V17

For the girls and the gays and the creatures

[catsplay500k]

[flannelcoyote]

Theyre tens but theyre named after yters

[flannelcoyote]

pov someone is slow in front of me on the highway

[flannelcoyote]

I’d like to be, like, going feral and ripping apart couch cushions right now but I worked too hard today so instead I am sitting at my desk feeling my lower lumbar grate against each other (painfully). Umm it’s the thought that counts 🥰🥰

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

[flannelcoyote]

Christmas in July

A Thing—probably the second-best Thing that ever Thinged

Never heard of it

I’m Alex and I’m a fUCKING HATER

Voting ended onJul 24, 2023

[alex-the-discoboy]

The world is going to burn and you will be my fuel

[flannelcoyote]

Homeboy is upset over such a pretty little decoration… sad! Anyway.

[flannelcoyote]

Christmas in July

A Thing—probably the second-best Thing that ever Thinged

Never heard of it

I’m Alex and I’m a fUCKING HATER

Voting ended onJul 24, 2023

[robotnuts]

wait epsilon simulating grif and simmons having tower of procreation sex is so funny. Dude what

[robotnuts]

they find out about epsilon’s mind palaces and simmons is like excuse me why the fuck did you make me and grif have sex and grif is like Yeah why would i procreate with SIMMONS. look at how narrow those hips are. look at his waifish and sickly complexion. you KNOW he’d die in childbirth and then where does that leave me? with some freak baby that may or may not be ginger and a lifelong guilt hanging over my shoulders because i wasn’t able to save him? because for the record i wouldn’t. i’d dump his body in a ditch in a heartbeat and i wouldn’t even feel bad about it. and simmons is like What the FUCK grif that is Not what i meant why are you TALKING about this. epsilon clarifies that actually hes run the calculations and there’s only a shockingly low chance of 63% that simmons dies in childbirth. Donut gets excited and reveals he’s always wanted to be a midwife because he doesn’t understand the ‘simulation’ aspect of this conversation and then when simmons clarifies that NO ONE’S PREGNANT he gets mad for getting his hopes up and demands he go “shove a turkey baster up there right now, mister!” simmons wants to die (and luckily if he gets pregnant there would be a 63% chance that he does!)

[a-daks]

miles coming home to find out that his seasons were the only ones still hanging on dad’s fridge

[astraladversity]

[flannelcoyote]

Wait what

[hereforthehurts]

the original 2015 graphic novel is more insane than the movie cuz like

exhibit A: nimona expresses liking pizza and ballister at first refuses her asking to order in because the delivery to his mindfuck nowhere lair is expensive . later, when an accident happens and nimona gets upset, he remembers that she liked pizza and offers to order in . if that isnt dad behavior idk what that is (im fatherless)

exhibit B :

they went to a science expo slash carnival . they went undercover . a stand seller mistakes them for a father & son and they just... went with it . he carries nimona around . what the fuck man

exhibit C :

ballister freaks the FUCK out when she gets injured way more than he did in the movie and then proceeds to play board games with her to cheer her up

oops hit tumblr picture limit i will continue my dad ballister propaganda in the reblogs

[hereforthehurts]

exhibit D :

nimona gets upset & ballister tries to reassure her . he tries to give her a hug but my poor meow meow babygirl nimona (full of trauma) just . pushes him away . im chewing on drywall .

exhibit E :

the craziest of them all . near the end at the final battle when nimona turns into the big ass dark dragon-axolotl monster, in the graphic novel she actually splits into two, the part of her thats gone off the edge (the monster) and the part of her thats the scared little girl she once was . the backstory in the novel is also a lot different than in the movie :

and .

gawd

this concludes my thesis for my dad ballister propaganda . i will walk outside and set myself on fire now .

[catchymemes]

[deadinthename]

i dont want people 2 give money 2 roosterteeth so imma just put this here :)

[manicmartyr-deactivated20250904]

[probablyasocialecologist]

[finsettoland]

picrew chain?

picrew chain.

Since it's a witchsona picrew, I made two versions. A witch version, and a normal version. If you just would like to make one, go right ahead!

Tags (no pressure tho!): @gb-diesellok (THE BIRTHDAY KING!), @cal-the-duende, @circusislife, @thatgendergremlinmoot, @whosmaxfr, @astridcookie, @planetsoupo, @ghost-in-a-flowercrown, @cipher-of-the-round-table, @floryeet, @zeepziesdiary, @wantmeifyouwantme, @jaspeon, @xxjackattackxx, @technologyvoid, @planetary-loanshark, @planettobster, @nothingbutcloud, @7ft-tall-shadow-creature, @crowfloatinginspace, @catwithacupofcoffee, @junk-thrillz, @catofstarlight, @eggeggeggeggeggeggeggeggeggeggeg, @realjoehours, @commander-spaceboy, @tabooi, @somebody-random-lol, @mezzyb0nb0n, @gaytrainboi, @drjackstrange, @aeronprotobator, @ratkatbat, @pheonix-thefirebird, @rune-tisms, @im-gonna-squeet, @octobitheoctagonal, @allthestarsinthesea, @melancholic-fabler, @yourlocalprocrastinator, @cyan-6-ide, @sincerecinnamon, @justanotherhighlycaffeinatednerd, @splendidred05, @night-minstrel, @ignisuada, @opalescent-apples, @dr-finn, @peacocksapphire, @lunesta-rose and anyone else who wants to join!

[cipher-of-the-round-table]

I tag: @dead-immortal, @thedevote87, @theninjabozo, @thetreefairypersonalblog, @borealiscreep, @thedepressionoftrees, @amingethia, @acinongalli, @arend-8000, @vampiricram, @floryeet, @fagboybreakdowns, @a-planets-m00nchi1d.

And anyone else I forgot to mention!

[floryeet]

heya!! thanks ciph!

/np tagging @ghost-koix @sharm-the-shark @littlemystolemypie @village-for-rambles @rye-in-a-coat @hamuletta @xanzusx @turbonicflaws @iemondropsss @drmaroon @hunsa-jars @krillbeans @regina-dei-fiori @laecandraw @smokeys-house and anyone who wants to do this! ✨

[sharm-the-shark]

I already made this one but It oke :}

Here you go :)

[thebutterflyoficeandwisteria-de]

This was fun :)

also I saw everyone was making alternate versions of it so have the extras :)

@klownkoster, @thatonerabbit, @augustusartist09, @jeanosthecatperson, @comical-icicle, @kittieshauntedourfantasy, @alldramaisvalidstorytales, @what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew, @emerald194, @redshamrock56 + anyone else who wants to join :)

[kittieshauntedourfantasy]

Here's Lydia :3

@erinisjustacatlover @random-things-from-a-cat @sillyvisioncorner

[sillyvisioncorner]

thanks for the tag

tagging

@horror-lady00 @rajakun @whattheworldneeds @justwilfee @zibiscusloon @lill-cute-fluffy-devil @heatherz-trash and anyone else who wants to join :)

[heatherz-trash]

Thanks for the tag!!!

@iguessedwrong-heather @that-thing-on-your-shoe @theseusthetransratking @snappy-snack-shack @cowgirl-frog @justexistinghere122 @uptownseblaine @kittieshauntedourfantasy @fuck-me-gently-with-a-chansaw @hottopickid @dollythesheepp @vnirhaus08 @heathersaddict and anyone else who wants to join!!!!!

[theseusthetransratking]

Thx for tagging me!!

As someone who owns a witchhat this makes me happy :)

@flannelcoyote @fairyinablender @lovesick-lore

I know I have more people to tag my memory just bad:(

[flannelcoyote]

Ty for the tag !

@alex-the-discoboy