my sister started watching CQL and is having trouble keeping everyone straight so my Too Much gene took over
contains mild spoilers up to episode 12
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my sister started watching CQL and is having trouble keeping everyone straight so my Too Much gene took over
contains mild spoilers up to episode 12
Despite All My Rage...
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Dialogue Prompts!!
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "The portal closes at midnight. I'd suggest moving faster."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "I've lived this day before. Six times. Let me save us both some trouble."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "You can't negotiate with something that doesn't understand mercy."
..𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "The map ends here. That's never a good sign."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "I was human once. I barely remember what it felt like."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "We crossed a line tonight that the universe doesn't let you uncross."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "Your world has been dead for two hundred years. You're the last one who doesn't know."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "Magic isn't power. It's debt. You'll understand that soon enough."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "I've traveled to seventeen dimensions and yours is by far the strangest."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "The stars don't lie. People lie. Learn the difference.""
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. You were never supposed to exist. And yet here you are causing problems."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "I don't age. I just accumulate regrets at an impressive rate."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "Every timeline I've seen ends the same way. I'm trying to find the exception."
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "You broke the prophecy. Do you have any idea how hard those are to write?"
.𖥔 ݁༄˖°. "They said the dragon was a myth. They were wrong and now we're running."
Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.
I hope this message reaches all the neurodiverse and disabled people who were made to feel like their abuse was justified because they had "behaviors".
While this message is true for every child, you are who I had in mind when I wrote it.
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
"Xue Yang did all that to avenge his finger" is such a funny take, like. Did you listen to his story? Did you put yourself in the shoes of his 7yo self for ANY seconds at all?
Because lets recap: He was tricked, and used, and hungry, and beaten repeatedly, and treated as worthless and disposable, all by a man fully capable of paying him for his work. He was sent alone to deliver a taunt to a dangerous man. He was seven. He accepting the beating he received without complaint, and was further beaten for asking for the payment he'd been promised. He was whipped, and knocked in front of an ox cart.
Chang Ci'an didn't AIM the cart at his finger.
Chang Ci'an deliberately knocked a seven year old orphan child to the ground in front of an ox cart and ordered the driver to drive over the child.
And the driver did.
He manage to escape with ONLY one crushed finger (and, we can assume, many less permanent injuries). Crushing injuries are incredibly serious, and even one so small can be deadly. An orphaned child can't afford decent medical care. Adult Xue Yang has a SEVERED finger, which means that at best he managed to find a doctor who would amputate it for him, and at worst he cut it off himself. At age seven. Xue Yang is INSANELY lucky to have survived to age 8 after this incident.
This is why Xiao Xingchen's suggestion that Xue Yang should have merely cut off Chang Ci'an's finger, or hand, or arm, is so upsetting to Xue Yang. Yes, the revenge he did take was abhorrent and excessive, but Xingchen totally misses the point of the story (understandable in the moment, everything is happening SO MUCH at that point).
Xue Yang, at age seven, had done nothing wrong. He was a child, he was innocent, and he didn't deserve to be treated like his life was worthless by Chang Ci'an, or the cart driver, or the message recipient, or the restaurant owner, or every observer on the street who did nothing to help. And every person who tells him it's "just a finger" further treats the very real devaluing of and threat to his life as normal and fine.
If he, any time after age 7, had been able to exact revenge by cutting off Chang Ci'an's arm, there is nothing equivalent about that revenge. A severed arm is not a crushing injury, and is less likely to produce life-long chronic pain. Chang Ci'an would have good medical care-- a doctor, medicine, pain killers. His life would not meaningfully be in danger. Chang Ci'an had family (and money) to help him with whatever tasks being one-handed made difficult. Chang Ci'an was an adult, who's already lived a life without pain and disability, and who's prospects will not be impacted. Chang Ci'an was an ADULT and therefore better able to understand what was happening and why. And beyond all of that, Chang Ci'an would DESERVE IT.
To say that Xue Yang did everything he did to the Chang Clan in revenge over "losing his finger" is to betray an utter lack of willingness to empathize with Xue Yang. Even the 7yo version of him.
And he knows it. Which is why the suggestion is so upsetting.
here's where to find it on windows 10
Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.
IT GETS WORSE
I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.
LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES
here's where to find it on windows 10
Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.
IT GETS WORSE
I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.
LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
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always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
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Happy Pride Month!
Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!
-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026
Amnesia Prompts!!
☆ "You keep looking at me like I should remember you. I'm sorry. I'm trying."
☆ "They told me who I was. I don't recognize that person at all."
☆ "You loved someone who wore my face. I don't know if I can be them again."
☆ "Don't tell me everything at once. Let me find some of it myself."
☆ "I know I'm supposed to feel something when I look at you. I'm waiting for it."
☆ "You're a stranger to me. The saddest part is I can tell I wasn't to you."
☆ "My hands remember things my mind doesn't. That terrifies me."
☆ "Everyone keeps telling me who I was. Nobody is asking who I want to be."
☆ "I fell in love with you twice. Once before and once just now."
☆ "You kept everything. Every photo every letter. What do I do with that kind of love?"
☆ "I don't remember our history but I remember how you make me feel. Is that enough?"
☆ "Don't grieve me while I'm still standing here. I can't bear that."
☆ "I lost my past but I still have a future. I'm trying to focus on that."
☆ "You're the only thing that feels familiar and I can't explain why."
☆ "I know I loved you. I can feel the shape of it even if I've lost the details."
Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.
Dialogue Prompts!! #1
☆ "I don't forgive people because they deserve it. I forgive them because I'm tired."
☆ "You have exactly ten seconds to explain yourself before I stop caring."
☆ "I've been loyal to people who didn't even know my middle name."
☆ "Don't mistake my silence for peace. I'm planning."
☆ "You called me difficult. I call it knowing exactly what I want."
☆ "I would've burned the whole world down for you. Funny how that works."
☆ "Stop looking at me like you still know me."
☆ "I didn't ask to care this much. Believe me, I tried not to."
☆ "We don't talk about what happened that summer. We just... don't."
☆ "You left like it was easy. I'm still mad about that."
☆ "Next time you disappear, stay gone."
☆ "I've met ghosts with more presence than you right now."
☆ "They smiled and I knew--we were not getting out of this alive."
☆ "You were my favorite bad idea."
☆ "Don't apologize. Just never do it again."
☆ "I trusted you with the quiet parts of me. That was my mistake."
☆ "Oh, so now you want to talk?"
Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
~*~earlier~*~
Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits
Merry: Frodo what’d he say
Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish
Merry: I mean you could do that but consider
Merry: you can only tell him ONCE
Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.
#legolas’ hick accent vs #frodo’s ‘i learned it out of a book’ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible
Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK
Frodo: :)
Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?
Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve
Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying
Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:
Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.
Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.
Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*
@ghostriderofthearagon
dYinGggGggg…
i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.
english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.
they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.
so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.
plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.
so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.
to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.
so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!
considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.
…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.
which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.
this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!
Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.
Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now
Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?
Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?
Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.
Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.
Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.
Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man
Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s
Tolkien would be SO PROUD of this post
It got better
there may come a day when i do not reblog this post, but it is NOT THIS DAY
Signs you wrote the Creepy Cinnamon roll correctly!!!
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𐙚 they do something mildly terrifying and something incredibly sweet in the same scene and walk away before anyone can process either
𐙚 the first time they do something kind the POV character just stands there blinking like their brain buffered
𐙚 they remembered something tiny and specific that someone mentioned once in passing six months ago. nobody asked them to remember this. they just did. and then acted on it. silently.
𐙚 they show up when someone is having a bad time without being called, or without asking if they’re okay, or without saying anything really. they just. appear. and stay.
𐙚 the way they show affection is so subtle and so weird that at least two characters don’t even realize they’re being loved on
𐙚 someone tries to thank them and they look genuinely uncomfortable. like the concept of being appreciated has never occurred to them as a possibility and they want it to stop.
𐙚 they said something with complete sincerity in such a flat voice that it took everyone in the room three full seconds to realize it wasn’t a threat
𐙚 one character clocked them as a cinnamon roll in chapter two and has been watching everyone else slowly figure it out with the energy of someone rewatching a movie they’ve already seen
𐙚 another character is STILL scared of them even after witnessing multiple acts of genuine tenderness and honestly? valid. both things are true.
𐙚 they would genuinely rather walk into traffic than say “i care about you” out loud but they have shown up at 2am with no explanation multiple times
𐙚 someone describes them as dangerous to a person who knows them well and that person has to physically stop themselves from laughing