b. a disease so characterized.

General bullshit shitposting blog. Check my artblog for actual content.

[blightwalker]

Tumblr Purge

Well time to make it official. Pack up our bags and go! I don’t think anyone follows me on here anymore but just in case: Pillowfort.io : https://www.pillowfort.io/Swift - This is going to me my main blogging/upload site from now on (once it comes back up from their security update.) Since they haven’t implemented multi-blogs yet It’s just going to be a massive fandom free-for-all for me. So the Gravity Falls, Duckverse, DBH, and Venom stuff is all going to go here as well as any SFW/non kink furry stuff. Twitter: @ Swiftblight -  I don’t really post much original content here but occasionally doodles and sketches will be posted. I also retweet a lot of fandom content and art posts. Furaffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/greedygulo/ - [NSFW] [Vore] And finally, my commission/kink/vore location. All the people that are interested in this are probably already there but in case someone is interested in that stuff, here it is. This is Very Explicit so just be warned. Streaming Usernames in case you just want to be alerted when I’m going to be doing commission streams:  https://picarto.tv/GuloGuloArt  https://www.twitch.tv/swiftblight

[kinglieste-moved-deactivated201]

i am incredibly tired of my editing application crashing so take this as it is lol

[pillowfort-social]

Tumblr is apparently doing some crazy nonsense again, so it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pillowfort.io is a new social media platform that aims to give users control of their content and how it’s seen and shared, as well as provide better communication tools to promote conversation and creativity. If this sounds good to you, you can donate $5 to our PayPal and you will receive a registration link the Friday after your donation. And if you decide the site isn’t for you, you can request a refund for up to three weeks after you sign up. (All money we receive through this process is going towards paying our hosting expenses and compensating our programmers.)

[blightwalker]

Tumblr Purge

Well time to make it official. Pack up our bags and go! I don’t think anyone follows me on here anymore but just in case: Pillowfort.io : https://www.pillowfort.io/Swift - This is going to me my main blogging/upload site from now on (once it comes back up from their security update.) Since they haven’t implemented multi-blogs yet It’s just going to be a massive fandom free-for-all for me. So the Gravity Falls, Duckverse, DBH, and Venom stuff is all going to go here as well as any SFW/non kink furry stuff. Twitter: @ Swiftblight -  I don’t really post much original content here but occasionally doodles and sketches will be posted. I also retweet a lot of fandom content and art posts. Furaffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/greedygulo/ - [NSFW] [Vore] And finally, my commission/kink/vore location. All the people that are interested in this are probably already there but in case someone is interested in that stuff, here it is. This is Very Explicit so just be warned. Streaming Usernames in case you just want to be alerted when I’m going to be doing commission streams:  https://picarto.tv/GuloGuloArt  https://www.twitch.tv/swiftblight

[pillowfort-social]

In light of tumblr now no longer allowing "adult content" (like nsfw art/pictures) will pillowfort still allow nsfw content as long as it is properly marked? Because that decision has pretty much destroyed my already little faith in tumblr.

Yes, we plan to allow NSFW content with very few restrictions. I don’t have any particular insight into why Tumblr is making this decision but if I had to guess, it’s because allowing NSFW content conflicts with their need for the site to be marketable and safe for advertisers– Pillowfort on the other hand plans to derive most of its revenue from user subscriptions, meaning that we will be beholden to our actual userbase and not outside advertisers and can therefore have more leeway in what we can host.

[see-arcane]

Theory A: The majority of the Venom cast are, in fact, hardcore morosexual and Eddie Brock is the supplest slice of heartfelt idiot they’ve ever laid eyes on

Anne? 110% down to marry Eddie despite and/or because of him being the human epitome of a gold-plated trashbag

Doctor Dan? Big fan of his writing, maybe they could all sit down to a ritzy lobster lunch and do some beta readings–oh, oh no, okay, lobsters are a no go, how about just saving the crazy dumbass from an arrest and giving him some All Free medical treatment instead, call me you glorious moron

VENOM? Where do we start with fucking Venom?? 2 days’ worth of roosting in that perfect, sweat-stained, I-Will-Kick-Every-Douchebag-Hornet’s-Nest-I-Can-Find, tire fire of a brain, and he’s flipping his entire species the bird while Frenching his new wonderfully, chronically, incurably confused husband

Theory B: Eddie Brock is some kind of low grade incubus who bewitches anyone he spends more than ten minutes with into becoming a morosexual, at which point his natural state of seductive dumbassity takes over

[writernotwaiting]

Re-blogging for the phrase “gold plated trash bag”

[did-you-know]

Because most of us spend the majority of our time indoors, NASA conducted a Clean Air Study to determine which common houseplants are the best for filtering harmful toxins like ammonia and formaldehyde from the air.  

**Please note: Several of these plants are known to be toxic to cats, dogs and other pets. If you are a pet owner, please do check the toxicity of plants before introducing them to your home.**

Source Source 2

[awkward-ravby]

There’s a good site to reference when trying to make sure you don’t accidentally poison your fur children!

http://www.tailsmart.com/11-detoxifying-plants-that-are-safe-for-cats-and-dogs/

[thebibliosphere]

“Omg look at this fucking shit, gluten free mascara, ahaha, people need to be fucking stopped.”

Yes, I’m sure the person with a wheat allergy wanting to avoid putting wheat containing things near their eyeballs is truly the reason society is failing.

[thebibliosphere]

Also if anyone does actually need gluten free mascara, Zuzu Luxe is one of the best I’ve been able to find. Hardly clumps and doesn’t flake off like a lot of the others. Their other products can be a little hit or miss texture wise, but the mascara is great.

[ritualistic-raven]

I once saw a person point out that common allergens are in so many things, and it even has to do with “this facility uses it in another product but it’s still the same facility” and I stopped laughing. And then I felt bad. I was ignorant, but I didn’t think about like. My corn tortillas better not have gluten! They’re corn! And then I realized….same facility. Airborne particulates. Someone working on one line, accidentally dropping particulates in another line just by walking past.

Cause there are people who are *that* sensitive. And they deserve to be protected and have safe products.

[thebibliosphere]

I specifically do not take issue with people just not knowing things. Cause why the heck would anyone know things like that unless they ever had to? Why would you know wheat is a common ingredient in things like mascara or shampoo? I sure as shit didn’t till I started to piece together why my body went into meltdown every time I washed my hair.

What does get to me is how inherently shitty some people are about it. Like why is the first go to for things like this mockery? Why? I mean I know the answer is “society is inherently abelist even if people don’t realize they are doing it” but I’m still allowed to be frustrated by it. (It’s the same with infomercials. Those products are not lazy or worthless, they are designed for people with disabilities!)

And I know this seems like such an over reaction to something like someone in Walgreens being shitty over gluten free mascara haha. But it’s so much more than that. So much of my daily life is emotional and mental labor just trying to spoon feed people how not to be unthinkingly mean all the time. And it’s not like I can ever stop because this is my life. I am living in a world not designed or meant to include me, so constant emotional and mental labor is required to justify both myself and the things that make my life easier. And I wish people would just think with a little more kindness sometimes. That’s all.

[anatombombatallhours]

Hey uh so, full disclosure here, my dad is gluten intolerant/has celiac disease, and I didn’t know that having non-food gluten-free products was important too… I thought it only affected you if you ate the thing.

So then I think the problem is that people don’t know enough about gluten-free and think it’s some fad, because if you’re not gluten intolerant/cursed with celiac disease, then going gluten-free has no benefits, right? (not knowing these things still doesn’t excuse people mocking others’ needs, though.)

[thebibliosphere]

The thing is neither do a lot of people with celiac disease. It’s not something all doctors mention to their patients as a possible source for issue or contamination (why? usually because the doctor diagnosing it will be a GI doctor and not always an immunologist, and that’s a problem cause celiac is an auto-immune disease), so a lot of us wind up wondering why we are still presenting with flare ups and other issues when our diet is so strict and we do everything we can to control symptoms through diet.

The latest trend of using wheat by-product to make compostable paper plates and cups has me on edge too, cause I’ve been handed a cup of water in one of those cups at a venue before and not realized until I’ve drank most of it and felt my throat start to constrict and realized that I am in Danger. And I’d have never known Why if the person hadn’t started talking about their cool hippy biodegradable cups which I thought were paper, but were paper spliced with wheat-by-product.

And the thing is, those things are marketed as “allergen safe” cause in theory the protein has been processed to death, but as anyone with severe allergies or celiac will tell you, even the smallest, tiniest amount can be enough to trigger a reaction.

So you’re right, not enough people understand what it is, or how severe it can be. And you could argue that part of this is because people treat it like a fad diet and a thing to be mocked vs say, a peanut allergy where people (though not everyone) respects the severity of what that can entail. But honestly, given how prevalent wheat allergy has become in the last couple of decades, it doesn’t surprise me that a lot of people, even those without actual celiac, have found some sort of relief through cutting out wheat products (ie their issue is not necessarily gluten but wheat) so in all honesty, who gives a shit. Allergies, diseases and yes, even food preferences need to be fucking respected. Which they currently are not.

[diskhorsedudes]

I have nut allergies and a coconut allergy and was never told to avoid things other than foods with this stuff in them. I wish I was because that would’ve saved me from dealing with a huge, bright red, painful, itchy rash developing over my entire body that took months to heal. When you have allergies to certain foods, it’s not just eating them that will fuck you up. I now know I have to read the labels of any lotion, shampoo, conditioner, etc, because oils from nuts and coconut are a huge fad ingredient these days (I really wish people would stop putting coconut oil in every fucking cosmetic. It’s a more common allergy than people think and whole brands are inaccessible as a result).

If you’ve food allergies, please get into the habit of checking the ingredients of anything you put on your body. You could really save yourself some pain and discomfort.

[doks-aux]

Things that I love that we as a fandom all seem to agree on concerning the Venom movie:

Eddie Brock is a disaster bisexual on the older end of the millennial scale

Annie Weying is the most powerful character in the Sonyverse

Dan Lewis ended toxic masculinity

Dora Skirth is secretly alive, having successfully bonded with the Blue symbiote and is happily in lesbians with it/they/her

If a crossover with the MCU did occur, Venom as a collective entity would utterly, truly, deeply despise Tony Stark

Eddie and Venom are, in fact, married

[todaysbird]

i think a lot of people hear the word ‘roadrunner’ and associate it immediately with the looney tunes character but uh. real roadrunners actually manage to look even stranger than the cartoon?

(x)

[goodbonesassembling]

Before my parents married my dad worked at a national guard base in Arizona that basically consisted of a bunch of “office buildings” made up of clusters of those long, thin pre-fab style tube houses. In the afternoons if it wasn’t too hot the guys in his building would open the doors on either end to get a breeze through. Apparently a local roadrunner took this as an open invitation and started coming in to “inspect” the offices each day/use the long hallway as an indoor runway. He go up and down the hallway stopping at each desk to see if anyone had anything tasty for him and then wander back out the other end and go about his roadrunner day. If they didn’t open the doors right away he’d just be hanging out, waiting outside the building until someone let him in. They are apparently highly curious (and also incredibly trusting) birds.

[todaysbird]

this just made me so happy thank you for sharing your story

[gallusrostromegalus]

Bonus Fun Facts: 

The closest relatives to roadrunners are Cuckoos

They run up to 26mph, only a bit slower than Usain Bolt!

Roadrunners are monogamous and form lifelong pair-bonds. 

They’re omnivores, but have a distinct fondness for meat eating mice, rats, snakes (including rattlesnakes), other birds eggs and babies, and sometimes young jackrabbits! 

They have two front-facing toes and two rear-facing toes.

Roadrunners are fully capable of flying, but since most of thier food is on the ground, they really only use it to get away from predators.

[tentadog-deactivated20220704]

I live in nm and they’re our state bird and let me tell you they’re like beloved cryptids

seeing one is a rare beautiful occurrence and usually a car-stopping activity where everyone oohs and aahs and look at that weird mf go wait stop running away I KNOW IT’S LITERALLY IN YOUR NAME BUT COULD YOU NOT RUN I JUST WANT A PICTURE

they’re like the ostriches of the southwest if ostriches were really tiny and had a funny hat

(x)

[30-minute-memes]

I Hear That’s Good

[cringefailprincess]

no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget,  im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do: 

Make a bottle tower garden (a small one could do well on a windowsill) 

Make eco-friendly household cleaners

Germinate strawberry seeds and care for the plants 

Grow plants from cuttings (you can grow almost anything this way) 

Make a sun jar 

Grow low maintenance houseplants 

Make a string garden 

Make a wall planter 

Germinate an avocado seed 

Make a shoe pocket garden 

Build a mini solar generator 

Re-grow kitchen scraps 

Find the right solar battery charger 

Recycle old solar cells 

Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!

[jellyfishdirigible]

grow oyster mushrooms on waste coffee grounds (also works with shiitake)

a list of some food plants that can grow indoors with reduced light

windowsill herbs

egg carton seed germination

germinate chayote and keep it as a houseplant (the root, stem, leaves, fruit, and seed are all edible)

choosing a portable solar panel

tips for energy efficient apartment life (but jsyk LED is better than CFL, and a tank bank or expanding water bottle is better than a brick or bottle of gravel)

DIY draft stoppers

DIY solar oven and recipes

evaporative refrigeration

use conkers/horse chestnuts to replace soap and detergents

use baking soda as dry shampoo

cleaning with vinegar do’s & don’ts and common myths

DIY dryer balls

apartment-friendly bokashi composting and DIY bokashi bran

DIY moss terrarium for your soul (ain’t many souls slower or more patient than moss)

and a list of some easy care indoor plants for your nerves

and for your bathroom and your air quality

recycle t-shirts into yarn for your crafts

[halftruthsandhyperbole]

Today I learned

[ouijubell]

Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.

[horrorinthegraveyard]

Hey, highkey from a library worker: 

Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use.  It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile.  Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.  

[onceiwashere]

captain america was bitten by a radioactive american 

[boombeombamtoo]

ok so i’m still thinking about venom but HEAR ME OUT: eddie brock is so emotionally open in a way that i am so unused to seeing superhero/villains being, especially the dudes. his feelings! are right there! he says them! he admits when he’s sad! when he’s scared! when he’s lonely! and it makes this campy, violent little film into something that’s all about heart? his heart? his heart poisoning a poor alien with feelings? a poor alien that just came down for a snack? 

[boombeombamtoo]

#there’s a vulnerability there that we don’t ever really see and it was so incredibly lovely #so disarmingly ferocious

AND you guys AND can i just call attention to the fact that there was no love triangle? like the person he loved was not with him and he was sad but there was no macho posturing against dan. no squaring off. no fighting over a person like they were a prize. i can’t remember the last time i felt so relaxed with a romance angle. this was just. wow. 

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

And Dan just saying how much he truly—apparently sincerely—appreciates Eddie’s work, then going inside like it’s nothing to let them talk. Both men weren’t posturing or puffing for a fight, even with Eddie’s incredibly pathetic visit to Anne’s home. Dan helping Eddie with proper do-no-harm medical concern. And even Eddie on the stoop at the end disagreeing with Venom about ‘getting Anne back’.

I just… There was so much to this movie, and I need to see it 5 more times STAT.

[fthgurdy]

The lampshade when Anne starts telling Dan that there’s nothing between her and Eddie and he’s like, what are you talking about I’m not worried about that, I’m worried about THAT SLIMY ALIEN THING

There’s not even any of those ‘if only they talked to each other’ misunderstandings?  It’s adorable, really, but also a refreshingly realistic take on how people interact. 

[odinsblog]

Get registered. Verify that you are registered to vote. Double check your voter registration status.

After Alabama, it looks like 2018 is already trying to tell us something: ”Close Elections” is gonna be the theme for the next two years.

2018 is coming. Voter turnout wins elections. Every vote counts.

[snarksandkisses]

Please - Check your registration status and #VoteBlue in November!

Vote.org - Register to Vote - Check your Registration - Find your Polling Place

Your vote matters!!

[krishnath]

Just goes to prove, one vote can go a long way, so go and VOTE FOR FUCKS SAKE, AND YOUR COUNTRY’S SAKE.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 EVERY VOTE MATTERS <3

Literally a single vote won this for us

If that person had stayed home or not registered because they thought their vote didn’t matter, this would have been a loss

If you are of voting age, register

If you are already registered, keep checking to make sure you are still registered right up until the deadline because we’ve already seen the Republicans pulling some dirty tricks bullshit to de-register people…do not let them get away with that, if you have been de-registered, register to vote again and AGAIN if you have to

Voting is literally one of the most important things you can do to make things better right now

[doktorgirlfriend]

I am not interested in straight people’s opinions of Venom.