"Splendid!" said Mavis Cruet.

I'm in my 30s so my blog is probably older than you. Bullshit detector set to kill. I like stuff, though. Fat little fairy; incorrigible slash fangirl (currently poly-fandom); also into making things. Occasional stuff might be NSFW. NB: almost everything I post is queued so please don't be offended if I don't respond right away. 

[axebombah-deactivated20150404]

[kdx78]

[meredithdraper-deactivated20150]

Happy March 32nd, everyone!

[tshifty]

you can only reblog this once a year

[quantumlasange]

Today is the only day you can Reblog this

[deep-dark-fears]

Please be neat and wipe your feet. An anonymous fear submitted to Deep Dark Fears - thanks! You can find both Deep Dark Fears books online and wherever books are sold! Ask your local comic book shop about them!

[i-smell-ice-cream]

[valtsv]

fanfic titles be like “we have not touched the stars (nor are we forgiven)” and then you look at the tags & the first one is “anal fisting”

[thestarfishface]

All 3 horny good boys together! 

[chalkandwater]

[merlinthegrey-deactivated201803]

Now that’s a motherfucking gifset. 

[socratesofthesocketset]

Yarn Gothic

-Your pattern calls for size 8 needles. You have all the size 8 needles in the world, you buy extras to teach people. You go to grab a pair. There are no size 8 needles.

-Your scarf is 3 feet long. It’s been 3 feet long for a month. No matter how much you knit/crochet, it will always be 3 feet long.

-You made a gauge swatch. It is perfect. The project you’re working on is nowhere near the right size. Your gauge still matches.

-You find the perfect yarn for a pattern you’ve been wanting to make. The craft store doesn’t carry it. The local yarn store doesn’t have it. It may have been discontinued years ago. It may never have existed. You no longer remember where you learned about it. 

-You’re running out of yarn on a project and go to buy more. The dye lot number is different. Is it close enough? Maybe. Pray to the yarn gods, they are sometimes gracious enough to grant small prayers.

-You vow to only buy yarn for planned projects, your stash is getting overwhelming. It doesn’t matter what you plan, your stash will still grow without your help.

-You have yarn you bought for a project once.It didn’t work out and now it sits in your stash. Forever. There will never be another project that’s right for it.

-You took up spinning to curb your yarn habit. Your yarn habit is now your fiber habit and you have dual stashes. You may never actually make anything out of most of the yarn you spin. Both stashes continue to grow when you’re not looking.

-Your wip basket has things in it from years ago. You’ve forgotten about them. You’ve forgotten the patterns. You’re not sure you ever made them in the first place.

-Somehow your 3 foot long scarf is finally long enough. You run out of yarn before the end.

[memewhore]

[arsetronaut]

THERES MORE

[rainbow-cokesniffer]

[pomp-adourable]

I’M CRYING WHO IS HE

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

moomin said

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

SNUFKIN SAID

[jimtheviking]

This is the best tag I’ve had in a long while

[stars-bean]

The Addams Family (1994) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[dadalux]

‘The puddle bathers’ by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson

[okayysophia]

[rockelope]

[allerliefste-archive-deactivate]

oh to be a little cat and sit in a windowsill

[staff]

Tumblr is getting a facelift

Some time ago we took a long, hard look at how we stacked up to the recommendations outlined in the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. This is the initiative that sets standards for accessibility for people who may need assistance using the internet. It outlines steps to take and tools to use to create as seamless of an experience online as possible, whether you have auditory, visual, or neurological disabilities, are using a limited device, are on a slow connection with limited bandwidth, or…well, a whole bunch of other reasons.

The result of that long, hard look? Not great. We needed to make sure Tumblr was accessible to anyone who wants to use it.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been making changes to do just that. Our inaccessible menus are more accessible, we fixed our poorly described elements, and increased overall readability. You can read more about all that in our most recent @javascript post about the mobile web.

Part of making Tumblr more accessible involved upping the color contrast in our UI, most notably on the dashboard and everywhere else that familiar blue touches. The light grays and muted blues had a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. What does that mean? Bad. It was bad, and we needed to do better by people with visual impairments.

Enter your new dashboard:

It looks…cleaner, doesn’t it? Like someone dusted off the poorly accessible bits. The blue is darker, the grays are lighter, all the buttons and icons are brighter with our new brand colors, and it has a contrast ratio of 7.87:1 What does that mean? Good! Very good.

The switch to your brand new, higher contrast, less dusty dashboard has been slowly rolling out this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll get it sometime in the next few days.

A note: We know that this color change on the dashboard negatively impacts the beautiful bluespace art so many of you have created over the past few years. Seeing these older posts lose the utilization of the dashboard—something that made them so special and unique to just Tumblr—is certainly not a great feeling. There’s no way around that. We hope, however, that this change only means newer, more bluespace art will be created, and that this time around it will be easier for everyone to experience.

Goodbye, #36465D. You’ve treated many of us well, but #001935 will treat every single one of us even better.  

[patrickat]

You might remember previous hits such as, “Deck chairs on the Titanic.”

[osheamobile]

Can…

can you change the color to “Hey guys we got rid of the nazis”