The Kids Are Not Alright

I’m Jay! 30, she/they/occasionally he, bisexual and proud. I’m into a lot of fandoms tbh. Main blog to a bunch of roleplay blogs, most of which are listed in the pinned post.

[foxytonic]

New Pinned Post!

Howdy! I'm Jay! (she/they/occasionally he), 30, genderfluid, bisexual) This is my main blog, where you'll find fandom content, shiny rocks, spooky shit, funny stories (usually by other people), and whatever else catches my fancy. I run a shit-ton of RP blogs, but only a few of them are active at any given time. I also have a writing blog and an RP meme blog that I occasionally update. Outside of Tumblr, I have a full time job at a fast food joint (hate with a burning passion), and I play a lot of Dungeons & Dragons (love!!!), and I try to just live my life. I'm a disabled punk who's really tired of living in a Red State, but can't bring myself to leave because this is my home, and there are still plenty of good things about it, like roadrunners, armadillos, cacti, cave systems, and prairies! Wish I could get out and see more of it.

Some guidelines for following/interacting with me:

No bigotry of any kind. That means no racism, no homophobia, no antisemitism or religious discrimination, no TERF or radfem bullshit, no man-hater nonsense (even from so-called feminists), and no sexism. Don't like, don't follow. You whine about it, you get blocked instantly. I will not suffer hateful fools!

If you regularly post about politics, US or otherwise, please tag it. Same with the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. It's not that I don't care! I think it's shitty what's happening over there, and the fact that America is on the wrong side in what is essentially World War III is fucking disgusting, but I do not have the funds or mental capacity to donate to every fundraiser that shows up on my dash, and seeing people suffering and feeling guilty for not being able to help has made my depression a lot worse over the past year. This is the reason why I've shut off my inbox.

That being said, if you have questions or want to chat, my DMs are always open! It might take me hours to respond because of my work schedule, but I will at least try. I am a very awkward and shy person. It takes me a bit to start coming out of my shell, and even then, I tend to be a social chameleon, matching the energy and interests of those around me. It is extremely difficult for me to truly be myself around someone else. Please be patient with me.

I do have Discord! If you want it, you can always DM me, but I admit that it's no longer my preferred method of contact, unless you want to voice chat. I'll join a server if I'm invited to one that interests me, but I won't always be active. Something about large groups of people being intimidating even on the internet!

As I said, I run way too many RP blogs, and I'll list the active ones below, but if you want to play with them, either shoot me a DM or send in a starter or five. I'm not exclusive, but I do tend to follow my partners back. I'm fine with playing with Anons, too!

A new addition! Shootings upset me. A lot. I live in a state where guns are especially prevalent, and I’m constantly afraid that I’m gonna hear about one of my family members or loved ones died because some moron decided that a gun was the solution to all of their problems. I don’t care how much of a cunt the next politician is; if they get shot, tag it. I have shooting, shooting tw, tw shooting, and tw; shooting all blocked. Fucking tag it. I don’t want it on my dash. Please.

Active RP Blogs

@quaintnecromancer - Arguably my most active blog! Jett is my necromancer OC, and definitely my current favorite character to play.

@haunted-ex-rocket - My newest blog! Averis is a Pokémon OC based on my Pokémon GO! avatar, a rakish Ghost-type trainer from Kanto who used to work for Team Rocket but defected when he stumbled upon the Giovanni-funded Mewtwo Project.

@cursedphoenix - Another of my favorite OCs! Tancred is a witch who was afflicted with a sleeping curse after losing a duel to his evil mother. Over three hundred years later, he woke up, and is still trying to adjust to the modern world after decades of living in it. I used to write both him and Jett over on @covenunited , but that blog is no longer active due to loss of muse.

@feathers-n-fangs - Griffin is my vampire/warlock OC, and I love him a lot! He also has a Pokémon AU, among others.

@mage-of-black-robes - my Raistlin Majere RP blog!!! Heavily influenced by the Russian musical The Last Trial, but he also has a ton of AUs.

I’ll try to add more blogs to this list as I gain muse for them, but I make no guarantees.

[passumbapper]

it's almost summer do you guys want my stupid hyperoptimized lemonade recipe that takes half a day to make and whips absolute ass

[passumbapper]

Fruited Lemonade That Makes You Reconsider It All

ingredience:

lemons/limes (this needs to make up the bulk of the fruit being used, like at least 80%)

whatever other fruits or fruit scraps you want, plus any herbs/other flavorings you want to try. by fruit scraps I mean things like cherry pits, apple peels, pineapple cores, strawberry ends, things like that.

granulated white sugar, the coarser the better, 50% by weight of total citrus rinds + 100% by weight of any additional fruit. you'll measure this after you prep the fruit.

water as needed

equipment:

a few nonmetallic mixing bowls

a mesh strainer

a chinoise, ricer or some cheesecloth

a kitchen scale

a citrus juicer or reamer (manual or electric)

a potato masher

juice the citrus through a strainer - saving all rinds -  and refrigerate the juice for the time being. dice the rinds and other fruits if any, keeping the rinds separate. make note of weights, and measure your sugar.

 Place sugar in a large nonmetallic bowl. If using non-citrus fruits and/or any other flavorings, mix them in with the sugar and mash with potato masher. add diced citrus rinds, mix thoroughly, and mash again. cover and let stand at room temperature for at least 4 hours. this allows the sugar to draw out flavors that would otherwise get discarded with the rinds, and the rinds' acids should be enough to dissolve the sugar into a syrup.

Afterward, mash one last time, then collect the syrup by pressing the macerated mixture through a strainer/chinoise or ricer, or squeeze it through cheesecloth. if you want, this can be saved as a standalone syrup at this point, for use in cocktails or desserts. if not, slowly pour the reserved juice through the solids to to help get the remaining syrup out, and squeeze/press again. do the same thing one more time with warm water (roughly the same amount of water as juice). discard solids (or try making sangria with them!).

taste the mixture and add more water if necessary. a stronger mix is totally fine if you anticipate serving over ice on a hot day, or adding booze, or if there was a lot of non-sour fruit. keep in mind that it will taste a bit less sweet once it's chilled. pour into a pitcher and refrigerate.

citrus oils will float to the top, so stir/shake before serving. love you. enjoy.

some tried and true flavor combos:

straight lemon or lime, or any combination of the two, is of course an untouchable classic

lemon & strawberries (that's pussy babe!)

lemon & orange with a hint of vanilla (creamsiclemonade...?)

lemon & apples or apple peels with cinnamon/ginger/allspice (for late summer)

some cocktail type combos, booze optional:

lemon or lime & berries with basil + gin

lime & mint + white rum

lime & ginger + dark rum

lime & cucumber + gin

lime & orange (berries optional) + tequila

lemon, orange & cherry + brandy, bourbon, or rye whiskey

[madgastronomer]

holy gods

[hyperdragon97]

@foxytonic

[marquis-de-sade-official]

Americans when was the last time you had a billion dollars?

I currently have a billion dollars

I had a billionaire dollars some time this year (2026)

I had a billionaire dollars since 2019

I had a billion dollars before 2019

I’m due to inherit a billion dollars

I’m never going to have a billion dollars

Voting ended onApr 30

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foxytonic]

👀 I did not know this was a thing, but I’ll keep an eye out in the future!

[foxytonic]

Due to some disturbing information given to me by a friend, I’m turning Anon off on every single one of my blogs. I’ll elaborate more once I’m done.

[foxytonic]

All done! Now, the reason for my turning Anon off has to do with what I suspect is a hack. I’m not quite sure. A friend of mine got a bunch of anon hate from someone who knew way too much about him, and not too long after that, his account got nuked. I admittedly don’t know that much about computers, so I don’t know if they were using the anonymous messages to hack him or some other source. I’ve told him to change all his passwords for stuff just in case, and I’ll also advise him to keep anon off.

To my fellow Tumblrinas: Y’all stay safe out there!

To the hacker/hater: Go fuck yourself, you disgusting troglodyte. 😋

[foxytonic]

Due to some disturbing information given to me by a friend, I’m turning Anon off on every single one of my blogs. I’ll elaborate more once I’m done.

[colfy-in-a-jet]

Antheraea polyphemus

[mhoch]

@mothful-existence @moth-fanatic @moth-to-a-moon @caelium-moth

[moonlightsolarian]

moths... yipppeee!!!

[criminal-sen]

@toxictaicho @w1cked-w1tch lookit this absolute unit

[ineedmoretrevorcardcontent]

He's me I'm him

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Someone once told me that the song Total Eclipse of the Heart was originally from a 80’s German musical about vampires. While I haven’t found any proof that this is true, now that I’ve noticed it the song absolutely seems to be about a young woman who’s conflicted over her lover’s plan to turn her into a vampire.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I have been corrected, it was used in the German musical Tanz der Vampire, which was written a decade later by the same person who wrote the original song. Still fits a vampire theme way way too well for a song that never mentions vampires.

[vanwolffen]

But yes, it is about a song about a vampire, not for a Vampire musical but it was written with the idea of making a Nosferatu musical.

From Wikipedia:

“Steinman said in an interview with Playbill, about the inclusion of the song in his 1997 musical Dance of the Vampires:

“with ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was ‘Vampires in Love’ because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they’re really like vampire lines. It’s all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love’s place in the dark…[17]”“

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

My takeaway from this is that a chart-topping 80s love ballad is secretly a pre-Twilight, pre-Interview-With-A-Vampire, vampire love story and people have just dropped the ball on this one for the past 40 years.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Update: The official music video for this song includes weird catholic schoolboy imagery and, briefly, ninjas.

It has solidly earned a spot on my list of “songs with music videos that are unexpectedly buck wild.”

[hyperdragon97]

@foxytonic

[a-tian]

[i-still-am-distantstarlight]

The Ides of March, coming soon to a coliseum near you. Knives not included.

[mageless]

🔪🔪🔪

Free knives!!! Take one on your way down the dash!

[tanoraqui]

forget Hal and Liam “Inviting Angst” O’Brien for a moment—if something happens to Shadia, if she’s hurt or killed, it is going to WRECK Thaisha. She’s the irresponsible one, at least towards her family. She’s the one who runs off again and again into danger, while her children and husband stay safe at home. They were supposed to be safe at home. How will she possibly cope if she loses forever the chance to be a better mother, not because she was off having dangerous adventures but because she wasn’t there to protect them?

[quiddie]

Y'all need to unpack your nigh-puritanical views around motherhood. Having and pursuing a duty that calls you away from your family when a stable parent and extended support system remains at home is in no way irresponsible. And motherhood should not come with the reflexive expectation of the death of any identity beyond one's children.

And where did "How will she possibly cope if she loses forever the chance to be a better mother" even come from? There's a lot of both guilt and blame being projected onto Thaisha (my guess is overeager extrapolation from her blackout drunk statement to Tyr while actively mourning her more-or-less brother-in-law) that goes deeply uninterrogated within this fandom. I'm not here to police your takes, but I will occasionally chime in when I see harmful stereotypes bubble up around my PC.

So just to say it loudly one more time:

Thaisha's children are fully grown adults in their 20s, so let's chill with the endless SaHM guilt

Occtis is not and never has been Thaisha's "second chance at being a good mom" like TF?!

[queen-suzu]

the anti-ai oath

(with your hand in a bunch of pages of ao3’s source code)

I [tumblr or ao3 username], do solemnly swear that all my slop is my own, and that no ai was ever used in the creation of it,

and that while it may be shit, it is my shit, created with my own two paws.

I acknowledge should I ever break this oath, I will be banned from ao3 for life, and will face execution by firing squad.

amen.

gay men.

[saywhat-politics]

To whoever still supports ICE we don’t have a difference in political opinion.

We have a difference in morality.

[the-eclectic-penguin]

[phdstarscream]

I have reposted this before but I am always impressed by how well-thought out every spot is. There is no good place to sit. “Oh, Eomer’s cool, I’ll sit with him” but then you will have to listen to Gollum and Bilbo the entire flight. “I’ll sit with Sam!” Pippin and Merry will be turning around the entire flight to talk to him. Sure, you can sit with Elrond, but you’re going to deal with him staring down Aragorn and Arwen. You may love Legolas and Gimli, but will you love sitting BETWEEN them? Just when you see a spot that seems okay, somewhere behind or across the aisle is a terrible option. This is so good. No good seats on the LOTR plane

[appendingfic]

no i think 17 looks good

[aerialsquid]

No no here's my cunnng plan. I sit next to Sam and then immediately frodo will want to sit next to Sam and I will offer to trade with him. And then I get the entire two-seater to myself.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I don't care if I get banned from Delta Airlines, I'm taking seat #1 and rawing the Balrog for eight and a half hours and that's everyone else's Problem.

[foxytonic]

Bold of you to assume that I wouldn’t want to chat with the Hobbits tbh. Or Legolas and Gimli! That whole middle section of the plane is gonna be full of chatty Cathys, and I really wouldn’t mind it!

However, if I was in the mood for a more peaceful ride, I’d probably sit next to Haldir and let him share my headphones, if he wanted to. Just vibe out to my music while watching the clouds go by.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.

As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.

[winterskyfirefly-deactivated202]

Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

[thatsbelievable]