The life and times of a legal adult

Multifandom but mainly RWBY, some writing, some essays pretty pictures, lots of love, and the occasional fanfic. She/her, username is the same on dreamwidth and discord. Will tag anything if you ask. Enjoy!

[sleeplessdreamerart]

Armand always has glowing eyes in the dark I want Louis to have that treatment

[assignedmale]

[prokopetz]

For clarity, when I said "don't push yourself", I didn't mean "don't ever test your physical and emotional limits"; I just meant maybe the Costco parking lot is not the place to conduct that particular experiment.

[prokopetz]

You think I'm just memeing here, but the Costco parking lot is in fact the perfect place to meet people who feel strongly that the only way to prove their manhood is to attempt to do The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift moves with a shopping cart containing two hundred kilos of Diet Coke.

[isnt-it-pretty]

Finally got the Alanna the Lioness tattoo I always wanted, inspired by my childhood copy of Lioness Rampant. I spent a long time looking for artists whose style I liked and who might enjoy designing it, and settled on @midknight.ink over on instragram! She did such an amazing job. I know Alanna's magic is violet, but the pinkish fire matched the overall tattoo design more.

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[idontwanttoboldlygo]

This is one of the cutest Data momens IMO and I've never heard anyone talk about it

[setulose]

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

[setulose]

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

[setulose]

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Author: I have created a unique heavily gendered society where men and women have different but equal forms of power!

The society: Men have all the political and economic power but women nag them sometimes so who is really in charge here, hm?

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

This isn't limited to fiction by the way, I've seen way too many people argue that a wife has "soft power" in a patriarchal society because she could nag her husband and sometimes he'd even give in to her. There's a reason they call it soft power and it's because it gives the moment hard power comes in.

All power is social. All of it. That's what makes it so slippery. Social power is the reason the order 'i want you to bomb this country' gets followed if it's said by a president and ignored if it's said by an unhoused man on the street corner. But hard social power (legal, economic, religious, political) will always trump soft social power (being persuasive). The reason women's soft social power is magnified is not because it's equal to hard social power, but because it's a patriarchal excuse. That the legal, economic, religious, and political oppression of women must happen to counter their "overwhelming" soft social power of being seductive or clever or naggy or whichever excuse they're using this time.

[jen-iii]

The Estate's Secret

(I saw the movie leaks and I was INSTANTLY thrusted back into ATLA hyperfixation and I wanted to give it a go at drawing one of my all time favorite characters because Toph's story is so wonderfully done and theres so much nuance that I HAD to draw em out. This is a two parter piece AND I still have more ideas so buckle up)

[nondelphic]

unfortunately my story needs a middle. i personally think this is excessive

[ostolero]

[sebright]

Houndoom

[lastoneout]

The most recent Android update making it impossible to actually disable any AI features no matter what you do is surely a sign that this technology is the future and about to take off and make everyone SOOOOO much money that all the nay-sayers will be sobbing about how they were fools who should have listened and invested. Everyone knows you have a winning product if you have to uh *checks notes* trick and/or force people to use it against their will. Great job, everyone!

[kosmogrl]

[vosquitransitis]

the great thing about tumblr is that you can meet people you'll vibe with on a level you have never vibed with anyone before and the tragedy about tumblr is that they almost certainly will live in another country

[hppjmxrgosg]

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

[inconspectus]

once my therapist said I used very uncommon and creative phrases and adjectives and i just did not have the heart to tell that Old Lady From A Foreign Small Town that I was translating tumblr speech into our language. so I was like yeah... must be from the books I read...

like girl we have an army of scholars over at tumblr.com crafting our language it's not just little old me I swear

[copperbadge]

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

[digitaldiscipline]

Me: "I am getting a good grade in patient, which is normal to want and possible to achive."

My Doctor: "Please stop that."

[gothiccharmschool]

Me: "I want to get a good grade in therapy, which is normal to want and possible to achieve."

My Therapist: "So, how are your peeps on Tumblr doing?"

[thememedaddy]