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upstairs neighbour is doing what I can only assume is dropping rocks onto the ground, picking them up, and dropping them again over and over
By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.
This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.
reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡
ao3 is not changing anything by the way! some people just want them to change for some reason. my guess is that these people just don't understand how the site works and refuse to actually learn how it works, so they blame the site because it's easier for them that way.
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just saw a muslim girl tiktoker say, nail polish is allowed and doesnt invalidate whudu bc the khuf is the same thing; something over the actual limb but wiping over it is sufficient for whudus validity. she also said, that it disadvantages women because men can leave the foot unwashed while women cant leave their hands unwashed.
and my argument is, its not abt whudu, its abt ghusl of the mayyit; ghusl isnt valid unless water touches the body, khuf is easily removable (just a zip) while polish isnt (polish remover and scraping), harm and aggression cant be done to the body. and we can die at any time so theres no predicting when thatll happen so rather dont do nail polish for the sake of those who'll bathe ur body for the last time. return to ur Lord the same way He made u: clean and pure; u were not made with polish on ur nails 🩷
this is a lesson for me first, and by no means am i criticising or insulting any scholar or religious opinion. im merely giving my own view and take on the matter 💅
*taps the mic* Is this thing on? Okay so there's this thing that's been annoying me for a damn long ass time, and it's the way people have twisted the meaning of "lone wolf" in general and the way they apply it to characters and think it's a fucking compliment.
Every time someone calls Yoo Joonghyuk a lone wolf in that tone I want to chew through a wall to this person and knock them on the head. Cuz people say it as something cool and badass, alpha male sigma grindset or whatever the fuck. And that's not what a lone wolf is.
A lone wolf isn't natural and it's not cool. It's a wolf that has lost something essential to its nature.
It can't defend territory. A pack announces itself through howls that overlap. A single wolf howling isn't a warning. It's an invitation. It's a question. It's a voice calling into the dark, hoping something will answer. When another pack hears a lone wolf, they don't retreat. They investigate, chase it off, kill it if they can. The lone wolf doesn't hold territory. It moves through the spaces between packs. Always passing through, never belonging anywhere long enough to actually rest.
It can't howl with anything resembling happiness. Wolves howl for all sorts of things—to assemble the pack, warn rivals, coordinate the hunt, but they also howl just because they're together. It's the sound of belonging. A lone wolf can howl, but its howl is never answered. It calls into the silence and the silence sends nothing back. The lone wolf never howls for joy, because it doesn't even remember what joy sounds like.
Wolves don't choose to be alone.
The lone wolf is NOT some badass fucking alpha who rejected the pack and not a rogue who struck out on its own for freedom. It's an exile. An orphan. A survivor whose pack got destroyed by hunters or disease or a rival pack that killed everyone it loved. It's the wolf that made one mistake too many and got driven out. It's the wolf that left not because it wanted to, but because the territory couldn't feed another mouth and staying would mean starvation for everyone.
The lone wolf is alone because something was taken from it. Because it lost. Because it failed. Because it's the one who lived when no one else did.
Every lone wolf carries a loss it can't name. Every lone wolf is looking for something it can't find alone. Every lone wolf is a wound shaped like an animal. This is why YJH's character is so freaking sad to me. Not because he's cold or distant or refuses to explain himself and then gets misunderstood terribly by everyone who's not KDJ (who still manages to misinterpret him constantly. they're both hopeless). He's sad because he's been a lone wolf for 1863 lifetimes. He's watched his pack die, over and over and over. He's watched them die so many times that he's forced himself to not care in some regressions because the grief was just too heavy to carry again. He's walked through worlds alone, carrying the memory of people who don't exist anymore, howling into silence that never answers.
He's not an alpha who chose solitude. He's a wolf who lost everything so many times that he forgot what it felt like to have anything.
And then Kim Dokja appeared.
KDJ, who is somehow the most clever person in the room and also the dumbest when it comes to himself. Who lies as easily as he breathes and thinks he's being subtle when he's about as subtle as a brick through a window. Who will manipulate everyone around him "for their own good" and then act shocked when they're upset about it. Genuinely one of the most exhausting fucking people YJH has ever met, and YJH has met a lot of people over 1863 rounds.
And KDJ didn't ask to join that sad one person pack. He just refused to leave. He scavenged from the wolf's kills and figured out the wolf's patterns before the wolf even knew he was being watched, and then started inserting himself at exactly the right moments. Died for the wolf and its companions. Came back. Died again. Stayed. Stayed. Stayed again.
Insufferable. Too stubborn to die properly. Gave the wolf some gray hairs but also the reason the wolf hasn't completely lost its mind. The reason why slowly, the lone wolf remembered.
Remembered that it was lonely. That it had been lonely for so long that the loneliness had become invisible, had become the water it swam in, had become indistinguishable from its own body. It had forgotten that there was another way to exist. It had forgotten that the absence of pack wasn't a natural state but a wound.
KDJ didn't heal the wound—that's not how that type of wounds work. But he made the wolf feel it again. Made the wolf remember that it was missing something.
This is why YJH's anger at KDJ's sacrifices is so immense. Not because KDJ is weak (he's not, despite y'all's love to infantilize him) or because he's stealing YJH's perceived leader role or his companions. Because YJH spent 1863 lifetimes learning not to love, not to need, and not to hope. He built himself into something that could survive anything because he had nothing left to lose. And then this annoying impossible motherfucker anomaly appeared and gave him something he could actually lose forever. YJH didn't ask for it and didn't want it.
But for the first time in 1863 lifetimes, the hurt and loneliness weren't the only things. And turns out, KDJ isn't the only bastard who doesn't know how to let go.
Anyway that's it I'm done thanks *drops the mic*
Dokjoong are so pathetic for each other and I think about it sometimes and it's such a funny concept.
Kim Dokja is obsessed. He has been obsessed since he was a malnourished bullied fifteen years old domestic violence and suicide attempt survivor, reading about a fictional character who was cooler and stronger and more dramatic than anyone in real life. And now that character is real, and he's right there, and KDJ has to actively stop himself from staring (which fails miserably every damn time).
Yoo Joonghyuk is washing dishes. His sleeves are rolled up and his forearms are—
Stop looking.
He's not looking.
He's definitely looking.
When YJH does something impressive like cuts down a monster in one epic swing or solves a problem KDJ was struggling with (and KDJ rarely struggles with that kind of stuff so it's even more impressive), or even just exists in the same space, KDJ has to physically bite his tongue to keep from saying something cringe and embarrassing.
You're so cool.
I've never met anyone like you.
I read about you for thirteen years and you're still more than I imagined.
He says none of this, because he'd rather die forever than say it out loud. He says "sunfish bastard" and "emo jerk" and "you're so dramatic" instead. Because that's the language they speak, the one where insults are endearments and silence is devotion. But sometimes, late at night, when YJH is probably asleep and KDJ is laying awake watching the ceiling, he thinks about how lucky in the most fucked up way he is. How damn absurd. How this man—this protagonist, his protagonist—chose him. Some random guy from the bridge he's never met before. A false prophet. A reader. A nobody.
And he thinks, I would burn down the Star Stream for you.
And then he goes to sleep and pretends he didn't.
YJH calls KDJ by his name more than necessary. "Kim Dokja". Not "you" or "hey" or nothing. The name, like he's testing that KDJ is still there to answer.
On those rare main scenario window days with no crisis and no urgency, they sit in the same room. KDJ reads TWOS on his phone (yes, despite YJH being right there. so greedy). YJH polishes his sword with that unnecessarily terrifying focus or just digs through something in the system or just sits. They don't talk. But then KDJ will look up and catch YJH watching him. Not like, staring menacingly or judgmentally. Just resting his eyes on KDJ, his oh so beautiful face fully relaxed. Like KDJ is a landscape he's memorized but keeps looking at anyway.
And YJH won't look away when caught, that bastard. He'll hold eye contact for a beat too long and then return to whatever he was doing. And KDJ, who has spent his whole life being looked through, not looked at, feels something crack open in his chest.
He doesn't say anything and neither does YJH. But later, when they're alone, YJH will stand a little closer and let their shoulders touch. Let KDJ lean into him for just a second before stepping away.
KDJ notices all of this. Thinks about it at 3AM when he can't sleep.
Thinks, he probably does this for everyone.
He doesn't, and KDJ knows better than anyone that he doesn't. But believing that YJH is doing it for him is terrifying, because what if he's wrong? What if he's reading into things? What if he lets himself want this and then it just gets taken away?? So he builds a mental case and files all the evidence and tells himself he'll believe it when he has enough proof.
Meanwhile, YJH is standing three feet away, staring at him with an expression that HSY has described as "like you personally invented the concept of oxygen", and KDJ is still not sure. Fucking idiot.
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fanfic that I like
fanfic that is none of my business
I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.
and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.
everybody say thank you ao3
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