Naughty, naughty!

Sheesh, what is this blog anymore IDK? Oldster on Tumblr, editor, scientist, fangirl in random fandoms (Sherlock, Doctor Who, MCU, Check Please!, YOI, etc.), sailor on many ships. Yes, that's my actual foot on some of my actual books.

[progressivejudaism]

Important Question. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

So there is both a scholar of Judaism and a whale biologist living in my house, and they agree that the orca would have to use its mouth to blow the shofar because

1. Orca do breathe through their mouths

2. The Orca would need to use its lips and vocal chords to blow the shofar correctly.

[xhartbigx]

Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.

I’m curious!

[elfwreck]

Normally, I just reblog this kind of thing with a note like, “not only do I read/write fanfic, I have an over-20 child who does the same.” But.

Who da hell do you think manages the Archive of Our Own? Who created it; who does the coding; who WENT TO CONGRESS three times to argue for our constitutionally-protected right to show Kirk boinking Spock?

Hint: it wasn’t people under 20.

Who do you think makes the content on AO3? Sure, lots of teens… but lots and lots and LOTS of not-teens. The OTW′s been around for almost 10 years - the people who put up the first content sure as hell weren’t 10 and under at the time. (Or is there the assumption that the teenagers of 10 years ago wandered away and are no longer participating in fic fandom?)

The more I think about it, the less I understand this kind of question. Do teenagers actually believe the people who manage fic archives like AO3 and fanfiction.net are not involved in fic fandom? That they do coding and deal with complaints and register the domain and all that, but don’t read any of the fic?

[dduane]

…Quite.

[cricketcat9]

Aaaargh not this AGAIN. Everyone knows life ends at 17, that’s it. I’m just an energetic ghost, for 56 years.

[dominatrixeditrix]

#always reblog

[bodhimcbodeface]

Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?

[dominatrixeditrix]

Still not dead it's been a wild several years

It's been quite the half-decade and I decided to see what this hellsite was up to, idk, so here's what I've been doing

Spent six months so far this year on the right-hand side of the USA a long long way from the high desert dealing with aging parents

Last summer was the summer of hospice spent on the right-hand side, with trips back to be with family. Somewhere in the sorrow time we also had to put our very old cat to sleep

Summer before that was plague and moving back to the high desert from the left-hand side with three cats

Summer and fall before that was moving twice from the middle of the USA to the High Desert then to the left-hand side of the USA, but with a bonus broken leg and three cats

I quit a job-job and started freelancing as a job. I'm still freelancing but about to work at a job-job again because health insurance is a thing as are benefits

Still married and all good there

So.

Hi and don't know how long I'll tumbl again but hi

[neil-gaiman]

There is a tiny OCD part of my head that just realized that the herbs in my window boxes are arranged parsley, thyme, rosemary and sage, and wants the world to end.

[ohyeah]

Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

[dectech]

i am terrified about what apollo may do with this post

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

[wormiespieg]

I know it's a bit late but since Elon muskie owns Twitter now, this has a decent chance of happening

[anemonequeen-moved]

reblog to prove your blog was made before the may 2022 tumblr resurgence

[the-yearning-astronaut]

Happy 32nd Launch Day, Hubble!

Launched on April 24, 1990, the HST has been in operation for 32 years now -- more than twice its projected operational lifetime of 15 years! Originally scheduled for launch in 1983, it was delayed until 1986 because of engineering difficulties and was postponed again until 1990 after the loss of Challenger.

The Hubble telescope has revolutionized our understanding of not only our own galaxy but the origins of the universe itself.

Image source

[stimman4000]

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[rabbitindisguise]

"it's that fuckin chocolate guy again!!" I say, already knowing I'm gonna reblog

[westafricanbaby]

My Godddd

[corona-the-nightcutter]

W I T C H C R A F T

[sevdrag]

WOT THE FUK

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

[dinkywinks]

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

[luxflora]

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

[nonstopsmile]

[royal-random-the-yogurt-queen]

I was v confused when they smushed the leaves, but then about halfway thru the q tips it started coming back together

[zekeen]

[hussyknee]

This is Wow Art on YouTube. If you thought this was impressive, they’ve progressed a LOT more by now!

[sparebutton]

Now that it’s 2021 that means anything that came out in 2001 will be 20 years old so here’s a bunch of movies that will be 20 this year

[mistermustachio]

[memeclassheroes]

[new-endings]

crowley and aziraphale

[hiddenshores]

“How does one mourn for six million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left us without a trace, and we are their trace ...”

— Elie Wiesel, speaking at the Days of Remembrance ceremony in 2001

[afeelgoodblog]

I needed to see this :) time to spread it to others who may need it too!

[silentauroriamthereal]

It’s not too late

It’s not too late

It’s not too late

[smallballz-deactivated20240713]

darling (condescending, with a bit of gay subtext)

[kaylewiswrites]

I love the ambiguity of the term ‘WIP’. Is it a project in it’s third draft? A final draft being queried? An idea I came up with six months ago and haven’t written anything about yet? You don’t know. Nobody knows. 

[willowdove]

Least of all the author

[ebonyheartnet]

[kittydesade]

The best part about this being an uncaptioned picture is it is simultaneously “We know, but hey!” and also “there is an AUTHOR loose in a word processor”

[ebonyheartnet]

There’s an AUTHOR loose in a word processor!

Nobody knows what the author’s gonna do, least of all the author.

When there’s an author loose in a word processor, ya gotta stay updated, so all day long you refresh AO3 going, “what’d the author do today?” The updates aren’t bad, sometimes they’re just odd. It’ll be like, “the author uploaded a 50k one shot they wrote in one night?” I didn’t know people who slept could do that.

There are quiet days where people are like, “it seems like the author has gone to bed and taken some time for self care,” and then ten seconds later the author is like, “I’M GONNA POST EVERY WIP I CAME UP WITH IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. I’VE GOT INSOMNIA AND WRITER’S BLOCK, I’M AN AUTHOR!” That’s what I thought you’d say you fucking brilliant author! ❤️😭❤️

[thebibliosphere]

There were precisely zero reasons to come out and drag me so effectively like this.

[official-lucifers-child]

and then… THEN you go to the comments and see people who are like “you should be sleeping” and it’s like:

“WE’RE WELL PAST THAT”

[that-house]

I heard this all in his voice

[idreamofdraco]

Y’all, I just got an email alert about a new chapter on a story I follow. Here’s the author’s note for that chapter. 😂

[gelana78]

This is the most validating post.