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Babe, ever since I met you, your power level has been over 9000. With you, I know the cake won't be a lie. Together we can rule the galaxy, and all their base will belong to us. I can haz marriage?
sometimes plushies make me cry because it’s like. they’re little guys made to be loved. their only purpose is to be held and hugged and loved. we made them because we love making things and we love loving things. and they’re so cute
Years back, I was working at a specialty store, and we got this HUGE crate of plushy toys. They were all insanely cute and squishy. I knew kids would go nuts for them, as it was the first week of December, so parents and grandparents often had kids with them while shopping for furniture, lamps, cooking equipment, lights, etc.
One night, I was working my last hour of my shift covering the Customer Service desk, which meant when I wasn't busy, I was supposed to help clean up around the cash registers, including taking back items people changed their minds about at the checkout. Earlier, I had witnessed a kid carrying thos cute plushy toy. It was a brown and white hedgehog. The kid, at the checkout, saw a remote control car and he told his dad he qanted it. The dad told him, "The plushy or the car- you can't have both" (by the way, I respect boundaries with kids and parents sticking to their guns about it), and the kid picked the car.
So, I'm cleaning up, have less than an hour left of my shift, and I see the little plushy hedgehog. Somehow, he never got put back nor had anyone else seen him and decided to buy him. He was just sitting there, slumped to the side, unattended.
It's Christmas and I'm a sentimental old sap at heart. My brain starts replaying the scene from RUDOLPH where he's on the Island of Misfot Toys, and is told a toy is never truly happy until it is loved. I picked him up and quickly took him back to the bin with the plushies but... It was empty. He was literally the last plushy toy and my boss was about to wheel the bin out. We weren't getting any more toys till November, so that meant any toys left at this point needed to sell or they'd be sent to the dump.
I brought the little hedgehog to the front, figuring someone would see him with the candy, candles, & Christmas brick-a-brack, and fall in love with him. When I finished my shift, I went to ask my manager a question and as I passed the Christmas candle display - there he sat, the sad little slumped over hedgehog plushy. No one had bought him, or even moved him.
My manager, Phillip, saw me and the hedgehog. He asked how the hedgehog got there. I told him how I'd put him there when the bin got sent back, and he was the only plushy left. Philip had kids, I figured he'd probably get sentimental and buy it for his kids. Nope. He shrugged and said he'd send it back to be disposed of.
That night, I came home with a plushy hedgehog in my passenger seat. My mom saw him and just thought he was the cutest little hedgehog and asked what I wanted to do with him. I told her the story, then added I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with him.
My mom is a child psychiatrist, specializing in children with PTSD and brain damage that results in learning problems/issues with processing their emotions. She asked if she could have the plushy hedgehog (even offered to pay me for him, she didn't expect me to just give him over), so kids could hug him when they were upset in session.
Murphy, the plushy hedgehog that still slumps a little to the left when seated, has been hugged by hundreds of kids. Little girls have held him tight while explaining about bullies, little boys have held him tight while crying over their panic attacks, younger siblings have held him to whisper secrets while elder siblings and parents talk about self-soothing techniques, teenagers have hugged Murphy while talking about the worst day of their lives. Murphy has also been hugged by kids excitedly chatting about a new friend at school, a teen girl excited to be called by her name instead of her dead-name, little kids proudly saying they've mastered their ABCs, and even staff members who just need to come chat over a case they are having trouble with.
Every now and then, my mom brings Murphy home for a weekend. He gets washed (she calls it a Spa Weekend, to her coworkers, all of them laughing), dried, and sits outside with my mom in the sunshine to get aired out, then on Monday, they are back to work. Some kids even just ask to hold Murphy while they talk, no matter their mood or what they want to talk about. They just want to hug Murphy.
So yes. Plushies are made for one purpose. To be hugged and loved. To be a comfort.
All I’m saying is maybe society has evolved past the need for the Tampa Bay Lightning
THIS IS THE RUDEST THING I HAVE EVER READ. The Blue Jackets exist and you’re going to pick on the Bolts?!?
OK but I want to talk in detail about like. How much I love the Legends 100 but specifically why.
Because at it’s heart it’s a love letter to the series, and often the 100th episode of any series is, that’s not so surprising. But I think that what really got me about the Legends 100 is how much it felt like they’d finally figured out what the fuck the show actually is, you know? They just got it so right and it felt sort of like they’d finally articulated the thesis statement for the series and I want to talk about it for 45 years.
Like, Legends has always been this show that’s, to be generous, difficult to explain. And it was such a joy to me to see in this episode that - this is a show where I see it recced and people are like “don’t watch the first several seasons, it’s garbage, start at [whenever, usually S3].” I have said that too - although I never say S1 is garbage - because even though I love S1 and S2 with my whole heart, them very off-putting and don’t want to stick with the show! And what I loved about the 100 as a tribute to past Legends is that instead of allowing themselves to stay in that paradigm of sort of apologizing for the show’s first few seasons, they really made an effort to say like, you know what? No. The first season is good and you should watch it and it lays the groundwork for where this show ended up, so fuck you.
And you know what? YEAH. It IS and it DOES.
This show has always had this motif of each season having a flavour, and really shaping itself around the villain or arc of the season, but despite this there is a core throughline. I don’t think it was intentional necessarily, but when they shifted the vibe of the show between S1 and S2 the things they kept became the common thread to all seven seasons. And really that throughline has been this: the Legends are all heroes that have real, significant limitations.
Lots of superheroes have a backstory of transformative trauma or adversity, but the Legends have always been heroes who specifically like. They have that backstory, but they came out of it transformed in a way that isn’t always classically heroic. Often they’re genuinely limited by however that defining backstory has affected them - typically in ways that are either overt or fairly-easy-to-interpret proxies for mental health diagnoses or other atypical neurotypes.
In different hands or with a different direction, this could have made for a fairly dark show. And what I love about Legends and I think what they really celebrated in the 100 is the way that the show really takes the perspective of: this thing limits you, but it’s also the thing that makes you most qualified to save the world. Doing good is not about being the best or the strongest or the toughest, but it’s about showing up and trying and your trying specifically in your way may not be enough on its own, but if we all try in our own imperfect ways, that’s going to be what makes the difference.
So much time travel media is based off of like. Time loops and diverging timelines and physics to the point where it gets bogged down in it, and often the crux of it is that really with all this math you must be a genius to time travel OR ELSE DISASTER. And the beauty of Legends has always been approaching that mythology and saying: what if you’re super not. What if you’re not very smart and pretty bad at everything and on paper are totally unqualified but that’s what makes you great. What if the people who insist you need to be a certain type of person to save time can’t see the forest for the trees, and are missing the vital ways that you contribute, even with broken and wobbly parts of you. What if you showing up with whatever it is that you have in this moment is the thing that will save the world.
That’s always been what I’ve loved about Legends deep down, and I love that this episode and this season the show has been able to appreciate that like. This is the thing they’ve been doing right all along by accident, but now they’re going to do it on purpose.
The art director JP Boneyard ’s favourite park is Montana’s Glacier national park. “It’s breathtaking, I’m smiling just thinking about it ,” he says. For his screen-print project Fifty-Nine Parks, now collected in a book, he asked modern artists to reinterpret America’s classic national park posters, commissioned by the government in the 1900s.
“I hope they inspire people to visit the parks and connect with nature, but, heck, it’d be awesome if the book inspired folks to pick up a squeegee and start printing too,” he says.
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all these gay girls are like "wow i want a big lady to step on me" but where is the love for short girls stepping on you? short girl intimidating you with her presence and body language alone until you fall over and she steps on you?? short girl taking down a girl who's much taller than her and making her submit??? where's the love for my shadow of the colossus bitches???
WHERE'S THE LOVE FOR GIRLS LIKE THIS
The Elder Herman asked, "do you love God?"
His guests answered, "Certainly, we love God. How can we not love God?"
"And I a sinner have been trying for more than forty years to love God, I cannot say that I love Him completely," Father Herman protested to them.
He then began to show them how we should love God.
"if we love someone," he said, "we always remember them; we try to please them. Day and night our heart is concerned with the subject.
Is that the way you gentlemen love God?
Do you turn to Him often?
Do you always remember Him?
Do you always pray to Him and fulfill His holy commandments?"
They had to admit that they had not!
"For our own good, and for our own fortune," concluded the Elder, "let us at least promise ourselves that from this very minute we will try to love God more than anything and to fulfill His Holy Will!"
Rangercore: Touch
Rough bark under your hands
The soft feel of decaying leaves under your hand as you bend down to track something
Cool water when you bathe your feet in a creek
The hard yet forgiving ground under you when you sleep
The burn of the evening fire as you stretch your hands to its warmth
The icy shock when you splash water from the mountain stream on your face
The soft tickle of feathers on your cheek as you draw your bow to fire
The feel of tired but satisfied muscles after a long days walk
Moss on a smooth rock as you steady yourself crossing the stream
The feel of leather when you go to take your boots off after a long day
The tight feeling when moving a wound not yet fully healed
Cold steel as you grab the hilt of your sword
In Kerala, India, a Syro-Malabar Catholic procession with elephants carrying icons.
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I have the Tumblr equivalent of cleaning supplies...
a mass tag replacer
a way to find ALL of the tags you’ve ever used (mostly?)
and a way to find untagged posts
There will be some seriously intense organizing here soon.
(Just sticking this here for my own reference…)
mentally i am here
I like to imagine that the reason you can whip around those floors at warp speed and so smoothly is that you’re running through the museum with a pair of wool socks on.
i thought the eyewitness vhs museum was a real place when i was a kid. i wasn’t a total idiot, i knew there were a few vfx things going on, but i thought it was filmed in an actual museum
we are a generation of sleepy lovers, of big-hearted rebels, of tired fighters. we are a generation worn out, but unwilling to back down.
I've been planning to make a themed blog (around the concept of duty to one another, service, kindness, etc.) for a while now, and have been saving up posts to do so, but my main blog is a huge jumble of everything that interests me. You've always been a favorite blogger and you keep your blogs (this and wearecleric) well curated. Would you have any advice on how to pull this off without falling into whatever pitfalls there are? Either way, thanks for always brightening my dash.
Wow, what a nice message! Thank you so much!
I've considered making a few "How to Tumblr" posts over the years, but they change features & layouts frequently enough that whatever I wrote would probably be inapplicable in a few short months. I do have a few things that I've done consistently that I think have helped:
PICK YOUR THEME
I actually have over 25 URLs here on Tumblr, but I regularly update less than half a dozen of them. My main here & WeAreCleric are definitely where I put most of my efforts, but I have the others for various reasons ranging from personal projects (writing tips & recipes) to professional pursuits (blog for a local hackerspace) to coordinating efforts (claiming a few extra URLs for @weareadventurers ). Each of these have very specific uses with very specific content. Even here in my "main," which is a little less focused, there is still a personality and theme all its own.
It sounds like you have a good idea of what you want the sideblog’s theme to be, so good for you!
PICK YOUR TAGS
This part will probably unfold as you operate the blog, but tags are a great way to organize your blog, as well as a way of letting people know what kind of things you’re interested in or blog about. This can help you find other blogs to follow, as well as get more followers to your blog. Common tags for this blog are of course things like “RPGs” or “DnD,” but it’s important to decide what tags you’re going to use so you can be consistent. It took me a while to land on “RPGs,” and for a while I was randomly assigning “RPG” “TTRPG” or other such variations. Just pick something, and be consistent, but don’t be afraid to make a change if you realize something different would be more effective.
PICK YOUR RHYTHM
I blog almost 100% from my queue. As a matter of fact, with the exception of asks or direct interaction with mutuals, every post you see on this blog was most likely spat out by my queue.
Not only that, but before these posts made it to my queue, there’s a good chance they sat in my “Drafts” folder for quite a while (again, with the above exceptions). This helps me a few different ways:
If there’s misinformation in the post, usually you can just wait a few days before the truth comes to light. Everyone likes to be the first one on the bandwagon, but waiting until tempers aren’t quite as hot can keep you from reblogging a lot of misleading posts.
More recent versions of the post might have really good additional information, funnier comments, or that one perfect gif to sum everything up. This can keep you from reblogging 50 million versions of the same post in 24 hours because it just keeps getting better.
It helps your blog be more consistent in generating content. Rather than dumping a bunch of posts all at once, and then not having anything again for several days or maybe weeks, saving the posts you like gives you a well of content you can draw from whenever you need it. Right now I have 375 drafts in my folder, waiting to be thrown into my queue.
It allows you to create variety where you want variety, and consistency when you want consistency. Specifically for “WeAreCleric,” I’m constantly trying to balance the serious and sometimes controversial aspects of various real-world religious, with the silliness of roleplaying games. Collecting posts in my drafts folder lets me be careful about what posts I’m putting next to each other. It lets me provide comic relief when necessary, but also allows me to make sure I’m not sticking something funny fart joke next to a somber post about real-world issues.
As an example, here are the rhythms I use for my two main blogs.
LawfulGoodness Queue Pattern
1st post of the day: RPG
2nd: nerd-related non-RPG (comics, scifi/fantasy, etc)
3rd: "off-topic" not really nerd-related, but something I think is worth mentioning/reblogging
4th: nerd-related non-RPG
5th: RPG
My main has the most content saved up and I’m able to find useful content the most readily for it, so I’ve found having my queue set to 5 posts per day works pretty well. Plus, when you scroll through my blog, it feels like there’s more RPG content on there than there is, because so much of it is back-to-back (one day’s first post shows up next to the last post from the day before). I’m not spamming anybody’s dash with unwanted content; even if they don’t like any of my off-topic content, it never fills their dash experience, so I don’t annoy my followers too much.
WeAreCleric Queue Pattern
I have a harder time finding the right balance for WeAreCleric, mainly because there’s less content I feel comfortable posting. I don’t want it to be a strictly “religious” blog, but it needs a certain amount of positive religious content just to be consistent. As a result, my queue pattern over there varies a bit more, but it something like:
Day 1 Post 1: RPG post
Day 1 Post 2: Encouragement / positivity post
Day 2 Post 1: Real-world religious post
Day 2 Post 2: Fantasy Art
I used to try and blog various religions on specific days
Stained Glass Sundays
Muslim Mondays
Tranquility Tuesdays (Buddhism)
Wheel of Wednesday - Hindu
Thorsday (Pagan Myths)
Fugeki Fridays - Shinto
Semite Saturdays (Judaism)
While that was fun for a while, I realized that I had to spend a LOT of time searching for content for some of them, while others were easier to come by. I started feeling like I was giving unfair preferential treatment to some religions over others, almost feeling guilty for sharing my own beliefs if I hadn’t shared enough of somebody’s else’s recently. I was expecting way too much of myself and keeping it from being fun, while also wrecking my conscience.
“What’s that? The Lawful Good was inventing rules with the best of intention but that nobody should be expected to live up to and that take the fun out of everything? Say it ain’t so!”
Conclusion
So, all that to say: having a blog should be fun. Unless you’re some kind of social media content director for a startup or something, don’t stress about it too much. There’s certainly a few tricks you can use to help organize and establish a voice for your blog, but you should only use them if they are helping. Hopefully, some of these words are useful!
Now, to add this to my queue for the 3rd post of the day (ie, “off-topic”) and to give it the tag I use for all my musings on Tumblr and Tumblring: meta
Nautical Aesthetics↴
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The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, 1) (2021)
In an epic fantasy unlike any other, two women clash in a world full of rebellion, espionage, and military might on the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire.
Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought.
Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet’s edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne.
Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren’t for sale.
by C. L. Clark
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Cherae graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH, PodCastle and Uncanny. @c_l_clark.
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