Fluff And Circumstance

Sometimes things happen. And then you preen. Hi, I'm Budgie. Welcome to my blog.

[sunhowler-art]

advice

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

insta: @duckinggoodart

[castorochiaro]

not ignoring canon nor strictly adhering to it, but a secret third thing (taking the small bits and crumbs canon barely spent time developing and running absolutely hogwild)

[thememedaddy]

[drsloppysawbonesmd]

HEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[rorykillmore]

why is the most relatable teenager in this book the alien

[jusketuntrunked]

This is literally how I make conversation

[the-mayor-of-the-internet]

The force is strong in this family

someone take Photoshop away from me

[cobaltdays-deactivated20210208]

This is the best post I’ve seen all week

[jd-yurionice]

f a b u l o u s ✨

the explanation for this fanart is: i’ve been playing a lot of dream daddy and i’ve always loved single dad au so i just had to do something about it.

[ruinedchildhood]

[weloveshortvideos]

When you’re happy without a care in the world and then life interrupts your happiness

[piscesqueeen]

LMFAOOOO

[bloodphoenix]

That death stare gave me chills

[tippenfunkaport]

there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

[possibly-in-wonderland]

What do u mean "no one knows the source of the shoelace joke"?

Someone said, "I need a way to know other people of the outernet have Tumblr so let's do a thing."

And then they created the stolen presidential shoelace saying.

Unless I'm wrong???

[roboticutie]

Oh my god y'all HAVE forgotten the original source

It's demo text from earlier Tumblr years. In order to make a post, you used to be taken to an entirely seperate webpage from the dashboard. This webpage would be different depending on what type of post you made. Each text/input box on each post page had different demo text, the same kind as the faded text you'll see when you go to send an ask or submit a post to someone's blog now. You couldn't actually copy and paste it, it was just in the bg until you started typing.

The chat type post (which used to be completely separate from text posts) had the demo text along the lines of:

Person 1: I like your shoelaces

Person 2: Thanks, I stole them from the president.

Someone joked we should start using this as code to find others who had tumblrs, because although tumblr has basically been the lifeblood of widespread memes only really rivaled by Vine and Tiktok in later years, it wasn't NEARLY as well known back circa 2014 as it is now. Plus, it was seen as weird to have a tumblr, because you were either an Aesthetic Hipster Blogger or a Weird Fandom Blogger, and it was a whole thing. We were all mostly teens around then so it was fun to have a "secret language" we could use to subtly communicate with, because it was super embarrassing to just go up to someone and ask if they had a tumblr.

So, no, we didn't just make that up. We just kinda repurposed it.

[cheese24k]

[heterodoxy]

Adorable baby girl being chased by daddy, finally takes a stand.

[purplelittlemermaid]

Omg 😭

[comp4tiful]

the best video i’ve seen today omg i can’t stop watching it guys i’m so happy

[artist-formally-known-as-xazz-d]

She’s so casual about it I love it

[camilicy]

Theyre just in a silly goofy mood 🪱🍬

[magneatio]

i wanna know what everyone’s majors are mutuals i want to know i love you and i’m interested

[netheritenugget]

Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

[netheritenugget]

This is the closest I've ever gotten to making up stories around a fire with friends btw.

[netheritenugget]

Me, in a hushed voice, dramatically, while roasting a marshmallow over the fire: And so... The Blorbo that was sad and alone... Was not alone anymore.

My friends, collectively, every single time (while also roasting marshmallows): Oh my god, The Blorbo wasn't alone anymore... 😭😭😭

[apricops]

but I wanna get rewarded for consistent long term effort nooooow

[dearbisexual]

someone: do you mind if i say something off topic??

me, an adhd gremlin: i’ve never been on topic in my life, please continue