Personal is not the same as important

Artemis, 30, Nonbinary, they/them. Mess of a person,  Engineer, Science and Fantasy nerd. Super into D&D. Professional procrastinator. If You want me to tag something in particular, just ask, I don't bite. - I generally block people who use tiktok-style censoring in tags

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Ryland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.

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Conversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.

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And together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.

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The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

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Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

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Happy Moon Landing Day!

On July 20, 1969 - 55 years ago today! - humans first stepped foot on another world.

Apollo 11 - NASA

The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar

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Happy Moon Landing Day!

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[peasant-player]

Ungoliant

Primeval devourer of light

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

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[allykatsart]

Oh god he's doing a dragon

Oh fuck off- BALOONS?????

Yeah no that's a dragon

we get it its a dragon-WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU MADE THE WALL OUT OF CHOCOLATE????!!?!!

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Need to be a muscle mommy's arm candy so badly fr

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The Heart Sūtra 🌊

an excerpt from The Heart Sutra

I’ve wanted to draw Mizu for long time, and now I’ve finally had the idea

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wanted to draw ez now that my players are gonna be spending more time with her. she's too cool and I DO NOT do her character justice when i play her lmao

[thegaymertrainer]

Ribbon dancing I was not aware of your evolution 🤯

[cuntyqueerleondraisaitl]

Andy Weir: Contact with Alien life would be almost impossible, everything would be completely different. Will they be able to tolerate our atmosphere? Their number system would probably be different as base ten doesn't actually have any scientific backup, how would that affect the way they view the world? How would their friendships be formed? What phrases would be interchangeable and how would that match their worldview? How would our relationships with them be formed? What about non-verbal signals? How would they see or hear? How would this be affected by their environment? How would this affect the way we talk to them? What about small and specific customs? What inconsequential things do humans have strict rules around?

Marvel: Yeah Thanos speaks English.

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i can't stop listening to the soundtrack. amazing game

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Bunch of natural hair concepts for my girl Prism 🥰

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lord of the rings is a fun place to fandom because there's so many options to obsess over no matter what your interests are, but because of that it's also a humbling reminder that different people like different things and that's ok.

like, for me the heart and soul of lotr is the hobbits, and it always bemuses me to see how underrated they can be in fics or fandom like?? you have these funky little fuckers who are really brave and kind and loyal but also have oddball forms of government and eat and party a lot and get into scrapes and have all these hobbit pals and there's all sorts of shipping options and they have interesting nuanced social politics and second breakfast and pipeweed and they give presents on their birthday instead of the other way around so they're always getting presents and they're hilariously weird about their family trees and they led full-scale guerrilla warfare against these bastards who invaded their homeland but also all they want to do is chill and have nice gardens and probably judge vegetable growing competitions and have pretty dances

and instead people are getting super invested in basic-bad-boy-bitch sauron? huh. fair enough. the world is indeed a rich tapestry.

[hacash]

oh god this is how gandalf speaks to saruman isn't it

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

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i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

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Happy Pride Month

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Sandra Bullock on the Muppet Show