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lacefuneral

in light of the new tag censorship, i am once again posting this gif

lacefuneral

#AWWWWWWWW #GET IT LIL GUY GET IT

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DESS

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dubiousculturalartifact

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

rosethyme

"Who stabbed you in the eye, Polyphemus?" "Moi! Moi stabbed me!" "He stabbed himself. Sad."

thestuffedalligator

Love a fic that presents itself as a collection of in-universe texts. Tweets describing the plot of the original text from the perspective of a layman. Essays and reports written by diegetic academics and journalists. Massively downvoted reddit posts written by conspiracy theorists that accurately predict the plot. It slaps so hard

immaplatypus

“so this week my town made the news for—” nope

“there’s a restaurant two miles from my house called—” nope

“today I learned [celeb] went to my high school—” nope nope nope nope nope

these are all real posts I’ve seen on the internet that allowed me to identify a user’s hometown instantly. if it’s a small town, that’s doubly dangerous, because a bad actor could trace you just by a unique first name or selfie you once posted. in an age where doxxing and stalking are some of the worst I’ve ever seen it, you HAVE to think twice about what you’re posting online.

i once saw a 13-year old post an image they noted as being “a few miles from their house.” it had a theater in the shot with a unique enough name to be local. one google maps search, now everyone knew not only what city they lived in, but the possible neighborhoods in that radius too. and they had a HUGE following…who all knew this was a 13-year-old child.

so yeah. not to sound like a 90s internet safety PSA…but I’m gonna be that PSA for a minute.

if you’re posting an image, there is NO need to say that you live there. you could just be traveling. “saw this in Montana” is better than “saw this by my house!”

before you post about a venue, especially a restaurant or small store, check and see if it’s local—CRUCIALLY if it has only one or two locations. people might travel to arenas or convention centers, but they’re far less likely to be traveling to Bartleby’s Fish and Chips. if it’s an anecdote and you still live nearby, you can honestly just leave the name out entirely.

if you’re sharing a news story, it can just be a story you found and wanted to share. you don’t have to clarify “it happened in my town,” because even if you don’t mention your town name, an easily-googled news article will.

if you’re seeing a concert or meeting a celebrity on a tour that’s stopped locally, wait until they’ve hit a few more venues before you post about it, or at the very least wait until you get home. this is honestly a smart move for any event you attend: unless you’re marketing yourself, there’s no need to advertise your location in real time.

check your selfie backgrounds for anything identifying. this includes city names on venues, school names, street signs, and house numbers.

this stuff is flexible if you no longer live in your hometown, or if your city is particularly big, but there’s STILL no reason to tie yourself to your school, your workplace, or your street. you can call it paranoid, but as someone who’s seen my friends get literal death threats over fictional characters before, the last thing I want is someone willing to act on those threats finding out where they live.

anyway. PSA over. does a kickflip or whatever

prismatic-bell

Listen, okay.

Ages and ages and ages ago I shared a few tidbits on here about my hometown on a post like this, just to show how dangerous it could be. I'll give you the same tidbits:

--I've mentioned multiple times on my blog that I grew up within walking distance of a lake abutting on a cemetery.

On this post specifically, I mentioned that my high school mascot was a Lancer, which is funny because it has nothing to do with the guy the school was named for.

I also mentioned that I grew up a block from an ice cream parlor.

Then I said "with these three pieces of information, you can find the house I grew up in within an hour" and not only was this not an exaggeration, within three weeks someone from my hometown spotted the post and contacted me. It's an itty-bitty place, but the internet is big and wide enough these days that even so she immediately recognized the town she, too, grew up in.

If I'd still lived there, she could have walked right up to my front door.

Now this particular lady happened to be the younger sister of one of the few people who talked to me in high school (I told you it was a tiny place), and mostly she was like "omfg I can't believe how well that worked, have you heard from X person, is Y still doing Z" (if you're from a small town you know the kind of chitchat I mean), but imagine if she'd been someone with bad intentions.

Now consider that in the fourteen years I have had this blog, not one of you has ever learned my nieces' last name, and you've only seen the face of one of them one time, and it's when she was in a commercial and I was being insufferably proud. Unless you do a real deep dive you probably don't know their first names, either. One of them is a three-time national gymnastics champion and I've never even mentioned what her discipline is.

Ask yourselves why that might be.

Don't share your info, kinderlach, IT'S NOT WORTH IT. And if you do meet someone online who seems cool enough to meet in person (xe said, sitting in the office of the roommate xe met on Tumblr and doing her shop inventory for her), do it in a public location! Don't hang out alone until you're actually familiar with each other! 999 times out of 1000 it's safe, but you don't want to be there for the one time it isn't, and until that person is more than a name on a screen you can't be sure!

doomtemparts

one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.