a lone brain cell reaching out for connection

Lauren | 30+ | fanfiction writer | science enjoyer | Dr. Stone, Vtubers, Kado: The Right Answer, DMMd, DanganRonpa, Kingdom Hearts, Devilman | find me on twitter @DramaticalHeart and bluesky @dramaticalhearts

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexy Jester/Clown Contest Final Round

Gavis Bettel (Holostars)

Hugh Morris (Tomodachi Life)

Muppet Joker (Tumblr)

Voting ended onMay 6

[dramaticalhearts]

Vote for Gavis Bettel :)

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

reblog this post with your favorite animal please here's mine :3

and one with mama 🩵

[dykeanarchist]

Alling gator :3

With mama !

[dorktapus42]

Dairy cow isopod

Leaf time with mama :3

[bogreader]

Wild boar!

With mama!

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Leatherback sea turtle!

let's fend for ourselves after hatching withOUT mama!!

[clown-town-central]

whale shark!!!

very rare sight with mama!!

[doodooass3]

the humble goat (this guy is an old Irish goat)

with mama :)

[hyenaswine]

giant anteater

on mama :)

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

pigeonn

with mama :]

[lilcritterdoingmabest]

WOLFYYYYYYY (this guys from the wolf conservation center in new york)

booping mama/papa/sis/brother

[grabtheauto5]

north american black bear, my love

and one with momma!!

[paradoxgavel]

my favorite is already on here, so! second favorite! the humble kakapo!

and one with mama! 💚

[moth-bells]

My addition!!

The spotted hyena

Resting with mama <3

[moonlit-dreamers]

harpy eagle :)

with mama!

[sharps-container]

the humble baikal seal.....

with mama !!

[cesspitoflove]

The Waldrapp (northern bald ibis)!!

with mama!!

[tarragonthedragon]

urban fox

with mama!

[treibholz-des-universums]

moose :)

with mama!!

[demonixoverlord]

red panda!

with mama!!

[dicktouching]

coelacanth!

WITHOUT MAMA???

[elalmadelmar]

Blacktip reef shark

You're not mama! >:[

[bobthebenevolentpirate]

Big kitty (tiger)!

With mama!!

[gwydionmisha]

With Mama

They're venomous!

[hachama]

Pangolin!

With mama!

[vshamru]

Mine is Matschie's tree-kangaroo!!

In mama’s pocket!!

[silverbirching]

Manul cat!

With mama!

[grich-witch]

Spotted skunk

No mama, only baby

[squidinktea]

i dont want 22 episode seasons back. i dont want 8 episode seasons. i dont actually want a prescriptive number of episodes per season

its the era of streaming. we dont need to fil x number of timeslots.

i want tv shows to be able to determine for themselves what their optimal number of episodes per season to tell the story they want at the pace they want. maybe thats a 3 episode season. maybe thats a 50 episode season. i dont care, i just want the decision to be made for practical and artistic reasons rather than corporate ones

[alexanderwales]

I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".

It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.

[headspace-hotel]

like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again

[catasters]

[brapclinic]

chug chug chug

[mullet-man05]

born to keg stand forced to sippy milk

[imsopopfly]

For the love of all that is good and holy, TURN THE SOUND ON

[porterdavis]

[dramaticalhearts]

It's my 15 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

(as of March 31st, apparently!)

(God I'm old...)

[dramaticalhearts]

Creation is not something every human does. But it is one of the most human things we can do.

-Boichi

[librarychair]

As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.

[niamhermind]

"Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats."

That is such a line.

[dramaticalhearts]

I'm a vegetarian, but, yeah. Same goes for 'eco-friendly' products/shopping choices too. Make it easier and more affordable for people to make ethical buying choices - or make those choices the default through strong regulations, so that the average person doesn't even have to THINK about it.

(Such as when CFCs were banned from aerosols, consumer products included, to stop the hole in the ozone layer from expanding - government used to be able to do things like that! And it worked!)

"Vote with your dollars" only goes so far, when your vote gets overruled by the wealthy ruling class.

[yuumei-art]

I wasn't going to paint more of my 2019 Defy Mask series but current events convinced me otherwise. This one is inspired by the Portland protest frog.

[warcrimesimulator]

elephant trunk snakes are absolutely ridiculous. That's a creature alright.

[charlesoberonn]

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[charlesoberonn]

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

[charlesoberonn]

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups

It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.

It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

[charlesoberonn]

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#you might notice that there are a lot of similarities between cult techniques and those of abusive partners#and that is an important thing to be aware of

yah that goes in the post

[charlesoberonn]

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

[forgotn1]

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

[alp-crispy]

This was the post that lead to breaking my JW mindset. Been a while since I seen it.

[charlesoberonn]

I’m glad I could help in your deconstruction, if only a little bit. I wish you all the luck in your journey moving forward.

[nianeyna]

GitHub - nianeyna/ao3downloader: Utility for downloading fanfiction in bulk from the Archive of Our Own

Utility for downloading fanfiction in bulk from the Archive of Our Own - GitHub - nianeyna/ao3downloader: Utility for downloading fanfiction

Well folks I've been sitting on this little script for ages and finally decided to just go ahead and publish it. What does it do?

you can enter any ao3 link - for example, to your bookmarks or an author's works page - and automatically download all the works and series that are linked from that page in the format of your choice

if your format of choice is epub (sorry, this part doesn't work for other file formats), you can check your fanfic-savin' folder for unfinished fics and automatically update them if there are new chapters

if you're a dinosaur who uses Pinboard, you can back up all the Pinboard bookmarks you have that link to ao3

don't worry about crashing ao3 with this! this baby takes forever to run, guaranteed. anyway ao3 won't let me make more than one request per second even if I wanted to so it's quite safe

I've been working on this for about two years and it's finally in a state where it does everything I want and isn't breaking every two seconds, so I thought it was time to share! I hope y'all get some use out of it.

note: this is a standalone desktop app that DOES NOT DO ANYTHING aside from automate clicking on buttons on the ao3 website. Everything this script does, can be done by hand using ao3's regular features. It is just a utility to facilitate personal backups for offline reading - there's no website or server, I have no access to or indeed interest in the fics other people download using this. No plagiarism is happening here, please don't come after me.

[curlicuecal]

Y'all. Y'ALL. if you've ever been like "I should go through my bookmarks and save copies of everything in case stuff gets deleted--but that would take SO LONG"

This will get all your bookmarked fics all downloaded and organized for you

It's literally saving my life, I'm so happy

[impishtubist]

I can.....I can download all my fics??? 

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

More enlightening comments on the same post:

ETA: I don’t mind that the Graveyard Book was a retelling. Inspiration is fine. (Lifting passages and avoiding credit is not.) But if you can’t read Gaiman anymore and you want to look for his more satisfying sources—here’s a start.

[dadvans]

petition

we need to bring back anon kink memes in a big way. no one is horny enough anymore. the other night i found a fic on an old kink meme from 2009 that was so well-written and also so raunchy and foul (affectionate) it could have stripped paint off my car. there is something about truly unapologetic filth that can be transcendent and tender and marrow deep and maybe if we all leaned into being anonymous depraved little weirdos again we'd learn how to have more fun.

[imakemywings]

To show my firm support for this concept, here are the kink memes I track and occasionally post on:

Dragon Age main page (Origins, II, Inquisition)

Middle-earth kink

Silm kink meme

Arcane kink meme

Mass Effect kink

Skyrim kink meme

[westiec]

Let's add some more, from the comments and my own bookmarks!

Here on tumblr, we've got:

@beatleskinkmeme

@indycarkinkmeme

@jthm-kinkmeme – also on DW

@themagicianskinkmeme

@kptskinkmeme – also on ao3 and DW

@weewookinkmeme

Over on dreamwidth, you can find:

Original Work Kinkmeme

Final Fantasy XIV - Kink Meme

Hetalia Kink Meme

Persona Kinkmeme

Baldur's Gate 3 Tavless Kinkmeme

Sandman Kinkmeme

Hannibal Kinkmeme

The Locked Tomb Kinkmeme

Anon Transformers Kink

Femslash Kinkmeme

Flash Flood Prompt Fest

Gen Horror Prompt Fest

Monster Kinkmeme

... and tons more if you browse around

And there's a whole bunch of Prompt Memes/Kink Memes on ao3!

MDZS/The Untamed (also here @mdzs-kinkmeme) — plus ship-specific memes for Xicheng/Chengxi, Sangcheng, and JC/WWX+

Scum Villain Prompt Meme & Shen Jiu Kinkmeme

Maccadam's Back Room (Transformers)

KinnPorsche Kinkmeme

Daredevil Kinkmeme – also on DW

Rare Kink Buffet is currently closed for prompts but still taking fills — check out Unspecified Fandom for the Creator's Choice requests

911 Kinkmeme

If you've never participated in a kinkmeme before, give it a shot. Leave a prompt or try your hand at a fill — most kinkmemes are totally anonymous. Don't see one for your fandom? Check out a few and then make your own! Because the thing about fandom is that it's a community, and what we wanna see, we can do. <3

[dramaticalhearts]

Adding this one I found recently! Fujoshis for Femslash

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists develop antivenom that neutralizes the neurotoxins of 19 of the world's deadliest snakes

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effecti

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journal Cell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.

Continue Reading.

[charyou-tree]

Ok, that’s fucking wild.

This guy Tim Friede wasn’t any kind of researcher or doctor. He was just a snake collector who thought it would be cool to try and become immune to snake venom by injecting small amounts and working up. For 18 goddamn years. He nearly died at least once.

Later, actual scientists heard about him and realized that since he survived his blood must be full of antibodies that neutralize many kinds of snake venoms. Using a sample of his blood they were able to develop an antibody cocktail that seems to be effective against many types of tropical snake bites, a sort of universal antivenom.

Absolute mad lad benefiting humanity.

[hunxi-after-hours]

love it when an extremely high-functioning and put-together character gets slammed with something that would topple any lesser person but continues to function in an alarmingly efficient manner while everyone who knows and cares about them flutters anxiously around them like "please lie down please rest please accept medical attention" while the high-functioning character just looks askance at all their concerned faces like "what are you talking about? I'm perfectly fine" as tiny cracks start appearing in their demeanor and facade