Abandoned

sorry to everyone who followed me im just not active on here anymore lol

[foreveriallyzombified]

Actual funniest video ever

[ultrainfinitepit]

My cat has to wear a cone this week and it made me think of an angel whose halo is a cone.

[ultrainfinitepit]

Local idiot is cone-free and back on his regular sillyzone nonsense.

[numinous-queer]

I am obsessed with the theological implications of this

[aidaronan]

Why do people stop commenting on fics if they’re more than a week or two old? Please comment on old fics. Tell me you like my one shot from 2014. Tell me you like my old multi-chap I finished in 2016 that I spent a year writing. I will be fucking thrilled.

[thefeistydragon]

Fics are not social media posts. There’s no “stalking” someone’s “old posts”. They’re meant to be found and enjoyed years down the line. No need to be nervous.

[plaidadder]

I reblog this message every time it comes across my dash because it’s true. And also: 

When I first started writing fanfic, back in the mid 1990s (yes! the late twentieth century!) one of the discouraging things about it was that people treated fanfic as if it was disposable. It seemed like what most readers wanted was a constant stream of new content, whereas I tend to produce one big work every 6-12 months. It made me sad that people seemed to think there was no point to re-reading or saving old fic. There is no sell-by date on fiction! It does not get out of order! It can still work even years or decades later! 

So yeah, I have stories up at ao3 that are literally a quarter-century old, and every time someone leaves a comment on them I am very pleased to get it. We get attached to our stories and it cheers us up to see that they are still finding readers. It means that they are still ‘alive,’ in some way. 

[ruffboi-mags]

AO3 is not social media, it’s (essentially) a library.

You’re meant to engage with any and all of it, regardless of age.

[the-haiku-bot]

You’re meant to engage

with any and all of it,

regardless of age.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[fantasmalresplendent]

The Good Place really said “People improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them, when they don’t?” and "We choose to be good because of our bonds with other people" and "What matters isn’t if people are good or bad. What matters is if they’re trying to be better today than they were yesterday" and "If soulmates do exist, they aren't found, they're made" and "That knowledge [that life ends] is what gives life meaning" and "The answer is friends" and "That’s what the Good Place really is — it’s not even a place, really. It’s just having enough time with the people you love" and I think that's very sexy of them

[fantasmalresplendent]

The Good Place really said “People improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them, when they don’t?” and "We choose to be good because of our bonds with other people" and "What matters isn’t if people are good or bad. What matters is if they’re trying to be better today than they were yesterday" and "If soulmates do exist, they aren't found, they're made" and "That knowledge [that life ends] is what gives life meaning" and "The answer is friends" and "That’s what the Good Place really is — it’s not even a place, really. It’s just having enough time with the people you love" and I think that's very sexy of them

[bemusedlybespectacled]

hey folks, I’m gonna introduce you to two very important fandom terms and they are watsonian and doylist 

they come (obviously) from the sherlock holmes fandom, and they are two different ways of explaining something in a story. say I’m a fan and I notice that, in the original books, watson’s war wound is sometimes in his leg and sometimes in his shoulder. the watsonian explanation is how watson (that is, a person within the story) might explain it; the doylist explanation is how sir arthur conan doyle (a person in real life) would have explained it. 

sherlock explains the migrating war wound by making the shoulder wound real and the limp psychosomatic. the guy ritchie films explain it by having the leg wound sustained in battle before the events of the film and the shoulder wound happen onscreen. the doylist explanation, of course, is that acd forgot where the wound was.

this is very important when we’re discussing stuff like headcanons and word-of-god. I see this when people offer watsonian explanations for something, and then a doylist will say something like “it’s just because the author wrote it that way,” and I see it when a person is criticizing bad writing/storytelling (for example, the fact that quiet in metal gear solid v is running around the whole game in a bikini and ripped tights) and someone comes back with “but there’s an in-story reason why that happens!” (that reason being she breathes through her skin).

there’s nothing wrong with either explanation, and really I think you need both to understand and analyze a text. a person coming up with a watsonian explanation has likely not forgotten that the author had real-life reasons for writing something that way, and a person with a doylist interpretation is likely not ignoring the in-universe justification for that thing. 

but it’s very difficult (and imo often useless, though there are exceptions) to try to argue one kind of explanation with the other kind. wetblanketing someone’s headcanon with “or it could just be bad writing” is obnoxious; dismissing someone’s criticism with “but have you considered this in-universe explanation” is ignoring the point of the criticism. understanding where someone is coming from is important when making an argument; acting like your argument is better because you’re being doylist when they’re being watsonian or vice versa is not.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

it’s been 5 million years but this thing still gets notes with like “can someone explain this to me in a shorter, easier way” so here it is:

watsonian: the enchantress cursed the eleven-year-old prince from beauty and the beast and all of his servants because fairies don’t understand why humans would think that’s insane and unfair. I am using in-universe evidence to explain why the character might think or act a certain way, as if belle and the prince and the enchantress are real people.

doylist: the writers didn’t realize that the prince would have been eleven when he was cursed until it was too late to change it, and the servants are also cursed because talking furniture is funny and allows for unique character design. I am explaining this plot point based on an outside knowledge of how writing works and how writers think.

[theotterpenguin]

there’s just something about zuko and katara, the two characters who have always been pitted against each other from the start of the story - protecting the avatar vs. capturing the avatar, katara choosing to leave her home vs. zuko being banished from his home, daughter of the chieftain of the southern water tribe vs. prince of the fire nation, water vs. fire, katara drawing her power from the moon vs. zuko drawing his power from the sun - who by all means should be complete opposites and should hate each other, instead being the first to overcome their differences, the first to bond over their similarities, and the first to trust each other. and i simply think that’s beautiful.

[sunsetpan0rama]

mentally still in march 2020 when we thought it would just be a two months holiday from school

[sunsetpan0rama]

wait put in the tags what was going on in your life at that time I'm curious

[kalichnikov]

i cant reblog this original post anymore because it's been lost (deleted when i was mass deleting a lot of stuff)

but important to point out that this

post has been brought up in the parliament of the united kingdom

[hussainthemvp]

salute the troops

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

sickos: YES

[yiankut-ku-retired-deactivated2]

people be posting the most obvious red flags like IF HE KILLS YOUR BROTHER SND DUMPS HIS BODY IN A RIVER YOU SHOULD INVESTIGATE THAT 🚩🚩🚩🚩 like no shit

its the no notes ghoast

[foxfamilyfeatures-blog]

[leafcrunch]

tumblr’s code may change but no notes ghost stays the same

[toastoat]

Oh thank god

[ohthehypocrisy]

imagine the shit storm when tumblr finally becomes so dysfunctional that this post’s total notes is finally revealed

[sreegs-archive]

In case anyone’s curious about what happened to this post, it has to do with how we tally up notes. Likes and reblogs always add to the note count of the root post (the OP). However, the note count relies on the previous value of the root post before adding more notes to it.

Normally when you delete a post, it’s gone, but not gone gone. Just deleted from public never to be seen again. The database entry is still there, just inaccessible.

This post, however, the root post is just gone. Gone gone. Gone forever. Everything attached to it is still there, but since the root post is hard deleted, it’s got nothing to add to. When the note counter tries to add notes to nothing, it goes nowhere.

So it throws every new note into the void. Goodbye forever, notes.

I’m not sure if we’ll ever know the real number of notes on this post.

[heartpalpitation]

oh no

[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

[transfemininomenon]

today’s date is the 3rd? what’s next, the 4th? the 5th? the minor fall, the major lift? 

[pitbolshevik]

why do you like dogs that maul and kill people at alarming rates

im just fucked up i guess

[pitbolshevik]

*kills people at alarming rates*

[pitbolshevik]

oh shit oh fuck he's gonna get maul me at an alarming rate. tell my family i l

[pitbolshevik]

AAAAAUGGGGHH

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

here is something blessed (baby damascus goat), something cursed (adult damascus goat), and my ko-fi!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[corvidcryptidthoughts]

Gaud, I think you’re a little wrong. Both of these are very very blessed

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

blessed

blessed goat child

[professionalreblogs-deactivated]

What i hate about them is I’m going to get school, and next semester we’re learning about them…for an entire month…not goats and they’re a breed, not outliers of different species, no…this…fucking…breed…for…an…entire…month…

They look like you’re drunk grandpa who only speaks in riddles.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I was going to ask WHAT TYPE OF SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO, but after several re-reads I realized that’s a typo and you probably (?) meant Goat School. if this is the case please please please tell us more about Goat School.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

VET they meant VET SCHOOL

[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

@professionalreblogs can you update on whether they’re okay? Because that face shape looks like they might have some problems.

[professionalreblogs-deactivated]

Our professor bumped up our classes when we all started researching these freaks so here’s what I’ve learned

They have bad eyesight, and poor running stamina, but otherwise they’re one of the most hardy breeds and are known as the “bulldog of goats”. They are great for both milk and meat production and apparently have an easier to digest milk than other dairy animals. They also are the “grandfather” to the goat breed Qahr, which is known as the most beautiful goat breed.

These are also apparently one of the most oldest goat breeds to survive for so long! They were originally from India before spreading to the Middle East (specifically to nomadic tribes) for being so hardy to most any climate. From their they were sent to Britan between the 1300s and 1500s where they bred like wild fire for having such good milk production as well as good meat for when they became old enough for slaughter

They also apparently don’t have any known health problems correlated to the breed, but if not milked the females can get overloaded real quick since they produce quite a lot of milk for their size (which is one of the largest goat breeds as well!) Their skull is fairly small compared to their size but nothing is said for any health problems correlating to it.

Show bucks tend to have their ears docked, which pulls attention to their large nose, which is debated to either be for water storage or to attract mates! (We haven’t gotten to there yet, but classmates are debating) they also have large horns that curve to the back, but many farmers “dehorn” animals to avoid injury.

Their tempermant is very calm and they’re even kept as pets!

[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

THANK YOU I tried looking it up and didn’t find anything nearly as comprehensive.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

You’re telling me there is an ancient, miraculously indestructible breed of goat

who are the ancestors of the most beautiful goats in the world

and who in their own lifespans undergo a mystic transformation from fairy-like imps to eerie hag goddesses wandering around like terrible forgotten Old Gods of the fields and forest

and they are also the strangely abundant source of smooth white milk with unusual properties

and the bargain for them remaining in our realm is that, upon coming of age, their ears and sometimes horns are stolen away by humans, for reasons unknown

and in payment for this archaic ritual, their clan has flourished, healthy and hardy, spreading far and wide throughout the lands

Goat herders bargained with the fae for magic fairy goats, is what you’re telling me.

[cautionramen]

While this is all wonderful information Qahr isn’t a breed of goat but rather the name of a Damascus goat that won the prize for most beautiful goat in the world back in 2008. You can’t get a more beautiful breed of goat than this ^^

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and here are some photos of the gorgeous Qahr!

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

…yeah, Damascus goats are the result of some kind of fae bargain. That checks out.

[prokopetz]

Nintendo’s internal writing guidelines stipulate that there are no individual Toads. They can have titles, jobs and costumes, but not personal names or distinct personalities; they’re effectively a species consisting of a single person, whose members can interchangeably be assigned to particular roles.

In light of this rule, the existence of Toadette implies that in the Mushroom Kingdom, “girl” is not a gender, but a profession.

[juliathefacesofevil]

just like in real life

[blueraspberries]

she keep me worm

[blueraspberries]

i love that this post is somehow going around again because i made AND deleted it in literally 2012

[whatthemythicalwhat]

I love Josh’s anti-classism so much. I grew up in a single parent household that didn’t have time/the ability to cook. I taught myself as an adult and ended up loving it. I cook with this stuff a lot. Shit, the RealLemon juice ends up in a lot of my cocktails. Sure, I like fancy ingredients when I can afford them and I have things I get picky about using - but I have bad hands, mincing garlic is painful as fuck. There’s a lot to be said for knowing how to work with what you have. Don’t shame people for trying, don’t shame people for feeding their families things that they enjoy.

[rosie-with-knives]

Guys. One of my best friends is a professional chef. Went to culinary school and all. He does NOT chop his own garlic. He hates it. He will peel them only if he has a specific use for a whole clove. He used the jarred stuff. Use the damn jar of garlic. Use the cheap salt. Use the lemon and Parmesan. Cooking at all in this day and age is an accomplishment, you’re doing great. And if you can’t, for whatever reason, hang in there. Cooking is great, but eating is what’s most important.

[karmiky]

Pro chef here and I have all of these in my fridge. And recommending stock concentrates. A little bit in rice or a sauce or soup makes it so much better. They take up less space and can be cheaper than the quarts. And it’s basically the exact same thing restaurants use. Very few places make their own stock.