seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go... I guess I mus' just' like it here...

eloisecarles

#I've technically been on this site for like 9 years...#horrifying thought

sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

headspace-hotel

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

headspace-hotel

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

agent-octopus

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

headspace-hotel

there's art now

jetlaggingbehind

questions-within-questions

Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

normal-horoscopes

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

stargazing-enby

This is my new favourite post in the world

astronomical-bagel

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

#why do i love this #also hilarious #writing analysis

laranoa

A game that was really important to me was shut down forever today.

It was a big part of my life for over four years, and it was special in a way that can't really be understood to those who weren't there. It's impossible to convey how it wasn't just any mobile game. Between the excellent writing and localization, professional voice acting, and fully produced rock songs for each event, it created emotional experiences like no other game ever has for me. It raised the bar not just for what mobile gaming could be. but for what all gaming could be.

I know it's silly and melodramatic to mourn a game as if it were a loved one. But it's how I feel. I don't think there will be another game quite like this for a long time, if ever again.

#dragalia Lost #this is exactly how i feel #already miss it so much honestly

flameof

So, I realised I never actually posted this old thing I made back when Dragalia Lost had its End of Service announced.

So, here it is. A poem I call ‘The Final Curtain Call’.

#dragalia lost #eos #cry #gonna miss it sm

charlataninred

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.