Nomathon in the flesh (do I have flesh?? Unconfirmed)

They/Them 🐝 Aroace, Adult, Autistic, CookieNomNomCrunch on AO3

[cookie-nom-nom]

Dnd. We’re doing an inconsequential side one shot while a player is out. Just messing around in Icewind Dale doing pointless quests. And we come across this sus brazier with a severed hand in it. Don’t know what it does. Don’t know if it’s even important. Vaguely think it’s just to provide light for a sundial in a sunless land. Anyway so after trying a normal fire didn’t work. Instead of like. Investigating or ANYTHING. We immediately jumped to ‘we need to cut off someone’s hand and sacrifice it to the brazier’

So uhhhh might've cut off my character's hand* during a supposedly inconsequential session...

*Or, the hand of their echo knight counterpart. Very unclear if the hand is permanently cut off but in the unhinged of Anti-Scyphoton, "If it's permanent, then I’ll have served my purpose."

[cookie-nom-nom]

this of course included a extremely unnerving and intense scene wherein the shadow devotedly offered her hand to be sacrificed and the flesh raised its sword. And they both acted as if this was the only reasonable solution, a normal thread of logic to a mind twisted in circles by the fae wilds.

And when their hand lay severed in the brazier, fingers tangled with silver flames, the shadow asked: “do I get a thank you now?”

And the flesh replied: “what have you done worthy of praise?”

[quietwingsinthesky]

the draw of arranged marriage AUs to me is really the way the dubcon of it all binds them together. neither of them have a choice in being here, something else is foisting this upon them whether that’s their parents or the political situation around them or expectation or something else, but the point is that they don’t get that one choice. so they have to make a choice somewhere else, that now that they’re here, they’re going to make it work. they’re each other’s only allies, in this cage built around them. they may have been coerced into swearing to stand by each other through anything, but they did swear.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s not love at first, or second, or third sight. it’s not love in the wedding bed the first time, whether they grit their teeth through it or decide together to forgo that binding step and try to get around it as long as they can. it’s about sharing a bed with a stranger while you learn their nightmares and how they hog the covers. it’s about sharing a name before you even know each other’s hobbies. the appearances you have to keep up, and the connection you find in both being exhausted by them, laughing together because isn’t it ridiculous how you not only have to be married but you have to act like it’s perfect and lovely for everyone else watching. it’s love that creeps up quiet and slow, between shared secrets that make your wedding bands mean something for the first time, and trying to protect each other from the trap you’re both in. and it’s about having the mortifying thought of “oh my god, i have a crush on my wife.”

[teaboot]

Caught Ollie scratching at my laundry basket so now he has his own

So far every time I set it in front of him now he's jumped straight in, no questions asked, and upon further investigation he seems to enjoy being carried in it from room to room

[teaboot]

Ollie, Ollie He is laundry Sits in basket Round and fat Ollie, Ollie Great big ball-y Clean and cozy Kitty cat

[fluffysheeps]

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈

[pedantic-swedish-bunny-girl]

@catboy-tdick opinion on the bumble sharks?

[catboy-tdick]

WONDERFUL AND JOYOUS….

[the-possum-posting]

[grimbuswimbus]

peembo looking at you,

all big-ear-hearingly-like

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

One of the many downsides of the Hail Mary being a suicide mission is that Armando is likely only equipped to keep astronauts alive for as long as they're useful to the mission.

Obviously this is going to be reflected in the amount of painkillers and general medicines he's been supplied with— enough for three astronauts to last several months to a few years max— but also… there's really no point in keeping any of those astronauts alive after they stop being useful to the mission.

Grace finds this out when he gets to a certain point in his starvation on the journey to Erid and, instead of offering medical advice, Armando announces that Doctor Grace is far too sick to continue being of use and so it’s recommended that his fellow crew members euthanise him to save on resources.

That is. Not a good day for shipboard morale.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Nolan's Odyssey: The Inaccuracy List

The trailer for Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of "The Odyssey" by the ancient poet Ovid is out now and proving controversial due to what audiences perceive as inaccuracies to actual history. Here is a list of things in the trailer that have garnered complaints:

Matt Damon is of Greek descent, not ancient Greek.

The film boasts of being the first shot entirely on IMAX, but the horizontal 70mm format wasn't developed until the 1970s.

Nolan used a giant animatronic puppet to portray the cyclops Polyphemus, which means he was played by Nobody, and the real Polyphemus was not at all a fan of Nobody. Sadly as Nobody offended him, Nolan didn't notice.

Most ancient statues were, in their times, painted with bright colors as depicted in the trailer, but very few dyes existed back then compared to now. Until the 1500s, the colors blue, red, yellow, green, all fleshtones, and all secondary colors were impossible. Thus, all the sculptures should be painted the only color possible to the ancients: Chartreuse polka-magenta gull grey.

Soldiers are seen wearing armor reminiscent of many portrayals of Greek armor in films like "300," but in reality, the ancient Greeks went to battle wearing outfits resembling modern tuxedo shirts with printed-on bow ties and buttons; and no pants or loincloths. Hence their marching army's name, the "ταξιαρχία με νουντλς που αναπηδούν" or "Bouncing Noodle Brigade."

Several Doric pillars are seen, when it takes place in Corinthian times. All things considered, that's pretty Ionic.

[unheavenliercreatures]

[unheavenliercreatures]

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4084:

keep going! i believe in you! [FREE TRIAL OVER. PAY £5.99 A MONTH FOR WRITING SUPPORT TO CONTINUE]

[huanggugugu]

thats illegal people cant do that

[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.

[illmadekn1ght]

ohh my god but what if there is still time. what if there is still time. hey. there is still time? there is still time. have you heard. there is still time. hi. there is still time. did you know. there is still time.

[cookie-nom-nom]

Just caught myself trying to calculate which of my playlists would make the mri techs think I’m cool HELP

[cookie-nom-nom]

just remembered I had a pokemon comic I made for most of middleschool featuring a family of the gardevoir line. Oddly instead of the goth teen girl kirlia being the protagonist, it was primarily centered on the slice of life struggles of the gardevoir mom wrangling a toddler with psychic powers, getting enough pokedollars from fights for groceries, and uh. Revolutionizing pokemon rights through arduous court battles for the right to keep her child, a shiny ralts, from her shiny-breeding trainer. Team Rocket's meowth was her lawyer.

Also her brother was a grumpy gardevoir named Jack indistinguishable except for a heart tattoo on his bicep.

[sabertoothwalrus]

I’m so proud of senshi for making it so far in the tumblr sexyman poll. I think it’s so beautiful that tumblr has reached a point where a short fat hairy bearded man is the pinnacle of sexuality for a large swath of this userbase. it’s like when you see before & after pictures of a rainforest recovering from deforestation. nature is healing and we can fight god

[sabertoothwalrus]

I hope he wins so someone will have to explain to ryoko kui what a tumblr sexyman is

[ailithnight]

[sabertoothwalrus]

I have to say I forgot the onceler’s thing was cutting down trees when I made my metaphor.

[cookie-nom-nom]

Dnd. We’re doing an inconsequential side one shot while a player is out. Just messing around in Icewind Dale doing pointless quests. And we come across this sus brazier with a severed hand in it. Don’t know what it does. Don’t know if it’s even important. Vaguely think it’s just to provide light for a sundial in a sunless land. Anyway so after trying a normal fire didn’t work. Instead of like. Investigating or ANYTHING. We immediately jumped to ‘we need to cut off someone’s hand and sacrifice it to the brazier’

So uhhhh might've cut off my character's hand* during a supposedly inconsequential session...

*Or, the hand of their echo knight counterpart. Very unclear if the hand is permanently cut off but in the unhinged of Anti-Scyphoton, "If it's permanent, then I’ll have served my purpose."